in color amentans meet hazel
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"Is slipping love potions to other wizards allowed?"

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"...I think in some places some of them are misdemeanors."

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Sigh. "Do you have suggestions about the way to best reduce the incidence of wizards slipping potions to or attacking nonwizards?"

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"What is precisely the matter with reporting them to their governments for Statute violations?"

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"Firstly, deterrence - someone might decide that they are willing to pay a fine and get a talking-to in order to have a pretty shopkeeper's attention for a week, and they are less likely to decide that it's worth sterilization and eight years in prison. Secondly, there is an imperfect match between horrifying crimes and Statute violations - for example, recently a woman who'd been missing for seven months returned with amnesia and pregnant. It's unclear whether this even constitutes a Statute violation. Thirdly, the victims of such atrocities tend to find that it helps with their recovery process to know that their attacker was brought to justice, and 'it was reported to a wizard government that we noticed they were a wizard' offers no such closure."

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"I am not sure all these problems can be solved as you would hope."

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"In the medium-term it seems like the solution would be for us to be a magical polity in the relevant sense. Until then I think the most important consideration is deterrence, and I'm open to any policy that minimizes incidences of this kind of conduct."

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"You don't administer wizards."

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"I will administer one wizard once the pregnant woman in question gives birth, and eventually more of them than that."

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"Oh, generally halfblooded and Muggleborn children are absorbed into existing magical polities."

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"We're going to have Amentans with magical children raise them in Anitam and administer them as part of our country."

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"Oh. Hm. That is a complication. I am not sure that this will not attract more magical antagonism than you are prepared for."

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"Dare I hope that that antagonism might be directed at the cause of persuading wizards not to rape people?"

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"No, I don't think so, at least not if you already have one."

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"I would very much like to avoid magical antagonism but handing the child over to his mother's rapist is of course impossible."

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"Any wizards would do, it wouldn't have to be that one."

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"Perhaps the wizards I find to enforce our laws would also be interested in being for the purposes of wizarding governments the guardians of Amentan magical children. But would that make those children accountable to whatever government my wizard vigilantes answer to?"

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"Yes."

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"Hmm. What if it transpires that Anitam, too, has secret wizards and its own secret wizard government. Then the child would be fine?"

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"...well. Yes."

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"And if I could persuade the Anitami magical government to outlaw certain kinds of conduct towards Muggles in its territory, then your government would work out with them how to handle wizards coming to their country and breaking their laws?"

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"You may have some difficulty poaching wizards cleanly from their prior governments... and with the, ah, territory overlap, although this city itself will not be much problem, I think."

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"What sort of, ah, poaching difficulties are you imagining - wizards are allowed to move from one country to another?"

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"They are - more a question of managing birthright, and if someone visits an area where you have presence and some other magical government claims the area a jurisdiction problem..."

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Nod. "So lots of complications with designating territory on Earth, but any wizards who want to move to Anitam proper and constitute an Anitami wizarding government to which only wizards born in Anitam have birthright are fine?"

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