Dumbledore's Unspeakable Word (going OT)

[pippin_999]

> Kneasy:
> As for how I knew I'd wonder - if you saw a vehicle overturn and
come sliding down the road on it's roof with the driver still inside 
and you gave it a wave and drove on past, wouldn't you wonder 
afterwards that maybe you could have helped? 
That you might have been able to make a
difference?
> Perhaps you wouldn't. Takes all sorts, I suppose. Must be nice to
be so sure about things.

Pippin:
Not sure about much, and I realize this is intensely personal, but
I'm  curious because I've mostly had the opposite 
experience...failing  to see that I could help. 
The circumstances weren't so dramatic, still  there was the
realization later on that I could have done more than I did. 

I understand that's quite common. People generally have to
be *trained* to help in an emergency. 

It doesn't haunt me and it never occured to me at the time that it 
might haunt me, because I too was a clockwork mouse and
didn't think about any alternatives. So I am a little confused on the
time-line. When, if you don't mind my asking, did you think about 
what would have happened if you'd gone by?


> Kneasy:
> 'Life is a mystery' - belongs right there in the Dept of Mysteries,
then.

Pippin: 
But if life is considered as a natural phenomenon, how is it not one
of the forces of nature? 

Pippin