Now, a thought...
The Interdimensional Intrusion Incident has established that there's at least one Potterverse in the metacontinuity, and (by canon) magical time travel works in Potterverses.
Magical time travel is said to be impossible in Nanohaverses. (At least, it is in the "TV-and-manga Nanohaverse;" I don't yet know about the preceding "game Nanohaverse" or the subsequent "movie Nanohaverse.") But I did a Steplet where Doug and Lindy spoke to each other, face to face...
How do we reconcile these? Are there particular "local conditions" that apply in only parts of the metaverse? (This could make the SME Bogosities' personality-changes one of these local conditions...) Are Midchildian research-mages mistaken, despite how much they know about magic? (This puts them in the company of the Vulcan Science Council... ) Are Potterverse "time travelers" actually jumping into closely-parallel universes?
I assume there are other, similar questions about mismatching universes in the multiverse...
So, once again, I see the need for a coherent set of rules - but now I see that they need to allow for fringe cases.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The Interdimensional Intrusion Incident has established that there's at least one Potterverse in the metacontinuity, and (by canon) magical time travel works in Potterverses.
Magical time travel is said to be impossible in Nanohaverses. (At least, it is in the "TV-and-manga Nanohaverse;" I don't yet know about the preceding "game Nanohaverse" or the subsequent "movie Nanohaverse.") But I did a Steplet where Doug and Lindy spoke to each other, face to face...
How do we reconcile these? Are there particular "local conditions" that apply in only parts of the metaverse? (This could make the SME Bogosities' personality-changes one of these local conditions...) Are Midchildian research-mages mistaken, despite how much they know about magic? (This puts them in the company of the Vulcan Science Council... ) Are Potterverse "time travelers" actually jumping into closely-parallel universes?
I assume there are other, similar questions about mismatching universes in the multiverse...
So, once again, I see the need for a coherent set of rules - but now I see that they need to allow for fringe cases.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012