Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
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Oh man, it's like a jolt of pure dopamine every time another chapter drops.
And Malfoy is being dealt with exactly as he should be. No extra bashing, no fanon-coolness, he's a spoiled teenager not expecting anyone to stop him and is dealt with like one.
Kudos on that
Edit: and they fucking tell everyone possible about it because fuck Dumbledore? Amazing!
Edit 2: ANOTHER CHAPTER IN 2 DAYS?!?!
And Malfoy is being dealt with exactly as he should be. No extra bashing, no fanon-coolness, he's a spoiled teenager not expecting anyone to stop him and is dealt with like one.
Kudos on that
Edit: and they fucking tell everyone possible about it because fuck Dumbledore? Amazing!
Edit 2: ANOTHER CHAPTER IN 2 DAYS?!?!
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Lucious is either in prison or wishing he was right now. IIRC he was arrested after the debacle at the Ministry in Book 5. Even if he's free, he has no influence over the Ministry anymore.
Draco is fucked. As he should be, Book 6 was a mistake.
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I personally never considered Snape 'redeemed'. His amount of making the world a worse place was never outweighed by any decent thing he did imo.
Fawkes isn't stupid. He saw the writing on the wall, put a fake him on his perch and fled to Bora Bora the second Taylor got within 10 miles of the school.
Fics that excessively rewrite canon scenes are automatic drops for me. I think you did it perfectly by referencing them logically to give a reminder.
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They seem to be getting along, picking up on each other's mods, and copying tics. I have to wonder how much is them getting along and how much is the magic because they don't seem to be needing the negative reinforcement at this point.
It'd also be entirely out of character.
Canon relies on things happening to Harry while he basically spectates.
Taylor is the very definition of 'do unto others.... before they do unto you'.
There are plenty of angles that Dumbledore and the Order never bother pursuing, and many threads they never bother pulling on. Taylor would.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing who gets a Skitter to the face next.
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The only minor quibble I have is that I'm really, really surprised none of the Slytherins tried bullying Harry and/or Taylor about the marriage thing. Not Malloy himself, he's canonically distracted this year, but I feel like one of the little idiots would have strode up to the dinner table and made nasty remarks.
Granted, that student would be dead the next morning from spider bites, but what are you gonna do?
Granted, that student would be dead the next morning from spider bites, but what are you gonna do?
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I don't think they've had a chance yet? Taylor seems to be spending most of her time away from the general student body, and if she wants to avoid people she can. It's also still just the first week.
Even in the books they rarely go straight up to people while eating when the staff is right there watching.
Or Romilda. Remember, she accidentally got Ron with the dosed chocolates that were intended for Harry. I could easily see her pulling something that triggers the terms of the bond.
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Honestly, I'd much prefer you didn't. If a canon scene must proceed as canon, make reference to it happening, but don't write the whole scene but now there's an extra character in it. Follow the Advice of Reymille "this canon scene happened over there"
At least currently Fudge isn't the Minister anymore and Harry hasn't been pre-poisoned against Scrimgeour by Dumbledoor and Stan Shunpike's arrest, so it's possible the Ministry might actually be functional in this timeline.
Thank god, it's extremely annoying when authors fail to use the fact they are writing a *fanfic*. Retreading canon scenes is the worst way to write fanfics - write the good parts, at most reference the scenes that change in obvious ways and ignore those that remain unchanged - the pacing gained this way is the major strength of fanfiction. Your readers have brains and imagination, letting them fill in the blanks is how good works are made… at least as long as there exists *a* plausible way to fill in those blanks that is not self-contradictory, otherwise you get a mess like the canon Harry Potter.
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Snape almost certainly can't run out the clock on the Ring's curse because Draco's job (that Snape would have to fulfill) was to kill Dumbledore. OTOH, he can probably wait until a convenient time as long as he does do Draco's job and kill Dumbledore.
Government? Functional? After presumably a decade of corruption from the very top (at least)? Fighting off an armed terrorist insurrection co-run by oligarchs?
Now, that would be truly magical.
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Come on, man, there's a clear line between fantasy and lunacy
Basically it comes down to what Voldemort had in mind for a task completed. Did he just want Dumbledore off the board? Or did he want to forge Draco into a better Death Eater by having him be a killer? If it's the former, any means of Dumbledore dying would suffice, even natural causes. If it's the latter only a successful murder attempt would work. And since we know Snape lives in canon after helping Dumbledore with an assisted suicide, it has to be the former. Therefore the Vow would be satisfied with the Ring's curse, provided there is no time limit.
I believe you are forgetting a few details about Hermione's personality, as previously demonstrated, that are only partially mitigated at this point.
1) Hermione STILL has a near reverence for (recognized) authority figures. This only really took a hit with Lockhart being proven a fraud (and Umbitch, but that was really understood ahead of time so wasn't a "recognized" authority figure), and still needs some more battering before "trust-but-verify"/"take with a grain of salt" positions start to be more of a default.
