That's stuff to hold on to, at least. The bits about being able to live with ourselves after, I mean. I wonder sometimes if Snape and Macnair are right, and we'll lose if we aren't willing to do the necessary but unpleasant things, when it comes down to it, but what good would it do if we overthrew the Lord Pretender in ways that made us just as bad?
On the other hand, though, what if we could save a whole lot of people who'd otherwise die under the Protectorate's policies, by killing a few now? Would that be the right thing to do, instead of waiting and hoping we found a way that wouldn't kill anybody?
I don't know. I really don't. But there's a part of me that thinks we should be doing more now, before the generation that's never known anything but this life starts graduating Hogwarts and moving into power, because if we're not careful, they'll hear "the Council" and think Rabastan Lestrange and Antonin Dolohov instead of Amycus and Alecto Carrow, and we'll have lost them.
It's easier when the monsters look like they're monsters, instead of hiding it so well.
As for Ginny, meanwhile, no, that doesn't sound familiar. Something she got from her modeling? Or -- do you think she might have stolen something, from one of her housemates, and was trying to hide it? I don't want to think that, but, ugh.
I have my chess set still -- the old one I've had since school -- but Greg said that if I wanted to learn to carve wood, I'd better start with something simple, and work my way up. I tried another one tonight, but it fell apart halfway through and I gave up. Greg says I'm not the most hopeless he's ever seen, at least. And no, I hadn't seen Remus's! I'll have to give him a game next time I'm in Laszlo's.
no subject
On the other hand, though, what if we could save a whole lot of people who'd otherwise die under the Protectorate's policies, by killing a few now? Would that be the right thing to do, instead of waiting and hoping we found a way that wouldn't kill anybody?
I don't know. I really don't. But there's a part of me that thinks we should be doing more now, before the generation that's never known anything but this life starts graduating Hogwarts and moving into power, because if we're not careful, they'll hear "the Council" and think Rabastan Lestrange and Antonin Dolohov instead of Amycus and Alecto Carrow, and we'll have lost them.
It's easier when the monsters look like they're monsters, instead of hiding it so well.
As for Ginny, meanwhile, no, that doesn't sound familiar. Something she got from her modeling? Or -- do you think she might have stolen something, from one of her housemates, and was trying to hide it? I don't want to think that, but, ugh.
I have my chess set still -- the old one I've had since school -- but Greg said that if I wanted to learn to carve wood, I'd better start with something simple, and work my way up. I tried another one tonight, but it fell apart halfway through and I gave up. Greg says I'm not the most hopeless he's ever seen, at least. And no, I hadn't seen Remus's! I'll have to give him a game next time I'm in Laszlo's.
D5, for me.