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Harry Potter and The Mind
(#) GrantLarceny 2009-12-17
ooo scrying.....thats a new one....dont think ive read any fan fics about scrying before...like that queen in ten kingdoms and her mirrors!Harry Potter and The Mind
(#) daringdragonrs 2012-03-16
You know answering all questions about how harry learned skills so fast by saying that the ministry didn't want them to is neither reasonable nor practical. One or two things I can understand but chalking up every skill to it is tiresome. Ministry propaganda is one thing but the level to which you are taking it is impossible to implement. There would have been a few wizards every generation who broke the norm. And what about those outside britain, you can't say that the governments the world over are involved in a sinister conspiracy since we have as yet received no proof that the ministry officials know that magic can be performed the way harry does it. Dumbledore with all his experience was surprised, Mcgonagall and the defence professor were shocked, The board was shocked, the aurors were shocked all pointing to the fact that they knew nothing about this way of performing magic.Author's response
Clearly, you have never lived under an oppressive government. Congratulations. Wizarding Britain, however, has a very oppressive government in my story.
I'm sorry you didn't like my story or believe my characters, and I offer a full refund of all the money you paid me for it: $0.00.Harry Potter and The Mind
(#) daringdragonrs 2012-03-16
Oh and a question. with all harry's skill in magic why the hell can't he fix his leg?Harry Potter and The Mind
(#) daringdragonrs 2012-03-18
I never said i didn't like your story and i am sorry if my reviews gave that impression. I simply was drawing more attention to the parts where i thought you strayed from your characterization or where i thought you could have handled things in a different manner. Having said that it is your story and you can do whatever you like with it.
Apart from the things I listed, i liked all the other parts. I get your point about why harry is so powerful, as you said previously harry uses power not from within but from around him which is a skill unique to him? No problem, that would also explain why voldemort and dumbledore can't do what he can.
In my review of the last chapter on harry's dealings with the board, i am not saying that harry should claim the greater good. All i am saying that even though what he did was unprecedented it was still an attack on other student. Harry goes of free because of a technicality or loophole in the law that nobody thought possible. What i am saying is that there were better ways to do what he did - simply explaining his actions(pansy was torturing others) and also stating that what he did was not against the rules. As of now, to the board it looks like harry took advantage of a loophole in the law to attack a fellow student. With harry's critical thinking he has to understand the value of not making enemies where none have to be made.
As for the scrying part. You didn't say that the ministry stopped any books on those topics from being published and only authorized a few people to learn the skills. Then i could understand why people didn't know much about them. However, if the books are freely available there would be some people who would not believe the ministry when they said the skill was hard and would try it. If it is the former, then I misunderstood what you wrote. If it is the latter my point stands.
Again, i like your story, i only mentioned the points where i wanted something cleared up or where i thought you hadn't given much thought to the plot. Obviously, i can be wrong.
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