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Felixir · 02-06-2011, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by nogoodforyou

Looking around, Helena heard Jake talk. "I always thought that they used a charm or something to protect themselves from the fire, scream a little bit, pretend they're dead and then... well, escape." Okay, maybe she should have kept that idea for herself. "No one did that?"

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Originally Posted by RachieRu

"I don't think your thinking was that wrong..." Finlay mused, as he turned to look at Helena. "But I think some wizards probably weren't able to do a charm to stop the fire killing them, because they probably wouldn't have been experienced enough." That kind of made sense right? It did in his head, he was sure of it. "So like as Jake was saying about wizarding children, they probably wouldn't know how to do a charm to protect them selves." Which was very said. "Hence why the statue was so important in those days."

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Nerida nodded at all 3 comments, she had thought the same as Helena...Nerida said Well, couldnt there be like a potion to prevent them from being burned? Or did the Wizarding World just allow their kind to be burned and killed?She hoped they didnt that would be wrong of them! Nerida looked at the boy a couple seats away and nodded that sounded good...Were all 4 of them right?She didnt know...

"Well yeah... Wendelin the Weird did that loads. Like... 47 times or something?" Jake shrugged. He couldn't remember; that wasn't his specialised era. "But yeah, what Finlay said is what I'm getting at. And, if you think about it, around that time... not every wizarding child was being educated. I think it was after Hogwarts was founded, but people were still bound to be wary."

Jake cleared his throat. He did speak in a restricted code a lot of the time. "Basically... children still didn't know magic at least before the age of eleven. Many couldn't save themselves... and society puts a lot of emphasis on the protection of children, albeit admittedly more in this day and age, so it became important.

"Also, some potions take years to be discovered. There's no record of such a potion in our books. It only says about the flame-freezing charm. And I know it sounds wrong not to help their kind... but I mean, in a situation with so many magic-haters... it would have been near impossible to use magic. Plus, I doubt they'd be able to go forward and give them a potion without being accused of helping a witch or BEING a witch... and bad stuff happened. I don't know. I may be old, but I wasn't there."

The young man looked at the Ravenclaw prefect and gave him a grateful smile in any case.

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Felixir Forum Manager Book Club Mod Alley Proprietor Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,173 Hogwarts RPG Name: Charlie Upstead Gryffindor Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurelio Kaiser Slytherin Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexei Petrov Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Yves Flamel Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Achilles Zacharias Ravenclaw Third Year Diagon Alley Proprietor: Ezekiel Ransom-Kruus Ollivanders x12 x12	my nerd!brain is spazzing at the amount of sociological concepts in this post XD Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight Quote: Originally Posted by nogoodforyou Looking around, Helena heard Jake talk. "I always thought that they used a charm or something to protect themselves from the fire, scream a little bit, pretend they're dead and then... well, escape." Okay, maybe she should have kept that idea for herself. "No one did that?" Quote: Originally Posted by RachieRu "I don't think your thinking was that wrong..." Finlay mused, as he turned to look at Helena. "But I think some wizards probably weren't able to do a charm to stop the fire killing them, because they probably wouldn't have been experienced enough." That kind of made sense right? It did in his head, he was sure of it. "So like as Jake was saying about wizarding children, they probably wouldn't know how to do a charm to protect them selves." Which was very said. "Hence why the statue was so important in those days." Quote: Nerida nodded at all 3 comments, she had thought the same as Helena...Nerida said Well, couldnt there be like a potion to prevent them from being burned? Or did the Wizarding World just allow their kind to be burned and killed?She hoped they didnt that would be wrong of them! Nerida looked at the boy a couple seats away and nodded that sounded good...Were all 4 of them right?She didnt know... "Well yeah... Wendelin the Weird did that loads. Like... 47 times or something?" Jake shrugged. He couldn't remember; that wasn't his specialised era. "But yeah, what Finlay said is what I'm getting at. And, if you think about it, around that time... not every wizarding child was being educated. I think it was after Hogwarts was founded, but people were still bound to be wary." Jake cleared his throat. He did speak in a restricted code a lot of the time. "Basically... children still didn't know magic at least before the age of eleven. Many couldn't save themselves... and society puts a lot of emphasis on the protection of children, albeit admittedly more in this day and age, so it became important. "Also, some potions take years to be discovered. There's no record of such a potion in our books. It only says about the flame-freezing charm. And I know it sounds wrong not to help their kind... but I mean, in a situation with so many magic-haters... it would have been near impossible to use magic. Plus, I doubt they'd be able to go forward and give them a potion without being accused of helping a witch or BEING a witch... and bad stuff happened. I don't know. I may be old, but I wasn't there." The young man looked at the Ravenclaw prefect and gave him a grateful smile in any case. __________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You? You are Chocolate!