When you are getting people ready to go please don't leave the
Longbottems in St. Mungos.

Kim

Well there's a simple answer to that question. I didn't think of it. :)

Besides, if I made his life too easy then the story wouldn't be
interesting. :D

- Bob


--- In snorkack@..., "Dorothy McComb" <dmccomb1958@y...>
wrote:

--- In snorkack@..., "zanymuggle" <zanymuggle@s...> wrote:

Also, as Madame Pomfrey has expressed time and again, rest is

required

for an injury to heal well. Not even magic can make up for over-
taxing an injury that's not yet healed.

I have wondered why, when making long walks down to Hogsmeade, he
didn't just bring his broom with him so when he gets tired he can just
fly real slow alongside whoever's walking with him. That would also
give him a fast getaway vehicle/firing platform if someone attacked
while they were on the road.

Dorothy

They'd better learn, then ...


--- In snorkack@..., I am Sam Hall <gmj88888@y...> wrote:

(Most) Slytherins are pure-blooded... do they even know how to

cook for themselves?

Greg

I think the Boxing Day meeting is a planning session. They will

all

need time to pack, recruit others, etc. Remus has probably used
Harry's money to buy a housing development somewhere. Then

during

the Easter hols everybody will vanish, so when Voldemort shows

up

during the "time of the Bull" (zodiacal period of Taurus, April

21-

May 21 or so) he will find a castle inhabited by the Slytherins,
Dumbledork, and Snape, all living on grilled-cheese sandwiches
because the house elves are gone.

Dorothy

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Greg

I think the Boxing Day meeting is a planning session. They will all
need time to pack, recruit others, etc. Remus has probably used
Harry's money to buy a housing development somewhere. Then during
the Easter hols everybody will vanish, so when Voldemort shows up
during the "time of the Bull" (zodiacal period of Taurus, April 21-
May 21 or so) he will find a castle inhabited by the Slytherins,
Dumbledork, and Snape, all living on grilled-cheese sandwiches
because the house elves are gone.

Dorothy

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--- In snorkack@..., "Bryan Tait" <bryan_m_tait@y...>
wrote:

JK herself has unwittingly laid the foundations for the interaction

of

Magic and Technology by stating that Electronic devices wont work
within high magic area's like Hogwarts. Theirby indicating that they
are not totally seperate entitiies but connected in some way.

I personally like the idea of Technomancy the merging of Magic and
Technology into something that combines the best of both worlds. It
allows for a way to begin to reconcile the two worlds, The Magical

and

the Muggle by providing a third path that is a mixture of the two.

The way I've been looking at it is this: Technology depends on things
happening the same way every time. Electrons have to behave the same
way consistently in order for electronics to work. Magic is the
ability to make things happen differently (like Wingardium Leviosa
making something fall up). You're messing with probabilities on a
quantum level and performing massive changes in the way things should
happen. Unless they are damaged outright, simple machines like steam
engines won't be hurt by magic going off in their vicinity. Pick a
plow up, move it over, put it down, it won't be hurt. However,
electronics depend on much smaller things and much finer tolerances
for things going wrong. If you Wingardium Leviosa a cell phone, it's
not only going to lift the phone, but it's going to lift some of the
electrons out of the places they were and drop them back into places
they shouldn't be. Which is not good for the cell phone, and if you
do it enough times, it's going to disrupt the flow of electricity,
corrupt the memory, and fry the electronics. Same things with digital
watches, computers, and so forth. Eventually they will stop working.

So magic and technology are inherently in opposition - one depends on
things happening the same way all the time, the other depends on
things happening differently in accordance with the will of the spell
caster. A sufficiently advanced technology might be able to control
the differences on a quantum level, and it is possible that magic
might be developed to protect electronics, but at that point magic and
technology have become indistinguishable. And then you've got
Quidditch games between the kids on brooms and the ones with jet
packs, and Hogwarts is just another school specializing in a
particular technology called magic (which is actually going to be the
ending point, 100 years or so down the pike, of my major story).

