HouseElves/Pettigrew/Shunpike/Bertha/Slytherin/Rewrites/Economic/Carol, Carol

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180446

> a_svirn:
> I guess I'll have to wait until that time to understand how it is 
> possible to treat one's own slave with respect, while still owning 
> and making use of them. 

Pippin:
I own and exploit my body, but if I don't treat it with respect, 
I'll be in for a world of hurt. At the age of 55+, I'm very much
aware that I can't make it do whatever I want. <g>

> a_svirn:
> I don't see what difference it would have made. Torturing people 
> isn't gallant whichever way you slice it. Must have been some 
> peculiar Gryffindor logic. 

Pippin:
As in the scene with Dudley at the beginning of OOP, Harry's initial
intention was gallant -- to punish the tormentor of an innocent
person. But then it felt so good to have an outlet for all the rage and
frustration he'd been feeling. In Privet Drive the dementors sucked
that feeling out of Harry before he could act on it (and seem to have
sucked off all Dudley's good feelings about being a bully as well.) But
nothing happened this time to interfere.

As McGonagall immediately casts a triple patronus and
uses an Unforgivable herself, I'd like her to have finished the
sentence by saying "but when I need help from you, Potter,
I'll ask for it." 

> > Catlady:
> > This is another forbidden "I agree" post. I wish someone could 
> explain that prophecy so that it makes sense to me. I wish it was "Neither 
> can die while the other survives", which I could understand.
> 
> a_svirn:
> Yes, so would I. When I finished DH I thought my English is horribly 
> deficient, because I simply couldn't see how "neither can live while 
> the other survives" can be translated into "one cannot be killed, 
> while the other lives".  I still don't see it.

Pippin:
The explanation's in "The Other Minister" - "Yes, alive," said Fudge. "That
is--I don't know--is a man alive if he can't be killed? I don't really understand
it and Dumbledore won't explain properly -- but anyway he's certainly got a 
body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our 
discussion, yes, he's alive."

But not for the purposes of the prophecy, evidently. 

Pippin