Doesn't the AIP's internal monologue include some pretty arrogant thoughts? I have difficult considering Pettigrew as some sort of arrogant mastermind.The AIP could be our favorite little rat Pettigrew.
OK. That's fair.Doesn't the AIP's internal monologue include some pretty arrogant thoughts? I have difficult considering Pettigrew as some sort of arrogant mastermind.
That was a lot of what I was going to observe, except that it's definitely a student -- or at least, I don't think our Authorlord would have referred to anyone on the faculty as "the boy." ("The letter hadn’t specified a timeframe, but the boy knew that sooner was preferable to later.") I don't see Pettigrew being either the agent or the patron. The patron, I think, is either Voldemort himself (if Pettigrew had already found him and brought him back to England -- unlikely given how soon after Pettigrew's capture we first see the agent) or, more likely, an elder Death Eater, one of the ones Riddle recruited while he was still at school. That suggests Nott -- Theodore Nott's father, that is, the only one of the original group of Death Eaters known canonically to be alive and free at this time. JKR has talked about a chapter that never made it into any of the books:Actually had a rather fun discussion with a friend about just who the agent was. one of the most intreesting theories we had was that it could be Cedric Diggory. No we don't really believe that it is but the implications for the story if it were too much fun to consider to just drop right away.
My personal fave for who it could be would be Penelope Clearwater but she was negated by pronoun usage.
The AIP seems to me to be from the current time line (IMO mulitpule time travelers seems to convolute the story too much unless they managed to piggy back with Harry), Male (based on pronoun usage), probably a few years older definitely not younger, I think it is a student but could be staff at hogwarts, Is a Slytherin or Ravenclaw (seems to point more to Slytherin but that could be a bit of a mislead).
I'm guessing the Authorlord is aware of this lost chapter, too. The fact that JKR first intended to use this chapter in CoS indicates that Nott might have been in on the diary plot, which the agent apparently tried to help along. The agent could be Theodore; if so, his thoughts about his "patron" and the costs of failure indicate a very unpleasant relationship with his father. Some fans have speculated that the death Theodore witnessed that enables him to see thestrals was his father murdering his mother; if he's the agent and his father the patron, I suspect that's true in this particular AU. His "unwitting ally" is probably Snape, and that passage probably referred to Snape's role in setting up the attack on Harry. The idea of the agent as a Ravenclaw over whom Nott (or whoever the patron is) has some kind of powerful hold is an interesting alternative, if Theodore turns out not to be the agent, but I still think he's more likely a Slytherin -- perhaps Bletchley, Montague, Pucey, or Warrington as suggested earlier.Malfoy & Nott (Chamber of Secrets/Goblet of Fire)
I liked this scene so much I tried to use it twice; unfortunately, it didn't work in either place so I finally laid it to rest in one of the cardboard boxes where I keep all my old drafts, notes, electricity bills and chewing gum wrappers.
As in the case of Dean Thomas, I know much more about Theodore Nott than has ever appeared in the books. Raised by a very elderly widower and Death Eater father, Theodore is a clever loner who does not feel the need to join gangs, including Malfoy's.
However, in this scene Theodore's father (the same Nott who was badly injured in the closing chapters of 'Order of the Phoenix') goes to visit Lucius Malfoy to discuss Voldemort-related business and we see Draco and Theodore alone in the garden having a talk of their own. I really liked the scene, firstly because it showed the Malfoys' home, and the difference between the place where Draco has grown up and number four, Privet Drive; then because we rarely see Draco talking to anybody he considers a real equal, and he is forced to see Theodore as such, because Theodore is just as pure-blooded as he is, and somewhat cleverer. Together these two Death Eaters' sons discuss Dumbledore's regime at Hogwarts and Harry Potter, with all sorts of stories that the Death Eaters tell about how this baby boy survived the Dark Lord's attack.
Thank you! I can't claim that my knowledge is all that extensive, but I do have above-average endowments of both working and long-term memory, and I just finished reading NoFP up through the latest chapter over the last week or so. As to canon, I'm a fan-fic writer myself (I found NoFP because it was the favorite story of a fellow who goes under the pseudonym Voice of the Nephilim, who'd very kindly reviewed all fourteen chapters of my own fic on FF.net), and though not in Viridian's league, I'm obsessive about canonicity; I can't count the hours I've spent on the HP Lexicon checking details for my own work. I've also spent quite a bit of time in the FictionAlley Park forums, often debating canon nitpicks, and again looking at the lexicon to support my arguments -- and all that stuff tends to stick in my memory.Yeah, that was pretty impressive. Extensive knowledge of both canon and NoFP + pretty deep insight= ridiculously impressive. Well done Mantis.
