3264 Prophesy - Snape, Dumbledore, Hermione, McGonagall

[pottersues]

I enjoyed the break from Pottersues because I enjoyed spending time with the visitors at our house, but I certainly did miss actually getting to do the report each day. This said... time to get back to the weeks people have selected. I've seven fics for each picked out, so here's fingers crossed that I won't have to find new ones. The first of indigoneutrino's

Comments

[beacon80]

First of all, it bugs me when we just jump to seventh year like this, although at least this fic was written before Half-Blood Prince or Deathly Hallows*. But still, we're given absolutely no indication on what the world is like at this point

[yemi_hikari]

Some writers take for granted their writers and assume that they're all going to be willing to suspend their disbelief when the writer provides no set up. It was one thing when writers were writing what they thought the next book would be, but this fic isn't even that. It doesn't really refer to any of the canon.

I'm going to add that in the majority of fantasy fandoms out there prophesies aren't the solve all sollution. I think the exception are ones of the harem genre or satire/parody.

[beacon80]

I mean, for starters, "chief lioness" seems more likely to be McGonagall than Hermione.
Even worse. I just noticed that Hermione initially assumes the prophecy is talking about McGonagall. Dumbledore corrects her, but never even begins to explain why the "chief lioness" must be her.

[yemi_hikari]

This...

... the fact Hermione acknowledges the problems with the prophesy and yet has no say despite the fact she is being turned into the sex slave of another person for one night. All her rights are violated.

[afleur_de_lis]

The thing about this story that I do not like is that the characters are being forced to do something that they clearly do not want to do.

Now the only way for a story like this to work is if there is a build up of events. I mean, allow the characters to try to sort out what they want while they continue on with what they are doing. Then have the characters try a date or two... then continue from there.

This story is moving rather quickly. I mean, I feel that both characters would be repulsed at the thought of marrying one another and being forced to conceive a child. I would think that they would rather avoid each other?

Despite this though: We have Hermione Granger who just happens to have a book about sex, I think? Yes? The title seems familiar. I take Hermione as the type of woman who would give her husband or at least the man she's engaged to. You wouldn't expect to find her giving this gift as a present to a man she doesn't really like.

Also, is it just me or does the prophecy sound like a fake?

[yemi_hikari]

*rolls eyes*

Yeah... the prophesy does sound fake.

What I don't get is how neither one of them can say no to all of this. I think the writer's taken for granted the fact while she can make the characters say yes because she is the writer that isn't how people would act in such a situation. I say people and not just the characters because no one in their right mind would do something like this unless they were specifically groomed for said task.

[beacon80]

Worth noting that they don't even pretend Hermione gets a say in this. They tell her straight up that she must have Snape's baby. Snape makes an objections (which is irrelevant, since even their butchered prophecy never says he needs to raise the kid), which Hermione, of all people, deflects. No one ever even asks her if she's okay with this.

[yemi_hikari]

I personally think Hermione's say in this matter is far more important then any other person. She's the one who is going to be carrying the baby for nine to ten months and having it effect her day to day life. Everyone else can wipe their hands of the whole thing.

[yemi_hikari]

Looks at the writer's other stories...

... it doesn't seem as if there is any grasp of how people actually act in a relationship.

Me thinks that the writer may have been using Hermione as their self-insert to be with Snape.

[beacon80]

Wow, this just gets worse. Hermione realizes she isn't ovulating, so she can't actually get pregnant*. Instead of telling Trelawney and Dumbledore the entire thing is a waste of time, she decides it's easier to just have sex with Snape anyway.

On that note, the prophecy never said she had to get knocked up on Snape's birthday, just that they would get "entangled", and their kid would be important. Nothing states that the kid has to be concieved that very night.

And really, putting any faith in this prophecy is practically giving up. It means that they're accepting the fact that they can't beat Voldemort for another ten years at best, and probably longer.

* I'm sure if the fic was continued, it'd happen anyway, because magic! Depsite the fact that magic doesn't work that way.