3314: The Taming of the Hogwarts Shrew - Katherine Hawthorne
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Note: I meant to post this entry so it would sometime tomorrow but forgot to change the time stamp. Sorry for the inconvenience.
TITLE: The Taming of the Hogwarts Shrew
PERPETRATOR: bowsbeforebros
SUE-O-METER:
(awful)
COVER/BANNER ART: It is a clip of the writer's avatar which is of an orange flower sticking out of a glass with orange water.
SUMMARY:”Slight AU Katherine Hawthorne was a relatively quiet girl throughout her Hogwarts years. But after she snaps, a much more fiery version of herself is out for everyone to see. Sirius Black never really saw Katherine, but this new turn in her personality makes him wonder about her. But can Sirius tame the Hogwarts Shrew? SiriusxOC LilyxJames”
FULL NAME: Katherine Hawthorne
SPECIES: The character is a modernized version of Shakespeare's character Katherina. She's also a mudblood. Except I'm not sure if she is.
HAIR: red
EYES: blue-green
MARKINGS: Lily and Katherine are in their sixth year which means the story takes place be
POSSESSIONS:
CONNECTION TO CANON: Lily and Katherine are discussing the first Star Wars film that they saw over the summer. This would have been the summer of 1975. Mulciber bullies her and suddenly mentions her mother and she tries to kill him. She then proceeds to go into the room and whines in a big long paragraph about how mean Mulciber was. She's thankfully punished with a months worth of detention. Lily comes up to her and starts yelling in caps at her and she whines about how “it was as if someone kicked me out of my own body and was controlling it. I mean, I was in control, I didn't really realize that I was doing it. You know?” Suddenly everybody is “pretending she doesn't exist”. Nothing really is mentioned of her detention after this and she “reverted to her pre-flight mentality”.
ORIGIN: Our Mary Sue is bullied for her red hair and because she is a Mudblood. Her mother was a Mudblood though and there is no information about her father other then the fact he is supposed to be some kind of inverter. Being an inverter doesn't mean though he isn't a Wizard. I think the writer liked the character from TotS and decided she wanted a character like her for their first story without realizing what she was getting into.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Some how Lily and Katherine saw a movie that wouldn't come out for two more years roughly. Mulciber brings up the death of Katherine's mother. This might be seen as a typical bully tactic, but Mulciber indicates that Katerine killed her mother. In the third chapter we find that her mother died in childbirth. (Isn't this stretching things.) I also can't believe this is a first time thing. Yeah... the fact she admits what she does to Lily says it's not a first time thing. If this was a one-time thing I doubt people would be “pretending she didn't exist” either.
NOTES: Shouldn't this be marked as a crossover with Shakespeare? The ties to his work Taming of the Shrew is rather obvious. Does it count as a parody? Actually... reading the story I think it is closer to a parody then a crossover. It's not really that either though.
I'm not sure if I would call the Slytherin bullies “sadists” like the writer does. I'm not even sure if her being fed up with the bullying is enough for her to fly off the handle like she did. What I do know is there is no reason for “taming” her if this was the only time she blew up at people.
An anonymous reviewer writes this in their review. “Why would he want to "tame" her to begin with? Because girls shouldn't be strong and "fiery?" Let's put her in her "place?"” The writers response is “ I did not mean to give the impression that Katherine will be tamed, no sir she won't, and I never said she'd get put in her "place". I merely would like to use some of the plot points from the story that truly inspired it. If you still don't like it or you're angry cause I implied that Sirius would want to tame her ( upon which I never truly gave you a reason why and in which he won't succeed) I can only suggest that you just don't read this story, and I am sorry you wasted your time.”
You know... if the writer didn't use the title or name her OC after Shakespeare's character I doubt people would have made the connections. I'm not sure if the writer understands what an archetype character happens to be or that tying her story to Shakespeare's play does in fact imply that Katherine is going to be tamed for her temper. The title and name are misleading and unfair to the readers and not really a tribute to Shakespeare work. Then again... they posted the response as an authors note.
Oh... and there is a Professor Flower running around.
SAMPLE:
Not many people could blame Katherine for her fit of temper in the middle of sixth year. In fact, the reaction to the insults would be talked about for years to come. Katherine didn't have a big temper, in fact she handled most of the bullying dished out to her with a calm and cool glare.
Most of the bullies focused on her hair, the fact that she only focused on her classes, that she was a loner, and they even dug deep enough to insult her father's inventions. But she took all of these insults in stride. But on the first of October, Katherine finally snapped.
The day started normally. Lily Evans woke up early in order to get to the shower first, after all sharing a bathroom with four other girls, you have to get in early. Katherine was still sound asleep. Katherine continued to be asleep even through Lily's rustling around looking for her robes. Katherine finally woke up when Lily resorted to shaking her awake.
"Get UP! Come on Katherine! If you want to get a good seat in Professor Flower's class, YOU have to GET UP!"
"What time is it?" muttered Katherine, attempting to roll over and escape her friend's early morning wake up call.
