Re: The seventh annual Sybil Trelawney awards

In article <1190654593.207465.179500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Fish Eye no Miko <fenm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 23, 11:39 am, dicc...@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney) wrote:

I was confident that Fudge would die, and a lot of MoM members
as well, as a result of shoddy defense equipment sold by the
Twins. Sybil!

Shoddy...? You do realize that, for all their goofing off, the
Twins know their magic, right? The only way they'd sell "shoddy
merchandise" is on purpose.

Yes, and they did: they sold "spellchecking" quills that not only
failed after a short time, everything written with them was
retroactively misspelled, even words that had been spelled
correctly in the first place without the use of the spellcheck
spell. I call that shoddy equipment, if not outright fraud,
since they weren't sold as a joke quill, they were sold as
useful equipment. I fully expected the invisibility hats
(etc) to be just as short-term.

I also thought something would be done with the daydream spells,
since those were tailor-made to be misused by villains.

=Tamar
.

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