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Feb. 29th, 2012
[Private to Gellert Grindelwald]
Allegedly, a young woman from was seen forcibly taken from one of our buildings yesterday, and for some reason this has come as a great surprise to people here. I wouldn't think that, after being forcibly removed from our place in history and had such a basic right as choice utterly revoked that this should come at much of a shock.
There has been talk, and indeed some alarm, about the number of children who have arrived here. This, almost clearly, is just another attempt to placate our numbers. It's a distraction and I can only imagine it will also likely be used against us. There is very little anyone would not do in the interest of their children. I wish I could say that it worried me, but it's unclear whether or not it should. There are, after all, future generations here from numerous of these separate strings of time and until something happens to someone with direct descendants and they are altered in some way as a result, I can only conclude that the events that transpire here are of no consequence.
As sorry as I feel for that poor girl, we are, and will continue to be powerless to do anything about it. We're animals in a zoo, there is no other way about it, and as long as we must remain in our separate cages to avoid eating each other we will never have the strength to do anything about our captors.
I wonder, really, if that was the general idea. If bringing people who would not get along, based on their pasts, together was an attempt to rupture any attempt made at joining forces. I...can't imagine it's coincidence, especially considering that Tom Riddle, as you know as the man who will become 'Voldemort' (who you had a particularly colourful way of describing), seems to have been among the most recent influx.
Whatever happens to that girl, and whatever happens to whomever is taken next...we truly have no one to blame but ourselves.
...As an afterthought, Gellert, I would like for you to take your want and go and ward my sister's residence against these abductions to the best of your ability. I sincerely doubt there would be a building left if they attempted to take her.
Feb. 18th, 2012
From what I have heard and witness since arriving here, I think it is safe to assume that we are genetically different from any other version of ourself from another place, and there is evidence, of course, to support this.
Evidence in the form of the two sisters, Petunia and Lily. Please correct me if I am wrong, but some of you come from a place where Petunia is not a witch, while others of you do. As magic is a gift that you are born with I do think it's safe to assume that the Petunia in one place is quite different from the Petunia in another from the very moment of birth and it is quite necessary then to assume that the rest of us are as well.
Evidence in the form of the two sisters, Petunia and Lily. Please correct me if I am wrong, but some of you come from a place where Petunia is not a witch, while others of you do. As magic is a gift that you are born with I do think it's safe to assume that the Petunia in one place is quite different from the Petunia in another from the very moment of birth and it is quite necessary then to assume that the rest of us are as well.
Feb. 16th, 2012
[Private to Himself]
Gellert, as always, can see
Gellert, as always, can see
I. Tempus absolutum verum & Mathematicum, in se & natura sua absq; relatione ad externum quodvis, æquabiliter fluit, alioq; nomine dicitur Duratio; relativum apparens & vulgare est sensibilis & externa quævis Durationis per motum mensura, (seu accurata seu inæquabilis) qua vulgus vice veri temporis utitur; ut Hora, Dies, Mensis, Annus.
II. Spatium absolutum natura sua absq; relatione ad externum quodvis semper manet similare & immobile; relativum est spatii hujus mensura seu dimensio quælibet mobilis, quæ a sensibus nostris per situm suum ad corpora definitur, & a vulgo pro spatio immobili usurpatur: uti dimensio spatii subterranei, aerei vel cælestis definita per situm suum ad Terram. Idem sunt spatium absolutum & relativum, specie & magnitudine, sed non permanent idem semper numero. Nam si Terra, verbi gratia, movetur, spatium Aeris nostri quod relative & respectu Terræ semper manet idem, nunc erit una pars spatii absoluti in quam Aer transit, nunc alia pars ejus, & sic absolute mutabitur perpetuo.
Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion (Translation)
Feb. 11th, 2012
[Gellert Grindelwald]
My sister has arrived. I'm not entirely sure what to do. She'll be staying with Aberforth, which I do believe is best, but with both of us required to work...She can't be left alone, and I certainly don't trust putting her into school here. It would be far too dangerous. Strangers upset her now as much as they always have.
