Wizards can and have made out lives miserable
our lives
"That, I do not know. None of the combinations I can think of would explain her abilities, but there are too many options to say for sure."
If this one is thoughts, shouldn't he have just actually said that instead? This would be something you'd explain, or at least it would be for me.
Why do people fear my abilities but loved you for yours?
love you for yours
instead of putting another dent into the ground it threw up a small cloud of dirt.
That's actually fairly impressive.
I wonder if its ability to chip a rock implies that it could pierce armor?
It's still not very useful otherwise.
That said, it's an awesome surprise weapon. It's
invisible. Too bad there's an obvious throwing motion.
Maybe she can figure out how to control its trajectory or launch it without physically moving too much...
I know that it's early days, but I really hope she gets more versatility. I'd hardly call one spell and no shield very safe.
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.
And then the cave was sealed off with a shield that only her fae-glass can see.
She's a witch. If there's any anti-muggle protections she'd have seen through those, so that implies it was better hidden and that statue could have specifically been for
her.
Unless I remember wrong about how she got into magical Paris. It would be
very strange if the usual wizard-excluded hiding spells worked on her too (that she'd need the fae-glass to even see stuff the muggle-hidden stuff wizards can all the time just by default)...
...If she
did need the fae-glass to get into magical Paris, why might the hiding spells still work on her that she'd need the magic-piercing lens?
Is that from her belief that she's not the normal kind of magical, so the hiding spells act with some form of intelligence rather than magic detection and she still can't see them?
With the Fidelius, things are physically not there. That implies the spell can control access to a region and it's not just perception. On the other hand, there are a number of spells that control what people see, so those might work in the mind of the viewer for who's allowed to pass. The latter kind might be affected by her belief, but the former would be of the "she's not us" type.
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.
Of course, if that were the case it would probably be pretty volatile, since the metaphor would extend to it being built on shaky foundations.
I'd argue that it's kinda the point, really. Her system
is rather arbitrary and seemingly shaped by her own beliefs. It's also less powerful.
What if that's why wandless is kinda shitty? They don't teach it because it's "hard," so everyone makes their own system, which lacks belief and is thus weaker and has limitations because the caster thinks it can't work?
Honestly, the last part is basically canon for why you might have trouble with a spell.
