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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 23, 2006 17:11:37 GMT -5
"I suppose she would," Lily said. "Did they at least get her name? Do you want to meet her even? And even if she's not magical, it doesn't mean that she's not your mom. I mean, there are lots of people who come from muggleborn families, that doesn't change. Do you think your parents were mad she showed up? Sorry, I'm asking a lot of questions again."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 23, 2006 17:31:08 GMT -5
"She said her name was Mary," Kellen explained. "My sister said she looked like she was in her early, maybe mid thirties. And blonde, like me. Maybe she is my mom, I don't know. But I really don't know if I want to see her. I mean, I do because I want to know, but I'm not sure. I kind of wish she'd just stayed away. I hadn't thought about it in years, you know?"
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 23, 2006 17:34:11 GMT -5
Lily nodded. "I don't really know." She said. "I'm not too sure about what it's like to be adopted." She was quiet for a bit. "No matter what happens, you're parents, your adopted ones, and your brother and sister, they'll still always be your family. Meeting your mum doesn't mean you have to give them up. It's your choice, since you're legally no longer bound. At least I think it is."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 23, 2006 18:04:05 GMT -5
"I know that," Kellen said quietly. "They're my real family, they always will be. Well, them and my fellow Ravens," he added with a smile, but his tone was still a little down. "And I don't even know if this Mary woman is who she says she is. If she is, she left me at the doorstep of a church when I was less than a week old. I was always pretty sure that that meant she never wanted to see me again anyway. Now I'm not so sure."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 23, 2006 18:25:25 GMT -5
"Maybe she left you there because she thought you'd be better off with someone else," Lily said quietly. "Maybe she left you there because she loved you very much and she couldn't take care of you. Maybe whoever your father was left her and she wasn't very old and too scared to take care of a baby by herself."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 23, 2006 20:19:58 GMT -5
"Well, yeah, it's easy to see it that way now," Kellen said, not really picking up on what seemed to be underlying Lily's words. "But when you're ten years old and you've just had a fight with your Mum and you're grounded in your room for a week, you begin to feel mad at your birth mother for leaving you and making you get into this mess," he said, remembering un-fondly.
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 23, 2006 20:28:08 GMT -5
"Yeah," Lily said. "I know the feeling, sort of." She was quiet for a bit. "When I was 9 my dad left. There were times, like one time we made gifts for father's day that I hated him with all I had even though it was better with him gone. Or like parent-teacher conferences. I didn't really have a parent that would go because my mum usually had to work and my dad wasn't around."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 23, 2006 20:43:23 GMT -5
"My parents are teachers, so they always went to conferences. Even when we didn't want them to," Kellen joked. "But, I mean, don't think we don't have problems too. Mum still can't get her head around the whole 'magic' thing, and now with Kearney all the way down in London--and dating another magic person, she's pretty well freaked out by it all."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 23, 2006 20:47:50 GMT -5
"But at least she still loves you," Lily said quietly. "It doesn't matter if she can't understand how or why you're magical as long she still loves you. She'll get used to it eventually, but it still might always be a little strange. But she loves you and that won't change."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 23, 2006 23:12:21 GMT -5
"I wondered for a little bit about that," Kellen admitted quietly. "I was afraid that she 'loved' me just so she could say that she still loved her son. I mean, I know she does, I know she loves me. But it really didn't feel like it for a while. It was like I'd come out of the closet and they rejected me at first. Not Eden and Kearney, but Mum and Da a little. Sorry, this has got to sound all whingy, I really don't mean to. Sorry."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 24, 2006 6:38:05 GMT -5
"No I know the feeling," Lily said quietly. "My mum still loved me to the day that she died, but in the end I found out she still saw me as a freak. My dad never loved me because of the magic and he left. But they still love you and you have to remember that." It absolutely crushes a 9-year-old's heart to hear your father's leaving because of you.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 24, 2006 17:04:23 GMT -5
"I guess us freaks are going to have to stick together, then," Kellen said, offering a small smile. Sure, it hurt that his parents couldn't really accept who he was--but he'd decided years ago not to let it get to him.
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 24, 2006 21:25:00 GMT -5
Lily shrugged. "I guess we will." She said quietly. "Doesn't it make you wish that maybe there will be a someday where muggles and magical will live together in knowledge and peace of each other. Like I don't think that will ever happen, but it's possible."
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 24, 2006 22:38:48 GMT -5
"I wouldn't count on it," Kellen said skeptically. "Not in our lifetime, anyway. And really, even if Muggle and Magical society ever combine, there will still be people that have problems with each other. For now, it's safer that we're seperate, though I hate to say it. I really do."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 24, 2006 22:40:46 GMT -5
"Well wizards will always have probelms with other wizards and muggles will always have probelms with other muggles, it's just the way things work." Lily mused. "I think if we gave them a chance though, they might actually proved them wrong. If a muggle were raised up to be taught that wizards and witches were an everyday part of life, if they suddenly found that someone close to them was one, would they be so quick to call them a freak?"
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