Entirely. And then the government makes us all out to be lazy thieves.
*The truth is that his friends are the only reason he isn't homeless and starving, and they all know it, but he can't bring himself to say so.*
And there are other things - Umbridge modified the Trace so that it's on all of us, whether we're of age or not. Which means everywhere I go, if I use magic, they know it. There's a log kept on all of us. When I lit this?
*He gestures with his cigarette, leaning back in his chair.*
That pinned me to here. Probably stupid, come to think of it, they could figure out who gave you all this information if they wanted, from that. Oh, and sterilization. Umbridge wasn't responsible for that, they've done it for years, but women and girls are sterilized their first Registry appointment. The Ministry likes to keep that one quiet. Bit too much like certain Muggle groups forty years ago, I wager, for it to look good.
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Date: 2011-05-17 10:40 pm (UTC)*The truth is that his friends are the only reason he isn't homeless and starving, and they all know it, but he can't bring himself to say so.*
And there are other things - Umbridge modified the Trace so that it's on all of us, whether we're of age or not. Which means everywhere I go, if I use magic, they know it. There's a log kept on all of us. When I lit this?
*He gestures with his cigarette, leaning back in his chair.*
That pinned me to here. Probably stupid, come to think of it, they could figure out who gave you all this information if they wanted, from that. Oh, and sterilization. Umbridge wasn't responsible for that, they've done it for years, but women and girls are sterilized their first Registry appointment. The Ministry likes to keep that one quiet. Bit too much like certain Muggle groups forty years ago, I wager, for it to look good.