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Spells in Silence (Harry Potter)

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ZeroK and Angel said:
Your brain? The second you said that I suddenly was picturing three house elves, one British, one Russian and one American doing an even more messed up house elf take on the Yalta Conference all arguing that the other two need the third to serve them.
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Given these are house elves, they are probably arguing for the right to serve the other two.
 
Ooooh congratz for the baby!
Also, lets see if she can get her hands on a dispel magic spell, that'd be invaluable. Maybe a disruptor or something?
 
Ashran said:
Also, lets see if she can get her hands on a dispel magic spell, that'd be invaluable. Maybe a disruptor or something?
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I can see her develop one soon-ish. She now knows it's possible and she can ask the teachers (or at least Flitwick) to demonstrate Finite and other common spell counters, so she's not starting from first principles with her own spell counter.

Nausicaa said:
Even if nobody trusts him with a weapon, there HAS to be an object that can finite things at a touch.
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Can exist? Sure. Has to? Not necessarily.
There may be many reasons why such artifacts don't exist; from placing a spell counter in an object disrupting the whole enchantment process, over its "charge" depleting faster than it can be recharged if left in a highly magical place (like wizarding homes), up to simply no one having come up with the idea.
 
Kaernetron said:
Can exist? Sure. Has to? Not necessarily.
There may be many reasons why such artifacts don't exist; from placing a spell counter in an object disrupting the whole enchantment process, over its "charge" depleting faster than it can be recharged if left in a highly magical place (like wizarding homes), up to simply no one having come up with the idea.
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Putting a tinfoil hat on for a moment, another reason could be that wizards don't want to risk non-wizards casually being able to counter their spells. That would apply to Squibs as much as it does Muggles and non-humans.
 
Hazel attempting to go to her common room with locked legs, thinking about just how pointless bullying is, made me feel so bad for her. It's interesting to see Hogwarts, a place usually portayed as an escapist paradise, instead being perceived as restraining and pointless.

I really like your depiction of Filch, it's easy to dismiss the guy. But his role is a really hard one. Trying to be in a position of authority, when even a first year can potentially overpower him, must be infuriating.
 
Redcoat_Officer said:
Part of me is wondering if Hazel will just decide to start living in the walls and sneaking into the library, maybe swinging by her friends every once in a while.
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We don't talk about Hazel, no, no, no!
We don't talk about Hazel... but

It was my sorting day
It was our sorting day
We were getting ready, and there wasn't a cloud in the hall
No clouds allowed in the hall

Hazel walks in with a mischievous grin-
Thunder!
You telling this story, or am I?
I'm sorry, mi vida, go on

Hazel writes "It looks like rain"
Why did she tell us?
In doing so, she floods my brain
Abuela, get the umbrellas
Sorted in a hurricane
What a joyous day... but anyway

We don't talk about Hazel, no, no, no!
We don't talk about Hazel!

Hey! Grew to live in fear of Hazel scribbling or stumbling
I could always hear her sort of shuffling and making
I associate her with the sight of burning words, ch-ch-ch
It's a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling
Always left Pomona and the house fumbling
Grappling with handicaps they couldn't understand
Do you understand?

A four-foot frame
Bird atop her back
When she writes your name
It all fades to black
Yeah, she reads your dreams
And feasts on your screams (hey!)

We don't talk about Hazel, no, no, no! (We don't talk about Hazel, no, no, no!)
We don't talk about Hazel (we don't talk about Hazel!)

She told me my toad would go
The next day: Fled! (No, no!)
She told me I'd grow a wart !
And just like she said... (no, no!)
She said that all my hats would disappear, now look at my head (no, no! Hey!)
Your fate is sealed when your prophecy is read!

With thanks to Encanto
 
iirc filches job isnt technically enforcing rules though right? thats why dumbledore sorta jokes about filches list of banned items, iirc he is actually a caretaker who is supposed to do things the elves cant do (like repairing the portraits) but hes pretty nosy and likes acting like the school enforcer even though thats not technically his job and dumbledore doesn't really care since its not like hes harming anyone/anything. so it makes sense that he doesnt really have any tools to help enforce rules on magic users, its not actually his job
 
XiaoYueMao said:
iirc filches job isnt technically enforcing rules though right? thats why dumbledore sorta jokes about filches list of banned items, iirc he is actually a caretaker who is supposed to do things the elves cant do (like repairing the portraits) but hes pretty nosy and likes acting like the school enforcer even though thats not technically his job and dumbledore doesn't really care since its not like hes harming anyone/anything. so it makes sense that he doesnt really have any tools to help enforce rules on magic users, its not actually his job
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My understanding was that while his job was being a caretaker, he had to do patrols and enforce the school rules just like every other member of staff. It's why Quirrell was walking around near the library where Snape could find and threaten him. So still part of his job description.
 
Silently Watches said:
My understanding was that while his job was being a caretaker, he had to do patrols and enforce the school rules just like every other member of staff. It's why Quirrell was walking around near the library where Snape could find and threaten him. So still part of his job description.
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i mean sure but i would argue a general staff expectation is different from an explicit requirement of a specific position. like i dont think any of the other staff actually expected filch to actually be able to truely enforce anything against those who can use magic, rather he was probably expected to just get another staff member if an issue actually happened, not to mention his banned item list definitely wouldn't be his job, (which is probably why dumbles jokes about it)
 
Good lord, does the Homer Simpson approach to discipline start to look more and MORE enticing with every single look we get behind the muddied curtains of the wizarding world...

And by that I should probably say "The Wand Wavers" World.
 
Silently Watches said:
Master Salazar says
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...surely house elves can't actually get that old, can they?

Silently Watches said:
'I have to say I'm curious. You talk about Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin like you knew them personally.' She thought for a moment about how to phrase what she wanted to know before just asking, 'How old are you?'

Botchins just gave her a smirk and tapped the side of his nose. "That bes for Botchins to knows and not tells.
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Now hang on just one second, most house elves are illiterate, my good sir. Unless you expect me to believe in the kind of oral tradition that house elves apparently don't keep regarding their own histories there's genuinely no way you could know what Helga and Slytherin "says" without having heard it yourself!

I mean...maybe. Maybe it's possible that passing on the words of the master is "something that needs doing." But that's dubious at best, and I find myself doubting that you'd be so cagey about your age if you'd seen less than 500 classes walk these hallowed walls.

...unless of course keeping track of your age isn't something that "needs doing," in which case it might genuinely be the case that you don't actually know, which would be kind of a funny reason to get cagey about it, especially since I still doubt that you couldn't give a straighter answer by simply asking, "how long ago was it that Mistress Helga bought me from previous masters, again...? Botchins has lost track."
 
Congratulations regarding, and good luck with, Always Crying!

And thank you for writing!
 
Nyvis said:
That's a much better reason for them not accepting payment (and more pro-elf-welfare wizards not understanding when they do) than the canon of them loving slavery, so I like it.
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I mean, even in canon they love work and will get very dangerously depressed without work.

This doesn't mean they enjoy slavery.
Its just that no wizard's going to let you into their house to do work unless you're bound to only do the work they want.

And probably hunt down any elf doing work for nonmagicals.
 
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