 White Band/Professor Teapot Occamy| gryphons&giraffes&goats,OH MY | chaser of the truth | flutiful❧
They were talking about the battle of Hogwarts today. Isa had never spent too much time studying that particular moment in history because she hated to see how some people could be so evil and want to hurt or kill other people. Ideally there would never be bloodshed, but Isa was beginning to see that it was not always possible for everything to end without bloodshed because there were some really bad people out there who wouldn't listen to reason and genuinely wanted to hurt people. It was sad, but true. Violence should never have to happen, but it seemed like in the case of the Battle of Hogwarts conflict had been unavoidable because Hogwarts was being violently attacked. Voldemort and his followers were really evil. It was terrible that Voldemort and the death eaters thought they were better than everyone else and needed to purify the blood. Voldemort wasn't even a pureblood! It was nothing more than pure evil and genocide, really. All those poor people who had lost their lives to the death eaters.
Ohhh no, they were going to be playing a game of WAR. Isa could feel her heart beating faster in her chest. With her pacifist views Isa believed that violence was never a justified way of solving conflicts. This wasn't a real war, but Isa was still uncomfortable with the thought of fighting. She wouldn't even participate in dueling club because of her opposition to violence. Isa grabbed a white arm band, because if she was going to have to choose a side she was going to go with the side that wasn't discriminatory and evil. She was using her moral judgement here. "Um, Professor? What exactly is involved in a "war game?" Is there, um, going to be actual fighting? Do we have to do it?" Isa was feeling a little panicked about this. Breathe Isa, breathe. Breathe in through the nose... And out through the mouth. In through the nose... Out through the mouth. Isa counted the seconds as she took deep breaths in for four seconds and breathed out for four seconds. She would be okay, no need to panic, everything was going to be okay. Just stay clam. Breathe.
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