Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse

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.
No, he just likes undead. So he tends to use them as the bad guys in his campaigns.
 
That can run into issues if he keeps using the same game world to run in, because a player can come in with a backstory that explains knowing a LOT about various undead, if they're so common. "Okay,so since we're facing skeletons, that means we need to ..."

But that has nothing to add to the main story, so I'm stopping here. *grin* (I can be one of the kings of derails, so I have to watch out for that.)
 
I just realized that Harry can't tell his best friend that he is no longer a virgin.

After the cluster F of sharing a secret with Ginny, Taylor will no longer trust the Op Sec of Harry's friends.

And as the perceived range limitations of Harry and Taylor is an extremely useful misdirection in the War with the Death Eaters.
Ron will have to remain ignorant of last chapters events.
 
I just realized that Harry can't tell his best friend that he is no longer a virgin.

After the cluster F of sharing a secret with Ginny, Taylor will no longer trust the Op Sec of Harry's friends.

And as the perceived range limitations of Harry and Taylor is an extremely useful misdirection in the War with the Death Eaters.
Ron will have to remain ignorant of last chapters events.
I mean, I think it'd be pretty obvious once they start spending more time further apart than "within the same house".
 
I mean, I think it'd be pretty obvious once they start spending more time further apart than "within the same house".

Considering our author is leaning into the incompetence of the Order of the Phoenix, I can see the duo telling no one about the change.

Using the believed "within the same house" tether as an alibi for when one of them (most likely Taylor) wants to do something 'off the books'.

I anticipate the other characters will only learn they 'did the deed', when an emergency causes them to reveal this Trump Card. Hopefully to blindside some Death Eaters!
 
Considering our author is leaning into the incompetence of the Order of the Phoenix, I can see the duo telling no one about the change.

Using the believed "within the same house" tether as an alibi for when one of them (most likely Taylor) wants to do something 'off the books'.

I anticipate the other characters will only learn they 'did the deed', when an emergency causes them to reveal this Trump Card. Hopefully to blindside some Death Eaters!
Sure, but big part of the whole point is to let Harry go spend time with the Weasleys without having to force Taylor to come along.
 
Considering our author is leaning into the incompetence of the Order of the Phoenix, I can see the duo telling no one about the change.

Using the believed "within the same house" tether as an alibi for when one of them (most likely Taylor) wants to do something 'off the books'.

I anticipate the other characters will only learn they 'did the deed', when an emergency causes them to reveal this Trump Card. Hopefully to blindside some Death Eaters!
I mean.. hmmm I guess I could theoretically go that route but it's… most places of interest would take hours to reach and are mostly unplotable. The order doesn't just hang around hq so there aren't exactly people to tell her no for a walk around the block but if she wants to visit Hogwarts for example that'll almost necessitate magic travel.

If they did need to sneak around the order that would only work if Moody is absent.

Also yeah part of the point was to let Harry hang with the Weasley's without starting another fight between Molly and Taylor. Cuss Taylor's been really restrained so far and maybe we'd best not push her further just yet….

Also sort of have PLANS for another wedge to jam between Dumbles and Tay/Harry and Dumbles knowing they can be separated is part of that. Nothing stupidly dramatic or out and out evil, just hmmm vaguely condescending and maybe wanting to limit the influence and movements of such a ready to maim wildcard like Taylor.
 
Fair I am looking forward to the character growth I know you are capable of writing! As they stand both Harry (is that actually his name or is this a nickname) and Taylor need a lot of growth. Now to be fair to them (and you as an author) they are both teenagers and thus very opinionated about things they think they know but from a readers perspective I see a serious need for them to improve not just emotionally, but mentally, and spiritually? I know it's coming and will take time but that's a major reason I am here, to see the two MC's grind down each others rough edges and build each others weaknesses up. Looking forward to more when your muse strikes!
 
