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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 17:59:47 GMT -5
"I don't think she would particularly like me. She's still a kid, and no matter what she does or says, she will be a kid for at least 6 more years. Her parents may be irresponsible letting a child fight, but that doesn't mean I will treat her any differently than any other 11 year old," Harry replied.
It didn't matter if one had killed millions of people by the time they were 11 years old. They were still a child. And they would be treated as such. While his children wanted more freedom, he did allow them more freedom, but he didn't allow them to enter the battle field, unless there was a very special case.
"Yes, yes it is," Harry teased back looking at her with a small smile.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 18:07:18 GMT -5
"Aura likes pretty much everyone, actually; she'll probably call you a jackwagon and stick her tongue out at you, though," Lisa chuckled. "And as for her parents...I don't think they know any differently. At the very least, her father doesn't."
Lisa had gathered that the Cavaliere had been training their children to fight wars for so long that very few questioned it. The more peace-loving ones like Seline became Healers; everyone else was taught to fight and sent off to war the second they were deemed ready. It had all seemed so strange to her, running into kids that were thirteen, fourteen, even only nine-years-old and already desensitized to killing.
"Oh, he thinks he's funny," she scoffed jokingly, smiling back at him.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 19:12:15 GMT -5
"Let's just hope we don't meet," Harry said placing a hand awkwardly on his face and it sliding off his face, before falling to his lap, "I might just have to have a talking to with this father of hers."
Harry was usually accepting of other cultures and such. However, there were a couple of things that he did not tolerate with, and one of them was the practice of having child soldiers. Maybe it was just the fact the Order policies had been drilled into his head, or maybe that he didn't want any other kids to feel obliged to fight when they were so young. He had been fighting ever since he came to Hogwarts against Voldemort. It changed him a lot. And he hated that others found it perfectly fine to have children fight as soldiers.
"Me?" Harry replied sarcastically in a joking way, "I am being completely serious."
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 19:21:40 GMT -5
"Good luck with that," she deadpanned. "Her father, Thomas, was a child soldier himself. He doesn't know anything else, so it doesn't bother him as much as I think it would under different circumstances."
Sadly, the fact that the Cavaliere had been soldiers for as long as anyone could remember meant that none of them saw what was wrong with training their children to be soldiers. There were some, like Marissa, who hated the practice but didn't know how to change it. Others had long-since accepted it. Marisol and Thomas fell under the second category.
"Oh, haha," she replied sarcastically. "I'd hate to see you joking around."
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 19:39:51 GMT -5
"He should know it better than anyone else. I would hate to think that he enjoyed being a child soldier. Parents are supposed to want better for their children, not be fine with the exact same life that they had," Harry stated shaking his head in disapproval.
It was always in his mind that a parent should love and cherish their children, and raise and nurture them until they were adults. They should want the best life for their children, hope they had a better life than they did, or if the parents had the greatest life in the world, then want the same life they had for their child. Not just be fine with forcing them to go through the same hardships they went through.
"It's really scary," Harry joked with a small laugh.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 19:49:48 GMT -5
"I don't know if it's him wanting the same life for his children or if it's that he doesn't know how to improve it," she admitted. Her mouth quirked into a smile at his last statement. "Maybe they should. Mine didn't. There are some among the Cavaliere that I think try really hard to be good parents, though. Gabe's mother pulled him, Damien and Seline out of the war until they were all of age after that incident when Gabe was eleven. I don't even think that Gabe's children know what he does for a living."
As crazy as the lifestyle they lived was, Lisa had to admit that the Cavaliere were a pretty strong family unit. They supported and stood by each other, through everything imaginable. There was a loyalty there that she suspected had been born from their upbringing as soldiers.
"Oh, I'll bet," she joked, rolling her eyes and laughing softly.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 20:00:25 GMT -5
"He could not allow it. He could make it so that his children aren't child soldiers. He could not give them the choice of fighting when they are young. That's how he can change it. Gabe's mother was right to pull them out. But they shouldn't have been fighting in the first place," Harry replied rather forcefully.
