alt_lupin: (wary)

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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 05:20pm on 19/12/2013
You asked the PORTRAIT? You really must have been desperate

How drastic are the spells? I mean to say -- does it straight out tell you to use the Imperius curse? Or are there milder compulsions, at least?

Do you remember any of them being used on you?
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posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 05:30pm on 19/12/2013
It was a moment of weakness I'm sure I'll regret for a long time to come.

There aren't too many spells, per se. Most of it's utter bollocks about discipline that I remember quite vividly.

But one or two of them do sound horrifyingly familiar. (They also fit with what the portrait said - shrieked - about my failings coming home to roost.) The 'Discretion Charm' is underlined; description says it's to 'keep little mouths closed from embarrassing the family!'

In the entry on 'Impulse Control Charms' there's a short section on side effects. Mother wrote in the margin on a few of them ('R' and 'S'). I can only assume that means we exhibited those symptoms.

Do you really think this is the answer?
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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 05:38pm on 19/12/2013
I think we've got two choices. One is using that spell. The other is keeping Bea shut away from anyone not in the Order.

Which do you think would be worse?
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posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 05:43pm on 19/12/2013
It would only be for two three or four -

Yeah. Yeah, maybe you're right.

I'll try it this afternoon and she how she tolerates it. Probably need a proper test, though.
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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 05:56pm on 19/12/2013
What sort of test do you have in mind?
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posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 06:00pm on 19/12/2013
Well, first I want to make sure it won't give her the collywobbles.

But then, we'll have to try it on her in circumstances where she might actually try telling someone the dog is really named Sirius, or whatever else we're prohibiting her from saying. Or doing, come to that.

So eventually we'll have to create those circumstances, encourage her to tell the very thing we don't want her to tell, and then let her feel punished for doing what we've asked.
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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 06:01pm on 19/12/2013
Does it punish her, or prevent her?

I suppose from her perspective there's not much difference.
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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 06:15pm on 19/12/2013
I was four, when I got bitten.

I understood I couldn't tell people I was a werewolf, but there were all sorts of things I didn't quite realise were dead giveaways. After we had to move, that first time, my mother -- well. After that, I was better about not talking about it.

I don't like that solution. But we've a good deal more at stake here than my parents did.
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