I don't think anyone has ever actually spelled it out, though I think it's been referred to often enough to make it implicit, but yes, I deliberately made the rules different in the Confederation. The Trace is only applied to underage witches and wizards living among Muggles. There is actually a bit of dialog between Payton and Alexandra on this subject in the first chapter of AQATSA (which may or may not stay in the final draft).
Teh Gay
Yeah, yeah, I know. I've gotten so much flack over that. Even my betas told me that it didn't really add much to the story.
Here's the thing: I really did know, all the way back when I was writing that scene with Beatrice in AQATLB, that Max and Martin were lovers. I tried to put some very subtle hints in book two, but they were probably too subtle. (Beatrice did know, btw. But she was not about to "out" Max to his little sister. There's a bit of extra-book "canon" for you. ;) )
And I wanted to make it explicit in book three (so that if it somehow came up later, or worse, I mentioned it outside of the books, people wouldn't claim I just made it up after the fact, as fpb still insists Rowling did). In fact, I wrote and rewrote several different scenes in which Alexandra learns the truth. (In the original version, Martin let it slip after the memorial service at BMI, in front of an outraged Beatrice.) None of them worked. The scene I settled on, in the crypt, still left something to be desired, obviously. But I wanted it to be there in the text, so there you go.
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Re: The Trace and Max and Authorial Rambling
Date: 2011-02-28 10:24 pm (UTC)I don't think anyone has ever actually spelled it out, though I think it's been referred to often enough to make it implicit, but yes, I deliberately made the rules different in the Confederation. The Trace is only applied to underage witches and wizards living among Muggles. There is actually a bit of dialog between Payton and Alexandra on this subject in the first chapter of AQATSA (which may or may not stay in the final draft).
Teh Gay
Yeah, yeah, I know. I've gotten so much flack over that. Even my betas told me that it didn't really add much to the story.
Here's the thing: I really did know, all the way back when I was writing that scene with Beatrice in AQATLB, that Max and Martin were lovers. I tried to put some very subtle hints in book two, but they were probably too subtle. (Beatrice did know, btw. But she was not about to "out" Max to his little sister. There's a bit of extra-book "canon" for you. ;) )
And I wanted to make it explicit in book three (so that if it somehow came up later, or worse, I mentioned it outside of the books, people wouldn't claim I just made it up after the fact, as