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Could the Blackstaff Cure a Warlock of Corruption?

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morriswalters:

--- Quote from: Fcrate on July 11, 2018, 10:53:20 PM ---Which brings up the point: Why the heck was she starving? lack of imagination?

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Maybe because she's honest?  And being a villain is tiring, I prefer to be lazy.
--- Quote from: Mira on July 11, 2018, 11:18:34 PM ---Molly and Harry were in violation to some degree by practicing on each other.

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I wouldn't think so.  The council actually teaches the defenses.  And after the events of Turn Coat, it seems obvious that they must have practitioners that can help those who have been tampered with.

groinkick:

--- Quote from: Mira on July 12, 2018, 04:37:55 AM ---Yes, but remember when Harry would have died from his first encounter with the Corpsetaker but for Gard's intervention?  The reason he almost died was because of lack of proper training against mental attacks..  The reason for his lack of training weren't the usual ones, i.e. Harry's own laziness or lack of exposure to it because of Justin, but because the Council feared and prohibited any form of this magical training beyond the minimal defensive type.   So the Council prohibited it even if permission from the two parties was granted..   To their credit Harry and Molly both thought this was stupid and trained each other, however they did it in secret because it would have gotten them into a lot of trouble...  Enemies on the Council may even have gone so far as to declare it an infraction of the Law.

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Well as Jim said he sees the Council like the government.  Good intentions that mess everything up.

Arjan:
Peabody would certainly try to sabotage such training and use his influence to do so but I do not think he could change everyone’s idea about how the laws were meant to be implemented.

If the old guard knew how to do the training and the training was set up without any protests about its legality it had always been legal. Apart from the obvious reading of the laws that tells us it is legal.

vultur:

--- Quote from: Arjan on July 12, 2018, 06:11:13 PM ---Peabody would certainly try to sabotage such training and use his influence to do so but I do not think he could change everyone’s idea about how the laws were meant to be implemented.

If the old guard knew how to do the training and the training was set up without any protests about its legality it had always been legal. Apart from the obvious reading of the laws that tells us it is legal.

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The implication seems to be that training that way was in disuse for a really, really long time though (centuries, since only a few wizards remembered how to do it). Probably from way before Black Council/Circle activity.

There's enough sway in the Wardens' enforcement of the Laws that I don't think it's as simple as 'if it's legal now it always was'. (I think under different circumstances Harry could have been executed for animating Sue the T-Rex.)

More likely, though, cooperative willing mind-magic training was never flat out the-Wardens-will-kill-you illegal, but it was Not Done because the Council considered mind magic in general way too dangerous an area, until Peabody and/or Corpsetaker demonstrated just how suicidally stupid that idea was.

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