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KATE BISHOP

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1) Part Two: They fought the whole time were were in school together. I mean, I didn't help, either. I made fun of Severus a bit, and I nearly killed him once when he was following me around looking to have me thrown out or something. (Werewolves aren't usually allowed at school.) Severus & Lily were friends & James fancied Lily a lot, which didn't help either. & Severus was himself. I would have believed it if someone told me he tortured small animals.

We all should have grown out of it, though, & we didn't. I think that's where the war matters. I told you that my mum not being a witch was sort of contentious at home. People care a lot about blood status. They had a small war over it on the continent in the 40s. My grandfather died during it. We had a bigger one in the U.K. beginning around 1970. Dark Wizard trying to overthrow the government so he could kill or subjugate nonmagical people and wizards with nonmagical parents, that old song & dance.

I don't mean to be flippant. That sounded flippant. It's awful. We grew up with it, though.

The house rivalries were a lot about sports, but it was also about that. Slytherin always valued blood purity more than the others. Not all pureblood families are that way, but a lot of old families that care about blood status have also traditionally been Slytherins. So I think the house rivalry was worse than it usually is, while we were in school.

When we left we all fought in the war. Sirius is here from when we were still Seventh Years, but he knows what's coming. Lily is from just before it ends, & I'm from after. Severus is from a few years later than I am. He switched sides in the end, & I don't think he's a threat to anyone here now, but the Dark magic & all of that is why Sirius hates him so much. Everything else is why Severus hates us so much. I think Lily doesn't hate anyone at the moment. I'd rather not talk to Severus when I can avoid it, but I think he's sorry about the worst of it. Plus he makes the potion that keeps me from chewing my own legs off every cycle, which is kind of him.

There's another war later. I don't know so much about that one, except that a lot of it is the same, so that would be why Draco seems to hate all of us.