[ SECRET POST #2480 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2480 ⌋

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(Sabrina the Teenage Witch)


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Comments

Re: HP-related fic writing questions

[(Anonymous)]

parents actually did this to prevent their teenager kids from joining the army during particular bad conflicts. I read a story (Mouse- the comic book) where both brothers had to starve for a while/got a bad diet and everything to be as sick and underweight as possible.

So yeah, it was harmful. However why aim for totally 100% safe and justifiable methods when you write this scenario? Isn't it more interesting to let your characters do the necessary, what they think is best in this difficult situation?
I think you shouldn't shy away from it.
If the father is a healer he probably should also take precautions against getting caught though.

Re: HP-related fic writing questions

[(Anonymous)]

Ohh interesting. i see.

That's true, it is. Also since he is careful about it , it's not like it would be exposing them to ebola or something. Just some itchy spots and a fever.

I know personally that even if no illness is mentioned, having rashes on your body is a good way to make people think you're contagious. When I was thirteen , I developed a skin allergy that caused me to break out in hives when my body got too warm. My teacher sent me out in the hall because she was afraid I would spread illness to the other students (I didn't complain though since it was math. It got to sit outside and read so , either way it was a win. Ironically the book I had been reading then was a Harry Potter book )

Hmm perhaps he could acquire what he needed from a roundabout source, or order it under another name. Or maybe there's potions that could fake a fever. (the mother is an herbologistso there's ingredients taken care of )

Re: HP-related fic writing questions

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, the wizard world seems kind of gullible.
If there are ways to fake an illness though, then there will be ways to detect them with magic. I mean Fred and George's shop also sold widely popular sickness candies (sry don't know the original term), so there's more awareness of such methods.
It would be fun if a "muggle illness"/poison ivy spooks the wizards so much that they let them be.

It probably depends on the background of this family as well. If they have muggle blood, then the authorities will be happy to let the kids stay at home if they have an excuse, I suppose->
That way they'll be hindered in their education, one could possibly reason why they don't get jobs etc, pick on them without pure blood witnesses/fellow students to support them.
Plus there's more focus/attention on "pure bloods" in school. If you look at history, oppressors are more than happy to prevent discriminated groups from attending school. Or they give them seperate institutions (and those discriminated groups had to go along, often because they also feared percecution), which then made them vulnerable without witnesses.

If they're thought of valueable by the Death Eaters though, then they'll want the kids in school to educate them "properly".

You said it's only to buy some time though, right?

Re: HP-related fic writing questions

[(Anonymous)]

That's true.

That sounds like a great idea. A muggle illness would be something that escapes their radar but something like poison ivy would probably freak them out. Especially if they thought it was contagious. I have an idea of them using fever fudge to further the illusion and have the younger daughter eat the remainders of the fever fudge, thinking it regular fudge and the father wort of wings it and uses that as evidence that "oh no it's spreading".

Later the kids are sent off to a relative far away and the father tells the Ministry people that it spread around and they sent the kids to relatives to recover. That's what he's trying to buy time for.

Well the mother was a pureblood, but I think the father is a halfblood and has some definite muggle background. I wanted to avoid too much (completely muggleborn) because then the question would be "why isn't the father being brought in to the ministry?"