Thats a good point. So, you think he would be chosen first by the cup, causing people to wonder how he did it, only for his brother to also be chosen?

 

After the complete insanity of this thread over this topic I'm seriously almost hoping that he pulls that, just for the lulz.

 

I imagine it went something more like, APWBD"You have no honor, like a woman." GG"Show me your honor, my honor demands ot. No your other honor." APWBD"BLOOD AND THUNDER" GG"VICTORY AT SEA."

Unfortunately Dumbledore had a better recovery time.

(This is an in joke I hope at least 1 person will get, if need be I will explain it. Not sure if I'm allowed to post NSFW/Technically Gay Porn outside of SnP)

 

He is practical, he does not believe showing up is worth both the problem and the risk, as he has said many times before to his brother. That said, the rest of his school (including most professors) will put him at least internally as the best candidate for Champion, especially because he will already in the last years of some of his courses. In this context Karkaroff would not be happy with an age line and would try to get Harry as a champion just to show to England in general and Dumbledore in particular, the kind of talent they lost to Durmstrang.

Plus on that matter who could Voldemort choose for his little game, if he gets only Harry then the problems that made him leave Howarts will grow and that will alienate him even more from the forces of good inside England. If his brother is the one who becomes a Champion then he will be faced with the divided loyalties between Krum his best male friend, and his twin who got a life or death chalenge ahead of him, again. I can bet you that Ron is just going to alienate him if he tries to offer help in the begining.

Or both could get inside the tournament, maybe with the french forcing a sixth champion to get equality. That disaster would start a true fraticidal war.

 

"Leave it in the scabbard."

 

FOOL!!!

AGE LINES ARE FOR MORTALS!!! :awesome

No, but seriously, besides the fact that I doubt Dumbledore would do it in the first place it wouldn't stop Harry. Plus Harry is pretty much BFFs with Krum who can just put it in for him.

 

This is NC-17 SLASH: http://oglaf.com/honor/

 

There are so many possibilities for fourth year, the only person who knows is Santi. Let's keep the conversation to third year now, otherwise, third year becomes completely trivial and there's no point in writing it. Nobody wants that.

With the escape of Pettigrew in England, Durmstrang is probably going to be on some sort of alert. The magnitude of escaping from Azkaban will not be overlooked by the ICW. All the schools will at least be edgy.

 

And there is the other side of the coin too, due to the fact that Durmstrang's headmaster is a known Death Eater with international connections, outside the sphere of influence of the UK and a Potter inside his school, so the additional security might be facing on both directions external and internal. Also there are people like the Rosiers who will try their best to take advantage of the chaos on the borders.

 

Grindelwald's character was very well done, and as others mentioned, can't help but wonder what happened to the wand. Would definitely like to see more of the character, even if he is old now.

The slogan, For the Greater Good might attract Harry. He does seem to be an elitist like Grindelwald. Will be interesting to see how Santi fleshes it out.

 

I'm pretty sure that when the Santi wrote this he meant for the wand to be included in the pile of ash. If not, we'll find out.

 

Harry is practical, and does not take risks. But my bet is that by his fourth year he will be powerful enough to judge for himself if he's strong enough to be a champion. If he's strong enough, he may feel entering is no risk to his life. And that is pretty practical. I don't see him worrying about himself as a contestant-(he’s seems to be very self-assured about his abilities), but I do see him worrying about his brother- pushing Nathan even harder which could make the gap between them larger.

In cannon Harry left everything to the last moment in the tournament and didn’t really seem to care about it. If Nathan does this in this story, I'm pretty sure it would drive Harry crazy.
Even if Harry is not allowed to be a champion, the fact that his brother is and does not care about it, would still make a very interesting year. But really, I think it depends on how strong Harry is by that point, and how far he has gotten into the ’Dark Side,’

Honestly I can’t want until fourth year, because I’m pretty sure that’s when the story will branch off from cannon, and go into an original alternative universe direction. (I hope!)

 

If Santi wants Harry in the Triwizard Tournament, it would be incredibly easy to write him in. As the fic's thread shows, it's the expected and/or preferred outcome for many. He's got the talent and the drive, and it would be the work of a couple of paragraphs to explain the 'how'.

The much more important thing is the 'why'. If he gets in the tournament, that'll put this fic among the thousands and thousands of fics involving a super-competent Harry in the Triwizard. Santi just can't stop there; he will want to make Harry's experience way more interesting than the average Indy/Super/etc. Harry GoF fic.

Frankly I'd be happy if Santi can just find an excuse to get Harry to Hogwarts for 4th year - the idea of seeing the Triwizard from a behind-the-scenes perspective (with Harry working on the side to protect and aid his bro) is interesting in itself to me.

But Seratin is right - we should keep the conversation to 3rd year for now. I just couldn't help but to flap my gums on the subject... :awesome

 

I hope so, I really liked the whole for the greater good plot line in Deathly Hallows. It would be refreshing to see a well written "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" Harry Potter story.

I think it might be heading in that direction, because we have already heard Harry tell Nathan:

Which can be considered part of the 'For the greater good' cause.

 

I wonder how many incidences of "age line" are in this thread. Surely over a hundred by now

With all this Calypso shit brewing up leading into Third year, I wouldn't be too surprised if things between her and Harry ended up falling apart completely before a Fourth year in which she probably wouldn't go to Hogwarts with the delegation.

 

41, with yours.

I hope you're wrong on second account too. Maybe this oh-so-secret reason is a real reason and they'll stay on good terms with each other and in turn mindfuck people at Hogwarts.

 

Maybe, but Calypso seems really desperate to fix things up with Harry. And Harry will not give up on one of his only friends that easily- he wants to believe her.

And with the amount of effort the Santi had put into making Calypso's character real and believable, I don’t think he will write out her and her father anytime soon. So far Calypso has played a major part is encouraging Harry towards the Dark Arts, and I think she will keep doing so for quite a while.
Personally, as a character I like her. I think her attitude, talent, values and appearance are quite refreshing; because she is not prefect. Sure, she’s a powerful young which but she’s got flaws, personality wise as well; and that’s why I like her. Also her father is pretty awesome.

 

Age Line.

Now its 42, which is all kinds of awesome.

 

I honestly don't think the age line is that big of a deal. (Damn it, forty-three times!) I mean if Harry really wants something, he's strong enough and smart enough to find a way around it. And anyway Dumbledore just might agree to letting Harry put his name in, if Durmstrang pushes him hard enough, and really I think Dumbledore is just worried about the safety of the students- if Harry is as strong or stronger that a seventh year he might not feel a need to stop him from entering. I mean it's not a manipulative Dumbledore story, is it? Besides we don’t know how Harry’s relationship will be with the Potters and the rest of the Hogwarts crew by then, and that could greatly effect the outcome of his fourth year.

 

On an unrelated topic, I wonder how is Peter going to react to his freedom. Unlike Sirius, he didn't have the focus on revenge that kept him more or less sane on the prision, nor the hidden ace of being an Animagus (here being public record), so they probably used counter transformation magic on his cell so he must have suffered from dementors a lot more than the old dog did.

In other words he must be as crazy as they get, plus he was not too brave to begin with so getting even with the Potters is probably not a priority unless he is delusional as well (can't dismiss that posibility yet). But I do believe he is going to be searching for Voldemort for protection if not for anything else.