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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse

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It lives! :V

Good update. Kinda expecting Taylor and the trio - or, at least, just Taylor and Harry - to start doing stuff behind the Order's back. She'd probably follow the same thought process from early canon, what with her wanting solid proof of her abilities & skill that she can present to the rest in order to not get waved off.
 
Disguise Taylor and Harry and set them up near diagon alley. Taylor can listen in on every wizard and make notes on what is being purchased. And we don't know if a privacy spell affect her if she has a bug inside it.
 
Oh this is back, great! This was a stellar chapter @Fencer, and the fact that Taylor was snarking at Slughorn was hilarious. And Dumbledore's reaction was perfect. My one complaint is that Moody of all people dismissing Taylor as a threat seems a bit out of character. And he didn't immediately begin to question her when the meeting broke up a bit? Another bit that doesn't feel like Moody, at least to me. To me they should be getting along very well with their shared paranoia and general attitude. I wasn't kidding that I could see Moody deciding that Taylor is now his honorary granddaughter for her general attitude and modus operandi.

And it looks like Dumbledore didn't wait to grab the Ring, so that's a very bad thing. If the War does last longer than past this coming school year it's going to go very poorly for everyone, just like it did in Canon. It isn't out of character for Dumbledore, so I can't say it's supposed to have been averted for sure, but it does mean that things are only going to get worse.


Aineko said:
...I'm hoping at some point she will traumatize at least one wizard with flobberworms. They're famously helpless, but they're also 10-inch long maggoty things.
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Oh god this so needs to happen, maybe to Draco? It'd be extremely humiliating and wouldn't tip her hand too much in regards to her power, after all they aren't impressive and it'd be a show of her intelligence more than any power.
 
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Imagine..

Wand Holsters are a Scam.

Now, hear me out. The concept of Wand Holster is a flick and your wand gets accelerated to its target.

Now, I ask you..is it worth it to increase the stress and likelihood to damage your wrist from doing a flick and a downward motion to quickly at a fast speed to grab the wand.

Try do it, it's uncomfortable and adds unecessary stress.
 
mastigos said:
The holsters could easily be magical
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The entire mechanic of Wand Holsters are system-like. (Aka, the Common form in HP fanfiction.)

If you flick, the wand comes out.

I can think of the many times the Wand Holsterd would fire prematurely when you base it off intent. Like say you want to quite badly pull out your wand and shoot at the target, it follows that desire and shoots out the wand..making you seem like the agressor.

Or when your hands are down, and have that same desire to pull a wand and fire an Anti-Love Potion Spell (Fandom dosen't use it as much, it's a Fantastic Beast spell that essentially removes the effects of Love Potions.) on Ginny, only for your wand holster to fire the wand to the ground as it shatters.
 
My headcanon for wand holsters is that they're intent-based magic. You want your wand in-hand? Poof, it's now in-hand. Want to dismiss it? Poof, it's back in the holster. No 'shooting out' or anything, just 'now you see it, now you don't'. Also, they're probably bigger on the inside, otherwise you'd have a holster nearly as long as your forearm strapped on, longer for some wands.

As for people not taking Taylor seriously... yeah. I cannot wait for her first actual fight in this world, where she casually wipes out dozens of Death Eaters without even breaking a sweat. (Since this is mematic Taylor rather than canon Taylor.) I'm also rather eager for her to introduce the wizarding world to the realization that a coordinated swarm of doxxies is actually more dangerous than an entire pack of werewolves. (Remember, doxxies are poisonous, humanoid enough to use doors and tools, small, hard to hit, and numerous enough to be pests.)

As for flobberworms... well, even the most 'harmless' of lifeforms needs to be able to eat. And skin/flesh/bone is surprisingly less durable than people tend to think. If flobberworms eat something like rotting wood or fresh vegetables than they can probably do a solid number on a persons arm.

The only thing stopping bees from eating you alive is that they don't want to. And Taylor is always happy to correct that evolutionary mistake.
 
RealOtto said:
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I always imagined them functioning like the Pivot Blades from Assassin's Creed 3. A flex of the wrist and/or using intent based magic and a wand will extend into the user's palm ready to use.

