34 — Unfettered, At Last
It took two days for the Department of Magical Transportation to show up at Magnolia Road. And another three days before they showed up at the Grangers. The kids didn’t care, they were using the floo connections in the trunks. They were able to get in as much flying, and, in Hermione’s case, studying with her new friends, as they desired.
To the disappointment of the Gryffindor Quidditich team and all the Weasleys — even Molly, although she tried to hide it — Discord did not make an appearance after that one day. Harry and the fillies were able to impress upon the others that chanting Discord’s name was not a good idea, as he was as likely to turn them into flying squirrels as into flying ponies.
It was actually easy to get the twins to comply.
“If you could do things he could do, imagine the pranks you would pull on people whenever someone interrupted you while you were sleeping or busy doing something really interesting,” Harry had said.
The twins had exchanged looks, shuddered, and talked everyone else out of saying Discord’s name in the hope of getting him to turn them into flying ponies, again.
However, they did notice that they all had a better, almost instinctive, control of their brooms, knowledge of what the weather was about to do, and their eyesight had improved. Oliver said that for the first time ever he could see the snitch when it wasn’t hovering completely still.
Ginny was ecstatic at having the other girls over, a rare event of female company since her best friend’s mother had died earlier that spring and the girl, Luna, didn’t come over anymore. The twins were always too busy with other things to play with their sister — except when they wanted to try a prank, and that had gotten old for her years ago. Now, she avoided them as much as they avoided her. And Ron, well, his idea of a good time was spending hours talking about the Chudley Cannons. But while she liked Quidditch, there were only a certain number of times she could listen to Ron recap the team’s last league championship — 1892 — before fleeing the room, screaming, at the mere mention of it.
When Oliver commented that there was a Quidditch match coming up on the weekend — the Tutshill Tornadoes versus the Wimbounre Wasps, neither of whom were the Chudley Cannons, to Ron’s disappointment — Harry and the girls, and Rainbow Dash, insisted they see the game. It wasn’t a difficult task to convince the others to come along.
The entire string, the six Element bearers, Harry, the fillies, and even Scootaloo’s Aunts, Lofty and Holiday, attended with the Weasleys. The only holdout was Mrs. Weasley, who wasn’t nearly as much a fan as the rest of her family. Even if she had enjoyed her time playing the game as a flying pony.
Rainbow Dash, Lofty, and Scootaloo almost had to be physically restrained from joining the game once they saw how the professionals played. They left the stadium with Rainbow Dash and Lofty planning on setting up a game with Rainbow’s weather team in Equestria. Twilight’s admission that she had several books on the history and rules of the game back at the library had the two adult pegasi racing for the portal home.
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On Tuesday morning, at breakfast, Harry noticed that his trunk was in the dining-room. “Ah, yes,” said Twilight, when he asked why, “Mr. Truckle, the proprietor of the trunk store has agreed to come over today to teach me and several others everything he knows about the Undetectable Expansion, and the runes that it uses.” She wriggled happily, “There are just so many applications for it back in Equestria!” She grinned at Harry. “And there’s nothing better than to have an expert who’s been using a spell for years to teach you about it!” Harry and the fillies nodded in understanding.
She glanced up at the wall clock. “He’s going to Floo in at nine and I wanted you to be able to come and go as you please without interrupting us in the sitting-room.”
That made sense. And he could see that sort of thing happening pretty frequently as ponies in Equestria started to hear about the portal and the new magic spells being discovered.
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The group came to a stop outside Ollivander’s. Twilight bounced in place — disturbingly like Pinkie Pie sometimes did at home — as she turned to face them. “Ready Harry? Girls? Oh! This is so exciting!” she gushed. Of the adult Equestrians, only Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash had come along to pick up the kids’ wands.
The kids nodded nervously. Impossible as it seemed, Twilight was even more impatient to get a wand than they were.
Harry noticed most of the wizards in the alley had stopped to watch Twilight bounce.
She grabbed the door handle and almost teleported inside, the doorbell tinkling musically.
A soft breeze blew through the Alley as the wizards sighed at her disappearance.
It was a Wednesday afternoon outing, seven days after the wand-maker had taken their wand cores. The Grangers and the Weasleys accompanied them as well — the twins had wanted to pick up a few “school” supplies, they claimed, while Molly did some shopping for the house. That, of course, meant both Ron and Ginny were along as well. Ron was clearly envious of those getting new wands and Ginny a bit sad that she wasn’t getting a wand at all.