Sure, it's at http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/mantis/. A couple of caveats: it's canon-compliant through GoF, but my AU diverges from canon rather sharply on July 31, 1995. I started writing it shortly before OotP came out, and while I incorporated some information from that book, I did not treat it as binding. As my icon suggests, it involves a much more successful romance between Harry and Cho than we saw in canon.Best way to learn something well; debate the topic or teach the topic. That's what I find useful when revising for lectures - I discuss the topic with my dad in the car, or I help my sister with the same topics I'm covering at uni, only in more detail.
Still, links for the fanfiction? Canon-compliancy is a godsend when it comes to the Pit sometimes.
Others have speculated on that possibility upthread, and it remains a plausible scenario. However, I think that a Slytherin with an extra wand, used only for the assaults and concealed the rest of the time, makes more sense. If things get much worse, the professors are liable to Priori Incantatem every known wand in the school, regardless of house. It's sort of like the concept, which I've seen some in mystery fiction, of an assassin or vigilante who owns a whole bunch of guns, every one of them licensed and registered -- plus one unregistered one with no serial numbers which he keeps stashed somewhere away from his office, residence, car, etc. so that even if it's found by chance it can't be traced to him and a comprehensive search warrant on him will never turn it up. When he's suspected in a murder, the police will check the bullets found in the victim against all of the guns the suspect owns... and come up empty.Am I the only one that assumed it was a prefect from Ravenclaw? I mean, that would solve most of the problems relating to the character being able to perform said actions.
A TRUE Slytherin would make sure they were sorted into a different house. No sense letting people know what you are.I think the "only mind being worthy" comment was still about being Slytherin. Look at most of them. They blatantly attack Potter, openly badmouth him, are SEEN repeatedly sabotaging him. That's not sly. That's not clever. That's just dumb.
To be truly sly, you need to be smart, yes. But you need to be able to manipulate people without getting caught. You run things from BEHIND the scenes, which is what a TRUE Slytherin would do. Look at Slughorn during potions, and you'll see what I mean.
Hooray for Harry brutally murdering Melissa's killer.How about "Gryffindors tend to die young" - that one's equally true.
Of course, Harry isn't much of a Gryffindor, not as much as others anyway. That'll be quite evident soonish.
That would be because while most Gryffindors appear to be brave to the point of stupid, they all seem to be horribly, horribly naive in one way or another. Harry's not naive, he's a blooded warrior with a very large chip on his shoulder and more power to burn than Chernobyl at critical mass. Whoever killed Melissa is going to be begging for Harry to end the torment, and I honestly believe that he won't do it. That type doesn't lear unless there's a constant reminder of what could happen to them if they follow through on their plots. Perhaps sealing the killer up, alive, aware, and frozen in time, in crystal just after casting something like a high powered blood-boiling curse, to stand as an example of what will happen to those who follow Voldemort's ideoligies?How about "Gryffindors tend to die young" - that one's equally true.
Of course, Harry isn't much of a Gryffindor, not as much as others anyway. That'll be quite evident soonish.
On the subject of Sam Vimes...I'm with ewuvi on this one. Harry's got a lot of dark emotions bubbling just below the surface, but he's just not that kind of brutal sadist. In many ways, I think NOFP Harry is like Sam Vimes from the Discworld 'City Watch' novels; in that he has his own 'inner policeman', the part of him that watches the other parts of him constantly because it doesn't trust them. The part of him that constantly questioned whether he was just manipulating his friends before they found out his secret. The part of him that made him swallow his annoyance and accept that Molly and Arthur were right to expect him to let Bill in on the secret.
Harry's kinda the same when it comes to sheer willpower."Tell me, Drummknott, are you a betting man at all?"
"I have been known to have the occasional 'little flutter,' sir."
"Given, then, a contest between an invisible and very powerful quasi-demonic thing of pure vengeance on the one hand, and the commander on the other, where would you wager, say... one dollar?"
"I wouldn't, sir. That looks like one that would go to the judges."
"Yes," said Vetinari, staring thoughtfully at the closed door. "Yes, indeed."
Yeah, I'm going to go with ewuvi here too. Harry is strong, not a sadistic madman, and that would freak people out beyond belief (how do you think Dumbledore would react to that?).Perhaps sealing the killer up, alive, aware, and frozen in time, in crystal just after casting something like a high powered blood-boiling curse, to stand as an example of what will happen to those who follow Voldemort's ideoligies?
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