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alt_hydraHi, Harry,
I found a way to ask Daddy about the ritual. I told him that I was looking through my new Dark Arts textbooks for information about something I'd read in a storybook.
He asked "what storybook?"
I said that it was one of the Bramblewick Orphan books, and in it, when Elinor and Petra are kidnapped by the hedgewitch, she locks them in the cellar, then makes them part of a ritual, during which Petra holds their dead Mother's locket while the hedgewitch tries to make Elinor murder the hedgewitch's enemy, the glass knight. But the ritual is interrupted when Elinor and Petra's brother, Cid, bursts into the cellar and saves his sisters.
It's all true up to the part with the glass knight (I don't even know what a glass night is, I just made it up, but it sounds like something from a storybook, doesn't it?).
Well, Daddy said there were lots of rituals involving objects that require "blood sacrifice," but it's the sort of thing that can kill you, if you don't know what you're doing. And it's usually for making an object that causes a lot of harm and destruction, often death, but that that's definitely not always the case - some dark objects are for protection, too, or make a person more powerful. He talked about how the glass knight being the hedgewitch's enemy is significant, because the blood of one who wronged you is different from the blood of the innocent. He said that the most important thing to ask was why the hedgewitch would want a powerful and deadly object, and that I should wonder if the object was meant to go to Petra, since she was the one holding the locket.
Then he laughed and pointed out that it was just a storybook, and probably not based on any "true depth of knowledge for dark artefacts."
So, whatever you had to do, it wasn't something that Daddy immediately recognised. But it sounds like it wasn't anything good.
I'm sorry I couldn't find out more. Maybe this gives you some ideas to go on?
From,
Hydra
I found a way to ask Daddy about the ritual. I told him that I was looking through my new Dark Arts textbooks for information about something I'd read in a storybook.
He asked "what storybook?"
I said that it was one of the Bramblewick Orphan books, and in it, when Elinor and Petra are kidnapped by the hedgewitch, she locks them in the cellar, then makes them part of a ritual, during which Petra holds their dead Mother's locket while the hedgewitch tries to make Elinor murder the hedgewitch's enemy, the glass knight. But the ritual is interrupted when Elinor and Petra's brother, Cid, bursts into the cellar and saves his sisters.
It's all true up to the part with the glass knight (I don't even know what a glass night is, I just made it up, but it sounds like something from a storybook, doesn't it?).
Well, Daddy said there were lots of rituals involving objects that require "blood sacrifice," but it's the sort of thing that can kill you, if you don't know what you're doing. And it's usually for making an object that causes a lot of harm and destruction, often death, but that that's definitely not always the case - some dark objects are for protection, too, or make a person more powerful. He talked about how the glass knight being the hedgewitch's enemy is significant, because the blood of one who wronged you is different from the blood of the innocent. He said that the most important thing to ask was why the hedgewitch would want a powerful and deadly object, and that I should wonder if the object was meant to go to Petra, since she was the one holding the locket.
Then he laughed and pointed out that it was just a storybook, and probably not based on any "true depth of knowledge for dark artefacts."
So, whatever you had to do, it wasn't something that Daddy immediately recognised. But it sounds like it wasn't anything good.
I'm sorry I couldn't find out more. Maybe this gives you some ideas to go on?
From,
Hydra
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2012-09-01 06:10 (UTC)Part of it was that she was supposed to be an enemy, I guess. At least I was supposed to think it.
The protection thing makes sense too.
Thanks. A lot. And good on you for coming up with the story.
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2012-09-01 15:54 (UTC)I knew if I said it was something from storybooks he wouldn't be concerned or ask too many questions. Daddy still thinks I read those Bramblewick orphan books, even though I outgrew them years ago.
I suppose I'll see you on the train, then.
From,
Hydra
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2012-09-02 02:00 (UTC)