Right, then. Obligatory musings, to keep within the mandatory guidelines of said project. I shall report on my visit with the Unicorn, currently being kept in Hagrid's furthest-most paddock
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The unicorn has never liked me much, I fear. It doesn't tend to like boys a lot, I have noticed, however. At least, that is what they told us in class...our class, at least. I do not know what they said in the Slytherin and Gryffindor class.
And, somehow, I have the feeling that it's not unicorns you are caught up these days. But if it's what you wish to talk about, that is quite all right.
Traditionally, the Unicorn favours females. Ancient lore tells us pure and virtuous maidens were led into the forest, in order to capture Unicorns. A band of hunters would escort the maiden into the forest, and make her comfortable in an alluring (alluring to Unicorns, to clarify) area, and hide in the surrounding foliage. The Unicorn would be unable to resist the company of the maiden, and would come to sit in her lap; at that point, the hunters would surround the Unicorn and the maiden both, and capture the Unicorn.
To be a Unicorn must be the eighth circle of hell.
To be a unicorn or to be a young maiden, I must imagine. Being the eighth circle of hell, I mean. I have no experience with either mode of existence, but I have a damnably good imagination sometimes.
The unicorn follows what it finds most alluring, and is caught by those who mean it wrong, merely for doing what it feels it needs to.
And young maidens...must find horrors besetting them in every direction, if I remember my stories correctly.
No, I am as dense as dense can be. I relearn this daily, it seems.
Well, I'm not a Unicorn; however, I am a girl, which I suppose I don't mind as such.
Perhaps the Unicorn is just plain stupid.
Indeed young maidens are fodder for the most horrific rituals and subjugations when it comes to folklore. Admittedly, I do not envy sacrificial virgins, or those maidens betrothed to troll kings or Minotaurs or whatnot.
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I guess I don't want to talk about Unicorns anymore. But I'm happy you discussed them with me briefly.
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And, somehow, I have the feeling that it's not unicorns you are caught up these days. But if it's what you wish to talk about, that is quite all right.
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To be a Unicorn must be the eighth circle of hell.
You are very perceptive.
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The unicorn follows what it finds most alluring, and is caught by those who mean it wrong, merely for doing what it feels it needs to.
And young maidens...must find horrors besetting them in every direction, if I remember my stories correctly.
No, I am as dense as dense can be. I relearn this daily, it seems.
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Perhaps the Unicorn is just plain stupid.
Indeed young maidens are fodder for the most horrific rituals and subjugations when it comes to folklore. Admittedly, I do not envy sacrificial virgins, or those maidens betrothed to troll kings or Minotaurs or whatnot.
Why are you dense?
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