"I guess I grew up in a different way, in the muggle world. My sister's non-magic, so she attends a regular school, but I know some girls that went to Beauxbatons. I think – I think that thoughts are independent creatures. The nature of them is unique to each person, but should two persons agree, then the thoughts wage a stronger war. Resistance to that which can only be considered normal is something to be proud of. We are not mindless sheep that blindly follow the vagaries of the magical government. It's the principles of the thing. That women have a right to an education extending further than cooking and cleaning and tending children. If we cleave to our beliefs who are they to criticize us when their fathers and mothers did believe in the same once upon a time?" Maddi stopped breathlessly, sometimes it felt good to let it out. |