I feel like posting something teaserish, if only to delude myself that I'm not blocked on DW5 chapter 3. So here's a little passage where Doug almost gives Hermione an aneurysm.
"What are those?" Hermione asked.
"Pinpoint nukes."
"Nukes?" She swirled to face me. "NUCLEAR WEAPONS?" she all but
screamed.
I held up my hand, the thumb and forefinger the barest visible
distance apart. "Liiiiittle teensy ones."
"Are you crazy?"
"It's part of the persona, yeah. But to answer your *implied*
question, it's the perfect weapon here. The total destruction
radius and radiation output are so small that only the Death
Eaters will be affected. Even if we lose, their survivors will
still get radiation sickness and die. And since Wizarding
medicine knows nothing about how to treat radiation poisoning --
I asked Madame Pomfrey," I added parenthetically to cut off her
demand of *how* I knew that, "it both decimates Riddle's forces
*and* gives the impression of an unstoppable curse on his
followers."
"But..." she sputtered.
"The point here, Hermione, is to *win*. American general George
Patton once said, 'The object of war is not to die for your
country, but to make the other bastard die for his.' That's what
I'm doing. They wouldn't hesitate to kill us, so I'm not
hesitating to kill *them*. And I'm using a method that will
*keep* killing them in an horrific and morale-destroying manner
for a long time afterward even if we lose this battle. That's a
big win no matter how I tally up the score."
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
"What are those?" Hermione asked.
"Pinpoint nukes."
"Nukes?" She swirled to face me. "NUCLEAR WEAPONS?" she all but
screamed.
I held up my hand, the thumb and forefinger the barest visible
distance apart. "Liiiiittle teensy ones."
"Are you crazy?"
"It's part of the persona, yeah. But to answer your *implied*
question, it's the perfect weapon here. The total destruction
radius and radiation output are so small that only the Death
Eaters will be affected. Even if we lose, their survivors will
still get radiation sickness and die. And since Wizarding
medicine knows nothing about how to treat radiation poisoning --
I asked Madame Pomfrey," I added parenthetically to cut off her
demand of *how* I knew that, "it both decimates Riddle's forces
*and* gives the impression of an unstoppable curse on his
followers."
"But..." she sputtered.
"The point here, Hermione, is to *win*. American general George
Patton once said, 'The object of war is not to die for your
country, but to make the other bastard die for his.' That's what
I'm doing. They wouldn't hesitate to kill us, so I'm not
hesitating to kill *them*. And I'm using a method that will
*keep* killing them in an horrific and morale-destroying manner
for a long time afterward even if we lose this battle. That's a
big win no matter how I tally up the score."
-- Bob
---------
...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...