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julianne dorny ([info]piano) wrote,
@ 2008-04-13 23:12:00


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Every year, it gets a bit harder to use the portkey from the Irish Ministry to come to England, and then to step on the train. Because I be in so deep now, I'll never get my life ba I came in fourth in the Chopin concerto competition in London, which was incredibly disappointing, considering that I won it when I was ten, but I did place second in the Liszt recitals, which, given that I had to teach myself the Second Rhapsody, that had been a nice result, yeah? Though it's hard to lie, to lie and lie and all I seem to do is lie, about what I'm up to during the school year. It makes it harder. To step on the train.

God, I hate it here.


I need to speak to the Headmistress about switching the transfiguration of my piano from a Steinway to a Baldwin; I played on the most magnificent Baldwin in Prague, I nearly felt compelled to hug it after I played upon it each time. I wonder how that will alter the spell?


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[info]condign
2008-04-14 07:02 am UTC (link)
The wizarding world seems to be a boiling pit of lies...I've decided.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:02 pm UTC (link)
There be entire offices in the Ministry devoted to keeping wizards secret from real people Muggles. A whole government, based on the object of maintaining a lie.

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 06:05 pm UTC (link)
But, I suppose it's for a good cause. I mean - realistically they do it for a reason. It's just a real pain in the arse when you have to play the part of political stitching's.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I know, I know. My father works for the Ministry in Dublin, and he's told me that there's no way for our worlds to exist but - it just - part of his job is to modify Muggle minds to make sure they don't know we exist. And then I - well, it's just hard to reconcile at times all the time.

Political stitchings? Trying to hold something together?

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I meant political stitching's as a term used in the case of having to keep both sides happy through lies. But, that might just be the muggleborn stand point of it all. Either way it's all political. Muggles don't want to know and wizards are perfectly happy not telling them. The lies, unspoken truths, and altered memories hold the structure of both societies together in the end.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 10:48 pm UTC (link)
I've never heard that expression before Irish ignorance, I'll bet - I like that. Still, under all of the politics whether they be necessary or not, are people who are getting ripped up from all of the stitches that we be making to keep the secrecy alive. Don't the saying be that politics be ugly business for a reason?

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 11:32 pm UTC (link)
That is in fact the saying. Politics is ugly business and always has been. But humanity can't survive without it. Brainwashing the masses into conformity is how we've worked for centuries. Unfortunately, that brainwashing has limited the tolerance for things that are different in both social structures be them wizarding or muggle.

I suppose we'll just have to suck it up and accept that that's how it is, huh?

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 12:05 am UTC (link)
Conformity, and then the victors write the history that we use to convinces the masses to continue on the same path that has been walked by the generations before. Ignore those that stray off the beaten path, woe betide those who follow the different drummer and value the good of the few over the good of the many.

Clearly, I ate Cynical-Os for breakfast. My apologies. I just hate co Why, didn't you know? Sucking it up is my middle name. Ginger Lady Julianne Sucking It Up Dorny. Tis a family name, passed down for generations.

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