i may have had a hard time sleeping last night because my mind kept thinking about this

[lirazel]

So I'm trying to work out the details of what this HP-story-I-might-write would entail, and I keep running into the fact that A) JKR has a fantastic imagination, but is not a fantastic worldbuilder (though not as bad as Joss), and B) I am bad at plot.

*sigh*

I foresee the "stupid questions for my flist" tag getting a loooooot of use if I actually do end up writing this.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Hmm, okay. I may be able to help some.

I think when people are in the Room of Requirement, their enemies can find them there. That's why Harry was ushering the D.A. members out of the room when they knew Malfoy + Umbridge were on their tails, but as I recall Harry, not knowing Malfoy was in the Room of Requirement in 6th year, couldn't get in because it was occupado. So if you know someone's in there, you can get in?

The Unforgivable Curses I'm better on. I think they're Unforgivable in that the government says so, but as a curse, it's just a killing curse. So, using the gun analogy, you can use a gun in self-defense and not be tried for murder in the first degree, but if you kill someone unprovoked (e.g. murder), you are tried for it. Same deal. The heroes are acting in self-defense here, in a war setting.

There are other curses that can kill, though, and I think that depends on the intent/strength behind the curse, whether it just maims or kills. The non verbal spells were never very well explained either.

I think the DH D.A. was mostly about the Death Eaters not knowing where they were going or what they were up to. I think they left because they wanted to fight the Death Eaters/not abandon the other students, but some did stay in the Room.

Complications.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

So if you know someone's in there, you can get in?

Hmmm....That doesn't seem like a very good set-up, though, does it? Just because it fails you if you're needing to hide? It's one of those things that starts to make my head spin!

Aha! So we're approaching it more as a law instead of a moral sort of set-up. So the Killing Curse isn't inherently Unforgivable. That makes a bit more sense.


I think the DH D.A. was mostly about the Death Eaters not knowing where they were going or what they were up to.

They must not have planned very well, then. I am just so frustrated that this isn't the story she wanted to tell!