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Chapter 7: Unintended Consequences (Part 1)
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Chapter 7: Unintended Consequences
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August 8, 1980
Albus Dumbledore projected an air of immortality. Sure he'd been killed in the original timeline, but no one had expected it to happen. People expected the old man to live to be six hundred without the benefit of a Philosopher's Stone.
ZeldaQueen. Um, yeah. Wizards live to be freaking old
In this timeline, he seemed not only immortal but also impervious to all the demands that he be sacked from Hogwarts. He'd lost every other position he'd held in the British government, but he couldn't be dislodged from the ancient castle.
ZeldaQueen: And of course Angsty Harry can't have that. Nope, there must not be a single piece of the poor guy's life that isn't trampled or kicked away
"I wonder if he's got blackmail material on the Board of Governors or something…"
ZeldaQueen: Can't be that he just, you know, is a good headmaster or anything
Harry was doing something incredibly stupid. He was tired of waiting for Dumbledore's natural fall from grace. He'd decided to help it along.
ZeldaQueen: Oh, that's just wonderful! He damned Dumbledore in the original timeline and has devoted most of his stay in this timeline to needlessly ruining the guy's life. Seriously, leave him alone, dammit!!!
He had spent the last week, off and on, searching the Forbidden Forest for something he knew had to be there. There was no way a basilisk could grow to 22 meters in length if it didn't regularly feed. The acromantulas had all feared the massive beast, even though they refused to speak its name.
ZeldaQueen: He isn't. He wouldn't. The author can't possibly be setting up for what I think he'll be doing...
The conclusion: There was an entrance to the Chamber of Secrets somewhere in the Forest.
ZeldaQueen: Fuck me, it looks like he is. C'mon author, please tell me you aren't going to be forcing Harry to sink to this particular low. Please!
Harry had narrowed down the places where it couldn't be. The only major areas were near where the acromantulas nested and where a pack of pygmy cerberi were reputed to roam.
ZeldaQueen: I have no idea what those "pygmy cerberi" things are supposed to be. Near as I can tell, DW made them up. Why he'd make up something when it's only mentioned in passing and there are already a ton of magical animals canonically roaming the Forbidden Forest is beyond me, but whatever
Of course the entrance wound up being very near to the acromantulas. Harry had to kill quite a number of them before he was able to have a moment to ponder the strange entrance.
ZeldaQueen: You know, I'm actually feeling sorry for the giant, murderous spiders here. See how horrible your character is, DW?
He tried hissing at the rune-inscribed "tree." That did nothing. He looked around the entire thing and tried to decipher some of the runes. Then he conjured a snake and tried speaking to it.
"Open up."
Bang. A massive noise echoed through the Forest. The "tree" trunk opened revealing a deep, curved tunnel swirling into the ground.
ZeldaQueen: Um, that shouldn't work
Harry vanished the conjured snake and followed the path. The tree sealed itself up and Harry used a simple Lumos to light his way.
It took nearly an hour to move through the filthy tunnel before he arrived in a large room. Harry popped into the Chamber of Secrets from behind one of the statues in the massive room. He'd been so preoccupied with his original battle that he'd, foolishly, never come back to investigate the place.
ZeldaQueen: The guy was twelve years old and fought a ginormous, murderous snake! Would you want to go back into a place after all that happened, DW? Methinks not!
Harry had had the curiosity beaten out of him at a young age. It was another reason to hate Dumbledore.
ZeldaQueen: BULLSHIT!
Yes, Harry had the curiosity "beaten out of him". That's why he went around investigating the Sorceror's Stone even though everyone told him it was fine and to leave it alone. That was why he searched for the Chamber of Secrets, even though everyone told him it wasn't real. That was why he went poking around for info on Sirius Black, even though everyone told him that there was a crazed murderer after him, would he be so kind as to stop putting himself in harm's way. That was why he stuck around the graveyard instead of just grabbing the frigging trophy and teleporting back as soon as he saw something was up. That was why he let his dreams of the mysterious corridor continue so he could see what was at the end, even though everyone told him the dreams were dangerous and he had to stop for his own safety. That was why he kept trying to break into the Room of Requirement and catch Malfoy and find out whatever plans were being hatched, as well as kept wondering where Dumbledore was going. That was why he spent most of the Horcrux search obsessing over the Deathly Hallows and trying to break open the Snitch.
