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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse

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Thanks, Fencer. I really didn't want to see yet ANOTHER rehashing of arguments I've seen SINCE THE BOOKS WERE BEING PUBLISHED. And remember that the last one was published in 2007. I have literally seen these arguments about all these things for 20 years. And all sides are CERTAIN that THEY'RE the ones with the right answer.

And as for the story? I'm loving it. I love the fact that they didn't immediately fall into bed and consummate (aka using the plot idea as a PWP story). I do think that the first time that Harry actually sees Taylor in something a little more form fitting, he's going to make her blush. I know she's no goddess-level beauty, but it is made clear in the story that - despite her personal opinion about herself - she's noticeably female. I think his reaction to her might surprise her.
 
Hey now, I'll have you know that arguing over things that will never be settled is a time-honored method of keeping threads alive!

More on-topic, Taylor really could use the confidence boost of finding out that Harry actually finds her attractive (assuming he does). It may also do to have them talk about the rather formidable number of scars both of them have at this point, and how they got them. The two are both absolutely badass lil' shits and my favorite parts of this story is the character interactions. (And the inevitable dunking on the Death Eaters. That'll be fun to read too.)
 
Kinsfire said:
Thanks, Fencer. I really didn't want to see yet ANOTHER rehashing of arguments I've seen SINCE THE BOOKS WERE BEING PUBLISHED. And remember that the last one was published in 2007. I have literally seen these arguments about all these things for 20 years. And all sides are CERTAIN that THEY'RE the ones with the right answer.

And as for the story? I'm loving it. I love the fact that they didn't immediately fall into bed and consummate (aka using the plot idea as a PWP story). I do think that the first time that Harry actually sees Taylor in something a little more form fitting, he's going to make her blush. I know she's no goddess-level beauty, but it is made clear in the story that - despite her personal opinion about herself - she's noticeably female. I think his reaction to her might surprise her.
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Given that the two girls Harry shows interest in are both shorter sporty girls who play Quidditch, Taylor is probably not 100% his type, but is probably still athletic enough to pique his interest. And of course like it or not he's a teenage boy with no sexual experience at this point, so he will probably react positively unless he's too busy brooding over how fucked up the situation is to engage in the moment. Honestly? Its Harry, I could see it go either way there.
 
Are. . . Are people still trying to argue specifics and fine details over a children's book series that has all the cleche parts of, their school principal is the most powerful political figure, government happens in 1 building, the school is the center of the world and all important things happen there, FRIENDSHIP!!!, And worry over exams is never overcome by worry for survival so it's relatable. I mean come on people this is a fanfiction if a grim derp superhero story and a children's story. The only hard and true rules are what the author decides are rules and so with that said I think we can all agree that Tay Tay is insane and fun in this setting and we can do what we did with the rest of the books and look past the glaring plot holes and just read what's fun.

Now for something relevant to the story itself. Do you plan on having Tay ride the express to Hogwarts and if so do we get to see Malfoy encounter a beating as only grue can teach? And will she gather ALL THE BUGS on the way and arrive at the castle with a biblical swarm clinging to the train?
 
Stahor said:
Taylor's were reset by Scrapegoat, and she did not had time till surrender to PRT to gain new and interesting ones.
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It's a long time since I read Worm, but I thought Scapegoat's healing in the desperate scramble of the Echidna fight was less comprehensive - except for healing her blindness. I don't remember if she was left with her sense of pain still burnt out after Bakuda's bomb.

On Harry's crushes, Taylor is probably taller than he is & may have more of a runners body. Harry's malnourished weediness would not compare to Brian/Grue's tall muscular body. So neither would be the other's preferred type...
 
rbrown0au said:
but I thought Scapegoat's healing in the desperate scramble of the Echidna fight was less comprehensive - except for healing her blindness. I don't remember if she was left with her sense of pain still burnt out after Bakuda's bomb.
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Scrapegoat takes everything from a person, it's not targetable power. Taylor had a laundry list of injuries there.
Pain resistance is not physical damage, it's Taylor knowing what actual 10\10 pain IS, that put everything else in perspective.
 
Alright normally I don't just come out and ask/say things like this… but it's been like a week and it was a relatively minor detail and no ones mentioned it at all.

You folks did pick up on the fact that Taylor and Harry have the necklace locked down now. Even though they are not aware of it, right? I didn't make that detail to subtle did I?

