The Hufflepuff students, by the way, still do eat elf-cooked food in the Great Hall with the others.

Harry grew up in a Muggle Britain, where slavery is almost unheard-of. Many real people would react in a similar way: when they learn that a group uses slaves, they call it evil and try to distance themselves from it. But what if everything is evil? Can you distance yourself from everything?

Our world is not so different. Many of our conveniences are based on the suffering and exploitation of others. It's hard to understand what we can even do to change it.

On a different subject, the tent where Harry, Draco, and Luna are meeting is in a hidden location, much like in the seventh book when the trio are on the run from Voldemort. This is also the same location where they listen to the radio all the way back on page 4; maybe I'll retcon a tent onto that page eventually, to make it more clear.

On a more technical note... Until (and including) this page, I've hand-lettered all the dialogue in Voldemort's Children. That's been okay so far, even in chapter four (I was taking 1-2 hours for each page just drawing Granger's dialogue, but that was reasonable because Granger was talking a lot). The trouble is, Luna's speech takes a long time to draw – I spent an entire two hours just drawing zir dialogue on this page, out of six hours total to draw the page. That's not really worth it. So I've created a TrueType font for Luna, and I'm going to start using that on tomorrow's page. It won't look quite as nice, because it won't have all the friendly irregularities of the hand-drawn dialogue, but it's still generally the same.

If I decide I like the choice, I'll probably do the same thing for Granger next time ze talks a lot, because Granger is very verbose and zir speech is already pretty standardized.