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Right up Bob and Alyx's alley - challenge!
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From harrypotterxtreme, Michael Dean issued this challenge.
From having read DA and SC, I think that Bob and Alyx could do this challenge very
well.
My thoughts are that I would
not like to see someone with an axe to grind do it. It would need
someone who knew their subject.
One problem is that if you
remove all the nuclear weapons, the muggles will move on to something
else - a la the Jesus Factor - germ/chemical weapons. When you
consider the alternatives, I would rather deal with bombs and fall
out. both Germ and chemical weapons have a "fallout" pattern
and are a lot harder to deal with. Germ warfare in particular has the
possibility to wipe out mankind - more so than nuclear
fallout.
Another problem is that the
infra structure and knowledge for the nuclear side of things is so
scattered that just going in and memory wiping people would not
work.
1) the data is scattered all
over the place in books, encyclopedias, films internet and libraries
that you'd not find it all.
2) would not be able to find
all the people that needed to be wiped.
3) Governments would know
something has gone wrong and start looking for who did
it.
4) Terrorist org's may be
one of the first groups to come up with the knowlege.
5) States that are only held
in check by WMD would see it as their chance to advance. And there are
those states!
Dave
Subject: [harrypotterxtreme] Challenge: Sum Of All Fears, Based
on the movie
Reply-To: harrypotterxtreme@... We all know that the wizards of England don't follow the news of the Muggle world but what if something happened in the Muggle world that would have effected the Magical world by default? Rita is making her way back to the Leaky Cauldron after visiting a friend in Scotland she goes by the docks at the Scapa Flow naval base (don't ask how she got there) when she sees it a huge Muggle aircraft carrier. A huge battered Muggle aircraft carrier being a reporter she asks what happened the longshoremen laugh & ask what cave she was living in. A news man tells her more or less world war three almost happened. Rita does some digging & what she finds would have scared a Death Eater to death she learns of the chemical weapons attack on Grozny, the destruction of Baltimore, the Russian attack on the carrier events that if they had went unchecked would have led to Nuclear war. It was made more frightening by the fact that the magical world didn't know it happened. She decides to let them know what almost happened. It's a nice crisp Feb. morning all of Hogwarts staff & student body are at breakfast. The usual morning mail & the Daily Prophet is delivered. On the front page in banner headlines reads NUCLEAR WAR NARROWLY EVOIDED!!!! under the headline is a picture of the battered aircraft carrier the caption below the photo reads (I'll use the name) U.S.S Thomas Jefferson, CVN-20. It goes into details probably get an interview with the captain & every one is shocked. When asked by the Purebloods what a nuclear war is the Muggleborns led by Granger give an explanation of what it is 'Mione probably has a Muggle history book in her bag with pictures of Hiroshima. She could have one of the professor's enlarge a few of pictures and pass them around. Then she drops the bomb about how this being the second time a war almost happened before then she goes on to tell about the Cuban Missle Crisis. The Challenge: write reactions to the news from the MoM who after getting a good look at London has nightmares of it's destruction on down to Harry who kicks himself for paying too much attention to the Magical World & not paying enough attention to World in general & also finding out that no matter what he does there will always be evil men in the world.
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I find this challenge confusing. Is it just asking for the Wizarding
World's reaction to the fact that the muggles have the ability to kill them all? Or is it asking the impossible, that is the eradication of all nuclear weapons by wizards? The reaction should be simple. Voldemort pees his pants. :D Putting the genie back into the bottle is just impossible. :\ - Bob --- In snorkack@..., Dave Gerecke <dave@n...> wrote: From harrypotterxtreme, Michael Dean issued this challenge.the knowlege. 5) States that are only held in check by WMD would see it as theirthe movie Reply-To: harrypotterxtreme@... |
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I agree, the genie is out!
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but while we, the muggles, have adjusted to living with WMD, but have the wizards? dave I find this challenge confusing. Is it just asking for the Wizarding |
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--- In snorkack@..., Dave Gerecke <dave@n...> wrote:
I agree, the genie is out!But thats exactly my point. There isn't anything they can do about it other than admit it exists. Where's the challenge in that? We touched briefly on the topic in Spiritus Crystalus when Jack Parsons (the american squib) sat talking with the teachers over lunch during the summer. The purebloods could be shocked by it, but it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone of halfblood or muggle born heritages. - Bob |
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Michael Dean
The challenge is to write a fic where the wizards learn that if they
don't keep track of the world & by the world I mean the whole damn thing not just the magical one something will come along & bite them in the ass. I read one fic that had Harry leaving our universe for some special training & while he was gone some thing happened & about 20 or was it 50 major cities including London was destroyed in a surprise mystery nuclear exchange. When Tonks told them that it was a Muggle weapon that did it Dumbledore was shocked, Minerva said that the wizarding world always wondered how Hiroshima & Nagasaki was destroyed, & Snape flat out didn't believe it & I think said something along the lines of if the Muggles had such a weapon how come thay didn't use them already. --- In snorkack@..., "bobmi357" <submitaccount@y...> wrote: --- In snorkack@..., Dave Gerecke <dave@n...> wrote:haveI agree, the genie is out! the wizards?But thats exactly my point. There isn't anything they can do about it |
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