[Fic] "An Ounce of Prevention" chapter 23 -- Naruto/Harry Potter

Jul 06, 2008 23:38

This is part 23 of An Ounce of Prevention, a Naruto/Harry Potter crossover that I started as a giftfic for askerian.

Technically, it's an insertion of one HP character/plot device into the Naruto world, but that does count as a crossover of sorts. "An Ounce of Prevention" will not affect canon in either series; that is, it takes place during the Naruto ( Read more... )

fandom: harry potter, crossover, fandom: naruto, -an ounce of prevention, fic

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askerian July 7 2008, 04:02:42 UTC
Tom Puzzle/Mystery/Riddle! Spring Cherry! ♥ *geek*

An optimistic fool indeed. Woe.

... Ginny's version is indeed creepier. Oh, she has SUCH good intentions, the poor girl. X___X; brr.

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edenfalling July 7 2008, 04:35:33 UTC
Hey, having translated him from English to Japanese at the start of the story, it was only fair to translate him back! (With potential babelfish errors.) Sakura just went along for the ride.

I meant to do a funny thing with Ginny, only then I couldn't think of anything funny. Then I tried to make her into an amateur Dark Lady, but that didn't quite pan out either. So I was left with another iteration of 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions,' only I'd already used that title, so I went with 'all roads lead to Rome' instead, meaning that CoS is fated to happen.

Which bothers me, but not enough to try rewriting the thing yet again.

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silverblade219 July 7 2008, 04:11:29 UTC
That 2nd one is evil. Poor, naive Ginny. Poor Sakura, though she wouldn't know that she ultimately failed. Dramatic irony indeed. (and you did said in all of the notes that it won't affect cannon either way, so we did know that Ginny would end up as she did...)

Still, this was a great story and congrats on finishing it ^^;. I love the way you wrote Sakura.

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edenfalling July 7 2008, 04:36:35 UTC
Thank you! Sakura is one of my favorite Naruto characters -- she means well, she tries hard, and she overcomes some significant character flaws from the start of the manga.

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silverblade219 July 7 2008, 16:55:07 UTC
I just have one more question: if Malfoy got the diary the same day as when he went to Diagon Alley, how did Dobby know to warn Harry? Unless I'm remembering things wrong, Malfoy should have gotten it early on during that summer.

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edenfalling July 8 2008, 02:22:51 UTC
Ack! You're right. I will tweak that so it makes more sense.

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rurounitriv July 7 2008, 04:12:10 UTC
Love this story, and both endings. Poor Ginny didn't have a clue what she was playing with in the second, though. Hard to say whether she'd be that foolhardy before CoS or not.

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edenfalling July 7 2008, 04:39:26 UTC
Thank you!

Ginny was canonically naive enough (or stupid enough, or distracted enough) not to realize that she shouldn't have trusted Tom when she didn't know where he kept his brain. And apparently her parents had warned her about that at least once, judging by Mr. Weasley's reaction at the end of the book.

So I figure that if she thinks she's helping Harry, it would be very easy to slide in over her head before she realizes just how much of a hold Tom has on her.

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nights_fang July 7 2008, 05:30:32 UTC
Though the first ending was the more plausible one; The second epilogue made my hair stand. Definitely very creepy. Poor Ginny.

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edenfalling July 7 2008, 05:48:48 UTC
The first epilogue is the real one. The second was meant to be an omake-style epilogue -- a joke -- but my sense of humor seems to be in hiding.

I rationalize the second epilogue as an attempt to get back into the right headspace for writing "Secrets," which does, after all, have a running theme of Ginny trying to do everything on her own, and therefore getting into ten times more trouble than she needs to.

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bewize July 7 2008, 17:55:19 UTC
Excellent. I completely enjoyed the entire ride. Well done you! Finishing something is awesome!

The first epilogue is the one that really seemed to cap things off. I always did wonder how Lucius got the diary... *shifty eyes* Now we know, don't we?

I loved the entire thing, very much.

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edenfalling July 8 2008, 02:22:16 UTC
Thank you!

I wanted the first epilogue to feel like it could have been genuine off-page canon. The second was meant to be a joke, but refused to be funny.

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