To their surprise, they had met both Mr. Weasley and the Headmaster after floo-ing into the Leaky Cauldron. Harry considered it highly suspicious that the Headmaster just happened to need to talk with the creepy wand-maker the same day they went to pick up their custom-made wands. And Harry never did hear why Mr. Weasley was there as well, even Mrs. Weasley was surprised to see him. Applejack, Harry was relieved to see from her frown, was just as sceptical.
Mrs. Weasley and the twins went their separate ways at the wand shop, but not without a final warning to the twins to, “. . . behave. Or else.” The look she gave them would have kept Harry on the straight and narrow. From the way they rolled their eyes, he got the impression it was her standard warning for them.
Like their previous visit, the small store easily accommodated them all even though it was definitely too small to do so when looking in from outside. And, again like their previous time, the old wand-maker startled them by abruptly appearing behind the counter. “Good afternoon,” he said softly. He looked over the group and nodded to Dumbledore, “Headmaster.”
He returned his attention to the rest of the herd, “And right on time,” he said approvingly. He reached below his counter and began laying a row of wand boxes on top. “Six wands for six customers.” Harry thought his smile was more than a little creepy.
The old man turned his attention to Ron and Ginny. “I expected you here a bit earlier, but better late than never,” he said to Ron.
Ron stared back at him, eyes wide in surprise.
“And you, my dear, will have to wait until next year,” he said, addressing Ginny.
Then he turned his attention back to the Equestrians, “But first, let’s see how well your new wands like you.”
He carefully lifted one of the boxes and reverently handed it to Twilight. “Your wand,” he said simply, bowing his head slightly.
Twilight was bouncing in place again and almost snatched the box from the old wizard’s hands. She lifted the top off and stared at the beautifully polished wand inside. There was a glow surrounding it. “Oh!” she said excitedly.
“Yes, a perfect match,” murmured the wand-maker.
As she took the wand in her hand and lifted it, a veritable torrent of sparks flew from the end. The glow spread from the wand to Twilight until both were almost too bright to look at, then dimmed. She didn’t appear to notice, although Harry saw that the Headmaster certainly did, given how hard he was squinting through his glasses at her. No one else seemed to notice. That Harry could so easily he attributed to his new glasses — one of the rune settings was to “see magic.”
She gently swished her wand through the air, showering the room in sparks and leaving a glowing trail behind in the air. She reached across the counter and grabbed the old wand-maker in a hug, “Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!” She released the surprised wizard and held up her wand, beaming at it. “This is going to be so much fun!” She started hopping again. Harry noticed that Mr. Weasley and Mr Granger watched her intently. Mrs. Granger elbowed Mr. Granger in the stomach, scowling at him, and then smirking at his uncomfortable expression at getting caught staring.
Ollivander smiled at her. “I am honoured that you approve,” he said softly, giving her a short bow.
“Now then,” he continued, “this one is yours.” He handed a box to Hermione. Hesitantly, she took the box and opened it. Her mouth formed a silent “oh!” as she beheld the gleaming wand. It wasn’t glowing as Twilight’s had been, but it seemed to leap into her hand as she reached for it. Instantly, sparks flew from the tip.
The wand-maker nodded happily, “Yes, another perfect match.”
The next three boxes went to the fillies, and each wand quivered in its box and blew prolific sparks across the room as soon as it was touched.
Harry’s wand, though, had two alicorn hairs, not just one wand core. When he lifted his wand out of the box, a torrent of both light and dark sparks flew across the shop. And he felt as if currents of both cool and warm water were running up his arm from the wand to his heart and head, making him sway dizzily.
The wand-maker turned to Ron. “Now, which is your wand arm?”
Startled out of enviously watching the others examining their wands, Ron said, “Huh? Wand?” He reached into his robes and pulled out his wand. “I got a wand,” he said defensively. “Well, actually, it was Charlie’s wand before he graduated,” he said, his voice dropping off a bit as he finished. He frowned as he looked at the wand. “I think it belonged to one of my Uncles before that,” he finished dejectedly.
“Oh, no,” said Ollivander, “That’s a twelve-inch springy Ash wand with a unicorn tail hair! While close, that’s still not right for you at all. The wand chooses the wizard, after all,” he said reproachfully. “And it is in dreadful condition,” he noted disapprovingly, frowning.
“Well, our budget is a bit tight right now,” Mr. Weasley interrupted, “We’ll have to wait until later to get him a proper wand.”
