Pain

Well....so....I can now say I've had personal experience with the Cruciatus Curse.    That was fun. 

No, actually it was not.

It turns out that unfortunately my dad and Julia were wrong.   Rhyden did send the hateful horrible note, and he did not simply ignore Julia's next owl.

He appeared at our cabin while I was eating breakfast with my parents.   And he wasn't alone.  He was with his sister and mother.   They were very scary.   I can't get their faces out of my mind.

I will admit that Rhyden was pretty hot, but not so much so once he opened his mouth and said "Hello soon to be dead Muggles".    Then he waved his wand, said something, and broke pretty much everything in the kitchen.   His mother and sister helped.

While they were breaking stuff, Julia came out of her bedroom.   Was she scared or angry to see these wizards terrorising us?  No, she happily ran to Rhyden.   I think she planned to give him a hug.; but the hatred on his face put a stop to that.   I knew then that she knew that Rhyden had really sent her the note.  And the look on Julia's face was the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

Rhyden's sister then said to Julia..   "Before we give you up to someone who will have a lot of fun with you, we're going to have our own fun."   (Note:  This might not be the exact dialogue that occurred.  It's not as if I had a pen and paper for transcribing all the melodramatic interactions.  But I think I've captured it fairly well.) 

Rhyden laughed and said, "we're going to kill your whole family.  You get to watch."

Rhyden's sister said.   "Who gets to go first?"

Julia started crying.   Seeing her cry made me cry.

My dad said, "Please don't do this.   We'll give you anything you want".

Rhyden's mother said, "You should have taught this piece of worthless rubbish that it's wrong to use love spells".

Julia said she didn't use a love spell.   I believe her.

Rhyden's mother said, "Of course you did, you little liar.   It's impossible for a Pureblood Slytherin... whose family can be traced back six generations.... to even be friends with a filthy mudblood."  (it might have been five generations.  Or seven?   I forget)

Rhyden said, "I could never love anything like you."   Oh, I hate that guy.  

My mum then went crazy brave.   I won't try to write what she said, because I couldn't even begin to give it justice.    But it was something along the lines of magic doesn't make all wizards superior to muggles.   It makes some of them very inferior.   She said anyone who can't manage to break up with someone, without resorting to murdering them and their whole family, is pathetic.

The sister got very angry and she raised her wand.  She started to say you-know-what at my mum.   I thought that was the end.   It's not a nice feeling to think you're about to watch your own mum be killed.

Then the mother stopped her and said, "No, kill her children.   Let her watch".

I waited to die.   I really don't know what I was thinking at this point.   It all happened so fast.

Anyway, as you can guess I'm still alive....obviously.   We're all alive.

For some reason, we were shown mercy.   I don't know why.   Did they have a change of heart at the last minute?   Did they never plan to kill us?   Maybe they just wanted to scare us?

They pointed the wands at us and I waited for the end of me.   Instead I felt horrible horrible horrible horrible pain.   Then it was all over and they vanished.   I was so happy to have no pain.  And I was happy to be alive.   But then later I was less happy because I started thinking what's the point of living in a world where people can be so mean to each other.    Maybe it would be easier to just die.   And what if they come back to hurt us again?   Or what if someone else comes back to hurt us? 

I'm okay I suppose.   Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.   Right?

I don't know.

It turns out they did it to my mom and dad too, so we all got to experience the exciting Cruciatus Curse.   What did my mum say about it?   It was almost as bad as childbirth.   Okay.  Yeah.   I think I'll be adopting my kids.  

In other news, we're being kicked out of our holiday park.   My dad paid for the damages, but they don't want us around anymore.   Lots of people heard our screams, so they say we're too disruptive.

Anyway, I hope all of you are okay.   I can't say I've been in the best of moods lately.   There are moments where I wish they had just killed us.   That's probably a stupid thing to feel.

Oh well.