In short author, either you are the most short-sighted fuckwad who has no clue whatsoever about the character of Harry Potter or you are deliberately rewriting canon to suit your own needs, despite the fact that you stated that this story is meant to be an extension of canon! Either way, epic fucking fail!!!
Harry opened the main entrance to the chamber and prepared his efforts. He hoped the end results weren't too devastating…. But he didn't really care one way or the other. The only people in the building right now were Filch, Dumbledore, and a few of his rather unhappy 'guests.'
ZeldaQueen: Guests, what? Huh? Is he implying that Dumbledore is holding people hostage or something?
Harry wasn't doing this 'for the greater good.' There was no such justification. He was doing this to ensure that Albus Dumbledore never, ever got involved in the newborn Harry Potter's life.
ZeldaQueen: For God's sake why? Dumbledore bent over backwards to shelter Harry! He even said so at the end of the fifth book! And without Voldemort, there is honestly no reason whatsoever why Dumbledore and Harry would be any closer than teacher and student
Pettigrew was handled.
Dumbledore was next.
Snape had left the country – but was fair game if he ever returned.
ZeldaQueen: Try it. I guarantee you'd have five million rabid fangirls after your out-of-character ass
Trelawney was the only other member of the Deadly Quartet…and Harry was monitoring her.
ZeldaQueen: *sputters* Deadly Quartet??? She didn't even know she made the prediction! Dumbledore and Snape were trying to stop Voldemort while keeping Harry alive! And they accomplished both of those goals and died in the process! The hell?
Today's action would be simple and indisputable and merciless.
Harry walked back into the Chamber of Secrets. He stopped just in front of the revolting statue of Salazar Slytherin. "Speak to me, Greatest of the Hogwarts Four."
Pensieves were handy things. Harry was grateful to have owned one in the old timeline – which aided him in preparing for this moment.
ZeldaQueen: I don't understand that. Does anyone else? Is he implying that Harry actually stored his memory of fighting the Basalisk and reviewed it so he could remember how to summon the damned thing?
The massive basilisk took only moments to push her way into the room. Harry, of course, had his eyes closed. "Come with me. You have work to do."
ZeldaQueen: I don't believe it. I won't believe it. Author, you are not.
On a side note, Harry can't talk to snakes anymore! Rowling confirmed that after Voldemort's soul was taken from him, he lost that ability!
"You are not the master."
ZeldaQueen: No, he's even worse than the master. I'd beware of him, if I were you
"I am your new master. I killed the old one."
ZeldaQueen: I love how casually he states that. Well actually I don't, but you know what I mean
The snake was quiet. "What am I to do?"
"Follow behind me. I am setting you loose in the school. Attack with your teeth and head. Do not kill with your eyes."
ZeldaQueen: . . .
DW YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE ARE YOU COMPLETELY STUPID? ARE YOU THAT DETERMINED TO IGNORE CANON JUST BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT AN ANGSTY ENDING WAS BETTER? IN WHAT UNIVERSE DO YOU THINK HARRY POTTER - THE GUY WHO WOULDN'T EVEN PERFORM AVADA KADAVRA ON FUCKING VOLDEMORT - WOULD LET LOOSE A BASILISK ON AN UNSUSPECTING HOGWARTS??? AND NO, DON'T TELL ME "IT'S ONLY DUMBLEDORE AND FILCH AND A FEW OTHERS", HARRY WOULDN'T HURT ANYONE! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT HE WANTS THE BASILISK TO ONLY ATTACK WITH THE TEETH - OH YEAH, TAKE AWAY THE TURN-TO-STONE LOOPHOLE! AND FOR WHAT? TO GET RID OF DUMBLEDORE? HE'S GOING TO PUT PEOPLE'S LIVES AT RISK AND ALMOST CERTAINLY KILL SOMEONE JUST TO SPITE A PERSON HE DISLIKES???
AUTHOR, YOU ARE SUCKING AT MAKING ME CHEER ON HARRY RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE'S ACCUSED THE MINISTRY OF? KIDNAPPING AND KILLING AND CONSPIRACY AND UNDERHANDED TECHNIQUES? HE'S DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING!!!! AND NO ONE IS CALLING HIM OUT ON IT! I HATE YOU AND GOOD DAY!