The wand-maker studied the wizard closely before giving a slow nod. “As soon as practical, then,” he said, frowning.
Meanwhile, Rarity watched thoughtfully, then carded her left-hand fingers through her hair. She looked at her hand and smiled. She pulled a long hair from her left hand with her right and turned to the young wizard.
As Ron sighed and put his wand back in his pocket, she held out her hand to him, the long black hair dangling. “Here, Ronald Weasley,” she said, “See if Mr. Ollivander might be willing to trade you a wand for this.”
Ron looked at her as if she were mad, and hesitantly took the hair. He apparently didn’t notice the black hair rippling and turning a vivid purple. From the way his eyebrows suddenly rose, Harry knew the Headmaster had.
The other Weasleys were just as puzzled, but Harry saw the Headmaster watching the wand-maker intently as the old shopkeeper stood a bit straighter and his eyes seemed a bit brighter. Mr. Weasley, though, frowned as he tried to puzzle out what was actually happening.
“Freely given,” whispered Ollivander as he reverently reached across the counter and held his hand out to Ron. Ron still looked puzzled as he handed the hair to him. A crooked smile appeared on the wizard’s face as he held up the long shimmering purple hair, easily two-and-a-half feet in length. “Yes,” he said, studying the length of hair, “I believe we can call this a more than fair trade.” He inclined his head towards Rarity as she smiled demurely.
She looked at the other hair in her left hand, and then turned to Ginny. “Here, Ginevra Weasley, you may have this one.”
Ginny took it, eyes wide. She looked at her brother and the wand-maker, then pushed up to the counter holding her hand up high. “Me, too!” she said firmly.
He looked down at her. He took the hair and said, “You have full credit for a wand when you are old enough.”
Twilight interrupted. “While there are seasonal variations, the innate ability to use magic does not dramatically change because one day turns into another, no matter how significant that day may be.”
Everyone turned to listen.
“While the usual age for being allowed to use magic is considered eleven, here,” she continued in her lecturing voice, “there are many who are ready before then and many who are not. I think you should consider magical capability and resilience when granting a wand, and not a mostly arbitrary age.” She looked at the wand-maker, one eyebrow arched in challenge.
“That is true,” Ollivander said, nodding again. “However, the Ministry has decreed that no one under the age of eleven may use a wand.”
Twilight shrugged. “Then her parents may keep it for her birthday. And children are allowed to purchase and use wands after receiving their Hogwarts’ letter, as long as they are not seen by non-magicals. Even if their birthday is September First.”
Harry hid a grin. Twilight hadn’t been reading just the Wizarding World spell-books from all the books she had purchased. In fact, he was rather surprised to see her without dark bags under her eyes from lack of sleep. Spike must have been nagging her something fierce. Or she was using an illusion charm, again.
The two stared at each other until the Headmaster interrupted, “I think, in this situation, the Ministry might make an exception. She is, after all, behind protective enchantments at her home.” He paused a moment, then added, “If you think her magic is stable enough for a wand, that is.”
Twilight smirked. “Oh, it is,” she declared quietly.
The wand-maker nodded. “Let me put these away,” he said, lifting the two hairs slightly. Two measuring tapes leapt from behind his counter and started measuring the two Weasley children. He turned and headed for his backroom.
Mr. Weasley stared, surprised, at the interchange. He finally said, “We can’t take those wands! We don’t take charity!”
Rainbow Dash had caught on to what Rarity was doing. “You can’t say it’s charity when all Rarity did was give your children two of her hairs to trade for wands. After all, how much value is there in a discarded hair?”
“But . . . but . . . why would Mr. Ollivander take her hair in exchange for wands?” Mr. Weasley asked, bewildered.
Rainbow Dash shrugged. “Maybe he has a fetish for purple hair?”
More than one person choked or coughed at that suggestion. The Headmaster’s eyes’ twinkled madly as he obviously held back a laugh. Rarity merely raised her eyebrows and cast a disapproving eye on Dash.
“In any case,” Rainbow continued, “Giving your children a hair cost Rarity nothing. So how is that charity? If someone rich offered to share her umbrella with you in a rainstorm, would you accuse her of charity and walk away into the rain?”
At a loss as to how to continue to argue against the wands, Mr. Weasley gave up. He was sure, though, that somehow this was charity. He just couldn’t figure out how.
After a tense moment as Ginny and Ron alternately stared at their parent, Rarity, Dash, and the measuring tapes that were now measuring the size of their ears, the old wand-maker came back to the counter with an armload of boxes. “That’s enough,” he said, and the tapes fell to the floor.
