No, it's all right. I think in retrospect I bally well was inventing reasons to be upset, or bally well frightened or...whatever this was.
I shan't let it worry me, what?
And not that it makes a great deal of difference to me, Dux, but as it happens I was raised--well, Church of England, ironically enough. Which wasn't all that easy, in Dijon, but there was a congregation and we went now and then. There's no such thing as a 'French religion,' Dux. Some of them are Catholic and some Protestant. A growing number are Muslim. It's all down to one's family background. So in that sense, yes, it's like the Patils. But as for the witch hunts...well, that was also a very different age, wasn't it? I don't know. I like to believe there's something out there, but doing magic does make that difficult. Do people think Christ was just a particularly talented wizard, then? I've never asked. I haven't really dared, actually.
As for the Dark Arts--I suppose we'd best start calling them the Arts, what, without the 'Dark' as he doesn't--yes. They are seductive. Professor Dolohov said something about it being a misconception to think that they'll automatically corrupt. But I'm not so sure.
Not Occlumency, I don't think. But things like casting a curse when having a conversation would do...I don't fancy the idea that the Arts make it so much easier to take--short cuts, I suppose one might call them.
But. As we've said already, I don't think there's any particular help for it. So one might as well make the best of it.
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Date: 2012-09-18 03:43 am (UTC)I shan't let it worry me, what?
And not that it makes a great deal of difference to me, Dux, but as it happens I was raised--well, Church of England, ironically enough. Which wasn't all that easy, in Dijon, but there was a congregation and we went now and then. There's no such thing as a 'French religion,' Dux. Some of them are Catholic and some Protestant. A growing number are Muslim. It's all down to one's family background. So in that sense, yes, it's like the Patils. But as for the witch hunts...well, that was also a very different age, wasn't it? I don't know. I like to believe there's something out there, but doing magic does make that difficult. Do people think Christ was just a particularly talented wizard, then? I've never asked. I haven't really dared, actually.
As for the Dark Arts--I suppose we'd best start calling them the Arts, what, without the 'Dark' as he doesn't--yes. They are seductive. Professor Dolohov said something about it being a misconception to think that they'll automatically corrupt. But I'm not so sure.
Not Occlumency, I don't think. But things like casting a curse when having a conversation would do...I don't fancy the idea that the Arts make it so much easier to take--short cuts, I suppose one might call them.
But. As we've said already, I don't think there's any particular help for it. So one might as well make the best of it.
I love you very much, Dux.
Sweet dreams,
-J