From 8e4431c8c758825537870bd0fc60a7bdeac6c416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Blake Kongslie
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:16:45 -0800
Subject: Collapsing all changes up until this point, mostly to compact the
repo.
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+[[!meta title="Miscellaneous writings"]]
+
+This is mostly just a place to organize stupid crap I write when I'm bored.
+
+Editorial comments can be sent to [[jblake@omgwallhack.org]].
+
+I render parseltongue using a different font. If
+your browser doesn't show the word parseltongue in a
+distinct font, try upgrading to a newer version.
+
+I have some [[standard notes|notes]] on the Harry Potter universe.
+
+My oneshots:
+[[!inline pages="oneshots/*" archive="yes" description="Oneshots" feedfile="oneshots" sort="title"]]
+
+For my own reference, this ikiwiki supports these directives:
+[[!listdirectives]]
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+[[!meta title="Notes on the Harry Potter universe"]]
+
+# Wizarding Economy
+
+This is a conversion table between the various forms of wizarding currencies,
+and an approximate conversion table to British pounds-sterling. For most of the
+period of the Harry Potter series (assuming Y0=1980), the US dollar hovered
+around slightly over half the value of the British pound-sterling, giving the
+galleon an approximate value of US $100.00.
+
+[[!table data="""
+ | Knuts | Sickles | Galleons | GBP
+**Knuts** | | 1/29 | 1/493 | £0.10
+**Sickles** | 29 | | 1/17 | £2.90
+**Galleons** | 493 | 17 | | £49.30
+**GBP** | 10 | ~1/3 | ~1/50 |
+"""]]
+
+A knut is about the value of a piece of candy. A sickle is about the value of a
+small paperback book, a small toy, a nice quill, or a small packet of parchment.
+A galleon is about the value of a new textbook, a professional workman's tool,
+or a day's wage for a basic worker. A meal costs about S4. A night's stay in a
+tavern runs about S7.
+
+Let's say buildings run about one sickle per square foot per month (probably
+half the cost of renting property in the muggle world) and a reasonable store on
+Diagon Alley leases out at about G88/month, or G1056/year. The Triwizard
+winnings are just about right for Fred and George to open their store (6 month
+lease, and ~G500 for stocking costs and such). Ollivander needs to sell about
+200 wands per year to make rent and a basic living wage.
+
+Here we have a basic income table. I've decided to make the wizarding world
+slightly poorer than the muggle world, based on the apparent relative lack of
+large industry in the former. Muggle values are presented for reference.
+
+[[!table data="""
+ | Muggle| | Wizarding|
+ | **Weekly** | **Yearly** | **Weekly** | **Yearly**
+**Lower** | £350.00 | £18,200.00 | G6 S6 K18 | G332 S4 K8
+**Median** | £500.00 | £26,000.00 | G9 S2 K5 | G474 S10 K28
+**Upper** | £750.00 | £39,000.00 | G13 S11 K22 | G711 S16 K13
+"""]]
+
+Assume disposable income is about half of total income. The Weasleys are poor
+because while Arthur is a department head, it's of a small and poorly-respected
+department. Call his income G10/wk, and as the only wage-earner that leaves
+about G40/yr disposable income per family member. In contrast, let's say the
+Malfoys are pulling in money from landholdings and investments for both adults,
+totaling about G28/wk, leaving more than G242/yr disposable income per family
+member. Draco has better than 6 times the spending power of Ron, not counting
+savings.
+
+Let's call Hogwarts tuition about G40/yr for a student, which gets the Weasleys
+in but just squeaking by and having to purchase everything used.
+
+# Wizarding Population
+
+Ollivander needs to sell about 200 wands per year. Let's say all wizards buy
+exactly one wand, from Ollivander; we'll allow other wandmakers to cancel out
+the sales of extra wands, and overlook income from cleaning kits and holsters as
+a simplification. Hogwarts has incoming classes of about 40 students. So, I'll
+propose 4 other schools in Wizarding Britain; less prestigious than Hogwarts (it
+is, after all, the "best" wizarding school) and consequently not visible in
+canon.
+
+So, a total "class size" for a year is about 200 witches and wizards. Let's call
+median life expectancy around 100 years, and we get a population number of
+20,000 for wizarding Britain. 3,600 of that is underage. Wizards seem to work
+into their old age quite regularly, so let's call retirement age at about 10
+years, removing another 2,000. That leaves a workforce of some 14,400 persons.
+
+If the bureaucratic overhead of wizarding Britain is around 10% of the
+workforce, then the Ministry employs some 1,440 witches and wizards. If you want
+the Ministry to be more inept, you can plausibly stretch this as high as around
+3,600 before the society starts to fall apart.
