When Nymphadora Met Remus

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I have no plans to write anything past this scene, but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix left Harry out of the initial introductions. I've guessed that Aurors would need two years of training, and that if Tonks had been in school with Harry, he would have noticed pink hair at some point. Tonks years out of school when Remus's secret was

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Yep, Draco has no respect for Pettigrew. Period. But I think that it would still take some convincing - possibly this is the first time that the penseive would come out, so Dumbledore can look at Draco's memories of the sniveling man personally?

"Draco somehow insists that Black wasn't a gibbering idiot after escaping, just kind of crazy and there was that time that he threatened Weasley with a knife and who could blame him, but then there was some mess with a werewolf (and Snape having a hissy) and an escaped hippogriff." Definitely needs some convincing. ;) They'll believe it when they see it. ;)

Maybe Draco deliberately avoids registering in Care of Magical Creatures class to avoid Hagrid. And Hippogriffs.

Also, it occurs to me that maybe it's only as a result of Hermione using the time turner in her third year that she slowly starts to figure out Draco? Because time travel is on her mind?

"Grimmauld Place would be a perfect no-parents zone... unless Sirius remains a jerk where Kreacher is concerned. Then it's "Mistress Narcissa, I found your boy" in terrible House Elf jargon" XDD

Although yeah, I only just really "got" the connection between House Elves and pre-Civil War american chattel slavery, and now I can't unsee it. D: THEY LIKE TO WORK AND DON'T WANT TO BE FREED, GOSH

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"Yep, Draco has no respect for Pettigrew. Period. But I think that it would still take some convincing - possibly this is the first time that the penseive would come out, so Dumbledore can look at Draco's memories of the sniveling man personally?"

That would do it. Snape might actually have some guess about an Animagus form, especially if he had to see James as a stag when Potter ran in to save Snape from Black's idiocy. (Can't use many pronouns, all of them are MALE. I hate involved scenes where you can't even go to he/she in fast parts) He might not have any idea what it is, but something unpleasant.

"Maybe Draco deliberately avoids registering in Care of Magical Creatures class to avoid Hagrid. And Hippogriffs."

Plus, Arithmancy and Magical Runes are much more useful, and he can have Hermione as an instant interactive study guide (not that he needs her, but... it's easier than remembering all the intro things?)

"Also, it occurs to me that maybe it's only as a result of Hermione using the time turner in her third year that she slowly starts to figure out Draco? Because time travel is on her mind?"

That might point her in the right direction. Draco needs to play that carefully, I think she'd be upset to know she was part of some giant master plan.

"Although yeah, I only just really "got" the connection between House Elves and pre-Civil War american chattel slavery, and now I can't unsee it. D: THEY LIKE TO WORK AND DON'T WANT TO BE FREED, GOSH"

I've seen it since Dobby said hi. "Wait a second. This is like Ebonics taken down about four levels, and they LIKE working and HOW DARE Hermione assume that a few might want to be freed when ONLY THE PROTAGONIST CAN FREE HOUSE-ELVES. And even then they only get to free one "crazy" soul that doesn't like working." If you ever want to hate humanity for a while--- 1861 article in a New Orleans journal, I believe, by Dr. Samuel Cartwright. "Drapetomania, or the disease which causes slaves to run away."

Obviously they LIKE no wages/no rights/no family life/no choices/low rations/whippings/women being raped by white men and then watching their babies sold into slavery... all of that. Hermione's the weirdo freak for trying to see if house-elves want a different life. Seriously, how dare she and all that. No better than the carpetbagger Yankees that ran down South and opened schools for (redacted).

I have no idea where Rowling actually drew her inspiration, but I see a very, very disturbed grab out of Gone with the Wind or something.

This all comes after I saw Fried Green Tomatoes last night, with the winning family for "coexistence between the races within the Southern 1920s." I was having fun dating the movie with no knowledge beforehand. I thought it was the 1800s until I realized we were deep south, and immediately bumped the date forward a while. I only got into the 1920s when I saw the first couple cars. (In the end, a white woman and a black man take responsibility for a murder, because they're a step up the social ladder from the black woman and the (white) homeless man that defended themselves from a KKK charmer with a rifle that probably meant to kill the wife he'd been beating.)

Seriously, Rowling. Biggest creature fail in the entire series. Even the Merfolk were intelligent enough to communicate if people spoke their language, even if they did get stuck firmly in their role as "primitive natives with scary customs."

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Yeah, and Draco is hampered by the fact that he wasn't around when the Marauders were. Snape was, as was Dumbledore. They'd recognize a much-changed Pettigrew, though, in Draco's memories, I think.

