Justin Finch-Fletchley (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alt_justin) wrote2013-11-29 01:02 pm
alt_justin) wrote2013-11-29 01:02 pm
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I've been thinking about Stretton and Bill all day, what.
I can't help but feel that I've, well, 'dodged a bullet,' is how Muggles would say it, having done so poorly in my Aurors' interview.
On the other hand, one does want to do the job well, and if any of us are to position ourselves favourably in the Ministry, we shall simply have to compromise ourselves to some extent, what? I mean to say, after all, neither Bill nor Jeremy are working in MLE. It's simply that they're working for a sadist.
(By the way, Ron, did Professor Dolohov ask you how your interview went? That's why he held me back yesterday, to ask. He bally well confirmed that Sandoval thought him a fool for recommending me in the first place. He wasn't half disappointed.)
I keep thinking there has to be something else we can do to help, though, that doesn't necessarily require us to...to subvert ourselves in the process. I'm dashed if I can come up with much, though, apart from all going and joining Terry in Sherwood.
I say, it's jolly frustrating, knowing we've got more than a year before we can finish N.E.W.T.s and start making a difference.
-F-F
I've been thinking about Stretton and Bill all day, what.
I can't help but feel that I've, well, 'dodged a bullet,' is how Muggles would say it, having done so poorly in my Aurors' interview.
On the other hand, one does want to do the job well, and if any of us are to position ourselves favourably in the Ministry, we shall simply have to compromise ourselves to some extent, what? I mean to say, after all, neither Bill nor Jeremy are working in MLE. It's simply that they're working for a sadist.
(By the way, Ron, did Professor Dolohov ask you how your interview went? That's why he held me back yesterday, to ask. He bally well confirmed that Sandoval thought him a fool for recommending me in the first place. He wasn't half disappointed.)
I keep thinking there has to be something else we can do to help, though, that doesn't necessarily require us to...to subvert ourselves in the process. I'm dashed if I can come up with much, though, apart from all going and joining Terry in Sherwood.
I say, it's jolly frustrating, knowing we've got more than a year before we can finish N.E.W.T.s and start making a difference.
-F-F
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I say, if we were faced with the same choice I'd rather Hydra hurt me, even if I knew she'd forgive me for anything I might have to do. I couldn't forgive myself for lifting a finger against her but I know she's strong enough to do it and to forgive us both.
I was thinking...well, it seems obvious now that Bill's messages to Mrs Longbottom have had to do with evil things Mulciber's made him do.
But I wonder.... You know how we noticed last year that reading some of those texts was easier for some of us than others? And in the practical Dark Arts lessons--how sometimes we'd do a spell and feel...energised for hours afterward.
Do you suppose Bill experiences that effect when he casts Dark spells?
(Because to go back to the book, what, that's another reason not to succumb to the temptation to harm someone else, if it's at all addictive.)
-J
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And I don't think it's a boy-girl thing so much as a Gryffindor-Slytherin thing. (Which is why it's so funny they suggest that Phoebus is the descendant of Salazar Slytherin, it's just not a very Slytherin moment he has there.) But, Astra Morgenstern was a Ravenclaw, I think.
It was sort of silly to spend as much time thinking about it as I did.
I mean it wasn't just Ron, I thought about what if it wereBasically I think it let me think about something other than all the awful much-more-likely things that could happen to us, you know? Playing those sorts of what-if games in my head.That's probably why I like those books so much.
Plus I think in those books, everything will come out right in the end, and I'm rather less certain of that in real life.
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Anyway, I think it's a measure of the vestiges of chivalry, what. Not in the way Moon is always chuntering on about it, but--well, I say, when a man causes harm to a woman like that--particularly when they were forced to fight--it's simply not comfortable for a chap to read about. Or consider, what. But for a woman to do it under those circumstances is all right.
It's well odd, because it's not as if witches are any less capable of really hurting wizards than wizards are of hurting witches but--well, it's a double-standard, I suppose.
But it's interesting you're not certain we shall win in the end. I'm quite sure of it.
-J
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Why?
I mean, some days I think we will. Some days I think about the fact that Pansy and Hydra and Draco and Harry are all on our side and I think, SURELY that means there are more of us than we imagine and we're going to remake the world. We'll close the muggle camps and the muggleborns will all have wands and we'll make a place where muggles and wizards can live together and no one has to be secret and we solve problems together.
Other days I think we're all going to get caught and tortured and killed, right down to Kevin Longbottom and those babies that got rescued last week. And I can't imagine succeeding.
I mean I can't imagine not trying, even on those second sort of days, but I look at what we have to do and I don't see any way to get there and I see lots and lots of ways to all end up dead. So.
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