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princesselwenSPOILERS.
The latest creepy kid I saw was a young Leta Lestrange in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, The Crimes of Grindlewald. She probably isn't the greatest example because she does regret what she did and is continually haunted by it. But the idea that she would actually go through with the plan of switching her little brother with another baby just because he cried too much and it annoyed her, made me see her in a really unnerving light. I can understand getting annoyed by a crying little sibling, but I find incredibly creepy that she'd just swap him with someone else, even if she didn't like him to begin with because their father favored him. Its one thing to have the passing (not really seriously entertained, either) wish to swap away a sibling, and an entirely different thing to actually do it.
If I was going to change her, I'd just drop the whole switching thing. She'd have survivor's guilt because she couldn't save her brother, and feel even worse because she hated him and didn't want him around her anyway, and would be wondering if she might have tried harder to save him if she had liked him. The switching thing was only there for that canon-contradicting backstory, anyway, so the story would make more sense without it.
The latest creepy kid I saw was a young Leta Lestrange in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, The Crimes of Grindlewald. She probably isn't the greatest example because she does regret what she did and is continually haunted by it. But the idea that she would actually go through with the plan of switching her little brother with another baby just because he cried too much and it annoyed her, made me see her in a really unnerving light. I can understand getting annoyed by a crying little sibling, but I find incredibly creepy that she'd just swap him with someone else, even if she didn't like him to begin with because their father favored him. Its one thing to have the passing (not really seriously entertained, either) wish to swap away a sibling, and an entirely different thing to actually do it.
If I was going to change her, I'd just drop the whole switching thing. She'd have survivor's guilt because she couldn't save her brother, and feel even worse because she hated him and didn't want him around her anyway, and would be wondering if she might have tried harder to save him if she had liked him. The switching thing was only there for that canon-contradicting backstory, anyway, so the story would make more sense without it.
