A/N: A gift to the brilliant notreallyblonde44 who is my Secret Santa at TGS! :D This is not only a gift to her for holiday cheer, but also as thanks for inspiring me once I read a few of her works. You should definitely have a look!
Also thanks to AC_rules who has been my rock despite the encroaching distance lately and for being encouraging and getting me to put myself out there more. :)
Enjoy!
Theory: people like chocolate frogs because they know they are supposed to. Some people like treacle tart, for example, because they know that's their preference.
Maybe that is how people know they are "self-actualised", they realise the differences between social influences and their own tastes.
Maybe that is why teenagers are so frustrated sometimes, they cannot comprehend the differences in society's influences and their personal feelings in regards to something or someone.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. That is all theories are and can be. They are but guesses at the complexity of life. One can search forever for explanations to the reasons why people and beings are the way they are.
Wizards shun theories. They do not need them. They do not need theories that hold possible answers for the world. Wizards and Witches care for themselves and personal gain. Those are two very well-known facts in life. For why do they need to question such simplistic subjects? They have the world at the tip of their wands.
Why should they question facts and figures of life when they are phenomenal compared to the rest of the world? Why should they, when they can flick their wands without effort and whisper ancient words in their great minds? Wizards and Witches can wave a stick and fill the void in their dying hearts.
They can do whatever their heart's desire. They have power, money, determination, arrogance - countless qualities that would be needed in order to fulfil their wishes. Strategy, timing and followers are the other keys to rise in ultimacy. They are easily earned.
They could easily blend in if they wished, they could stand out like a sore Phoenix, they could mix between worlds and no one would ever be the wiser.
They have so many options. They have so many opportunities that they stubbornly take advantage of day after day, millennia after millennia.
There are Wizards and Witches younger than myself who have had countless opportunities that I would use Unforgiveable Curses for and yet they undermine them again and again.
Wizards are stubborn, cruel and selfish beings - worse than any Muggle I could ever imagine or encounter. They are worse than the Dementors that invade my dreams and twist them into strangulating nightmares.
There was a time where I was young and foolish; I had trusted four Wizards and one Witch of who esteemed attributes; they were prejudice and gluttonous, but distorted into great, influential, comforting and protective beings in my young mind's eye.
Theory: animals, are incredibly smart creatures with impeccable hearing, avoid cemeteries because they hear the dead suffering. They will refuse as much as they are possibly able and when forced they will howl and cry - repenting for the cruel torture their owners have inflicted on them.
They fear the cemeteries for the dead scream and writhe in pain in their graves which will not obey their pleas to open.
The animals hear me suffering in my grave and they avoid the expensive headstone and newly refreshed flowers like the plague has been released into the air.
I would thank you if you could, momentarily, forget Hell and its rumours of pain, suffering and fiery torment. The immediate casualty one should fear is what occurs six feet under.