that's so sweet! Damn, now I want to see my little cousins. The oldest are in college now and the youngest isn't even one. family events are chaos of the best sort. got to remember to look into train tickets before thanksgiving rolls around.
timing I can absolutely play with. I'm not calling the Vegas trip a Dumbledore plan for a number of reasons, starting with Dumbledore's obsession with the blood wards... still I'm thinking on things now. Early in the summer works just fine on a lot of levels ... and I don't need to take the impending conversation to Hogwarts if number 12 is off the table. I can take it back to the Dursley's and ohhh wouldn't it be fun to introduce them to Taylor? Paraphrase canon... just need to include Talyor and the Lupin's reactions at a few points which could be enough to write Vernon out of the scene entirely after his first interjection. They move into headquarters that night because Taylor refuses to sleep in a house where the occupants might try to kill her in her sleep. Bring up the fallacy in using blood wards because Voldemort has already proven he can touch Harry? what good even are they it was half the point of using him in the ritual.
Could you still post the "Extra Fun" version so we could see it? You sound really excited about it and I'd love to see where the passion took you.
check the post above yours. if I wake up tomorrow and the thought process still makes sense you should get the extra fun version as Chapter 5 instead of chapter 4..... oh mother fuck this really is turning into a long fic.... Damn it all!!!!!!! I mean yes I'm having a blast and I'm excited but juggling three fics is not great at all
ooooophh now that is a hella tall order. keep feeding my muse ideas by all means but..... I don't think that's likely. Dumbles kept things close to the chest as a default he didn't even start sharing the pertinent bits until he was dying. and even then he handed them out one useless drip of info at a time over the course of... weeks? months? hell the dumb fucking scavenger hunt should never have happened. that was like loading the deck in the DE's favor. Taylor is going to be so very unimpressed with the teaching staff it's not even funny comparisons to Winslow are going to be the default.
huh.... not sure about the first few bits but the looking like a black thing... hmm that is a tempting thought though a bit of a stretch.
I really find this a stretch since as far as I remember Krecher is magically bound to the black family. The idea that he would not know on sight who he needs to serve via magical bs is unlikely.
.... huh... you know what I said about feeding my muse? Good work. keep it up please and thank you.
I was more thinking that it was a vague look alike situation, catching him off guard a bit. Plus the official story that they've given is that Taylor got cast out of an unnamed family, magically.
Problem with her being mistaken for a branch of the blacks is that they intermarried with nearly everyone in Britain to begin with. If just being related to the Blacks was enough, he would happily be serving nearly every pureblood that Harry was friendly with. Krecher would wait and see how Taylor treats him before committing cause he is not an idiot.
Why? If the questioning is an issue, simply have Dumbledore forget it because of the stuff that has happened
It's not an issue. It's a matter of the chain of events. Where their first meeting happens dictates a lot of things. If they met at Hogwarts and Kreacher wasn't an issue the focus would be solely on the marriage and Taylor and how that effects dumbles plans. Homefield advantage so to speak. If it's at # 12 that's more neutral and the reason he's there is likely order related which allows taylor to drag the conversation towards the resistance movement. If instead as I'm now thinking it takes place at the Dursley's and kreacher is the focus Taylor will likely keep her thoughts to herself out of respect for Harry's grief and the confrontation gets punted over to the next chapter.
Good thoughts and good points but Harry hadn't given details of his life with the Dursley's. Taylor's just running off intuition and assumption at this point. Taylor would not murder petty civilians even if they are guilty of child abuse. And possibly most important of all Taylor wanting to make the Dursley's pay for all they've done is hardly a bad thing in my mind. Good for the developing camaraderie.
Hmmm thoughts to think and so many ways to play things. Not sire just yet. I do not want to slow down because I want to keep riding this rush but slowing down means time to think and debate options. Hmmm
Oooh! I like this one. It always felt a bit of a waste to me how Rowling offed one of the politically strongest straightlaced powerhouses.
