Hmm. Is this still going? Was skimming the Akashic Records (and how Fidelus hacks them) at the beginning of the thread, and was reminded a lot of the 'Book of Night with Moon' from Diane Duane's 'Wizards' series..including getting at least one edit at a fundamental level.
As far as American Wizarding goes, if it were'nt that he was operating under Brit laws, I'd expect at least one session of 'Defence Against the Dark Arts as taught by Profs. Smith and Wessen'. ;-) Though he does, at least, seem to be taking a page from Velgarth, particularly as taught by Vanyel's relatives...which boils down to 'A magiker usually has to wave their arms a lot, so the first thing to do is break them'.
Though this may open a glimpse of just why some in the Wizarding World have such rediculous delusions about the state of the Muggle world....it's a massive case of denial due to *fear*, because if they stopped to think about what Muggles were *actually* capable of in the current era compaired to the average wizard (especially in the arts of mass destruction), they'd wet their robes and end up in a state of gibbering that would impress Cthulhu.
As far as American Wizarding goes, if it were'nt that he was operating under Brit laws, I'd expect at least one session of 'Defence Against the Dark Arts as taught by Profs. Smith and Wessen'. ;-) Though he does, at least, seem to be taking a page from Velgarth, particularly as taught by Vanyel's relatives...which boils down to 'A magiker usually has to wave their arms a lot, so the first thing to do is break them'.
Though this may open a glimpse of just why some in the Wizarding World have such rediculous delusions about the state of the Muggle world....it's a massive case of denial due to *fear*, because if they stopped to think about what Muggles were *actually* capable of in the current era compaired to the average wizard (especially in the arts of mass destruction), they'd wet their robes and end up in a state of gibbering that would impress Cthulhu.