Edit: because I would totally get that detail just feeling less important with everything going on and just not getting commented on.
 
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Fencer said:
You folks did pick up on the fact that Taylor and Harry have the necklace locked down now. Even though they are not aware of it, right?
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I got that pretty much right away, but didn't mention it because that bit about Taylor getting punished for Harry's pain could have technically explain it.

Or at least the details I noticed. I could have missed something that made it explicit.
 
Nausicaa said:
I got that pretty much right away, but didn't mention it because that bit about Taylor getting punished for Harry's pain could have technically explain it.

Or at least the details I noticed. I could have missed something that made it explicit.
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Ahh thanks for the feedback. And no I never really made it explicitly stated just them rounding up all the valuable trinkets in the house and shoving them in an expanded pouch. With the implication being the necklace is one of many they threw in there.
 
I don't think I remember there being anything where locking down especially mattered?

This is a horcrux probably? But what difference does it being bagged make? Being noted would help if it let it be recognized when Taylor actually is in on the hunt, but having been collected and packed as magic hazmat might not be a positive there.
 
Fencer said:
Ahh thanks for the feedback. And no I never really made it explicitly stated just them rounding up all the valuable trinkets in the house and shoving them in an expanded pouch. With the implication being the necklace is one of many they threw in there.
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Ah yes. That got a background flag in my brain as a potential, but not absolute, since Kreacher could have still come up with a reason to steal it and keep it hidden. Since he still wants to destroy it like ordered, and he might not know for certain they would actually destroy it. That sort of thing.

It was definitely good foreshadowing, but I tend to be unnecessarily hesitant about sharing my predictions unless I'm sure.
 
Aineko said:
I don't think I remember there being anything where locking down especially mattered?

This is a horcrux probably? But what difference does it being bagged make? Being noted would help if it let it be recognized when Taylor actually is in on the hunt, but having been collected and packed as magic hazmat might not be a positive there.
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It's mostly irrelevant right now. The upside is that it won't be sold to Umbridge by Dumbledore's pet con man. So it will be on hand an not a whole extra adventure to collect.
 
Fencer said:
You folks did pick up on the fact that Taylor and Harry have the necklace locked down now. Even though they are not aware of it, right? I didn't make that detail to subtle did I?
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I am not nearly familiar enough with Harry Potter to have any idea of what necklace you speak of.
 
Crazael said:
I am not nearly familiar enough with Harry Potter to have any idea of what necklace you speak of.
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To give a hint without outright spoilers, it's one of the things that make Taylor call Voldemort a lich. (A lich, just in case you're unfamiliar with the fantasy trope, is a necromancer that uses a phylactery to store their soul so they can't be permanently killed.)
 
rbrown0au said:
I don't remember if she was left with her sense of pain still burnt out after Bakuda's bomb.
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Already been addressed, but have some in-story evidence.

After Leviathan, Panacea listed Skitter's injuries and declined to heal most of them. This included nerve damage causing dexterity loss in her fingers and the remains of a concussion. She did not include systemic or CNS nerve damage (other than the concussion) and did not mention loss of sensation or perception, pain or otherwise.
Note: The inability to feel pain is a dangerous condition that usually leads to dying young from accumulation of small injuries, internal injuries, and infection.

Scapegoat was mentioned. Not mentioned was that he didn't know she was blind until after taking her injuries onto himself and was barely able to walk.
Her resilience to pain remained after this.

Endbringer fights happened during her time in the Wards. (This Taylor has not done that.) Presumably she needed healing after some of them.

Panacea healed Taylor after the oil rig fight. That's the one where she literally lost the lower two-thirds of her body.

Panacea healed Taylor again after the mission to Cauldron's base. Amy remarked that Taylor's pain tolerance was very high (no mention of nerve damage) and Taylor responded that she knew what true 10/10 pain felt like, putting things in perspective. And that "burns still hurt like a bitch".
Fencer said:
You folks did pick up on the fact that Taylor and Harry have the necklace locked down now. Even though they are not aware of it, right? I didn't make that detail to subtle did I?
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Yup. I was a bit disappointed that Kreacher didn't interrupt them to say it needed to be destroyed.
 
