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Dec. 29th, 2014 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_nymphadoraOh, luv.
Is today better?
I was glued to my journal last night, and knew that nothing I could say would make a jot of difference, but I hope you know I was with all of you. I'm sorry for what happened with the man who was Kissed, but all of you were brilliant.
It's been a hard few weeks, hasn't it? I find myself getting teary eyed and sweeping Bea up and hugging her til she wriggles at the oddest moments. And Bap is doing somersaults and flips like no-one else, too.
I'm so bloody grateful they're both hidden. They won't be forced to march in a parade with werewolves, or sing those awful songs, or watch people barely older than they are kill other people for sport ever. Or, in Bea's case, ever again, although she was too young to remember, really. Still. Having her in those stands during the Frost Faire nearly made me break in half.
I don't know how Molly, Alice, and Frank are still standing.
I don't.
And it's so deeply selfish of me, but I'm glad they won't be going anywhere near Hogwarts unless we've won.
Is today better?
I was glued to my journal last night, and knew that nothing I could say would make a jot of difference, but I hope you know I was with all of you. I'm sorry for what happened with the man who was Kissed, but all of you were brilliant.
It's been a hard few weeks, hasn't it? I find myself getting teary eyed and sweeping Bea up and hugging her til she wriggles at the oddest moments. And Bap is doing somersaults and flips like no-one else, too.
I'm so bloody grateful they're both hidden. They won't be forced to march in a parade with werewolves, or sing those awful songs, or watch people barely older than they are kill other people for sport ever. Or, in Bea's case, ever again, although she was too young to remember, really. Still. Having her in those stands during the Frost Faire nearly made me break in half.
I don't know how Molly, Alice, and Frank are still standing.
I don't.
And it's so deeply selfish of me, but I'm glad they won't be going anywhere near Hogwarts unless we've won.
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Date: 2014-12-30 01:59 am (UTC)And even though it was supposed to be one person, we blew a hole in the side of that prison and marched out twenty-eight more than we needed.
It's messy, and it often seems like we're in the sort of place where we're just running around reacting to what someone else has done, and it's utter chaos, but we are building to something.
At least I'd like to think we are. More than we were before.
You can probably see it more than I can, though.
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Date: 2014-12-30 02:23 am (UTC)I'd been chewing over the idea that we'd stand up and everyone around us would work as hard as they could to fight against us. Against change. That we'd be five or ten years too late, and everyone would be too used to all of this to want anything different, and to give it up.
I don't think that'd happen any more, though.
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Date: 2014-12-30 02:33 am (UTC)I mean. Look at the Jr Aux and their friends. I have to say, I never would have imagined Draco Malfoy and Hydra Lestrange as part of us, and yet they took a good look at the system they were being raised to have power in and said "that's bollocks" and threw in with us. And if they can do it, loads more can. And have, really -- how many of our latest new recruits have come out of people who were raised with this, and have never really known anything else?
Five years ago I think we would have had a problem. But now, the only people who'll step up and say that His Noselessness has the right end of the stick are the people who want a part of the stick for themselves.