Perhaps you think the Wrath of Albus sounds like an extreme organization, or a cult. You are certainly right on both counts, but I feel no shame in having been a part of it.
We were extreme in our practices and believed in many things that ran counter to most peoples' (including my own through my life up until that period)'s values.
The Wrath saw the members of the Wizard Empowerment League not just as enemies to society in the present, but also the future. Their members were part of a disease that would spread down the gene pool, just like it had been spread to them. Their disease, their sick hatred, would not stop until these people were removed from society, removed from all possible parenthood and mentorship.
Deep down, I really do believe that.
Perhaps you think the way we exterminated our targets and prisoners brought us too much enjoyment, or was done with too much cruelty, sadism and humiliation. But to us, that was the right way to do it. The honorable way. To simply kill a person is cheap and disrespectful. We believed that only after truly breaking a person down was it ever appropriate to end their life. Kill the heart and let the body follow, we would say…
Above all else, we believed in freedom. Total freedom. Yes, we had structure, leaders and one grand leader, the cloaked man.
The Man With No Name. That's what we called him, the closest thing to a name he would give us to work with.
But we believed that's how humans should behave. The strong would rise above and take charge and those who are, simply, not , would follow their lead. The strong beneath them would lead on behalf of the strong above… so on and so forth, down the chain. It was simply nature. But there was no concrete law binding any of this; we were only sworn to support the organization. Our leader's role was not forced upon us and was not backed by any real law or rule. He was simply in charge and we simply followed. That was what it was. The leaders and the followers chose each other and themselves.
Our sexuality may seem the strangest to some. Throughout the whole organization, all were free to bed whoever they wanted… and did. All of us did. Perhaps it was something about the environment, but literally every person among us had a sexual relationship with others within the organization, often outside as well. And strangely, never just with one person. Multiple. Even those who were in committed relationships and marriages. Some would tell their partner, some would not… I did not. I suppose I never really told Ron either. He sort of got the whole thing thrown in his face in the cruelest way possible…
I'm getting ahead of myself here.
We were not perfect. In many ways, we DID take too much pleasure in what we were doing. We felt we were free to treat our targets in any way we wished in order to break them down… or simply before we broke them down at all. Anything to accomplish the mission; however this was done was relevant. If anything, the more twisted of a way one pulled it off, the better. It was encouraged. At the time I wondered whether something about that organization created this enhanced sadism and masochism in all of us, but now I believe that it just let us explore that without boundaries. It was in each of us. I honestly believe it's a part of everyone.
Let me give you some examples...
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