How hard do you suppose it is to visit a prisoner in Azkaban, officially? Could Neville have gone to see Bellatrix, the better to fixate his hate? Would Sirius have the right to ask for a family member or solicitor to come, so that he might change his will?

From my guess, nothing requested by a prisoner would require someone to go there- it would be entirely up to the free person to choose whether to accept the request, and the guards probably aren't compelled to act as messengers, either.

I ask, as the answer varies depending on the corruption and stupidity of the AU in various Azkaban!Harry fics, and I was wondering what people thought a reasonable canon extrapolation would feel appropriate.

 

The most reasonable (least contradictory) explanation is that no visitors are allowed, including lawyers (if they even exist). All verdicts rendered by the Wizengamot are final.

 

According to Barty Crouch Jr. visits are possible, although it's possible that his father used his influence to wrangle it. And since as a death eater he'd probably have the highest security then I presume it would be possible for others to be visited. So I'd say they are allowed.

 

I imagine that you'd have to go through miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape before you'd be allowed to visit a prisoner. Also, there'd have to be some pretty intense security protocols too.

The fact that Crouch was able to sneak polyjuice potion into the prison, administer it to his son, and physically switch Barty jr with his wife without anyone noticing utterly defies logic under normal circumstances. A large pile of galleons surely changed hands to make that happen.

 

If Australia has incredibly dangerous muggle animals, won't it also have even worse terrifyingly deadly magical animals and environments? I imagine all the fanfics about Hermione and whoever joins her going to Australia to find her parents all ending up them noticing a muggle-repelling field and going to look at it before being eaten by some magical beast.

As well as that, why is America normally all viewed as one homogenous magi-tech and muggleborn based utopia? Theres currently huge differences between different parts of the USA. Its just as likely that people who felt sidelined by the british magical world and views the british as being too forward thinking are the people who emigrated and are in charge. A possible example would be a muggleborn who believes in the Confederacy in a world where one individual can make as much difference as tens of thousands is likely to try and change things.

It's much more likely that if there is an overarching country then there are hundreds of states which keep changing, and that they are often in a state of cold war.

 

Because these stories are pretty much universally written by retarded American fangirls. As far as I know the only half decent version of a magical America is in the Alexandra Quick series.

 

The phrase "servant of the light" is fanon, right?

 

Yeah, it isn't in any of the books.

 

I might be wrong here but I'm fairly sure the whole "light" thing in general is fanon. There are of course dark wizards in canon, but I don't think anyone was ever called a light wizard or anything like that.

But yeah, servant of the light doesn't sound like anything you'd find in canon.

 

The only Australian magical animal I remember being mentioned is the billywig, a helicopter-like insect that wizards sting themselves with recreationally.

Harry Potter has a good selection of dangerous magical creatures from all over but Australia is practically never mentioned or explored because people can just pluck a nundu or a manticore from somewhere closer. I like to imagine that Australia would have a lot of interesting magical creatures and cultures though as a result of it being isolated for so long and having such an expansive wilderness.

 

Why would you want to make Australia even more dangerous than it already is?

 

All the animals currently in Australia ARE powerful magical creatures, hence why wizards think muggles are idiotic for settling there.

 

Yeah, the Obliviators fucked up pretty badly with the Dropbear.

 

"After an eastern wizard created an artifact which randomly reproduced household charms, the most common of which being engorgio. The Ministry of Magic decided it was best to leave Australia to it's doom."

 

To be fair, we don't actually have any coconut crabs (that... thing in the picture) in Australia. They're found more in the pacific islands - I saw one once in Fiji, and it was freaking scary.

Blorcyn's mention of the "billywig" though did interest me. Was that in fantastic beasts and where to find them? It sort of made me curious about mentions of Australia in those books. I seem to remember something about a quidditch team based in Wollongong (or was it a werewolf or something?) but I can't remember the details or whether I'm thinking of fanon. Can anyone remind me?

 

Lockhart 'killed' the Wagga Wagga Werewolf. Is that what you're thinking of?

 

There was a bit in Quidditch Through The Ages where it talks about the rivalry between Australia's two top quidditch teams, Wollongong Wanderers and the Thundelarra Thunderers.

There is a bit in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them about the Billywig, it is native to Australia, and commonly used as a recreational drug by Australian youths. Due to the giddyness and levitation one receives after being stung by one, making it my new favourite magical animal.

 

I liked Rorshach descripton:" Australia is not without its dangers and every animal in the country can be classified as belonging to one or more of the three categories: Dangerous, Poisonous, and sheep. This is due to the fact that Australia has one of the largest levels of ambient magic in the world. The result of this is that Australian magical fauna is so plentiful that it is nearly impossible to conceal it from the non magical populations. This problem was addressed by making no attempt to hide the most common magical creatures and at current time, most non magical peoples think that animals such as the Kangaroo or Koala are as mundane as they are."

 

Wollongong Wanders and Wagga Wagga Werewolf were the ones I was thinking of. Looks like I got my weird aboriginal town names starting with 'w' confused. Thanks guys.

 

I've often seen the Potters and Harry referred to as being Welsh. Is there any basis in canon for this or is it pure fanon?