charms, Percy, twins

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

So, remember how Percy described the fifth year Charms class's treasure hunt? I'm guessing the twins took note of his discussion of revealing spells and that's why they nicked his textbook. Smart boys: they're going to figure out the Marauders' map any day now! (That's my guess, anyway.)

Comments

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

I love dithering.

Agree totally about JKR's magic being hard, and Occlumency being a cool example. I think potions is another nice example of that idea.

Drat. I feel we've exhausted this line of conversation for the moment. Well, let me flail about for some more topics. What's your opinion on Owain Pritchard (http://alt-owain.livejournal.com/986.html), and how he'll fit into the story?

And/or, any additional clue on what Amycus's (http://alt-amycus.livejournal.com/3912.html) project is?

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Why not make a new alt_fen post about Owain? Then maybe other fen will see it and jump in. I think we may be talking only to each other on this thread now. (I've got nothing on Amycus -- he's amazing in a really terrifying way; his range of criminal thinking is absolutely astounding; and I find him utterly unpredictable. My only observation is that I think he implies that Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was a witch or was killed in a magical ritual -- perhaps tidbits fate is to be like hers.)

xo

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Why not make a new alt_fen post about Owain?

Mostly because I feel like it's difficult to get a conversation started in alt_fen, so now that we have one it seems easier to continue it than to try to start something new. A lot of posts lately are getting only one or two comments, and I don't really know how to turn that into a discussion.

Have you noticed that? I don't really know what to do about it. Maybe instead of having posts about a specific topic, have a weekly post like DISCUSS HERE and see if that works better to get people talking? I do get the impression that people want to talk, but that somehow nobody really knows how to get it started.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there's a firm pattern, but my impression has been that the fen posts about specific plot issues or character events elicit more discussion than those that raise a number of things at once. There may not have been enough of the latter to really judge that.

I also think that people have peaks and valleys in the amount of free time they have: sometimes that means I've gotten way behind on the game and can't post to alt_fen because of it; other times I'm keeping up with the game but don't have enough time left to post here; other times I just don't have an idea about the topic that's being discussed (like Amycus -- he's beyond me a lot of the time).

Not sure. Don't get discouraged, though!