Happy Easter, to those of you who celebrate it, and Happy Sunday, to those who don't! (And Happy Monday to Australians, New Zealanders, and time warp dwellers.)
Once again, a set of links that defy classification.
AHAHA YES. corvidae9 has an entire switch 'verse, which has unfortunately not been updated recently (I think the last post was about a year ago? maybe?), but it is very srsly awesome indeed.
What's hilarious about this is that they're wrongly sorted. I've read excellent AUs where the Sorting Hat just made a different decision - Harry as a Slytherin, Hermione or Draco as a Ravenclaw, etc - and it's neat to see authors make you believe that yeah, of course, Harry could totally be a Slytherin with just a little tweak of what's already there in canon. What's neat about this fic is that the kids are not where they should be... but they don't realize that. Ron's and Pansy are not actually that smart. But they believe they are, so they start acting like they are. Or they believe that some random skills they have (eg Ron being good at chess) are manifestations of their innate intelligence. It's a very cool reversal of the regular Sorting-AU dynamic. And Hufflepuff Draco wondering how the hell he ended up in Hufflepuff is very cute too :)
It also sounds like the psych studies they used to do: set certain expectations in the person's mind and see how reality would map to it. They'd tell teachers that an incoming student was really bright and, no matter past school experiences, oftentimes that student would perform accordingly. Unfortunately, it works the other way as well. I think they also did the same thing with students.
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::sniff::
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:)
And I actually mean that.
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::makes mental note to try to slip some spunk into the next fic I write::
::unless it's helping my 9-year-old write that Marauders kidfic he wants to write::
::in which case it'll have to be 'spunky'::
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I will have to read that.
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It also sounds like the psych studies they used to do: set certain expectations in the person's mind and see how reality would map to it. They'd tell teachers that an incoming student was really bright and, no matter past school experiences, oftentimes that student would perform accordingly. Unfortunately, it works the other way as well. I think they also did the same thing with students.
I'll definitely have to read this story now!
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