Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 32

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Lessons in Immortality

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Condwiramurs, Terri, Sweettalkeress, and the rest of you are just too inspiring. I had plans for last night (okay, probably involving silly pictures of cats, but still), and instead all your brilliant commentary inspired me to write a short fic. Your punishment is to suffer the results. (Er, but only if you want to.)

Lessons in Immortality
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Tom Riddle
Categories: Gen, PG
Word Count: 972
Summary: Albus is determined that his NEWT alchemy students not be lured onto any of the tempting, dark paths to immortality. Especially not Tom Riddle.

Fic this way

Dark Twins in Devotion: Severus and Bellatrix

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Trying to finish this Indestructible project has set my mind going in so many different directions, I can’t even tell you. Have another tangent to chew on while I write up occlumency and the tower and cave.

One of the features of the HP books that becomes very noticeable once you start looking at them symbolically and examining the relationships between characters closely is how much the books are built on various kinds of pairings and reflections. It’s like Alice’s Looking-Glass in there: everything has a twin, an opposite, an echo, a (distorted) mirror-image. Sometimes things are absurdly literal, sometimes completely the opposite of what they seem. Or both at once.

Severus, of course, as the heart of the books and probably the single most complex character in them, has multiple pairings and twins of different sorts.

And it strikes me that Bellatrix is one of his most interesting reflections.

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