flabberghaster wrote on January 30, 2023 at 12:59 AM

Yeah the house elf thing was, for me, so weird and it bothered me, but I just looked past it because I liked the rest of the books.

I think you could have the boblins run one bank, but have other banks too. And they're not greedy they're just huge nerds who love counting things or something. Like it's not that they control the banks, they're just in to math and technology. Have them invent a bunch of doodads and gadgets too, sorta blending goblins and gnomes.

I like the idea of the obscured arts. I think of it as like, gun control. The magic isn't special, but you don't really want just anyone studying dangerous war spells. Especially in middle school. But it's not like it's this evil branch of magic, it's just the same stuff but particular applications. Like we don't have missile and gun technology (well we kind of do) but at the end of the day it's still just physics and engineering. Any engineering student could make a gun if they wanted, and any Hogwarts student could just kill someone, if they chose to.

flabberghaster wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Oh also, suggesting that we remove everything about mind control and love potions and shit. Get it outta there.

twovests OP wrote on January 30, 2023 at 4:34 AM

oh i agree with this, i like your ideas.

if those actually need to come up for some plot reason, then we can make them on the same canonical level as the imperius curse (and not sold in some silly prankboys jokestore)

flabberghaster wrote on January 30, 2023 at 6:59 AM

I would even go as far as there's a canonical reason you can't do the imperious curse. Like you can trick people with magic, and you could marionette someone with magic like telekinesis (like just move them around yourself, if you wanted) bit it would be obvious what was happening, and you can't directly compel someone to do something.