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Emmerson N. J. Cambridge
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Sixth Year

Ministry RPG Name:
Alexa Christina Cambridge
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He....wasn't going to comment on that any further than, "See to it we don't have any repeats of uncalled for outbursts. They help no one and make it more difficult for the students to know they can depend on you to keep a level head in dire circumstances." Any circumstances. Rasting had already come asking to drop the subject for reasons that fell along those lines. If he could prevent more students from losing faith in her, that would be the ideal situation.

The man couldn't tell her what to care for or how to value life. If she didn't believe or couldn't see that all life was important, he'd only be wasting his breath. The idea was quite unnerving to him but so long as she kept it to herself and remained respectful, it wouldn't be something they needed to debate. Others DID value life and could see how unnecessary it would've been to harm creatures that felt and thought and could feel pain. They were sentient beings, like cats and crows and humans. The more he thought about it was the more he questioned her character but the man wasn't here to debate her love of living things so...dropping that quickly before he could think too much about it.

Instead, he'd focus on her question. "It was unnecessary because the elves already know they should be on the look out and reporting dangerous or out of place things when they see them. It's not some novel idea that you've just invented. They've always known. It's like you telling them to breathe." That was why it was a waste of time, why she could have saved herself the energy if she'd come talk to him first. He could have told her that ages ago. "And if they don't think it's dangerous or strange or even worse if they decide they like it a whole lot, they'll never report it, regardless of what you say to them or how often you insist--again making it a fruitless endeavour. By your logic, if Toddles and the other elves had thought the creatures were dangerous, they would have said something because it was out of place. They didn't, even though they knew." The man's voice was even as he spoke, almost as if he was in class explaining a concept to his students. "If they walked outside tomorrow and found a steaming baby dragon but thought it was cute, they wouldn't report that either, especially not if they knew we'd send it away." The elves would not be quick to report things to someone who easily flew off the handle as she tended to. Hardly. "Do you see where I'm going with this? It's not the elves' jobs to be guardians of the castle, it's ours. They know to report, without your say so. They already know. Will they? It depends on them, again, regardless of anything you could say to them. Is that dangerous? Potentially. That's why we can't just go out exercising on the grounds thinking nothing bad will happen today. Why we remain constantly vigilant and always have our wands ready. Why we need to be fully and magically competent." Rather than trying to rely on fickle little beings who had their own ideas of what was okay and what was out of place. They weren't always good at making that distinction. It came with the territory of hiring elves.

Again, he shook his head. "I haven't accused you of disloyalty. No one's accused you of that but yourself, repeatedly. That sounds more like an internal struggle being projected outward than anything else." Yes, he thought her strange for several reasons. Unprofessional, too. But disloyal has never been one of his concerns with her.
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