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Fyre, Fyre, Burning Skitter

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Praise the wordz!
Also..
pst.. Taylooor~
There is a whole 'verse of big honking spiders over there.
Most of them already have names and costumes~
QA would probably love to get to know them~
 
Q.A. already got her own Answer in the form of Magic !
I can't wait when she will bring all types of magical critters that will form a new magical ecosystem in Earth Bet. I bet she will make a self-sustaining magical environment that will have cascading effect on Bet later on.

Thank you for writing !
 
mp3.1415player said:
she needed to figure out how to go about acquiring some very large spiders…

Taylor had ideas for them.
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... I'm scared now.

Ace Dreamer said:
Possibly continuity error?
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They also likely spent hours talking with Mr Lovegood. I'd have to reread, but I think the Death Eater attack came either shortly before noon, or the aftermath took until early afternoon to deal with. After all, there were multiple terrorists splattered across the scenery.
 
Yeah, just went back to reread. The "fight" with the death eaters happened around noon, after the group (probably) spent a few hours at the book store. Then dealing with the Aurors. THEN they got to the pub for lunch and a nice long talk. One which probably went into supper time too.
 
Bucios05 said:
Quite satisfying in the sense that we see Xeno, be more than he appears and slightly better than his canon version, in addition to seeing Hermione and Luna's points of view, regarding what happened, while Harry, unlike them, sadly he is more accustomed to life and death situations

As for Amelia, she once again gets another unpleasant surprise, when Sirius and Remus arrive to talk to her about the Horrorcrux; information that they confirm with Albus, who arrives to continue talking with her, surprised to know that they also know and tired of her, for all the weight that he has carried alone.

I know there's a lot of Evil Dumbledore hints, but I think that's not the case here, in an ideal world he would have trusted the ministry authorities, but given that Fudge was basically siding with the Death Eaters without knowing it, and how corrupt others were parties, it is logical that he considered it prudent to keep the information private

And from the strange coincidences perceived by Harry and the others, while they could be attributed to the Director, I feel that there is someone else at work, perhaps the mysterious secret agency that we have seen in this fic, are the ones who have interfered to keep certain information as secret, heh, the bad thing, for them, given what Taylor plans to do, they won't stay secret for long, given that she plans to investigate deeper into London's underground

In addition to being necessary to see her have that interesting talk with Hagrid, who may be the one who introduces Tay to Aragog and his descendants, and the old monster's surprise when he sees someone capable of controlling his children and other creatures of the forest, in As for the Centaurs, I wonder if they have something to say to Taylor, would they have predicted her arrival and what her presence will cause?

Good luck and keep it up
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Eh, in canon we only see Xeno as a relatively broken person, who knows Luna is in Death Eater hands, and has been for presumably months. And we don't truly know what they did to her, or what they used as proof they had her.

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As Sirius noted, even in the unlikely event that Dumbledore couldn't find a single person sufficiently trustworthy in Britain with the appropriate skillset and/or knowledge base, even if he needed to use secrecy oaths,
Dumbledore had all kinds of international contacts and connections. And years to work with.
Also, Dumbledore is almost certainly a major factor in why so many of the Death Eaters were able to dodge justice.
He's also someone who could have prevented Fudge from becoming Minister.

Furthermore ... Dumbledore is unquestionably the person responsible for Harry ending up at the Dursley's - before Sirius even caught up to Pettigrew. I find it highly improbable that James and Lily Potter had not made arrangements for a list of people they liked and trusted to care for Harry in the event of their deaths.
Sirius also had no trial or even interrogation, which is suspicious as hell, and there's no way that that was an accident or even solely down to Barty Crouch Senior. Dumbledore protected Snape from questioning, and allowed Sirius to get locked up without trial or interrogation. Then, after Sirius escaped, I find it difficult to believe that Dumbledore couldn't have gotten Sirius a trial after Third Year, but before Voldemort came back. After all, the lack of a trial would be a fairly easy lever to work with - that's a precedent that almost nobody would want to set or allow to stand, even ignoring the legal requirements.

Dumbledore takes a lot of actions and interactions that, while any one single action or inaction may have justifications, add up into a very questionable pattern. Then there's the all things that while we cannot definitively attribute to him, he's almost certainly connected to, either directly or indirectly.
I get the distinct impression that the Directorate largely only watches the magical world, and doesn't get involved.

Then there's the fact that Dumbledore knows the Prophecy, seemingly takes it very seriously ... and yet has done absolutely nothing to prepare Harry to fight and defeat Voldemort. Indeed, it could be argued that Dumbledore has largely gone out of his way to not prepare Harry.
Hell, given Dumbledore's actions and inactions, it could more plausibly be argued that Dumbledore is the Dark Lord in question - claiming that Harry as the Boy-Who-Lives is responsible for Voldemort's downfall is a more plausible "mark as equal" to Dumbledore (both defeated feared and unstoppable Dark Lords) than the scar marked Harry as an equal to Voldemort, as per Dumbledore, because they're both half-blood orphans?

