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Episode Silent Witch: Chinmoku no Majo no Kakushigoto • Secrets of the Silent Witch - Episode 7 discussion

Silent Witch: Chinmoku no Majo no Kakushigoto, episode 7

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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro Aug 15 '25

Bet Caroline never thought that far ahead. Then again, she never expected Monica to have such powerful allies. She fell for Isabelle’s act and thought the latter despised Monica. There’s also Felix who saw himself in her and thus highly sympathetic.

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u/OldInstruction5368 Aug 15 '25

She fell for Isabelle’s act and thought the latter despised Monica

Even so "I may hate her, but she's mine to hate" isn't uncommon stance where family is concerned. As Isabelle said, even if Monica is the black sheep of the family, she still bears the Norton name. In a feudal society, that name means EVERYTHING. So what message would it send if you could attack a member of the family and get by without any consequences? If the Nortons won't protect one of their own, their reputation is nothing. If Monica is really that big of an embarrassment that the family didn't care about, then she should have been cast out.

But she wasn't. They let her keep the name, so that means they must protect that name. This is something anyone in a feudal society should know.

But Dumb Witch here thought that her father bribes the Academy head enough, then she can get away with anything. She just didn't think that there would be consequences outside the Academy... but all that talk about names? It cuts both ways. As a member of her family, as one who bears that name, then everything she does is as a representative of said family. The enemies you make will see your entire family as collectively responsible. Noble houses, noble names, are political factions onto themselves in this society. You can't attack someone without putting your entire family at risk of retaliation.

And if a noble can't understand that, then she was always going to bring ruin to her family sooner rather than later.

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u/repapap Aug 15 '25

It's the same as when Tyrion was taken prisoner and Tywin, despite hating his son, started a war over it. Tyrion was the hated little black sheep of the Lannisters but he was still a Lannister and that honor needed to be defended.

Caroline was a pretty big fish. But as they say, there's always a bigger fish.

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u/myrlin77 Aug 15 '25

Fabulous answer. I've had a similar conversation like this in the past with topics such as these in other shows.

Even in today's society, don't think a person cares an IOTA about nameless faces over their daughter/son's life

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u/ms666slayer Aug 15 '25

Perfectly explained.

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u/15000yuki Aug 16 '25

Even so "I may hate her, but she's mine to hate" isn't uncommon stance where family is concerned.

I remember Wednesday, "How dare you bully my brother, only I am allowed to do that!"

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u/OldInstruction5368 Aug 16 '25

Pretty much. Whatever internal disputes exist within a family... are just that, internal matters.

And it's not just 'family' in the strictest definition of the word. It's pretty common for civil wars to be paused if an outside force seeks to take advantage of the situation. Such as the Chinese Civil war between the Communists and Nationalists. When the Japanese invaded, they signed a cease fire until the Japanese had been dealt with.

As one of the few things people fighting a civil war can agree on is "fuck those guys, this is OUR house to tear down."

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u/gst4158 Aug 15 '25

Fantastic explanation 👏 

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u/HornedTurtle1212 Aug 17 '25

Maybe she will end up getting tossed out of the family to appease the Nortons. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a limb to save a tree

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u/OldInstruction5368 Aug 17 '25

That's very well possible. Those that bring great shame to the family, especially for petty reasons like this, can find themselves disinherited.

Not simply as an appeasement to the aggrieved party, but because this was such a stupid mistake to make that proves the Little Miss does not understand the fundamentals of their society.

In other words, she's likely to do something stupid and jeopardize the family again.

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u/Falsus Aug 15 '25

She probably thought that at worst, Isabella wouldn't care. But at the end of the day Monica Norton is still a Norton bullied or not, so she should have thought twice about doing something like this. Like Isabella gotta stomp down on things like this to preserve the honor of the Norton name even if she where to absolutely hate Monica.

So even if we exclude the fact Isabella absolutely adores Monica more than anything in the world which no classmates knows about, it was still a really stupid idea.

At the end of the day, just like Monica noted, Caroline and her goons where basic bitches villainesses who can't think two steps ahead nor humiliate someone subtly in a way that doesn't put them in a bad spot.

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u/profdeadpool Aug 15 '25

Ehhhh I think she was telling the truth about not expecting Monica to drink it all, or she didn't realize just how poisonous it was. Her actions don't really suggest she wanted Monica to die imo.

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u/Narlaw Aug 15 '25

The real intent is irrelevant. She can't go around and harrass other nobles, and she demonstrated how dangerously dumb she is, for not knowing the mentioned fact, and not even have the thought of looking up what ingesting "eye drop" does.

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u/mekerpan Aug 15 '25

Wanting to harm and embarrass Monica was a serious enough offense in itself (as was pointed out in the episode).

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u/Ihavenospecialskills https://myanimelist.net/profile/Duzzle Aug 15 '25

Further indicated by the tea already being tampered with before Monica even answered the question about explaining things to the white haired boy. It wouldn't make much sense to publicly murder someone who just agreed to do what you want. The intent was almost certainly "haha this will taste bad and she won't be able to finish the cup of tea".

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u/hjordisa Aug 16 '25

I think it's true she didn't expect her to drink it all, and perhaps was thoughtless, but she knew enough about it that she should have known how dangerous it was and was trying to play up that she didn't know to get out of trouble.

It doesn't matter much and I don't have much sympathy for "prank gone too far in a way that should have been foreseen as a possibility," but compared to actively trying to kill her I want her to face consequences, really reflect, and grow up and be better rather than just be destroyed. Well in general I want people who are actively bad to reflect and put in the work to change rather than just being the subject of revenge or gotten rid of for safety too, but that's a different, harder scenario.

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u/fireburn97ffgf Aug 17 '25

to add to it, it was later said that the eyedrops were not a weaker from to look pretty but for surgery, like it doesnt take a lot of brain cells to know that putting a strong medication in someone's drink could seriously harm or kill them even if it was a few sips

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

It's a pattern of behavior with Caroline. The first time she bullied Hana, it was a rather rough public shouting match against Hana's family and then she physically tried to shove her down the stairs (which ended up hitting Monica instead). Now this is the second time Caroline's bullying was so rough it wound up potentially risking Monica's life.

If you are a noblewoman you can't associate yourself with this uncouth behavior. Hire an assassin or something if you are trying to legit kill Monica, but physically trying to shove a rival down the stairs or literally pouring poison into somebody's tea after you've PUBLICLY INVITED THEM FOR A TEA PARTY is the height of boorish behavior. She's simply not made for high society.