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Then she went on more seriously. "In any event that is one area that you simply have no equivalent of. And then of course there are the combat related magics, many of which also have no Force-based equivalent. Do you need any more specific examples?"
When the trio shook their heads Lily carefully hid her relief and went back to the original topic. "On the other hand, the Force as you put it is not only more prevalent, it is also denser, harder to use toward a specific goal than the magic back home. Think of it as the difference between shaping wet, malleable clay and hardened brick, and a person needing to visualize the change they are working on."
Yoda nodded, his eyes closed as he took that analogy to the logical conclusion. "Person who works with clay, imagination and fine control they will build when creating, but little strength. Person who works with brick, strong they will be, but unable to mold his creation. Believe it is possible in the first place, they might not."
Lily nodded. "Exactly. Many of the younglings have begun to learn a few of my people's simple charms, changing the color of one thing to another or transfiguring similar items from one to another. But the mental requirements to do even those simple things here in this universe are taxing on them at first. Several times I've seen the students have trouble staying awake after succeeding in a given task."
Tholme decided to interject at this point. "I've attempted to learn a few of the small scale 'spells' before this. I have had very little luck, though I was I able to change my hair color for a few moments. I think the problem is about 80% mental, and the rest the actual power requirement. Once your mind is able to imagine it, it becomes far easier."
Lily smiled over at Tholme, nodding her head. "Yes. Once they have accomplished it once, doing so again is far easier.. Their minds become accustomed to believing they can do it, and thus they are able to control their powers to the specific end far more easily."
"But because of the nature of what you call the Force here, I think that the Jedi are more powerful individually than most wizards, but that difference isn't as wide as I first assumed. I also think because of your early training in reaching out as you put it to the Force, you don't need or ever came to rely on the handicap most wizards have: focuses."
After explaining what she meant by focuses Lily went on speaking clinically. "Thus in the main, I think a Jedi would have a leg up against a normal wizard. Not, mind you, against someone like the Dark Lord who targeted my family who could match you power for power and keep the range open easily, attacking you in ways you simply could not respond to. Moreover, you are also killing yourselves off."
She looked at their shocked expressions and laughed coldly. "Really? None of you have figured that out? Master Tholme, how many Jedi are there, just a round number."
"A little below 13,000 all told. We are of course scattered around the galaxy which makes it almost impossible to keep an accurate count."
"Britain, the country on the world Harry and I come from, was one of the smaller countries on our world, both in terms of its non-magical population and it's magical. But in that country alone there are at least 13,000 magicals, something like seven or 8% of the total population I think, though I could be wrong on the percentage, I've never seen the actual data, just the number being quoted and with wizards, anyway let's forget that for now." Lily waved her hand, unwilling to go into how introverted the Wizarding World was right now. "That percentage can be assumed in other countries which had magical communities. The largest magical community I know of was in China, 146,000 or so."
For a moment the Jedi Masters were silent, simply staring at her unable to comprehend a single planet with that many Force users. But Lily went on, making certain they understood her position. "And the vast majority of those magic users could trace their ancestry to other magic users. Oh, there were many, hundreds, possibly thousands of men and women who couldn't. But more often than not, non-magicals still had an ancestor or relative that was magical somewhere in their family tree. I'm not saying that would be the way magic, or the Force, is passed on here, and certainly not for every race. But it is definitely a factor for humans and humanoids."
Yoda frowned. "Know of course we do that the children of Force users, often call on the Force themselves they can. But impacting our numbers that much, it does?"
"It's always hard to see the forest when you're standing in it," Lily said almost compassionately. Knowing that his people didn't reproduce that way, the fact that Yoda had missed it was sort of understandable. The fact that human Masters on the other hand had missed it was simply stupid in her opinion.
"Now it's my turn again. You mentioned the Ruusan Reformation, what is that, and why is it still in place?"
Yoda replied while Tholme and Giiett fell silent, each with their own thoughts. He told Lily about the New Sith Wars, about how many Jedi had fallen to the Dark Side. He elucidated many points there, and convinced Lily that there was definitely more of a corrosive, corrupting element to a Force user even feeling anger and hate than there had been on Earth.
On Earth Dark spells could impact the soul, but feeling the emotions could not, it was the equivalent of reaching out to the Force through the emotion and just feeling it. But here, a Jedi simply feeling anger without controlling it would quickly lose the ability to feel anything else. And even falling once could make a Jedi act out in a way he never would have otherwise. Fear was just as corrosive, only somewhat more subtle about it.
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