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[foretinterdite]

Here are some questions that have been bothering me with regards to a few works in progress.  Since the google doesn't seem to offer clear answers on any of them, I'll pick your brains.  Feel free to leave nonsensical answers, or point out why I should have already known that.

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[tailoredshirt]

Did you get a paid account?!

[foretinterdite]

Evidently by going to a plus account with the lame ads at the top and bottom, I can do polls. I'm going to try to set aside the money to do the paid account after the next time I get paid.

[tailoredshirt]

It does show up as one long ass post. You can cram it under a cut if you edit it now. Try working under both the html and rich text tabs.

[foretinterdite]

I was wholly unfamiliar with potterwords, that's handy.
I knew I'd seen something about population on the Lexicon, but I didn't recall what number they gave, and am evidently using the wrong keywords to relocate it.

Thanks!

[ms_worplesdon]

For Draco, since he was a minor during sixth year when he took an active role, he was able to get off. As for adulthood, he was acting under duress, and Harry could testify that his family were reluctant participants if he was so inclined.

Shall I rec you some H/D? Hmmm? ;P

As for Ginny, I noticed that "Kill her, please" was not listed as an option. I'm just saying.

[foretinterdite]

since he was a minor during sixth year
That's certainly how I figured it would work today. But JKR really creates a sense of a society a couple of centuries behind the mainstream. And I'm not sure how the law treated minors involved in violence and insurrection in pre-abolition Britain, let alone how to parallel that for the wizarding world.

[tjs_whatnot]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Draco, but I never thought he would get in too much trouble about the whole war thing...The Malfoys being in the Great Hall at the end of the fight seemed to be some indication to their new place in the wizarding world, amongst the lowly commoners and completely ignored.

And Ginny...do what you have to...but please make it painful...just kidding...as Ron's sister, love her, as Harry's anything...gross!!

[foretinterdite]

some indication to their new place in the wizarding world
I can see that, I guess. I just figured when the inevitable purges and trials resulted later, the Malfoys are just so high profile that it would be hard for them not to be made an example.

As far as Ginny goes, I really want to write about Harry's wrestling with the tension between his desires and society's expectations. And it's hard to leave the whole marry young and make more wizards bit out of those expectations in the world JKR has created. Unless you run her over with the Knight bus or something.

[tjs_whatnot]

Oooooh, the Knight Bus! Think of the irony of that. Harry struggles to clear Stan Shunpike and prove that he was under the Imperius and that it was the Ministries fault for holding him so long with legitimate Death Eaters that was responsible for Stan's sins. So he gets exonorated based on Harry's urging and then the first thing he does upon release, "accidently" kills Ginny in a freak Knight Bus accident!! That's brilliant!

[shes_gone]

That’s Bad Ass Mother Fucker, I think.

Killing Ginny’s not wrong. It is easy, though, so you need a bit of creativity. I’m loving the Knight Bus idea. ;)

[foretinterdite]

Yeah, although I'm not sure that the operator actually has anything to do with the direction of the Knight Bus's movement through traffic.

You're right, it is easy to just off her, especially when you're doing it just to prune the number of plot twists you need to follow.