When Nymphadora Met Remus

[feral_shrew]

I have no plans to write anything past this scene, but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix left Harry out of the initial introductions. I've guessed that Aurors would need two years of training, and that if Tonks had been in school with Harry, he would have noticed pink hair at some point. Tonks years out of school when Remus's secret was

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[feral_shrew]

"Yeah, Tonks is pretty... memorable, I'd say. ;) I'm also of the belief that while Tonks is probably still pretty young at this point, had she lived she would have probably used her metamorphagi powers to look younger than she really was for ages. ;) No sense in having wrinkles if you don't have to

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"THIS IS NOW FIC CANON. Of course, he only remembers all of this, really, when Dumbledore and Snape start asking him these kinds of important questions after they find out at the beginning of his second year. They ask things like "what has since come to light about the final years of the war?" and things, and the Pettigrew-Black thing was one of the first ones he can think of off of the top of his head

[beboots]

Yep, Draco has no respect for Pettigrew. Period. But I think that it would still take some convincing - possibly this is the first time that the penseive would come out, so Dumbledore can look at Draco's memories of the sniveling man personally

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"Yep, Draco has no respect for Pettigrew. Period. But I think that it would still take some convincing - possibly this is the first time that the penseive would come out, so Dumbledore can look at Draco's memories of the sniveling man personally

[beboots]

Yeah, and Draco is hampered by the fact that he wasn't around when the Marauders were. Snape was, as was Dumbledore. They'd recognize a much-changed Pettigrew, though, in Draco's memories, I think

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Trufax. I can't remember - did Draco take any of these classes in canon

[beboots]

I'm sure that some fan, somewhere, has created class schedules for each year for all of the main characters. The internet will not fail me.

Oh yeah, the history of medicine definitely has a very dark side. Nobody wants to be the first to try a new, untested procedure. And yet they happen anyway.

"The Brits nearly gave the right to vote to APES. Not black men, not white women, apes. There was serious debate about this in the... 1700s/1800s? We read passages that skipped between the periods, but it was the 1800s when they sincerely thought apes were clever enough to vote." Seriously? Interesting! ...and yet disturbing. During that period catholics (mostly the Irish) were denied the vote, as were poor people, and pretty much everybody who wasn't rich, titled and protestant. ;)

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"I'm sure that some fan, somewhere, has created class schedules for each year for all of the main characters. The internet will not fail me

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"Other crazy people have gone through and noted the color of everybody's magic." Really? That sounds super neat-o! If all else fails, I generally look things up at the Harry Potter Lexicon. They're pretty accurate and fairly extensive. Extensive enough for my purposes, anyway.

"(And women weren't, either, but... yeah, goes without saying for way too long in history.)" Pshaww, women have influence over the men in their lives: husbands, fathers, sons, right? What need have they of the vote? :P (P.S.: Have you ever seen the amazing movie "Iron Jawed Angels" about the struggle for women's suffrage in the states? I saw it two months ago and I love it to pieces.)

Damn. I'm sorry about your fish. :( I haven't had any pets in my own memory, but when I was a toddler mum & dad apparently had a really large goldfish they called "Pig". He got fin rot towards the end of his life, though, and had to be killed by my father. :(

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"Pshaww, women have influence over the men in their lives: husbands, fathers, sons, right? What need have they of the vote? :P

[beboots]

"The Serpent's Shadow" - I... am going to have to read that now. Like, post-haste. :3

I would definitely recommend "Iron Jawed Angels". It's available for free on youtube, illegally of course. ;P

The names of your fish are awesome. <3

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I think I still have Oscar Wilde, but he's my problem-child bottomfeeder fish that has to live on his own. He used to bully Albert like crazy. He'd chase the poor little goldfish around the tank and bite his tail. Albert was starting to get very fuzzy at the edge of the tail, so I bought another little goldfish hoping something would go right. Every single time Oscar started chasing tail (Yeah, never, EVER name an animal Oscar Wilde), Francis would divebomb him and nudge him into the tank wall. Every single time. The rest of the time, she ignored him. (The fish is female, because I have no idea she's a goldfish and I arbitrarily assign a gender, but she's named after Francis Bacon. She was best buddies with Charles Darwin, but Darwin wasn't a particularly long-lived fish breed

[beboots]

"I think the best part about naming fish weird things is that your weird little stories about them end up ten times funnier. I used to have a little rainbow-fin shark that was named Roberts (as in the Dread Pirate) because he only let Inigo Montoya into the little hollow rock that he'd claimed as his own." AWESOME. <3

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My roommate and I cried when that tank got fin-rot. It didn't come in on any new fish in our tanks, but the girls acros the dorm had new ones? We don't know what happened, but we lost Roberts and Jayne. Jayne was gorgeous--blue/green iridescent crown-tail betta. We saw him at the grocery store and knew he had to come home with us. Usually they have sad little bettas, he'd just been there for 3 minutes. (Which encourages them to stock the poor things, but that was an awesome fish, and the next betta from the pet store (Wash) didn't make it two weeks.)

[beboots]

I love bettas. They are so elegant!

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They're smart, too. My goldfish are cute, but the bettas figure things out within two days. Jayne was the smartest, oddly. He could tell between the two fish food canisters. His was red and shiny, so it wasn't hard, but the other bettas have been just as excited about flakes or little freeze-dry worms.