Amelia Clare Bones is exceptionally fair (_feathers) wrote in linia,
"Marlene McKinnon, Benjy Fenwick, Remus Lupin, Emmeline Vance," Susan shot back. "Gideon Prewett, Fabian Prewett, Caradoc Dearborn, Edgar Bones, Amelia Bones, Patrick Bones, Dorcas Meadowes, Elphias Doge, Mundungus Fletcher, Molly Weasley, Charlie Weasley, and Hestia Jones! James Potter isn't the one you could have possibly betrayed! I don't know why he talks to you, but he's not the only one! What about all of them! How many of them would still be here!" She stopped to take a breath, her knuckle white from clenching her fists so tightly.
"Yes, I know it's different out there," she spat. "Where your parents are punished for choices you make - Neville's parents have to disown him, Katie Bell got fired for talking, and Fred's sitting in jail for having a conversation with you! And you want to sit there and say you didn't betray anyone - what about your own ideals?"
She took another breath and realised she was crying out of anger. She angrily wiped her face with her robe sleeve. "But it doesn't matter, because that's all going to change, and it's going to come to these walls, Albus Dumbledore or not. Because they're going to start whipping us, simply because they can!"