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marblegloveIn the Harry Potter universe, the pure bloods are derisive towards the muggle-born, the non-human magical peoples, and any crossbreeds. This is blatant prejudice and a demonstration of why those pure bloods are the bad guys in the books. What if there's a reason for that prejudice though? There is a natural mutation that appears every so often, called Mary Sueism, named after the first documented example of the case. The mutation is most common in crossbreeds. And the mutation is horribly dangerous.
Some of the minor symptoms are extreme beauty and unusual coloring. However the defining feature of Mary Sueism is a version of psychic vampirism. Except that it's not just your psyche that a Mary Sue will suck away but your fate. If previous to meeting a Mary Sue, you were fated to be a hero, you will become a regular person. If you had been a regular person, you will become a sycophant. It is nearly impossible to fight a Mary Sue, and they are generally only identified retroactively, after a generation of young wizards and witches have been destroyed.
This is less of a true plot and more of a character study, because the point of a Mary Sue is that she--there are male Mary Sue's but they're less common--destroys strong characters and plot arcs. It's not intentional on her part, it's merely an affect of her existence.
Lucius Malfoy hates crossbreeds with a passion, hates muggleborns who don't understand, hates a great many people, because he misses his younger half-sister, Arianwen.
She was beautiful. She shone like the moon on water, had a laugh like silver bells, was as smart as a tack, and was half-veela. She was performing wandless spells with intent by the time she was seven years old. Lucius was five years older than she was and would let her use his wand to practice the spells he taught her on his holidays. She was always laughing and joyful. Until she was ten. Sometime in her tenth year she became quieter and more solemn. None of the family could figure out why, what had happened, what was wrong? Until they read the note she left behind the summer before what should have been her first year at Hogwarts.
She had diagnosed herself as a Mary Sue.
She knew a suicide could just make matters worse; Mary Sue's had tried that before. But she also knew that she couldn't stay in the wizarding world. So she had run away to a veela colony where she would be kept in isolation for the rest of her natural life. She was sorry. She loved them all. Good bye.
A generation of wizards and witches lived full meaningful lives because of Arianwen's decision. Lucius hated each and every one of them.
The plot carries on without any Mary Sue.
Some of the minor symptoms are extreme beauty and unusual coloring. However the defining feature of Mary Sueism is a version of psychic vampirism. Except that it's not just your psyche that a Mary Sue will suck away but your fate. If previous to meeting a Mary Sue, you were fated to be a hero, you will become a regular person. If you had been a regular person, you will become a sycophant. It is nearly impossible to fight a Mary Sue, and they are generally only identified retroactively, after a generation of young wizards and witches have been destroyed.
This is less of a true plot and more of a character study, because the point of a Mary Sue is that she--there are male Mary Sue's but they're less common--destroys strong characters and plot arcs. It's not intentional on her part, it's merely an affect of her existence.
Lucius Malfoy hates crossbreeds with a passion, hates muggleborns who don't understand, hates a great many people, because he misses his younger half-sister, Arianwen.
She was beautiful. She shone like the moon on water, had a laugh like silver bells, was as smart as a tack, and was half-veela. She was performing wandless spells with intent by the time she was seven years old. Lucius was five years older than she was and would let her use his wand to practice the spells he taught her on his holidays. She was always laughing and joyful. Until she was ten. Sometime in her tenth year she became quieter and more solemn. None of the family could figure out why, what had happened, what was wrong? Until they read the note she left behind the summer before what should have been her first year at Hogwarts.
She had diagnosed herself as a Mary Sue.
She knew a suicide could just make matters worse; Mary Sue's had tried that before. But she also knew that she couldn't stay in the wizarding world. So she had run away to a veela colony where she would be kept in isolation for the rest of her natural life. She was sorry. She loved them all. Good bye.
A generation of wizards and witches lived full meaningful lives because of Arianwen's decision. Lucius hated each and every one of them.
The plot carries on without any Mary Sue.
