2004
08.17
08.17
A different take on the whole Harry Potter / wizarding world secrecy thing.
justaguy‘s The Muggle Way. He uses an organization run by muggles centered around a character from Katherine Kurtz’ Adept series as the interface between the different magical groups. Very well thought out. For comparison purposes – in my Red Raider series I have a department in the Ministry of Magic (MoM) pretend it serves that function when in ‘reality’ it’s just another sign of the MoM’s attempt at control of muggle access to magic. Sort of. His idea probably wouldn’t work in something like my series because I’m looking at the relationship between members of two specific magical groups that aren’t really aware of each other (And I came up with a convoluted way to stick with the MoM secrecy rules in the process.) while he’s using it as an organizational structure for his story. I think. His doesn’t really focused on relationships between several characters but between social groups. Which requires a different kind of story telling. But dang… it works so well the way he’s using it I wish I’d thought of it… must be jealous. Even though I don’t think my style of writing would work in that structure.
justaguy‘s The Muggle Way. He uses an organization run by muggles centered around a character from Katherine Kurtz’ Adept series as the interface between the different magical groups. Very well thought out. For comparison purposes – in my Red Raider series I have a department in the Ministry of Magic (MoM) pretend it serves that function when in ‘reality’ it’s just another sign of the MoM’s attempt at control of muggle access to magic. Sort of. His idea probably wouldn’t work in something like my series because I’m looking at the relationship between members of two specific magical groups that aren’t really aware of each other (And I came up with a convoluted way to stick with the MoM secrecy rules in the process.) while he’s using it as an organizational structure for his story. I think. His doesn’t really focused on relationships between several characters but between social groups. Which requires a different kind of story telling. But dang… it works so well the way he’s using it I wish I’d thought of it… must be jealous. Even though I don’t think my style of writing would work in that structure.
