PTG pieces

[elizabeth_hoot]

I've felt some vague impulses in the direction of HP, in-between working on SC chapters, so I've been playing around in my "Path to Greatness" 'verse a little, digging up old stuff and working on new ones, a little.  (For those who don't know, PTG is a Slytherin!Harry snippet I wrote awhile back, trying to keep it as credible as possible.)  Anyway

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Aw.

[elizabeth_hoot]

That's so flattering. :D I aim to terrify - and interest, of course.

My AP... oh, the Tilney thing. Heh, if I can get you onboard my AP ships, I can do anything! Bua ha ha!

Yes, I'm afraid PTG isn't a Triofic - I just don't see it happening across Houses without a pre-existing history. There's a Quartet, though! With Neville! Does that help?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by muggle/wizard relationships and continuation/beginning of the war . . . Unless you're thinking that Harry might get indoctrinated by his fellow Slytherins or something?

Harry is . . . the thing is, Harry's not an ideologue. So, one hand, I don't see him flying into a rage over the anti-Muggle sentiment which undoubtedly runs rampant through his peer group. But on the other hand, I don't see him going along w/ it, because - as you say - his ideas about right and wrong and good and bad are pretty much set, and they're all personal. Possibly because ten years of the Dursleys' blanket prejudices could sour anyone on generalities.

So, to sum up, while my Harry isn't going to go around declaring that The Muggles Are Our Friends, I don't think he'd take a lot of drivel about Group Fill-in-the-blank either. I think the clash would come before third year, yes, and that it'd be a bigger deal since both Harry and Draco take themselves very seriously.

I agree re: Switch, I think - I thought the whole thing with Lucius Malfoy was kind of odd, seriously. I see LM as much more - practical, really.

Heh. Glad you liked 'Mr Black' thing! I think I actually wrote the whole letter just for the PS.

Oh, McGonagall? Awesome! That's really where the story starts; if I wrote it, it would continue from there, to McGonagall taking him to get his things (and meeting Zacharias Smith at Madam Malkin's, lol) and such - probably switch over to the Harry-POV immediately after this piece. I have a few more pieces, but nothing coherent.

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[hlbr]

About the war. I thought that if their plan to use Harry's living situation with he Dursleys in anti-muggle propaganda worked, then the beginning of the war would be deeply complicated.

About Harry. I don't know if go around declaring is what i mean. Mostly, that I think he would dislike anyone spouting those kind of ideologies.

A Quartet with Neville does help, of course. Though the lack of trio can't help but make me sad, I do want to see the continuation of this story! You are hardly going to have character bashing, which is what I'm afraid with not-trio fics, in general. And, at the risk of sounding brown noser or something, you writing does compensates a lot of things! ;)

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[elizabeth_hoot]

Oh, yes, this universe will definitely be, erm, politically complicated because of all this. Though I think their (the Malfoys') principal objective is to discredit Dumbledore to at least some degree.

I think that Harry will accept a lot from somebody he calls a friend, though w/ this level of prejudice (compared to, say, Hagrid's) his threshold will obviously be much lower. I think he and Draco will clash, esp since I doubt Draco has any idea how to treat a friend rather than a minion. (And I really don't see Harry taking that *at all*)

I'm glad you're feeling the Neville-love, lol. I hope I manage to avoid character-bashing - some canon characters aren't important the way they are in canon, but it's . . . I'm trying to be fair! (It's easier with Austen, honestly.)

Ahh - thank you! *hopes to compensate muchly*

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[lita_of_jupiter]

I do hope that Draco and Harry clash... but become stronger for it they both can learn from each other, Draco needs to learn flaxibility and friendship and Harry also has to learn how to have a friend he never had and tolerate Draco a bit... they can both share Theo and Crabbe for minions =D and the younger years when they get older

the prejudices Draco has might never disappear but they can should get weaker, especially as you said the Malfoys are pragmatic and practical, and there can be a time where instead of prejudices Draco has only his private opinions and is able to respect that of others as well

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[elizabeth_hoot]

They'll definitely clash.

However, I want to stick w/ the canon versions. Especially with Draco, because the fanon is so pervasive. I'm not sure there's a lot Harry can learn from canon-Draco - some degree of prudence, maybe, when they get older. In the NL&TPS 'verse, they're close friends, but I'm trying to keep this as canon-compliant as possible.

However, they're as much allies as friends (w/ in Slytherin, that is), so they will influence each other to some degree. I haven't yet decided how Harry influences Draco, but we'll see it happening. (I do know, however, that when it comes to the seventh year, there'll be a green flag in the Room of Requirement.)

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[lita_of_jupiter]

I am sure that some views of right and wrong can be influenced in such an environment, that it would go both ways, friends especially in during puberty help shape a lot of who and what we become and when talking about a boarding school where they dorm and live together for years that influence only tends to increase...

specially because you know that Lucius and Cissa would delight in inviting Harry to spend the holidays and parts of the summer at their Manor... in order to try to get a hold on him... and they probably would to some extent succeed.

I say go green! the sorting hat said that Harry could achieve greatness there and he could learn much not only prudence from Draco, from traditions to whatever else we don't know that much about Blondie even thought he is in all 7 books, he is mostly treated as a flat being you can play a lot with his issues!

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[elizabeth_hoot]

Of course, it's possible. This Harry and Draco aren't - they're not bosom buddies. Sort of how Dean is friendly with all his roommates but close to Seamus - except that this Harry's closest friend is outside of his own House.

Hm. I can see Lucius and Narcissa trying that, but I'm not sure they could get away with it. It really depends on who calls the shots in this 'verse, once McGonagall throws her screaming fit over the whole cupboard/strangling/dragged up staircases/etc etc thing w/ the Dursleys.

Given their, um, ideological differences, Harry will probably be inclined to take Draco's Wizarding World Factoids with a grain of salt - Neville, however, is a different matter entirely.

Well, Draco is certainly not a deep character in the books - a good deal of what we know about him comes from the sixth and seventh books entirely - I don't really want to whitewash him either. I'll try and compromise somewhere between broodinghero!Draco and childoftheCorn!Draco.

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[lita_of_jupiter]

that is where I was mistaken, I thought that they would become close friends, I didn't know Neville would fill that role.

Oh... Minnie throwing that screaming fit... I can't even imagine what the outcome may be... she someone of great strength and if she decided on something she can probably get it.

I will look forward to see how everything develops, especially since there won't be rivals to push the other students to pick sides. I am very curious about how Draco will turn out!