Wizarding Jobs/ Fanficmess/A bit of nonsense.

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)
<catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote:

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> Steve bboy_mn wrote:
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> << Fruit and sugar, since their production in the English climate is 
> limited, have to be imported. >>
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> Catlady:
> Well, maybe not, because of magic. Fruit could be grown in orchards 
> enchanted to have the right climate year-round -- I wonder if the 
> spots on Scilly Isles (irresistably pronounced Silly Isless)  and 
> Ireland where tropical gardens are now planted thanks to the Gulf 
> Stream are connected in some way to wizards? Could sugar be produced 
> by Transfiguring salt?
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bboy_mn:

First I just noticed your name 'Rita Prince Winston'; that has a nice
ring to it. 'Rita Winston', do you mind it I use that in a story for a
minor character?

Back on track. Actually, I lied about the suger to make my point. We
grow suger here in Minnesota, where it is currently 11°F. Most common
sugar, especially bulk commercial sugar is grow in the form of beets.
Yes, that's right; nasty beets, except these are called Sugar Beets;
ugly things. 

I'm not sure I can go along with you on the weather modification.
Perhaps on your enchanted tropical island in the North Atlantic, where
it is very isolated, but I don't think you can get away with messing
with the weather on the island of Britain. 

However, you could genetically alter plant with the help of magic to
make them more resistant to cold. I'm sure that takes a skilled
farm-wizard. Plus you could do barrier and greenhouse charms to trap
heat and extent the growing season. Perhaps even use warming charms
inside the magic greenhouse barrier. Then, of course, for commercial
use (pies, apples sauce, etc...), you engorge the apples to the size
of watermelons, then so the trees can hold them without breaking, you
use a levitation charms.  Who knew wizard farming could be so complex?

Next, enchanted beaches... HEY! I've got one too. Merlin Beach... has
a nice ring. Just south of Torquay and Torquay Bay (Torbay), the
British Riviera, where the water and air are already warm. You walk
through a narrow enchanted raven, which muggles can't see of course,
which opens onto a vast expanse of wide sunny sandy beach in wizard's
space. Of course, the wizard's beach in the south of France is much
nicer that the British beach. Wonderful enchanted beaches on the
Island of Sardinia too.

Business and Inventions-
I came up with the idea of combining the best of Muggle electronics
with the most advanced enchantments to create the programmable
Portpager; portkey and pager in one; range 500km or 300mi. You can go
from London to Paris or Amsterdam, but you can't go from London to
Edinburgh. 

Twenty five preset location for those places you most frequently
travel to. Also, to get to Howarts, since it is outside of the range,
you use two consecutive presets, one takes you near Edinburgh, the
next one takes you to Hogwarts. The latest models can be set to 'step'
through a sequence of presets, allow you to get to Hogwarts in what
appears to be one push of a button. It's great, no more enchanting
manky old boots, and bits of junk. No more messy Floo powder and sooty
fireplaces. Weasley Enterprises in going to make a fortune on these.
Many other handy feature, too numerous to mention. Very complex
magical manufacturing involved in making a product like that. You need
lots of skilled wizards and witches.

Of course, there are the Ron Weasley - World Wizards Chess Champion
Chess Sets (Standard, Deluxe, Premium, and Custom). They are modeled
after the Philosopher's Stone Chess Set (McGonagall gets a royalty)
and they are enchanted to replay the Voldemort game, or you can play
against the board the way Ron did (took a bit of witchery for Hermione
and McGonagall to come up with an enchantment that could be used for
commercial chess sets; both McGonagall and Hermione get a royalty for
that), or you can use it like a standard wizard's chess set. Of
course, each board is autographed by Harry, Ron, Hermione, and
McGonagall (Hermione and McGonagall also get additional royalties for
that). They're making a fortune of these boards. Most popular chess
set ever sold to the wizard world. You need very skill craftwizards to
 make these on a commerical scale.

Speaking of farming, because Harry has a fondness for lemons (at least
the way I write him), Neville has painstakingly crossbread lemons, and
lime with a few characteristics of oranges to make it sweeter, then
genetically crossbred it so it would grow in a cold climate. He named
it the Potter Limon. 

Of course, Neville's rare herb and plant farm is doing exceptionally
well. 

Then there are the less magical ginger beer, ginger cream ice cream,
gin, giant broomsticks (for giants) that Harry designed in conjuction
with Comet Broom company, and then Weasley Enterprise's collaborated
with Comet Brooms on the flying boards that Harry invented. These are
the magic kid's equivalent to skateboards. There going to make a
fortune with these too.

Unresolved-
Harry has a ginger beer company (Harry Potter's Wizard's Brew). That's
easy enough, but how do you deal with the magical logistics of a
business like that? Harry has large crates of ginger imported from
China and Jamaica. The question is, how do wizards transport something
that big? Truck brooms? Trans-Atlantic cargo brooms? Is it likely that
there is a trans-Atlantic and trans-continental charm for moving
cargo? The best I've come up with is that the elves who run the
factory, have a network of house-elves who use elfin magic to get it
across the Atlantic. That's pretty weak, but it was the best I could
do. Things like this are the hazards you run into when you dip your
pen in the magical ink of fiction.

Point?
The wizard world and it's economy are very large and complex;
countless jobs for witches and wizards to do. And while the wizard
world my be stuck in it's old ways, you can't stop innovation. The
number of products and producers are growing all the time. Say, did I
mention Weasley Enterprises (of which Harry, thanks to G1,000 very
early on, is the largest shareholder) line of personal care products?
Those guys are soooo rich, you wouldn't believe it.

Sorry for the long ramble, but it was a bit of fun.

As for your alphabet... I did the best I could. I think we need to
come up with something better tha Zebra, but I don't know what. I'll
think about that.

bboy_mn

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> Catlady: 
> Help me with a wizarding alphabet quilt to hang on the nursery wall:
> 
> A is for Apple
> B is for Broomstick
> C is for Cauldron
> D is for Dragon
> E is for Eagle
> F is for Fireplace (pictured Fireplace has green flames for Floo)
> G is for Glove (pictured Glove is dragonhide)
> H is for Hat -- how about - haunt --
(pictured Hat is stereotype witchy pointy hat)
> I is for Invisible (no picture)
> J -- Juju -- at type of West African fetish/amulet magic.
> K is for Knut 
> L is for Lantern
> M is for Moon
> N -- is for night --
> O is for Owl (pictured Owl is carrying a letter)
> P is for Parchment
> Q is for Quaffle
> R is for Robe
> S is for Sword
> T -- transfigure --
> U is for Umbrella
> V is for Vampire or --  voodoo --
> W is for Wand
> X -- Xuthus - Greek Mythology. The ancestor of the Ionian Greeks. --
> Y -- Yeti - abominable snowman -- or -- Yggdrasil - The great ash
tree that holds together earth, heaven, and hell by its roots and
branches in Norse mythology. --
> Z is for  Zebra (the horsie not the street crossing)