The Celtic Cross, part 3
Sirius shook this memory off as well as he could and returned his attention to Kreacher and the Tarot-reading he was currently undertaking.
“Are we ready to begin, then?” he said to Kreacher. “Courage screwed to the sticking point? Lips stiff? Peckers up and all that? Let’s see…”
He turned the first card up, the one that signified the ( Read more... )
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That's for sure.
Not cooking up a spot of mischief, are you, Kreacher? A nefarious scheme to purloin my socks? Planning to put salt in the sugar-bowl?
*headdesk* How can anyone who's so blatantly brilliant be such a blockhead at times?
People weren’t meant to be afraid to look
Beati pauperes spiritu.
But you ain’t lucky, boy.
And here I'm crying again, tears dropping down on my desk.
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My personal theory is that the smarter the individual, the more colossally boneheaded the mistakes. And haven't we all done this; made errors that made us wish we could trade our poor old brains in for new models that actually work?
Besides, Sirius may be very smart, but Kreacher is a house-elf, and Sirius has a cultural blind-spot regarding house-elves. It's blind-spot that's deeply embedded in the WW - and may one day cost everyone. Sigh.
But you ain’t lucky, boy.
That's one way of looking at it, sure, but there are other ways. Don't cry too much, ok?
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You know, I keep wondering if that really isn't only our perception of it. Maybe their mistakes are just as stupid as everybody else's, only with them the 'smartness' distance between their normal brilliancy and the mistakes is greater, so that the mistakes appear to be especially stupid in comparison. We're only human, all of us.
A model that works? Yes, please. :)
What you say about the blind spot is very true. It's the typical fallacy of any slaveholder society.
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