I could see it, to be honest, but not in the way/strength that it's presented in canon...and the average Slytherin!Harry fic seen out there.

All depends on the characterization of Harry, and on what the author writes...and if he/she can pull it off, of course. (Let's put it this way: before Santi's fic' came along, could you have honestly said that there was a decent 'Twin-Who-Lived' fic' out there?).

 

I suppose I could still see him being friendly with Hermione, but best friends who he takes advice from wouldn't fit with a slytherin Harry.

 

Yeah, Mira Mirth provides a pretty powerful counter example which kind of proves your point.

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The Soul Bond thing though; something seems to have gone on between Luckylee, knight504, and Jormungandr... I don't mind debasing myself asking for someone to spell it out...

 

Isn't it obvious the three of us are soul bonded Lens?

 

Fuck! Well yeah, that makes a kind of sense *beat*

The Hermione/Slytherin comment stands though

 

The Voldebabe Phenomenom.

EDIT: I can't even remember whether a soul bond was involved in that thread.

 

Also, my fic. I can't believe I got sigged for that.

I take full credit for the first full-length story featuring a soul-bond that DLP hasn't torn to bits. Hah.

 

There's also mine, but there's no soul bond in mine. D8

 

Yeah. I definitely believe that you're of the female gender, now.

 

So is Harry marrying Ginny, doesn't mean I like it.

 

There are exceptions that prove the rule in such cases, I guess.

i.e. The Golden Age for canon-compliant post-Hogwarts stuff, and The Unforgiving Minute sorta fits that, at least in pairing.

Similarly HP/Voldemort soul-bond is canon, unless you hate horcruxes as a plot device there's really not much you can say against that.

 

I really hate people that remove Horcruxes from stories saying that they don't work or that they don't like the plot device.

 

I should've been more specific. I'm not a fan of a scavenger hunt ending the series, and for some reason I never thought of a Horcrux as a soul bond, and I have no idea why, since a Horcrux by definition is a soul bond. What I'm talking about is (and this is just what I've seen in the last week) a bond between Fleur and Harry b/c of some random bullshit, a bond between Susan/Harry b/c they for some reason went back in time and have always been soul mates, a soul bond between Daphne/Harry/Hermoine. IMO, an author does this because they want a romance to occur early in a story with no complications, therefore a soul bond becomes a scapegoat. I hate this cliche because it represents an author that lacks creativity and talent.

 

There is only one scenario that I will accept a soul-bond in a fanfic:

Harry is in love with [insert name A], but has a soul-bond with [insert name B]. Harry refuses to be destiny's puppet again, however, and fight against fate to stay with [insert name A], his true love.

 

Question. In both the books and in several fics I've read recently, Voldemort is seemingly obsessed with conquering Hogwarts and slaughtering a bunch of kids who are no threat to him. In one I read, half the school was killed, including most of Slytherin house and I'm just wondering, why? It's a SCHOOL not the Ministry in disguise.

How can he possibly take over the Wizarding world by conquering a school and slaughtering most of his future subjects, thus preventing them from growing up and producing *more* subjects to rule over? I can understand attacking the school to get at Harry and killing those who resist but finding a room full of cowering first years and killing them for no reason makes no sense and, one would think, inspire greater resistance from the rest of the world.

Which brings me to one more question. If the school is attacked and DE's are running around the halls, why can't students just safely hide in their common rooms? From what I understand, the common rooms are difficult to find if you don't know where to look and then there's the problem of the password. Sirius, being a Griffindor, knew were to find the common room, yet he still couldn't get in without knowing the password. So, unless the DE's set fire to hallways, wouldn't everyone be safe and sound in their common rooms until help arrived?

 

Sirius was one man, and he had no wand. He had to be careful about being spotted and the Death Eaters would have none of these problems.

Btw, just where do you think Death Eaters went to school? Your argument about common rooms being difficult to find makes no sense.

 

Ok, maybe I'm mixing Canon and Fanon up (which is easy to do if you read enough fan fic). Do all the students know where all the common rooms are? Will a DE who was, say, a former Ravenclaw, know where the Griffindor common room is? And, if so, can he blast a hole through the portrait with his wand to get in?

 

Frankly, I'm having difficulty imagining that skilled adult wizards like Malfoy or Bellatrix (or any of the Lestranges) would be adequately stopped by the protections on the Common Rooms - unless, of course, you go with the idea that Hogwarts, as a castle, was built with protections against more than simple students. What was said above applies too. Sirius was alone, without a wand, trying to stay undercover and not actually trying to hurt the Fat Lady - Bellatrix, for example, would probably find it much easier to, if nothing else, probably compel the Fat Lady to open the portrait and allow her access.

 

Or just blast the portrait apart, really.

If Voldemort was coordinating a strike against the castle, don't you think he'd make sure all his followers knew where the common room entrances were? Even if he personally didn't know from his time at Hogwarts (unlikely), he's got Gryffindor and Slytherin represented in the Death Eaters that we know of, with Ravenclaw a likely probability and Hufflepuff a possibility as well.

 

Given the way he seemed to make contacts at Hogwarts and his intimate knowledge of the castle, I agree that it's unlikely Voldemort doesn't personally know where the common rooms are.