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[magenoir]

While committing acts of vandalism planning my practical for charms, I looked up and noticed something.

Windows: in addition to being openings in walls, what use have they?

Discuss.

Comments

[griffin_bungirl]

The windows are for fresh air. Duh. The castle is old OLD OLD and musty. And dark too. Most people tend to like a little sunlight every day... ~_~

[magenoir]

However, as wizards and witches, we can certainly spell a breeze and light. For example, the Great Hall.

[griffin_bungirl]

... There's a thing called "nature appreciation"... magic is just a shortcut. Plus the fact that I don't think the elder magicians would take the time to make an elaborate spell just so make some fresh wind.

You're going to kill me for talking you up, aren't you?

[magenoir]

To demonstrate a point and the use of such a spell, perhaps.

So long as you provide commentary that isn't too dull, I won't.

[professor_gai]

Windows can serve many purposes. They can let in fresh air, prevent a room from smelling, relief anxiety by subsiding the stuffy feeling, they are a source of natural light, they are something to look out when you are bored in class, they are an escape should something happen by the doorway, they can be symbolic such as a window to the soul or such, for they connect the outside and inside of an object allowing us to see through :O

>_> So. Itachi. What's up?

[magenoir]

Again, all things magic can resolve directly and indirectly.

Absolutely nothing. It boggles the mind, really.

[professor_gai]

This is the point, Itachi. It's the reality of taking things from hard work, such as building a window rather than creating/summoning one. We often don't appreciate the full actions of healing, physical work, or any of that T_T for magic lets us become lazy. And yet, we cannot even feel the result of our consequences because someone can improve their looks if they wanted with the help of magic.

Hard Work >>>>Magic.

[magenoir]

Ah, but using magic is work. It strains one's resources, physical, mental, and magical.

[snakeysister]

What a retarded question.

[magenoir]

It's because you take things for granted, that the subtleties in life escape you.

[snakeysister]

Like windows.

[magenoir]

... Yes. It seems Slytherin's standards have changed.

Under one thought...

[ravenclawable]

They are markers of time, reminders.

[magenoir]

Hmm. Do you mean they are graphic displays of the change in time?

[ravenclawable]

Not necessarily. And they won't be accurate - not always - but is magic? Hardly.

It's the sensation of being unaware of the passing of time when you are confined to a room of articifical light, magic made or man made (though arguably the two are the same, just depending on if a wizard or a muggle were the originator and thus changing the light's source), for long periods of time. You may have a watch, the indicators of time which should show you how to react, perhaps the most finely tuned biological clock and rhythms...

And still, your conception of time, your understanding of the common reality we agree upon and it's place in time will mutate.

...They are graphic, by nature. A window is not something you "feel" through. You "see" through it for a reason. Possibly because putting a boot through every window to "feel" them would just get expensive after a while.

[magenoir]

Yet it all is to determine one's place relative to the greater, in this case time or the world in time. Humans in that aspect are weak; they must constantly reaffirm their positions in the power relations, in their groups in order to feel they belong.

Strange, though, how we say we "see through" a window. That is assuming the window contains a barrier to one's boot.

[slythshark]

They prevent birds from doing aerial acrobatics above our heads. Of course, since they seem to get in anyway, they're rendered sort of pointless.

[magenoir]

To keep something out rather than a way out. Interesting thought.

[slythshark]

Of course it is.