Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
No problem, though I guess that answers the question of when this is. Very early Summer. Probably only a few days into the break.
Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
- Thread starter Fencer
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
No problem, though I guess that answers the question of when this is. Very early Summer. Probably only a few days into the break.
If Taylor finds out that Umbridge tried to murder Harry already, she's a dead woman walking; and since Harry has scars on his hand from Umbridge at this point...
Does anyone here really expect Taylor not to ask about them? Or to just accept what amounts to torture?
Taylor has just been dropped into a brand new situation, one where she has no idea about the sides, the players or the powers involved. That means zero control of anything on her part, and that is not a situation Taylor is going to accept for long.
I expect by the end of summer everyone except Hermione is going to be sick of questions, because Skitter absolutely hates flying blind.
And holy shit, if she gets a complete overview of the last five years...
People might be running to Voldemort for protection, because Angry Skitter is far more scary than the Lich.
Not that it will help.
Oh, and if she ever finds out what Dumbledore told Harry after Sirius's death, that Dumbledore "knew he was sentencing Harry to ten hard years" when he left him at the Dursley's, Dumbledore may find out that Skitter can punch well above her weight class.
Warlord Skitter in the Potterverse can be so entertaining, provided you're on this side of the fourth wall.
Does anyone here really expect Taylor not to ask about them? Or to just accept what amounts to torture?
Taylor has just been dropped into a brand new situation, one where she has no idea about the sides, the players or the powers involved. That means zero control of anything on her part, and that is not a situation Taylor is going to accept for long.
I expect by the end of summer everyone except Hermione is going to be sick of questions, because Skitter absolutely hates flying blind.
And holy shit, if she gets a complete overview of the last five years...
People might be running to Voldemort for protection, because Angry Skitter is far more scary than the Lich.
Not that it will help.
Oh, and if she ever finds out what Dumbledore told Harry after Sirius's death, that Dumbledore "knew he was sentencing Harry to ten hard years" when he left him at the Dursley's, Dumbledore may find out that Skitter can punch well above her weight class.
Warlord Skitter in the Potterverse can be so entertaining, provided you're on this side of the fourth wall.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
No I fully expect her to ask soon, though she's aware of some of it already. And she might know about the scar from the quill already. It's on his hand after all. Kind of hard to miss those.
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What Taylor knows and what Harry knows
Fencer
Writer
- Location
- 2nd shift
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So, I've hit a minor stumbling block in that I need to go hit up a used bookstore and familiarize myself with a few things that have blurred with time and copious fanfics.
While I try to handle that here is what you need to know about the offscreen exchange of information I deliberately skipped because no one should need me to rehash all of canon for them and writing it properly would have included multiple stops for clarifying questions and just, no.
The initial exchange of information went something like… "the witch trials happened and we went into hiding. Unicorns dragons etc are real. Things were pretty good in general, some wars happened and now an undead dark lord who's basically a nazi is making his second bid to take over England then the world… probably. The government responded to that fact by torturing kids and running a smear campaign so now we are kind of fucked cuss he's had a year and we're only really moving now.
A golden idiot showed up and people started getting super powers. Hero's villains the whole deal. For a while it was awesome and then the villains really outnumbered the heroes. And then the Kaiju showed up. No not like Godzilla. These would laugh at Godzilla. Everything's kind of shit and a thinker… precog?… an oracle you stupid fucking- *deep breath* an oracle predicted her friend and I would get in a fight and I'd win so she did something to send me here.
Cut back to the story where Tonks shouts about not believing it and the kids eventually agree to play a game of Russian Roulette with magic terrorists for bullets. If one of them dies the other gets their life back. If they both die it didn't really matter, and if they both live they've got the rest of their lives to work something out or find more people to fight and thus keep the game going.
Taylor asks for the full story before she decides.
Harry does his usual thing where he downplays his achievements but tells her the story of his scar and his schooling. Far less detailed than the books but hitting all the important bits and doing a fair job of introducing her to the larger cast from Harry's perspective as he inevitably rambles about everyone along the way.
Taylor takes note of how he dodges talking about relatives and makes several unflattering comparisons to her team mates situations. Taylor takes note of what Umbridge did to children and decides she could have given lessons to the Winslow staff. She notes that the rest of the teachers took the same turn a blind eye lessons her old teachers did, while Snape actually participated, not fifth year but still.