There was always a way to change things. Always. If it seemed impossible, he would prove everyone wrong and do it. When it came to his children, he was rather stubborn on it. Even with others' children he was stubborn on how they should raise them. There was a fine line between a responsible parents and an irresponsible one. Gabe had the right idea and it seemed to be that he kept them out of the whole fighting situation.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 20:08:03 GMT -5
"Tradition is a strong thing, Harry," she pointed out. "It takes a lot to change them. That family's actually become a lot more liberal, lately. I remember hearing stories about them as a kid, how they pulled children from school to fight wars, how they didn't hesitate in anything. The fact that any of the current youngsters finished school, or that they're given the choice to not fight, is progress."
And when changing centuries' old traditions, whatever little progress was made had to be considered encouraging. It took a lot to break a mold that had been built over such a long time-period. Lisa was just glad that they were doing little things to change it.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 20:22:32 GMT -5
"It doesn't matter about traditions. My godfather broke tradition," Harry returned, "He came from a pure-blood supremacist family, who had plenty of traditions which he broke left and right. Given, his family disowned him, but he still stood up against them. If it means the safety of one's child, then I don't see why one wouldn't care about the consequences. A parent's child is their most precious treasure, even if they don't realize it."
Harry was one who believed anything was possible if one tried hard enough. They could break the tradition completely and just refuse to do whatever they didn't want them to do. It didn't matter. He would gladly break away from his family if they insisted that his children had to do something dangerous, especially if they were underage. Sure, it'd hurt for awhile that they would try to force him to do something like that, and he doubted they really would, but he would do it if it meant protecting his children or those he loved the most. Though now that would mean just his children really.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 20:30:35 GMT -5
"Because the Cavaliere have a contract with the Curia that has stood for centuries. To refuse to even give their children the choice of fighting is treason, and under Italian law, the entire family suffers for that," she replied. "The laws of Italy haven't changed much in a very long time. The current Council that will have totally risen to power next year are much more progressively-minded, though; I think, or at least I hope, that the laws will be changing soon."
Lisa had high expectations for those kids in the new Council. Most had been in tactical command of various battles since they were very young. They were experienced and wanted to change what everyone else recognized as a flawed system. She only hoped that they managed to.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 20:40:14 GMT -5
"They better," Harry muttered, before adding, "If they don't I will have a word with this council and risk pissing them off. Maybe if they don't, I'll be able to slap some sense into them."
Harry didn't trust this council, mostly because he didn't know them, or didn't know them well. They didn't have his trust at all and therefore wouldn't stop to try and slap some sense into them. He didn't care anymore about going into potentially life-threatening circumstances, because really, he still felt at this time that he didn't have much more to live for. But then again, that could change.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 21:10:42 GMT -5
"Most of them were child soldiers themselves; it's required of the upper-class in Italian society. I really believe that they'll change things for the better," she insisted. "But, if they don't, by all means, slap them. They'll deserve it, then."
Hell, Lisa might slap them. It was unfair to those children that they had to fight a war that they hadn't even had a hand in starting. Even more unfair that their childhoods had been stolen training to fight in said horrible war. It was just, overall, a horrible situation to be in.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 14, 2012 7:07:45 GMT -5
"Good, because I will give them a good slap," Harry said shaking his head, "But as you said before, their parents were child soldiers too, and yet they still require their own children to fight."
Harry was horrified by how terrible the situation was with the Italians. He hadn't really known that much about them before this, and just assumed they were like the Order, or the Ministry. This was not like either of them. The Order didn't allow students to fight. The Ministry didn't allow kids to fight either. Curia was worse than even the Ministry, and that was saying something!
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 14, 2012 14:38:18 GMT -5
"They're still kids, themselves; sometimes they need a good slap. They used to make me feel old! Most of them are teenagers," she chuckled.
Then again, a lot of the kids that were part of the war effort made Lisa feel old. They were a group of children trying to fight a war started by old men. It was a sad thing, really; she hoped that this was all over soon. She hated to see kids fighting kids.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 14, 2012 17:55:15 GMT -5
"Yeah, still kids," Harry said grumpily remembering they were still little kids, "If they make you feel old, think of how old I'd feel around them."
It almost reminded him of the DA and how Neville was talking about how the DA was to teach them to fight. Harry allowed some of the DA to come with him when Sirius died. He was still a kid back then. He didn't know better. Now. Now, he would slap himself for such a thought. He shouldn't have even gone himself. He should have talked to Snape in private and told him without Umbridge present. He was an idiot when he was younger.
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