Locked to Luna Lovegood and Diane Archer - and now also Michael Corner and Professor Vector.

[padma]

Hello...

Professor Snape suggested I get in touch with both of you regarding Ravenclaw wardings. I thought we could perhaps discuss our options here, rather than using Floo Powder on a single location.
Were there any other Order Ravenclaws included, do you know? If so, I'll unlock this post to them, too.

Padma

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[lunatictide]

That's a good idea. Michael Corner, and Elizabeth Allen also volunteered. I haven't said yes or no to Elizabeth since she's not an Order member. Michael is looking over my shoulder so I have to say hello to you for him. The prat.

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[padma]

Brilliant. Right - ideas? I've had some training in ward construction and dismantling, but we will need to build something that expresses the spirit of Ravenclaw.

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[diane_archer]

How would you ward in an innate fear of getting lower than an E in exams?

Hmm. The pattern in the Hat's songs seems to be:
Wit, learning, intellect, cleverness.

The images that immediately spring to mind are:

Feathers - raven - black quill?
Books, obviously.

I've done a reasonable amount of defensive warding - I used to have them woven around me when I was little, on expeditions with my parents, then did more and more myself as I got older. In recent years, it's been more sound-dulling for during revision, and much more recently the boundary ones so I didn't become an unfortunate test statistic with the grenades. So, I've had experience with the normal dome/shieldforcefield style effect, and the ones that are more... woven.

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[padma]

Books, yes, definitely. But I was caught by this: a quill... this can be incorporated into the element Air - what is more representative of air than flight?

We were also given Separation as part of the task. As the intellect separates facts from fiction in the pursuit of knowledge - could that be considered a decent representation in your opinions?

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[diane_archer]

I've been thinking about wards again, and keep coming back to the feather/quill idea.

"Ravenclaw ward requires the element of air, the concept of separation and something that embodies Ravenclaw."

* A raven (or probably corvid in general, there are enough of them around the safehouses. And since the "...so, why an eagle, then?" seems to be a basic 'claw initiation rite, I doubt the exact species would be a problem) feather. Levitated, or possibly held in a collum of slowing rising air - Air
* Iron-gall ink - iron, the metal alchemically linked with seperation.
* The feather as a quill, representing typical aspects of Ravenclaw, as Professor Vector pointed out.

The barbs of a feather would provide plenty of focus points for warding. I think our wards at home are Nornir-knots, threaded around arrows, and there're an immense number of links possible just from the fletching. A full feather would be at least triple that, so you could really tangle up anyone trying to break through with a thousand strands of spell-web.