Mecharic said:
(Since this is mematic Taylor rather than canon Taylor.)
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I don't think this is anything more than Canon Taylor, granted she's not acting exactly like she was in Canon, but that's because she's stuck in a brand new world, is a newlywed wife to a national icon/hero, in a society very different from her own, one that also happens to be embroiled in a reignited civil war, and away from everyone she knew and cared about. So yeah Taylor is very much putting on a brave front at the moment, but she's not an unstoppable badass of Escalation. This is very obvious in the last chapter, 6.

I don't think @Fencer has stated that this is going to be a memetic Taylor rather than one portrayed realistically to her character, others just seem to have assumed that. Or at least I don't remember it being stated, which might not be accurate, but I don't have absolutely perfect memory, just something that apes it fairly well.
 
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Mecharic said:
No 'shooting out' or anything
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Like I said, It's the most common form of Wand Holsters in HP Fanfiction that they just shoot out with a flick and you grab it.

I feel the poofing mechanism is a common sense error for Magical World.

Ask this as a Wizard: Why bother even putting the wand in if you can just puff it in..does it track wands so it can poof in? Does it switch places with air? How would you describe how does it actually work in its mechanics.

Windborne said:
I always imagined them functioning like the Pivot Blades from Assassin's Creed 3. A flex of the wrist or using intent based magic and a wand will extend into the user's palm ready to use.
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They essentially use Thrust from what I can see, not flexing (for obvious reasons of not stabbing your own hand.)

Intent-based magic can go wrong as it can also be misinterpretated by Desire. You have the desire to intent harm on a person while your arms are facing down, your wand pops out and accelerates to the ground.
 
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Fencer said:
Still waiting for someone to notice Taylor's first impression of moody.
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The fact she thinks he's not learned to duck is amusing, but given how Wizarding combat usually goes, ducking is not as effective as just rolling out of the way in general so I'm chalking this up to her ignorance of Wizarding combat. Ducking without being behind cover is just asking to be hit by spells while being unable to shield or counter. It's essentially a wasted movement, and any skilled combatant knows that you want to reduce those as much as possible.
 
Windborne said:
I don't think this is anything more than Canon Taylor, granted she's not acting exactly like she was in Canon, but that's because she's stuck in a brand new world, is a newlywed wife to a national icon/hero, in a society very different from her own, one that also happens to be embroiled in a reignited civil war, and away from everyone she knew and cared about. So yeah Taylor is very much putting on a brave front at the moment, but she's not an unstoppable badass of Escalation. This is very obvious in the last chapter, 6.

I don't think @Fencer has stated that this is going to be a memetic Taylor rather than one portrayed realistically to her character, others just seem to have assumed that. Or at least I don't remember it being stated, which might not be accurate, but I don't have absolutely perfect memory, just something that apes it fairly well.
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Personality wise, yes, this is canon Taylor. But unless my memory fails me (entirely possible, that) this Taylor was able to take apart of a gun with the ease of someone who'd been doing it for years, which is just a tad bit much for someone who preferred a baton and a knife over a gun, and who (IIRC) only ever used a pistol. The choices made, the overall personality and whatnot, that I agree is fairly canon to how Taylor would respond in this situation.
 
Mecharic said:
Personality wise, yes, this is canon Taylor. But unless my memory fails me (entirely possible, that) this Taylor was able to take apart of a gun with the ease of someone who'd been doing it for years, which is just a tad bit much for someone who preferred a baton and a knife over a gun, and who (IIRC) only ever used a pistol. The choices made, the overall personality and whatnot, that I agree is fairly canon to how Taylor would respond in this situation.
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Point, but I do believe she got basic firearms training from Coil's mercenaries or Lisa in Canon. That sort of thing usually includes how to dismantle guns to clean them. I could be wrong of course, but it seems extremely logical. It's a task that she could practice easily when she was in her downtime watching her territory while keeping her focus relatively sharp, but not alert to the the point of straining herself. Taylor seems like the kind of girl who takes care of her equipment with great care and attention to detail given her initial armor.
 
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