"Plus, Arithmancy and Magical Runes are much more useful, and he can have Hermione as an instant interactive study guide (not that he needs her, but... it's easier than remembering all the intro things?)" Trufax. I can't remember - did Draco take any of these classes in canon?

"If you ever want to hate humanity for a while--- 1861 article in a New Orleans journal, I believe, by Dr. Samuel Cartwright. "Drapetomania, or the disease which causes slaves to run away."" Oh god, yeah, I've heard of that. D: Notorious. I've also read some nasty things about the history of medicine as it relates to human experimentation and slavery. Father of Gynecology actually went out and bought female slaves with vaginal fistulas to experiment with closing them... often taking dozens of humiliating and painful operations. Granted, he fixed them, and pioneered a wonderful new surgical technique, but still. D:

"I have no idea where Rowling actually drew her inspiration, but I see a very, very disturbed grab out of Gone with the Wind or something." Granted, the history of slavery in England was quite different than it was in the colonies, and I think it's a subject that's treated differently in British schools than American ones. It's not as much of a hair-trigger topic across the pond, I think. But still!

I amuse myself by trying to identify photographs and videos and such by architecture and people's clothing too. ;) I think you would find this website useful: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~victorianphoto/ It helps you identify Victorian and Edwardian photographs by the style of the portrait, clothing, even type of photography. It also has plenty of examples. :)

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Trufax. I can't remember - did Draco take any of these classes in canon?"

I have no idea. I know he had Magical Creatures, but someone online has found out and written it down.

"Oh god, yeah, I've heard of that. D: Notorious. I've also read some nasty things about the history of medicine as it relates to human experimentation and slavery. Father of Gynecology actually went out and bought female slaves with vaginal fistulas to experiment with closing them... often taking dozens of humiliating and painful operations. Granted, he fixed them, and pioneered a wonderful new surgical technique, but still. D:"

Yeah. That's the bad part about learning the history. Freaking amazing procedures (that are used to great effect on missionary-medicine-hold-the-religion visits to Africa) have a nasty, nasty history. Like... all of the new knowledge that came out of the mostly-sadistic shit Mengele pulled.

" Granted, the history of slavery in England was quite different than it was in the colonies, and I think it's a subject that's treated differently in British schools than American ones. It's not as much of a hair-trigger topic across the pond, I think. But still!"

The Brits nearly gave the right to vote to APES. Not black men, not white women, apes. There was serious debate about this in the... 1700s/1800s? We read passages that skipped between the periods, but it was the 1800s when they sincerely thought apes were clever enough to vote.

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I'm sure that some fan, somewhere, has created class schedules for each year for all of the main characters. The internet will not fail me.

Oh yeah, the history of medicine definitely has a very dark side. Nobody wants to be the first to try a new, untested procedure. And yet they happen anyway.

"The Brits nearly gave the right to vote to APES. Not black men, not white women, apes. There was serious debate about this in the... 1700s/1800s? We read passages that skipped between the periods, but it was the 1800s when they sincerely thought apes were clever enough to vote." Seriously? Interesting! ...and yet disturbing. During that period catholics (mostly the Irish) were denied the vote, as were poor people, and pretty much everybody who wasn't rich, titled and protestant. ;)

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"I'm sure that some fan, somewhere, has created class schedules for each year for all of the main characters. The internet will not fail me."

I was one of the fans that (correctly, go us!) figured out the timeline for three related series, and then put together that the author had messed up her personal timeline by 13 years. (She says that character X is 16/17 in one year... then makes it so that he'd be 30 when meeting his future wife. She's 11 and he thinks she's a boy.)

Other crazy people have gone through and noted the color of everybody's magic. I'm not that good, I had to look up characters that have that mentioned twice.

"Oh yeah, the history of medicine definitely has a very dark side. Nobody wants to be the first to try a new, untested procedure. And yet they happen anyway."

Now there are medical ethics boards that won't let you do university-approved work even in third-world countries (le gasp, some people squawked about that), so... progress.

"Seriously? Interesting! ...and yet disturbing. During that period catholics (mostly the Irish) were denied the vote, as were poor people, and pretty much everybody who wasn't rich, titled and protestant. ;)"

Seriously. I thought my teacher was having us on with an elaborate prank, but apes were people and somehow the people of the area were not. (And women weren't, either, but... yeah, goes without saying for way too long in history.)

