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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
2022-01-26 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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