Clever, cunning, ambitious, resourceful, determined, proud, self-preserving, self-serving and shrewd. A student Salazar Slytherin would be proud of. Also I would like to make him a magical prodigy on par with Dumbledore, Grindelwald and Riddle. I don't want him to be unethical though like Riddle. So my current plan is to first COMPLETLEY MASTER the Original Seven Books. That will serve as my Canon. By "completely master" I mean, read, comprehend, retain, critique and analyze each and every...
Magical progress isn't linear, it isn't incrementally getting better, it doesn't simply take a more subtle form of technological progress. It's altogether something different. Yes, we see brooms getting better but not invisibility cloaks, nor wands really (think how old the Elder Wand is). Take the Resurrection stone: there's nothing close to it even thousands of years later in the wizarding world. There are even no hints of rudimentary communication with the dead (not ghosts, I mean the...
I am thinking of writing a story and while I have written quite a few notes and scenes (though many are usually changing as my thoughts change) I just now thought of having the main character interact with a horcrux at some point. While in the books it is mentioned that the container must be destroyed (by Hermione at least, as far as I can remember) and all of Voldemort's items are destroyed, Harry himself is not destroyed. Rather Voldemort's curse removes Harry's soul as well as his own...
After reading Victoria Potter by Taure I got really obsessed with developing the theory behind all the spells we see in canon. If anyone's developed magical theory for their favorite spells using Taure's guidelines please list them here. I'll go first: Unsupported Flight is achieved only through masterful skill. According to Aristotle, all elements have their natural positions. Positions they naturally "gravitate" to. Ether, unlike the other elements, is not pulled linearly up and down like...
We've had lots of threads speculating on the five principal exceptions to Gamp's law. But from the word "principal", it is implied that there are non-principal exceptions. For the purpose of this thread, I would propose we use the following terminology: Gamp's law: Any physical thing can be transfigured into any other physical thing. Principal exception: A type of physical thing that cannot be created with transfiguration. Minor exception: A type of physical thing that can be created...
The way I see it, at the most basic level there are three ways to depict magic. 1. The Unified Natural Universe (Science magic) In this view, magic is a part of the natural universe, a phenomenon like gravity, electromagnetism, etc. It may be an unknown aspect of physics, but fundamentally magic is a part of the same system and is subject to laws which do not contradict current understanding of how the universe works (such as the laws of thermodynamics). 2. The Unified Supernatural...
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