carpe noctem (semi-hiatus)

sirius: *abused and raised by blood supremacists, is disowned, is framed for murder*

sirius: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

neville: *grew up with a controlling grandmother who always told him he wasn't good enough, lived with the knowledge that his parents were tortured to insanity, bullied and looked down on by just about everyone*

neville: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

ginny: *is literally possessed by voldemort for the better part of a year*

ginny: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

remus: *had no friends until he was 11, lives in constant fear of being outed as a werewolf, forced to become a monster every month*

remus: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

luna: *watched her mother die, picked on by everyone except ginny, treated as a freak, has only one friend until she's 14*

luna: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

hagrid: *expelled at age 13 for something he didn't do, accused of murder twice, outcasted for being half-giant*

hagrid: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

cho: *has her first love be murdered by a genocidal dictator and about half the world refuses to believe it, must struggle with her feelings towards harry and her guilt about them*

cho: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

mcgonagall: *fell in love with a muggle but had to break off their engagement, for fear of turning out like her own mother, later married a wizard who she loved but he died 3 years later*

mcgonagall: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

harry: *is degraded and abused his entire childhood, forced to sleep in a cupboard for 11 years, constantly treated as being an unwelcome outsider, told he should be grateful for his abusers taking him in, lied to constantly for the first 11 years of his life about who he is and who his parents were, consistently blamed for things that he couldn't control, picked on at school and continuously beaten up by his cousin's gang, sees multiple people die*