You may think the worse of yourself for the choice, Minerva, but you did it to protect us.
Not because you subscribed to his ideas or his methods or wished to be part of his regime. Certainly not because you thought him brilliant. Nor because you admired the Dark Arts or coveted the power and powers they could confer on you. Nor because you had fantasies of immortality.
Let us not forget what drew that generation to his so-called cause. Nor what horrors have ensued because they succeeded.
I will NOT have you confusing this matter with your regrets. We all, every one of us, regret that you were forced to take that step. And we are all, every last one of us, grateful that your doing so made it unnecessary for any of us to do the like. We cannot know what it has cost you to compromise yourself in this way, but this is not a moment to lose sight of the very definite difference between the time and circumstances under which you took his mark and those under which these two men did so.
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You may think the worse of yourself for the choice, Minerva, but you did it to protect us.
Not because you subscribed to his ideas or his methods or wished to be part of his regime. Certainly not because you thought him brilliant. Nor because you admired the Dark Arts or coveted the power and powers they could confer on you. Nor because you had fantasies of immortality.
Let us not forget what drew that generation to his so-called cause. Nor what horrors have ensued because they succeeded.
I will NOT have you confusing this matter with your regrets. We all, every one of us, regret that you were forced to take that step. And we are all, every last one of us, grateful that your doing so made it unnecessary for any of us to do the like. We cannot know what it has cost you to compromise yourself in this way, but this is not a moment to lose sight of the very definite difference between the time and circumstances under which you took his mark and those under which these two men did so.