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Did I miss something...?
Mr. Mouse:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 26, 2022, 04:04:40 PM ---I think the Paranet will apply for accorded status badly undercutting the White Council, a computer literate group of mortal practitioners potentially by population the largest Accorded Nation.
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With Elaine representing them as their "leader," being she's a co-founder without obligation to another accorded nation?
Conspiracy Theorist:
Why yes, Harry would not seek any position of authority, and as Winter Knight would be authorised to endorse their application on behalf of Winter. I can see Vadderung endorsing and River Shoulders, Marcone and the Summer and White Courts.
Harry will see them safely get Accorded Status under Elaine Mallory, and the ungrateful bastards will immediately turn round and appoint him to a position of responsibility within the Paranet such as The Warden, head of the Enforcement and Education Services of the Paranet tasked with keeping potential wizards and warlocks out of the hands of the White Council and managing supernatural threats to the Paranet. Elaine would do the diplomacy, business interests, and general management.
No good deed goes unpunished, and Harry is in the best position for the job, making it what it should be, avoiding killing kids and allowing them to grow up to be wizards. With Demonreach he can put the worst young warlocks on the protocol and get them treatment, via the Paranet. Harry has shown with Molly and Simon that he can help some who are not the worst even without drastic intervention, who would have been killed by the White Council.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 26, 2022, 05:41:28 PM ---... and the ungrateful bastards will immediately turn round and appoint him to a position of responsibility within the Paranet such as The Warden, head of the Enforcement ...
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Mmmm!
Savor the irony!
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 26, 2022, 05:41:28 PM --- ... Education Services of the Paranet tasked with keeping potential wizards and warlocks out of the hands of the White Council ...
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Making him & the Paranet a direct competitor of the White Council, trying to scoop Apprentices out from under them. That implies the kind of troubles Harry never gets into... </SARCASM> i.e. it's very likely!
Conspiracy Theorist:
It is very Harry, the Paranet doing to him exactly what the White Council did.
I do feel however that Harry is going to break away from the Master/Apprentice system and try and integrate young wizards into the modern mortal world, probably by turning the Castle into the Vadderung School of Magic of the University of Chicago, and educating them alongside lesser practitioners in training and mortals interested in aspects of magic. Imagine if the Alphas had been able to formally undertake a minor in magic, or psychology students being taught a unit on Parapsychology by Professor Lindquist.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 26, 2022, 09:13:42 PM --- I do feel however that Harry is going to break away from the Master/Apprentice system and try and integrate young wizards into the modern mortal world ...
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I am inclined to agree... if Jim sees a way to write this arc in an engaging (and sufficiently Harry-tormenting) manner; he may not feel this works, for whatever reason.
However, I still think:
* The Paranet is likely to be a key element, for the purposes of identifying/recruiting the young Talents.
* Paranet is likely to be a key element, for the purposes of providing most of the staffing &c; Mort and other non-White-Council resources Harry has (who are are likely (a)willing / (b)available) are insufficient to the chore.
* The castle is unlikely to be where "Hogwarts 2.0" is situated, because Harry feels "proximity-to-Harry" is dangerous.
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