*pants furiously*
"It is my strongest weapon."
"It does not serve my purpose."
ZeldaQueen: (Angsty Harry) "To kill and maim and destroy as much as possible"
The snake was silent. Harry assumed it meant the snake would do as told. To be honest, he didn't care what the snake got up to. Just so long as the whole thing was devastating.
ZeldaQueen: Jesus H. Christ, this is just horrible! He doesn't even feel bad that he'll probably be causing the deaths of people! Not a single thought towards the innocent people he'll potentially be murdering! How is he any better than the folks he was railing against before? How???
Harry led the basilisk from the Chamber through the series of caverns that led to the entrance into Hogwarts. Harry drew his wand and sent five powerful bludgeoning curses at some of the old masonry. It was enough to weaken a bit of the floor support, but the rest would have to be done by the basilisk.
"Break into the school. Destroy anything you can."
"I'm not to survive?"
"Probably not."
"I understand. It was a long, damp life…"
"Thank you," Harry hissed. He felt a pang of remorse for the suicide mission he'd just condemned the basilisk to follow.
ZeldaQueen: BUT NONE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO'S DEATH HE'D BE CAUSING!
Seriously, just look at that! He feels more sorrow for for the probable death of a snake which nearly killed his best friend and several others than for the teachers and others who cared for him and stood by him and helped him out! And again, the snake's just peachy that it's being ordered out on a suicide mission. No "Thanks for putting your revenge priorities over my life, you bastard", nope just "Okay, I'm cool with dying for you, it's not like my life's worth living otherwise". I mean, I know it's a snake and all, but c'mon DW! If you're trying to play the angle that Harry's deluded, have someone confront him!
He heard the battered against the weakened stones that held the bathroom floor in place. He ran back to the Chamber entrance, went inside, and sealed it. After a thousand years the chamber would no longer be a secret… But they still wouldn't be able to get inside.
Harry retraced his steps after doing a bit of investigation inside the chamber. No hidden rooms – no valuable manuscripts – nothing, save for the basilisk, to consider the space a Chamber of Secrets.
History was funny that way.
The reputation the Chamber had acquired was far greater than its actuality.
ZeldaQueen: The Chamber's reputation was that it was a secret place with an incredibly dangerous monster inside of it which every so often would be released to terrorize the school. Is that not what it really was?
Oh no, Harry's just pissy that there weren't more cool and powerful artifacts for him to steal
Poor Dumbledore and the twelve members of the Board of Governors, who were now meeting in an angry session, wouldn't see the humor in that.
Harry did.
ZeldaQueen: Because he's a murderous little sociopath who is worse than Voldemort
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August 17, 1980
Justice, when it came, was swift in the wizarding world. The basilisk had died – and been the subject of three consecutive issues of the Daily Prophet. Dumbledore had been fired as Headmaster moments after the Board determined the entrance point of the beast.
ZeldaQueen: Funny how Dumbledore wasn't fired in the original timeline when the basilisk was discovered. It had attacked several students, was proven to have killed another, and nearly caused the death of two more
The fact he'd had to kill the thing – and get his mortal wounds healed by his phoenix – was immaterial to the livid Board. A basilisk had been within a few hundred feet of their children and grandchildren. Dumbledore had known or at least suspected…as had hundreds of years worth of Headmasters. But Dumbledore got the blame that day.
ZeldaQueen: I'm sorry, but that's just bull. Everyone apparently knew the legend of the Monster of Slytherin, including the regular teachers, but no one else was punished for "at least suspecting"? You know, my middle school had a legend about a murdered student who showed up and clawed your face if you said her name three times. If it turned out the ghost was real and the principle "suspected" she was but hadn't found solid evidence or proof of her existence prior, would that really be grounds to fire him? I mean, even if you argued that Dumbledore was lying when he said he couldn't find the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, Professor Binns said that there were a lot of other people who've searched for it and failed to find it and that there was no proof for it.
Canon? What's that?
The Board had looked at the rest of the candidates and passed over Slughorn, McGonagall, and Hector Wintergreen, the Runes instructor. Professor Drebmier taught Herbology and was one hundred nine years old – and looked older. She never had a shot. The consensus candidate became Filius Flitwick, Charms Professor and former Dueling Champion.
