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Feb. 25th, 2011 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_siriusThere was a boy Reg and I knew when we were little, Marius Fenton. He was a bit younger than Reg but we'd see him from time to time at large parties and so on. When I was about ten, he was declared a Squib. I remember that Reg and I heard about it on the day before I was to go get my wand. My birthright, as I'd been taught.
When I asked what would happen to Marius, my mother told me that the kindest thing for him would be if his parents gave him up to a Muggle family, so he would forget about ever being around magic. The funny thing is, I think my mother actually believed it would be less cruel to rip a boy out of his home and leaving him at an orphanage, obliviating his memories of his family. And I could tell without her saying it, even though I was young at the time, that she would not have agonised very much about the choice had it been one of us.
Just the thought of it gave me nightmares for a week.
I trust Frank and Arthur's judgement that Bellatrix was potentially in danger, of being given over to their captors or of being killed by her parents, but I don't know if I can condone the way in which she was removed. If we start taking the decisions for them then we make the mistake of assuming we know better than the muggles how to serve them. I think it might have been better to obliviate their memory of the encounter and think of some other way, even if it meant forging her name back into the book.
I wish I'd seen your question when you wrote it, Arthur. We might have come up with some alternatives. Unfortunately, I had a little ... situation of my own to be getting on with.
It's done now and no help for it. I guess there's consolation in knowing that you lot at Moddey Dhoo will give Bellatrix a life she couldn't have had - and maybe for the best. Still.
When I asked what would happen to Marius, my mother told me that the kindest thing for him would be if his parents gave him up to a Muggle family, so he would forget about ever being around magic. The funny thing is, I think my mother actually believed it would be less cruel to rip a boy out of his home and leaving him at an orphanage, obliviating his memories of his family. And I could tell without her saying it, even though I was young at the time, that she would not have agonised very much about the choice had it been one of us.
Just the thought of it gave me nightmares for a week.
I trust Frank and Arthur's judgement that Bellatrix was potentially in danger, of being given over to their captors or of being killed by her parents, but I don't know if I can condone the way in which she was removed. If we start taking the decisions for them then we make the mistake of assuming we know better than the muggles how to serve them. I think it might have been better to obliviate their memory of the encounter and think of some other way, even if it meant forging her name back into the book.
I wish I'd seen your question when you wrote it, Arthur. We might have come up with some alternatives. Unfortunately, I had a little ... situation of my own to be getting on with.
It's done now and no help for it. I guess there's consolation in knowing that you lot at Moddey Dhoo will give Bellatrix a life she couldn't have had - and maybe for the best. Still.
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Date: 2011-02-26 09:15 pm (UTC)I mislike the sound of that.
Then again, I've had a small situation here myself that has distracted me from reading for several days. Mine has involved children suffering a vigorous bi-directional alimentary flux. Not pleasant, but not dire, either.
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Date: 2011-02-26 09:39 pm (UTC)