Dudley Dursley and the Knights of Walpurgis - Week Nine

[humantales]

Title: Dudley Dursley and the Knights of Walpurgis - Week Nine
Author: humantales
Rating: PG
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being

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[gioiamia]

I swear I'd love to reach into the world of your imagination and throttle Matt's Dad. No more stories? What a complete ass!!!! And he's offering a phone number and discouraging letters before his son goes to Hogwarts. As if his behavior weren't enough, with that last bit, he's certainly managing to make himself irrelevant and write himself out of his son's life, that's for sure

[humantales]

Well, Matt's Dad is pretty much writing himself out of his son's life. Not unusual behavior for him, unfortunately. (I haven't decided how much we're really going to see of him, but there's a reason Matt lives with his mother.)

The scene between Draco and Scorpius is an example of the characters having their own idea about how a scene was going to go; it was just supposed to be a quick chat, but Draco decided to talk.

It's funny. I have very little respect for Lucius, but I think his failures as a father are more to do with not knowing any better than neglect or abuse. (Then again, I have a father with unrealistic expectations even though I know he loves me, so it's a dynamic I understand.) But, yes, Draco was shocked by the mercy, and decided to prove he was worthy of it.

Thanks for your review! I'm happy you're still enjoying the story (even if it is taking forever to write.)

[gioiamia]

I'm definitely still loving the story!! I was just thinking this weekend that I need to re-read the story from the start. :)

And I like the perspective you give Lucius - particularly in bringing your own experiences into your understanding of his character.

Your story reminds me of my Dad's mother. Daddy has his master's degree and was a college professor - the first one in his family to ever graduate college for as many generations back as we can trace. And yet, to this day his mother still bemoans the fact that he didn't go to Vietnam, because she always wanted to brag to her friends that she had a son in uniform. *head-desk* I am constantly flabbergasted by her foolish wishes in that regard - to have WANTED her son to go to Vietnam in order to make HER proud! Never mind the risk to his own life.

Until you brought up this concept of ignorance and expectations, I hadn't really thought about it, but I can see Lucius in my grandmother's behavior.

[gioiamia]

Btw, I am indeed re-reading the story from the start over at Schnogle. I found a beta's note that I don't think you meant to include, so I'm just stopping by to point you to it. :-D

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/humantales/DDATKOW02.html

"(It's probably not terribly important to this story, but I thought Ginny preferred being Chaser, so I'd think that would have been her professional position.) We're going to go see DH tomorrow at a special press screening (my husband is a movie critic), and I meant to be re-reading Book 7 in anticipation of that. But as I was reading the chapters with Harry and Dudley, I found I was more in the mood to re-read this instead. *g* So thanks again for all the fun your story brings me

[longstrider]

I just stumbled upon this fic this week (after rereading Coda to an Epilogue and looking for other Next Gen HP fics. I wanted to say I've really enjoyed it and hope that you find the time, energy and muse to continue on with this story. Your other stuff looks interesting enough that I friended this LJ and will poke through the other fandoms at some point.

[humantales]

Thanks for reviewing! I'm trying to convince my muse to continue on; keep your fingers crossed.

You're more than welcome to friend. I'm mostly writing Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sherlock stories, but that can change at any time.