ZeldaQueen: What is this author's obsession with Flitwick? He was also at the funeral, even though he and Harry had never been particularly close. Anyway, why would the Board have any say in who took over as headmaster? Whoever was Deputy headmaster or headmistress automatically takes over. McGonagall ought to be in charge!
He would be the first 'half breed' ever made Headmaster of Hogwarts. Very few people complained. Most of the ones likely to do so were in Azkaban.
ZeldaQueen: Oh, I see. This is just another way to glorify the psychotic actions of Harry. See! Not only did he prove Dumbledore wasn't fit to be headmaster, but he got the first half-human headmaster! Woot! And it only cost endangering innocent people!
Incidentally, Rowling never said that Flitwick was a "half breed", she said he had a "dash" of Goblin ancestry
Harry closed up the newest edition of the Prophet – which discussed in detail a number of bizarre, probably true allegations about Dumbledore's years as a Transfiguration professor – and wondered what sort of shenanigans a free-in-the-wind Dumbledore might get up to.
He wondered if he needed to start tracking the old man like he did with Trelawney…
ZeldaQueen: Good lord, leave the man alone!
Suddenly he was up out of his chair. He hadn't checked on the recordings made by Trelawney's necklace in a few days. He moved quickly through the rooms of the White Estate until he had his hands on the recording crystals.
ZeldaQueen: Is that some sort of euphemism? Maybe that's why this version of Harry's so crazy. He just needs some steamy action
A quick tap of his wand and he was listening. The knot in Harry's stomach began to dissipate…until disaster struck.
The old fraud had just summoned a house elf and was half way through asking for a cheap bottle of goblin wine when she began choking and sputtering.
ZeldaQueen: Why does he keep calling her a "fraud" when he knows for certain that she's correctly made two prophecies and is in the midst of giving a third?
The voice that came out of her mouth afterward was one Harry knew well: the voice of Fate.
"The Master of Time and Death unhinged the world a bit.
ZeldaQueen: (Trelawny) "And he himself is very unhinged"
He lifted the yoke of Fate from one so young and placed
The bit into his own unyielding mouth. For good or ill?
ZeldaQueen: For good I'm sure, since the author seems determined to force it that way
One line of time has ended; the Dark Lord was vanquished.
Countless time lines unravel and unveil their dark borders.
Was the Dark Lord the worst possible Fate a world could
Have endured? Terror, pain, fear, and blood approach.
Let the Master know. His battles are not ended; his young
Charge is not yet made safe from the cruel whims of Time."
Harry listened to the demonic voice a dozen times before he was sure of every word. The meaning was all too clear.
ZeldaQueen: "Demonic"? DW, could you please try for a bit more subtly?
And the point of prophecies in the books was that they weren't clear
Harry the baby wasn't safe exactly, but the new prophesy didn't condemn an infant to carry the fate of a nation.
ZeldaQueen: And that there was a crazed nutter from the future running around, screwing things up willy-nilly. Don't forget that part
Harry the elder still had work to do – "terror, pain, fear, and blood." It sounded like someone was playing from Voldemort's rulebook.
ZeldaQueen: Himself, in other words
He speculated on who: all the known Death Eaters from the original timeline were dead or imprisoned. A few dozen new ones had been unmasked, but there were no guarantees the Aurors had caught them all.
Was it a Death Eater building a new power base?
Was it a Dark Lord come from abroad to conquer Britain?
ZeldaQueen: No, it was…………………………………………………….Dumbledore! What are you doing, you motherfuckers?
What about those Death Eaters talking about Voldemort's wife and child. Was that connected somehow? Would this woman rise up in her husband's place?
ZeldaQueen: No, because she wouldn't exist!
And I'd bet my liver that there'd be at least one Death Eater who'd want to kill her and force her into hiding forever. Hell, Bellatrix Lestrange (who has been mysteriously absent thus far I've noticed) would probably murder her in a heartbeat, purely out of jealousy
Was it a threat no one suspected…a more competent sort of Fudge climbing the ladder inside the Ministry or a mad Potions Master about become Mr. Hyde?
ZeldaQueen: Or a canon hero being warped horribly by a fanfiction author?