Dorothy

If there is one thing I have learned in writing, do not mix science
with magic. Otherwise you're liable to regret it. :)

Where interestingly enough I think that the opposite position is valid.
I remember hearing somewhere "That any signifigantly advanced
technology can seem like Magic to the primitive." It is even possible
that Magic itself is nothing but a undiscovered/unexplored branch of
Science. (Perhaps based involving the Physical warping of Reality)

JK herself has unwittingly laid the foundations for the interaction of
Magic and Technology by stating that Electronic devices wont work
within high magic area's like Hogwarts. Theirby indicating that they
are not totally seperate entitiies but connected in some way.

I personally like the idea of Technomancy the merging of Magic and
Technology into something that combines the best of both worlds. It
allows for a way to begin to reconcile the two worlds, The Magical and
the Muggle by providing a third path that is a mixture of the two.

--- In snorkack@..., "Skip" <seckle@c...> wrote:

I don't know...I think Harry is some how planning to steal

Hogwarts or at least hide it

----- Original Message -----
From: yorath_thewolf
To: snorkack@...
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: [snorkack] SoB Chpt 11 feedback


well this was a fun chpt. gotta love the way that Gin has

influenced

Luna... ya really do... well as long as you aren't on the

recieveing

end of any of that influence anyway. and considering what

Snivarious

and the Old Fool did to Harry there at the end, really wished

that the

payback had been more through... or at least violent, ya know

just to

satisfy my baser instincts. still as it appears that the

Outcasts will

be leaveing Briton around Boxing Day(one assumes that's why

there's the

big rush to get everyone at one place at the same time on that

day)

perhaps it's for the best. and mentioning the Outcasts leaveing

plans,

I eagerly await to see just what Harry has planed. eagerly

awaiting

more.

Let's try this again - my first answer to this just mysteriously
vanished.

I think the Boxing Day meeting is a planning session. They will all
need time to pack, recruit others, etc. Remus has probably used
Harry's money to buy a housing development somewhere. Then during
the Easter hols everybody will vanish, so when Voldemort shows up
during the "time of the Bull" (zodiacal period of Taurus, April 21-
May 21 or so) he will find a castle inhabited by the Slytherins,
Dumbledork, and Snape, all living on grilled-cheese sandwiches
because the house elves are gone.

Dorothy

--- In snorkack@..., "zanymuggle" <zanymuggle@s...> wrote:

Also, as Madame Pomfrey has expressed time and again, rest is

required

for an injury to heal well. Not even magic can make up for over-
taxing an injury that's not yet healed.

I have wondered why, when making long walks down to Hogsmeade, he
didn't just bring his broom with him so when he gets tired he can just
fly real slow alongside whoever's walking with him. That would also
give him a fast getaway vehicle/firing platform if someone attacked
while they were on the road.

Dorothy

--- In snorkack@..., "Bryan Tait" <bryan_m_tait@y...> wrote:

I was thinking about How Harry could get over his Mobility problems in
a fight with the Death Eaters and the scene from Star Wars - The
Phantom Menace where Yoda duels Count Duku popped into my mind.

We have seen relitivly minor use of Summoning and Banishing Charms
taught by Professor Flitwick but what Happens when a Wizard uses them
on a relitivly Immovible object. The question I pose is does Newton's
Third Law apply and if so can this be used to make Harry zip about the
place even if it is draining on his magic reserves.

Ref. Newton's Third Law:
All forces in the universe occur in equal but oppositely directed
pairs. There are no isolated forces; for every external force that acts
on an object there is a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction
which acts back on the object which exerted that external force.

If there is one thing I have learned in writing, do not mix science
with magic. Otherwise you're liable to regret it. :)

-Bob

I was thinking about How Harry could get over his Mobility problems in
a fight with the Death Eaters and the scene from Star Wars - The
Phantom Menace where Yoda duels Count Duku popped into my mind.

We have seen relitivly minor use of Summoning and Banishing Charms
taught by Professor Flitwick but what Happens when a Wizard uses them
on a relitivly Immovible object. The question I pose is does Newton's
Third Law apply and if so can this be used to make Harry zip about the
place even if it is draining on his magic reserves.

Ref. Newton's Third Law:
All forces in the universe occur in equal but oppositely directed
pairs. There are no isolated forces; for every external force that acts
on an object there is a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction
which acts back on the object which exerted that external force.

--- In snorkack@..., "ausfinbar" <diepunyhumans@h...> wrote:

--- In snorkack@..., "Keith McComb" <kinsfire@g...> wrote:

As a Viking,
You must learn
First you pillage
THEN you burn.

