Someone asked me something, while I was up at the Mortal Man (Ellen Liddle, Poppy.)
About how I could end up being there, where not so long ago I'd been marrying Raz. Which. Well. Point. Even if she started out so sharp about it.
Raz and I talked - rather often, really - about how he was brought up. Not spending much time at all people who weren't purebloods, and from a pretty limited constellation of families. Not up close, not to talk to, even at school.
It was Quidditch, got him doing it. And then the Borough Market, after. But a lot of people, they didn't do that. Which isn't any excuse, only - I don't know how you fix it, either. And especially not for adults with decades of habits.
One thing I did learn, is - people joined up for all sorts of reasons. And unless you sort out what their reasons were, it's hard to work out what to do about it. I know Tosha wanted a lot of things, but one of the major ones was that he really wanted for magic not to be secret and hidden any more. (Other things too, and I'm not excusing those, but I remember what it was like growing up, and it was so very different.)
And that's different than someone who thinks purebloods from a few dozen families should be the whole world. Or someone where there was family pressure, or risk if they didn't go along with it, or no way to keep doing a job they really loved. And some of those reasons fit with a world where there are lots of kinds of people with lots of different skills and gifts and talents, not just magic, and others, it never will.
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Date: 2015-04-24 10:36 pm (UTC)About how I could end up being there, where not so long ago I'd been marrying Raz. Which. Well. Point.
Even if she started out so sharp about it.Raz and I talked - rather often, really - about how he was brought up. Not spending much time at all people who weren't purebloods, and from a pretty limited constellation of families. Not up close, not to talk to, even at school.
It was Quidditch, got him doing it. And then the Borough Market, after. But a lot of people, they didn't do that. Which isn't any excuse, only - I don't know how you fix it, either. And especially not for adults with decades of habits.
One thing I did learn, is - people joined up for all sorts of reasons. And unless you sort out what their reasons were, it's hard to work out what to do about it. I know Tosha wanted a lot of things, but one of the major ones was that he really wanted for magic not to be secret and hidden any more. (Other things too, and I'm not excusing those, but I remember what it was like growing up, and it was so very different.)
And that's different than someone who thinks purebloods from a few dozen families should be the whole world. Or someone where there was family pressure, or risk if they didn't go along with it, or no way to keep doing a job they really loved. And some of those reasons fit with a world where there are lots of kinds of people with lots of different skills and gifts and talents, not just magic, and others, it never will.