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Ah, right. Maybe I meant to forget it. And I agree--the ship is certainly daunting.

There are several of them, but the British Ministry has its own, yes. It was said to be impossible to break out of until Harry's godfather broke out, and then several of You-Know-Who's Death Eaters broke out four years later.

If you've forgotten, good. I figure the best I can do is try to make the next pod pop and help others to adjust.

...I'm curious. This evil guy you always talk about in your world that your friend Harry had to fight. What was his main goal? Why cause all the havoc?

That would be good, yes. I might do that, too. Meeting new people is always exciting.

You-Know-Who? I've told you about Muggles, haven't I? They're the non-magical people of our world, and they don't know about the Wizarding world. The Ministries passed a law called the International Statute for Wizarding Secrecy in order to keep our existence a secret after the Witch Trials. People were hurt if we were known of, so we went into hiding, but, unfortunately, this engendered a harsher feeling of enmity towards the Muggles, and prejudice developed. You-Know-Who wanted to kill or enslave all of the Muggles and Muggleborns--they're witches and wizards born to Muggle parents--and Squibs--people without magic born into Wizarding families--because he thought they were unclean. There were some whispers around the school about his father being a Muggle towards the end, too, so I suppose it could have been that, too. Motivated by hatred for his father. Anyone who allied themselves with the Muggles was fit for killing, too.

You never know who you're going to meet honestly. Everyone is so different.

That sounds awful, but its not something I'm not used to. In my world, every nation but the Fire Nation was sought after. The air nomads were completely eliminated due to them and we were supposed to be next. In truth, I SAY the fire nation but it was really the military and the monarchy that wanted a war that would have killed many and subjugated more. I'm glad you and your friend Harry fought against him: we had to fight too.

Was he ultimately stopped?

That's the fun of it--everyone is new, and new things are always exciting.

Hatred seems such a common theme across existence. It's quite sad, when you think about it, that almost all of us on this ship have some form of war or prejudice in our lives, despite the fact that we're all from different corners of the Universe.

He was stopped, yes. I was there when Harry killed him.

Well, to that person it usually isn't that fun. They can usually get pretty hysterical.

I've thought about that, and honestly, I've noticed something: with all that war and hate, it has a way of bringing out the best in people when they are banding together. That's why I think the people on the ship can last. I know they need the government on the ship and all, but I think that they sometimes forget what unites us is the faith we'll stop the Ohm and save other worlds from suffering our fates.

Aang was lucky: he took away the firelord's bending ability so he wouldn't have to kill him. I guess there was no way to take away that evil wizard's power, was there?

Oh, well, of course. Waking up in a new place is never fun, and this is one of the more horrifying situations to come into.

I agree. The kinds of alliances made through things like the war are stronger than those made in peacetime, out of necessity. It's amazing how much terrified people can manage to trust in each other while they're being betrayed at ever corner. And we can stop the Ohm--I know we can, though I am quite fond of the idea of having a government. I just hope they do things better than the Ministry did. Our last two Ministers were rubbish.

That is lucky. There wasn't such a way to defeat You-Know-Who--Harry actually died at his hands in order to succeed, and I'm still not sure how he survived. He never really explained it to me, just said he'd done what he could. That was a terrible moment, seeing him dead in the grass--it was worse than Professor Dumbledore's death. Or mother's.

You're telling me. I was pretty anxious when I first came to the ship.

I can definitely understand that. When you have to actually fight for your peace, when it becomes something that you don't have that has constantly been taken from you, you do everything you can to protect it. The government is necessary of course: I know that the man running it is going to do everything he can to protect people on the ship.

I can imagine, and just you know, Harry wasn't the only one I've seen narrowly miss being dead for good. Aang was almost killed when we were trying to protect an Earth Nation city from being infiltrated from within. If I hadn't had healing water from the oasis in the North Pole, it wouldn't have been good. It was really hard to see, actually...I know what you mean about someone really close to you almost dying.

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