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Voldemort's Strange Logic
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condwiramurs.livejournal.comUntil then, I have a little question to toss out for consideration. It's been occupying my mind for a bit.
Question: Why did Voldemort believe that it was necessary to kill to gain the Wand's mastery?
Because he, of all people, should have known that it wasn't. If it were true, Albus Dumbledore would never have had it.
And he did believe, quite firmly, that Albus did.
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POTTERMORE: The Potter Family
Sep. 22nd, 2015 09:04 pmradicalhighway.livejournal.comThe old Pottermore was scrapped and another one is going to take its place. Here I thought it couldn't get any less interesting, but it did. Supposedly, there's going to be something similar to the old thing that will be added. I found the FAQ page to be absolutely hillarious, so I thought it would be funny to share a few snippets.
- This is where you’ll be able to read brand new writing by J. K. Rowling (yes, it’s canon!), check out magical characters, objects, spells and places, reminisce about the first time you read the books, ruminate on advice from the great Dumbledore, speculate about Newt Scamander, try to guess the identity of the Cursed Child, fall in love with the stories all over again and SO MUCH MORE.
The good thing about it is that there's more "canon" stuff to spork. It's amazing how I used to love this series until a certain point, but then it became so bad I get entertainment out of mocking it, for years too. Pottermore was really slow in the updates by the end tho, so expect it to go exactly like the books. Really fun when it starts, bland and lazy after awhile.
The Cursed Child... Uhm... Must be every Slytherin that has ever existed... Remember though, choices make you who you are. Except if you're Tom Riddle. That one was rotten since conception. Oh no, I know, the Cursed Child is Tom Riddle. Such a pair, the Cursed Child and the Boy Who Lived.
Also a moment of silent for the great Dumbledore. I almost cried but I'm over 20 so I managed to hold myself. Imagine if I cried, I'd be classified as a Cho Chang, not a Ginny Weasley.
- From the bottom of my Hermione-loving heart, welcome to the new and improved Pottermore.
- We have so much more to give you; writing, movies, plays, books, characters, places, backstories, and it’s rumoured that discovering your very own Patronus is also in the works...And the icing on the cauldron cake? The new Pottermore logo is in J.K. Rowling’s own handwriting.
Now onto her lovely backstory about the Potter family.
( The Potter Family by J. K. Rowling )
Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 35
Aug. 29th, 2015 10:41 pm
- abridged,
- abridged: dh,
- albus dumbledore,
- author: sweettalkeress,
- broken aesop,
- dark lords,
- dark magic,
- devices,
- dh,
- double standards,
- family,
- favoritism,
- hallows,
- harrycrux,
- humor,
- immortality,
- invisibility cloak,
- it's okay if a gryffindor does it,
- knave or fool,
- likely stories,
- magical artifacts,
- manipulation,
- morality,
- questions,
- sacrifice,
- secrets and lies
Gollum not Gandalf: Meditations on Albus
Aug. 22nd, 2015 11:47 pmterri-testing.livejournal.comMerciful goddess, Condwiramurs, you are right. We all thought that Jo had modeled Albus on Gandalf, but he’s really a second Gollum. (With a dollop of that silver-tongued wizard who had the hubris to call himself “The White” and to set himself up as an advisor to temporal rulers.)
Gollum. At once the protagonists’ guide and their betrayer.
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Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 22
Aug. 1st, 2015 06:20 pmsweettalkeress.livejournal.comRon: I can’t believe that man! To sell Harry to the Death Eaters! Disgusting coward! I can’t believe someone as noble as Luna is related to him!
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Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 21
Jul. 30th, 2015 10:02 pmsweettalkeress.livejournal.com( Read Chapter 21 )
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Death's own cloak
Dec. 17th, 2013 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunnyskywalkerI finally realized that there's one power the cloak might well have, which would fit in seamlessly with everything JKR set up for it. It's just that the characters never had occasion to test it.( Read more... )
Another tidbit on the Cloak
Nov. 20th, 2013 01:52 pmterri-testing.livejournal.comSo that effect is probably mitigated in respect to, and only to, people who are under it with you. People you share it with, if you share it with anyone.
So Hermione and Ron are more real to Harry than anyone else.
And... remember us complaining in DH9 that Harry's indifferent to the Weasleys' fate, the family that had taken him in and treated him as their own, until he thinks of Ginny?
He was ordered to keep his cloak on his person at all times the previous spring, right? If you wanted to snog your girlfriend without ticking off her big brother, your best friend, by being too blatent about it, what would you do?
So that's why Ginny's more real to him afterwards than most people.
Product of the Department of Mysteries
Nov. 19th, 2013 06:49 pmsunnyskywalker![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
oneandthetruth's last DH chapter commentary, an interesting thread compared the Mirror of Erised to the Resurrection Stone in its seductive (and potentially deadly) powers of showing something/someone you want.There's another object somewhat like that: the Veil in the Department of Mysteries. There are voices coming from behind the Veil - voices Luna believes to be those of the dead - and Harry feels tempted to walk through it.
Well, okay, Harry is being trained to have a death wish. But maybe that just means he's more susceptible.
The Department of Mysteries is a research facility. One which we know has produced tangible items now available for (restricted) public use, such as Time-Turners. (Whether they invented them or improved on an existing idea, we don't know.) I seriously doubt they've only produced one artifact ever. So what else might they have made?
They also have the locked room full of either love or Amortensia, depending whom you ask. The Mirror's ability to reflect your heart's desire is suggestively similar to the potion's ability to reflect the scent of what you desire.
