The enemy wouldn't be able to, as one of the people in the formation would be dedicated to maintaining anti-apparation wards. And, as far as we've seen, wizards aren't smart enough to disillusion/use invisibility cloaks in combat. At least, not in cannon.

However, it wouldn't matter if you looked it up. Enemies of the spartans, and later on, the romans, had heard about the phalanx from their inception into the military, and yet they found it hard to defeat it every time. The true advantage of a phalanx, or formation?You form bonds with those in your cell. That makes you want to fight to protect them.

So you have people with a better motive defending, and relying on each other, having trained in teamwork for a long amount of time, in an area where there is no apparation. And formations would be useless?No...

 

Piece of shit? Diarrhea? Not a good idea to troll a staff member. Only I, or people I know and like, get to run down my work. You don't qualify.

 

The fecal comparisons were directed at "The Refiner's Fire." Dumbass.

 

Meh. Couldn't be arsed to read the whole thread. I saw something that got my temper up a bit and ran with it. If I made a mistake, I rescind what I said.

 

Did Shezza ever write about Meciel being in a bikini? She did lose that bet in that chapter way back when.

 

The whole point of formations, is to use them if there are anti-apparation wards in place. So no, you wouldn't have people inside the group maintaining these wards.

As for disillusion charms, we have no proof either that Aurors don't use these spells in combat as we've never seen them fight in Canon. That's what we have Fanon for.

In my opinion invisibility charms are used by Aurors, seeing as Moody could easily place it on Harry during OOTP. As Moody was an Auror it wouldn't be a stretch to say that all Aurors are trained to use these charms.

Everything about what you say about the Romans and Spartans are true. However they used spears and swords to fight. This is magic we are talking about, so you can't compare the two of them.

Sure I won't deny that working as a group people develop a bond to protect each other. However that doesn't help their situation. As I stated in my previous post they make one easy target, and it makes it harder for them to be in the offensive as the enemy is spread out (possibly with invisibility charms on them). While the Phalanx formation would have helped defend from infantry that used spears and swords as weapons. It has absolutely no effect against spells, and in the end will become a hindrance.

However being in formations would help you to defend yourself if you are trying to escape while outnumbered, and if anti-apparation wards are up. Shields could be set up in the group while they run away, with part of the members deflecting spells and others shielding them. It would be much more effective to stay in formation while in retreat rather than get picked off one by one.

 

It might as well be if you dont FINISH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


















please?!?!

 

Excellent as always Shezza. I love Amaris more and more with every chapter, she's wicked!

I'm looking forward to the next 'pivotal' scene with Amanda, next chapter or something maybe?

I'm curious about Malfoy as well. Why is he still acting like a twat after what Harry did? Is he really that much of an idiot?

Top notch though, keep it up

 

Yes in Ch 19 It says:

There was also a bit where Harry and Meciel are talking in Harry's mind on an imaginary beach and Mecel is in a bikini for some of it.

On the topic of formations for the DA at least I would say it helps their chance of surviving a battle (but probably not winning it) as even a mediocre death eater could beat up most of the DA members individualy sticking together gives them some chance but it would probably attract more death eaters to them. I also think it would work best in confined environments where people can't out flank the formation and areas where moving is difficult, so shielding is the main form of defence anyway. On that note the formations could change the area around them for an advantage like changing the floor to ice and conjuring / transfiguring brambles to make dodging and moving in generally more difficult.

I just thought of something, where’s Ginny? Harry could have had great fun killing her. Or was shezza just to disgusted to even mention her. (Or have I just missed/forgottern something?)

 

"Used" and "in" (I think), also I don't think you really need that comma.

"would be".

"once".

"Tried to sit down" or simply "sat down" would work too, depending on which one you mean.

Period needed.

The way Amaris is, she'd just go for informing Malfoy that he's wrong IMHO. It might work better without the '?'.

MOAR. That is all.

 

Yeah, another chapter, awesome Shezza!

Still no Amaris dislike for me, it's a good OC for now, hope you'll continue to be this good.

I'm eagerly waiting for the other parts of this chapter

 

Ah, I can feel the culmination getting close...

Amaris is wonderful. I honestly don't want Maeve to get her... Are those fatherly instincts waking up inside me? *shudders*

I also have that feeling that Malfoy's visit wasn't just for teasing purposes.

 

That's some good ole fashioned Father-Daughter bonding right there.

 

So this story is nearing the end. Shame that, but then I guess all good things must come to an end. Thankfully I understand you are going to make this a trilogy though, so I guess we havent seen the last of Harry&Meciel&Co just yet. I wonder if Harry will return to Hogwarts for the 6th year. Would make sense I guess given all the effort he has made into turning the DA into his minions and his association with Dumbledore.

Why is Harry so certain that he can call on Malfoy's debt? I mean sure, Harry, thanks to Meciel is the kind that feels debts should be fullfilled. But why exactly is he so convinced that Malfoy would feel the same? I mean Malfoy is not a sidhe bound by some mystical force. He is also not a powerfull and experienced wizard like Dumbledore educated in the old-world stuff. He is just a spoiled brat with no honour and little respect for anything. It would seem to me that it would be far more in-character for Malfoy to laugh in Harry's face if he demanded a fullfillment of the debt and ignore it.

Another thing that I wonder is the claim here that Harry is a racist? I mean I find that odd. There is that one scene in DR where Harry dismisses the deaths of the merpeople because they were not human but in hindsight I find that odd too. I mean who is the one person that Harry loves the most? Meciel. And what is Meciel? A fallen angel and most certainly NOT human. The only sexual encounter Harry has ever had was not with a human. And his own daughter that he seems to care about is once more not fully human. Infact in DR he dismissed and insulted Malfoy when he called Amanda a mudblood. I always figured that the worldlywise Harry found racism to be ignorant and foolish, and he dismissed Malfoy because his racism made him seem so stupid. So how exactly is Harry a racist? I don't see it? He may be a selfish arrogant jerk, a fact that he himself admits, but I don't think he is a racist.

I loved the final part with Harry first acting all upset at Amaris's suggestion of killing Malfoy, only to reveal that the only reason for that is that Amaris had not planned the murder well enough. That was amusing and the type of daughter-father bonding that fits Harry brilliantly. Though given that Amaris has been shown to be so literal, I wonder if she actually wont try? And ofcourse in that case, there would go Harry's so-called-ability to call on Malfoys debt.

Write more! I need it!!

 

Who wants to bet that Malfoy gets dead within the next 6 chapters because Amaris thought Harry was serious?


Wonderful.

 

I definitely liked the murder talk/bonding moment over Amaris' desire to utterly destroy Malfoy. It actually made me laugh. Not kidding. Took me a while to stop choking on my drink.

Other than that, I'm just waiting to see more. More, damnit!

 

Copypasta, Oz. Delicious Copypasta from MS-Word lets you keep those curly things.

 

Nice work Shezza! Can't wait to see Harry's reaction to the murder of Malfoy. Which is bound to happen, seeing as Amaris takes everything seriously. Though I wonder how Dumbledore would handle the situation?