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[Jorlem]

Vulpis wrote:

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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.

The same wizards that accidentally broke time following a time travel experiment gone wrong to the point that at least twenty five people were un-born, and when the time traveler was retrieved, "Tuesday following her reappearance lasted two and a half full days, whereas Thursday shot by in the space of four hours",  and then successfully covered up this distortion in time from the muggle world? 
The wizards who took this place:

The fortress upon it was originally home to a little-known sorcerer who called himself Ekrizdis. Evidently extremely powerful, but of unknown nationality, Ekrizdis, who is believed to have been insane, was a practitioner of the worst kinds of Dark Arts. Alone in the middle of the ocean, he lured, tortured and killed Muggle sailors, apparently for pleasure, and only when he died, and the concealment charms he had cast faded away, did the Ministry of Magic realise that either island or building existed. Those who entered to investigate refused afterwards to talk of what they had found inside, but the least frightening part of it was that the place was infested with Dementors.

and turned it into their prison?  Those wizards?
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.