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Delete the stray quotation mark at the end of the sentence.A second-year student had reached the front of the line of dueling volunteers, and, upon ascending the platform, he brushed back his already perfectly-coiffed blond hair, raised his wand in the standard gesture of challenge, and called out, loud enough for the rest of the room to hear over the general din."
1)The different houses in hogwarts seem pretty isolated from one another socially(not as much in this story as in canon, but still), something that would limit the spread of gossip.Your thoughts??? Nothing that I know of moves faster than light, other than gossip.
Among the Hufflepuffs, the knife certainly had that sort of effect; though, the rumors about him punching out a troll and destroying a couple of castle walls were a tad more prevalent in the rest of the school.At one point in the story, just before Harry eats the Troll, you wrote:
""But you've not got any better chance of fighting a troll than we do," Hannah insisted. "The more people we have, the better…" she trailed off as Harry reached out grabbed a carving knife from a nearby platter — eight inches of tempered carbon-steel blade and a four-inch tang wrapped up in a well-seasoned oak handle — and proceeded to wad it up with one hand as easily as if it were made of tissue paper. Even when he squeezed down on the edge, the steel gave way before his skin so much as took a nick. When she examined it after he dropped the mess of twisted steel and splintered oak on the table, Hannah could even see the boy's fingerprints impressed into the metal."
One of the things that I wonder is how does this bit affect how Harry is perceived later on? I would have thought that maybe, just maybe, one of the students would have picked up that twisted bit of metal and taken it around
to show all the other students - and that quietly, a belief would begin to circulate that annoying Harry was a very, very, very, very bad idea and that by the time the "duel" between Harry and Draco happened, the rest of the students would have come to see that and would be taking side-bets as to how long Draco was going to live or how bad his wounds would be, once Harry finished with him.
Your thoughts??? Nothing that I know of moves faster than light, other than gossip.
Regards,
Edmond
Your thoughts??? Nothing that I know of moves faster than light, other than gossip.
Regards,
Edmond
Not native to the British Isles, or anywhere in Europe, I doubt many of the students would have heard of them...the Patil twins might have.Sept... ask any muggle or muggleborn what it means to be a honey badger lul
Not native to the British Isles, or anywhere in Europe, I doubt many of the students would have heard of them...the Patil twins might have.
Sure, and why Huffelpuffs have them as their animal, I was replying to the suggestion about Honey Badgers specifically.Regular badgers, which are sufficiently common in the British Isles that they get culled from time to time (they shouldn't be, but there's this superstition about them being an infection reservoir for Bovine Tuberculosis), are quite ferocious. Badger-baiting - setting a pack of dogs on a badger and betting on how long it lasts and how many dogs it'll take down before it dies - used to be quite the sport before it was banned.
Yes, and the fic's set in the early 1990 in Britain.Sure, and why Huffelpuffs have them as their animal, I was replying to the suggestion about Honey Badgers specifically.
Pretty much what I figured. As I said the only students I can think of a resonable explanation to have them come up with a reference to Honey badgers are the PatilsYes, and the fic's set in the early 1990 in Britain.
Ergo, and having been born in Britain two years before Harry's canon DOB I can assure you of this, honey badger references from an average muggleborn kid in that timeframe would be a flat-out anachronism. Hardly anyone had heard of the bloody things until that noxious 'honey badger don't give a shit' meme a few years ago, and if you had it was something you saw on a nature documentary once and didn't remember.
Welp, digital foot into pixelated mouth.Yes, and the fic's set in the early 1990 in Britain.
Ergo, and having been born in Britain two years before Harry's canon DOB I can assure you of this, honey badger references from an average muggleborn kid in that timeframe would be a flat-out anachronism. Hardly anyone had heard of the bloody things until that noxious 'honey badger don't give a shit' meme a few years ago, and if you had it was something you saw on a nature documentary once and didn't remember.
Another great chapter, cant wait for more. I would also like to see Luna added to harrys collection, that girls needs much affection ( I also wouldn't mind seeing fleur or gabriel added to that mix ).
On the subject of Luna:
Despite being an interesting take on the character, that version of Luna is actually one of the elements I left behind with the original. This version is much less tragic, less so even than the Luna in canon. In this version, she's a fairly well-adjusted little girl who idolizes her father in this take.
Also, Doghead, good to know you're still alive! Also, the seer!Luna has not really gone down in recent times, and it's up there with annoying tropes. Right along with Dumbledore ending every sentence with "My boy", and people who think Canon!Snape wasn't a hundred times worse than James Potter ever was and/or have him bang Harry. If it's a kink, all cool, but it's 50 shades level of abusive relationship. He's an interesting character, but then, so is Voldemort.