Harry had, according to the prophecy, brought the mess to pass. He felt obligated to see it through to rights. He thought now of a lesson he'd learned when that woman's accountant uncle, a squib more or less expelled from the Weasleys, had contracted cancer.
ZeldaQueen: I'm sorry, what? Did Harry just imply that the Weasleys disowned a non-magic relative?
Yes, because it's not like Mr. Weasley loves any connection to the Muggle world and it's certainly not like the Weasleys value family over everything else.
FUCK YOU DW, LEAVE THE WEASLEYS ALONE!!! JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ALSO PUREBLOOD DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO LUMP THEM WITH PEOPLE LIKE THE MALFOYS!
Harry had cured the cancer in his lung. But then the man had still died four months later of a completely different cancer in his kidney. What had the Muggle doctor explained to Arthur? 'Cancers get big and effectively stunt or kill off all the other cancers in a body. When we get rid of the main cancer sometimes the other ones can begin to grow again. Sometimes they grow with a vengeance.'
ZeldaQueen: Wait, I'm confused. So the Weasleys kept in contact with a squib who they disowned? Or Harry was introduced to this disowned relative somehow and was kind enough to cure his cancer, but not enough to leave in disgust over the disowning thing? (Which canonically is what he'd have done) And why would a Muggle doctor see Mr. Weasley if the family disowned the squib? I thought it was implied that most Muggles didn't even know where the Weasleys live. I...this doesn't make sense
Voldemort had been a massive cancer. Had he been restraining this new threat? And his death enabled it to be free? It seemed possible. It was unfortunate.
ZeldaQueen: "Unfortunate". Yes, that's the word I'd use to describe a new, even worse Dark wizard than Voldemort on the rise
But what to do?
Waiting was not Harry Potter's strength.
ZeldaQueen: That, at least, is closer to canon
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August 27, 1980
He'd agonized about this decision for days before he committed himself. Harry Potter was personally going to break into the Department of Mysteries for a second time in his life.
He wasn't supposed to be in this time…and now there was an official prophesy logged in the Department of Mysteries about him. Talk about being subtle.
ZeldaQueen: What did that all have to do with each other?
And this version of Harry wouldn't know "subtle" if it whacked him on the head with a frying pan
He couldn't decide if it was vague enough not to be noticed…or ominous enough to be the talk of the Department.
ZeldaQueen: Yes, because I'm sure it's not like there are other vaguely creepy prophecies
Judging by the way he'd been scared at hearing the horrifying words, Harry leaned toward the prophecy being the talk of the department. He didn't really believe that Unspeakables didn't have a method for learning about the contents of prophecies – someone had to initially record them, after all. Were they obliviated of the knowledge once the spheres were made?
ZeldaQueen: Bah, Angsty Harry was only "scared" because it looked like he wouldn't be getting his past self a perfect little world
Or perhaps not… After all someone had amended the prophecy between "Voldemort ?" to "Voldemort + Harry Potter." Someone knew the events of that prophecy well enough to modify the tag on it after Halloween 1981 of the original timeline.
Harry had to go in… Or could he use his Imperius trick again? Hell, all his plans were changing moment to moment. He really did not want to go into the Department of Mysteries ever again.
ZeldaQueen: Again, that last bit sounds vaguely canon. After Sirius dying in there after his blatant stupidity, I can believe that Harry would never want to go in again
Harry changed his mind…again.
Instead of using the hairs he'd plucked from one Neil Bullrush, an Unspeakable in the Hall of Prophecies, Harry decided to use Neil Bullrush.
ZeldaQueen: Like always. Seriously, all he's ever done for this entire fic is use people! Even his own freaking relatives!
The man didn't need to touch the prophecy. He needed only to knock it off the shelf…accidentally.
ZeldaQueen: If it were that easy to get it off, do you think Voldemort would have gone to the trouble of mind screwing Harry?
Harry apparated to where he knew Mr. Bullrush used the Floo to enter the Ministry. As an Unspeakable the aging wizard refused to have a Floo connection in his own house – a security risk.
Harry waited for nearly thirty minutes before the short, gray wizard appeared. Harry waited a moment to ensure the area in front of the Green Goblin pub outside Ottery St. Catchpole was clear. He stunned the Unspeakable and then apparated away with him.
