I honestly don't get the appeal of writing a story where James and Lily are alive. I mean. Seriously. Wouldn't that just simply mean that the First Wizarding World is still going on and the Potters aren't even famous? So what's the point of the story then?
It's a complete domino effect really ever since Harry's parents die. Because if that didn't happen, Harry wouldn't be a horocrux, wouldn't have that connection to Voldemort and wouldn't have been able to ultimately defeat Voldemort once and for all.
I mean, I get it if they replaced Harry with Neville and Neville's parents were murdered and Neville became the chosen one and the story is written as Harry becoming dark or joining up with Neville becoming the chosen one...
But then that would just simply make sense with Earth logic and there is obviously none of that in this fic.
One could easily make the argument that Neville would have been better off if they had died. If they had then he, like Harry, would be over it for the most part. He was too young to really remember them, after all. Now, they're a chain around his neck. A constant reminder of what was stolen from him.
I once read a fic where Voldemort killed the Longbottoms and nothing happened; the war just kept going. James and Lily ended up splitting up because they couldn't take living in hiding all the time. I don't remember what happened to Sirius and Remus but it was bad, too. It was all really dark and deppressing.
It's a complete domino effect really ever since Harry's parents die. Because if that didn't happen, Harry wouldn't be a horocrux, wouldn't have that connection to Voldemort and wouldn't have been able to ultimately defeat Voldemort once and for all.
I mean, I get it if they replaced Harry with Neville and Neville's parents were murdered and Neville became the chosen one and the story is written as Harry becoming dark or joining up with Neville becoming the chosen one...
But then that would just simply make sense with Earth logic and there is obviously none of that in this fic.
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and if he could keep his mom and dad and have a normal life that would be nice too.
and it would be interesting to see what would happen if it was neville instead, even though poor neville
but yeah, this story? complete FAIL on touching up Any of those points with any degree of good quality.
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Except Harry still has his scar, so apparently Lily figured out how to die for her son without all the mess of actually dying.
Seriously, I've yet to see a fic where Harry's parents live that doesn't fall squarely in the middle of "In Spite Of A Nail" territory.
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