In various discussions recently, we've talked about how the wizarding world takes an astonishingly low view on emotional trauma.
Not to seem like a xenophobic jerk, but this is something that seems to have been part of British makeup until relatively recently- ignoring cruelty even as it happens in front of your face, and dimissing terrible events in the past as 'oh well, that was then and this is now." That these people act this way, and that they are surprised at the turn that life does to them, is very Victorian British era attitude.
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Date: 2004-11-19 09:15 am (UTC)Not to seem like a xenophobic jerk, but this is something that seems to have been part of British makeup until relatively recently- ignoring cruelty even as it happens in front of your face, and dimissing terrible events in the past as 'oh well, that was then and this is now." That these people act this way, and that they are surprised at the turn that life does to them, is very Victorian British era attitude.