I wonder what’s the Death Eaters’ opinion of phoenixes. If they agree that they’re a force for good, seeing one of them in Dumbledore’s retinue should make them ask themselves a few questions (a generic problem whenever you put a public, physical moral compass in any world, really—it becomes much harder for the villains to delude themselves into thinking they’re heroes). Perhaps they think they’re just creepy, winged endorphine peddlers.
Cool that Hogwarts has invented onion routing seven years in advance. Although I don’t think it’s a big improvement in security when the three messengers are so close to each other, and so much more likely to (occasionally) conspire to piece together the connection.
For the couple of seconds I considered Harry’s guess on LL, I brightened up considerably. I dearly hope you don’t plan for the fic to finish before you get a chance to write Methods!Luna.
Lesath… you know, I always hate pathetic characters in fiction, they make me cringe whenever they show up and I smile when they disappear from the story, but Lesath made me realise that MoR didn’t have a truly pathetic character, Neville having “leveled up” extremely quickly, and I got the gut feeling that that was a missing piece that just got fixed.
Amelia didn’t wonder how a ten-years-in-Azkaban Bellatrix could have not just killed, but obliterated the same man who had just defeated Bahry? Not that there aren’t answers (say, a Geas-type spell, with a lethal payload to be triggered by Bellatrix).
Glad to see that Alastor is as badass as expected in a powered-up story like this. The one-shots where Moody raised Harry were one of the few fics on your “Recommended” page that I enjoyed, and I believe I see the influence at work here.
Voldie on LSD would make a good omake. Rigorously to be written while crunk.
Verdandi, or rather Verðandi, is one of the Norns, a sort of Norse version of the Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae. I don’t believe that’s the right reference, though?
And the Bahl reference I didn’t get at all, but I haven’t read much sci-fi or fantasy.
Hey, remember all the flak you took when Harry agreed off-screen to the nutty plan? If it encouraged you to spend more effort on this beautifully human piece of HJPEV self-reflection, I’ll be sure to bring the torches and pitchforks next time.
The paragraph where Harry veers into evolutionary psychology reads like a perfect example of the kind of common, self-indulgent evolutionary psychology that I think gives a bad name to meaningful evolutionary psychology.
My instant thought on the “and a deck of playing cards”: If that’s a Deck of Many Things, Santa Claus is certifiably insane and possibly Dumbledore.
I wonder who will be the one to break the King of Hearts (that someone will is almost a given). Most likely not Harry. It could make an interesting contest.
Author’s Notes: What, no mention of Three Worlds Collide? Also, Twitter is worse than television.
Well done. Enjoy your hiatus, you’ve deserved it—this conclusion to Act I was far more thorough than I expected.
I wonder what’s the Death Eaters’ opinion of phoenixes. If they agree that they’re a force for good, seeing one of them in Dumbledore’s retinue should make them ask themselves a few questions (a generic problem whenever you put a public, physical moral compass in any world, really—it becomes much harder for the villains to delude themselves into thinking they’re heroes). Perhaps they think they’re just creepy, winged endorphine peddlers.
Phoenixes encourage you to go out, and throw yourself full-strength against a problem, regardless of whether you can solve the problem, regardless of your chance of death.
To a slytherin, this is simply irrational. Gryffindor is brave, AKA foolhardy. Slytherin is devious AKA rational. The gryffindor method is the phoenix method: ignore the dangers that stand in the way of your goal.
Verdandi, or rather Verðandi, is one of the Norns, a sort of Norse version of the Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae. I don’t believe that’s the right reference, though?
Amelia didn’t wonder how a ten-years-in-Azkaban Bellatrix could have not just killed, but obliterated the same man who had just defeated Bahry? Not that there aren’t answers (say, a Geas-type spell, with a lethal payload to be triggered by Bellatrix).
An “Avada Kedavra” to the back from point-blank range probably would have worked well enough. A blade would have worked too, I suspect.
Ch. 63, writing as I read:
I wonder what’s the Death Eaters’ opinion of phoenixes. If they agree that they’re a force for good, seeing one of them in Dumbledore’s retinue should make them ask themselves a few questions (a generic problem whenever you put a public, physical moral compass in any world, really—it becomes much harder for the villains to delude themselves into thinking they’re heroes). Perhaps they think they’re just creepy, winged endorphine peddlers.
Cool that Hogwarts has invented onion routing seven years in advance. Although I don’t think it’s a big improvement in security when the three messengers are so close to each other, and so much more likely to (occasionally) conspire to piece together the connection.
For the couple of seconds I considered Harry’s guess on LL, I brightened up considerably. I dearly hope you don’t plan for the fic to finish before you get a chance to write Methods!Luna.
Lesath… you know, I always hate pathetic characters in fiction, they make me cringe whenever they show up and I smile when they disappear from the story, but Lesath made me realise that MoR didn’t have a truly pathetic character, Neville having “leveled up” extremely quickly, and I got the gut feeling that that was a missing piece that just got fixed.
Amelia didn’t wonder how a ten-years-in-Azkaban Bellatrix could have not just killed, but obliterated the same man who had just defeated Bahry? Not that there aren’t answers (say, a Geas-type spell, with a lethal payload to be triggered by Bellatrix).
Glad to see that Alastor is as badass as expected in a powered-up story like this. The one-shots where Moody raised Harry were one of the few fics on your “Recommended” page that I enjoyed, and I believe I see the influence at work here.
Voldie on LSD would make a good omake. Rigorously to be written while crunk.
Verdandi, or rather Verðandi, is one of the Norns, a sort of Norse version of the Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae. I don’t believe that’s the right reference, though?
And the Bahl reference I didn’t get at all, but I haven’t read much sci-fi or fantasy.
Hey, remember all the flak you took when Harry agreed off-screen to the nutty plan? If it encouraged you to spend more effort on this beautifully human piece of HJPEV self-reflection, I’ll be sure to bring the torches and pitchforks next time.
The paragraph where Harry veers into evolutionary psychology reads like a perfect example of the kind of common, self-indulgent evolutionary psychology that I think gives a bad name to meaningful evolutionary psychology.
My instant thought on the “and a deck of playing cards”: If that’s a Deck of Many Things, Santa Claus is certifiably insane and possibly Dumbledore.
I wonder who will be the one to break the King of Hearts (that someone will is almost a given). Most likely not Harry. It could make an interesting contest.
Author’s Notes: What, no mention of Three Worlds Collide? Also, Twitter is worse than television.
Well done. Enjoy your hiatus, you’ve deserved it—this conclusion to Act I was far more thorough than I expected.
Phoenixes encourage you to go out, and throw yourself full-strength against a problem, regardless of whether you can solve the problem, regardless of your chance of death.
To a slytherin, this is simply irrational. Gryffindor is brave, AKA foolhardy. Slytherin is devious AKA rational. The gryffindor method is the phoenix method: ignore the dangers that stand in the way of your goal.
“Verdandi” is Belldandy.
And “Bahl’s Stupefaction” is the Idiot Ball.
(smacks head)
And Vance is (was?) a certain infamous lich, though that’s probably obvious by now.
An “Avada Kedavra” to the back from point-blank range probably would have worked well enough. A blade would have worked too, I suspect.