A big glass mirror sounds like a relatively recent invention (unless you posit a long history of magical glassmaking, but wizards seem to adapt Muggle technology more often than the other way around). I propose that the Mirror of Erised is a product of the Department of Mysteries, combining attributes of Amortensia and the Veil which the DoM was able to partially replicate/adapt after long study.
Next question: are the Stone and the Veil related? Maybe Mr. Death, whoever he was, created both, and the DoM only got ahold of one of them. Whether this makes the Veil a fourth Hallow, left out of Beedle's version for numerical reasons, is not clear. Possibly it's a super-Hallow, and you can be Master of DeathTM with it alone? Or it's a death-related magical... thing... which shares some properties with the Hallows, but it isn't the same class of artifact and mastery isn't an issue in its case.
Or maybe the Veil is more ancient and the Stone is a portable adaptation created centuries ago by the DoM's first head researcher, Johannus Mors, along with a couple of other powerful items which also escaped the premises and have not been replicated. (And Death took the second lab assistant for his own...)
Thoughts? Fanfic links?
oneandthetruth.livejournal.comThe only way I could make sense of King's Cross was by creating a table that laid out the skinned baby incidents in detail. After I did that, I realized chapter 1 contained a similar incident and cried out for a table, as well as a detailed comparison between the two chapters, so I did those things.
When I reached the point in my postings in which Xeno Lovegood gets tortured by the DEs, and Hermione gets tortured by Bellatrix, I realized those were also similar situations that were handled completely differently by the author. I made tables for those incidents, then realized I'd have to rewrite the Malfoy Manor chapter spork to accommodate and compare them. After living with DH for 6 months (I started reading it and writing the sporking in December 2012 and last posted in June 2013), I just couldn't face that. I needed a vacation from it. A nice, long vacation.
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oneandthetruth.livejournal.comXeno tells the Trio the DH symbol is not “dark” in the sense Viktor Krum thought. He adds he was wearing the symbol in case another believer saw him and could help him find the Hallows. Isn’t it great that he used someone’s else happy social occasion to promote his own selfish, crazy agenda?
He then asks if they know “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” Ron and Hermione say they do, but Harry doesn’t. This shows how intellectually disinterested he is: He’s had the Beedle book sitting around for five months and has been sitting in a tent with it for four months, frequently bored out of his mind, with nothing else to do for entertainment, but even though it’s a short book, he still hasn’t read it! Sheesh! And I’m supposed to find this guy admirable enough to be worthy of emulation? I mean, that is one of the characteristics of a hero/heroine.
( Read more... )oneandthetruth.livejournal.comHermione is still pouting the next morning. I’m wondering if her real problem is not that Ron left, but that she didn’t. Is she angry at him because he had the guts to admit they were blowing it and take a time out, while she just kept trailing along after Harry like a lost house elf? I think she’s definitely mad because she’s always controlled Ron and their relationship. How dare he assert his independence of her! Who does he think he is? Her equal? In an AU, maybe. This is called the Potterverse after all, not the Ronverse.
( Read more... )oneandthetruth.livejournal.comIs everybody still with me? I know it was hard to get through that last installment. Unfortunately, not much happens in this chapter, either. We have to plow through it before we get some excitement in chapter 17.
This chapter starts with a sickeningly sweet illustration of the Holy Family Potter Family Memorial Statue. Lily is holding baby Harry on her left, while she and James, on her right, gaze adoringly at their child. They all have little patties of snow on their heads, which makes them look like they’re wearing halos. *gag* That particular ornament would be the last headgear I would imagine James Potter wearing.
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Deathly Hallows, Chapter 14: The Thief
Apr. 21st, 2013 07:17 pmoneandthetruth.livejournal.comWhen Harry comes to, he’s in some strange woods with Ron and Hermione. All three are changing back into themselves. Hermione is okay--of course, because the boys couldn’t survive without her--but Ron has Splinched. (I have to say, Rowling is very good at coming up with these silly sounding words.) With typical thoughtlessness, Harry has always considered Splinching a joke--until he sees his friend lying on the ground, gushing blood from a big chunk that’s been taken out of his arm.
Hermione puts Dittany on the wound to close it and explains how they got there: Yaxley grabbed onto her when they left, so when they landed, he was taken inside the Fidelius on 12GP. When she realized that, she Apparated them elsewhere to get away. She blames herself, but Harry both honorably and honestly says it’s his fault. See, Harry? I knew you should have Stunned Yaxley again before you took off.
( Read more... )oneandthetruth.livejournal.comAuthor’s note: It’s not a good idea to eat or drink while reading this installment. There’s some Snapish sarcasm at the end that may make you spray your computer. He’s not in the chapter, but I imagined what might happen if he were.
This chapter begins with Harry experiencing a Voldie-vision in his dreams. Ron wakes him up, and Harry asks if Ron knows who Gregorovitch is, since Harry thinks Voldy is looking for this man.
( Read more... )oneandthetruth.livejournal.comIn the Deadly Hollows Sporking Community, erastes began the festivities by saying this: “I have to just mention the preface page with excerpts from Aeschylus and William Penn. This made my heart sink, because invariably I find that crap books are prefaced by arty-farty poetry and prose. Just once I'd like to see a preface quoting Enid Blyton or Dan Brown. It would sing to me of hope.” With that in mind, I decided to emulate JKR by beginning my sporking of DH by quoting Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” seems to express the attitude a person needs have when sporking the second-longest and (first) dullest of the Harry Potter books. If that sounds grandiose, well, just remember that in the five-and-a-half years since DH came out, only one person on DTCL, montavilla, has made it through sporking the entire book. Saylee tried, but had to quit after seven chapters because she just couldn’t take any more.
( Read more... )oryx_leucoryxTom's return to Britain:
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