ForestGardener said:
Yup. I was a bit disappointed that Kreacher didn't interrupt them to say it needed to be destroyed.
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He couldn't, he's been ordered off to Hogwarts, so he's not there to interfere/provide exposition right now. Not sure that spider silk would be enough to insulate that thing, but the bag of holding probably is, so Kreacher probably won't know the locket is missing until he gets back to Grimauld Place and find the place missing most of its valuables. Big difference now though is that it won't be getting sold on to Umbridge, but rather locked into a Gringotts vault (most likely), placing two artifacts in close proximity.
 
Nausicaa said:
To give a hint without outright spoilers, it's one of the things that make Taylor call Voldemort a lich. (A lich, just in case you're unfamiliar with the fantasy trope, is a necromancer that uses a phylactery to store their soul so they can't be permanently killed.)
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Eh. Spoilers aren't really a concern for me. Especially not something that an informed reader is expected to notice.

Also, I am very familiar with liches. They were one of my forever DM's favorite bosses for campaigns.
 
Crazael said:
Eh. Spoilers aren't really a concern for me. Especially not something that an informed reader is expected to notice.

Also, I am very familiar with liches. They were one of my forever DM's favorite bosses for campaigns.
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Well then,
the object in question is called a horcrux. They are made by murdering someone and then intentionally ripping a piece of your soul off and sticking in an object. So long as that object, or more specifically the soul fragment within it, exists, then you can't actually die even if your body is destroyed.

Naturally, it is advised to protect this object as best you can if you do something so stupid as ripping your soul apart in the name of not dying.
Like seriously, at least liches keep their soul in one piece.

Existing as an incorporeal incomplete spirit is difficult and not fun, and draining in a variety of ways if you aren't possessing a body, but it is technically a form of immortality. Regaining a body is hard.

Voldemort decided to rip his soul into seven pieces, because magically significant numerology. Thus, six horcruxes. The diary he kept as a teen, Ravenclaw's diadem, Hufflepuff's cup, Slytherin's locket, the Gaunt family ring, and his pet/familiar snake Nagini. And also Harry by accident, meaning eight pieces, seven horcruxes.

The diary and ring have already been destroyed. The diadem is in the room of requirement, the cup is in the Lestrange vault in Gringotts, the locket is among the valuables Harry and Taylor just secured, and the snake is with Voldemort.

Perhaps rip is too rough a verb, but let's be honest, splitting your soul into multiple pieces cannot be healthy. Especially if your soul does not heal or regenerate from the damage.
(spoiler contains: what are horcruxes, where are horcruxes, why you should not horcrux)
 
ForestGardener said:
Well then,
the object in question is called a horcrux. They are made by murdering someone and then intentionally ripping a piece of your soul off and sticking in an object. So long as that object, or more specifically the soul fragment within it, exists, then you can't actually die even if your body is destroyed.

Naturally, it is advised to protect this object as best you can if you do something so stupid as ripping your soul apart in the name of not dying.
Like seriously, at least liches keep their soul in one piece.

Existing as an incorporeal incomplete spirit is difficult and not fun, and draining in a variety of ways if you aren't possessing a body, but it is technically a form of immortality. Regaining a body is hard.

Voldemort decided to rip his soul into seven pieces, because magically significant numerology. Thus, six horcruxes. The diary he kept as a teen, Ravenclaw's diadem, Hufflepuff's cup, Slytherin's locket, the Gaunt family ring, and his pet/familiar snake Nagini. And also Harry by accident, meaning eight pieces, seven horcruxes.

The diary and ring have already been destroyed. The diadem is in the room of requirement, the cup is in the Lestrange vault in Gringotts, the locket is among the valuables Harry and Taylor just secured, and the snake is with Voldemort.

Perhaps rip is too rough a verb, but let's be honest, splitting your soul into multiple pieces cannot be healthy. Especially if your soul does not heal or regenerate from the damage.
(spoiler contains: what are horcruxes, where are horcruxes, why you should not horcrux)
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I know what a horcrux is. So "is one of Voldy's horcruxes" would have been sufficient.
 
Crazael said:
Also, I am very familiar with liches. They were one of my forever DM's favorite bosses for campaigns.
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So you have a DM who likes to run games that make the players THINK. You can't just waltz in and kill a lich, and if played right, a lich is INTELLIGENT and potentially has a high Wisdom score, so finding his phylactery is not an easy thing. Liches are annoying, but damn me if they aren't fun to fight when played right by a good DM.
 
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