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Has Carlos sided with the merlin against Harry
Mira:
--- Quote ---And even with Harry, they're right a lot of the time, as we've been seeing.
Over time, Harry reluctantly came to the realization that the Council's hard-line attitude about warlocks is probably a necessity. Another time (I think it was in Changes), he finds himself musing about the necessity of keeping some magical knowledge secret, and then thinks with a start that he's 'turning into his teachers'.
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Zero tolerance is easy and it works, but throwing out the baby with the bath water is never a good solution. I think that's what Harry was trying to say.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 24, 2024, 11:58:40 AM ---Zero tolerance is easy and it works, but throwing out the baby with the bath water is never a good solution. I think that's what Harry was trying to say.
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I think you're right on all points.
But the WC is just too short-handed now -- after the losses of the Ramp-War -- and doesn't have the resources to catch those babies. Before that, I think they were too blind, not seeing the issue in the proper perspective.
Would the modern WC -- with the lessons learned -- use the luxury of time & resources (they had in prior decades) to "catch those babies", if they had such luxuries today? No telling, I think.
Will Harry leverage the Paranet&c into an alt-White-Council, intercepting proto-warlocks with the much-more-numerous mortal membership? I honestly hope so, I think it's got a lot of fun potential; it'd be (or become) a spin-off series, I think); but again: no way to tell, until/unless Jim writes it (or WoJ addresses it, yea or nay).
Mira:
--- Quote ---Would the modern WC -- with the lessons learned -- use the luxury of time & resources (they had in prior decades) to "catch those babies", if they had such luxuries today? No telling, I think.
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I think the Merlin was right for the most part, they are shorter handed than they were and the consequences of a warlock slipping through is disastrous. However having said that, I think Harry was also right, the fact that they don't even bother with trials for the most part anymore and many of them are kangaroo courts, says the WC could take more trouble and risk to catch a lot of those babies, but it is easier just to toss the bathwater without checking the baby.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 26, 2024, 05:36:23 PM --- I think the Merlin was right for the most part, they are shorter handed than they were and the consequences of a warlock slipping through is disastrous. However having said that, I think Harry was also right, the fact that they don't even bother with trials for the most part anymore and many of them are kangaroo courts, says the WC could take more trouble and risk to catch a lot of those babies, but it is easier just to toss the bathwater without checking the baby.
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*raises hand* Sorry to interrupt but, it's a "kangaroo court" an idiom? I had never heard of it. I imagine for context that it is a mock court, something for appearances, but I am intrigued.
On topic, so I was not frowned upon, I agree with Mira about the WC. I also think that so far the books have been underusing the paranet, but perhpas this is going to change, with more hackers around and Bob being able to access the internet. I mean, with Harry, our narrator, not being able to use computers, it was difficult to see what was going on with the paranet. But just as the muggle, ehrm, vanilla mortals are more and more dependent of internet, the paranet is probably exploding (mostly away of Harry's awareness until now).
Mira:
--- Quote ---raises hand* Sorry to interrupt but, it's a "kangaroo court" an idiom? I had never heard of it. I imagine for context that it is a mock court, something for appearances, but I am intrigued.
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Essentially a kangaroo court is a mock court, a set up with the verdict predetermined by those doing the trying.
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