She tensed, her hand shifting slightly to drift toward her lightsaber but paused when Harry made no move other than to stare into her eyes.
"And to top it all off, you have the audacity to stand there and try and advocate a stance that any rational person would find ludicrous. Seriously, have the Jedi Order ever tried to explain their tenets to an actual adult? Assuming they weren't afraid of you, I'd be surprised if you weren't laughed out of the conversation." Harry shook his head a little bit, mostly at Shaak Ti's surprised expression as she considered that. "And any mental health professional would recommend that you seek counseling!" "And I'm not just speaking rhetorically. That is exactly what a mental health professional would do. I can actually say that. I should know, I got a PhD in psychology. Now granted, it was under the name Dudikins Dursley, which is one of many reasons my wives told me I should leave the naming of things to others."
Harry shook his head and moved back to lean against the table once more. "In my defense, I chose that name since I doubted there would be any good academic records I'd be stepping on or anyone who traveled in the same circles. I got bored one decade, decided to see how long I could go without using magic and it was one of the things I did on a lark."
Harry was lost in his thoughts as he smiled wistfully. "I managed nearly fifteen years... till that one night in Tokyo where I was presenting at a conference and wandered into the magical side of the city and ended up combining shots of firewhiskey, wine, vodka and sake into the most alcoholic drink imaginable. Though I think turpentine and anti-freeze might have also been added at some point. I'm a little hazy on that. I woke up in police custody for destruction of public property."
"I still say the statue had it coming," Harry muttered before he blinked and shook himself out of his memories.
He was able to tell by the completely confused looks on both Shaak TI's and Aayla's face that he had completely lost them and they didn't understand half the things he had just said. "Sorry, trip down memory lane later. Anyway, then you get into your whole 'Steps to the Dark Side' accusation towards Ahsoka." Both women blinked at the stream of consciousness that Harry seemed to slip seamlessly into.
"Look, you clearly don't understand the magic I do," Harry started.
"I would be more than happy to let you explain it to me. in detail," Shaak Ti replied immediately. The demonstrations of Dobby and transfiguration, despite her misgivings regarding Harry's training of Ahsoka, his 'magic' was definitely something she wanted to understand and figure out.
"Maybe, eventually but that will involve oaths about not sharing or talking about it," Harry said, waving that aside. "I can tell you that despite what you have seen here tonight, what I am teaching Ahsoka Tano is no more likely to turn her into a bad guy than you initially teaching her to levitate a rock. And in fact will prevent her mind from being twisted by outside interference in the future. So she'll be less likely to do something against her will, whether that's fall to your Dark Side or actually carry out her anatomical threat from earlier."
He chuckled a little bit at the mental imagery before his expression once more sobered up. "Anyway, as to your last observation... yeah you hit that one pretty much on the nose, I don't like your Jedi Order. Your Order, reminds me so much of every decrepit corrupt group of 'old people' that's ever ruled over others with special powers."
Harry shook his head in disgust, "Different tune, same beat. If the people in charge aren't powerful enough to do it, it must be banned. If they don't understand it with anything less than a two minute overview, it must be suppressed just in case someone misuses it. If you've never heard of it, it's Dark."
"Whatever the bloody hell 'Dark' even means to them," Harry muttered to himself before he continued, "If it has ever been abused or the cause of a single person's downfall in the history of its existence, then it must be banned."
"If you can't personally account for every moment of my life before you met me, then I'm a threat," Harry shook his head with disgust. "Finally, you get your panties all in a bunch when one of the children you attempted to indoctrinate decides to go their own way." "At the end, it all boils down to, that If I'm such a bad person, where's your proof? Have I hurt innocent people? Tortured animals? Punted any midgets out of any airlocks?" Harry demanded, rolling his eyes.
Then he hesitated and his voice turned a trace defensive, "Well, I guess Dobby did that to some trandoshan slavers. And sorta technically I tossed Aayla out of a ship, but we were in atmo, and I was with her so that doesn't count."
"So, what evidence do you have that I'm dark and evil? And not circumstances that Jedi seem to accept as evidence if Ahsoka's trial is anything to go off of," Harry said with more than a trace of snark, gratified to see embarrassment flush across Shaak Ti's face. "I mean actual tangible evidence beyond pointing your finger and saying 'nanny nanny poo poo, I don't like you'."
"I don't appreciate the accusation, and I certainly don't appreciate your presence here the longer that you're here making assumptions based upon narrowly interpreted observations without asking questions to understand what you don't know," Harry shook his head. "In fact I feel less intelligent the longer I'm in proximity to you. Which as my wives might have commented, is saying something."
"I find it ironic that the fact of the matter is that your precious Order is a complete joke." Harry said, his tone turning dismissive. "'Servants of the Living Force'... my arse. You don't seem to do a whole lot of serving unless someone needs a convenient martyr for something but you sure do a lot of ordering about. You have no concept of what life or living is and your understanding of what you call the 'Force' is limited to say the least. And let's not even get into your hypocritical stance on 'slavery'."
Harry seemed to realize he was on a rant and deflated a little bit, sighing and shaking his head.
Aayla and Shaak Ti had both stiffened at Harry's string of accusations. But the last one caused the currently bright pink Twi'lek to interject immediately, her eyes flashing. "What hypocritical stance on slavery? The Jedi Order is against slavery. We may not be able to stop it everywhere in the galaxy yet but we are against it. We're very clear on that."
Harry tilted his head to regard her. "Well, that's awfully funny because, by my estimation, the Jedi Order is a huge supporter of the single largest slave owner in the galaxy."
"This coming from the man who by his own admission owns a slave," Shaak Ti replied, her voice cold and sharp. This was an argument she had heard before by some of the critics of the Order, "The Jedi Order doesn't have anything to do with slavery The children we bring into the Jedi Order are always given a choice and are free to leave at any time. As you should no doubt see by Ahsoka Tano's presence here."
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