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What does the White Council Do?
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 13, 2019, 06:53:30 AM ---That is the problem, remember in Proven Guilty when the Korean kid got the chop, the Merlin explained to Harry that there were too many kids with talent and not enough wizards to train them...
So they go warlock and get the chop... Part of the reason being the penalty is so harsh if the wizard makes a mistake with his or her charge, they both get the chop, most just do not want to take the risk...
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Eh, so far as I can tell that's only when the apprentice has previously broken the Laws. If you take them as apprentice before they do, there's no Doom to consider.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on June 13, 2019, 03:08:14 AM --- On what are y'all basing your estimation that the WC spends so much time on training?...Do we know of any wizard who has had more than two apprentices?...
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Hmm. This is a good point.
That I recall, the only wizard in the books with more was Kemmler, who had at least 3 (I suspect he had more, but sacrificed them as pawns during one of the White Council assaults).
Given how long a wizard's (potential) lifespan, they would indeed need many apprentices, if they are to spend "most" of their time on training.
That said, 15 years per is a hefty chunk of time, and it appears to be a relatively time-intensive process, so I expect they do more apprentice-oriented stuff than anything else, for the duration of the apprenticeship. But yeah... 2 apprentices = 30 years, and for a 300-year-old wizard that's only 10% of their life...
KurtinStGeorge:
I'm not certain we can say the White Council is very strong in North America. They have four wardens and Harry hasn't been doing his job as such for a couple of years. They almost certainly don't have much of a presence in Mexico as the more southern parts of Mexico were Red Court territory.
As far as training goes, it wasn't clear when Harry was at Luccio's bootcamp if any of the apprentices had a specific teacher. Could the White Council have taken on the role of teacher to a large number of students rather than relying on the old system of individual teacher and student pairs?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on June 13, 2019, 03:08:14 AM --- I'd say the main purpose of the Council is enforcing the Laws of Magic. I base this on things like the conversation between Harry and Luccio in White Night about it.
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Well, that's what the Wardens do. Listen to a couple of Google engineers talking shop, you'd think "engineering" is all about software; but a couple of General Motors engineers would have you thinking it's about hardware; etc...
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 13, 2019, 07:08:27 PM ---Well, that's what the Wardens do. Listen to a couple of Google engineers talking shop, you'd think "engineering" is all about software; but a couple of General Motors engineers would have you thinking it's about hardware; etc...
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That's a good point, but the conversation has a lot to do with how it's all the Council does vis a vis wizards. There's also the conversation about it between Harry and the Merlin at the end of Chapter 1 of Proven Guilty. I read it as enforcing the laws of magic were always Harry's job and they are especially so now that he is a warden.
@KurtinStGeorge: I think that was a war time special. Harry does mention that a lot of the younger warden's, like Carlos, aren't really that great because they've had a narrow training.
@dspringer1: What makes you say that? Harry doesn't have much additional knowledge outside of his apprenticeship from the Council. I don't know of any special advanced training Harry has received. He has given special training to young wardens. Both at Luccio's boot camp and in AAAA Wizardry. There is mention of reports and wards being circulated during the war with the Red Court.
I think the OP question is a good one because we don't spend a lot of time dealing with the Council. Harry is probably the worst wizard to learn details of the Council from because he avoids it as best he can.
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