We did something we oughtn't have - but we did it for a good reason. Only now I'm not so sure. I read in yesterday's paper that there were some detentions because a few people signed rude things in the book at Black's tomb, and that one man was trying to talk people out of taking their kids inside. And that next month people who didn't go may be questioned about it. About why not, I mean.
But see, Parvati and me and Lavender, we had a clever idea how we could not have to go. And it's not that any of us were unhappy he got caught, not at all! Only. After Sanji - I just...none of us wanted to see it. The body. Only Mum and Dad found out and made us go twice. And I've had nightmares for the last three days, Lana.
Does that make me unpatriotic? I hope not. I don't ever want to be an embarrassment to the Protectorate. But now I think it was weak not to want to go, and it's even weaker to be so disturbed by the images. I mean, Yaxley took all those amazing photographs. And I know she's really talented, but...they're really gruesome. Is it wrong not to find them glorious and I dunno, as nift as everyone seems to think they are?
I mean, I'm ever so grateful that Auror Lestrange killed him. He was a terrible traitor and a horrid, horrid man. And his brother was a maniac. They deserved to die. But that doesn't mean, I think, that we all have to enjoy staring at what's left of him. I just want things to be nice, not ugly, I guess.
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Date: 2011-01-03 04:08 am (UTC)But see, Parvati and me and Lavender, we had a clever idea how we could not have to go. And it's not that any of us were unhappy he got caught, not at all! Only. After Sanji - I just...none of us wanted to see it. The body. Only Mum and Dad found out and made us go twice. And I've had nightmares for the last three days, Lana.
Does that make me unpatriotic? I hope not. I don't ever want to be an embarrassment to the Protectorate. But now I think it was weak not to want to go, and it's even weaker to be so disturbed by the images. I mean, Yaxley took all those amazing photographs. And I know she's really talented, but...they're really gruesome. Is it wrong not to find them glorious and I dunno, as nift as everyone seems to think they are?
I mean, I'm ever so grateful that Auror Lestrange killed him. He was a terrible traitor and a horrid, horrid man. And his brother was a maniac. They deserved to die. But that doesn't mean, I think, that we all have to enjoy staring at what's left of him. I just want things to be nice, not ugly, I guess.
That's not bad, is it?