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camwynIsn't it awfully *convenient* that prevailing conditions at a thousand-year-old school prevent teleportation (other than highly uncomfortable and awkward forms) and the use of electronics?
Doesn't this suggest to you that at some point in the past Hogwarts was, in fact, under assault from a technologically advanced foe?
Supposing 'pureblood' and 'mudblood' referred,at one time, *not* to wizarding status- but to the possibility of compromised humans? Wizards who had been abducted and tampered with by the aliens attempting to invade the Earth?
Throw in a Great Fire or two that wrecks the original library and paintings for the most part, and the truth about Hogwarts' role is lost. Mudblood goes from being a derogatory lab-wizard term for potentially traitorous wizzen to a more generic term; the aliens are by and large forgotten; but the oldest parts of the castle remain. As do their contents.
Salazar designed the Basilisk to devour compromised students, and Gryffindor wanted the brave because they were going to have to face a threat unlike any the world of a thousand years ago had known, and Rowena was gathering the research team, and Helga insisted on including any kid with wizarding talent because otherwise God alone knew how they'd fare against the invaders...
... the Black Oil Aliens of the X-Files.
(Or not. You could throw in quite a few alien races, really, it's just that 'mudblood' seemed to link rather nicely to Black Oil Alien possession. However, it has been suggested that an actual mudlike alien race would be excellent reason to keep a giant snake with a Petrifying stare on hand.)
Doesn't this suggest to you that at some point in the past Hogwarts was, in fact, under assault from a technologically advanced foe?
Supposing 'pureblood' and 'mudblood' referred,at one time, *not* to wizarding status- but to the possibility of compromised humans? Wizards who had been abducted and tampered with by the aliens attempting to invade the Earth?
Throw in a Great Fire or two that wrecks the original library and paintings for the most part, and the truth about Hogwarts' role is lost. Mudblood goes from being a derogatory lab-wizard term for potentially traitorous wizzen to a more generic term; the aliens are by and large forgotten; but the oldest parts of the castle remain. As do their contents.
Salazar designed the Basilisk to devour compromised students, and Gryffindor wanted the brave because they were going to have to face a threat unlike any the world of a thousand years ago had known, and Rowena was gathering the research team, and Helga insisted on including any kid with wizarding talent because otherwise God alone knew how they'd fare against the invaders...
... the Black Oil Aliens of the X-Files.
(Or not. You could throw in quite a few alien races, really, it's just that 'mudblood' seemed to link rather nicely to Black Oil Alien possession. However, it has been suggested that an actual mudlike alien race would be excellent reason to keep a giant snake with a Petrifying stare on hand.)
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Date: 2004-07-22 09:59 pm (UTC)*fails*
DAMNIT!
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Date: 2004-07-22 10:34 pm (UTC)Not that i know much X-files, but this seems like a really neat idea.
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Date: 2004-07-23 02:11 am (UTC)Wow.
I am in awe of your evilness.
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Date: 2004-07-23 06:18 am (UTC)That's just brilliant!
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Date: 2004-07-23 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-23 09:38 am (UTC)No, scratch that. If you write this I want to help.
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Date: 2004-07-23 10:50 am (UTC)I swear, Harry Potter fandom is like humans in fantasy settings. With a little bit of encouragement, you can breed it with practically anything sentient.
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Date: 2004-07-23 06:46 pm (UTC)Can I hurt your brain more? When the black oil comes back, and Hogwarts is initially at a loss how to deal with it, might not Mr. Weasley have a brilliant idea, and track down those two muggle american FBI agents he heard about and bring them to Hogwarts?
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Date: 2004-07-24 09:54 am (UTC)Oh gosh, I haven't recovered from his *last* brilliant idea yet. Mr. Weasley and his muggles just aren't *predictable*, you know. First it's explosives, then it's slime, then they use the wrong chalk and melt runes through my ceiling. How one's supposed to get any work done with so much enthusiasm around, I have no idea.
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Date: 2004-07-23 06:51 pm (UTC)I'm up to my shins in Plot Bunnys. Their getting closer to my knees. I'm pulling my legs up and sitting crosslegged so they don't kill me.
Help me. Please.
- Your fangirl, Melinda, A.K.A Mel, Melly, Mel-chan, Dragon, Draggy, Etymologist, Ety. Also known as Bookworm.
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Date: 2004-07-23 07:35 pm (UTC)*whimper*
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Date: 2004-07-23 08:38 pm (UTC)A few of them have left, now that I posted an RPG. Now, people just have to reply to it.
Hey, some of them are leaving! *Hugs Camwyn* Thanks!
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