Dont forget, Rape, THEN Pillage, THEN burn

The last thing you want is to make a mistake and end up being caught

in a compromising position with a burning Vase or some such. <

The problem is that No. 3 Longship is always late and the troops suffer
from chronic exhaustion, so this keeps happening... <eg>

Phil

just a quick messeage to say that the Parachute Regiment in britan is
more likely known as the para's and most here consider them insane and
only a step below an SAS soldier. the SAS is a unit that works
undercover with identification unkown and in iraq stopped many
journalist from taking there picture by hiding there faces. most
regemints in the british army have there own regimental colors(flag).

hope this helps

--- In snorkack@..., "Keith McComb" <kinsfire@g...> wrote:

As a Viking
You must learn
First you pillage
THEN you burn.

Dont forget, Rape, THEN Pillage, THEN burn

The last thing you want is to make a mistake and end up being caught
in a compromising position with a burning Vase or some such

Cheers

Finbar

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--- In snorkack@..., "magyareagle" <magyareagle@y...> wrote:

According to army.mod.uk and nationmaster.com "its military structure
it is divided into corps (administrative groupings by common
function), and divisions and brigades (large formations, somewhat
fluid in nature)"
It is made up of five divisions (six if you include HQ Northern
Ireland) each one comprising 3-6 brigades. Specialist units include
15(UK)Psychological Operations Group and the Special Forces. In terms
of special forces the British have the SAS (Special Air Service),
the SBS (Special Boat Service), 16 AAB (Air Assault Brigade,
Pathfinder Platoon, the Parachute Regiment, and the No.47 Squadron
(Special Forces flight) RAF. The SAS also serves as an anti Terrorism
unit along with the SO19 Firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police. The
unit nearest to Hogwarts would probably be the 52nd infantry brigade,
currently based in Edinburgh Castle.

Hope this helps!

Balint D. Szoke

After I posted that request I stumbled onto the wikapedia site which
did a decent job of detailing the organizational structure.

There are two ready divisions, 1st armored and 2nd mechanized infantry
which have core regiments, but can be augmented by adding additional
regiments under the divisional commander. It sounds pretty unwieldy to
me, but if it works for them, who am I to tell them they are wrong.

The corp level units exist mostly on paper only. Corps are constructed
as needed, built around an administrative regiment. Unlike the US, the
UK has no standing corps, they have the structure of one and it can be
activated in times of war, but in peace its mostly a toothless entity.

This is all assuming that the wikapedia information is correct.

I believe I have enough information to work with now. And I do
appreciate everyone that replied. Finally, as an aside to whomever
coded the MOD website. GET A CLUE! Just trying to find out basic
information is like pulling teeth from a jellyfish! :)

- Bob

According to army.mod.uk and nationmaster.com "its military structure
it is divided into corps (administrative groupings by common
function), and divisions and brigades (large formations, somewhat
fluid in nature)"
It is made up of five divisions (six if you include HQ Northern
Ireland) each one comprising 3-6 brigades. Specialist units include
15(UK)Psychological Operations Group and the Special Forces. In terms
of special forces the British have the SAS (Special Air Service),
the SBS (Special Boat Service), 16 AAB (Air Assault Brigade,
Pathfinder Platoon, the Parachute Regiment, and the No.47 Squadron
(Special Forces flight) RAF. The SAS also serves as an anti Terrorism
unit along with the SO19 Firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police. The
unit nearest to Hogwarts would probably be the 52nd infantry brigade,
currently based in Edinburgh Castle.

Hope this helps!

Balint D. Szoke

Sources:
Nationmaster Encyclopedia


The British Army Website:


British Ministry of Defence website:


The Encyclopedia of the worlds special forces by Mike Ryan, Chris Man,
and Alexander Stillwell copyright 2003.

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ANd if that is the case I can assure you, I am an author of Fan Fic,
not a terrorist... ok I am a barbarian, but not a terrorist. MORE
PILLAGING!!!

- bob

So you are a member of the second boat
dave


Viking chief to Viking Warriors off shore the Scotish coast in 3 boats
He say to them.,.
The first boat will do the burning, the second boat will do the pillaging and robbing and the third...


And a collective groan came from the 3rd boat and a small voice says...

Not Rapine again!