3.8.1 Magical Ability

[dungrollin]

Sorry for delay, internet playing up yet again.

Jen: Dogs dressed as bees....but why?!?

Dot: I liked the `*premier* online repository' bit.

Jen: Yikes Dot, I don't want to read about you in People. Does
the 'risk make it fun'? : ) 

Dot: No it doesn't. I'd never have been put in Gryffindor. But I 
love this bloody country, and I don't want to leave unless I really 
have to. Of course I could just clap my hands over my ears and sing 
loudly and claim that the rebels and militias will disarm and we'll 
have a free and fair election and everything will be fine. Tra-la-la.

Jen: And if the birdsong turns into gunfire
will you still have a chance to leave? Take care of yourself!

Dot: Heh - there's a British couple who live just down the lagoon, 
and I have a place reserved on their `escape boat' (not nearly as hi-
tech as it sounds), which would get us to the airport (95% of the 
battle) if the roads and bridges are too dangerous. That's for last 
resort rampaging-mobs-coming-up-the-road situations. So yeah, 
emergency planning is being... planned. 

Ginger – I've gone through all those posts, and the ones that had 
your name on as reviewer I assumed must have been banished to that 
colloportused box at the bottom of the lake – you know, the one with 
all the chains and padlocks, with the 24/7 mermaid guard... So I 
didn't touch them. (You did the purebloods/halfbloods bit as well, 
didn't you? Anything reviewed by you I didn't touch, which, you're 
right, turned out to be all of them.)

In the end, I decided that the "Can squibs/muggles make potions" 
posts would be best off left cross-coded to squibs and potions. (But 
definitely not in magical ability). Anyone complaining? Good. I'm 
not quite sure about the "can Muggles use magical items" stuff 
though. We don't actually have a code for Muggles, do we? Though we 
do have one for magical items. I might just leave them in there.

I'll finish tidying this section up (may come back and ask further 
questions for those currently under Misc) and then come up with a 
nice long definition for the catalogue tool which lists everything 
that mustn't go in.

Dot
Off dung beetling this afternoon. Hooray!