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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3101166" data-attributes="member: 2020">Hey there, Meloncov.  You are the second person to say that Harry has more raw power than Hermione.  Again, I'm not understanding this.  What do you mean, more raw power?    I can't think of anything more dangerous, in a school of wizards, than ignoring bad behavior.  Bad behavior begets bad behavior.  Did they learn nothing from Voldemort?  If Rowling is drawing your analogy, my statement is irrelevant to the point, obviously.  What I meant, is the high rate of injuries of various sorts in general, at Hogwart's.  Of course, students are healed at Hogwart's infirmary.  But the injuries still occurred, and the students remember being injured, and being in pain.  So the existence of magical healing only partially mitigates matters.  Of course, one would expect injuries in a school of magic.  That's a given.  An absolute given.  I was merely commenting on what came to mind:  if I, for example, sent my children off to Hogwart's, I do so knowing they would suffer assorted injuries.  That would require a particular mindset on my part.  Since Rowling draws so much allegory, it is fair to think upon the matter, I believe.  (grins)  I think detention at Hogwart's is generally one of those Nasty Things Avoided At All Costs (what adventurers might say about Acererak, for example.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )  It ain't an afterhours Study Hall session, no sir ...  LOL.  Harry Potter characters would run D&D characters down like tanks over deer.  Harry Potter could do things as a First Year you'd need to be 5th level to do in D&D, on an unlimited basis.  By 5th year, he was pushing 20th level in 3E terms, with no limit on spells.  Voldemort?  100th level? ...  I think that if wizards and sorcerers could use unlimited spells ala Harry Potter, and with the kind of magical might Harry, Hermione, and Ron could employ was involved, it would overwhelm the game pretty quick.  The Vancian system just can't handle it.  What to do?  I don't know, frankly.  The Harry Potter setting is dominated by wizards.  I guess the D&D setting would be, too.  For fighters and rogues to compete, they would have to take wizard levels and go into PrCs.  How else could they even begin to compete?  Still, it's intriguing.  What if, it could be done?  What would a Harry Potter style D&D setting be like, if we could manufacture one?  Would it be Netheril all over again?  Imaskari?  The Suel Imperium (Voldemort would have loved that ...) ?  Or a hybrid system, like Waterdeep, Cormyr, Thay, or the drow cities, or the Great Kingdom of Aerdi?  Hmmm ... (muses)</blockquote>

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