I rather figured he could manage, with effort, to keep up throguh second year at least, and then third year there were no finals, fourth year he was mostly excused due to the Tournement, fifth year... he fails it. Hard. Herbology, CoMC, Divination, and of course Potions are the only OWLs he could possibly pass the practicals of, the no-practcals subjects like Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, and Muggle Studies are the rest of the options, really. Any competent advisor (as anyone except Snape would be) would be able to tell him something like this when he was trying to choose his electives - though they might not see it quite so strongly when he has been managing to get by, merely that any of the csating classes would become even more of a struggle, and that he should be sure to take electives that will give him useful skills withyout needing a great casting ability. Most of the time, people as weak in spell work as he is never even get accepted, and either end up apprenticing in some low-magic-requirement capacity or (if they can get their heads aroud it) living mostly in the nigg- "muggle" world.
Brooms, sure, Apparition, either works or doesn't, if he goes anywhere he's no more likely to splinch than anyone else, but it takes him a whole lot of extra power, Floo I always figured made a space-fold-like-gate so no problem there, likewise portkeys with their wormhole effect, a temporary enchantment that affects the space the user occupies, not the user directly. I think he'd probably stay Seeker, improved eyesight has to be good for something after all - look at eagle-eyes Hooch herself.
The mage sight/assensing thing - after reading the page Bob provided, I think it would probably end up like the Byakugan, but only with lots of training to get to that level - starting out, he'd be able to see very well at a distance (no glasses for him!) percieve the ambient magic of the world well enoguh to function as nightsight and a partial invisibility-counter (that would take work - he'd notice the edges of things not fitting in, like a Predator cloak, but not any detail) and se things as if in peripheral vision (just enoguh to make you jump) 360 degrees - and of course spells would be much more intricatly detailed weaves and forms rather than the bright blobs of a normal wizard's magesight. Probably a great aid in arithmancy and ancient runes that, the two together being the most probable backbone of warding and enchantments.
For sixth year, he'd probably be training hard with the tutors and materials Flamel provided, or Flamel himself if he decided that he'd put off the next great adventure in favor of teaching a successor and that since he'd managed to keep his Philosopher's Stone safe for over 600 years including Voldie's first reign of terror before Bumblemore talked him into turning it over, he can manage a few more, return or no.
At some point, then or before, Harry could learn to disrupt spells since he can see them so clearly, giving him a better chance against a caster too far away to hit, possibly from Lupin instead of the atronus, if irregularly at first - the man's supposed to be really smart, and he has to have kept his mind occuied with something all those ears doing "squib's work." Later, figuring out a way to bat away spells like an arrow defense technique might be a possibility, though not something to try on anyting a good shield spell couldn't handle. Basically, his magic resistance keeps up with his magical growth, so the simpole stuff any skilled second or lackluster thrid year could do is about all he'll ever manage for direct casting, but his ability to instill effects in potions, runes, etc. - the more subtle magics - will continue to grow in step with will and raw power.
Occlumency... Snape likes to just crash in, which would get bogged up in his magic resistance like a car in a mudhole, but a more subtle approach like Dumbles or invading throguh dreams will slide through with only moderate difficulty. This will again piss off Sniv, and make the sessions less physically exhausting, but he still gets the joy of repeated mental violation, having his worst memories raked up, and a headache that takes an hour to get really raging instead of minutes.
Savate, Hmm?
(side note: "wikipedo" does not bring up any useful web site. Not to someone who doesn't speak... Spanish? Brazillian? Portugese? Something like that...)
That sounds like a possible win, though the 1800s is kind of recent for Nick - maybe he was involved in developing it, and later adding the stickfighting elements, being knowledgable in Escrima from travels in the East? (since that's actually old enough to have been around when he was a restless young fellow, eager to travel the world in search of new tests for his amazing speed and strength) These foreign techniques are all well and good, of course, but surely the men of la Belle France can come up with something that's distinctly their own!
- CD yes, I find I rather like Escrima as described, also Wing Chun and CapoieraSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Brooms, sure, Apparition, either works or doesn't, if he goes anywhere he's no more likely to splinch than anyone else, but it takes him a whole lot of extra power, Floo I always figured made a space-fold-like-gate so no problem there, likewise portkeys with their wormhole effect, a temporary enchantment that affects the space the user occupies, not the user directly. I think he'd probably stay Seeker, improved eyesight has to be good for something after all - look at eagle-eyes Hooch herself.
The mage sight/assensing thing - after reading the page Bob provided, I think it would probably end up like the Byakugan, but only with lots of training to get to that level - starting out, he'd be able to see very well at a distance (no glasses for him!) percieve the ambient magic of the world well enoguh to function as nightsight and a partial invisibility-counter (that would take work - he'd notice the edges of things not fitting in, like a Predator cloak, but not any detail) and se things as if in peripheral vision (just enoguh to make you jump) 360 degrees - and of course spells would be much more intricatly detailed weaves and forms rather than the bright blobs of a normal wizard's magesight. Probably a great aid in arithmancy and ancient runes that, the two together being the most probable backbone of warding and enchantments.
For sixth year, he'd probably be training hard with the tutors and materials Flamel provided, or Flamel himself if he decided that he'd put off the next great adventure in favor of teaching a successor and that since he'd managed to keep his Philosopher's Stone safe for over 600 years including Voldie's first reign of terror before Bumblemore talked him into turning it over, he can manage a few more, return or no.
At some point, then or before, Harry could learn to disrupt spells since he can see them so clearly, giving him a better chance against a caster too far away to hit, possibly from Lupin instead of the atronus, if irregularly at first - the man's supposed to be really smart, and he has to have kept his mind occuied with something all those ears doing "squib's work." Later, figuring out a way to bat away spells like an arrow defense technique might be a possibility, though not something to try on anyting a good shield spell couldn't handle. Basically, his magic resistance keeps up with his magical growth, so the simpole stuff any skilled second or lackluster thrid year could do is about all he'll ever manage for direct casting, but his ability to instill effects in potions, runes, etc. - the more subtle magics - will continue to grow in step with will and raw power.
Occlumency... Snape likes to just crash in, which would get bogged up in his magic resistance like a car in a mudhole, but a more subtle approach like Dumbles or invading throguh dreams will slide through with only moderate difficulty. This will again piss off Sniv, and make the sessions less physically exhausting, but he still gets the joy of repeated mental violation, having his worst memories raked up, and a headache that takes an hour to get really raging instead of minutes.
Savate, Hmm?
(side note: "wikipedo" does not bring up any useful web site. Not to someone who doesn't speak... Spanish? Brazillian? Portugese? Something like that...)
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That sounds like a possible win, though the 1800s is kind of recent for Nick - maybe he was involved in developing it, and later adding the stickfighting elements, being knowledgable in Escrima from travels in the East? (since that's actually old enough to have been around when he was a restless young fellow, eager to travel the world in search of new tests for his amazing speed and strength) These foreign techniques are all well and good, of course, but surely the men of la Belle France can come up with something that's distinctly their own!
- CD yes, I find I rather like Escrima as described, also Wing Chun and CapoieraSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows