was the way hollyleaf, jayfeather, and lionblaze treated squirrelflight really fair? by Silverkit

Silverkit analyses the anger Jayfeather, Hollyleaf, and Lionblaze feel to Squirrelflight – was it justified?

to answer this we have to look at after the truth came out about her not being their mother. when she told them, they were mad about her lying to them their whole lives, obviously. and I think that’s fair. but then they started ignoring her and/or not talking to her.

now I don’t think this behavior is fair. did squirrleflight really have a choice? if she hadn’t agreed to take leafpool’s kits then leafpool would have probably been banished. and no one would want their sister to be banished! especially if it’s your fault.

then why didn’t she tell them earlier? well, she didn’t tell them when they were kits because kits probably would just go tell people.
and when they were apprentices, they already had so much going on with training and a prophecy, they didn’t also need for their “mother” to tell them she wasn’t their mother and she had lied to them practically their whole lives.
then she didn’t tell them when they were young warriors is because, again, they were busy with figuring out their prophecy. but, the truth had to come out eventually. I think that leafpool and squirrelflight told them at the right time because they were warriors and had experience under their belt.

and also I think that leafpool telling hollyleaf when she did was a good thing, because she went into the tunnels, and later that helped thunderclan defeat windclan in the battle in the tunnels caused by sol.

so the way they treated her was not fair, but I do understand. but she definitely should have told brambleclaw before then. I mean he did think he was their father! and it was definitely not fair to treat leafpool unkindly too. she is their real mother after all. and I understand why she couldn’t tell firestar. if he knew he would have to banish leafpool and maybe even squirrelflight. he would maybe even have to banish the kits to because they were born against the warrior code. I’m so glad they eventually stopped being mean, especially since jayfeather and leafpool have to work together.

eventually, they saw the truth and became the amazing warriors, and medicine cats, they are.