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hpluvr037 · 02-06-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

"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.

"You're right, Jake. I mean, think of the Wolfsbane Potion. That was only discovered about a century ago, but now we act as if it's always been around. So it's completely possible that such a potion hadn't been discovered yet. But you have a point about administering the potion. You couldn't possibly give it to the child without people noticing. However, couldn't you just give it to them right before they were led away? I don't know. If you can use magic with some capability, then you can probably also work things so that you aren't discovered. So in that regard, the Statute shouldn't have been necessary in the first place. Maybe people just weren't careful enough."

02-06-2011, 05:53 PM	#150 (permalink)
hpluvr037 Chizpurfle Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: EST (GMT -5) Posts: 10,679 Hogwarts RPG Name: Finnlay 'Finn' Cameron Muir Fifth Year x5	Ravenpuff \| Cap'n Crunch \| Bedtime Queen \| O Minion, My Minion Quote: Originally Posted by Zoerawrr "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. "You're right, Jake. I mean, think of the Wolfsbane Potion. That was only discovered about a century ago, but now we act as if it's always been around. So it's completely possible that such a potion hadn't been discovered yet. But you have a point about administering the potion. You couldn't possibly give it to the child without people noticing. However, couldn't you just give it to them right before they were led away? I don't know. If you can use magic with some capability, then you can probably also work things so that you aren't discovered. So in that regard, the Statute shouldn't have been necessary in the first place. Maybe people just weren't careful enough." __________________ Thanks, Kitakins <3