Ryuugi said:
Masterwindu487 said:
Dementist said:
To blow a great, gaping hole in your idea: One of the Laws prohibits mucking about with time. It's not so much to prevent warlocks from making themselves rich as to stop all of reality imploding via time paradox.
Given how utterly hard-assed the council is, there's not a chance in hell they'll let the crew run around freely. That's assuming they don't just vaporize the gang to prevent unintended causality fuckups, of course.
The laws do, but you can make a case of them being unwitting particippants. And if them being there is going to fuck the universe, it would have hapened already.
Why Harry? Because we know the most about harry.
Being unwitting is not an excuse as far as the Council is concerned. Molly, Harry, and nameless-Korean-nobody were all unwitting.
Especially since messing with Time (and, really, Laws 5-7), are the most important Laws, as far as the Council is concerned. Hell, breaking the Seventh Law doesn't even require casting a spell, but they'll still kill you for it (which is understandable).
Also, just like running into a school and unloading a machine-gun (but not killing anyone), as well as playing chicken with Nukes, it didn't end badly
this time isn't an excuse.
Actually, Harry knew that magical killings carried a capital sentence but had nothing non-lethal drilled into him to respond to Justin with, unlike his fire spells, and he was repentant, and nameless-Korean-nobody was a raving megalomaniac psycopath by the end, regardless of whether or not he was aware that it was a capital crime to tamper with peoples' minds. Molly was unwitting in her first use, the next ones less-so, but she wasn't malevolent (yet) like nameless-Korean-nobody, was repentant like Harry, and Harry had support from a majority of the Senior Council present and Rashid really helped him out by stalling the Merlin with the whole procedural thing.
I'm not 100% certain of what the Council would do to people who came back in time who didn't mean to. Maybe they'd have a way to send them back to the future, but if they didn't they'd have protocols to prevent them from mucking around with causality accidentally (yes, those protocols are probably the Blackstaff killing them or erasing their memories. And it would have to be the Blackstaff.)
There'd have to be a damn good reason for Rashid to let the Serenity crew wander around 21st century Earth (and let's not pretend here, Rashid seems to have all the real power on the Senior Council.)
edit: Oh, and this doesn't even approach the question of how exactly wizards managed to get off Earth, since they cause technology to go haywire just by mere proximity.