_another mistress of burden to idolize (class)

[I loves YOUz]

Billie jaw dropped and she closed it quickly. She had felt bad about killing one person but would probaly kill herself if she killed that many.

[Sky]

Sky raised her hand but couldn't help herself.
"Pardon my interupption ma'am, but you said in war, ending someone's life is just 'Killing.' Wouldn't it be murder either way? I mean...ending a strangers life for you own benefit. Freedom."

[Ginny Weasly]

"Are you doing it for yourself? Or for your country? For your king, or queen, or leader? No, there's a difference. Doing it in someone else's name, it's killing." She nodded, to emphasize her point.

"War isn't always about freedom. Sometimes it is about simple domination."

[Sky]

Sky crossed her arms. "I believe that ending another mans life is murder." She said simply. "People have a choice not to do it by the way." She added.

[Xaver]

"War is active hostility or tension. In conflict, or the state of strong opposition. A state, or period of contest or contesting. Confliction. Battle."

There was a dark, falsely bemused grin that upset the hard, shadowed angles of the Fallen lord's face, his lips upturned into an expression that pulled and teased the handsome planes of his features. Genuine laughter touched the creases of his eyes, softening the hard ice within the moody, deep sea blues of his orbs.

"My pardon, yours, Milady," Xaver dropped his head in Ginny's direction, and bowed at the waist, before his lith creature again swept upward, and he returned to his light, dangerously easy gait, away from the shadows in the corner of the room, where he'd been, until then, remotely unnoticed. "Is death not death, and the means of getting others there only by said intentions? Whether wrath or mirth or general intention of death has purpose at all?"

He was toying with her, yes.
Just a little.
And the students.
Curious to the responses.

The title, he used in respect, for right then she was before her students - and he could show her no less, in such respect. Whether or not the amusement touching, and softening the ice chips of his gaze, was giving off a far more informal greeting.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny folded her arms, once again leaning against her desk. She nodded her head back at him in greeting, though she didn't smile. Her eyes warmed, lightened, but still she didn't smile.
She answered Sky first, "People have that choice...usually. But not always. It's a kill or be killed world these days."

She looked at Xaver with slightly narrowed eyes then, "The way you perceive taking another's life is the whole purpose of this. exercise To live with yourself if you act in defense of yourself or those you love in the event you murder. To be able to bear the guilt associated with taking another's life."

She shook her head, her red hair swaying gently, then swept a hand towards Xaver, "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce Xaver Xian. He has a flair for the dramatic, I'm afraid."

[Sky]

Sky raised a brow at the man who had entered the classroom and leaned back in her chair. She leaned her head on her arm against the desk. What fun this was.

[Xaver]

"Ah. You wound me."
A devastatingly charming smile ghosted his handsome features, a brief show of warmth, and energy flickering to life, before becoming again shadowed behind the many veils his true self was chained amongst.
"Perhaps not a flair. Let us call it... mere habit, yes? Surprise is always the best vantage point."


Seriousness swept over him, effectively condoning any remaining playfulness.

"Indeed. Perception is what defines crime, is it not?"

Xaver tilted his head to the side, very slightly, the shadows toying with the hard planes of his face, the short, obsidian buzz of his recently cut hair ever sharpening his already strikingly predatory features.

"But what if a man truly believes his rightness in such a situation? Where is the line drawn between the likenesses of sanity?"

Within, he smiled.
Egging her on.
Wishing for her to continue, with a new perspective.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny tilted her head, frowning at him as though he were some fly buzzing around her ear. A pest. Though, it was all in good humor.
"Which is were society's perception upon said crime comes in. Crime is measured by society's standards, and if society says that taking another's life isn't a crime, then it isn't, is it?"

She smirked slightly, "Mere perceptions are what can make you." She paused,  her smirked fading, "Or break you."

"Sanity is defined by society's social norms. What is not normal is insane, what is normal is sane. What can be understood is sane. What cannot be explained, much less understood is insane. Get the picture?"

[dobby888]

Leah sat up straighter in her chair.  This would be a fun lesson.  She especially loved the games that Xaver and Ginny were playing, even though they weren't showing any signs of it.  She liked Xaver already.

Leah nodded, but raised her hand in question all the same.  She understood what Ginny had said, or at least part of it, and wanted to understand it better.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny narrowed her eyes at Xaver for another moment, then turned and nodded at Leah.
"A question. Shoot." She waved a hand towards Leah, motio9ning for her to ask away.

[dobby888]

*I don't mean to get off the subject or anything,  but does that mean that in actuality, no one is insane?* Leah asked, hoping that Ginny wouldn't get mad that she had strayed from the subject.

[Ginny Weasly]

"I am insane...so, no. Someone is insane. Me." Ginny pointed to herself, cracking a smile for the first time since the bell had rung.
She even chuckled lightly.

"Seriously...there are crazy people...but insane? Well, not really. They are people out of their minds...people with real problems, like schizophrenia...and then there are insane people. Insanity, as I said, depends upon societies perceptions."

[dobby888]

Leah nodded, understanding her point of view on the subject.  *Thank you* She said, smiling.

[harrypotterfan:)]

Alex lightly chuckled. He was still taken aback by the huge number that Ginny had stated.

((sorry for the delay......))