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Post by housecarder on Jul 18, 2017 22:30:13 GMT -6
I forgot how much I love Dorea. She's why I love Mia in the end, putting Umbridge and Rita in their place.
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Post by mischief on Jul 19, 2017 15:23:39 GMT -6
Dorea is amazing, I didnt even know how much I could love a Slytherin until her.
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Post by housecarder on Jul 23, 2017 23:17:03 GMT -6
Ok so I just finished the part that is from Remus and Siris' POV of Prisoner of Azkaban. There are multiple instances of Moony biting Padfoot in that chapter while fully transformed. Did I miss where he couldn't turn an Animagus or is this just a flaw in the story line?
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Post by mischief on Jul 23, 2017 23:54:31 GMT -6
I googled before and the consensus seemed to be that the animagus isnt able to be turned. There is a line that says a werewolf is only a danger to people. Which could either mean its not interested in biting animals or they are immune to it if they do get bit or both.
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Post by housecarder on Aug 12, 2017 21:32:04 GMT -6
I googled before and the consensus seemed to be that the animagus isnt able to be turned. There is a line that says a werewolf is only a danger to people. Which could either mean its not interested in biting animals or they are immune to it if they do get bit or both. The new version clarifies this: "Sirius was proudly wearing a new scar across his arm from where Greyback had clawed him. Fortunately, he had been in Animagus form at the time, so there was no chance of Sirius getting infected." |
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Post by mischief on Aug 18, 2017 0:36:07 GMT -6
How far are you?? Has a lot changed? I'm considering reading again,we just had a Harry Potter marathon yesterday with the kids and I kept telling my sister about what happened in the DoT and how it was better lol.
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Post by mischief on Aug 22, 2017 13:49:59 GMT -6
I started and finished book one last night. I stayed up all night again, it's like an addiction. Ic really just little her version so much more, no-one I love dies and it just plays out better. And the Draco redemption is my favorite.
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Post by mischief on Aug 23, 2017 15:58:08 GMT -6
katietopaz did you ever finish? What did you think??
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Post by katietopaz on Aug 28, 2017 23:20:59 GMT -6
katietopaz did you ever finish? What did you think?? I don't know how I missed your tag, but I was checking in and opened this and saw it. Oops! I did finish it. I had some mixed feelings... I really, really loved Book 3 and how she weaved the narrative through with Hermione, Sirius, and Remus. I feel really bad to say that I didn't love Book 4. I fully acknowledge that I'm the broken one here, but Mary Sues are a big pet peeve of mine to the point of being a huge distraction when I'm reading, and it felt like Mia went so far in that direction in Book 4. Overall though, I really did enjoy it. I liked the tweaks that the author made to the main storyline and especially how she tied up some of the loose ends in the future HP world that we didn't get to see. There are a lot of parts I consider to be headcanon now, ha. I'll probably reread it at some point soon, but I'm on an Avengers fic kick right now and I keep managing to find super long ones. |
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Post by mischief on Aug 29, 2017 16:47:14 GMT -6
I feel she just knew everything that was going to happen, as smart as she is in the series I imagine she spent a lot of time preparing for the future. But I do understand how she could be looked at that way. I didnt think she was perfect though she still had her flaws. I actually liked it better the second time around, the first time I was kind of annoyed. But it was nice to see all those shitty people get their comeuppance.
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Post by mischief on Sept 19, 2017 4:21:09 GMT -6
I found this chick on Tumblr and I have been going deep. I hope she doesnt mind all the belated love.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 19, 2017 20:39:47 GMT -6
I just started this. Like I know I have to go to bed...because DD is going to be up in a few hours...but it's really important that I keep reading this...  |
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Post by mischief on Sept 19, 2017 23:33:45 GMT -6
I just started this. Like I know I have to go to bed...because DD is going to be up in a few hours...but it's really important that I keep reading this... Say good bye to your life for a bit! Feel free to drop all your feelings here please! |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 20, 2017 8:55:08 GMT -6
I'm very much not a hermione/Sirius shipper but.....wow. I'm on chapter 12, and impatiently awaiting my AO3 invite coming tomorrow so I can favorite this and follow the author.
I'm beyond impressed with the writing.
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Post by mischief on Sept 20, 2017 17:35:25 GMT -6
I'm very much not a hermione/Sirius shipper but.....wow. I'm on chapter 12, and impatiently awaiting my AO3 invite coming tomorrow so I can favorite this and follow the author. I'm beyond impressed with the writing. Ive read a few of her other stories, they are fantastic. I love how she writes Draco too. |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 21, 2017 10:41:36 GMT -6
Coming up for air. I can't believe this fic. Like tying all this shit together?? I just got done with the pack bond scene. Incredible writing.