ZeldaQueen: *dully* More kidnapping. Hooray
Neil Bullrush would be a couple minutes later than usual to work this morning. He'd also be extremely klutzy.
ZeldaQueen: Somehow, I doubt Harry would use a word like "klutzy"
The man was bound quickly with ropes once Harry got him to a clear open field in Hertfordshire. No one would be looking for a wizard here. Harry pocketed the man's wand and did a search for portkeys or other magical artifacts. He had nothing, a rather lax approach to personal security.
ZeldaQueen: Again, he's able to more or less overpower someone easily, someone who ought to at least give him a decent struggle. What the heck?
Harry woke the wizard up. Then he cast the Imperius Curse before Neil Bullrush had any clear idea what was going on.
"You will answer my questions."
"Yes," came the hollow voice.
"You work in the Hall of Prophesies?"
"Yes, most days."
"Did you register a new prophecy about a week ago, referencing the 'Dark Lord'?"
"Merlin, yes. It was awful."
ZeldaQueen: Yeah, I really think the author's standards are off on what constitutes "awful" in the Harry Potter world
"You know the contents?"
"All the staff heard it. To think Trelawney of all people…"
ZeldaQueen: She already gave a prophecy! Why is everyone ignoring this???
Harry stopped the man. The whole situation was worse than he'd expected, worse than he'd feared.
"Does anyone outside the Department of Mysteries know?"
"No. No outsiders have been inside the Department in months…"
ZeldaQueen: That's because it's, you know, forbidden!
"How many Unspeakables are there?"
"Full time?"
"How many Unspeakable have heard about the prophecy?"
"Forty or fifty, I'd guess."
ZeldaQueen: Wow, with so many people wandering around, it's a wonder they keep stuff so secretive
"Can any of them talk about it?"
"Not voluntarily. Not about anything they hear in their work…"
Harry's mind flew over his options…all the possibilities. He could destroy the sphere, but everyone already knew it. (Just like all the Unspeakables likely knew of the prophecy concerning Harry and Voldemort…the bastards.)
ZeldaQueen: Why is he angry at them for this? Why? He already knows that the Unspeakables are forbidden from telling people anything about their job! Ron told him this, Mr. Weasley told him this, that guy he kidnapped told him it not two sentences ago!!! Even if they all knew of that prophecy, they couldn't tell anyone! I might add that it wouldn't matter if they did tell someone, because prophecies don't have to come true! Why do you keep ignoring that???
Would it be worthwhile to have it destroyed? If it was the only copy, then yes. But the words were also inside forty or fifty people. People who might wear trinkets to prevent Memory Charms…people who would be missed if they had accidents.
ZeldaQueen: Oh my head...so he'd honestly consider kidnapping or murdering forty or fifty people, just to keep word of this new prophecy from getting out. A prophecy which he only suspects relates to him. I might add that this prophecy is also, as of now, the only hint there is that a new Dark Lord might be on the rise, so destroying it is also destroying the first warnings to the world.
And if he succeeds, I bet Harry will have the gall to blame the world for not noticing this new Dark Lord rising to power
"Is there a ledger where all the prophecies get recorded?"
"Yes."
"I want you to remove the tag from the new prophecy, but do not touch the sphere. Leave it in place. Remove the tags from another hundred spheres…destroy those tags, too. Modify or destroy the places in the records where the Trelawney prophecy appears. Can you do that?"
"Yes."
ZeldaQueen: And no one else will notice and stop him? I kind of think that stuff in the Department of Mysteries would be a little more heavily guarded
"Make it look accidental if possible. Don't get caught."
The dull-eyed wizard nodded. Harry released him and finally said, "At seven thirty this evening, you will develop a high fever. It will last for three days. Check yourself into St. Mungo's tomorrow morning, as early as you can go. As soon as you walk into the door, your will shall return to you, but you will lose the last two weeks worth of memories…"
ZeldaQueen: How can a person give himself a high fever? Imperius doesn't work like that!
The wizard apparated away. He wasn't even struggling against the mental bond Harry had temporarily created with him. What was with all the weak wizards who worked for the Department of Mysteries? Were they the best the Ministry could find…
ZeldaQueen: Yes, but only because the author made them that way. It's the only way he can get Harry to overpower everyone in his path and belittle them at the same time
He apparated back to the White Estate and hoped he'd made the right decision.
