femgenficathon

Now this should be in the Tales of Beadle the Bard.

This is very well written and the cadence is very much that of a fairy tale, without becoming either childlike or too condescending, beating the message over the reader's head.

I think it's interesting, because you've brought up something that I don't feel is discussed much in fandom. It must be incredibly difficult for a Veela girl, to be raised in a society where your appearance is everything, and nothing else matters. How painful it must be to be constantly, harshly judged on your looks, and deemed worthless without them. It's like the worst parts of American culture, magnified times one hundred.

Additionally, I like how you show that evil isn't just one single choice, but rather a series of wrong choices. It's not like Voldemort woke up one day and went, "Hmm, I think I'll be a mass murderer and try to take over the Wizarding World." No, he made several little choices, each worse than the last, but not that bad comparatively. When you've killed a dog, let's say, is it so much harder killing a person? When you've killed a person, is it so much harder killing two? I think these are the kinds of choices that led Tom Riddle into becoming Voldemort, just as these small choices are what let the Veela girl to become a Dementor.

This was very lovely, thank you so much for sharing!