She has done but for how long? I don't think she'd thought of what's wrong with the Protectorate beyond the fact that there's a lunatic in charge of it. And if she doesn't realise that the wound goes deeper than the last fifteen years, then how many others?

I don't know if she cares whether his opinions were evolving, or not. She doesn't seem to realise that he still, after everything, didn't accept that muggles or muggleborns have the same inherent rights as wizards or that wizards were not entitled to better lives by dint of their magic. I tried to be gentle about that. Mostly stories from when we were younger. A little bit here and there of the things that drove him to continually try to prove to Mother and Father that he was the good son, their true legacy, all that rot.

And as for suicide being his only means of escape from Voldemort - well, that's part of why I changed, isn't it? Because I couldn't stand to admit to her that ... that it's my fault.