2) She is a natural born Ivory Tower Academic confronted with a (not fully matured and politically savvy version's) horror with academic dishonesty - aka using a cheat sheet "while testing" instead of as a study guide at worst. A study guide that she both rejects and is denied access to (for obvious reasons). Again, a situation that is only partially mitigated by proving Lockhart a fraud - see her 180 degree position on respecting him after said proving.
That she accepts Harry being better at practicals is because he has been so since day 1, not as a result of a sudden influx of information that isn't ALSO accessible in general - ignoring that the same also occurrs, in general, in families that have a long enough magical heritage/lineage.
The irony being that Taylor has already told her that she is a child of a well respected post-secondary teacher, who has been directly informed of collegiate politics by said, and relayed the accounts as, not hearsay, but secondhand. That Taylor has already also relayed her direct experiences in a badly run secondary institution while illustrating the parallels at Hogwarts actually paints Hermione in a worse light.
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People constantly quote how rulebound Hermione is, but forget that in the first book, she set fire to a professor's robes. A professor who was a recognized authority. If she was the hide-bound authority minion people think she is, then she would have automatically assumed that Snape had a good reason for doing it, because he was a teacher.
In world, it was that she felt it was cheating. Meta speaking, JKR was tired of all the fans writing H/Hr stories, and therefore had to make her seem like an utter See You Next Tuesday. Then for the last book, realzied she'd gone too far in the opposite direction and made you feel sorry for her by permanently scarring her with the word 'Mudblood'.
In world, it was that she felt it was cheating. Meta speaking, JKR was tired of all the fans writing H/Hr stories, and therefore had to make her seem like an utter See You Next Tuesday. Then for the last book, realzied she'd gone too far in the opposite direction and made you feel sorry for her by permanently scarring her with the word 'Mudblood'.
I prefer the interpretation that she so religiously follows the rules as written because whenever she doesn't have them (or just doesn't use them) as a guide for her behavior she tends to escalate harder than Taylor and with a lot less warning for everyone in the splash zone
She's not good with empathy and she struggles to really connect with the people around her, she doesn't understand them, not really. In general the Trio are very poorly socialized, but Hermione is worse than Harry in that regard.
She's driven to succeed at academics because that is the one area where she undeniably excels, but when it comes to dealing with actual people she tends to fumble hard.
She's not good with empathy and she struggles to really connect with the people around her, she doesn't understand them, not really. In general the Trio are very poorly socialized, but Hermione is worse than Harry in that regard.
She's driven to succeed at academics because that is the one area where she undeniably excels, but when it comes to dealing with actual people she tends to fumble hard.
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Hermione follows rules like the Bible, however she's brave enough to break rules when she thinks she knows better. She's smart enough and rarely proven wrong enough to dig her heels in.
Harry falls. Snape hates Harry, and Harry is playing Snape's House. Snape is staring and mumbling. Thus he is casting a spell that made Harry fall.
As such she breaks one rule to uphold another, that being murder is against the law or some such.
The thing is, she was wrong, but still correct enough she won't learn anything from it. Snape was casting a spell on Harry. Setting him on fire did save Harry.
Harry falls. Snape hates Harry, and Harry is playing Snape's House. Snape is staring and mumbling. Thus he is casting a spell that made Harry fall.
As such she breaks one rule to uphold another, that being murder is against the law or some such.
The thing is, she was wrong, but still correct enough she won't learn anything from it. Snape was casting a spell on Harry. Setting him on fire did save Harry.
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We know that's not the case because after Harry hit Draco with Sectumsempra Snape was fine because he used the counter curse to save Draco. Now if Snape wasn't there and Draco died? Different question. But Draco being hurt doesn't auto-kill Snape,
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As far as I can remember, Dumbledore's plan is actually to turn his now unavoidable death into a way for Snape to get more credit with Voldemort, in anticipation of Voldemort's victory (and prophetic bullshit carrying Harry to victory or martyrdom.) He simply doesn't give a damn about Draco's murderous schemes one way or the other, which is breathtakingly horrible for someone in charge of a school but strategically defensible because a few dead kids won't matter.
He's not trying to win the war in the first place. He's trying to posthumously win the insurrection while also not trusting a single other person on the planet outside Snape.
I'm going to break from thread consensus and say his secrecy is also vaguely defensible because Voldemort can read minds, truth and various emotionally coercive potions are around everywhere, and the last time he trusted people with info he got the Potters killed and the Longbottoms lobotomized...but it's not like he ever actually uses that reasoning so I'm definitely giving him and especially Rowling more credit than deserved.
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No? Snape spied on an interview and THAT is what led to that. Not Dumbledore telling someone a secret.