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Okay, ya got me on this one.

 

I'm an American, and I still hate it when the U.S. is used as a setting in Harry Potter fics. It's Harry Potter. In the U.S. That shouldn't happen.

Don't violate that one, even if you are skilled.

 

Agree. Especially when the American Magical Army is fused with their muggle counterparts, and have better training/equipment/shit.

The magical prowess of a nation should be based on its 'magical history'. America certainly had no truck with witchery. If anything, it should be Uzbekistan, having the city of Samarkand: oldest inhabited in the world.

But yeah.

 

From now on no one should use Uzbekistan as a setting, since Uzbek wizards would be overpowered to the nth.

 

Or Uruk, because historically speaking, being a "wizard" there was considered a honor and the first epic DID take place there. Plus, I'm sure that if someone included Uruk, they would probably include Gilgamesh's Treasure Room and since, I think, the legend stated that he once owned just about everything, there is too much room for including SuperMagicalWeaponsOfDoom as a means to give Harry a power-up.

 

I wouldn't use the asterisks.

LXI.

If you are skilled enough*...Fuck Potter Law**.​

Sometimes, it's okay for Harry to wildly suck Cho's massive cock; it's cool to give the beaver some books when someone dies (as opposed to money, which is normally given to the people that the deceased actually cared about); Snape most likely did, in fact, sample Lily Potter's honeypot before James; and Harry's trunk, while not equal to Moody's, is definitely better than Ron's - that's a reasonable amount of creative room to play with.

Clarification: We'll tell you if you are skilled enough.​

Ahmadinejad Exemption: Rule X still applies.​

 

Is there a law that allows Dumbledore to bitchslap every person who thinks that if she/he looks at him "fiercely" he will suddenly do everything they say because they are so "intimidating"?

 

Andro would say no, as Americans "bitchslap", not Brits.

 

I would make a further amendment...

LXI.

If you are skilled enough...Fuck Potter Law.​

Sometimes, it's okay for Harry to wildly suck Cho's massive cock; it's cool to give the beaver some books when someone dies (as opposed to money, which is normally given to the people that the deceased actually cared about); Snape most likely did, in fact, sample Lily Potter's honeypot before James; and Harry's trunk, while not equal to Moody's, is definitely better than Ron's - that's a reasonable amount of creative room to play with.

Clarification: You aren't skilled enough.
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Ahmadinejad Exemption: Rule X still applies.​

 

Agreed @Taure.

Amendment to I:

I.​

Harry Potter. That is all. If you don’t understand then you’re hopeless. Give up. Leave the fandom. And just incase you still don’t understand, Harry Potter is everything in this fandom. Treat him well (by mistreating him). Make him shine (by sticking him in the darkest, most woe-begotten situations you can fathom). Keep the Harry Potter, Harry Potter.

Translation: Keep it Harry-centric.​

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Amendment: Also: Britain.​

 

Makes me want to read a fic where the US Magical Government intervenes in Britain only to find out that all their training and gadgets is useless compared to a Hogwarts professor or Death Eaters (since I generally follow Taure's theory of magic being a creative thing rather than something you can instil a muggle training regime).

And that sounds absolutely freaking sweet, though you could ascribe the whole idea to the Middle East/Western Asia in general. First there was Samarkand, then Mesopotamia, then Egypt, and the rest.

Then again, apparently wizards haven't had wands for all of their history, so perhaps before the wand came around they were more of a priestly class than anything else, with all the knowledge coming before the invention of the wand being largely useless to a modern day wizard. So perhaps, Ancient Athens/Sparta/Rome/Constantinople or Baghdad during the Medieval period would be the centre of knowledge for the magical world.

 

Not Samarkand, but Damascus and the entire Levant region.

Samrkand is constantly inhabited since 700 A.C.N., Damascus since 8000 A.C.N.

In medieval Europe, the most likely locations for that centers would be: Constantinople, Spain under muslims, Prague and Northern Italy city states.

 

Actually, Baghdad was the most prosperous city in the world during the so called 'Dark Ages', with it being smack dab in the middle of every major trade route through the Middle East. Scientific discovery was very rarely restricted (except in the area of medicine, since autopsies on corpses were banned) so there were a lot of discoveries made there during the 'Islamic Golden Age'. Hell, the man considered to be the founding father of experimental physics, Ibn al-Haytham, lived and worked there during this time.

 

@Aekiel - I was talking only about Europe, but I agree with Baghdad in the Dark Ages (from fall of the last Roman emperor in the West to X century). But even then it palled in ccomparison with Constantinople - in terms of beauty and power - especially under the Macedonian dynasty till the death of Basileios II Boulgaroktonos.

 

Ok, if we're talking about the Middle Ages I would vote for Venice, Constantinople and Baghdad as top-tier and to a lesser extent Genoa, Rome, Alexandria and maybe even Cordoba, Île-de-France (Paris), Brugge and Novgorod.

That of course assumes that wizards would follow (muggle) wealth, which isn't a good assumption.

(Btw; yes, this was just to gloat with my medieval knowledge! )

 

meh. I'm not sure I can quite agree with this one.

The Alexandra Quick stories show that it is possible for a non Harry-centric story with a US setting to not suck massive balls.

However, that is pretty much the exception to the rule as I can't recall any others of that type that didn't make me want to kill someone after reading the first chapter.

 

By this quote would that make Rome almost completely without witchcraft of any kind?

-Plots story where religion and magic are totally incompatible and in 'holy' places magic either doesn't work at all, or follows an entirely different set of rules-

 

No, because the Romans borrowed heavily from Ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology and the likes for their religious beliefs. Indeed, using black magic was a crime under Roman law (such as utilising the Evil Eye and hiding corpses in a person's house to curse them, which is what one of the senators under the Republic happened to be a victim of. Can't remember which it was though >_>). Plus, if my internal timeline is right, the wand was invented/discovered while Rome was still going strong, so it likely as not had a profound effect on magic in the Roman Empire.

 

Like DLP in condensed form :awesome