No, now you know that's not true, that 'most of what the Order does is hide' if you think about it. What about all the wanted posters about my parents, and the people that they've killed? Unless you think they're lies. But I happen to know they're not. Dad's admitted to me that both he and Mum have killed people, although he doesn't like to talk about it and he's certainly not boasting about it. They were in some real running battles over the years. More when we were little, which was why they gave Ev and me up to Gran in the first place. There may have been some more recently, too.
But something happened that made them think they had to change their tactics. Maybe it was realising that if they didn't snatch the muggle born babies, they'd lose the next generation. Maybe they realised they needed to have wands to give those babies, as well as all of the muggle borns that had them confiscated. So they started going after wands.
In other words, they're building an army. Which is not exactly hiding.
I know Dad has studied about the Dark Arts--the Noble Arts, if you like--because he's had to personally face those curses. There are a lot of books about Dark curses in his Auror library. Not so much about how to do them. More about how to defend against them, and heal the damage they cause. But he thinks it's a really bad idea to use them himself. Well, I couldn't swear to it that he's never used them, but he certainly avoids them. Given all of his experience in battle, it's clear that it's not that he's unwilling to kill, and given how close some of those battles have been, and how he barely got away with the skin of his teeth, I reckon he'd want any advantage he could get, if he thought it was worth it. Which means, I guess, that his experience--battle experience--has convinced him those arts aren't worth the disadvantages. I reckon we can learn more about that when we join the Order.
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2013-06-07 14:00 (UTC)But something happened that made them think they had to change their tactics. Maybe it was realising that if they didn't snatch the muggle born babies, they'd lose the next generation. Maybe they realised they needed to have wands to give those babies, as well as all of the muggle borns that had them confiscated. So they started going after wands.
In other words, they're building an army. Which is not exactly hiding.
I know Dad has studied about the Dark Arts--the Noble Arts, if you like--because he's had to personally face those curses. There are a lot of books about Dark curses in his Auror library. Not so much about how to do them. More about how to defend against them, and heal the damage they cause. But he thinks it's a really bad idea to use them himself. Well, I couldn't swear to it that he's never used them, but he certainly avoids them. Given all of his experience in battle, it's clear that it's not that he's unwilling to kill, and given how close some of those battles have been, and how he barely got away with the skin of his teeth, I reckon he'd want any advantage he could get, if he thought it was worth it. Which means, I guess, that his experience--battle experience--has convinced him those arts aren't worth the disadvantages. I reckon we can learn more about that when we join the Order.