Free will is an illusion. This notion that everyone has control over their own mind and actions is the greatest lie that our society engrains in our children.
That night, that terrible night, my son had no choice. He was bullied and coerced and lied to. And now my son is dead.
My son, my son, was lied to his entire life. He was told that he was brave. He was told that he was noble. He was told that in his class, among his peers, his house was the true house. His belonging to his house made him a king among commoners. He was told that it was his job to protect those that were less than him. That was a lie. He was a child. He was not responsible for anything or anyone that night.
But it was too hard for him to fight against what he had been told his whole life. He didn't have all the information when he made his choice that night. He couldn't have. He was only told one side of the story that night. He was told only one side of the story his whole life. He was pushed into an ideological assumption that he couldn't really understand. That he couldn't possibly understand.
He was not the only one who was lied to. No. He was but one among many. They lied to all of those children that night. They promised those children a new world. They promised them glory. They promised them freedom. And what have those promises? Nothing has. I don't know about you. All I have is a dead child. What about you?
Nothing has come of all this death! Nothing! What had happened except a ruined society? A new persecution!
You might scoff, you might! We are better! You might say, We are better now than we have ever been! The Dark Lord is banished, gone for good, and his followers are on the run!
But is that good? Is that what we want? Sure, it's true that the Dark Lord went a little far in his method. It's true that people did suffer under his régime. But now? Now all the old blood has been purged from society. All of our values are gone! Now a muggle child means the same, has the same value as our children. We have to live in secrecy and fear and yet they tell us that we must protect and love the muggles!
It is because of the muggles and mudbloods that some of us no longer have our children. It's because of the muggles and mudbloods that houselves are demanding to be paid. It's because of muggles and mudbloods, the idea that they hold a candle to the worth of our own children that we suffered through two wars at all.
My son was lied to his whole life. He was told that muggles and mudbloods mattered as much as him. That simply wasn't true. I told him that lie. I believed it once.
But I won't be blind any longer. Those people…those things are the reason that he is dead! And the worst part is that only a few of us can see it. I urge you to take off the blinders and see what our values have degraded into! I urge you to remember those babies that were lied to and murdered because of that degradation! I urge you to stand up for what is right.
Purity and truth come at a price. Remember the dead and what they died for. It was a lie.