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As I said last time I'm not that engrossed with this 'wicker man' thing. I appreciate your reply to my last; I guess I'm just disappointed that an advanced magical culture ... isn't that advanced. We were all that 'barbaric' a few hundred years ago ... it's rather sad that the druids have stayed stuck in the middle ages.

Kill the bad guys - the really bad guys - sure. But take pleasure in their pain, torture them? Ugh. No. Just do a Snape, off with their heads! :-)

Still, I understand your keeping your magical world historically accurate. I'm not criticising you, I'm criticising the druids. :-)

Voldemort's forces are clearly outmatched, even if he himself is powerful enough to knock over his individual opponents like ninepins. And even he was defeated by the numbers, I see. That's realistic; if he can't take them out within seconds they'd start queuing up on him.

No romance in this chapter, I'm just sayin'. :-)

The gods demand sacrifice. Of course, in the other stories that used the Wicker Man, the criminals were under heavy stuns. The Druids in this story were more cruel in the hope that would serve as a greater deterent (I doubt that myself, but there are plenty of people around the world even today who would agree with that point of view -- characters in my stories don't always agree with my views!)