It took only three tries before Ron was holding a fourteen-inch Willow wand with a unicorn tail hair as the core, which got him a lingering look from Ollivander.
Then the wizard turned to Ginny. Her second attempt was a thirteen-inch Yew wand with a pegasus feather core that sparked quite nicely as she waved it. “Yes,” he said, nodding, “a perfect match. Just remember, take care of your wand and it will take care of you.”
After settling up their bill, Sweetie Belle said, “Excuse me, Mr. Ollivander? Is there any way to carry a wand without having to carry it in your hand all the time? My dress doesn’t have any pockets.” The other girls all nodded or mumbled agreement.
The wand-maker stared at her with his watery eyes. “Yes, my dear,” he said. “I have wand holsters over here.” He walked to the far end of the counter pulled up a box. He pulled out a series of leather bracelets and laid them across the counter. None were any wider than the four fingers on Harry’s hand. “Just slide your wand into this slot,” he demonstrated with his wand. The wand, easily longer than the distance from his elbow to his fingers, slid into the small bracelet.
“They have comfort and sizing runes so you won’t even notice you’re wearing them, as well as anti-summoning runes to protect it and your wand. To retrieve the wand, simply position your hand to catch your wand and the wand will slip right into your palm.”
While the Equestrians all took a step back, the others all stepped over for a closer look. “Uh, do those come in akran, akromn . . . ,” Sweetie Belle started.
Rarity cleared her throat, “Ac-ro-man-tu-la silk,” she supplied.
“. . . yeah, that.”
Ollivander looked at the holsters and shrugged. “They can be, but it is a galleon more expensive, making them two galleons each. And I’ll have to order them.” He thought for a moment. “What colours would you like?”
That stumped them for a moment. “Can you spell them to be chameleon? That way they will always match their attire,” Rarity said.
“There are runes for that, I believe, that could be sewn into place for a sickle more.”
“Excellent,” Rarity said. “Let’s do that. We’ll need five.”
“We’d like one as well,” said Mr. Granger. Hermione beamed up at her father. Mrs. Granger gave her husband a long look. What they hadn’t spent on a wand they could easily spend on their daughter’s wand holster.
Harry looked over at Ron and Ginny who were examining the holsters wistfully. They knew they weren’t getting one.
He looked up at Rarity and cleared his throat. When she glanced at him, Harry held up two fingers and pointed at the two Weasley children. He mouthed “birthday.” A light smile crossed the Equestrian’s lips and she nodded approvingly. It was, after all, little Ginny’s birthday today. And they could easily justify the one for Ron by claiming it was merely a belated birthday present. Or Christmas present.
“It will take a few days for them to be made,” he said to Rarity, “I’ll owl you when they’re ready.”
“Excellent,” she said, and started pulling galleons out of their wallet. The old wizard gave her a puzzled look as she put down more than just what was required for five wand holsters. She leaned a bit closer over the counter and whispered something. He nodded and took her payment wordlessly.
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Back at the Weasley homestead, the children were too excited over finally getting their wands to think about flying. They were eager to try those spells they had heard about over the last few days of listening at lunch as Hermione had talked about what she had read.
The first spell was, naturally, lumos, followed by nox.
Harry rubbed his hand over his ear. “Ron, there’s no need to shout. Volume doesn’t affect the spell, only intent. If you want a bright light, push more magic into your wand.” He looked at the others, “Just whisper the spells from now on. That way we won’t distract each other. Or, better yet, just think them. And waving your wand around madly doesn’t make the spell better.” As a unicorn, he hadn’t had to move his head at all, except to aim certain spells. And he had never had to say the name of the spell.
“But,” Ron asked, “How do I push my magic?”
Harry and Sweetie Belle sighed.
Repeating what Twilight had told him, he said, “Your magic is like a big pool of water inside you. The bigger the pool, the more magic you can cast. The deeper the pool, the longer you can keep that spell going. And the more you use your magic, the bigger and deeper the pool becomes.”
Ron looked at him blankly. The others, even Sweetie Belle, were listening.
Harry sighed. “Okay. If you want to see the pool, you have to clear your mind of distractions, which isn’t easy!” He frowned in thought. “That is what I did when I first got to Ponyville and found out about magic.” He cleared his throat. “First, make sure you’re comfortably seated. Then close your eyes and try not to think.”