Additionally, from what I can tell, Antonin is doing poorly in lessons because he can't speak the language and I think it's utterly cruel to hold him to the same standards as the other children. I thought I might write to the school about it. I wish, honestly, that I could keep them at home and teach them myself, with my sister, but that's hardly an option given the financial situation.
I'm left...honestly wondering what I should do.
Feb. 9th, 2012
[Aberforth Dumbledore]
I have...Ariana. She's all right. She's--she's here, Aberforth. It's certainly her.
Feb. 8th, 2012
I understand how easy it is to find reasons why other people ought to be patience, and how easy it is to resort to anger (and regrettably violence) when we are faced not only with individuals who differ from ourselves in opinion, but seek with their own words and deeds to harm us.
However, extending the hand of kindness in place of hard words and hurt feelings may do far more good. It is not a matter of whether or not they deserve your good will, of course, but consider instead the fact that an unstoked and unattended fire eventually extinguishes.
Feb. 4th, 2012
[Private to Himself]
Gellert can always read these.
Seven (Original) Principle Divisons of Alchemy
I do wish I had any of my old notes. I am beginning to suspect that there is a need for another alchemical division: A focus on the transmutation of time. We were all expected and thus brought here for a reason. I sincerely doubt that reason was to set us against each other, (in spite of what some here might believe or, in fact, desire) but nevertheless we were abducted against our will and no matter the circumstances or reasoning behind this action.
As much as I agree with Gellert that we should work towards finding some way to alter and, eventually implicate our plans (or the majority thereof) in this strange new world, I would be doing myself an injustice if I did not also follow my own desire to, I believe, right the wrong that has been committed against all of us.
Time must exist as a substance, it must be tangible-- like water -- to allow us to move through it in any direction, with restrictions in place in much the same way that there are restrictions to any substance. A diamond is always restricted to being a diamond, and so forth.
A Time-Turner is too entirely personal device and incapable of anything of this magnitude. It is also impossible to use one to move forward in time or to another place besides where it was you were present at any previous moment. Therefore, I can't imagine Time Turners are of any importance in the continuing of my research into this matter
In this place, there are individuals from othertimes points in different times. At this point in my research I cannot conclude that the restrictions set upon time as it exists somewhere would be the same were they to exist somewhere else. (I cannot conclude that a diamond is not a diamond in the place where I am a headmaster).
At present, though it remains inconclusive how congruent or dependant these alternative 'times' are. (It is not entirely clear whether they are independent or dependant upon one another.) I believe that the presence of 'echoed', mirrored or similar large events throughout the 'different timeplaces' do suggest some degree of co-existence. It also remains inconclusive as to whether or not these 'timeplaces' move at exactly the same speed. (Perhaps, in some ways, the date we are arriving from is not random. Perhaps the specific moment I came from in 1918 and Antonin's 1940 just so happened to be parallel due to an inconsistency in the speed of time, and thus when one of us was swept from 1918, the other in their 'timeplace' was taken from 1940.I cannot imagine any further reason for a child to be brought here unless it was by error or due to something unavoidable
I've gone on a tangent
The incontinent truth, however, is that if time is a substance like water, though it could vary at different points in speed, like a river it would not varied in direction. It must always flow forward and cannot move backwards. Forward to the year 8700, but without the means to return.
It is not a matter of changing direction. A river, after all, cannot without assistance. Therefore the very behaviour of time would have to be altered. The restrictions that make time into time (and diamonds into diamonds) completely upset. For us to go back through time, time must become something that time is not. It must be changed.
Transmuted.
Like iron into gold.
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¹Brown, James Campbell. A History of Chemistry from the Earliest times. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son &, 1920. Print.
²Albus' theory loosely based on Stephen Hawking's theory about travelling to the future.
Gellert can always read these.
Seven (Original) Principle Divisons of Alchemy
1. The preparation of a compound named elixir, magisterium medicine,or philosopher's stone?which possessed the property of transmuting the baser metals into gold or in extending life indefinitely.I know without any shadow of doubt that the philosopher's stone was successfully created.I've seen it done and believe myself capable of replicating the process, yet it has not, from what I can tell, been applied in any way to the culture of this place. Has Flammel' work remained secret? Is he still alive? Was his research entirely lost?
