ORDER ONLY - Questions

[alt_hermione]

The first questions are:

Is there a way through the wards? Because my friend knows someone who would like to get out.

Also, on the one hand you say 'don't go setting bombs' and 'next time point your wands the other way.' But you can hurt people with wands and bombs hurt a lot of people. So what should ordinary people be doing and what should the Dogstar be doing?

Anyway I parafrased the last one so I hope it's right. And those are the first two, and I could answer the first one but I'm not going to, I'll say whatever you want me to say.

Comments

[alt_lupin]

Of course, the difficulty with changing hearts through friendships these days is that the Protectorate has done a rather thorough job of driving wedges between people based on blood status. Imagine if our muggleborn friends from school had been slaves to other classmates. Or to the likes of Amycus Carrow.

Though at least a few students apparently overcame that. Neville and, hmm. Yes, I can make some guesses. Some of them are rather unsettling.

[alt_sirius]

Right, Moony, but the whole point here is that these are obviously some students who have already decided to put those beliefs aside - at least some of them - and from what we already know, they treat our Hermione and Terry for that matter decently. So I reckon they're halfway, at least, to chucking out the whole lot of the Ministry's rubbishy propaganda.

[alt_lupin]

Yes.

I rather imagine that question was not so much 'how do I free my mind from the prejudices I still hold' so much as 'how do I bring other friends around to my point of view,' however.

[alt_sirius]

Mm, that may have been the intent behind the question but it wasn't the question that was asked.

[alt_lupin]

No. But if you have any good advice for swaying the pigheaded, there's no harm in offering it here.

[alt_sirius]

Oi, is this their agony session or yours?