Also ... Dumbledore's claims of a blood protection cast by Lily on Harry and then somehow transferrable to and dependent upon Petunia and her house seems sketchy and highly implausible.
Lily obviously did something, quite likely including a sacrificial component of herself, but it would very definitively have been focused on Harry, with no connection or dependence upon her extremely estranged sister who had basically disowned her.

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They left for Diagon in the afternoon - they'd already had pizza for lunch at the Grangers, after Madame Bones had left. They were expecting to arrive a little after two or so.
 
Kytheros said:
Also, the acromantula are probably going to be a serious problem to keep fed. I mean, it's not like Taylor/Skitter can allow them to actually eat the local criminal element, even the Nazis.
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In other words, Taylor will need to bring the right feedstock too to keep her spiders healthy. Which means, Brockton Bay will get it's own population of giant flies. And giant mosquitoes.
Maybe some giant dragonflies to, to keep them in check, because dragonflies are awesome.
 
Personally, it seems to me that Dumbledore's issue, at least in this fic, is a combination of decades of everyone always turning to him for answers to the point that he has gotten too used to doing everything himself, with the result that he just goes ahead and tries to handle everything himself without even consulting anyone else anymore, combined with having too many responsibilities on his shoulders as his various positions from Headmaster to Supreme Mugwump to his position in the ICW would all likely be at least half-time position normally if not full-time positions and thus trying to handle all of them simultaneously is likely extremely stressful and leaves very little actual free time, such that I think it is likely he has been pushed nearly to the breaking point by the time of this fic.

Though, it should be noted that I don't like evil Dumbledore fics after the massive flood of them that happened early in the Harry Potter fanfiction lifespan, so it is entirely possible that this bias is influencing me away from an evil Dumbledore conclusion.
 
PossiblyEnos said:
In other words, Taylor will need to bring the right feedstock too to keep her spiders healthy. Which means, Brockton Bay will get it's own population of giant flies. And giant mosquitoes.
Maybe some giant dragonflies to, to keep them in check, because dragonflies are awesome.
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Unless (existing) 'magic' is the 'food' for some part of the potential magical ecosystem (or QA is feeding in energy/resources from another place, and removing waste heat) the Sun/solar energy needs to be at the base. And, that tends to be visible, one way or another. Then, there's the disposal of waste.

So, air, water, food, in, waste (materials and heat), out. People like Armsmaster and Dragon are likely looking for anomalies, among other things to predict the next Endbringer attack. All this is one reason some shard fudging needs to be done for massive projects, like giant robots, or the odd spare Godzilla-scale creature, tucked-away, so you can say 'Surprise!'.

The exotic giant magic fungii (mushrooms?) at the 'base' of things need resources themselves... No matter what people like TSR/WotC tell us...

Yes, giant dragonflies (preferably with saddles) are awesome!
 
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To be fair, the Acromantula have a surprisingly small ecological footprint in the forest, considering the sheer size of the colony. I suspect they, along with the great size, were given great energy efficiency by their engineers. Possibly they could survive on maybe a couple of deer a year without being significantly impacted. They were originally designed as guardian beasts after all, and no-one wants to have to waste too much money on such things.
 
Considering that at least in the books, the impression is that some family trees in the enclaves look more like bushes, it wouldn't surprise me if Bella and Sirius were half-siblings. I think Harry himself is cousins with the Weasleys, Dora Tonks, and Draco thru the Blacks.

Dumbledore evil? Maybe, maybe not. Remember that Dumbledore's objective is to ensure that Harry the horcrux dies. His job as he sees it is to ensure Harry survives just long enough to die at the right moment. Putting him with the Durlseys helps him because it makes Harry slightly suicidal, easy to push him into making the sacrificial play and unwilling to fully trust others.

Dumbledore is also unwilling to exercise what political power he has to do good out of a paralyzing fear of causing harm, evading his responsibility. Instead he ended up yielding it thru inaction to the Death Eaters and their sympathizers, causing even greater harm.

I am glad that Hermione, Luna, Harry and Taylor have had this time to just decompress and reassess, plus having actual adults watch out for them in the form of the Grangers and Xeno. Hermione is also finding some of herself mirrored in Taylor, so it would be interesting to see how she, Luna and Harry are influenced by that going forward.
 
Nmaiz said:
Considering that at least in the books, the impression is that some family trees in the enclaves look more like bushes, it wouldn't surprise me if Bella and Sirius were half-siblings. I think Harry himself is cousins with the Weasleys, Dora Tonks, and Draco thru the Blacks.

