Padma Medhani Patil (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sweet_lime) wrote, |
Don't speak to me of history. I studied magical history and know exactly what history dictates.
Fact? Here is a fact, Robert Stebbins. I spent a third of my life in India, and blood purity and family is a clearly a completely different concept for Hindus. My family was ashamed of my uncle's actions. They disowned him and everything he stood for. They raised us to believe in honor, and to respect our government for the freedom is provided us.
My family has never been subversive I would also consider our actions in the past more than enough proof that. I fought against the Death Eaters in the last war, and still, when the DMLE showed up in New Delhi last month and forced me home, I didn't fight them. I was sure that my loyalty to both my countries would see me through. Yet, since that day, I've been branded, roughed up, broken, bruised and burnt.
[There are several smears throughout the text where Padma dripped water on the paper to look like tears.]
So, no, your words aren't helping, and no, it isn't better to know. My father could have died in the waiting room yesterday, and my government would have stood back and watched.