Hogwarts Exposed Chapter 8

[szaleniec1000]

In which there's much angst and not much else. I guess it beats the alternative.

Comments

[tenkai_kujaku]

Wangst, wangst, wangst... And I have the horrid notion that Caitlin is in fact Hermione's biological daughter that she hid away from the world for some bizarre reason.
Please, feel free to correct me.

[fly_buggy_fly]

The "covenant of three"?

[szaleniec1000]

It's what people call Harry, Ron and Hermione. I think it has to do with the magical bond that helped them defeat Voldemort in the backstory, and is something to do with the fanfic that this was a fanfic of.

[fly_buggy_fly]

I feel like that's something from the show "Charmed."

[szaleniec1000]

I never watched it. It wouldn't surprise me: it was a big thing in the three-year summer to fill in gaps in Potterverse lore with stuff from other contemporary fantasy universes.

[meicdon13]

I feel really, really bad for Madam Hooch. What has she ever done to warrant this?

[szaleniec1000]

I don't know. It's like he just drew her from a hat and said "okay, she's evil". I couldn't buy her as a villain even if she were a proper one with motivations and a personality. As it is she's just an unfocused force of generic evil that serves only as a source of angst for everyone, the kind of one-dimensional villain I can't be arsed with at the best of times.

[hermit_blake]

"Neville the sexist dinosaur."

Hahahahahaha... at least he hasn't molested Hermione in public.

Yet.

[sickbritkid2]

Yet being the keyword...

[eaglevision1999]

Wangst overload *sigh*
It's as you said, the author has to make us care for the characters first. Otherwise we won't care about their angst. Especially not if it's over the top.

Aside from that...
I think Lucius is still evil, even after Deathly Hallows. He's just also a caring father and husband. Whoever decided bad people can't love? It's a confusing assumtion I see all the time...

Dumbledore's army and the year of darkness was mostly a very good fic ;_;

And you should totally read The Nightmares of Futures past. I'm thinking Harry gets through a little to easy in it and the characters around him are just a little to accepting but otherwise it's a pretty good fic. Too bad it hasn't been continued for quite some time.

[szaleniec1000]

People seem to get mightily confused when Harry Potter strays from black and white morality. I've seen more than one forum post claiming that using the Cruciatus curse in anger makes Harry as bad as Voldemort and Bellatrix, as though shades of grey don't exist and you're either pure good or pure evil. I guess that's where "bad people can't love" comes from. That, or it's a hasty generalisation from "Voldemort can't love".

I liked DAYD a lot the first time I read it. It was on a reread that the sexism and the author's treatment of Snape began to bug me, as well as a few annoying technical flaws that stood out because it's otherwise quite reasonably written. There's all that stuff about what the author's done in the past, but I'd rather evaluate the stories on their own merits.

Nightmares of Future Past is one of my favourites. I've not read it all, but intend to. :)

[eaglevision1999]

I only read DAYD once so maybe it slipped me. I do remember some questionable scenes but I was too into the story to pay much attention to more technical details. Seems I have to re-read it too.

[sith_droideka]

I read a bit of DAYD, up to Snape sending them into the Forbidden Forrest I think, but after that I couldn't stand what was happening to Snape- I thought he was just too out of character.