+
+I'm going to assume about 12.5% of wizarding Britain is pureblood, or 2,500
+witches and wizards. They have disproportionately high representation in the
+government. Essentially all purebloods attend Hogwarts, which is a contribution
+of some 20-25 students per year, more than half the Hogwarts class. Slytherin
+consumes maybe 8 of these leaving 4-6 for each of the other houses.
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+[[!meta title="Four Weeks"]]
+
+They had been excited to go to Hogwarts. For Harry, especially, it was a dream
+come true — freedom from the Dursleys, and a whole magical world to explore!
+None of them had expected this.
+
+Four weeks without rest. Four weeks without sleep. Four weeks of torture. Four
+weeks of the worst nights of their lives.
+
+*Four weeks.*
+
+The Gryffindor first-year boys, bar one, sat wide awake on their beds. The only
+illumination was moonlight streaming in through the open window; it was sometime
+after midnight, but the cool night air did nothing to calm the minds of the
+students.
+
+"This is inhumane. We have to find some way to stop this." Seamus was the first
+to speak.
+
+"What can we do?" Dean lamented, "We've tried *everything!* Nothing works!"
+
+"Maybe... if we ask another prefect...?"
+
+"I don't think so, Neville. We already asked Percy to help, and you know how
+little good that did us. One measly hour!"
+
+**SNOOOOOORK** The conversation was interrupted, predictably, by a snore from
+the fifth bed. Ronald Weasley's bed.
+
+"One hour was all it took for him to overpower a silencing charm!"
+
+"But... what else can we do? Professor McGonagall said we aren't allowed to
+sleep on the couches in the common room, and there's nowhere else to go!"
+Neville was close to tears, clearly falling apart from the stress of so many
+restless nights.
+
+"I may have a plan." Harry had been silent up until this point; now, 3 pairs of
+eyes stared at him, awaiting his next words. The brief pause in conversation was
+filled with another snore from Ron. Bits of plaster fell from the ceiling,
+gently dusting the occupants of the dorm.
+
+"We already know that he's impossible to wake at this point; I think Seamus
+established that after the fire incident two nights ago. I have my broom; you
+three can help me get him on it, then I'll fly out the window—"
+
+"I know this is serious, Harry, but isn't murder taking things a bit too far?"
+
+"Quiet, Neville! Harry, I like this plan, please continue."
+
+"As I was saying, I'll fly him out, then back in through an open window to one
+of the classrooms. He can sleep there for the night, and we'll finally be able
+to get some rest ourselves."
+
+"How do you know there'll be an open window?"
+
+"Fred and George were doing *something* in the classroom right outside the
+tower. Filch had to leave a window open so the fumes could air out; I'll leave
+him there. In the morning, he won't even have to walk far to get his clothes and
+shower."
+
+Four students considered this plan. Dean's trunk rattled in chorus with the
+vibrations from Ron's snore, and one of the portraits shook and fell from the
+wall.
+
+Seamus silently reached over, picked up Harry's broom, and handed it to him.
+
+
+
+Flying with a passenger, especially a sleeping one, was significantly harder
+than Harry had anticipated. One of Ron's snores caught him by surprise at
+point-blank range, and he narrowly avoided crashing into the castle walls. Harry
+was sorely tempted to abandon Ron outside on the roofs, but he couldn't do that
+to his first friend.
+
+Not yet, anyway. If that window was closed, Harry wasn't sure he'd be
+able to force himself to bring Ron back to the dorm. Perhaps Ron would enjoy
+floating all night on the lake; Harry knew in the muggle world waterbeds were
+reasonably popular.
+
+Fortunately for Harry's conscience, the open window was just where he remembered
+it.
+
+After sliding Ron off the broom and onto the cold stone floor of the classroom,
+Harry couldn't stop himself from crying out in joy as he shot back out the
+window. As he completed a celebratory loop around Gryffindor tower, his cheer
+was punctuated by the muffled rumble of a snore. Harry flew back to the dorm and
+shared a quick congratulations with Dean, Neville, and Seamus. The permanent
+silencing charms in the walls of Hogwarts' dorms would keep them isolated from
+Ron, now. Finally, they could sleep.
+
+
+
+Four Gryffindor first-years walked down the stairs to the common room Saturday
+morning. They had *slept in*, a concept so phenomenally amazing to them that
+they could scarcely keep the grins off their faces. Upon entering the common
+room, they were greeted by a mob.
+
+The entire Gryffindor house was in the common room, staring at them, with
+Professor McGonagall right in front and wearing a fiercely disapproving glare.
+"Perhaps you four could explain why I found Mr. Weasley sleeping in a locked
+classroom this morning? This is not acceptable behaviour for Gryffindors!"
+
+"Well, Professor, it's like this..." Harry began to stumble through an
+explanation, "has he woken up yet?"
