amphibian, on 19 October 2012 - 07:29 PM, said:
Abyss, on 19 October 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:
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What do you mean by "apprenticeship line"?
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He means that the Black Staff (right now it's McCoy) gets passed down from teacher to student, who becomes the new teacher, picks up a new student and so on. The line goes back up to the original Merlin - which is probably only a few generations at this point, considering that the wizards live something like three or four hundred years.
amphibian, on 19 October 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:
Abyss, on 19 October 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:
So the original Black Staff was an apprentice to the original Merlin?
The original Black Staff was the original Merlin. His apprentice (we don't know who yet) was the next.
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amphibian, on 19 October 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:
Abyss, on 19 October 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:
I'm drawing a complete blank. When was that revealed?
It's implied. There's occasional references to how the original Merlin got a ton of badass stuff done and even the current Merlin has combat magic leanings, with his potion/wand holsters and what not.
So when you say 'it's implied' i take it you don't actually have anything concrete to back this up.
My take is that the White Council decided that there was a need for a Blackstaff who could operate outside their rules.
We don't actually know that the Original Merlin was the one who started the White Council, so while there may be a link, it's not certain.
Use Of Weapons, on 20 October 2012 - 04:27 PM, said:
I don't think it was implied that it was always an apprentice who took on the journals -- that's just the case with Harry and McCoy. I never that that that implied the same relationship every time the responsibility got passed on, though obviously it would be easier for the passer-on to know that the recipient would be up to the job. But they could just as easily pass it on to a respected younger colleague.
I figured there would be a logical link but not necessarily master to apprentice, tho that's probably the most common.
acesn8s, on 22 October 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:
Abyss, on 19 October 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:
...What do you mean by "apprenticeship line"?
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Abyss, I wasn't sure what else to call it. McCoy mentioned to Harry that the journals on the shelf before his (McCoy's) were his Masters and-so-on. So I took it to mean that the Master's passed on their journals to their Apprentices at some point.
Maybe "pedigree" would be an accurate term?
I wasn't sure whether you were ref'ing something from the books, but i suppose 'line of apprentice' would amount to the same thing.