In which I actually talk about the Matter of Chicago

[lucia_tanaka]

and I don't mean just apologizing for not having written more yet

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[lucia_tanaka]

Oh man. The White Council bothers me so much for pretty much the exact reasons you mention. Because yeah, they are extremely medieval about things and personally I loathe them. I do not like that apparently being born with magic automatically makes them allowed to murder you without consequence. That's such bullshit in and out of canon and I don't really see how anyone would consider them a lesser evil in comparison to, for example, Marcone's mob, who do the same thing and we're supposed to frown on their blood money. How exactly is the Council not just as bad? I mean, at least IMO Marcone considers what he does evil; the Council seems convinced of their own righteousness.

Ugh. Sorry. Rant. I hate the Council.

Hahaha. The person is question who killed my muse-- something happened a few days ago. Her opinion no longer matters in the slightest. The least said about that wankfest the better though.

eeeeeeeeeee. I'm so glad you mentioned that scene in MoC2. HELLO, MISSION STATEMENT SCENE. Yeah, I was made aware of the extent of the unequal relationship about halfway through MoC1, and thus the rest of the series is now basically about that inequality and how it evolves over time. And it will evolve, believe me. There's another shoe to drop in about.... two or three chapters, I think. I'm very excited about it. /gleeeeee

I think it was this comment that inspired me to add a thematic/trigger warning for the A03 copy of MoC. Hopefully anyone who reads it from now on will have a better idea of what they are getting into.

Thank you for your thoughts!

[shadowdancer909]

You're welcome, I'm glad you could make sense of my comment, I know it was a little long.
The White Council has always really bothered me too; it's not so much that it exists, because I can understand how it would come into existence and perpetuate itself, as the fact that it's not considered evil!
It's like, there are two worlds, the magical and the mundane, and the mundane world is supposed to be governed by laws and democracy, but the magical world just isn't. Like the way Harry (in the earlier books) tries to solve Murphy's magical cases without telling her anything (the implication is that anything magical can only be solved by the application of magical force, not mundane law).
And even though it's true that mere mortals don't really have the capability to arrest magicals, it's not so much the situation as that no one does anything about it.
It's just considered normal and OK that laws don't apply to magic people. That they can do whatever they want if they have enough power.
And Marcone is "bad" because he's a mundane, so this doesn't apply to him; but I think in the later books, where he's becoming more the "Baron," he's starting to take on more of the characteristics of a magical (even though he has no magic) in that he has enough power to break mundane laws and get away with it and the fact that he's a "Baron" legitimizes it--even though the process of becoming a Freeholding Lord is totally illegitimate and the majority of his "subjects" don't even know he is their Lord!

In this fic you really do acknowledge how messed up that is, and sort of explore the implications. I'm really eager to find out what's going to happen in a few chapters. Obviously John is going to be very upset that Harry went by himself into such a dangerous place, which will be compounded by worry because Harry actually got hurt. I can see how this would bring up the issues!