miavi. un: gesneriana. anon.

[anguium]

I've always said there's no escaping the past, but this isn't exactly what I meant.

Were I a younger man, I think I might have tried to make a life here. As it stands now I just want to get home.

I've a question, however: is the registry being used to perhaps reunite those that may not find each other otherwise or is it simply a tracking mechanism? I personally don't need that sort of service but with the state of things it seems important to allow people familiarity.

Comments

un: kingweasley

[alwaysreturns]

It's not much of a service, and no road home just yet.

[Which, don't get him wrong, he is still pretty pressed about. But now that he's found Harry and Hermione (and learned he's meant to be a dad, what is he supposed to tell Hermione), it's a bit easier to bear.]

[anguium]

[ idk dude just tell her i guess ]

Many mishaps can be repaired but not all - I'm left to wonder which this is.

[alwaysreturns]

[WE'RE NOT ALL FORTY AND CHILL MALFOY]

Fingers crossed it's the kind that gets fixed. I'm not too keen on staying here.

[anguium]

[ THAT ISN'T HIS FAULT WEASLEY ]

I'm sure most of us just want to get home. No matter what home's like, it's still home in the end.

un: p

[contumelies]

It functions as both.

I don't mean to sound curt, but many of us here would be far more comforted by the knowledge that time deviants are registered into the system. Otherwise, we will have no viable method of holding them accountable for their actions. The Trace neither impedes nor disrupts a witch or wizard's life unless he or she plans to harm another. It is merely a protective measure set for the benefit of yourself and others.

Registering also allows the Ministry to assist displaced individuals with job and housing opportunities while they figure out a way to send them back home. It isn't simply a means to track them, but also a means to help them acclimate to our world.

For any who are unregistered, I advise you to pay a visit to the Ministry as soon as possible. Disregarding your stance on the decree, it remains the law and no one man is above it.

[anguium]

Thank you for your answer. Personally, I can see the concerns on both sides.

I believe one thing that the Ministry here must realize is that many of the people that are being taken from their own times and placed here instead come from a time and place of heavy and complete distrust in the Ministry and that is not going to change in them easily.

For many, many years their Ministry was almost wholly corrupt and allowed a violent and divisive regime to take over and cause pain and havoc across wizarding Britain. Telling people that this Ministry is right and good is not going to be enough to convince those inclined toward being skeptical, unfortunately.

While the Ministry has been very kind in providing assistance for those time deviants that register, I feel that many people are simply waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak.

[contumelies]

I can sympathise with their situation. It would be jarring for anyone to be taken from their own world and placed into another so inherently different from the one they have grown accustomed to.

However, I must inquire of you this: how can they possibly form an unbiased opinion of the Ministry if they defy it from the very beginning? Choosing to put themselves in a position where they are against the law will have already lay down the foundation of where they stand among us, as criminals and fugitives.

They cannot see the potential right and good of the system if they never give it the chance to prove it to them.

[anguium]

Try not to think of it as defiance. On their end it isn't: it's due caution and self-preservation. It's all well and good for someone to say that they should just give this Ministry a chance, but if there is something wrong then they've already shackled themselves to it.

It's a difficult situation for everyone involved. I understand the stance of the citizens here that worry after the motives of the people that arrive, but I also sympathise with those that arrive that can't bring themselves to trust a Ministry they have no experience with.

It's a rock and a hard place situation on both sides, I think. No one wins, and it's a matter of trying to make it as painless as possible. Abiding by the law is a necessity of course, it's just that so many of these people are used to the laws being used to harm them.

un: b.black

[scinlac]

To add to what you have already been told: once these troubles are sorted out, it would be awfully difficult for the Ministry to return you to your own time, if we do not even know you exist within ours.

[anguium]

What a good point. It's difficult to get assistance if one doesn't know you exist.

[scinlac]

Which would be the very point of the trace, assuming this is what worries you.

[anguium]

Never fear, my inquiries are purely academic.

un: l.malfoy

[malificence]

I understand entirely why you would be concerned. We've heard much about the future, including how for many of you it's either a time of war or a time of post-war where those in position of authority are not to be trusted. It must be difficult to trust us when you come from a place where the institutions and even some of the people are so different than that which you've know. But I must ask - and I sincerely hope - that you will trust us. We genuinely desire to help you, and it is much more difficult to do so when you don't give us the chance to do so.

