Yes on the first question; the parchment must be charmed by both of us, and yes, that's a limiting factor.
It's not only the children we could have brought to Moddey Dhoo. It's all the suffering, the deaths, the waste of human potential. And I can't get in there to see what I can do to help. I can't place my hand of the shoulder of a mother and tell her I'll do all in my power to help her sick child. I can't get in the right in the face of a corrupt camp administrator and demand that he release the stock of food stuffs he's been hoarding. I can't do anything.
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going when I do my job is the reflection that while I do represent the Ministry, at least I might serve as a kinder face for the people in the camps, a promise that not every pure-blooded wizard wants to hurt or enslave them or make them miserable. But now I can't even see these poor people, to be there with them as they're going through this.
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Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-03-25 02:53 pm (UTC)It's not only the children we could have brought to Moddey Dhoo. It's all the suffering, the deaths, the waste of human potential. And I can't get in there to see what I can do to help. I can't place my hand of the shoulder of a mother and tell her I'll do all in my power to help her sick child. I can't get in the right in the face of a corrupt camp administrator and demand that he release the stock of food stuffs he's been hoarding. I can't do anything.
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going when I do my job is the reflection that while I do represent the Ministry, at least I might serve as a kinder face for the people in the camps, a promise that not every pure-blooded wizard wants to hurt or enslave them or make them miserable. But now I can't even see these poor people, to be there with them as they're going through this.