He sighed again. “And you’ll instantly think of something. What I did was picture a box with a lid that I stuffed that thought into and closed the box.”
He took a deep breath. “However, what I discovered was that you’ll have a lot of those thoughts, so you need to make a lot of boxes, and label them. But each time it will get easier, and it will be longer between those interruptions. Eventually, they’ll stop happening and you’ll be in this big quiet space. After a while, you’ll notice there’s something nearby, a big pool. That’s your magic.”
He paused a moment. “Then imagine a tiny stream coming from that pool to your arm and down to your wand. And that’s it.”
He looked at Ron. “Now, you’ll probably need a box labelled Chudley Cannons, inside a giant box labelled Quidditich!” The others laughed. “And inside that Chudley Cannons box will be a bunch of others about the different players and the team’s statistics.”
He looked at everyone. “It won’t happen fast, it took me several weeks, but boy, was it worth it! And it makes it soo much easier to remember things, too. Especially schoolwork.”
“Several weeks!” Ron looked very dismayed. The others didn’t look that happy at the thought of all that work, either.
Harry sighed and thought a moment. “Okay,” Harry said, “Let’s try this.” He wasn’t confident enough in his own abilities to try what Twilight usually did, but this was worth an attempt. He stepped up beside Ron and grabbed his wand hand in his. “See if you can feel this,” he said as he poured a bit of magic into his hand and pushed it into Ron’s hand and up into his wand. “Lumos,” he whispered, making it glow.
Ron jerked his hand away and the wand’s glow went out. “ ’Cor! That felt weird!”
Harry grabbed his hand again. “Okay, let’s do that again.” A moment later the wand was glowing. “Okay, now you do that.” Harry slowly decreased the magic he was pushing into Ron’s hand. The wand’s glow sputtered a few times, but eventually Harry let go of Ron’s hand and the wand stayed lit.
“Now, then,” Harry said, “While keeping the wand glowing, trace that weird feeling back to your magic pool.”
It was hilarious to watch Ron’s eyes go cross-eyed as he tried to do both at once. Naturally, the moment he took his attention off the wand, it went out. However, he was clearly making progress as his continued efforts showed. Soon, they were all trying to feel their way to their magic pools while Harry supervised. Which meant he got to eat most of Mrs. Weasley’s snack tarts while they were distracted.
As Harry expected, Sweetie Belle was the first to announce her success. “Oh, there it is!” Then, in a slightly disappointed tone, she continued, “Oh, I can’t really see it but I can tell something’s there.”
“Maybe you have to do that meditation stuff to actually see it.”
“Hmm,” she said distractedly, her wand’s glow slowly getting brighter and dimmer.
Once they all had lumos and nox under control, they moved on to colloportus and alohomora, locking and unlocking the back door. That was followed by silencio — which required a rescue from Mrs. Weasley and led them to finite incantatem. And a scolding for playing with magic without anyone older supervising them! Mrs. Weasley dragged Percy from his room and made him watch over them, after that. And Percy made them redo all the spells they had already done, so he could critique them. All of which pretty much took them the rest of the afternoon.
That evening was the first time that the Equestrians returned home as a group. Previously, the adults had been spending their days in Equestria and only returning to Little Whinging for the evenings, primarily just Applejack, Twilight, and Rarity. They were waiting for the go ahead from the solicitor about presenting Blueblood’s bona fides — and studying the materials Yueshi gave them regarding what he thought they needed to know about Britain, its government, and what they might expect from the government, the people, and the rest of the world.
At this point they owned almost all the land within a quarter-mile of the Magnolia Road Playpark, and the Guards had started building a more permanent station around the portal tree. It matched the one in Equestria, although on a much smaller scale. Having to use only pegasi and earth ponies for the building was slowing things down markedly — they didn’t want to chance the unicorns’ magic spells being detected by the wizards. However, being able to cast weight-reduction spells on the materials did compensate somewhat for that.
The previous evenings had been spent watching either the BBC or films, with a little bit of showing off what the boy and fillies had learned in magic that day at the Weasleys.
To keep Scootaloo from becoming too homesick, Twilight had managed to talk her Aunt Lofty into coming through the portal a few times to spend the night. Rarity and Applejack coming to stay over on a regular basis helped the other two girls to stay happy. The adults wanted to get the children used to being away from home before sending them away to Hogwarts.
This evening, though, they would be returning to Equestria.
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Poor Mr Weasley he has no clue what is going on. While it seems everyone else does
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The classic comic-relief clueless father. Not that that was intended.
