Entrée de Journal Soixante-Cinq: Full Moon

[malfoy_purity]

[Draco has locked himself in his room. Deciding to avoid the wolves at all costs. After meeting Greyback, he has a healthy appreciation for staying out of the way of wolves.]

Merlin I will be glad when this whole mess is over. I mean what exactly is a ghost wolf supposed to do aside from scare you half to death?

Comments

[supes]

Paradisa is usually kinder than it is cruel.

[malfoy_purity]

Were you here for those demonic things?

[supes]

I've been here for three and a half years. I've been here for a lot of demonic things.

[malfoy_purity]

Then I wouldn't call it kinder than it's cruel. I think the cruelty is far more pronounced than the kindness could ever be. I'm pretty sure someone dying outweighs having a few Christmas decorations.

[supes]

Let me rephrase that, then: Paradisa is not a person. It's a force of nature, and even if we consider it a sentient one, it's more like "Mother Earth" than a human being. It doesn't necessarily have the same ideas about morality or emotion that we do, and I think cruelty takes a certain kind of personality that I just don't see in this place –– if it were really cruel, we'd live in a hellhole all the time, instead of just a couple weeks a year.

I'm not arguing that Paradisa is great all or time, or that it's not prone to throwing miserable obstacles in our midst. Paradisa has done a lot of horrible things in my time here, and things that have effected me personally. But I'd be hard pressed to call Paradisa cruel when more often than not, the worst cruelties and transgressions committed here are by fellow residents. Life is just as fragile and important here as it is on Earth. Christmas decorations and material items have nothing to do with it; it's about what Paradisa does differently as an environment. It's more forgiving than nature on Earth, and in many ways, better -- there's no disease, no food chain, and there's an unprecedented abundance of resources that allows the entire population to live comfortably. You won't find that anywhere on Earth, or any other planet.

[malfoy_purity]

You don't think it does that so we'll be alive for the next bizarre painful thing it throws at us?

[supes]

Nope. It wouldn't go to the lengths it does to keep us comfortable if mere survival was all it wanted for us.

[malfoy_purity]

That's an awful lot of supposition though.

[supes]

I don't think so. It might not be what the majority of the castle believes, but there's nothing tangible to disprove it... and it matches up, in my experience.

[malfoy_purity]

Well In your opinion then

[supes]

[Pleasantly, though he disagrees.]

It's not just an opinion –– it's a rejection of supposition. It's good to question what we do know about the castle, and where that information comes from.

[malfoy_purity]

But all of the information comes from the castle and we still know nothing about it, not really. The way this place changes the whole thing could be an illusion.

[supes]

And you're definitely on the right track with that. We don't know much, and everything does change. That's exactly why we shouldn't make assumptions about the castle's intentions, or methods, or anything.

We don't have information from the castle. As far as I'm aware, the castle has never given an interview or sat down to explain itself. If it has said something, it's to an individual, and that can't be corroborated any more than hearing voices or divine orders. All we have is information interpreted from the castle.

I'm just wary that over the years, people will forget that a lot of what we know is based on assumptions. To an extent, I think a lot of people already have. That's why it's not good to deal in absolutes.

[malfoy_purity]

Sometimes people have to, it's the only grounding they have in a strange place.