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"Do be careful of generalisations, Rachel. Everyone feels a degree of fear and indeed there are dark wizards that do not have fear at all; they have faced it and overcome it and it no longer has any bearing on their life. But excellent answer! Fear of success is indeed a motivator." Ethan almost smiled in encouragement.
Rachel nodded, wondering why she had indeed generalized... It wasn't really in her nature - she was more of a 'stick to examples' girl; maybe this whole "Revival" thing was changing her.
. . . Eh, doesn't matter now. He said it was an excellent answer anyway! Professor Truebridge had ACTUALLY complimented her and she was just fine with that.
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NicoT Ethan's face closed off for a moment, as if he were somewhere else entirely, but he snapped back in only a moment.
"Of course it really depends on the situation doesn't it? Win or die trying? Fear is, unto itself, a motivator. If you acknowledge that you have fear and work with it, often it can help you more than hinder you."
Truebridge stopped pacing and turned to face the class, looking around and meeting the eyes of each and every one of his students.
"Refering back to the dark wizards we identified earlier, which do you think were motivated by fear? Which by power? One more than the other? Both equally? Lets discuss."
"I think that the two main examples of dark wizards led by fear and power are Voldemort and Grindelwald,respectively. As has already been mentioned before," she looked at the people who had spoken before continuing,
"Voldemort lived in constant fear for his Horcruxes and of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore - Grindelwald, on the other hand, had unimaginable powers which drove him to become dark. In the end, the results of the two most evil Dark wizards are similar yet the way they handled things was as different as it can get," Rachel came to a finish, looking down at her hands. She could elaborate more, and possibly make herself more clear, but she didn't really like this topic.
It scared her.
It had happened three times before - Grindelwald, Voldemort and Voldemortist... What's to prevent it from happening again? There has already been a second Voldemort, why not a Grindelwaldist? The wizarding world is what it is - and apparently, blood STILL matters. It might not matter to the people who suffered the causalties - but the future leaders of the community, the ones learning in this very room with her - thought it mattered.
And THAT, in her opinion, wasn't good. At all.