Oh come on... bring some Wizards with you! They must learn! Oh yes you never fail to delight with your chapters!
I don't think there are any laws against children under the age of 11 owning a wand, it's just that most parents don't bother because children under the age of 11 generally can't control their magic yet and if they can then they just practice with a family wand until it's time to head for Hogwarts.
Nice chapter!
Muhahaha...yah I bet there were alot of disappointed wizards and maybe a few witches who were sad twilight stopped dancing. It was probably like the Adam Sandler movie click. Well Harry does need a father figure. But for the love of god no one from the order of the phoenix they left potter to be abused because dumbledore told them it was necessary plus I'm not gonna lie I hate serious james remus and pettigrew they were all bullies no different then dudley. Serious wasn't even repentant that his bullying and the loss of Lily his best friend led snape to fully join the death eaters. He wouldn't of lashed out at Lily if it probably wasn't for the months of torment the mauraders put him through coming out in a rage moment.
Rarity has something planned...
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Agreed, but we'll have to see how the story goes.
I wonder how this knowlegde about magic in Hogwarts.
And how will Dumbledore react then he found out they are Ponys.
Maybe ends Harry Potter up as Alycorn (ok then then he ends up as female so the CMC in the first chapter are right about filly think)
and
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I watched today star trek and one of the other moment jumped Discord in it and transformed Riker and Picard in Pegasie,
And Worf in a Earth Pony, which was PINK!!!!!!
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Imagine the paper work that the ministry will have when they find out that not only is there a portal to another world. But that said world is filled with magical creatures that can and will tell them to shove it.
Harry's conceptualized meditation! well done! He'll see a marked increase in efficient mana use, as well as general ease in the same. It's always much easier to work with materials one can actually perceive after all.
Though as to wand movement, while it may be meaningless in this context, its not always a waste of time. Some schools use the physical recreation of magical runes as yet another way to impose the will of the caster upon reality. intent, speech, gesture, paraphernalia. The more layers of meaning involved, the greater the weight of the spell on the world.
I better Ron is going to discover an unknown sense of fashion that he never knew he had form his new wand, and maybe star having sudden creative . urges.
I was reading prior comments and it's funny I had the same discussion of genetics in the story wolf in cybernetic armor. We can use the same example I used there ....pretty much a pure blood (wizard) wolf whose genetics will be WW who breeds with a dog (muggle) ww will always have half wolf (half blood) children Ww if you then mix it with a regular dog again Ww x ww only half are half wolves Ww but the ww pups might be squibs carrying the recessive gene for wizardry and since you can never get rid of recessive genes like lets say using a made up lineage ....grandfather was native american but grandmother was italian that means the child was 50 50 then married a half irish half french now the offspring is 25 25 25 25 now you infuse someone whose full blooded ...... German 100 ... there offspring is now 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 50 no matter how diluted a bloodline is they will always have the blood. The reason i used native American as a blood example is because in order to claim benefits like no taxs you have to prove atleast 16% blood relation 25% for some tribes. So the grand children could claim but unless they marry someone with native ancestry the great grandkids are outta luck. Squibs and muggles are the same way the recessive genes still there even if it's been a few generations and like dark eyed parents having a light eyed child because both sides carry the light eyed recessive gene. I'm not going into the WWbg (bg=blond hair green eyes)x wwrb (rb=red hair brown eyes) kinda genetic graphs just remember dark colors are dominant light colors are recessive they make even my head hurt.
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Can't wait to see what happens to the first wizard who tries to sneak through the portal. Key word tries.
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Sorry, but you are wrong. Straight from the book, it says:
You are allowed OTHER pets at the Headmaster's discretion.
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That's actually pretty funny. However, in canon, wands don't have any sort of measurable affect on their users (except the Elder Wand, and its been around for centuries, so it is an exception).
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Funny things that canon don't have "Canterlot nobles". Hell, the entire show has only four ponies (excluding princesses) that hold official titles. And two of then not even from Equestria.
Are we coming up upon that time? Someones bound to try to cross over eventually
So since this was inspired by magic school days do we get a bonus chapter when it officially surpasses it in the number of likes?
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Ooohhh........ can we? Can we?!
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Well there certainly seems to be a noble class (we see mentions of dukes and duchesses and know of at least one of both) however the noble class as fanon tends to portray them as greedy, self absorbed borderline speciests who can overrule Celestia is purely fanon. Yes, in Sweet and Elite we see a snobby couple, but all they are: Snobby. And even then the episode also has their opposite in Fancy Pants.
