Are you British - have you seen Red Dwarf? It's a British sit-com in which one of the characters is a hologram of a dead crew member. I always saw the portraits like that - not alive, just a simulation, or snap shot of the sitter. Their soul had passed on at the time of their death and they were at peace. The portrait was just a memory. I think I'll stick to that, otherwise it's too uncomfortable!
I know what you mean about the Muggleborns. Exactly what could they accomplish by hanging around Diagon Alley wandless? And exactly what was it about the Death Eaters that made them think they'd show any mercy, as opposed to just killing them for a laugh? Why not return to their muggle roots to regain their strenth, or to get together and form a plan of action? Also, they could break that Secrecy Rule - what would they have to lose if they wanted to get their children back? On an individual basis, wizards are stronger than muggles, but the difference in numbers is vast - as it's written it would make perfect sense to get Muggles involved.
I can understand that JKR didn't want that complication, so why not close it down properly? If Wizards can control muggle minds, how far would a Wizard/Muggle battle go? What's the point of guns/tanks etc if you're being made too use them on each other? Also, if Ron has a Put-Outter, I refuse to believe that Wizards can't shut down all electricity plants. They could bring the Western World to its knees effortessly. Don't tell me Leaders wouldn't just keep quiet and let the desperate Muggle-Borns go to Hell. If she had to write them as pathetic, she should have removed what seem like obvious alternatives.
I assumed all this automatically as I read it - I'm a fan w*nker - it's only when reading re-caps that I realized that it was all in my mind and JKR never said any of it. It would have made Scrimgeour seem very sinister if he'd pointed it out to the Prime Minister in HBP. Sigh.
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Date: 2009-11-11 03:01 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about the Muggleborns. Exactly what could they accomplish by hanging around Diagon Alley wandless? And exactly what was it about the Death Eaters that made them think they'd show any mercy, as opposed to just killing them for a laugh? Why not return to their muggle roots to regain their strenth, or to get together and form a plan of action? Also, they could break that Secrecy Rule - what would they have to lose if they wanted to get their children back? On an individual basis, wizards are stronger than muggles, but the difference in numbers is vast - as it's written it would make perfect sense to get Muggles involved.
I can understand that JKR didn't want that complication, so why not close it down properly? If Wizards can control muggle minds, how far would a Wizard/Muggle battle go? What's the point of guns/tanks etc if you're being made too use them on each other? Also, if Ron has a Put-Outter, I refuse to believe that Wizards can't shut down all electricity plants. They could bring the Western World to its knees effortessly. Don't tell me Leaders wouldn't just keep quiet and let the desperate Muggle-Borns go to Hell. If she had to write them as pathetic, she should have removed what seem like obvious alternatives.
I assumed all this automatically as I read it - I'm a fan w*nker - it's only when reading re-caps that I realized that it was all in my mind and JKR never said any of it. It would have made Scrimgeour seem very sinister if he'd pointed it out to the Prime Minister in HBP. Sigh.
I hear you on Video-Voldemort.