Snape first . . .

Rei

I look at the prone form of Snape before waving off the barkeep a bit. I've already made my choice here as who I shall approach for this admittedly questionable course of action I plan. However, to do it I need dear ol' Snape to be awake and alert.

Granted, I could save a bit of magical energy for later on if I must wizard duel or whatnot but just flipping the drink I'd bought earlier into his face. However, I dare say he'd not react to well to such treatment! Besides, I rather do not feel like being so boorish as to treat the man that way.

Objectionable qualities aside, he does not deserve to be treated like that at all. Indeed, such treatment in the past played a part in pushing him into Voldemort's camp in the first place.

With a quick spell (the reverse of a "sleep" spell) muttered under my breath, Snape's eyes snap open and he shoots up to a sitting position, gasping. Gasping and heart racing for that spell I used produces quiet a bit of adrenalin as a side effect.

Please don't do that again, I send to him. While I admit that in the PAST I perhaps was playing . . . hard to get, I had been planning on coming in to chat with some of you over something.

Besides, using "Stupefy" to pick up girls at a bar is hardly sporting, I add smiling still until the very end. Then I let him have have a somewhat more somber (albeit curious) look.

Why did you do that? I ask, playfulness at an end. And being that I am . . . well . . . asking questions, may I ask just WHY I, NERV, the UN forces, and my fellow EVA Pilots fought Angels alone while I did not perceive the Wizarding World lifting one damn FINGER to aid us?!

I cannot help it! Yes, there are definitely better ways to broach the subject. Perhaps more opportune times to broach the subject but damnit this subject is rather a SORE one for me!

Oh, and by the way do you mind if I ask for safe passage through this world for me and my companions?

I freely admit that I perhaps should have curbed my tone a bit there, but . . .

Nevermind, it’s done. That and I feel I must know, anyway. There’s a whole world out there and I need to KNOW what the Hell is going on here! And a lot of information, by the way, can be exchanged via mindspeak. A lot more and much quicker, let me tall you. Even IF it annoys the Hell out of Snape, me being able to bypass his every effort at blocking me.

Hm, sometime I shall tell him the basics on how to block mindspeak

Still. . .

MAN, did I torc him off with that, though! I almost feel like forgetting the whole thing and call it a bad show and try some different avenue. Some quieter and less acerbic avenue than the great and mighty Potion Master of Hogswarts, anyway!!

Then again, I find that . . . That sarcastic and snippy tongue I seemed to have inherited from Fred Takahashi while roleplaying with him so long ago (on the world just next door to this . . .pocket world who’s citizens even NOW seem to have their heads stuck in the sand). I just can’t back down and take it like a meek and obedient . . . .doll. Gone through too much to do THAT.

I am NOT a doll. But that said my attitude just rubes him the wrong way (almost as badly as Harry Potter had done on occasion). Not saying that I’m intentionally being a JERK with Snape, it is . . . Just I cannot help myself sometimes. Pity, considering that Snape WAS one of my favorite characters in that fantasy series.

Maybe I can mend fences or build bridges after this is said and done? Maybe.

When Snape sneers at me and (mentally) berates me for even feeling I should have the right to ask, given everything, I find out a few things. So does he, as well.

But first Snape.

Ah, and what I learn from the affronted man! Here are the basics:

First, it appears that the Wizarding World indeed helped with the battles, albeit in a round about and clandestine way.

And in return I got my answer. Not an apology, but an answer to the question I asked. Basically, from Snape I learn that . . . SEELE used one of the most course of means of control: fear! Used the fear of the Bomb (the nuclear kind) to secretly cow the leadership of the Wizarding World, you see. Well, that now explains just WHY come Old Tokyo got nuked in the wee early time right after Second Impact. I was really to send a message (through the destruction of the Japanese Ministry of Magic) for the Wizarding World to butt out! And apparently it took a few follow up strikes (with some “low level” dirty bombs) to drive home the point to various factions within the Wizarding World governments . . .

Oh, the reality was hidden from the general public, of course (Muggle and Wizarding). And thus the Wizarding World was cowed, privately (in as far as the governing bodies were concerned). As for the Wizarding World at large who’d believed that all this was just part of the madness the Second Impact bringing out the worst in the Muggles they felt it was a sign (a GOOD sign) to further separate themselves from the Muggle world (thus the Barrier/pocket reality which removed the Wizarding World just a bit MORE from the Muggles). Not all ties were severed with the Muggles. It was just that the Wizarding World became . . . More self sufficient.

Besides, cutting themselves off from the outside world would have been long term suicide. With no influx of new blood like from the “Muggle” born magic using types, the gene pool would pretty much be too shallow. Massive inbreeding and such, you see.

So, they were still somewhat vulnerable because of that. Then again, even IF they cut themselves off from the outside world it would not have sufficed. Their World would still have touched the Muggle’s world. Not enough for . . .

. . .

Sigh, just trust me on that, okay? The measure they could have taken wouldn’t have worked. Enough to throw off late 20th century means, but not the 21rst century means NGE had at their fingertips. That and it would that it would have been enough to protect them from Instrumentality . . . Or even a N2 device being that precision is not needed with such things.

Casting spells like Unplottable (or whatever) and just slightly removing the Wizarding World from the rest of the Earth just does NOT cut it with such destructive things!

But all that aside, I can now and truly appreciate just why the Wizarding World didn’t pitch in during the Angel War. Does not explain it all, but goes a LONG way. SEELE…

Brutal people, SEELE is. Of course, we knew this already. Three billion lives were scarified in order to bring about the conditioned needed for their precious scenerio to come to fruitation: the combining of all human beings into one godlike entity (their answer to the next step in evolution). What would a few hundred (or thousand) lives more in pursuit of their dreams? They’d have done it without much thought or regret.

Ah, but I do recall that SOME mention of aid was given. I guess I’ll find out what THAT entailed.

Not like they’d be worried about LONG term consequences to Earth and humanity if Instrumentality failed. They wanted and would settle for nothing LESS than their dreams, insane as it was.

1. But all that said, let us now learn what dear old Professor Snape learned from ME!

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