+
+Harry's question was answered by the sound of a magnificent snore drifting in
+through the common room portal. Furniture rattled, and Lavender Brown was shaken
+out of her chair and deposited on the floor.
+
+"We couldn't sleep." Dean, Neville, and Seamus nodded silently in agreement.
+
+Professor McGonagall sighed, and cradled her forehead in her hand. "Gentlemen,
+this is not a tenable solution. I agree that Mr. Weasley's nocturnal aspirations
+are... significantly louder than you may be able to tolerate. But we cannot have
+students sleeping on the floors! Certainly not in classrooms! And outside of
+your dorm, the noise is not blocked by the silencing charms — none of the other
+students can study in the common room or nearby classrooms with that racket!"
+
+As if to emphasize the point, another snore rammed its way into the
+conversation. Everyone in the room winced, and several pet cats hissed before
+vanishing up the stairs in a panic.
+
+"Sorry, Professor McGonagall. But what can we do? Nothing seems to work to make
+him stop!"
+
+"There must be some way we can resolve this issue. Percy, how do you cope with
+your brother at home? Perhaps your parents could be of assistance?"
+
+"I wish I could help, Professor. Mom eventually had to call the Goblins in for
+help; over half the wards on the Burrow are now dedicated to silencing Ronald's
+room."
+
+"I suppose... we shall have to see if the Headmaster has any ideas..."
+
+
+
+In the end, it took Headmaster Dumbledore and three Unspeakables from the
+Ministry of Magic to erect a silencing charm around Ron's bed that would last
+through the night. It required renewal every other week, but adequately muffled
+Ron to no more volume than a particularly loud mouse. That, combined with some
+earplugs for the other boys in the dorm, would have to do.
+
+Ronald Weasley never discovered why he had woken up in a strange classroom one
+Saturday morning, and soon forgot about the whole episode. Years later, he
+simply took it as a compliment when he was recruited into the Aurors' "Special
+Weapons" program on recommendation from the Department of Mystery, and never
+questioned why so much of his training seemed to involve sleeping potions.
+
+And Harry, Neville, Dean and Seamus would never underestimate the value of a
+good night's sleep.
+
+> I've never been particularly happy with this piece; I've erased it and started
+> over at least once. It's a simple idea, but the execution seems to be very
+> dialog-heavy, which is a challenge for me to write. I am especially unhappy
+> with McGonagall's part towards the end; it feels like there should be *more*,
+> but I seem unable to flesh that out. At nearly 1,200 words it's an acceptable
+> length for a oneshot, but I know I achieved neither elegance nor depth in
+> storytelling.
+>
+> Irritatingly enough, the timing also turns out to be an issue; you can't set a
+> story like this any time other than September Y11 (even four weeks into the
+> term is pushing it) but the students involved haven't learned *any*
+> interesting spells at that point. Silencing is fifth-year material, they can't
+> stun each other to sleep, they can't even levitate Ron out the window until
+> Halloween, which is near the end of *week 9*. At least by week 4 Harry has his
+> broom, and I can invoke Percy for a silencing charm. I think it might be
+> funnier in a later year when the dorm-mates can have a scene where they try
+> more and more outlandish magical solutions, but at the same time I like the
+> desperation that you get from four first-years who just want to enjoy their
+> nights at Hogwarts.
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+[[!meta title="Less Gryffindor"]]
+
+Harry sets out to *lose* the Triwizard Tournament. Ships Harry/Hermione, mostly
+adventure and romance.
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+[[!meta title="Unwilling"]]
+
+This is something of a meta-story; Harry decides to abandon the wizarding world,
+and stops cooperating with authority figures. I'm fond of the meta-plot,
+especially because the resulting plot would seem to depend *very* heavily on
+which year Harry makes this decision.
+
+The starting points I hope to use:
+
+* Y11: Harry is never interested in the wizarding world to begin with. Most
+ likely this depends on nice!Dursleys. Harry just wants to be normal.
+* Y12: Harry has just had a professor attempt to murder him. He is not inclined
+ to repeat the experience.
+* Y13: Upon seeing the electives offered at Hogwarts and going through career
+ counseling, Harry realizes that Hogwarts is unable to prepare him for the
+ future he wants.
+* Y14: Being unwillingly thrown into a life-and-death competition is the last
+ straw for Harry, and he decides that maybe he'd be better off without magic.
+* Y15: Voldemort is back, and the Ministry refuses to listen to reason. Harry
+ had grown to accept that he'd have an evil supervillain out to kill him, but
+ he's not going to put up with the government badmouthing him in the press and
+ torturing him in class.
+
+Y16 and onwards Harry is already somewhat too heavily committed to wizarding in
+general, and rebellion stories no longer seem appropriate to this meta-plot.
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