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Duke and duchess of Maretonia (pony version of Macedonia or Estonia). Who looks like they not exactly from Equestria. In general people agree that these two from some independent nation. Beside those two other nobles are Blueblood and Shining - both are princes. And that pretty much it - no other nobles even mentioned in canon.
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Sure, why not?
And the same for number of views.
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To be fair Sirus Black didn’t have a choice in not being there as Harry Godfather.
Hmm Sirus and Twilight... no don’t see it.
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They're a Duke and Duchess of a specific territory. That means they govern a duchy loyal to a higher authority. Occam's Razor says Maretonia is a duchy of Equestria.
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It was totally his choice, you gotta remember that Sirius was a little crazy and quickly gave Harry to Hargrid so he could chase after Wormtail. It was his poor choices that led to him getting imprisoned in Azkaban if he had told just one other person about making Peter the secret keeper he would have avoided that fate.
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They are the only one. No other dukes even mentioned in a show. Unless you stated that Equestria have exactly one duchy it's make far more sense that they not from Equestria.
History have examples of independent duches. And one of MLP books also mentioned independent duchy of Monacolt. Same book also mentioned Maretonia and IIRC also as independent territory.
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A mistake in the heat of the moment. Sirus was focused on getting wormtail a few seconds to tell someone could cause him to loose the chance.
A very human mistake one that would have freed him if they bothered with a fair trial. One magical oath or memory view. He was unfairly judged and sentenced.
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New creative pranks, probably
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You sure about that name? Looks like a cold between madness of Little Whinging and Privet drive
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Sorry wrong person you got there.
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They're the only one we know of, but if Maretonia is not a duchy of Equestria that means there's an even bigger kingdom of ponies out there that they are a duchy of. That's a really big assumption to make, and it makes far more sense that they are a duchy of Equestria as it would also explain why they rather than the king they serve came to Equestria.
While there are independent duchies out there, these are usually the result the natural phasing out of royalty. Equestria is not in such a state, as it is still firmly an absolute monarchy (well, quadriarchy, technically).
This chapter was necessary to move things forward, though I'm wondering about Harry and the fillies doing magic at the home in Little Whinging. I have to assume that didn't trip any detections, or they didn't use their wands for that. I'm amused at the benefits of seeing magic with the new glasses, among other things, will do for Harry, and if it will carry over as a pony.
Now they are going back to Equestria to tie up some loose ends hinted at in earlier chapters. All the items they got shrunk can now be unshrunk and unlocked with their wands, and they get to test wand usage back in Equestria as ponies, the brooms as ponies, meet their postage owls (would they need bringing them as pets or other pets? And if Ron can unknowingly bring a shapeshifted wizard as a pet, ponies might unknowingly bring a changeling or two as theirs), and have a welcome back party and meetings. Plus, if the trunks are setup, they could quickly visit Appleoosa, the Crystal Empire, Pinkie's family, or Canterlot in just a few moments.
Finally, they can be given any final advice, full medical checkups (as a starting point to later see what being in the human world so long would do, plus measure the effects of schooling there) or instructions before they leave for Hogwarts in a few weeks.
The rise of Quidditch as a sport in Equestria can also get underway. Now they just need to figure out a way for non-pegasi to participate. For some reason I have the image of brooms strapped to ponies' backs. I'm sure the ponies can think of something.
Rarity also has yet to present them their clothing for school. And did they read their books yet on these unique ideas like protecting their minds, animagi transformation theory, and Harry's legend and family? How else will they be able to check for cutie marks if they can't turn back into ponies? Wait until the holidays?
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On Equestria Game they sat together with Saddle Arabians. And as far as I know Saddle Arabia not a part of Equestria. If they a state inside Equestria why exactly they placed together with representatives of independent nation? On one level lower you can actually see local authorities like Mayor Mare and Fancy Pants. It would make more sense to put them together with them.
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A Duke and Duchess would be very much above a mayor.
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And also can be an independent state. So?
And Princess Summit only have cities representatives and dont have dukes or any other nobles
Now I’m wondering if a floo network would cross realities. If one trunk was in Equestria will the built in floo chimney allow a pony to go to Hogwarts? Maybe not Hogwarts due to the protection. If the floo works across realities would they change forms or stay ponies?
