[Much snippage ahead... must keep clean and readable.]

First: Akane _has_ a HISTORY of being stuck in a route.  She's just
found
out her pet pig is Ryouga.... She's _not_ thinking clearly.  Give her
time.
You'll see her general feelings, in ... Year 2.

[A *whole* year? That seems quite excessive. I'm not sure that I can see

(as portrayed) Akane being "stuck in a rut" because of Ryoga's betrayal
here. Irrational and angry, but stuck in a rut?]

[IMO, Akane's pretty OOC. Not as bad as Nabiki, but till fairly OOC.]

I said we'd _SEE_ her in a year.  I didn't say she'd be "infurated" for the whole year.  Sometimes it's what happens OFF Camera that matters.

[True enough. But the impression we are getting is that Akane doesn't care at all. And with Nabiki caring as much as she is, it comes as extremely off. Like I said, I'm not totally opposed to non-cannon pair ups. But they require more forethought and buildup, IMO.]

As I noted, it's not my idea.   Nabiki _could_ be wearing a mask for hte
majority of the Manga. Intentonally being a bitch, to give Ranma to Akane.

[All I'll say in this is it is not being shown well, we are just told. Heck, Ranma even reacts to her response oddly.]

[I'm actually seeing quite a few more issues on it after a second perusing of it. If Kasumi, Ranma and Nabiki were all 'Magi' there should have been a *lot* of accidental magic while they were growing up.]

First: Kasmui is TRAINED.  She graduated from GOlden Sora.
Second: Nabiki does keep her emotions under control.  Apparenlty
accidentinal magic only happens when you're under emotional duress
Thrind: Same for Ranma
Fourth: For Akane... two things.  The Mallet, and cooking.

[Ranma has let his emotions get the best of him a lot, actually. Nabiki is no emotionaless robot either. And Ranma is the second biggest user of the mallet-sama too!]

[And Dumbledore is a very "good" wizard, but was more than willing (and seemed to get official backing) to kidnap Harry Potter to make sure he went to school. Merely ripping up their letters seems far too small an impediment.]

First: That was HARRY POTTER.  Who's to say that _ALL_ magi are fetched like he is?
Second: Ranma's name went down in Hogwarts 6 years _after_ it went down at Golden Sora.  ^_-

[With the use of birds as mail-carriers, I'd say that we're expected to think that the Japanese Academy is mostly similar to Hogwarts as a private school to train wizards.]

Though the teleporting birds dropping letters super-quick seems a bit odd.

[It would have to do with the International Confederation that basically hides magic from the muggle world. That must be ignored in Nerima. But untrained wizards/magi are too dangerous.]

As I noted, there is no proof that magi are aquired as dilliengently as
Harry was.

[No, not as dilligently. But we are only shown the same mechanism.]

[I think Dumbledore is quite *magically* capable of fighting Voldemort,

but I don't think he is as physically capable. He's about 150 now? A
significant part of dueling is footwork and dodging.]

Quite.  The other thing... is I lean towards "Ablus is a bastard" theory, of Ablus.
:D

[I don't think that Dumbledore is a bastard on purpose, but that he's very driven. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all, hmm?]

[Voldemort is very powerful and basically at his peak of physical and

magical abilities. Very dangerous.]

Oh, no question

[I assume you mean the Pure Bloods issue? Britain Wizarding law doesn't

preclude muggle-wizard marriages. So that doesn't make a lot of sense to
me.]

The LAW does not, Arthur.  However, Weasly married a pure blood, (both of the two married ones), ALL the Sytherians tend to...  Tradition is just as important, y'know.

[I don't think there is any indication that Arthur and Molly married for anything but love. The fact that they are purebloods seems coincedental, IMO. Yes, there is a lot of prestige to marrying PB to PB. But it isn't even most of the wizards anymore. The Potters were pureblood before Harry, but you never hear anyone (except maybe fanatical purebloods) even mentions about caring about it.]

[It seems closer to the metaphor for the English nobility marrying non-nobles. Maybe the nobles really care for their "purity" but it doesn't stop the wealthiest person in England being a commoner (JK Rowling now, IIRC. :) ]

[Obviously, HP doesn't have a framework for super-powered-martial-artists.

Making the entire wizarding world 'utter idiots' because that wasn't part of
its world seems wrong (unless it's satire.)]

Not the _whole_ Wizardly world.  Just Europe.  As a few points that will be made... Europe _is_ STUCK in tradition.  America, Japan, and several otehr major regions are _not_.  Hades, The Tendo's mother married a muggle.

[And most students in Hogwarts are either half-bloods or mud-bloods. The only three pure-blood families that I can name off the top of my head is the Malfoys, Longbottoms and Weasleys.]

[This is counter-intiutive to what you are accusing the wizarding society of. Maybe the Pure-Bloods, as they are into that. But that is only a portion of Wizarding society (and only a portion for 1600 years.]

So? There _are_ breeders who breed within a locked pool, Arthur.  Laws
_don't_ have to make sense.  I've seen several laws of a nature that had
excatly the reserve of what was intended.

[You are generalizing all Britain wizards = pureblood bias. When there is no direct indication that this is even slightly the case. And then using that to say that the entire wizarding society is stupid. That seems really odd. I'm very confused about this.]

[Biggest thing I'd work out is who Nabiki/Ranma haven't been lashing out

with accidental magic, even though Ranma has been getting into very intense (emotional) situations. Obviously this is a Nabiki/Ranma pairing, but it's pretty much been shoe-horned in at this point.]

As I noted.  Accidental Magic is linked to emtions. One thing Ranma and
Nabiki BOTH have is solid CONTROL of said emotions.

[That is blatantly false. Ranma loses his temper all the time. And even Nabiki has shown the looming-anger-aura several times. They aren't nearly as psycho as Akane, but she's got the quick to anger/quicker to forgive thing going on.]

[Since you don't have Happosai as the bad guy, I'd suggest that an enemy of the school (or Genma/Soun) used a magic item/potion to 'kill' their magic so the schools would be joined. Gemna/Soun seem to be villianified already, so it wouldn't be a stretch in this story.]

First: Not all stories have to have a villain.
Second: why do we _need_ to create a villian?  There's this Voldermort who's
nifty...

:D

[Actually, I was trying to give you a slightly better reason for why they hadn't shown accidental magic very much.]

Andrew

[Arthur Hansen]

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