2. Temperance
I found it hard through my entire life to not have a drop of liquor. I'm offered firewhiskey once in a while, or the occasional butter beer, but I can never take them. My father, the first Antonin Dolohov, never could deny the offer of a drink. He used to party with his friends then come home to my mother and I. Mother tried to protect me, but she never could protect me from their fights. I often went to bed hearing my mother being raped by her own husband. It was frightening, my father would wake up the next morning and act as though nothing had happened. Soon he was no longer my father, but the man who came home drunk every night.
Eventually he died, but my mother was broken, mentally and physically. All the abuse she had taken couldn't be repaired. As I went to Hogwarts my first year, I came home over Christmas holiday to my mother dead on the couch. I didn't know what to do so I ran. I ran far, but eventually they found me, and questioned me, and finally let me go back to the school. I found new friends, and I stayed with relatives on the holidays, but I couldn't escape the alcohol. I saw friends succumb to the lusts of drinking, and saw what it did to them, what it did to my father. Deciding to not drink is the best decision I ever made, it may be said that I have not made many good decisions, but that is one of the ones that keeps me going, and fighting for my mother.
