I just want to point out that the characters in HP were taken out of the British Education system at what. 11? I'm not surprised that knowledge about world wars and guns slipped the cracks when she was reading all the books on magic.
Wrong. Taylor did not have to add meek (at least not with authorities), she could have, and should have complained about the bullying, not just sit there and take it.
3) The complaints were suppressed for the Wards money, and because Sophia was a track star, etc/etc/etc.
Sophia wasn't a Ward, and wouldn't be much of a track star, certainly not enough of one to have a bunch of people risk jail time to keep her from getting detention, or some other minor penalty that won't stop her from competing (assuming they decided
Look the school not punishing the bullies is quite belivable, not problem with that. The school suppressing the complaints and hiding them from Danny is not.
But what is believable and fits canon?
That is quite belivable, however it is explicitly CONTRADICTED by canon.
Your scenerio is quite realistic, and if it was what had happened in canon I'd agree it works. I'm talking about what happened in canon being unrealistic.
Erm... When did this happen?
No, Taylor didn't say that; Wildbow did, it's WoG.
Pretty sure he references the locker as having a certain amount of basis in reality.
That's the incident I was talking about, and the next day Taylor's accusations had the Trio suspended for a while (I think two weeks) which led Sophia to track her down and attack her in a bookstore.
If you're not going to read my posts, don't bother to reply.
It did, although IIRC Wildbow combined two RL incidents to come up with the locker - making the canon incident considerably worse than either of the RL ones.
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I go and tell a teacher about bullying, they call in the other students, who give a lie to get me in trouble.
I post proof and quotes proving it happened, while you're saying it didn't happen.
What exactly am I not reading in your posts?
Look at my responses in the post above yours, I edited them in before you posted this. But seriously, Nazis?
It's canon (iirc) that Danny has kept all the gangs out of the DWU, including E88.
but there is STILL paperwork generated, paperwork neither and complaints that was somehow HIDDEN from Danny, and that no one mentioned in the confrontation following Taylor hitting Emma? I'm not saying the paperwork would show Taylor in good light, but good light or bad light it would exist, while in canon it clearly does not.
Except it's NOT contradicted by canon. It's contradicted by your view of how canon should have went... Which isn't canon.
The ONLY time Danny might find out about something is if he got called in for a conference/parental visitation day, or if Taylor got suspended (which she never did).
1: See my response to Unicorn in this post.
Being able to keep the gangs out of the (failing) Dockworkers is not an indicator for being able to deal with Winslow, with Sophia's handler backing them up to keep Shadow Stalker out of the limelight.
1) Getting a video camera small enough (Tinkertech has, interestingly enough, slowed down actual technical progress so she can't cheaply get hold of such a camera on her allowance) that nobody would see it would be virtually impossible. Even if possible, it's illegal. She doesn't want to get in trouble with the cops as well, given her track record with authority figures. With her luck, the school would lobby to have the footage confiscated and destroyed ... and then have her charged.
There are a whole bunch of reasons why this wouldn't work, but the one relevant to this discussion is that there wasn't any paperwork (good or bad) in canon. i.e no complaints were filed, no incidents were noted by teachers, no notes much less meetings with parents.
As of the day before the canon school meeting Danny didn't know anything about the bullying.
You do know 2/3rds of that posse was white, right?
1. Because Taylor's wealthy./Sarcasm
Why would it be brought to Danny's attention? Taylor was canonically hiding it for her dad, and if nothing was bad enough there's no reason to bring him in. Also, it wasn't like they hid the locker incident.
It's Slippery Slope, actually.
Canonically, Sophia had been spoken to by the principal on a couple of occasions (the inference is that the punishments were 'slap on the wrist' type).
1: *Does some price checking*. Ok, if Taylor stopped replacing things to hide how bad it was from her dad, she could have afforded it I think. Assuming she knew of such things. Of course, such solutions are thought of by few, and would prevent/drastically alter the story, so I'm fine with them being forgotten.
Please reread my response. I already addressed that between 'If' and 'because story'.
We've seen what you consider appropriate/normal, that part of Worm seems absurd to you is unsurprising. If you really want, write a Rational!Worm fic.
Did you actually read WB's description of how Taylor was spreading her attention? Or did you go "too long, won't read, don't care"?
Hahaha nope. Gangs love having members. If you associate with them one time, they start hanging around you, and then you get the rep for being in the gang, and if you then separate yourself from them, guess what? The other gangs come after you as a member of that gang, and you don't have any protection.
Taylor: "I've got a camera! You can't do anything to me any more!"
I just looked them up. While I'm sure they were somewhat more expensive 7 years ago, she did have a allowance which could have afforded them. (Her allowance was from her Grandmother.)
Ok, this one is Strawman. Given the Diary, I'd imagine she'd not have mentioned it to anyone until she had evidence of something she considered of value. Kinda like how she just kept documenting what they did to her until she stopped going to Winslow, likely intending to eventually use it.
Her allowance was barely enough to get the stuff she needed for hero work, and even that was pitiful enough.
Because schools are required to report to the parents when the kids get in trouble, or are involved in anything else that gets this sort of paperwork written.
Do you remember what chapter that's mentioned? Because both the meeting at school following Taylor telling her father about the bullying, and Sophia's reaction to Taylor reporting the bullying suggest that was the first time Taylor reported it, and it definitely was the first time Sophia was aware Taylor reported it.