icarusfalls:

The title is really fancy but this is just a feelings dump about Animorphs. My Animorphs tag is #Animorphs was my childhood which isn’t an exaggeration. I’ve been wanting to buy them for a year now but thankfully that post went up so I was able to acquire them. But anyway, I wasn’t kidding. I…

Animorphs are NOT my childhood, but relevant essay still relevant to the Daydverse regarding one of the bigger tonality shifts from JKR.

” Neville tapped the columns with his hand. “These should by all rights be even, people. We’ve all had the same training, practiced together, the teams were divided evenly.But our Death Eaters only lost a little less than half their number, while the D.A.was wiped out.Does anyone have any ideas why?” Ritchie Coote raised his hand.”I know I hesitated on using the Killing Curse, even though I knew we were just doing green Stunners.” “A lot of us did, that was one of the biggest things. Ginny, our Chief Death Eater for tonight, told me that she felt a lot more comfortable doing it in those robes, because she doesn’t feel like it’s something ‘good guys’ should ever do.” He took a deep breath.”It’s not. It’s an Unforgivable Curse for a reason, and it’s a terrible, terrible thing to do; I will never, ever deny that. But in peace time,killing someone is murder. In war, it canbe a duty. I think we’re all hoping, for example, that Harry does not stun, jinx,or try to capture You-Know-Who.We’re hoping he kills the snake-faced son of a hag.” Applause broke out at this, and he waited for it to subside before continuing, his face solemn.”Look, I’m being honest here. We all know that at the end of the year, or when Harry comes back, what we just did will be real, and they won’t be our friends, they’ll be You-Know-Who’s elite, and they will be out to kill. Most of the people in this room will never see the summer. There’s no use giving our lives if at the end of things, all of his get up again and none of ours do.Normally, even in a fight for your life, you take down the enemy and try to get out intact. For us, there is no getting out. So we can’t take them down, we take them out. I want everyone here to choose someone they knew who’s never coming back, and keep that person in your mind and heart when it’s time to do it for real. Me, I think of my parents. You decide who matters the most to you.” —DAYD,Chapter 8, “Dreams and Realities”