Chapters 31–40
The First Days
The uses of unicorn horn are based on the essay “The use of unicorn horn in medicine” by William Jackson, The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol 273, No 7330, p925-927, 18/25 December 2004.
The recipe for the bathing lotion is based on one I found online at http://magickrecipes.com Magick Recipes.
A Walk in the Forest
Jarveys are from “Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them”. The properties of their musk are AU.
Almost a Teacher
The name “Geilis Duncan” is based on the historical “Geillis Duncane”, a Scottish woman who was accused of witchcraft in the 16th century. Her story can be read at sacred-texts DOT com. “Mika Malkin” refers to the canon Malkins, of course. “Dorothy West” should be rather obvious. “Prudentia Halleywell” alludes to the TV-series “Charmed”, of course. But “prudentia” is also Latin for “wisdom” and thus a very good Ravenclaw name. And “Myrrdin Loewe” is a wordplay referring to another wordplay. In Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising” series Merlin uses the name “Merriman/Merry” “Lyon/Lion”. Myrrdin is also an old name for Merlin, and “Loewe” is only a weird way of writing “Löwe”, the German word for “lion”.
Cruciatus
Canon says nothing about any long-term effects of the Cruciatus apart from the case of the Longbottoms who were tortured into insanity, as far as I know. Fanon otoh includes that motif a lot, and as I think it makes sense, I’ve chosen to do so as well. I interpret the severity of long-term effects to be dependant on various factors (as outlined in this chapter), so every wizard/witch would react differently, from having next to no symptoms to having something like a “relapse”.
Slytherin Pastimes
The board game is “Settlers of Catan”.