Fic: The Rising of Thanatos

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Thanks to brighty18 for telling me that espresso can't come flavored. Damn coffee drinkers. comestodecember ... woman, you're working way too much!!!!! All the same, thank you so much for your comma-age.

Ladies and gentlemen....  Part 7

February 15, 1981

On their first night at Hogwarts, when they were eleven and twelve, Peter knew three spells. One would turn on a light,

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[bobthemole]

YOU! YOU! *points frantically at the spy*

I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Of course, I accused everyone in canon at one point or the other, BUT I CAUGHT THE FORESHADOWING!!!

YOU BRAVE WRITER YOU! Oh, this takes me back to GoF and the "glint" in
Dumbledore's eye when he found that Voldie had Harry's blood in him, and I wondered for a SPLIT SECOND where dumble's loyalties truly lie...

AND YOU RAN WITH IT!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

FUCK this has so been worth it :DDDDDDD

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I hate Dumbledore with a passion that is bordering on insanity. Who in their right mind would craft a child into a war tool without ever telling him that is what is happening? Who would purposefully take that child and put them into a situation that is harmful to their psyche because it's easier? I mean, I know people have explored the Remus-can't-raise-Harry scenario a lot, and yes, I realize that Remus was more than a little screwed up after Halloween, but YOU KNOW that Lupin had to fight for his friend's son. I mean... SERIOUSLY. Ohhhhhh Dumbledore makes me so mad. I hate OoTP when Sirius and Remus are trying to tell Harry what's going on but they can only say so much and you can just see that they want to fess up... because they actually love him. BUT DUMBLEDORE!? Nope. Harry is just a tool

[bobthemole]

Hee! If I didn't already know you're a high school teacher, this would have told me :D

Yeah, srsly, D got away with some serious shit. I spent the first several books wondering why there wasn't a better support system for Hogwarts students, like Harry could sooo have used a talk from an adult when he was being shunned as the Heir of Slytherin. But the adults were there, just inaccessible. What kind of headmaster locks himself in a password protected office with no way for a student to contact him without going through a professor. Sure, McG was there, but Harry never bonded with her and D could have saved so much trouble by telling Harry to go to her if he needed to talk.

The Saviour of British Wizardkind deserved that much, at least.

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As the high school English teacher I will tell you, in the genre of young adult fiction (and Jo can argue that she wrote for more than just kids all she wants, but she totally played into YA lit rules), the main characters must be somehow excluded from adults so that they can pick apart their own destiny. And part of me says that and then the other part of me scrutinizes just like you. Yes, Dumbles and McGoogly and Hadgrid are all there... but honestly, the only one of those that Harry would ever dream of approaching for help is Hadgrid and he really isn't a mature adult. I guess you could almost argue the same for Sirius with his temper tantrums and that would explain why Harry trusts him... but that's bull. Remus is there as a professor and Harry goes to him or help and actually talks to him

[bobthemole]

the main characters must be somehow excluded from adults so that they can pick apart their own destiny

And that bothered me so much! I once began writing a long story about a boy and his new stepmother who end up trapped in another world and have to work together to survive. I didn't get too far. Original fic is HARD :P

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Yeah. I know about the original fic thing. I wanna scream... I have the whole thing planned out...but it won't write. Why is that?

[bobthemole]

In my case, I have a problem with self-insertion. Any OFC I write is too much like me, and I'm still figuring out how to see them as Someone Else.

In this particular story I got stuck when I couldn't think of what the characters could do after it sank in that they were trapped in a pre-industrial society. In the end, I just cannibalized the plot elements for other writing - Charon and his ghostly train were originally in this story, but they work so much better in the Potter Afterlife.