Where did the wards come from?

[dipsas]

I've been wondering for a while now - where did all the wards come from?

In HP fanfic, one sees a lot of wards. They're preferably used as defences for larger areas, buildings etc. No. 4 Privet Drive and Hogwarts have been protected by wards in many a fic, in early and widespread ones like After the End (where they're turn up for the first time in

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[straussmonster]

It's such a generic fantasy concept that it seems never to have occurred to people: Can you DO that with magic in the Potterverse? Does it work that way? But no, with a flick of a wand Snape wards his door, Hogwarts is 'warded'...

Jack for evidence or thinking through the mechanics of it; it's one of the more insidious cases of fanon, but can get pretty obnoxious (IMO) pretty fast.

[dipsas]

But no, with a flick of a wand Snape wards his door, Hogwarts is 'warded'...

He, he...That's exactly what I meant. It was actually thanks to rather a rabid plotbunny (a heavily warded one) that I started thinking about it at all.

[straussmonster]

One of the many things that makes me go "buh?" reading fic. There are *worse* things. Take your pick of:

Tolkienesque elves
Large and humanoid fairies or ANY concept of 'the fae' (please, no)
Demons
Magic that varies in effects by blood status (SO uncanonical and anti-theme)
Wiccan-esque magic, pseudo- or not
Elemental magic
Grand Ceremonial Magic
Superhuman abilities of werewolves (senses, thinking like a wolf, etc.)

None of it is there...

(off the soapbox)

[dipsas]

I caught a bad headache already at the words 'Tolkienesque elves'...
*hurries back to her sheltered life*

[straussmonster]

Hehehe.

I am long past the point at which fic can scar me. Now, I just chuckle, roll my eyes, and hit 'back'. With the occasional "Ewwwww...".