How about a concerted campaign to persuade the public to lessen the importance of that particular debt? Remind everyone that Harry was a baby at the time and couldn’t have intended to defeat the Dark Lord, emphasise that it must have been some kind of freak accident, start spreading rumours with alternative explanations...
Anyway my point isn’t about any single thing they could do; the point is that there are a lot of powerful and politically-skilled people who would very much want to do something, and I don’t feel at all confident that we can assume they’ll be unable to come up with anything now that the gambit is no longer a surprise one.
You may very well be right. Due to free-riding and buck-passing I’d still expect a lot of them to do nothing.
Recall also that they’re all in internal power struggles over ink monopolies and what have you, plus Lucius lack of complete control has already been pointed out by Lucius.
For all those who think the blood debt will hurt their rivals more than themselves there’s good reason not to change the framing of the debt. Not to forget being the one to start this campaign will be both financially and politically costly. A beautiful collective action problem. Either way, we’ve too little insights into the political power balances to make qualified estimates about the “wall-paper’s” reaction.
How about a concerted campaign to persuade the public to lessen the importance of that particular debt? Remind everyone that Harry was a baby at the time and couldn’t have intended to defeat the Dark Lord, emphasise that it must have been some kind of freak accident, start spreading rumours with alternative explanations...
Anyway my point isn’t about any single thing they could do; the point is that there are a lot of powerful and politically-skilled people who would very much want to do something, and I don’t feel at all confident that we can assume they’ll be unable to come up with anything now that the gambit is no longer a surprise one.
You may very well be right. Due to free-riding and buck-passing I’d still expect a lot of them to do nothing.
Recall also that they’re all in internal power struggles over ink monopolies and what have you, plus Lucius lack of complete control has already been pointed out by Lucius.
For all those who think the blood debt will hurt their rivals more than themselves there’s good reason not to change the framing of the debt. Not to forget being the one to start this campaign will be both financially and politically costly. A beautiful collective action problem. Either way, we’ve too little insights into the political power balances to make qualified estimates about the “wall-paper’s” reaction.