Aestrix Ramblings and Q & A

[Aestrix]

Aliya is usually the one responsible for supernatural status, but in this case I'd tweak it to make it more viable for her to lose her kids.

I wasn't aware that the HPverse had a thing about taking wizard kids to pureblood families. If it does, then Veron gets to become a wizard and Aliya's the pureblood, simply so it's viable. Otherwise, it's more fun for Nereus to be from a pureblood family and for Adarin to sort Slytherin. His terrible dad would be so proud. "That's my boy, having ambition." "To do the exact opposite of what you're doing now." "Details!"

I'm not really sure what opportunities for lewd jokes would change based on gender, both genders of Zev love making lewd jokes. Clarify, please?

[Bluelantern]

Aliya is usually the one responsible for supernatural status, but in this case I'd tweak it to make it more viable for her to lose her kids.

I wasn't aware that the HPverse had a thing about taking wizard kids to pureblood families. If it does, then Veron gets to become a wizard and Aliya's the pureblood, simply so it's viable.

It is mostly a HPMoR thing, but sort of fits canon, as far as pureblood families are concerned. It is possible that Nereus would simply allow it to happen.

Otherwise, it's more fun for Nereus to be from a pureblood family and for Adarin to sort Slytherin. His terrible dad would be so proud. "That's my boy, having ambition." "To do the exact opposite of what you're doing now." "Details!"

Awesome dad, deserves a coffee mug (thrown in his face)

I'm not really sure what opportunities for lewd jokes would change based on gender, both genders of Zev love making lewd jokes. Clarify, please?

Well... *cough* wand jokes *cough* both would make them, but male Zev would be more inspired IMHO

[Alicorn]

How is that an HPMoR thing? Harry is brought up by Muggles. Hermione is never taken to a pureblood family.

[Bluelantern]

How is that an HPMoR thing? Harry is brought up by Muggles. Hermione is never taken to a pureblood family.

Harry didn't have any wizard relatives (except his godfather and you know that story) and Dumbledore interfered in the situation early on, without his interference I think they would send Harry to some noble wizard family to be raised as the celebrity that Dumbledore warned McGonagall against (now that is a fanfic for you). Hermione parents are still alive and she doesn't have any know magical relatives. If Hermione did have magical relatives and said relatives insisted in taking the girl in, well, you can guess what I think the muggles chances would be. I don't think that the Wizarding Government would allow Hermione to be taken by unrelated wizards if there are any relatives around.

The twins situation would be different, mostly because I don't think the Wizarding Government would allow the kids to "change hands" after their magical status caught their attention. This means that the Wizarding Government wouldn't actively change the twins current situation, but if an outside source interfered the WG would then act.

So if the twins were still with their mother and social services noticed something and tries to take the kids away... some social services workers get memory charmed and the kids are taken to someone that the WG thinks is more suitable (which could end in a muggle orphanage, if other options are exausted). If the kids were in the muggle orphanage and a muggle tries to adopt them, I don't think WG would allow that. To be honest, the "taking to a pureblood family" would depend if Nereus was known to be their father, I don't think the WG would care to bother purebloods with kids of unknow origin. A squib or other muggle already in the know would be able to adopt them.

[Kappa]

Tom Marvolo Riddle grew up in a Muggle orphanage, and we know how that turned out... I'm not sure I get the difference between "Muggle orphanage" and "adopted by Muggles out of a Muggle orphanage". I'm not sure the wizarding government even knew about Riddle at all, come to think.

[Bluelantern]

Tom Marvolo Riddle grew up in a Muggle orphanage, and we know how that turned out... I'm not sure I get the difference between "Muggle orphanage" and "adopted by Muggles out of a Muggle orphanage". I'm not sure the wizarding government even knew about Riddle at all, come to think.

Tom Marvolo Riddle wizard family wasn't important (parseltongue or not). He was probably considered just another non-pureblood and no one would want to adopt him. The WG probably has someone who knows, but if they have someone that combines: Knows about Riddle; cares to prevent another one; has enough power to change the situation... you get my point.

[Alicorn]

I still don't understand how this is an HPMoR thing. Where does it come up in MoR?

[Aestrix]

I don't know, this all seems a little - eeeeh. Wizards that aren't part of a pureblooded family don't seem to care about potential wizards that aren't their kids much, at least from the books. Like, they are not officially at Hogwarts/a magic school of their choice before they're 11, so they don't really matter when it comes to magic. Not to mention, Aliya would be in a very similar situation the Riddles were in. Tom's mother was a pureblood. Her kid went to an orphanage anyway. He didn't get adopted, but he went all the same. With Nereus as the pureblood absent baby daddy, the twins would be treated like muggleborns.