2. The creationof homunculi, of living beings.Still incapable3. The preparation of the alcahest or universal solvent, which dissolved every substance which was immersed in it.
4. Palingenesis, or the restoration of a plant from its ashes.Still incapable5. The preparation of spiritus mundi the principal of which was its capacity of dissolving gold.
6. The extraction of the quintessence or active principle of all substances.7. The preparation of aurum potabile, liquid gold, a sovereign remedy, because gold being itself perfect could produce perfection in the human frame.¹
I do wish I had any of my old notes. I am beginning to suspect that there is a need for another alchemical division: A focus on the transmutation of time. We were all expected and thus brought here for a reason. I sincerely doubt that reason was to set us against each other, (in spite of what some here might believe or, in fact, desire) but nevertheless we were abducted against our will and no matter the circumstances or reasoning behind this action.
As much as I agree with Gellert that we should work towards finding some way to alter and, eventually implicate our plans (or the majority thereof) in this strange new world, I would be doing myself an injustice if I did not also follow my own desire to, I believe, right the wrong that has been committed against all of us.
Time must exist as a substance, it must be tangible-- like water -- to allow us to move through it in any direction, with restrictions in place in much the same way that there are restrictions to any substance. A diamond is always restricted to being a diamond, and so forth.
In this place, there are individuals from other
At present, though it remains inconclusive how congruent or dependant these alternative 'times' are. (It is not entirely clear whether they are independent or dependant upon one another.) I believe that the presence of 'echoed', mirrored or similar large events throughout the 'different timeplaces' do suggest some degree of co-existence. It also remains inconclusive as to whether or not these 'timeplaces' move at exactly the same speed. (Perhaps, in some ways, the date we are arriving from is not random. Perhaps the specific moment I came from in 1918 and Antonin's 1940 just so happened to be parallel due to an inconsistency in the speed of time, and thus when one of us was swept from 1918, the other in their 'timeplace' was taken from 1940.
The incontinent truth, however, is that if time is a substance like water, though it could vary at different points in speed, like a river it would not varied in direction. It must always flow forward and cannot move backwards. Forward to the year 8700, but without the means to return.
It is not a matter of changing direction. A river, after all, cannot without assistance. Therefore the very behaviour of time would have to be altered. The restrictions that make time into time (and diamonds into diamonds) completely upset. For us to go back through time, time must become something that time is not. It must be changed.
Transmuted.
Like iron into gold.
_______ooc_____________
¹Brown, James Campbell. A History of Chemistry from the Earliest times. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son &, 1920. Print.
²Albus' theory loosely based on Stephen Hawking's theory about travelling to the future.
Feb. 2nd, 2012
In reference to my earlier point, I think that I would like to invite everyone who would like to strive for some kind of unification to come to my home on Friday afternoon. I can promise refreshments, fellowship and conversation. I would like to gather the opinions of others as to what they think we should be doing to move towards a more agreeable future where displaced wizards, as we all are, can find common ground and common goal.
I understand that my personal choices and my background might be one that others disagree with, but the year 1918 is long ago and my opinions of how best to help the world then have no baring on what I believe might suit us now. I am more then prepared to leave my past where it belongs and start over here, with all of you. This is our world now, and if we cannot learn to appreciate each other and live in it together, we're going to destroy it.
Please R.S.V.P. here so I might have some idea as to how many lemon squares to prepare.
I understand that my personal choices and my background might be one that others disagree with, but the year 1918 is long ago and my opinions of how best to help the world then have no baring on what I believe might suit us now. I am more then prepared to leave my past where it belongs and start over here, with all of you. This is our world now, and if we cannot learn to appreciate each other and live in it together, we're going to destroy it.
Please R.S.V.P. here so I might have some idea as to how many lemon squares to prepare.
