Quote:Oh, Doug, definitely -- it's certainly his style. And if we give the house elves little tiny guns, and drive some mad, we could have DW2 all over again in miniature!
And it'd have to be either Doug or Dumbledore...
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No?
Oh, well, it was worth a try.
Seriously, yeah, Doug certainly would be troubled by this, maybe even go to Dumbledore (who he will rapidly grow to respect, of course) to ask the big Why.
Quote:Odd. I'm trying to figure out why I interpreted your comment in only that way...
I didn't quite mean -poor-, although he might well have been
Quote:I would imagine so, when young wizards' and witches' powers are often quite... imaginative when inadequately controlled and they are under stress. I suspect that the gift of magic is a great leveller in that regard.
- I mean actually -abusive-, which, as far's we've seen, would be extremely unusual in a wizarding family.
Quote:Yes, that would be quite workable. Although I think I'd better get to work on making it clear that Doug isn't all that unstable and out-of-control... Events in the BGC world have just been, well, stressful...
Anyway, my thought RE: courage would be that Doug misunderstands something, goes off on one of his tears, and eventually gets faced down by, of all people, -Snape-. Moreover, in a way that makes it perfectly clear that Snape was completely outgunned and -knew- -it-.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.