ZeldaQueen: In this fic, probably. See my rant above as to why, in real life, it ought to chew your ass off later
Destroying the prophecy could attract attention. Arranging for the prophecy to be lost among tens of thousands of other spheres wouldn't be as dramatic…and the dulling effects of time would do the rest.
ZeldaQueen: So he's not worried about ruining a warning for whatever the prophecy was foretelling, just that he'd get caught. Why am I not surprised?
Eventually people would forget. Harry hoped it was enough.
ZeldaQueen: I'm sure that'll come as a comfort to the people who will potentially die because you destroyed a warning for something bad and dangerous showing up, just to ensure your own happiness. Selfish bastard
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Date: 2010-06-15 07:13 am (UTC)The Master of Time and Death is Harry, obviously. He's freed young Harry from his destiny of killing Voldemort, but has in the process opened up thousands of new possibilities that old Harry tries to counter.
We have already seen that this Harry easily has the potential to be a Dark Wizard (I still can't get over how wrong using the Basilisk is) and, over time as he gets cockier (more so than he already is), Harry becomes the new Dark Lord without even realising it.
His manipulation of you Harry's life causes adverse effects, so the 'cruel whims of Time' part means that young Harry will still have the fate of battling and killing a Dark Lord; old Harry.
And then young Harry will come back as the spanish bloke and a new(er) timeline will be created ad infinatum.
Is this fic not finished then? Because I do sort of want to see how much more DW can suck. Update soon!
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Date: 2010-06-15 02:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-15 07:44 am (UTC)As it is, I want to burn him. He purposefully let a dangerous creature out and put hundreds of students and teachers in harm's way just because he hates Dumbledore.
Fuck it, I'm not waiting till the end of thbis FAIL.
*storms the fic and starts hacking DW!Harry*
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Date: 2010-06-16 01:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-15 09:52 pm (UTC)I will, however, add one little fact: Harry told the basilisk to attack with its head... and it's teeth. Which are venomous.
Fatally so. More than fatally so; not only was Harry going to die from the poison during his fight with the baslisk and was only just saved by Fawke's tears, it's also one of the only objects they had that was capable of destroying a horcrux. Ron and Hermione ran off to gather its teeth for the express purpose of using them (and the venom) to destroy horcuxes. The Sword of Gryffindor was only capable of destroying the locket because it was infused with basilisk venom.
So Harry basically told the basilisk not to kill with its eyes, which would have been pretty quick and painless for anybody it might have gotten, but was totally okay with the agonizing, blood-boiling death by basilisk venom.
WHAT.
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Date: 2010-06-15 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-02 04:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-02 01:01 am (UTC)1) While a normal snake would need to eat a lot to maintain that size, the basilisk is not normal. It's born from a chicken's egg hatched by a toad. The crowing of a rooster will kill it. The books make it quite clear that it can (and has) lie dormant for centuries. But, no, that defies an explanation that can be used to make Dumbledore look bad!
2) If a giant snake was periodically hunting in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid would know about it.
3) If the entrance is a rune-carved tree, how is it that nobody's ever found it?
4) Of course the entrance wound up being very near to the acromantulas.
Because if I was so instinctively terrified of a creature that I wasn't even willing to speak its name, I'd build my lair on the entrance to its hunting grounds. Did Disobedience even read the books?
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Date: 2011-11-02 04:28 pm (UTC)5) We've heard the basilisk speak. It's not some passive creature, waiting for orders. It is violent and blood thirsty. "Let me kill. Let me shred." This brings us to...
6) If the basilisk could get out of the Chamber of Secrets, it would have left a long time ago. Even this passive mockery of a monster laments it's long, damp life, so why the hell does it keep coming back?
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Date: 2012-01-29 10:57 pm (UTC)Aside from the fact that Harry no longer has Parseltongue, like you said, isn't the Basilisk only suppose to obey the Heir of Slytherin. Then again, with the way ANGSTYEntitilment!Whorry is acting...
I feel a spite fic coming on.
This makes no sense
Date: 2013-03-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-16 01:58 am (UTC)On the same note, the Diricawl is also canonical, though spoken of rather dismissively by this idiot author.
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Date: 2013-09-30 01:15 am (UTC)