"Classes start in TEN minutes! I WILL leave you behind if I have to."
Note: I meant to post this entry so it would sometime tomorrow but forgot to change the time stamp. Sorry for the inconvenience.
TITLE: The Taming of the Hogwarts Shrew
PERPETRATOR: bowsbeforebros
SUE-O-METER:
(awful)
COVER/BANNER ART: It is a clip of the writer's avatar which is of an orange flower sticking out of a glass with orange water.
SUMMARY:”Slight AU Katherine Hawthorne was a relatively quiet girl throughout her Hogwarts years. But after she snaps, a much more fiery version of herself is out for everyone to see. Sirius Black never really saw Katherine, but this new turn in her personality makes him wonder about her. But can Sirius tame the Hogwarts Shrew? SiriusxOC LilyxJames”
FULL NAME: Katherine Hawthorne
SPECIES: The character is a modernized version of Shakespeare's character Katherina. She's also a mudblood. Except I'm not sure if she is.
HAIR: red
EYES: blue-green
MARKINGS: Lily and Katherine are in their sixth year which means the story takes place be
POSSESSIONS:
CONNECTION TO CANON: Lily and Katherine are discussing the first Star Wars film that they saw over the summer. This would have been the summer of 1975. Mulciber bullies her and suddenly mentions her mother and she tries to kill him. She then proceeds to go into the room and whines in a big long paragraph about how mean Mulciber was. She's thankfully punished with a months worth of detention. Lily comes up to her and starts yelling in caps at her and she whines about how “it was as if someone kicked me out of my own body and was controlling it. I mean, I was in control, I didn't really realize that I was doing it. You know?” Suddenly everybody is “pretending she doesn't exist”. Nothing really is mentioned of her detention after this and she “reverted to her pre-flight mentality”.
ORIGIN: Our Mary Sue is bullied for her red hair and because she is a Mudblood. Her mother was a Mudblood though and there is no information about her father other then the fact he is supposed to be some kind of inverter. Being an inverter doesn't mean though he isn't a Wizard. I think the writer liked the character from TotS and decided she wanted a character like her for their first story without realizing what she was getting into.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Some how Lily and Katherine saw a movie that wouldn't come out for two more years roughly. Mulciber brings up the death of Katherine's mother. This might be seen as a typical bully tactic, but Mulciber indicates that Katerine killed her mother. In the third chapter we find that her mother died in childbirth. (Isn't this stretching things.) I also can't believe this is a first time thing. Yeah... the fact she admits what she does to Lily says it's not a first time thing. If this was a one-time thing I doubt people would be “pretending she didn't exist” either.
NOTES: Shouldn't this be marked as a crossover with Shakespeare? The ties to his work Taming of the Shrew is rather obvious. Does it count as a parody? Actually... reading the story I think it is closer to a parody then a crossover. It's not really that either though.
I'm not sure if I would call the Slytherin bullies “sadists” like the writer does. I'm not even sure if her being fed up with the bullying is enough for her to fly off the handle like she did. What I do know is there is no reason for “taming” her if this was the only time she blew up at people.
An anonymous reviewer writes this in their review. “Why would he want to "tame" her to begin with? Because girls shouldn't be strong and "fiery?" Let's put her in her "place?"” The writers response is “ I did not mean to give the impression that Katherine will be tamed, no sir she won't, and I never said she'd get put in her "place". I merely would like to use some of the plot points from the story that truly inspired it. If you still don't like it or you're angry cause I implied that Sirius would want to tame her ( upon which I never truly gave you a reason why and in which he won't succeed) I can only suggest that you just don't read this story, and I am sorry you wasted your time.”
You know... if the writer didn't use the title or name her OC after Shakespeare's character I doubt people would have made the connections. I'm not sure if the writer understands what an archetype character happens to be or that tying her story to Shakespeare's play does in fact imply that Katherine is going to be tamed for her temper. The title and name are misleading and unfair to the readers and not really a tribute to Shakespeare work. Then again... they posted the response as an authors note.
Oh... and there is a Professor Flower running around.
SAMPLE:
Not many people could blame Katherine for her fit of temper in the middle of sixth year. In fact, the reaction to the insults would be talked about for years to come. Katherine didn't have a big temper, in fact she handled most of the bullying dished out to her with a calm and cool glare.
Most of the bullies focused on her hair, the fact that she only focused on her classes, that she was a loner, and they even dug deep enough to insult her father's inventions. But she took all of these insults in stride. But on the first of October, Katherine finally snapped.
The day started normally. Lily Evans woke up early in order to get to the shower first, after all sharing a bathroom with four other girls, you have to get in early. Katherine was still sound asleep. Katherine continued to be asleep even through Lily's rustling around looking for her robes. Katherine finally woke up when Lily resorted to shaking her awake.
"Get UP! Come on Katherine! If you want to get a good seat in Professor Flower's class, YOU have to GET UP!"
"What time is it?" muttered Katherine, attempting to roll over and escape her friend's early morning wake up call.
"Classes start in TEN minutes! I WILL leave you behind if I have to."