Susan Sto Helit / Discworld (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ms_susan) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} silverage, |
Susan chuckled. "This Voldemort fellow sounds like the sort who should have been found to have stolen more chain than he could swim with. Purify the blood? Really? Why did you not simply do away with him? Cut off the head of a snake and it may twitch for a while, but it will die... or grow a new head, I suppose, but cutting off heads is easier than chopping up snakes."
"What is an unforgivable curse?" She raised an eyebrow in inquiry. "Of course the best curse is the one you never cast, just say that you have, but unforgivable? That's a form of magic I've never heard of at all. And magic that can't be stopped? You must demonstrate for me; I didn't think there was such a thing."
"Ah," Susan nodded. "The youthful exuberance and romance of living on the edge. I've heard of it. It sounds... uncomfortable. But if Lobsang Ludd can't find his way here, and I can't find my way out, there is something seriously unusual about this place."
"Think about it. You become accustomed to guiding little hands, setting little feet on the correct path of life. Then you end up with a superior who is obviously doing something incorrectly. Dare we say stupidly? And you let him know of his errors. It all goes sadly downhill from there and frequently ends up in shouting until you turn the person to stone or something less pleasant. I find myself doing much better in a situation where I am given a task and left to accomplish it on my own. My grandfather frequently does it that way when I undertake to solve little problems from him."