Compassion: The Heir of Slytherin (Book 2, Chapter 17)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
The Tears Are Healing
The word patience comes from the same root as compassion and sympathy. To be patient means to, to, to feel those feelings, right? And so by definition, when Riddle is impatient and finds her boring, right? That's him just refusing to feel the feelings, refuses to feel the right feelings,. Right? I mean, it's interesting though, when he's talking about how he manipulated her, he says, I was patient, I wrote back, I was sympathetic, I was kind."
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