How proud of myself should I feel for figuring out how Comed-Tea works before Harry did? (Keeping in mind that it’s been years since I internalized the facts that in the Harry Potter universe, prophecies work and Time-Turners don’t create alternate time-lines, information not available to rational!Harry.)
How proud of myself should I feel for figuring out how Comed-Tea works before Harry did?
Not very. Tons of commentators glommed onto the non-time-warping explanation, and the fic all but tells us that this is a possibility, especially with the experiment vignette with Hermione on the train.
(Personally, I don’t like the idea that the Comed-Tea affects only Harry; that mechanism leaves Luna Lovegood as an ethically depraved libeller.)
I was looking over the old chapters and I found this:
One alert reviewer asked whether, if Luna is a seer, that means this is going to be an HPDM bottom!Draco mpreg fic. I regret that FFN does not allow me any larger font size in which to say NO. It honestly hadn’t occurred to me that Luna might be a real seer—I’ll have to decide whether to run with that or not—but I think we can all safely assume that if Luna is a seer, she said something about “light planting a seed in darkness”, and Xenophilius, as always, interpreted this in rather the wrong way.
How proud of myself should I feel for figuring out how Comed-Tea works before Harry did? (Keeping in mind that it’s been years since I internalized the facts that in the Harry Potter universe, prophecies work and Time-Turners don’t create alternate time-lines, information not available to rational!Harry.)
Not very. Tons of commentators glommed onto the non-time-warping explanation, and the fic all but tells us that this is a possibility, especially with the experiment vignette with Hermione on the train.
(Personally, I don’t like the idea that the Comed-Tea affects only Harry; that mechanism leaves Luna Lovegood as an ethically depraved libeller.)
Or her father, at least. (I think there was an author’s note about this—she says vague things and he turns them into ridiculous headlines.)
Well, that’s just great—how am I supposed to know that now with Eliezer’s little erasure system?
I suppose better Xenophilius being a depraved libeller than Luna… although as an adult it’s even more inexcusable.
I was looking over the old chapters and I found this:
Or just charmingly nutty.
Good to know.