Knightley is a well-visualized character whom I found myself liking immediately. He brought to mind, again, pedigree collapse, longevity and demographics. Red Hen's friend mentioned to her that the wizarding world looked to him as if it were a world of large corporate families with arranged marriages. If there are only 3-7000 wizarding folk, then what we're talking about looks almost like the Mafia, doesn't it?
--"Reliquaries," Harry said. "I don't think they're quite the same thing."
Good scene. Very evocative of the multiple nature of human consciousness. I'm almost convinced that consciousness is a meme by the chaotic nature of my own mind. Let alone the mind of a wizard, conflicted and invaded to the point that it's a wonder any of them are sane.
Relics are kept in reliquaries, or they were till the Reformation. Remember that England was Protestantized a hundred fifty years before the Seclusion, and so ENGLISH Muggles don'trevere the Pelvis of St Elvis, etc., anymore.(1)
Relics
--"Reliquaries," Harry said. "I don't think they're quite the same thing."
Good scene. Very evocative of the multiple nature of human consciousness. I'm almost convinced that consciousness is a meme by the chaotic nature of my own mind. Let alone the mind of a wizard, conflicted and invaded to the point that it's a wonder any of them are sane.
Relics are kept in reliquaries, or they were till the Reformation. Remember that England was Protestantized a hundred fifty years before the Seclusion, and so ENGLISH Muggles don'trevere the Pelvis of St Elvis, etc., anymore.(1)
*Nails up 95 theses busily*
(1) There really is a St Elvis.