Private message to Linus Moon
Apr. 23rd, 2015 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_harryHey Moon, I was wondering something. I'm working on a story to impress a girl, you see. Fiction, I mean. In the story, there's a character who's in terrible danger and I want it to be realistic, not rubbish. I mean I want the magic to be the sort of thing that could actually happen.
She's being kept prisoner by a powerful dark witch who's going to use her for some dark magical thing and I need to figure out what the dark magical bit is. I don't want anything really awful to have happened to her yet, and the evil witch would certainly have done all sorts of awful things if there weren't some reason not to, so there needs to be a reason she can't have been harmed. (Does that make sense? I mean, a magical reason, like 'for this dark rite to work the victim needs to be unblemished.') Also, she needs to be an adult (because I want it to end with a marriage, and if she's twelve or something that's not quidditch) so there also needs to be some reason she's saved her for this long.
Also the evil witch could be an evil wizard, that doesn't much matter. I can't decide whether maybe it would be better to have the girl be the hero and make the person who gets rescued the boy, which do you think would be more impressive? Anyway if there's some magical rite that would work perfectly but it would NEED to be a boy, let me know. The important thing is, this really only works if the boy or the girl grows all the way up and is kept 'unblemished,' and if there's some horrible thing the evil witch or wizard has in mind to do next.
I figured if anyone would know something -- or, be able to come up with something -- it would be you! You're the best in our year at any sort of research. (I mean, I don't want to keep you from revising for your NEWTs, of course. But if you're not revising every minute...)
She's being kept prisoner by a powerful dark witch who's going to use her for some dark magical thing and I need to figure out what the dark magical bit is. I don't want anything really awful to have happened to her yet, and the evil witch would certainly have done all sorts of awful things if there weren't some reason not to, so there needs to be a reason she can't have been harmed. (Does that make sense? I mean, a magical reason, like 'for this dark rite to work the victim needs to be unblemished.') Also, she needs to be an adult (because I want it to end with a marriage, and if she's twelve or something that's not quidditch) so there also needs to be some reason she's saved her for this long.
Also the evil witch could be an evil wizard, that doesn't much matter. I can't decide whether maybe it would be better to have the girl be the hero and make the person who gets rescued the boy, which do you think would be more impressive? Anyway if there's some magical rite that would work perfectly but it would NEED to be a boy, let me know. The important thing is, this really only works if the boy or the girl grows all the way up and is kept 'unblemished,' and if there's some horrible thing the evil witch or wizard has in mind to do next.
I figured if anyone would know something -- or, be able to come up with something -- it would be you! You're the best in our year at any sort of research. (I mean, I don't want to keep you from revising for your NEWTs, of course. But if you're not revising every minute...)
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Date: 2015-04-23 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-23 03:20 pm (UTC)I shall set to work during my usual breaks in revision. The research should prove most refreshing; delving into ancient tomes is one of my favourite amusements.
And have no fear, I knew you had no designs upon the fair Miss Brown. Of course, if you did, it would be sonnets at dawn, and my second would call upon your second, what?
(Dear me, I sound like Finch-Fletchley, there.)
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Date: 2015-04-23 03:21 pm (UTC)