Feb. 1st, 2012
I see quite a lot of arguments over the past, individuals from different worlds and times comparing beliefs not only about things which are fundamental to any society, but about individuals. Being not of this place, and believing it is not my business to interfere with affairs that do not relate to me, I have refrained from comment -- and will continue to do so on this matter.
However, I can't help but wonder why so much energy is being spent on disagreement in a place where it might not come to matter? Shouldn't the focus be on what we are doing here? Why we are here? What this means? And what makes us similar?
We are all refugees and we are all displaced. There are a number of things that we will never agree on and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that given that aspects of our individual histories are so varied and history is one of the few things that has always banded people together.
For many, I have learned, being here has presented them with an excellent opportunity to reconnect with people they had lost. To learn and appreciate family when previously that chance was stolen from them. For many, being here is a fresh start and I don't understand why it can't be treated that way. The different pasts are behind us all, now, and of no consequence.
We have a choice now, to continue to focus on what was and to pull apart the details and descriptors that made individuals who they are, we can continue to debunk and argue the fine details of events that many others here will never see (or have seen) come to pass...or we can try to build a society, a community, on an understanding of both our differences and of the fact that we are in a place that we do not belong. We can, and I believe we should, make this as positive and experience as possible -- and remember that as none of us have authority here over any other. As they say, we are all in this together. Perhaps it's time we started to act like it.
However, I can't help but wonder why so much energy is being spent on disagreement in a place where it might not come to matter? Shouldn't the focus be on what we are doing here? Why we are here? What this means? And what makes us similar?
We are all refugees and we are all displaced. There are a number of things that we will never agree on and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that given that aspects of our individual histories are so varied and history is one of the few things that has always banded people together.
For many, I have learned, being here has presented them with an excellent opportunity to reconnect with people they had lost. To learn and appreciate family when previously that chance was stolen from them. For many, being here is a fresh start and I don't understand why it can't be treated that way. The different pasts are behind us all, now, and of no consequence.
We have a choice now, to continue to focus on what was and to pull apart the details and descriptors that made individuals who they are, we can continue to debunk and argue the fine details of events that many others here will never see (or have seen) come to pass...or we can try to build a society, a community, on an understanding of both our differences and of the fact that we are in a place that we do not belong. We can, and I believe we should, make this as positive and experience as possible -- and remember that as none of us have authority here over any other. As they say, we are all in this together. Perhaps it's time we started to act like it.
Jan. 26th, 2012
Forgive me for needing clarity on this matter:
[Private to Gellert Grindelwald]
Why is it that some wizards feel any obligation to protect or defend muggles? I think it's quite clear that they are more than capable of defending themselves and have no regard for us or our ways. I've come to understand, through reading, that in whatever place it is we are currently existing--that Statute of Secrecy has been changed (perhaps disregarded completely) to allow for...at least the illusion of sameness. (As I don't think anyone could argue that those who are capable of producing magic and those that aren't are any more alike than foam shrimps are to fizzing whizbees). But before that occurs, why should I--or any wizard--feel any sense of duty or responsibility towards them?
[Private to Gellert Grindelwald]
What shall I make us for dinner?
Jan. 23rd, 2012
Significance.
People have told me that no matter what world or strand of time a person is from, there are always similarities. I'm beginning to find it difficult to argue against this. However, I don't believe that it is the personality or Modus operandi that remains unchanged, but it is their level of social importance. That said, those that significantly impact history in one place (be it positively or negatively because for the purposes of this observation there is no difference) seem to do so in all realities.
Immodestly, to use myself as an example: I've learned that I have been a ruler in one place and a very capable and respectable Headmaster in another. I've learned that I have been England's co-Minister of Magic with Gellert Grindelwald and also that I saw fit to defeat and imprison him. In no reality that I have come across thus far am I unknown. I feel no sense of pride or personal accomplishment (or shame, for that matter) for the deeds that over versions of myself have done. Quite certainly, I don't see any of these in my future. I'm quite happy, as it is, to continue my private study in Alchemy. I am satisfied to be just a man who does whatever is necessary to help the people of a country that has been brought to ruin. I see no greater a charge than assisting others and doing what is good for everyone.