I will say...Mia is getting dangerously close to Mary Sue territory for me. Hermione had flaws, and I feel like those flaws just...don't apply here.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 21, 2017 10:43:36 GMT -6
And I'm trying really hard to ignore my kids so I can read but those assholes just won't let me.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 22, 2017 8:47:48 GMT -6
Coming up for air. Loooooved the pensieve scene.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 22, 2017 19:41:30 GMT -6
Ok. Real chills at the scene where Mia fucking LAYS INTO Peter pettigrew. Best.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 23, 2017 8:23:22 GMT -6
Ok I finished at like midnight last night. I haven't read most of this thread to avoid spoilers so sorry if any of this has been said.
That was 100% the BEST fic I have ever read, in any fandom ever.
Remus was never really my favorite character but I "understand" his angst now. His actions about Tonks's pregnancy in the books basically cemented my distaste but honestly I give the character more grace now that I read someone else's interpretation about how he worried and beat himself up and had anxiety over the thought of passing on lycanthropy.
Related, I thought she did a great job of paralleling lycanthropy with the public hysteria and misinformation about AIDS. I always thought that, since the books were written at the same time as AIDS received more attention worldwide, lycanthropy was sort of the wizard's parallel and this author captured that perfectly, whether intentional or not. Right down to the "you can't pass it by touching the person" and the hysteria at St Mungo's (a werewolf?? He'll infect the whole floor!!).
Excellent job describing the political climate at the time, and I liked seeing the older wizards portrayed in their young adulthood a la Shacklebolt and the Weasleys.
The different types of bonds were very clever. Provoked, unsealed/sealed, and how the house elves could see them. I liked that she added another layer of getting into Blood Magic. I thought it positively added to the potterverse.
With all that said, Mia ended up in Mary Sue territory. I also realize that having a character from the future who knows everything and also having been de-aged and would know advanced spells presents its own writing obstacles. And she was basically the focus of the marauders, the whole "our job to protect her" and having both Sirius and Remus fall in love with her. That's where I thought this fic fell a bit short, that and like zero of Hermione's flaws came into play except when she hallucinated herself. That scene made me bristle though, because Hermione is the most steadfast character in the whole series, so why was Mia, already having lived through Hogwarts and the stresses of war and torture, so easily changed? I think that the author wrote herself a little loophole to rebrand Hermione with the "live your life and enjoy your life" bit from Remus and that irritated me. I will own that Hermione is my favorite character in the series, though, and I dislike any deviation from her canon.
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Post by pianolove on Sept 23, 2017 8:34:54 GMT -6
Hmm. Well I just went back to read this thread and it looks like the version on AO3 stops at chapter 94. When I googled debt of time AO3 came up instead of ff.net. Please to hold while I go actually finish it!
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Post by mischief on Sept 24, 2017 1:18:28 GMT -6
I think it makes an interesting case with the way she changes Hermione. OG Hermione is faced with all of these circumstances involving Voldy and being Harrys BFF and Harry having this huge mantle on his shoulders that she also takes on from the moment Harry and Ron and her become friends. She has already been the best she can be and been this point of strength as long as she has been a witch.
Then she is thrust back and given a second chance to be a kid and growing up knowing everything she knows but the environment is so different. She knows what she is capable of and everything her OG self has gone through, I think that the live your life enjoy your life thing actually plays really well here, IME if I could be given another chance like that I like to think I would be able to try and embrace it when faced with no other option. She is able to enjoy being a witch and not having to look after Harry and Ron constantly. Being content to let Lily have the spotlight as the brightest witch, and being influenced by the friends she has at the time.
Dorea has also had a huge influence on her (who lets be honest is the best character of them all) She knows war is coming and while she wants to change things she knows she really cant and is instead the catalyst for so many things. So while she is in school what she can do is experience everything she missed out on and then during her endless hours at the ministry afterwards she can prepare for all of these things she knows are going to happen, who these people are going to grow up to be. Which if anyone had a chance to go back and give people their comeuppance it would be her.
I dont even know if any of that even makes any sense. But mostly it was just kind of the best shit that I want out of fic, for everything to line up perfectly and everyone to get at least a semi happily ever after. There are so many other stories out there that cover everything else I just embraced this as a complete self gratification.
Even though I will comcede that I was like "really?" a few times. This was still hands down one of the best fics I have ever read.