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Yah Dumbledore sorta did give serious the shaft seriously. Real death eaters left and right got trials but the one guy who wasn't one didn't. Still hate him but he deserved a trial. What can you do what makes sense outside the story would make for a very short book. Like using truth serum to make sure death eaters were really under the imperious curse would lead to less antagonists. Heaven forbid they execute wizards for crimes against wizardkind and humanity in general. They declared war killing who knows how many muggles and what they consider lesser wizards. Hell a competent mediwizard from st. Mungos with the ability to use legilamency could've read their mind I mean even Harry got a few memories outta snape who's a master of occulemency that shields minds and snape was only a master because voldermort would've killed him for a traitor which gave him motivation to learn.
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Another sign that Rowling is great at coming up with a beautiful world but lousy at figuring out how that world works.
Only way I can see it working in the case of Sirus Black is by the time he was captured his mind already snapped into insanity. Making reading his mind hard if not impossible or dangerous. Reading the mind of a madman might cause you to go mad too.
His self guilt by being the one who talked the Potters into changing the secret keeper to Wormtail could throw off any detectors. He feels guilty so a magic device to sense guilt could register the guilt.
Yeah that one thing I don’t forgive Dumbledore for. He should have fought for a fair trial for Sirus. I can’t think of a proper head canon why he didn’t.
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Hymn logically speaking those deluxe trunks count as warded residences considering they can only be opened by keyed individuals and have working floo networks meaning magical residence so they should be able to practice inside the trunk even in little wingenton. *booyah in your face ministry rule lawyering for the win* Plus they more then likely have muggle notice me not charms if they goto airports and have to empty their pockets. The granger only got one because heromine is probably classified as a young witch.
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One word *morphine* that'll calm a guy down .... or weed. So maybe two words ...lol.
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Calm or not a broken mind still shattered. An insane man in asylum is still insane even drugged up.
We don’t know how bad Sirus mind snapped and worst it clear he wasn’t being treated in Azkaban. Only when he saw the photo with wormtail did he gain focus enough to escape.
Another sign that Rowling doesn’t figure things out well. Why does Azkaban get the paper delivered to murdering insane prisoners? Someone in solitary confinement don’t get news.
Nor did anyone think of how to keep an animage confined. Kind of a big security hole there.
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Sirius was out of his mind by the time he was found at the scene of the crime:
Dumbledore didn't help because he believed Sirius was guilty. He didn't know that Sirius passed the role of secret keeper onto Pettigrew and there were several witnesses who saw Pettigrew shout out that Sirius betrayed the Potters moments before an explosion seemingly killed him along with 12 muggles.
As for not getting a trial that was Barty Crouch Sn's fault as he made certain many Deatheaters didn't get trials because many had escaped punishment by claiming to have been under the imperius curse.
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Must have forgotten those details. Thanks I knew Sirus mind snapped at the scene of the fight with wormtail. Hmm I wonder if it wasn’t helped by some spell.
Okay I can forgive Dumbledore now. Just proves he’s just as human as the rest of us.
Maybe one day an Equestria team may challenge an Earth team on interdimensional tournament. Or maybe they can introduce Hoofball to Earth?
Hey, there's nothing wrong with beautiful blue hair! I know it looks good on Rarity!
Thank you dear.
And I like the scene where Harry taught Ron. He might become a magic instructor quicker than in the book. Seemed he picked up a thing or two from living with Twilight.
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Several members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team were natural pegasi, imagine Oliver Wood and the others being recruited out of school... to join an Equestrian team to play there.
Is it bad I enjoy the debates and talks here as much as the Story?
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That's what always got me the minister is chosen by the wizengamot with Dumbledore supporters and half the purebloods on trial back then he literally could do anything like have barty crouch removed due to incompetence seeing as the only reason they won was dumb luck. I mean I can see him not knowing about the protection Lily gave Harry upon her death. But he used Arvada kadavera on a 1 year old I mean really using power word kill on a toddler when a stupify charm would've been alot more funny .... I mean just as lethal *cough cough* .... don't kick the baby ....kick the baby .....i know it's twisted but I just pictured baby Harry flying out a window like a football and landing in a trashcan with voldermort yelling goal.... I can't stop giggling.
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Rarity's hair wasn't used to make him a wand, merely traded it for a wand.
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Add to that Dumbledore could have been Minister himself but refused. We can assume it so he can still be Headmaster at Hogwarts when Harry gets there.
Still proof Dumbledore has a lot of political power.
Hilarious 'gift vs charity' running gag! Almost as funny as Twilight correcting adult wizards about misconceptions or poor magic spells!