[anguium]

[ hahahahaha what. the name and handwriting are perfectly familiar and the tone is exactly like the letters lucius would send pretending to give a shit about the actual students at hogwarts.

rich. real rich. he takes a moment to laugh uncharitably. ]

It's very kind of you to put it this way. I'm glad that people are being so understanding of the situations that people are coming from. It is difficult for them - especially the young ones - to go from a war-torn society to something that seems so idyllic. I hope you can understand how it may seem too good to be true.

Still, with such a genuine desire to help, I'm sure you'll win over more and more of those that hold worries soon enough.

[ WHICH IS REALLY ALARMING ]

[malificence]

[ There's something about the tone that makes him narrow his eyes. He does not, of course, recognize the handwriting; he has no son, and even if he did, Draco would still be a baby in this time. But the tone, the phrasing, the way that those sharp enough might read different intent beneath the words...it's familiar. He does it.]

While there is fear on our side as well - as you can imagine, it's at the very least startling to have friends and family long dead or not yet born appear - it's the displaced who have the most reason to feel lost and afraid. We acknowledge that, and there's been some discussion already of how best to help all of you. Particularly the children, of course; this must be even more terrifying for those who aren't yet adults.

I certainly hope we can appease the concerns of as many of you as possible, if only because it will improve our chances of helping.

[anguium]

Of course. The forces bringing us here do not seem to discriminate in the least; and what if they brought someone looking to harm others or cause trouble? I've heard this concern raised many times and it's a fair one. Both sides have their apprehensions and it becomes very difficult to balance between the two.

I feel very deeply for the children that are stuck here instead of where they belong. I'm very glad that the Ministry is helping them - I saw the announcement and I'm pleasantly surprised. Hogwarts has always been the best and safest place for young witches and wizards, after all.

[ except when tom riddle is in any kind of power and it makes his stomach turn to think about but he's going to play this role as much as he needs to, damn it ]

The quick responses I've been receiving have done much to appease me, I assure you.

( un: henbane )

[chaungen]

I think we'd all very much like to get home. I have patients relying on me that I need to get back to.

[anguium]

Naturally.

We can only hope that when we do make it home, it's when we left it so that we can go back to what we've been doing without missing a thing.

un: bluebell (anon)

[hermyownee]

[So maybe Hermione has been around the boys and now Sirius and James and her rebellious side is showing a bit more. Because she feels like it is her duty to warn displaced against the current government.]

My understanding of the registry is that it's similar to the trace in underage wizards. With additional restrictions, it seems.

[anguium]

[ hermione you are preaching to the choir boo. ]

My every move being tracked doesn't sit right with me. It didn't as a child, but it does even less now.

People have been very kind in explaining at length the reasoning for it.

[hermyownee]

I don't think most people like being tracked.

Did they explain to you the differences depending on your blood status?

[anguium]

Yes, but it doesn't matter if you're a "time deviant," they all have the same regulations no matter their blood.

Some equality.

[ sarcasm. ]

un: hares (anon)

[veriloquent]

It seems to be more a tracking mechanism. [And she must have been struck by a lack of luck by a Greedlebug, to have had to be seen and had to register.] And as I see others have told you, one specifically for people who aren't deemed to be safe.

It is rather confusing to me, though, that the Ministry is putting the Trace on all of the displaced regardless of blood status. Wouldn't that-- as someone [horrible woman] said before-- 'muddy the waters' for keeping track of the people this is apparently meant to protect?

[Not that she thinks any of this is about protection.]

[anguium]

I suppose for those that are displaced from their time, the point of the matter is not as much that we need protecting but that we could be dangerous.

Even purebloods can be dangerous, after all.

[ s a r c a s m ]

[veriloquent]

[yes but also he's not wrong.]

That's quite true.

Although I'll admit I'm surprised they only think the displaced purebloods are the ones that can be dangerous.

[Was that not safe to admit on a public forum? Thank Merlin for anonymous usernames.]