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astrocat 
"Well I am a Ravenclaw, apparently, so everyone thinks I'm smart. I don't know if being smart translates into making good decisions though. I know what the right decision is, and then I just do the opposite, not gonna lie. But I have a guardian angel who sits on my shoulder going 'nonono don't do that' whenever I do something too crazy." Because you know what Ash did? She did more and more crazy, high-adrenaline, high-risk stuff until she thought she would actually die, and then she started over and repeated it. Smart? No. Workable? Yeah. "Yeah. Some of us." Not all of us. "Some of us." He should watch out too, lest he make the mistake of thinking all the kids were on the same side. "You don't sound like an old man. You sound like a therapist. It's funny." She kicked the ball back. "I want to see if my best friend is alright. He doesn't know about the no-letters thing, so I'm really hoping he hasn't chosen to send me anything. They could trace it." Luckily, Ash had stuff in place to make sure that her best friend didn't come close to the wizarding world. She never talked about it with him, and made sure all of his letters were forwarded by her bodyguards. Because when you love someone, you have to make sure they stay far away from your torture. "I'm scared, you know. Because to escape, you have to revolt, and to revolt, you have to be okay with casualties. And I don't want anyone to die for me, whether they're kids or ministry workers. But at the same time, a lot of us will die if we never escape. I think about it a lot, but I haven't found any loopholes yet. Because the alliance will fight to the death, but I don't want us to die fighting. So the only way out is to win. But winning is dying." She shrugged. "There's always a way. It's just only accessible from outside of here, which is why I can't see it yet." And she believed that. Nobody won a war by accepting defeat. If you were careful and had help, you could always find a way out. Being careful was why she was whispering. She had that part down. Now she just needed to trust that someone out there was coming with help.
Being smart definitely did not translate into making good decisions, he had to agree with that and from what he had heard the girl had not made the best moves over the course of the year but at least she wasn’t killed yet. That had to count for something, right? He smiled a little when she mentioned having a guardian angel on her shoulders because sometimes the Hufflepuff thought the same way. As a muggleborn, he had thought he’d get singled out far more often but except for feeling terrible in classes thanks to the anti-muggle regime, he hadn’t had any real trouble. Some of us…. That hit him, hard. Minjae frowned again.
”I’m aware not everyone here might be against them but…” but what? That the ones who chose the Alliance were not thinking straight? That was just wishful thinking. He understood not everyone saw what he saw in muggles.
This time, his ears turned a bright red color when the Ravenclaw said he sounded like a therapist. It reminded him of Aboli .She was the first person to have listened to his problems at home. It also made him remember their date and well….he was glad Ashley spoke further. It was one thing to talk about wanting to escape and see your family. It was a whole other thing when Ashley suddenly started talking about revolts. He wasn’t sure where she would be going with this but the moment he heard that word, alarm bells went off in his head. Was this how Schmoe had felt when he had went off on an angry rant in his office? He grabbed his wand and waved it around, casting a quick
"Muffliato" over them both just in case. Better safe than sorry.
He hadn’t kicked back the ball yet because he was too busy listening to her words. He too had been looking for a way out of the castle. But everything he thought of , the Alliance had thought about as well and he hated it. And if they did find a way to escape, it was going to be a bloody and deadly mess.
”I don’t want others to die for me either…” he said softly after a while.
"Even the thought of having to go against them scares me so much. They have far more magical experience than us. Not even going to mention that they use Dark magic and like you said, they will fight till death" it sucked, all of it and he wanted to be home right now
" I-i don't want to die and i know i can't kill someone either...But i also don't want them to rule our lives." Ugh . Come to Hogwarts they had said. It would be fun! He kicked the ball hard against the wall , the angle of it made it roll back to Ashley.
"What is so bad about muggles and us muggleborns anyway? I honestly can't see their point of view. You know what, i'm proud to be muggleborn" There. He had said it.