Yes, it's certainly possible that someone would be smart enough to try and prevent the same thing from happening again, but it's also run by a bureaucracy. A bureaucracy that is cleaning up after a war. I don't know how many bureaucracies you've dealt with, but the ones I know are not efficient. At all. They won't do something unless there is a direct need for it and it's obvious to do - because one person will think it's smart, but another person will disagree, and still another person will not care in the slightest because they're just there to put food on their family's table. So nothing gets done unless a person is there, directly demanding it. The more subtle problems aren't solved, because the bureaucracy is dealing with the bigger ones.

[Bluelantern]

I still don't understand how this is an HPMoR thing. Where does it come up in MoR?

I said I was being influenced, there isn't a straight example in HPMoR it just feels like something that would work that way if you added that to the story.

I don't know, this all seems a little - eeeeh. Wizards that aren't part of a pureblooded family don't seem to care about potential wizards that aren't their kids much, at least from the books. Like, they are not officially at Hogwarts/a magic school of their choice before they're 11, so they don't really matter when it comes to magic. Not to mention, Aliya would be in a very similar situation the Riddles were in. Tom's mother was a pureblood. Her kid went to an orphanage anyway. He didn't get adopted, but he went all the same. With Nereus as the pureblood absent baby daddy, the twins would be treated like muggleborns.

In general I get the impression that the people who would write the laws are likely to be the kind of person to forbid any wizard child to be adopted by a muggle, even if they are blood purists that specifically thought about muggleborn children while elaborating the law.

Also, I could see a clause about pureblood children in specific, but I agree that it depends purely if Nereus parental status is know. Otherwise they would receive the muggleborn treatment.

I could see someone from Nereus family, or even someone with a bad agenda trying to take the kids away even if Veron is in the picture. It is not like a muggle can defend theyself against wizards.

And this straight from HPMoR, but there are purebloods and purebloods, there are the Malfoys and there are people that would never get invited to the Malfoy manor. Blood purity is not really a logical thing, it is just a mechanism to validate a sense of entitlement, in practice, despite the fact that Tom's mother was extremely pureblood, she was also poor and unknown, voldie himself assumed that she wasn't a witch.

Yes, it's certainly possible that someone would be smart enough to try and prevent the same thing from happening again, but it's also run by a bureaucracy. A bureaucracy that is cleaning up after a war. I don't know how many bureaucracies you've dealt with, but the ones I know are not efficient. At all. They won't do something unless there is a direct need for it and it's obvious to do - because one person will think it's smart, but another person will disagree, and still another person will not care in the slightest because they're just there to put food on their family's table. So nothing gets done unless a person is there, directly demanding it. The more subtle problems aren't solved, because the bureaucracy is dealing with the bigger ones.

So true. It is possible that Dumbledore did something, it is possible that Harry could do something, but any place that can employ Umbridge it isn't a place to solve problems... ike, really, If there is something that ilustrates the Wizarding Government is the fact that Umbridge wasn't arrested after Order of the Phoenix.

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Well... huh... happy thoughts! How Adarin discovered what video games are? Has Adarin played video games? How about Zeviana?

[Aestrix]

Since you didn't specify which of either - I'll just answer the question for all of both templates :P

Max, Conduit (Gemini Adana), and Revival (Cam's Adana) grew up with video games - Revival's played the most out of all of them, because she had a better childhood and more freedom from her dad. Max makes more references to them, though, because he's closer to the part in his life where he played them - Adarins will play video games in their teenage years, but stop as they get older due to their workaholic tendencies. Conduit played video games less than either of them, even though she had access to them, because superpowers are way cooler and she found it more useful to study superpowers. Revival's is already in full swing for workaholic tendencies, Conduit's flirting with it, Max is just about to hit workaholic, and will play less video games when this occurs. Cypress was introduced to video games in about the same way he was introduced to everything in Chamomile's culture - he thinks its quaint and when he has nothing to do he'll mess around with it, but he's got a lot of things to do (including Ice, har har) and doesn't have nothing to do that often. So he knows some basics about how they work, but often he still needs things explained. Edarial is way too busy for trying video games, and will not start any time soon. Prime is trying to lighten up a bit, so he's going to be giving it a shot along with all of the other things that he does to have fun during his 'retirement.' Quilt, Adanir, and Aldaras haven't had any experience with video games, though Aldaras has played some board games (but they're no longer very high on his list of priorities, for obvious reasons).

Feathers (Max's Savannah), Lucy (Zane), and Rush (Gemini Savannah) all like reflex and fighting games, but never played them a lot. They did it when they were bored, but they're not quite the type of people to play them for hours. Maybe if there was one with a mental interface, but as it is they feel too separated from the games themselves to fall in for days. Olympia (Zeviana Nimah) has had almost no interaction with video games, because she lives on witch territory, but she knows they exist. She just doesn't care much. None of the other Zevs have had any sort of interaction with video games, though Turtle might try out some browser games in the future with Cricket.