But, just as I raised the question of Blood Purity and asked individuals how they felt about that particular issue, I again raise something that may be seen as slightly controversial:
Please don't be needlessly offended by the term 'significance'. I think, of course, that everyone is important and would never say that anyone was of less worth than anyone else. Human life is a precious thing which no one is more deserving of than any other.
I am, of course, speaking only in social and political terms. I am speaking only of the role that you are to play in history as you have come to know it -- and what pieces of the future you have been exposed to. I know, of course, that any kind of answer to this question would take a great deal of personal thought and self-awareness. As such no one should feel obligated to answer but I do hope that what I'm asking will spark some kind of personal reflection, if nothing else.
Immodestly, to use myself as an example: I've learned that I have been a ruler in one place and a very capable and respectable Headmaster in another. I've learned that I have been England's co-Minister of Magic with Gellert Grindelwald and also that I saw fit to defeat and imprison him. In no reality that I have come across thus far am I unknown. I feel no sense of pride or personal accomplishment (or shame, for that matter) for the deeds that over versions of myself have done. Quite certainly, I don't see any of these in my future. I'm quite happy, as it is, to continue my private study in Alchemy. I am satisfied to be just a man who does whatever is necessary to help the people of a country that has been brought to ruin. I see no greater a charge than assisting others and doing what is good for everyone.
But, just as I raised the question of Blood Purity and asked individuals how they felt about that particular issue, I again raise something that may be seen as slightly controversial:
Now that you've some idea of where history will take you and has taken other yous in different realities, how significant do you truly think you are, and how does that make you feel? Are you, in your version of events and others, a leader or a follower? Are you a shaper of history or are you shaped by it -- are you like or unlike other versions of yourself? Are you jealous of their accomplishments?
Please don't be needlessly offended by the term 'significance'. I think, of course, that everyone is important and would never say that anyone was of less worth than anyone else. Human life is a precious thing which no one is more deserving of than any other.
I am, of course, speaking only in social and political terms. I am speaking only of the role that you are to play in history as you have come to know it -- and what pieces of the future you have been exposed to. I know, of course, that any kind of answer to this question would take a great deal of personal thought and self-awareness. As such no one should feel obligated to answer but I do hope that what I'm asking will spark some kind of personal reflection, if nothing else.
Jan. 21st, 2012
[Private to Gellert Grindelwald]
I've been speaking with a young Ukrainian boy who believes that you are going to free him from...Soviet oppression? From Russian, in any regard. He seems to be quite taken with you and I believe that he...may be able to give us a far more honest opinion about what happens than anyone else. I've always had such an appreciate for the insight of children.
I think I may have him up to see if I can't learn more from him, would you care to indulge us both with your presence?
Everyone seems to be rather opinionated in this place, and while I value freedom of speech as much as any man should, perhaps I'm a touch old-fashioned for also valuing tact and discretion just as equally. Then, I may also want to take into consideration the fact that currently the only strong opinion I've had recently had to do with what colour to transfigure the curtains. They really do complete a room. In much the same way, I think, that the right hat completes a gentleman.
I have a question to propose, and I hope you will all forgive me for not including my own thoughts on the issue, for I've just made myself a cup of tea and I'd rather like to drink it before it has run cold, but I am interested in the general public's opinion on the issue of Blood Purity.
My own mother was of mixed, wizarding and muggle blood which by the standards of many does in fact make me a half-blood. This has never been something that has concerned me, though due to some unpleasantness in my past, many people I was acquainted with in my youth were of the impression that I was, in fact, a purist myself.
Of course, as this is all a matter of opinion, there is no wrong answer. I'm simply curious as to what other people think.
And I'm still rather undecided about the curtains.
I have a question to propose, and I hope you will all forgive me for not including my own thoughts on the issue, for I've just made myself a cup of tea and I'd rather like to drink it before it has run cold, but I am interested in the general public's opinion on the issue of Blood Purity.
My own mother was of mixed, wizarding and muggle blood which by the standards of many does in fact make me a half-blood. This has never been something that has concerned me, though due to some unpleasantness in my past, many people I was acquainted with in my youth were of the impression that I was, in fact, a purist myself.
