I'll be honest, I always read that whole thing as everyone was fully well aware that Lucius and co were lying when they claimed to be under the Imperius, but no-one could prove they were lying in a court of law and they were throwing enough bribes around that nobody really wanted to prove that they were lying anyway.
There is a good chance Bellatrix would have killed him if he refused that one
Taylor's greatest recorded range was like half a mile, maybe less. The edge of the forest may or may not be in range from the castle, but the spider nest is much further. Uncomfortably close for everyone not Taylor, but she would still have to hike a good way into the forest to find them.
Hmm. Amy made Relay Bugs for Skitter (massively increased her control range) - maybe Hagrid could breed them for Taylor?
Considering that he crossed a Manticore with a Firecrab and got a viable new species? I wouldn't put it past him. He may be a bit loose lipped, but the man knows his magical creatures.Hmm. Amy made Relay Bugs for Skitter (massively increased her control range) - maybe Hagrid could breed them for Taylor?
Is 'casual vacancy' a typo (and if so, for what)? If not, I'm rather confused by what you mean.
It's the title of another of J.K. Rowling's books
Apparently. 'The Casual Vacancy', a JKR novel I'd never heard of. Spoiler: contains no obvious fantasy elements.
Yeah, skimming the wiki article and not having read the novel, I also can't figure out what it's supposed to say about JKR, but I'm not assuming that it's the antagonist that @sunsunsunsunsun is referring to.
This would absolutely work. If the goal was Truth and Justice.
Problem is, the Wizarding World seems to be slowly but surely sliding towards becoming a hive of scum and villainy. And the one good chance they had at doing something about it (the end of the last war), they decided that 'naaah, we like bribes too much, and a lot of us are actually sympathisers anyway'.
I'm... afraid I'd see it differently.
Fair.
I could be wrong, but I'm inclined to believe the original Potter-verse was pretty 'simple', with very few physical locations, and little to no attention to the detail of magical society. Intended to be a 'place of wonder', with magical threats, that even 11-yr-old school kids, with no real adult assistance, could struggle against, and defeat.
My youth was the 90's and 00's.
Stable the world was not. Mentally scanning the past three hundred years, one decade at a time... "We didn't start the fire; it was always burning since the world was turning".Doubly so given that one scene where we learn that the Ministry of Magic privately informs incoming Prime Ministers that they exist, but it's magic (which is known to not exist) and you don't have any proof, no one will ever believe you. Yeah, no, the intelligence ministries got told to find and monitor these people a long time ago, independent of any accidental discovery or muggleborns working for the government.
Bit offtopic, but people here are very level headed compared to most places: are there any "next generation" fics that deal advancement of digital age in muggle world and increasing cultural gap in Hogwarts (Bros, i can't chat with you over net, i go to a boarding school)?
The very end of Annals of Arithmancy has an arc on the (global) Wizarding world preparing to take down the statue of secrecy after it is demonstrated that it's not possible to maintain, but it cuts off at the reveal, and I honestly can't recommend slogging through the entire trilogy just for that. Some of the later year stuff is pretty decent, but it takes a *lot* of basically canon rehash to get there. As much as I appreciate White Squirrel as a writer, they are far too prone to "event happened exactly as canon, and then a couple paragraphs of characters who weren't there originally reacting without interfering at all."
