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[chambermusicandtenpins]

Do you deny that you have any edge to you at all, Gellert?

[greatestgood]

I'm as dangerous as broken glass. I didn't used to see myself in that light.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

You don't have to be. You are skilled and powerful, but that need not be dangerous on its own.

[greatestgood]

Skill doesn't change my emotions. My power makes me more dangerous because of how I feel.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Emotions can be contained. You can feel them just as strongly but without letting them control you.

[greatestgood]

My power is stronger if I am angry, Albus. I tap into it and hold my anger at my beck and call. I am never fully without it.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Perhaps. And yet perhaps you are also at its beck and call as well. You can make it entirely your own without succumbing to it.

[greatestgood]

Then I would truly be unstoppable and unfeeling. That doesn't seem like a good alternative.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Controlling emotions are not the same as not having them. Do you think of me as unfeeling, Gellert?

[greatestgood]

...no. [His brow furrows.] You feel far more than I do, but you have control of it. I only know how to push things down and strangle them.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

You can learn differently. It's helpful, sometimes, to be able to quell what you feel without destroying it.

[greatestgood]

I learn best by doing. You must help me when I am enraged; you might be able to help me see reason.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

I am always here to help you if you need. If you would wish me to calm you, I can.

[greatestgood]

I need it; I need you. You've taught many, but now I ask you to guide me.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

And I will. I've no plans to leave you to this by yourself.

[greatestgood]

Pity me. I have a crush on my Professor.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Is it a crush if he returns it so ardently?

[greatestgood]

Does he? Well that makes the reward system for lessons quite intriguing!

[chambermusicandtenpins]

As if you would not be using such rewards to bribe me just as well.

[greatestgood]

That's your fault for being attracted to me.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

I suppose it is. Pity that I can't help it.

[greatestgood]

Is it really a pity? I promise to make you feel really good.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

[That earns him a small laugh.]

You've already been quite successful at that.

[greatestgood]

So you know I'm not lying.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Oh, I'm very aware that you are not. Delightfully so.