Of course, as this is all a matter of opinion, there is no wrong answer. I'm simply curious as to what other people think.
And I'm still rather undecided about the curtains.
Jan. 15th, 2012
[Private to Gellert Grindelwald]
Were I to make breakfast, should I make it for two? Will you come?
Jan. 12th, 2012
There are so many fantastic things taking place here. We have been given the opportunity to see how different things might be if certain events (or certain choices) were somehow differently configured. It truly is marvellous how much the impact of a single person can ripple through the lives of those around them. I, for one, find myself in awe of everything that I've had the opportunity to learn already. Not only about myself, but about the person that so many here seem to remember so fondly, a Headmaster which I am not, but a man who is (I hope) still certainly me.
It has been brought to my attention by several individuals that in some...time... Gellert Grindelwald is accused of a number of crimes pertaining to some of the changes that we both seek to make for the greater good of everyone, both muggle and wizard alike. I am not about to discredit the validity of these claims, by any means, but I should like to point out that -- as I understand it -- these matters occur in the same strand of events that lead me to become the Headmaster of Hogwarts. I have not uncovered why it was, yet, that I gave up the position that I occupy with Mr. Grindelwald in Germany and why it might have been that I decided against what I truly believe is right, but I would like to take a moment to say a few things if you will all permit me.
I would never, in my life, advocate the unnecessary murder of anyone. I have, myself, suffered terrible personal loses and I know that the wounds such things cause never quite heal. I feel, also, that in accusing Mr. Grindelwald of such things I stand myself accused and I feel absolutely terrible about that. I have seen the end of a terrible war and I have seen the murder of hundreds upon thousands, wizards and muggles together, dying needlessly and senselessly and I do not understand why anyone would think that this was something that I would strive for. I value life and the lives of everyone, with everything that I have and I cannot stress heavily enough that neither I, nor Gellert, should ever mean harm to anyone.
There is nothing I can say about a future that I do not know except for the fact that it is not the future that I will know and I beg that neither I nor Gellert be held accountable for things that neither of us have or will ever seek to do.
It has been brought to my attention by several individuals that in some...time... Gellert Grindelwald is accused of a number of crimes pertaining to some of the changes that we both seek to make for the greater good of everyone, both muggle and wizard alike. I am not about to discredit the validity of these claims, by any means, but I should like to point out that -- as I understand it -- these matters occur in the same strand of events that lead me to become the Headmaster of Hogwarts. I have not uncovered why it was, yet, that I gave up the position that I occupy with Mr. Grindelwald in Germany and why it might have been that I decided against what I truly believe is right, but I would like to take a moment to say a few things if you will all permit me.
I would never, in my life, advocate the unnecessary murder of anyone. I have, myself, suffered terrible personal loses and I know that the wounds such things cause never quite heal. I feel, also, that in accusing Mr. Grindelwald of such things I stand myself accused and I feel absolutely terrible about that. I have seen the end of a terrible war and I have seen the murder of hundreds upon thousands, wizards and muggles together, dying needlessly and senselessly and I do not understand why anyone would think that this was something that I would strive for. I value life and the lives of everyone, with everything that I have and I cannot stress heavily enough that neither I, nor Gellert, should ever mean harm to anyone.
There is nothing I can say about a future that I do not know except for the fact that it is not the future that I will know and I beg that neither I nor Gellert be held accountable for things that neither of us have or will ever seek to do.
Thank you,
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Jan. 9th, 2012
And in a muggle flat, which is even more curious. (I can't imagine that I'm expected to stay here for any lengthy amount of time, I realise, but even so. I've already transfigured the curtains to something more palatable.) I can see, from reading what others have wrote, that I'm not the only individual to fine these circumstances alarming. I'm not sure if I find comfort in that, or a greater cause for worry.
In proper form, I'll take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. I was (quite comfortably) in Berlin, before arriving here and I would very much like to know if anyone might be able to provide information concerning the whereabouts of both a sweetshop and an individual by the name of Gellert Grindelwald.