I think in the first Artemis Fowl book he has no supernatural aids of any kind, although he has a LOT of cool tech and he uses magical books for research (but it's more to get a laid of the land, not a device he can do magic with).
I think this plot is slightly impossible because YA/children's lit is meant to empower children, and leaving them magicless in a world with supernatural beings is the opposite of a good idea. Which is why the genre used to be so much darker (eg. The Owl Service)
You just made me realise I read a lot of my best friend/boyfriend/etc is a vampire, i think The Little Vampire warped my sense of proportion at an early age and I decided vampirism was a common and enticing attribute. Those books, for all they were funny, also had an underlying sense of danger for Anton, a human among vampires and vampire-hunters who believed him to be a vampire.
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I think in the first Artemis Fowl book he has no supernatural aids of any kind, although he has a LOT of cool tech and he uses magical books for research (but it's more to get a laid of the land, not a device he can do magic with).
I think this plot is slightly impossible because YA/children's lit is meant to empower children, and leaving them magicless in a world with supernatural beings is the opposite of a good idea. Which is why the genre used to be so much darker (eg. The Owl Service)
You just made me realise I read a lot of my best friend/boyfriend/etc is a vampire, i think The Little Vampire warped my sense of proportion at an early age and I decided vampirism was a common and enticing attribute. Those books, for all they were funny, also had an underlying sense of danger for Anton, a human among vampires and vampire-hunters who believed him to be a vampire.
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