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Spells in Silence (Harry Potter)

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It's a sad damn day when I can say I like Tom goddamn Riddle more than I like Mcgonagall.

At least Tom treats Hazel as someone to talk to instead of a burden.

Someone disposable mind you, but that just shows how low the bar is.
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
It's a sad damn day when I can say I like Tom goddamn Riddle more than I like Mcgonagall.
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For all of her skill MacGonagall is a teacher and a witch but not really an explorer or researcher.
Tom on the other hand? For all of his flaws he loves digging deep into new stuff. He has his biases with preferring dark and visually impressive stuff but he still is one of the few actual inventors in the wizarding world that pushed boundaries of what is possible with magic.
 
Huh Tom is way more helpful in this chapter then you might expect of the Dark lord. I wonder if he realizes that it is highly likely that Heather might just leave and never come back to Britain so there is no reason to worry too much about her.
 
LocalCatHybrid said:
Am I the only one feeling like Voldie's having the time of his life here? I mean, he did want to become a teacher...
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Oh yeah. Looking back, it makes sense that if Voldemort landed a position teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts and actually cared about teaching, he'd take advantage of it - unless he was concerned about getting caught, or had lost passion for it, etc
 
Great showing Flitwicks view along with his thoughts, since Hazel can hear them. I wonder how interested she's in about Augustus Rookwood.

At least she knows Flitwicks heart is in the right place.
 
Of course, the real question is how Quirrell will get fired or killed? Because, of course, that is something that will still happen.
 
Fair.

... I wonder if the establishment of the Wizengamot had anything to do with the Magna Carta? Obviously, it wouldn't be an immediate direct relationship, but...
 
Chapter 44: In which our heroine mule-kicks the shoddy, bad-pop-history underpinnings of J.K. Rowling's worldbulding and the whole edifice quivers like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Also, Voldemort is a better history teacher than Binns.
 
So Hazel is setting up two/three? potential conflicts here. We've got Minerva vs. Flitwick on student work ethics and behavior, with her seeing Hazel skip class and not putting in the effort, where Flitwick is seeing her overcome her (to him anyway) disability, while asking questions that make him think and expand his skills. Hazel is making Flitwick address the hard questions and historical inconsistencies in his own family tree. I predict that he will be one of the first people that Hazel will introduce to the Wolfs and the Hags.
 
Thanks for writing!

In addition to another excellent chapter to read, this one also provided me with a notification that Fanfiction.net's email system appears to be or at least have been malfunctioning. Again. That website is so bad... unfortunately, while I can get this story here (And thank you for that!) and others here or on Ao3 or something, there are some I've only found there. Eh.

Silently Watches said:
Why should he look it up when he has a gullible girl to do it for him? ;)
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At least she didn't ask him if, by the way, he'd ever heard of an Augustus Rookwood. :D
 
Silently Watches said:
That includes destroying or permanently removing books added to the library or knowingly allowing anyone else to do so
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So that's why Dumbledore had books mentioning Horcruxes in his office in canon! He could not remove them anywhere else without violating his oaths.
It also explains Umbridge being unable to access headmaster's office, without assumptions such as Hogwarts being sentient. I could absolutely see Umbridge refusing to take such oaths.
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so any books that might have been written about those times would not be in circulation for the casual student to come across
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Hazel's earlier hunch confirmed: "history" class is 100% propaganda, any resemblance to reality is purely accidental.
And it explains Binns still teaching! If it's all bullshit, and Dumbledore knows it (see above), why would he waste money on a living teacher?
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Professors can give students in their NEWT classes permission
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So no Lockhart giving permission here, hmm.
Silently Watches said:
he had not taught them anything about the Shrinking charm's theory
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and Hazel did it anyway. That probably means transfiguration theory is also mostly worthless to Hazel. (I remember McG assigning essay on a spell in canon.)
How it must burn the self-important teacher that Hazel learns despite her teaching, not thanks to it...
Silently Watches said:
Why should he look it up when he has a gullible girl to do it for him?
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How would she? He didn't help her with access to books...
 
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something you mentioned that has me curios now...what is the story with Augustus Rookwood? is it a cannon thing(wasn't he throw away DE Goon that was in the DoM)? or are you adding to this characters backstory?
 
Isheepzu said:
something you mentioned that has me curios now...what is the story with Augustus Rookwood? is it a cannon thing(wasn't he throw away DE Goon that was in the DoM)? or are you adding to this characters backstory?
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Rookwood was an Unspeakable in the ministry and spy for Voldemort. He ran an information network for the Death Eaters, and the only reason he was caught and imprisoned was because Karkaroff gave up his name.
 
Silently Watches said:
Without a wand, most wizards still would have been able to get themselves to safety – Apparation, like essentially all forms of magical transportation, was not reliant on wand work – but they would have had to do so immediately. No subterfuge would be possible.
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Something else that he seems to forget is that universal standardized education is a modern invention. There were some schools, but I doubt everyone had the funds to send their children, or even the desire as apprenticing under your parents would still be a common practice. There is also the fact that while some knowledge was wide spread, not all of it was. So maybe Apparition did exist, but it was strictly a German form of transport(for example) and not understood as well as it is today. So someone in Spain might only know how to fly a broom which could just as easily be confiscated.

Then there is also Splinching to worry about, since being in the middle of a raid is likely not accommodating to doing it properly.
 
Sivantic said:
Then there is also Splinching to worry about, since being in the middle of a raid is likely not accommodating to doing it properly.
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Maybe it's a wand thing. Hazel probably did a thousand apparations, including three under stress (twice in the redcap fight and once after the drunk hag-hater fight) and didn't splinch once. Canon mentions Ron "trying to Disapparate without a wand" (DH23), so I guess a wand is not necessary to apparate, but makes it easier (but also much easier to splinch). Compare with the real world: injuring yourself by accident is much easier with a knife than without. A wand is analogical to a knife I guess.
 
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Maybe a wand is more like a computer. You input the right data and it does the heavy lifting. The wielder is the power source. And in the case with splinching, it can be used to bypass the natural safety limitations to cut down on processing power use or something.

Though there are actually practical uses for splinching. You can't escape someone with apparition if they already grabbed you. Losing an arm can be a preferable alternative. You could also use it to harm someone else if you were to intentionally side along splinch them.
 
Hazel could probably ask Sprout or Flitwick for them to scour the Forbidden Section together.

Thought it would be amusing if it is Professor McGonagall who decides to take Hazel there for transfiguration remedial lessons. It would be even more amusing if Hazel used divination to find some books. Especially if they got into the discussion about how prophecies are worthless. Leading them to check some divination books, with the closest ones being in the Forbidden Section. Those divination books are all about scrying, postcognition and scanning making fun of anyone who overvalued prophecies and precognition (using exactly the same arguments McGonagall uses). Resulting in McGonagall having an existential crisis.
 
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