Lessons in Metempsychosis and Saṅsāra

by TeaOli

After dying in the Shrieking Shack, Severus Snape is sent back so that he can learn to be a functional human, but he and his very own "Clarence" know his efforts are mostly window-dressing. Hermione Granger doesn't regret the choices she made during the war, but that doesn't stop her seeking some sort of absolution for some of the consequences. Drama/Humour/Romance

2. Book I: Inimici

BOOK ONE: Inimici

As learned persons are often aware, opinions about enemies (and what to do with them) have long been on offer and have never been in short supply.

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"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it do singe yourself." — Duke of Norfolk, Henry VIIIWilliam Shakespeare, ca. 1613

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man can not be too careful in the choice of his enemies."— Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1890

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But that alone is no guarantee that such advice can conquer such dogged persistence as is possessed by many such persons.

Without wisdom, after all, knowledge can be as dangerous as ignorance.