Mudblood

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

This is an absolutely devastating conversation on Theodore's journal -- I find it completely plausible that a group of boys would think and act in just these ways and that their curiosity would drive them to draw blood. (I love that Draco, at least, is afraid to get himself bloody.)

They aren't sure their experiment was conducted properly -- maybe they'll need to try again.

*shudders*

The gut-punch is this thread.

Ouch.

Comments

[zorb]

I almost included that in last night's post, but I was still too horrified. If we ever needed more evidence that this universe is an alternate one...

:-(

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I gotta say, this is already difficult to read, and it's not like a book -- I can't keep reading for two (real-life) hours and watch things improve.

I suddenly do not envy the players/writers for having to inhabit that for the next months or years.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

This style of play can become really consuming to read. For my own sanity, I hope to miss all of the compelling opportunities to follow live-action dialogue here. If I can muster enough self-control I will develop a once-a-day retrospective reading habit and let the threads finish before I read them. (Much harder to do than to say.)

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

It seems like the whole event had something of a positive effect on Boot, though. This (http://alt-terry.livejournal.com/3827.html?thread=17651#t17651) is one of the first times he's posting in normal size without specifically being ordered to do so. And he's standing up for what he believes in to Hermione. He seems more articulate than normal in this post, as well.

I think sometimes anger can give strength. For Boot, he has to bury all his feelings about the Carrows, because he is (rightly) afraid of what will happen if he lets them show. But by not letting himself really feel his feelings, he loses a large part of his identity, and becomes this tiny-typing, submissive "boot" who won't even refer to himself in the first person or use his given name. But with Hermione, who is an equal, he can feel and express his anger about what she did, and by proxy about the whole socially stratified system they are in. And, as I said, I think it's healthy for him to finally be able to do so.

Let me also say that, as someone who is (probably incorrectly) using the TIN versions of these characters as my reference for what they would be like in the non-AU world, seeing Terry like this BREAKS MY HEART INTO A MILLION BILLION TINY PIECES. What a huge contrast from one universe (http://bootme.livejournal.com/) to another (http://alt-terry.livejournal.com/).

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed the change in Boot's font size. Thanks for pointing it out. I agree that it is significant. Especially now that he's gone AWOL. He's risking a lot.