Taylor admitted to wanting to be a hero, ending up a villain and then getting drugged and dumped while trying to start over properly.
While I try to handle that here is what you need to know about the offscreen exchange of information I deliberately skipped because no one should need me to rehash all of canon for them and writing it properly would have included multiple stops for clarifying questions and just, no.
The initial exchange of information went something like… "the witch trials happened and we went into hiding. Unicorns dragons etc are real. Things were pretty good in general, some wars happened and now an undead dark lord who's basically a nazi is making his second bid to take over England then the world… probably. The government responded to that fact by torturing kids and running a smear campaign so now we are kind of fucked cuss he's had a year and we're only really moving now.
A golden idiot showed up and people started getting super powers. Hero's villains the whole deal. For a while it was awesome and then the villains really outnumbered the heroes. And then the Kaiju showed up. No not like Godzilla. These would laugh at Godzilla. Everything's kind of shit and a thinker… precog?… an oracle you stupid fucking- *deep breath* an oracle predicted her friend and I would get in a fight and I'd win so she did something to send me here.
Cut back to the story where Tonks shouts about not believing it and the kids eventually agree to play a game of Russian Roulette with magic terrorists for bullets. If one of them dies the other gets their life back. If they both die it didn't really matter, and if they both live they've got the rest of their lives to work something out or find more people to fight and thus keep the game going.
Taylor asks for the full story before she decides.
Harry does his usual thing where he downplays his achievements but tells her the story of his scar and his schooling. Far less detailed than the books but hitting all the important bits and doing a fair job of introducing her to the larger cast from Harry's perspective as he inevitably rambles about everyone along the way.
Taylor takes note of how he dodges talking about relatives and makes several unflattering comparisons to her team mates situations. Taylor takes note of what Umbridge did to children and decides she could have given lessons to the Winslow staff. She notes that the rest of the teachers took the same turn a blind eye lessons her old teachers did, while Snape actually participated, not fifth year but still.
Taylor admitted to wanting to be a hero, ending up a villain and then getting drugged and dumped while trying to start over properly.
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- Location
- United States
I think enough killing curses would. But the energy required to kill an animal the size of a continent might be a bit hard to get.
- Location
- United States
There is no real explanation for how the KC works. Fanon says soul magic though. So first Zion needs a soul to destroy, which I doubt it has.
JVR
Contessa's #1 Fangirl
- Location
- Cauldron Compound
There's an opportunity here. In HP canon, Voldemort hit Harry with a killing curse that only kinda-sorta killed him for a bit and then he got better. If you want to have your cake and eat it, too, then that might be enough to trick the marriage magic into thinking Harry died (even if only for a couple minutes) and they're both free.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
Thanks for the clarification! Depending on what you need to read you might be able to get away with just looking at the sample on the Amazon page. You can often read the first 30-60 pages for free.
I kind of want her never to return, because other than Danny who she isn't really attached to emotionally at the moment she's got nothing left. For all we know, and Taylor is likely completely unaware of, the Undersiders could be in New England on Earth Dalet (the letter after Gimel in Hebrew) and be on the same Earth as Taylor. Contessa said they're on an alternate Earth with very low Parahuman population. It could be the population is the Undersiders and that's it. As for the Killing Curse, potentially. The Scion issue getting solved because Taylor getting Married affected Shards weirdly and just kind of quietly resolving itself off screen would be amusing and frankly I dont particularly want to see Taylor deal with Scion after dealing with the Potterverse. A Wand for Skitter did that and soured my opinion on the whole thing immensely.
I don't think it'd work. His soul is the thing that's bound to Taylor and it never really leaves the mortal plane during that whole kerfluffle, just decides to take a quick out of body jog before going back to kick Voldemort's ass.
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JVR
Contessa's #1 Fangirl
- Location
- Cauldron Compound
Which might very well be just enough. The soul leaving the body could very well count as dead to the magic - that's the author's call.
Based on the new info, Taylor's going to have words (bugs, guns, words, all the same, right?) for Umbridge, the Dursleys and possibly Snape.
Sarcasm and harsh language for the Teachers is a possibility.
I kinda want her to introduce Dudley to a new game: Dudley hunting, in which he has to outrun a swarm of bees.
