I do appreciate you being honest. However, I think there are some things we simply can't agree on re: 1. After all, in general the magic in the HP universe does not behave exactly like a disease; most people wouldn't use magic if it were that unpredictable. There are cases that do, but they're exceptional (Gilderoy Lockhart's brain is devastated by a misfired Memory Charm, but he apparently cast Memory Charms many times himself with effects that were more or less the same). Lycanthropy, which is treated a lot like a magical disease, is very regular in being tied to the full moon and affecting werewolves in a lot of the same ways. Maybe I won't set the curse five years back, only one or two, but I won't be treating it exactly like a disease in any case; the reason Ginny goes to the Healers is because, in canon, they're the ones who try to help with spell damage.
Perhaps it won't be the Head Auror who casts the spell after all, but a desperate Wizengamot member who doesn't really care about legalities (or sees himself as above the law, in the same way that a divorced parent kidnapping a child might). What I really, really don't want to do is have Ginny or one of Draco's family be the one casting the spell, as was suggested earlier. It would be too easy to demonize them.
And I do think that the Head Auror may come across as unlikeable. On the other hand, someone who's so arrogant he can't find someone to work with him in twenty years' time or someone who is ignoring all his responsibilities, including being a good father, in a desperate attempt to find one enemy isn't exactly the most likable person either.
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Date: 2008-06-20 02:53 pm (UTC)Perhaps it won't be the Head Auror who casts the spell after all, but a desperate Wizengamot member who doesn't really care about legalities (or sees himself as above the law, in the same way that a divorced parent kidnapping a child might). What I really, really don't want to do is have Ginny or one of Draco's family be the one casting the spell, as was suggested earlier. It would be too easy to demonize them.
And I do think that the Head Auror may come across as unlikeable. On the other hand, someone who's so arrogant he can't find someone to work with him in twenty years' time or someone who is ignoring all his responsibilities, including being a good father, in a desperate attempt to find one enemy isn't exactly the most likable person either.