Order Only: Private Message to Sally-Anne and Ron

[alt_justin]

Hello,

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

Comments

[alt_justin]

If you're a Healer, you'll have to revise your opinion about the usefulness of the Killing Curse, what!

Or don't they make Healers swear a Hippocratic Oath?

-J

[alt_sally_anne]

It's not the Oath of Hippocrates, because he wrote that oath for muggles. There's a Healer's Oath. You're allowed to use magic that harms another if it's in self-defense but you specifically promise not to use your knowledge of Healing to harm another (because when you learn anatomy, it's -- versatile, you know? A Healer knows just how to hurt you, if they want to hurt you a whole lot but not cause permanent physical damage).

You also promise not to abuse the trust people put in you, which I think is the line that Madam Pomfrey uses as an excuse never to report us for casting things we're not supposed to be casting.

Anyway. The first line is, 'Before the witness of my teachers, I freely and by my own choice swear upon my life, my magic, and my sacred honor that from this day forward I will use my magic to Heal, and not to harm.' Which definitely means 'no killing curse ever.'

Obviously there are Healers who break their vow and so far as I know no one's wand has ever broken in their hand. I mean, that bloke I went to when I was little, his magic seemed to work fine, and he DID use his knowledge of Healing for harm, so.

[alt_sally_anne]

Anyway if I take that vow it means I can't ever cast the Killing Curse (or Cruciatus) but it doesn't mean I have to think no one else should ever cast it ever under any circumstances.

Also it doesn't actually rule out Dark Arts because you can use the Imperius curse to save someone's life. (And I have. In fact. So.)