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[Hexed Private]
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

So, was I perfect, then, before I met the people I love the best?

So, let's suspend the idea that every gay man ends up in Hell. Where do I go then? Purgatory, maybe. I'm not perfect, but I try. Or maybe just somewhere else in Hell.

Michael would kill me for even thinking that, let alone writing it down.

Then again, if "Hell was made for the inquisitive" (Saint Augustine), I've been damned since I could read.

"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-- St. Francis of Assisi
[/Private]



[Hexed to Michael, Sal, Neville, and Ernie.]
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

Anthony's upset with me over how I handled his talking to Malfoy thing, which, to be fair, sounded a little bit paranoid and probably a bit unreasonable. But am I not allowed to be unreasonable when one of my best mates' might be putting himself in danger? Besides, it's Malfoy. What's he done to honestly convince anyone that he needs help? And, even if he did, he's still Malfoy and he still deserves whatever he gets, right? So he's not really a murderer. Who cares? He still plotted to murder someone, and, even if he hadn't, he's still racked up enough points against himself by virtue of being an ill-tempered, malicious little prat, right? I'm not just hallucinating that he spent our shared time at school making as many people miserable as possible? And that's not even counting his larger transgressions; if we want to factor those into things, then he deserves this even more than I already thought he did.

...Right? ...Someone tell me I'm not just being completely unreasonable about this. Merlin, I don't want him to be upset with me -- but, on the other hand, it's not in his best interests to be talking to Malfoy, right?
[/Hex]



[Hexed to Anthony]
"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
-- St. Francis of Assisi

You're not upset with me, are you? Over Malfoy and everything I said about him?
[/Anthony]



[Hexed to Draco Malfoy]
Don't talk to Anthony. Don't read his journal entries; ignore him if/when he says anything about yours.

Whatever else you do, I don't care. But you leave him alone. Understood?
[/Draco]


"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
-- St. Augustine of Hippo