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Arcturus Black (arcturusfirst) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-01-12 14:08:00

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!open, astrid, miguel o'hara, ~arcturus black

I don't mean to be a bother, but is there anyone here who is knowledgeable about domestic magic and might be able to advise me?

I need a spell to get ink stains out of clothing. I've been getting by with an all-purpose dirt repelling charm, but it's not designed for this sort of problem.

In a not entirely unrelated matter, does anyone have experience with raising magical children? If you do, and you're not the sort of person from the future who thinks it is good or natural for children to be rude and hate their elders, I would like to ask you a few questions in private.

- A.C. Black

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arcturusfirst
2022-01-21 01:24 pm UTC (link)

Whatever makes you think I am scared of you and your posturing? A gentleman does not do harm to a woman, no matter how much she may insult and goad him. And what makes you think I made any sort of claim about every species? I say, do you even know what a muggle is? It is a human being who has no magical blood and no magical abilities of any sort. I made no claims at all about anyone or anything else here. And how would you know anything about the schools Sirius and I have attended or what we learnt there? Take your own advice and do not make pronouncements about things you know nothing about. Most of what I know about muggle parents, I learnt from classmates who had them.

When you are part of a small group, and there is a much larger group who demonise your people, abuse children who are born on the wrong side of the divide, and wish to torture and kill you, even to the point of trying to wipe out your entire population, it is not 'prejudice' or 'hate' to tell your children to be wary of and avoid them. It is sensible. It is recognition of a real danger. Muggles accusing us of 'hate' because they do not like the consequences of their treatment of us are only compounding their crimes.

Why should the fellow's name matter? Are you trying to say that they are the children of my Sirius, after some sort of time travel accident?

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weapon_x_23
2022-01-21 11:13 pm UTC (link)

I am not posturing, and you are absolutely no gentleman, no matter how lax the definition would be. You claim you are not racist, that leads to the assumption that you know everything, including what is human and what is not. I will sway and say that I did not know that muggle only applied to humans. The rest can be laid down to scent. You smell of old parchment, ink, and even older books, to name a few things. Sirius does not... or not as strongly.

But seeing as you are doling out advice, take some of your own. You have never experienced muggles firsthand quit acting as if you know all there is. You are a hypocrite. A close minded hypocrite.

It is possible, I don't know. He hasn't yet experienced any of the things I smelled on their father. It was why I contacted you, but I see now that was a mistake.

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arcturusfirst
2022-01-22 03:26 pm UTC (link)

Again, you do not make a great deal of sense. The nobility of my birth does not change because you dislike me. I am not a racist because I do not, in your words, demonstrate 'prejudice, discrimination or antagonism' towards anyone because of his or her race. Why you imagine that would lead to an 'assumption that I know everything' I do not understand. It does not logically follow at all. Some people are not human. I do not think poorly of them for being of another species, either.

~~Are you trying to insult me by saying I smell like an ancient professor? How odd.~~ Further, I did not dole out any advice, only prompted you to take that which you had just given. 'Hypocrite' I shall simply add to the lengthy list of baseless insults and unpleasant names you have thrown at me. It is becoming tedious.

~~I shall have to be much stricter with him.~~ Yes, I think it was a mistake. You would have been able to tell by sight, in any case.

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weapon_x_23
2022-01-24 10:33 am UTC (link)

Being a gentleman doesn't have anything to do with your birth. Your birth doesn't change the definition of the word. And what would you call how you have treated me since the start of this conversation, with your assumptions and lies.

You're justifying the way you treat me with ways that you were not treated, but ways you 'heard' others were treated. That is not baseless.

He is seven years old. How is it I am supposed to be able to tell by sight? I cannot see the future. I cannot see what he will look like with twenty years added onto his person. The only thing I can predict is how he will act as a grown man, if he is raised by you.

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arcturusfirst
2022-01-24 04:05 pm UTC (link)

If you already know a man, and you see a portrait of him as a boy, you cannot recognise one in the face of the other? How odd, for one who claims to be so knowledgeable and observant.

The definition of a gentleman is a man of noble or gentle birth. This really is growing absurd. Let us consider what we have here. Based on the fact that I said something you disliked about muggle parents, you made many assumptions about me. You assumed I had never left London and never met people who were not human before. You assumed, for some reason, that I am prejudiced against other people who are not of my race. You assumed that you knew how I have been educated, and how Sirius will be. You were wrong about all these things, and more. And yet you accused me, over and over, of being the ignorant party here. Then when you discovered you were wrong even about what the word muggle means, did you apologise? No, you only heaped on more insults.

Do you think that when that poor boy Leyton at school told me about how his muggle parents had beaten him and locked him in a cupboard, I should have disbelieved him, because I was not beaten by them myself? I justify the way that I am treating you based on the fact that you have repeatedly insulted me and threatened me with violence. The way you have treated me. Before you did that, I passed no personal judgement on your character. Now I do not see that you are any different from the worst of them. There are reasonable, decent muggles here, but you have given no indication that you are among them. You have been nothing but rude and aggressive.

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weapon_x_23
2022-01-25 10:59 am UTC (link)

I would like to see you do the same. The boy has not seen the things the man did, they have not weathered him. The boy's cheeks are still soft, and round. I have no picture to go by. Just a memory. His children are nine years old, and they weren't a year old when he died.

Do yourself a favor and look up these words you seem to think you know the definition of. You can do so with the computer you use now. If you are not racist, are not prejudiced, stop acting as if you're humanities best, when you are the worst I've seen in a very long time.

You started this. If you could not handle the venom spat back at you, you should have spat it at me. You made claim that I was a bad parent because of ONE boy, because I cannot wield magic.

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arcturusfirst
2022-01-26 09:28 am UTC (link)

Then there is enough similiarity to make you unsure, at least? Your Sirius was fair and blond like mine, not with red hair or darker skin or some other characteristic to rule him out?

I have a perfectly satisfactory dictionary within which I found the definition I have given you, thank you. Further, I could be the most arrogant fellow you have ever met, and that would not tell you one thing about whether I was racist and prejudiced or not. Having one fault does not mean you are guilty of another. You have provided absolutely no evidence that I am racist, by your own definition of the word, so desist. The worst person I have met in a long time is a woman who threatens to maim a boy because she does not like what he says. I have done nothing that remotely compares to that.

Ah. You would like to think that poor little Leyton was an isolated case. He wasn't. Muggle parents don't know what to do when their children have magical accidents. They blame them. They listen to wretched priests saying that they have the devil in them. Or they simply think that harshness is the way to prevent it recurring. In my society, when children do their first magic, no matter what it is, or what damage it causes, they are rewarded with a celebration.

I suspect you are a bad parent because when confronted with something you do not approve of you lose your temper and make extreme and violent threats. You offered advice, I politely declined it, and instead of accepting this like a reasonable person, you decided to assume all sorts of things about me, and attack me with your words.

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