Oh Pansy. Oh Sally-Anne. Oh, my heart.
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alt_fenI know I have been posting a lot lately, but I don't want anyone to miss this: Pansy's going back through old posts, thanking Harry and Terry (and Dudley) for their support, and she went back to Sally-Anne's post from the 15th and wrote the loveliest comment that has made me all teary. It's a testament to the strength of their friendship, which is also obvious in their exchange on Pansy's most recent post.
And it's an answer to the Order's question about the diversity of the Institute's members and the strength of their loyalty to each other and dedication to making a better world out of the Protectorate. What's stronger than lies and social pressure and the crushing weight of what's enforced as the rightful order of things? We see it from Harry and Hermione, from Hydra and Justin, from Pansy and Sally-Anne. It's friendship, it's trust, it's Dumbledore's message from book five writ large:
It's love. It's Pansy writing to Sally-Anne, "You are my heart. And you will always be my heart."
But go read the whole comment. It's beautiful.
Players, I take off my hat to you as always. But to Pansy's player and Sally-Anne's player, especially: bravissimo. <3
And it's an answer to the Order's question about the diversity of the Institute's members and the strength of their loyalty to each other and dedication to making a better world out of the Protectorate. What's stronger than lies and social pressure and the crushing weight of what's enforced as the rightful order of things? We see it from Harry and Hermione, from Hydra and Justin, from Pansy and Sally-Anne. It's friendship, it's trust, it's Dumbledore's message from book five writ large:
"'power the Dark Lord knows not' ... There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. The power that took you to save Sirius tonight. The power that saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you."
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, US hardcover edition pp. 843-844
It's love. It's Pansy writing to Sally-Anne, "You are my heart. And you will always be my heart."
But go read the whole comment. It's beautiful.
Players, I take off my hat to you as always. But to Pansy's player and Sally-Anne's player, especially: bravissimo. <3
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Date: 2013-04-18 10:19 pm (UTC)TEARS. EVERYWHERE.
Well done, players. I tip my hat to you.
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Date: 2013-04-19 04:05 pm (UTC)Do please keep posting a lot! It's always got interesting stuff to think about.
Also? YES. To everything you said there. It gave me the weeps too.
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Date: 2013-04-19 06:13 pm (UTC)