I got distracted earlier. One of my goldfish died (sad, but I'd honestly been expecting this for months now-- his name was Dumbledore because he had this outrageously big swishy tail, but for months it's been drooping and never straight up). I ended up cleaning out the entire tank (5.5gallons is big enough for me), putting in the new filter, and learning that my lovely new on-sale filter doesn't work with my tank lid, when I have a bow-front tank. Grrg. But the fish look happier.

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"Other crazy people have gone through and noted the color of everybody's magic." Really? That sounds super neat-o! If all else fails, I generally look things up at the Harry Potter Lexicon. They're pretty accurate and fairly extensive. Extensive enough for my purposes, anyway.

"(And women weren't, either, but... yeah, goes without saying for way too long in history.)" Pshaww, women have influence over the men in their lives: husbands, fathers, sons, right? What need have they of the vote? :P (P.S.: Have you ever seen the amazing movie "Iron Jawed Angels" about the struggle for women's suffrage in the states? I saw it two months ago and I love it to pieces.)

Damn. I'm sorry about your fish. :( I haven't had any pets in my own memory, but when I was a toddler mum & dad apparently had a really large goldfish they called "Pig". He got fin rot towards the end of his life, though, and had to be killed by my father. :(

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"Pshaww, women have influence over the men in their lives: husbands, fathers, sons, right? What need have they of the vote? :P"

Two words: Abraham Lincoln. A little girl wrote to him and said that more women might tell their husbands to vote for him if he had whiskers. I have no idea if that was the cause, but he was in office during the Civil War (and didn't actually make a nation-wide "all slaves are free now" proclamation, that applied only in Confederate states, but... um... nice effort, buddy).

(P.S.: Have you ever seen the amazing movie "Iron Jawed Angels" about the struggle for women's suffrage in the states? I saw it two months ago and I love it to pieces.)"

Not yet, but I've read things set in the time period. "The Serpent's Shadow" is lots of Edwardian hospitals and medical technology and the very smart woman that has no real reputation, so she's a doctor for prostitutes and dance hall girls, and it's awesome.

I had a goldfish named Goldie (I was three) that lived for nine and a half years. She was an awesome fish. Right now, my favorites are probably Zoe (as in the Firefly character-- female betta) and Gandhi (plecy). I also have Inigo Montoya, Francis (Bacon) and Albert (Einstein).

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"The Serpent's Shadow" - I... am going to have to read that now. Like, post-haste. :3

I would definitely recommend "Iron Jawed Angels". It's available for free on youtube, illegally of course. ;P

The names of your fish are awesome. <3

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I think I still have Oscar Wilde, but he's my problem-child bottomfeeder fish that has to live on his own. He used to bully Albert like crazy. He'd chase the poor little goldfish around the tank and bite his tail. Albert was starting to get very fuzzy at the edge of the tail, so I bought another little goldfish hoping something would go right. Every single time Oscar started chasing tail (Yeah, never, EVER name an animal Oscar Wilde), Francis would divebomb him and nudge him into the tank wall. Every single time. The rest of the time, she ignored him. (The fish is female, because I have no idea she's a goldfish and I arbitrarily assign a gender, but she's named after Francis Bacon. She was best buddies with Charles Darwin, but Darwin wasn't a particularly long-lived fish breed.)

I think the best part about naming fish weird things is that your weird little stories about them end up ten times funnier. I used to have a little rainbow-fin shark that was named Roberts (as in the Dread Pirate) because he only let Inigo Montoya into the little hollow rock that he'd claimed as his own.

Also in Serpent's Shadow: she's half-Hindu and quite grimly badass in the way she confronts discrimination. She meets it head-on and keeps on walking.

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"I think the best part about naming fish weird things is that your weird little stories about them end up ten times funnier. I used to have a little rainbow-fin shark that was named Roberts (as in the Dread Pirate) because he only let Inigo Montoya into the little hollow rock that he'd claimed as his own." AWESOME. <3

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My roommate and I cried when that tank got fin-rot. It didn't come in on any new fish in our tanks, but the girls acros the dorm had new ones? We don't know what happened, but we lost Roberts and Jayne. Jayne was gorgeous--blue/green iridescent crown-tail betta. We saw him at the grocery store and knew he had to come home with us. Usually they have sad little bettas, he'd just been there for 3 minutes. (Which encourages them to stock the poor things, but that was an awesome fish, and the next betta from the pet store (Wash) didn't make it two weeks.)

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I love bettas. They are so elegant!

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They're smart, too. My goldfish are cute, but the bettas figure things out within two days. Jayne was the smartest, oddly. He could tell between the two fish food canisters. His was red and shiny, so it wasn't hard, but the other bettas have been just as excited about flakes or little freeze-dry worms.