We have no proof it's not an automatic hit, she's only ever shot at the ground with it after all.
Glad Merlin's Cave managed to get her some closure in regards to this. I'm sure if she just gives it time and continues to treat the werewolves as she has, like normal people, then they won't be as wary of her. So far, her finding the Commune has been good for her, mentally and physically. Having a place she can be around and talk to other people is probably comforting for her and it also is a good place to rest and recuperate from all the exploration she does.
Fiiine, take the fun out of it >3>
I don't think a bunch of French werewolves would put the same significance into Merlin as the brits do.
That is the mental image I was going for.
I wouldn't do that. If I don't depict her hearing thoughts, it's because there were no words to hear. Though you did give me an idea.
Yeah, MEANT to be ambiguous. Let's go with that.
Honestly thought the same at first, until it became apparent that it was turned to crystal along with the rest of him.
Is it just Hazel's assumption, that limits her or was she meant to be correct on this one?
But it's Merlin! Even non-magicals all over the world recognize the significance of Merlin.
Could be a weird quirk of magic that is go mostly unnoticed (as in people comment on it less, not this being unknown), like a less known magical law, magic (or at least standard transfiguration, we don't know enough about alchemy to say it can't make food from non food) can't make food for example but can replicate it, it can also make water and transfigurate if to wine despite wine requiring grapes and therefore food to be made.
Hazel does explicitly mention that Merlin was gifted with precognition; I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility that Merlin conspired to have that statue there, or made it himself, just to provide someone with the inspiration to keep going and excel.
Kind of both. On the one hand, she is definitely making an assumption, and it isn't the first one she's made that will turn out to be less than totally correct. She's stumbling in the dark and trying to figure things out from first principles, so mistakes are going to happen. On the other hand, her fixing spell DID work poorly on the plastic glasses frames, and there needs to be a reason for that. Also keep in mind that if the Wizarding World, as far as we can tell, have completely eschewed plastic, there might be a behind-the-scenes reason for it besides "plastic wouldn't fit the romanticized medieval aesthetic JKR was going for".
Well, romanticizing of the old times is usually built upon the assumption, that older and natural means better. And, considering, that crude oil is ancient and comes from Earth, maybe the human magic is just too modern and watered down to do anything with plastic. Plastic is dug up and shaped piece of the true Old World, untarnished by the taint of human civilization.
Because the answer can't be something as broad and ill-defined as "modern technology".
Are you sure about that?
This fic's magic system could work decently as a Nasuverse Magecraft equivalent, in which case Hazel here would be making her own "magic foundation" built around what she knows and finds from Muggle Mythology, rather than what Wizardkind teaches.
Nope, never said i was scientist. But I can Google.
I agree with @Kiche that crude oil is NOT molded directly into plastic. Plastics are going to be polymers, and crude oil is a mixture of separate hydrocarbons. There is a lot of chemical manipulation involved to get from starting material to end product.
How is that different from the way wood or cotton, or any organic polymer is formed?
Yes, and I'm asking how is that different from the process that creates any organic material?
