asgardeventide | text ϟ D367 (pre-quake)

Hello, everyone; I hope you're all keeping safe after the rescue mission and everything that happened before that. If there's anything I can do to help anyone please let me know.

I was actually hoping to ask for a little help from everyone here. I'm planning on taking up the position of teaching the History of Magic once Professor Snape has the school up and running and the schedules working out, so I was wondering if there was anyone who'd like the history of their world taught during their classes. I've written up a rough guideline for the class as it stands, based on the history of my own world, but I think it would be even more fascinating with a greater world view.

If anyone has anything they want to add to the courses please let me know!

[ PRIVATE TO REMUS LUPIN ]

Remus, I'm not sure how comfortable you'd be with it, but... Would you, perhaps, be willing to help me with the werewolf culture course? I'd really like to open up a debate about how unfair the wizarding world is with regards to the treatment of werewolves and it wouldn't be right to teach the course without actually asking someone with experience.

[ / END PRIVATE ]

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That sounds wonderful. I'm at the back, near the texts on Asgard.

As for prejudice - well. I've experienced enough of that to last a lifetime, unfortunately.

You and me both, then.

[And as she types, she places her book back into place and starts moving towards the back of the library, pushing her hat up and glancing around, before her eyes land on Hermione.]

Though the reason why can occasionally be a little more obvious than most. [She says it dryly, folding her arms.]

[ Although, initially, the other woman's appearance is a little - well, startling - Hermione simply smiles and nods her head. They've both suffered prejudice - there's no need to make it worse. ]

That's true. Still, people always have a way of finding things out when they want to.

[ She steps closer, offering a hand. ]

Hermione Granger. It's wonderful to meet you.

[She smiles, then, and takes Hermione's hand.]

Elphaba Thropp. It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Miss Granger.

Would you like to sit? I'd love to know anything and everything you can tell me about your home world. It sounds fascinating, even with the, um, prejudice.

[ She nods towards the table piled with books with a brighter grin. ]

[She takes a seat, taking her hat off and setting it down on the table.]

Yours sounds just as interesting, witch hunts aside. [She brushes a few strands of hair away, tucking them behind her ear.] The history of my world is a bit cloudy, thanks to all the myths that have sprung up and the official accounts conflicting with one another. There's an entire religion centered around the Fairy Queen Lurline--some say that, before she left the world she created, she left her daughter Ozma in charge, and that Ozma ruled for centuries afterward, bearing herself over and over again like a phoenix.

[She shrugs.] Personally, it's a little hard to believe. It's far more likely that the Ozmas were a noble dynasty that ruled for centuries. Anyway, being allegedly descended from a goddess [and she says the word with some healthy skepticism] didn't help them when the Wizard of Oz floated into town and organized a coup against them.

[ Hermione shakes her head, breathing out gently. ]

It's interesting, but it isn't the most pleasent of histories. We've just come out of a war with wizards fighting wizards over petty blood prejudices... It's was awful.

[ Breathing out, she refocusses her attention on Elphaba, offering a soft smile and forcing away her own memories. Now isn't the time. ]

So a lot of the issues in your world were caused due to a mixed up heritage and confusion when it came to who was in charge? That seems to be something that's common across a lot of worlds, especially with monarchies and singular rulers.

Quite a few of them, yes. But the trouble only really started after the Wizard took over.

[She lets out a breath, looks down at her hands, then up at Hermione.]

In my world, Animals can talk. [yes the capital A is important] They have rights, like everyone else, and for some time they enjoyed them. [She sucks in a shaky breath--clearly this is a topic she's passionate about.] But then the Wizard, looking to use a scapegoat for all the things going wrong in Oz, started taking those rights away, little by little, by enacting laws to shut them up, to pin the blame on them so no one would think their wonderful Wizard wasn't so wonderful after all.

[She stops to collect herself, her lips pressing into a thin line.]

I didn't know all that, at the time. I knew there was something bad going on in Oz, what with the Animals losing their ability to talk and think for themselves little by little, but I didn't know he was the cause of it. I thought he could fix it, somehow. [A bitter smile.] Silly of me, I suppose. Once I found out--well, let's just say that afterwards it wasn't just my skin that scared people off.

[ Hermione is - well, the discussion of Animal rights, the loss of them, the shutdown of any and all protests against it, to pin the blame of the failings of society upon them... It's all a little too familiar and she feels it twist her stomach. It sounds exactly the same as the way muggleborns were treated at home, before the war, and she feels... Strangely discomforted considering she was sure she had made her peace with it all.

She sits up a little, nodding her head. She remembers being much younger, thinking that the wizarding world was only so big and frightening because it was new and learning that it was so much more than that. That there were people wanting to kill her, to end her life and murder her family, just because of the fact that she existed.

Without thinking, Hermione's hand goes to her arm and squeezes the scar there, hidden under her jumper. ]

I - I can empathise with that. In my world something similar happened. Things weren't good for a long time, they really weren't, and it took us a long time to fight to make things better.

[She nods, sympathetic and tired, feeling older than her twenty-two years.]

In my experience, things usually take a long while and a lot of fighting to change, and it doesn't help that people are quite resistant to it. [She lets out a breath.] Still--it's nice to know that they can change for the better.

They can, I know it. That's - that's what I'm fighting for at home. To make things change, to try and help the world become a better place.

That's what I'm fighting for as well: change, and for the truth--about the Wizard, about the Animals--to come out.

[She cares too much about this, she knows that. But she's come too far to turn back now, and someone's got to fight for the Animals, anyway.]

That's how I feel about the treatment of muggleborns and so called 'part-human' creatures in my world. They deserve just as many rights.

Exactly. Everyone has a right to live comfortably, human, Animal or not, without fearing that what they are could kill them or those they care about, or even worse.

Yes! And when they don't they deserve to have the law changed to aid them. It's completely immoral to say that some people get rights and others don't.

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