I mean.. hmmm I guess I could theoretically go that route but it's… most places of interest would take hours to reach and are mostly unplotable. The order doesn't just hang around hq so there aren't exactly people to tell her no for a walk around the block but if she wants to visit Hogwarts for example that'll almost necessitate magic travel.

Dumbledore: "There's not a trace of magic around. She couldn't have gotten far without it."

Meanwhile

Taylor: "Apparently Acromantulas make a lot of web, so just a few passes was enough to get a makeshift arresting gear setup in the Forbidden Forest clearing. The landing gear still got ripped off by the force, but we at least slowed down enough for the rest of the webbing to catch the plane."
 
Bad Ideas
It'll be over and done in a few short paragraphs after Taylor steamrolls over the idea.

Snape: (sneeringly condescending sigh) Whatever are you doing, Miss.... Potter. Is that a pensieve?

Taylor: Yes. Move over.

(Taylor stands to the side as Kreacher pops in with an anvil mounted on a sturdy oaken base. She holds tongs in one hand and a hammer in the other. She sticks the tongs into the pensieve, fishes out something wriggling and silvery, and proceeds to hammer it flat on the anvil with the hammer. )

Snape: I... what...

Taylor: (continuing to tap away with the hammer, until the silvery blob approaches a wedge shape) Dumbledore's just *FULL* of bad ideas. I decided to weaponize them.

Snape: (feeling decidedly off kilter. And then some) Not that I disagree with your assessment of many of his ideas, but how?

Taylor: Extract them from him. Reshape them. Deliver them into the heads of the Death Eaters. (She holds up an elegantly proportioned arrowhead shape with the tongs. Albus Dumbledore, tied up in the corner and covered in Doxies, is too muzzled to effectively comment.)

Snape: Deliver them?

Taylor: House elves. Worst case, we slightly disrupt the Death Eaters. Best case they start using stunners instead of lethal force while preaching tolerance and forgiveness. (She sets the completed arrowhead down and fetches another silver blob to work into shape.)

Snape: I see. Have you fully thought through what this might result in?

Taylor: Result?

Snape: What if they all grow extremely long beards? And twinkle their eyes at you?

Taylor: (shudders, then blows out forcefully.) Acceptable risk.
 
If Taylor is actually non magical there are a lot of spells that ward off muggles. Though Taylor would be able to get around that by using the senses of magical creatures she has control over
 
With the Black library, and presumably Regulus's textbooks, will Taylor have found the disillusionment spell yet? While Harry might not be able to disillusion a person, disillusioning doxies or smaller acromantula , both venomous would have obvious applications in combat or scouting. It would also provide practice in mastering the spell.
Taylor should be able to feed acromantula of 10kg or less on the neighbourhood rat population, though her control should allow them to open rubbish bins for more of her swarm to feed.

Fanon has Lordship ring & wedding rings enchanted with protection, that might help if Taylor is not immune to muggle affecting magic. I don't recall Slytherin's locket as having been cursed, so if Harry & Taylor get to Gringott's discovering it among the Black family items, might need Taylor's habit of studying available resources to call in a cursebreaker (Bill Weasley?) to check the Black family items and any rings they would consider wearing. If the cursed items she has in spider silk bags are small, having a doxy or acromantula empty a bag down the back of a Death Eater's neck could be effective, though may be providing a weapon the
enemy could use.
 
Taylor should be able to feed acromantula of 10kg or less on the neighbourhood rat population, though her control should allow them to open rubbish bins for more of her swarm to feed.
If she couch-serfs with anyone with a wand, they can just dupe food limitlessly to feed unlimited number of Acromantulas.
 
If she couch-serfs with anyone with a wand, they can just dupe food limitlessly to feed unlimited number of Acromantulas.
true also if she can get someone with a wand to help her like that she can also have them buff her creatures. i mean she can make her insects much larger or make them faster etc. enlarging a Acromantula can likely have it 1v1 a giant tbh. not to mention a manticore (which Hagrid somehow has access to).
 
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