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Words and Motivations
Aug. 28th, 2005 10:04 pm3467 more words for the challenge and 403 on what is driving Diggory's father. Ever wonder why a man would be so evil as to deny his son love? I did.
I now understand just why he's willing to go to all lengths to stop their marriage and it doesn't make me like him one bit more. Turns out he courted her mother and was spurned, which may be the oldest story in the book, but he took it a step further. He set about to undermine their merchant business so when the mother's husband died, he left her nothing but debts. Debts which he offered to pay in exchange for her as his concubine. The reputation she has that he uses against her daughter? One he created in fact as well as rumor. He's a very sick man who can't handle the possibility that his son will succeed where he had failed.
I now understand just why he's willing to go to all lengths to stop their marriage and it doesn't make me like him one bit more. Turns out he courted her mother and was spurned, which may be the oldest story in the book, but he took it a step further. He set about to undermine their merchant business so when the mother's husband died, he left her nothing but debts. Debts which he offered to pay in exchange for her as his concubine. The reputation she has that he uses against her daughter? One he created in fact as well as rumor. He's a very sick man who can't handle the possibility that his son will succeed where he had failed.
