- Location
- Beyond the Unknowable Veil
Even better, he kills himself through sheer stupidity. He turns around sharply at the top of those self-same stairs and his book bag shifts and unbalances him, down he goes.
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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
- Thread starter Fencer
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
That's definitely part of it as well. Narcissa wouldn't qualify for inheritance I think because Lucy is the kind of asshole to leave his wife with nothing and to arrogantly not have plans in place for the possibility that his only heir is also dead.
FullNothingness
Mostly DHMO.
It is not impossible that the arrangements for what Narcissa gets in this situation have already been negotiated during the talks when the marriage was considered. After all it looks bad for the Black family to have one of their daughters end up destitute so a contingency like that makes sense.
- Location
- Washington DC
In land and magic probably. In gold I suspect not. I always got the sense that the Malfoys were (probably not so long ago French) New Money and Lucius was marrying into the Blacks to gain Old Money legitimacy among the purebloods.
- Location
- New England
I wonder if Skitter is willing to gaslight for the Greater Good.
Like, there have to be ways to have bugs spell out messages either with themselves on or chalk boards or whatever and then erase it before others see. Just keep pushing Malfoy with variations on "confess your sins or suffer" until he admits his mission. Actually since Harry speaks parsletongue, he could have some snakes follow Draco around and hiss it to him in unison, if Taylor is willing to teach him how to do a swarm voice with snakes
Like, there have to be ways to have bugs spell out messages either with themselves on or chalk boards or whatever and then erase it before others see. Just keep pushing Malfoy with variations on "confess your sins or suffer" until he admits his mission. Actually since Harry speaks parsletongue, he could have some snakes follow Draco around and hiss it to him in unison, if Taylor is willing to teach him how to do a swarm voice with snakes
seems hard. way easier and more casual to just kill him tbh
oh, Snape died in the process too? oh no! anyway,
- Location
- New England
Come now, Skitter isn't that murder-happy. He'd have to make fun of Harry being an orphan in front of her before she went into full murderdeathkill-mode.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
That is true, though if I remember correctly wasn't Andromeda the one he was supposed to marry and she eloped with Tonks' dad instead? Or was that with the Lestranges? Regardless it might have been struck from the agreement afterwards in recompense. I don't think the Blacks were really anticipating how bad the First War would end up becoming for the family, so she "always" could've counted on returning to the family if all else failed.
I think it is only mentioned that she was disowned for marrying Ted Tonks since that went against the blood purity nonsense spouted by the Blacks.
Both her sisters went joyfully and willingly to their arranged marriages with Lestrange and Malfoy, though being a half-blood certainly didn't stop Bellatrix from boinking Riddle, assuming you take Cursed Child as official canon.
- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Probably. That'll take how long, exactly? Twenty minutes? Thirty?
Exactly. So I'd have expected them to ensure that the Blacks got _everything_. Pity they never expected the Black who inherited hated everything they stood for....
Uh, duh? Of course she is.
So, you're saying the first minute of his first class with Harry, then.
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Yuo mean on his annual "insult scarhead, mudblood and Weaselly" train date.
If he's annoying enough, he may not make it to school. I mean, Potter got married, to an American, even.
Draco's been practicing ever since he heard that. He's got a great line, better than scarhead, even.
"Couldn't afford the five sickle brideprice for the Weaselly daughter, Potter? Had to get a cheaper bride? Should have taken the mudblood, I understand they pay people to marry them."
If he says anything like that, I'll put ten Galleons on him not lasting thirty days.
Hermione will be competing with Skitter to see who kills him first.
Timerider
That guy who really should get out more.
- Location
- The End of the World.
Skitter won't kill him for that. He will become a living example of why insulting Skitter is a bad idea.
No matter how long or loudly he begs for the sweet release of death.
im more concerned she is only doing it cause she's getting tinker equivalent stir crazy. but still isn't mentioning that to harry.
Epsilon Rose
The King of Unrest
Does she even know her powers have a tinker component at this point, or is she just chalking her armor and stuff up to normal creativity/crafting?
yes, that's exactly what i meant. shards have a lot of influence on a host...i also thought when their mood was mentioned, maybe it was the contract. guess not xD
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I doubt QA is really involved at this point. Taylor went three or so months between her Trigger and her first night out, and QA knows she's perfectly willing to engage in conflict. No reason to push, QA is letting Taylor drive. That said, Taylor has spent the past foir to five months fighting with brief periods of peace in between, she's probably unsettled by any extended period of peace now. Throw in that she does have enemies here to be worried about and she does have people to fight and there is a war going on? QA doesn't need to do a damn thing, Taylor is entirely capable of being like this in her own. It's not even the wrong mindset to have.
UK muggle law holds that first dibs on am inheritance goes to whoever is named in the will. If there is no will, or it is judged invalid for some reason (such as said heir already being dead), the estate goes to the next of kin. In the event that there are no surviving children, a spouse does count as next of kin, but more distant in-laws would not. If no next of kin can be found within twelve years, the estate reverts to the government. There is actually a subcategory of private investigators who track down the distant or estranged relations of people who die intestate so they can claim their inheritance in exchange for a cut.
Most other nations have similar laws, with the main variations being in two places: the cutoff time to claim the estate, and requirements on a certain degree of kinship to be eligible (so a fifth cousin who never met the deceased can't profit from the loss of someone he never considered family).
So if Draco predeceases Lucius and there is no will, Narcissa is heir. But if she also predeceases him, Bellatrix would not be the heir. I seem to recall some HP fanfic where Harry eliminated the Death Eaters in a very specific order so that all their collective fortunes would be funneled to one person, who upon his death would cause all the Dark Family's money to revert to House Black, whose head was one Harry Potter (which would be illegal, as a general rule murdering someone invalidates your claim to their estate).
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This one is simple. Introduce Kreacher to Taylor's bestest bud, Fiendfyre. If he doesn't immediately start bending over backwards to do whatever the hell she wants, he's a defective elf and needs to be a formerly breathing elf.
edit: Wrong fic - I'm an idiot, but I'll leave this here as a reminder to myself
Harry would likely have set it up so that the Death Eaters in question were all guilty of attacking and trying to kill him first, and it was just self defense. We all know Harry irritates the living hell out of the death eaters just by existing, so it wouldn't take much for him to bait them into attacking him instead of running away, like intelligent little minions.
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Epsilon Rose
The King of Unrest
A) Taylor can't control Fiendfyre in this fic and it wouldn't make much sense if she could.
B) Taylor is not, nor should she be, that much of a sociopath and not wanting to deal with people who randomly threaten you with murder doesn't make you "defective".
C) That kind of abuse was one of the things the Harry and Co tried to take a stand against.
- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I dunno why you think a wizarding country that split off muggle Britain back when it wasn't ruled by the Saxons would run on muggle inheritance law.