If the king takes the mudblood's tongue out, he punishes him for one word, one sentence by doing that he prevents the mudblood from ever speaking in his king's service or on his behalf for all the days that follow and does he not then make his servant less able to serve? it hurts the king more than the servant
boot never claimed to be a friend to mr weasley! for how can the low befriend the high? how can the mud befriend the sun? yet the animal who lives in the mud, when he sees mud splattered on the great he simply knows how it feels because of his own experience not because they are friends
and as for pity, well, the mudblood understands burdens because he is a servant does not the great wizard have the greater burdens? because of his position as the best and the purest? and may not the low look upon the high and pity the burden that the great must bear, simply because he knows what it is to bear his own, but not because he dreams that he could ever dare to take it himself?
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by doing that he prevents the mudblood from ever speaking in his king's service or on his behalf
for all the days that follow
and does he not then make his servant less able to serve?
it hurts the king more than the servant
boot never claimed to be a friend to mr weasley!
for how can the low befriend the high?
how can the mud befriend the sun?
yet the animal who lives in the mud,
when he sees mud splattered on the great
he simply knows how it feels
because of his own experience
not because they are friends
and as for pity,
well, the mudblood understands burdens because he is a servant
does not the great wizard have the greater burdens?
because of his position as the best and the purest?
and may not the low look upon the high
and pity the burden that the great must bear,
simply because he knows what it is to bear his own,
but not because he dreams that he could ever dare to take it himself?