Perhaps it was a big-lipped alligator moment... or that there's a real downside to using an army of the living impaired. If they eat brains, then they'd go after Death Nibblers too, right?Probably my biggest gripe now that I think about it: That cave full of zombies in book 6. Voldemort has an army of the undead. How did that not become an issue?! I was actually starting to take Voldemort seriously after that. They never come up again. Not even a token mention in the next book. What the hell?!
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
Nonono, you're missing my point. My point isn't that Moody went with Dung, its that Dung was brought in the first place. There were plenty of other choices, and plenty of time to handle most logistical problems like getting people that are currently abroad to the right place at the right time. Once again, everyone knows Dung is an unreliable, flighty criminal. I don't know how well-contained individual members of the Order were, but it seems likely to me that everyone knows that Dung bailed on Harry's protection detail before the kid's 5th year to go do some shady dealings with cauldrons or somesuch, and nearly got the kid and his cousin killed by dementors in the process.#5: Moody probably went with Fletcher because he knew Fletcher was unreliable, as anyone else being sent with him would have been a guaranteed death sentence. Moody can hold his own in a fight, but it was his misfortune to run into Voldemort. It's a situation where they had someone they knew to be unreliable. In that case, you either send someone who you don't care if they get killed, or you send someone who is good enough to stand a chance at surviving if things go wrong. They had to work with what they had, otherwise, Dung would have been either left behind, or sacrificed as bait.
She probably had enough dirt on Scrimgeour to save her job.my most hated
WHY THE HELL WAS UMBRIDGE NOT IN JAIL!!!!!!!
She probably had enough dirt on Scrimgeour to save her job.my most hated
WHY THE HELL WAS UMBRIDGE NOT IN JAIL!!!!!!!
Hmmm... maybe the entrenched pureblood upper class is somewhat to blame? They can afford both the potions and whatever countermeasures are available. Maybe they find them useful for cementing dynastic marriages of convenience. Maybe it's one more thing Mudbloods don't know enough about ahead of time, so even ugly pureblood sons can still sow their wild oats and unattractive pureblood girls can snare a husband. Not to mention the muggle-abusing possibilities.Not sure if this has been mentioned or not in this thread, and I'm feeling a bit lazy, but I read thru Faery Heroes (Lunar Harmony fic with a fair amount of Dumbles/Snape/Weasley bashing) and, while it brought up several good questions, I think one amongst them stands out the most, for me?
WHY THE HELL ARE LOVE POTIONS LEGAL?
They are amongst the scariest damned things next to Obliviate and the Imperius Curse. Why? Because they're basically magical date rape drugs. Think about it: what happens in a person's (between the ages of, like, 12 and 50) mind the most when they have obsessive infatuation with a person? They want to screw them, and they want to screw a lot. Dose a person with Amortentia, and you can screw your brains out, but that person is being forcibly coerced (via ingestion of mind-altering substances) into the act, thus making it rape. Its little different from dosing a person with Rohypnol. I get that the magical world is full of Victorian throwbacks that don't know the purpose of effing bath toys, but how and why are magical date rape drugs legal to buy, sell, and manufacture by literally anyone with the ingredients, time, and know-how?
That makes far too much sense and is also absolutely horrifying. Its odd, the more you actually think about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the more and more disturbing it becomes.Hmmm... maybe the entrenched pureblood upper class is somewhat to blame? They can afford both the potions and whatever countermeasures are available. Maybe they find them useful for cementing dynastic marriages of convenience. Maybe it's one more thing Mudbloods don't know enough about ahead of time, so even ugly pureblood sons can still sow their wild oats and unattractive pureblood girls can snare a husband. Not to mention the muggle-abusing possibilities.Not sure if this has been mentioned or not in this thread, and I'm feeling a bit lazy, but I read thru Faery Heroes (Lunar Harmony fic with a fair amount of Dumbles/Snape/Weasley bashing) and, while it brought up several good questions, I think one amongst them stands out the most, for me?
WHY THE HELL ARE LOVE POTIONS LEGAL?
They are amongst the scariest damned things next to Obliviate and the Imperius Curse. Why? Because they're basically magical date rape drugs. Think about it: what happens in a person's (between the ages of, like, 12 and 50) mind the most when they have obsessive infatuation with a person? They want to screw them, and they want to screw a lot. Dose a person with Amortentia, and you can screw your brains out, but that person is being forcibly coerced (via ingestion of mind-altering substances) into the act, thus making it rape. Its little different from dosing a person with Rohypnol. I get that the magical world is full of Victorian throwbacks that don't know the purpose of effing bath toys, but how and why are magical date rape drugs legal to buy, sell, and manufacture by literally anyone with the ingredients, time, and know-how?
Yeah, this is kind of depressing, no?
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
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