As you can imagine, this arc has a lot of research to be done on mystical and oriental artifacts. This is exceedingly difficult and frustrating for me, since Harry Potter is making my life difficult. If I search for "wand lore" or "divination" or "magical beasts" or "magical items", the first few items are HP rpgs, and most of the rest are HP fansites.
CURSE YOU, HARRY POTTER.
(I used to say "mischief managed" all the time, too. Until HP ruined it for me, and then it was, "Oh, you must read Harry Potter, since that level of coy alliteration is incapable of being developed by yourself.")

ANYWAY... There are few things that I enjoy researching and cataloging as much as metaphysical things. (Though linguistic evolution and word etymologies may trump that.) Divination, fortune-telling, druidic magics, word magics, I love them all. I don't trust them and would never practice them myself; magic because I already doubt it from the beginning so it would never work for me; and divination because I believe it works, but it feels like cheating and it's too easy to misconstrue. Not to mention the inevitable dependence on needing to know the future before every choice sounds like a displeasing crutch to need.

Well, I do a lot of research and the like, trying to understand all this metaphysical mumbo-jumbo as well as I can. BUT... when it goes into the comics, the point is still to entertain, not realism, and I might just flat out make crap up. So don't take things too seriously.

... what is this pointless post about?