I mean, if you're a halfblood you have a couple of choices as I see it. Of what to believe, I mean.
1. You can believe that what the Ministry says is true, that you're really not as good as everyone else.
2. You can believe that you're as good as everyone else and so the Ministry is lying about that, which means they could be lying about all sorts of things.
3. You can believe that what the Ministry says is true but you're special and better than the other halfbloods somehow.
I wonder sometimes if I'd be different if I hadn't grown up with my mum and dad, if I'd been raised by a mean old lady like Megan Jones and told that everything I did was stupid and wrong my whole life, would I be one of the ones who thinks she deserves to sit in the back and get pushed around?
Because really it would be dead hard for me to believe the first. I can look around me and see I'm as good at magic as a pureblood.
Anyway if you want to believe everything the Ministry says is true you have to spend a lot of time not thinking much about some things. Really, I mean, even if you're a pureblood. That must be what Finnigan does because otherwise really how could he
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Date: 2010-02-04 03:43 am (UTC)1. You can believe that what the Ministry says is true, that you're really not as good as everyone else.
2. You can believe that you're as good as everyone else and so the Ministry is lying about that, which means they could be lying about all sorts of things.
3. You can believe that what the Ministry says is true but you're special and better than the other halfbloods somehow.
I wonder sometimes if I'd be different if I hadn't grown up with my mum and dad, if I'd been raised by a mean old lady like Megan Jones and told that everything I did was stupid and wrong my whole life, would I be one of the ones who thinks she deserves to sit in the back and get pushed around?
Because really it would be dead hard for me to believe the first. I can look around me and see I'm as good at magic as a pureblood.
Anyway if you want to believe everything the Ministry says is true you have to spend a lot of time not thinking much about some things. Really, I mean, even if you're a pureblood. That must be what Finnigan does because otherwise really how could he
Well anyway I think I agree with you.