Dumbledore evil? Maybe, maybe not. Remember that Dumbledore's objective is to ensure that Harry the horcrux dies. His job as he sees it is to ensure Harry survives just long enough to die at the right moment. Putting him with the Durlseys helps him because it makes Harry slightly suicidal, easy to push him into making the sacrificial play and unwilling to fully trust others.

Dumbledore is also unwilling to exercise what political power he has to do good out of a paralyzing fear of causing harm, evading his responsibility. Instead he ended up yielding it thru inaction to the Death Eaters and their sympathizers, causing even greater harm.

I am glad that Hermione, Luna, Harry and Taylor have had this time to just decompress and reassess, plus having actual adults watch out for them in the form of the Grangers and Xeno. Hermione is also finding some of herself mirrored in Taylor, so it would be interesting to see how she, Luna and Harry are influenced by that going forward.
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Sirius/Regulus and the Sisters Black are explicitly called cousins on the Black Family Tree. They had siblings for one parent each. Admittedly, it's possible that one of the siblings married a Black family cousin. But they're explicitly not siblings or half siblings.

Dora Tonks and Draco Malfoy are indeed actual first cousins - their mothers were sisters, though Andromeda got disowned after marrying Ted Tonks.
Arthur Weasley's mother was born Cedrella Black. Though, how exactly she's related to the other Blacks is unspecified.
They're probably distant cousins.

Harry, on the other hand, is not explicitly so in canon. Canon doesn't actually specify his grandparents, though the Black Family Tree scene with Sirius includes a mention of a Charlus Potter having married a Dorea Black, though he doesn't actually say that they are Harry's grandparents, or how Harry is related to them. At some point after the books, JKR apparently claimed that James Potter's parents were named Fleamont and Euphemia, but no more details than that, as far as I know.
Which is one of the major holes in Potterverse canon. Harry knows nothing about his family and family history, and does basically nothing to find out more, and those who do know don't tell him much of anything.


Most, likely all, purebloods are related to one another going back far enough.


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I'm sorry, but what part of knowing and deliberately setting up a baby to be groomed and conditioned to die "at the right time" isn't evil?
Besides, Harry could not have been a true Horcrux - Voldemort got himself turned into a disembodied wraith before he could properly bind and anchor a soul fragment to whatever item or artifact he had prepared and brought to Godric's Hollow to turn into a Horcrux with Harry's death ... if we believe that was his actual plan.
Unless we're going to say Dumbledore was watching under the Deathcloak and deliberately anchored a bit of Voldemort's soul to Harry, forcing it through Lily's protections, and blocking Lily's work from acting against it.
Which, to be fair, is in line with Dumbledore saying even if he could remove the scar, he wouldn't.
Also, basilisk venom destroys Horcruxes. Harry had a pretty significant dose of Basilisk venom in the Chamber, and I doubt that Pheonix tears would have been beneficial to a Horcrux.


Dumbledore says a lot of things, but his follow through actions (and inactions) don't actually support what he says he believes in.
I don't remember what story it was, possibly Selector's The XXXX You Say, but a team was digging through everything they could find on Dumbledore trying to figure out what exactly he'd done and why, and concluded that he was likely a Wizard Supremacist with Pureblood Supremacist tendencies, and a full fledged Dark Lord working to a long term plan. Among other things, his Greater Good Philosophy was formed in conjunction with Grindelwald.



At best, Dumbledore is completely and utterly incompetent and mentally unfit. And even that does not cover for everything.
 
I always distrust people who expose a "for the greater good" justification. Who's greater good are we talking about? Cause a neo-nazi's idea of "greater good" is not the same as what I'd consider "the greater good". And neither of us would have an idea which a native American tribe would consider "the greater good".
 
I've fixed the sister/cousin thing so people can stop mentioning it now, thanks :)

As far as Dumbledore goes, I can say I'm trying not to write him as the Evil Wizard trope, because aside from anything else it's been done to death. But if you actually look at canon, it is genuinely hard not to end up with that conclusion, or the one where he's basically senile. The plot holes in JKR's writing are... significant. Although that's a different argument this is not the time nor place to get into.

I have a somewhat different set of ideas in play that may explain some if not all of the oddities surrounding the whole thing, and those will be shown in due course :)

It's going to get weirder before things sort themselves out though, I warn you now :evil:
 
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PossiblyEnos said:
The part where that didn't happen.
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Dumbledore pretty much admits that was his big plan. Sure, he'd been hoping his gamble would let Harry survive being a sacrificial lamb. But that was never certain.

That whole sequence might be a figment of Harry's imagination. Or it might be him actually speaking with Dumbledore while being given the choice of moving on to the "next great adventure" or returning to life.
 
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