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I too was rather confused by the second part, though, wondering why haldir was chatting up a five-year-old.

I've considered going to USU, but I think I'm gonna go somewhere else. Did you like it there? I heard their choral program has a new director. *eyebrow waggle*

Let me, as usual, be the last to welcome the newcomer. Here's a vibrospork.

Some people are born without an appendix, it seems. But the lack of it provides no decisive advantage. And it looks as though the appendix has shrunk and shrunk over the years, but "Evolutionary theorists have suggested that natural selection selects for larger appendices because smaller and thinner appendices would be more susceptible to inflammation and disease."

So that's why we still have 'em - they get any smaller, you're much more likely to get appendicitis and die.

After all, it's not doing any damage. Except appendicitis, and not everyone gets that. What are the odds of spontaneous genetic mutation that means a baby's born missing an entire organ? And even if it is, where's the advantage that'll make that trait spread? Nope, it's much harder to unevolve traits. Once you've got 'em you're stuck with 'em, for the most part.

Does it predate molars then?

Ye gods someone needs to teach that author to use proper punctuation. That's actually painful to read.

In other news, I've discovered Mulhoon's pet peeve. Graphic squick he can take without turning a hair, but he's fiercely protective of the English language. Wanton abuse of common grammar on a similar scale to legolas is what sets him off.

http://www.freewebs.com/bonsaimallorn4/Legolas.htm
This is more hilarious than bad. That Series is found on Yiffstar, and it wasn't me who told you.

But nothing useful anymore. Therefore, it should be vanishing. But if it is, it's taking far too long.

But wouldn't the Wizarding world have different laws?

Wait... never mind. They've been shown to have slightly odd laws.

Still feels like it to me...

To celebrate how you're doing this of your own volition and everything, y'know :)

I'm from Australia (east coast)

I'd go with "He needs his head checked" out of the two options, but I'd think that "His head needs checking" would be preferable to either.

Elcalion

It's one thing to say and plan for a character to grow, and quite another to make it actually happen. That said, PPC misison plots can be somewhat differentiated from the character arcs of the agents, which span all of your writing. Let the necessities of each mission grow and let your agents do their own thing.

I think you're running a risk starting with a character who has "the emotional capacity of a teaspoon". It'll certainly be interesting and fun to have him be unknowingly harsh and cause spats by casual carelessness, but after a while, I imagine you're going to have to have him start developing emotional reactions, otherwise he will simply get dull. Ther could be a great deal of fun in having him struggle to deal with basic feelings.

That said, at the end of the day it all boils down to the writing. If you think you can pull it off, go right ahead.

I can't believe that hasn't occurred to me in three years, but it hadn't.

No, I'm just kidding. I am, indeed, a Utah-person. Not currently attending USU, and with no current plans to return, but still resident in the state.

...I just can't figure out what.

Welcome to the PPC, person-who-is-not-Relden-Calder! I spent a whole ten seconds staring at that name to try and figure out if the last name was the first one backwards. Alas, I was disappointed.

So I wouldn't know the music. But on an entirely different note: Utah-person! *waves frantically*

... though considering what happened to one of the "borrowed" ones pre-recruitment, it's not so tragic in comparison. It gets better, though. Next mission, I'm going to take all four of my agents and temporarily swap their genders. I've been reading too much of El Goonish Shive, and the mission's what the Pottersues members refer to as a "taco show" (male characters turning into girls).

Render will definitely be undergoing character growth, at least if I'm a good enough writer to pull it off. I'm good with the technical use of the English language, but I'm no good at making plots. I figured PPC would be fairly easy to do because the basic plot's already tere - console goes off at importune time, go into badfic, suffer through bafic, deal with badfic, get home, deal with any minis, play with any collected shinies, console goes off again.

I'm not sure how much character development is possible for Mulhoon, as I'm pretty sure the reason for his personality is because he has the approximate emotional capacity of a teaspoon. He doesn't particularly do sadness, happiness, worry, disgust, just mild annoyance. While intellectually he understands the effect emotions have on other people, he doesn't get them himself. I'm a bit like that, though not nearly to the same extent, and I've spent the last ten years actively trying to learn emotions. He just doesn't care that much.

~Heliomance, who would be asking for Permission if he'd been here long enough, but is contenting himself with getting the formalities out of the way.

A lot of the time Wizarding law doesn't seem to differ at all from Muggle law. Their age of consent, inasmuch as they have one, is 17 - at 17 they can Apparate... and, er... actually, no. There's 16 too; at 16 they can leave school. And that's all we really know. At any rate, all the magical laws we know of are relating to things that don't crop up in the Muggle world. The only comparison I can see is the school leaving age; you can leave at 16, or stay for NEWTs until you're 18.

Anyroad, wizarding society being what it is, can you really see them being less conservative than Muggle society? Especially given, as you mentioned, the whole blood purity thing. Unless, of course, the fanbrats are right, and male wizards' magic will somehow allow them to carry children. If that's the case, I can see them being more liberal. If not? Purity of blood = important = strict rules pertaining to virginity; and necessity of perpetuating bloodlines = necessity of fecund relationships = predisposition towards viewing heterosexual relationships more favourably.

I want to play it over and over again.

Didn't the appendix used to have a use, at least? The choking thing, on the other hand, was pure accident.