There’s no necessary incompatibility. The specific ingredients may have been chosen to be a homage and a reference to Lawrence Watt-Evans Seething Death and yet the described ritual can still contain foreshadowing for HPMoR’s plot as well.
I suppose. I’m less worried about the ingredients as the “missing counterspell”. It just seems too central to the plot—I can’t see the whole story being based on something that’s a reference to something else. As I said, I’m still updating on the possible connection to the opening paragraph.
There’s no necessary incompatibility. The specific ingredients may have been chosen to be a homage and a reference to Lawrence Watt-Evans Seething Death and yet the described ritual can still contain foreshadowing for HPMoR’s plot as well.
I suppose. I’m less worried about the ingredients as the “missing counterspell”. It just seems too central to the plot—I can’t see the whole story being based on something that’s a reference to something else. As I said, I’m still updating on the possible connection to the opening paragraph.