And why do I foresee weekly exterminator visits to the Dursley house for the rest of the summer?
Sarcasm and harsh language for the Teachers is a possibility.
I kinda want her to introduce Dudley to a new game: Dudley hunting, in which he has to outrun a swarm of bees.
And why do I foresee weekly exterminator visits to the Dursley house for the rest of the summer?
Hayateknight
Avatar of Apathy
- Location
- Texas
Eh this is after book 5. Dudley from what I remember while a little too late actually stops being a complete asshole to Harry now. But it has been a while so I can't perfectly remember how he acted in book 6.
- Location
- Indiana, US
The encounter with the Dementors at the start of book 5 forced Dudley to realize his behavior towards Harry was wrong. While he blamed Harry at the time, that was more trauma and confusion because he couldn't see the Dementors; once he learned that Harry had saved him, he tried, somewhat clumsily, to make amends.
To clarify, Voldemort is not like a Nazi.
He behaved more like Stalin.
Grindelwald was the Nazi.
Voldemort wasn't racist or prejudiced, ok well, he was, but they weren't his guiding factor.
He was Greedy, Power Hungry and Paranoid. Being prejudiced happened so he could fit in and be accepted by the Wealthy and 'Noble' crowds so that he could manipulate them.
So he was a Prejudice Poser.
Which is kinda worse.
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- Location
- America
It will most likely fail, maybe it'll pop Zion's avatar, but that'd be about it...KC is noted to have trouble killing elephants, and can't do shit to a whale, so it'll most likely fail against Zion.
Contramancer
Sanity? What's that?
- Location
- Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Huh. If you think about it, that still makes him almost exactly like Kaiser/Max Anders... he's not really a Kool-Aid drinking Nazi either, he's just in it for the power base. Similarities ftw, folks.
I would agree except that Kaiser wasn't really a dick to his followers.
Riddle kept throwing Crucios and AKs around at staff meetings so often, that you would think nobody would ever give him bad news for fear of that.
At this point I want someone to do a mass effect crossover and have a Aradak Yakshi eat him or something.
But hey magic should help with a few things on bet and best of all, no SoS.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
True enough, though I kind of hope @Fencer doesn't do this. It'd be a really predictable outcome where they end up having it annulled and then redoing it afterwards. It's too much Rom-Com nonsense for me to enjoy. And again it'd be really fucking predictable. Besides, Harry and Taylor aren't lucky enough for that to occur. Potter Luck is a thing, and Taylor is a Potter now too.
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- Location
- America
Potter luck combined with the Queen of Escalation...Harry isn't ready for this. Meanwhile, Taylor when faced with the escalation caused by Potter luck will likely just proceed to escalate further than ever before and at a potentially faster pace due to magic.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
Probably. I can't wait to read it! Seriously I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this story, hopefully it's sooner rather than later. If we're lucky @Fencer just needs to read parts of Book 6 that you can access in the sample you can read on the Amazon page.
The problem with that argument is that "Taylor suffers and Potter has bad luck" is also very predictable, if being predictable is what bothers you.
Also, "predictable Rom-Com nonsense" would be that the girl who has been forcibly bound to a boy conveniently falls in love with him, which somehow makes being bound by slave magic to him just fine. That's literal cliche isekei harem stuff.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
You're not wrong, though I'd point out it's not really slave magic as that implies one of them has power over the other. That's been pretty decisively proven wrong in the first chapter. I'd say it's just the kind of magic you really shouldn't fuck with, and Taylor deciding to get drunk and ending up married is her own damn fault. Not saying she didn't have her reasons to do so, but it was still a choice on her part. There's no perfect answer sadly, every possible outcome could be "predictable".
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She called it that, and regards it that way.
And it's not her fault, or Harry's for that matter; it's the fault of Tonks and the slimeball who provided the magic. Saying "she was drunk" doens't excuse it any more than raping her while she was unconscious would have been "her fault".
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
Difference is, you are responsible for your actions while under the influence, whether it be alcohol, LSD, cocaine, or whatever, unless it was forced upon you.
"Being unconscious" means you are unable to actively do anything, so anything that occurs to you while you are unconscious isn't your fault (unless it's the result of something that you did while conscious, in which case, it depends).