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Post by mischief on Sept 24, 2017 1:22:55 GMT -6
And if you only got to chapter 94 and thought she was MS just wait pianolove lol. She is going through and rewriting, improving, and updating the story, making it flow better ect as she moves it over to AO3. |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 24, 2017 8:58:15 GMT -6
And if you only got to chapter 94 and thought she was MS just wait pianolove lol. She is going through and rewriting, improving, and updating the story, making it flow better ect as she moves it over to AO3. that makes a ton of sense, I'm now reading the fanfiction version and I'm like what happened to her grammar??!! Lol. The 94 chapters I read on AO3 were literally spotless! So the first 94 chapters on ff.net are not the same as on AO3? |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 24, 2017 9:54:56 GMT -6
mischief I think my main issue with Mia was that Hermione's personality traits, such as being an insufferable know it all who loved rules, were her baseline. She was still Hermione, and was very much level headed through it all, except when dealing with Ron and Lavender (lolol-which I will concede that DoT Mia handled similarly with Sirius's admirers). I don't see her baseline changing so monumentally just because she was given the chance to relive her school years. She really didn't do anything that she didn't already do (fall in love with best friend, pre war, rise of Voldemort, war begins), except all the banging and drinking, and her proximity to Voldemort. Which maybe could be a discussion there: "does a person's proximity to Voldemort change their baseline personality/how far did his influence really reach?" That would be interesting. The reason I called her a MS boiled down, was because she became the perfect OC. Rebranding her as mischievous perfect Mia Potter the fifth Marauder essentially made her an OC MS in my eyes. Which is the author's prerogative and that's the story she wanted to tell, and is fine, but it is a pet peeve of mine when fanfiction authors make it a "thing" to change Hermione so drastically. Even when she closes all the loopholes and everything makes sense why she wrote it the way she did lol. And yeah, you are 100% right- this is THE best fic I've ever read. Not just in HP, it's the best written EVER.
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Post by mischief on Sept 24, 2017 15:59:00 GMT -6
And if you only got to chapter 94 and thought she was MS just wait pianolove lol. She is going through and rewriting, improving, and updating the story, making it flow better ect as she moves it over to AO3. that makes a ton of sense, I'm now reading the fanfiction version and I'm like what happened to her grammar??!! Lol. The 94 chapters I read on AO3 were literally spotless! So the first 94 chapters on ff.net are not the same as on AO3? As she updates the chapters she changes them on FF.net and uploads them on AO3 so they are the same up to chapter 94. |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 24, 2017 17:53:54 GMT -6
that makes a ton of sense, I'm now reading the fanfiction version and I'm like what happened to her grammar??!! Lol. The 94 chapters I read on AO3 were literally spotless! So the first 94 chapters on ff.net are not the same as on AO3? As she updates the chapters she changes them on FF.net and uploads them on AO3 so they are the same up to chapter 94. got it, thanks. I hope I didn't come across mad/argumentative before, I love talking fics and analyzing characters and all that boring stuff. I hope I did not offend you and if I did I'm sorry |
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Post by mischief on Sept 24, 2017 23:25:43 GMT -6
Oh hell no pianolove, not at all! I love it too, I am here to analyze and talk all fics all the time. I know I am probably in the minority in that I dont really mind Mary Sues. |
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Post by pianolove on Sept 25, 2017 19:25:25 GMT -6
Hermione is baaaaaaack!!
Damn you can literally feel Sirius's angst. The sands running out was so dramatic, I loved it. Loved her writing the letters back and forth. Very creative way to get around the inactivity of those characters in the book. Also a big Tonks fan.
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Post by housecarder on Sept 25, 2017 22:03:45 GMT -6
Hermione is baaaaaaack!! Damn you can literally feel Sirius's angst. The sands running out was so dramatic, I loved it. Loved her writing the letters back and forth. Very creative way to get around the inactivity of those characters in the book. Also a big Tonks fan. I love Tonks so much! DoT is canon to me because I can't stand loosing her and Remus. And I think that Hermione growing to who she is in this fic isn't so unfathomable. I was Hermione growing up, an insufferable know it all set on never breaking the rules. I had he burden of helping raise my siblings but once I finally got away at college I let loose more: tattoos, boyfriends, drinking because as I got older I realized I didn't need to prove how smart or right I was. I see the change in character as her finally being able to let go of those things too and have fun. She survived a war and that puts a lot of things in perspective. She still has flaws: she is still jealous and sees herself as never wrong which can be dangerous without Remus and Harry to temper her. Side note: I also never realized the original books never gave Hermione's parents first names. I started a few different fics recently and they were Charlotte and Jonathan and another her mother was Emily and I was like why did they change Helen and Richard's names? |
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