Lotta people don't seem to like Claudia deriding her diaries as little girl diaries and wanting Louis to burn them because that is the primary way we have gotten to know her character, but aside from the fact that she stopped writing in them before Madeleine was turned in 2x06 and aside from the fact that she grew up significantly within that time period (I know there are things about my 14 year old self I find cringe today, and I'm only 29, not 47 as she was when she died), but the diaries are the entire reason, motivation, and impetus for the trial, sentencing, and execution. Without the diaries, Santiago would never have found out the truth of Lestat's murder, they would never have summoned him to Paris, there would have been no evidence, no script, no direction, no play, no death. That is, of course, barring major changes and reframing that may be yet to come, but I suspect that while they will likely revisit aspects of the trial, this fact will remain. The diaries are not just a symbol of Louis' caging her memory as a little lost lamb, they are her murder weapon. Despite being her words, they are the method by which others took away her voice ("we have no need to hear from you, we have your words here, in all their chilling premeditation"). No wonder she hates them!
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