[ Nathan pauses now, registering everything that Severus has said, working it through what he's already been told and standing it up besides the things that others from his world have told him about. His pause takes almost twenty seconds--it's not that he thinks slowly it's that there's a lot there, and it deserves thorough consideration. ]
Thank you. That's incredibly useful to know.
[ He continues a moment later. ]
So you're a spy and he was framed. For what? What did he supposedly do?
Betraying his friends, resulting in their deaths. Killing twelve people in an attempt to escape arrest. [ A beat. Oh yeah, the other Marauder. ] And a thirteenth, another of his friends, though along with the may have been framed business, supposedly that one's still alive, somewhere. It was shocking, to be sure, but his history of violence and selfish behavior means no one's cried out to question it. And it's been years.
[ Years that Black's spent in Azkaban. Which is either exactly where he belongs or is too good for him - a very large part of Severus wishes he'd been executed. It is an abysmally cruel thought, but whether or not he's a traitor, Black does nothing but harm and is better off away from everyone.
Meanwhile if Nathan is wondering 'Did they really all start participating in a war when THEY WERE TEENAGERS', yep. ]
His history of violence and selfish behavior damned him, then. The attempted murder can't have helped. Still, killing thirteen people...I guess in a war you can't rely on past behavior to set precedent.
Alright. I guess I can start to understand on that basis.
He led people to believe he was the lynchpin of an enchantment that later broke - a kind that can only be broken willfully. Added together with a weak-spirited government who wanted to shove all relics of the war under the rug as soon as possible and his family's history of dark magic, there was no defense.
Trying to put the pieces together here has been frustrating.
[ Understatement of the year, perhaps. ]
He egged Edgeworth on. Why Edgeworth fixated on it, and me, is anyone's guess. [ As much as Severus is admitting to Nathan with this, he doesn't think the fact that Edgeworth was tortured on Arima is something he'll repeat to anyone but Charles. For now. ] With that ability of his unchecked, he is dangerous. He gets worked up every other day, publicly. I hope that he'll get help before another incident.
[ Severus doesn't sound like he thinks it'll happen. Security's response has been lackluster and inclined to protect ranks instead of someone said ranks hate; he's not surprised. He told Charles that reporting it would just bring more trouble than letting it go. ]
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Thank you. That's incredibly useful to know.
[ He continues a moment later. ]
So you're a spy and he was framed. For what? What did he supposedly do?
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[ Years that Black's spent in Azkaban. Which is either exactly where he belongs or is too good for him - a very large part of Severus wishes he'd been executed. It is an abysmally cruel thought, but whether or not he's a traitor, Black does nothing but harm and is better off away from everyone.
Meanwhile if Nathan is wondering 'Did they really all start participating in a war when THEY WERE TEENAGERS', yep. ]
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His history of violence and selfish behavior damned him, then. The attempted murder can't have helped. Still, killing thirteen people...I guess in a war you can't rely on past behavior to set precedent.
Alright. I guess I can start to understand on that basis.
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Trying to put the pieces together here has been frustrating.
[ Understatement of the year, perhaps. ]
He egged Edgeworth on. Why Edgeworth fixated on it, and me, is anyone's guess. [ As much as Severus is admitting to Nathan with this, he doesn't think the fact that Edgeworth was tortured on Arima is something he'll repeat to anyone but Charles. For now. ] With that ability of his unchecked, he is dangerous. He gets worked up every other day, publicly. I hope that he'll get help before another incident.
[ Severus doesn't sound like he thinks it'll happen. Security's response has been lackluster and inclined to protect ranks instead of someone said ranks hate; he's not surprised. He told Charles that reporting it would just bring more trouble than letting it go. ]