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  1. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    What if the story is eventually about Harry viciously killing Voldemort's disciples, using all manner of spells (including dark magic, unforgivables, etc.)? It's very easy to reconcile this approach with what we know of him currently - he's skilled, potentially ruthless when riled up, has few qualms about using dark magic, loves his family, and prefers "practical" solutions to canon!Harry-style long shots. At the same time, him going about it in this way definitely might alienate him...
    Post by: Blazzano, Apr 24, 2012 in forum: General Fics
  2. Blazzano
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    It's a bit hyperbolic to couch the debate as being solely along these lines. There have been plenty of people who have argued the apologist side of the "Harry didn't react strongly enough" issue. And there's been a few others who have attacked the direction of the story implied by Harry's non-participation in the TWT. At least one of that latter group thumbs-uped your post. It's a big thread - there's plenty of back-and-forth to be found in almost everybody's preferred flavor....
    Post by: Blazzano, Jan 5, 2012 in forum: General Fics
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    I think this is just a question of what "level" we're looking at it. From a closer-in POV, there would be differences in the nature of their participation, yes. From a more coarse-grained viewpoint, they would both still be dodging dragons, swimming in lakes, and navigating mazes. It just depends on how you look at it, I guess. (shrug) If Santi's plot is designed to run similar to what I outlined above...well, let's just say that time will tell how good it comes out. There is...
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 27, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  4. Blazzano
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    Yeah, but we can easily come up with a more spectacular failure: getting thrown back from the Age Line with a beard, like some common Hogwarts maggot. Now that's a result he'd have trouble saving face with. Especially after Dumbledore all but told him it was possible to bypass the Line, and gave him free rein to try. This way really is the least harmful to his fragile teenage ego; the fact that it might seem the most annoying from the reader's point of view doesn't mean that it's the...
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 26, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    I actually agree with Rakkety Tam, so long as he isn't saying that Harry as Durmstrang champion is a required element for what he wants. I'd go so far as to say that participating in the Triwizard isn't all that much as far as "payoff" at all to me. If you look at it in a vacuum (either in canon or in fics), the Triwizard is mere sport - a game, really. It's scarcely more meaningful than Quidditch. If the biggest thing in this year of Santi's story was Harry participating in the three...
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 24, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  6. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    I literally shook a fist in victory when I read that Harry didn't make it. Though he did seem to be a bit complacent about it, I think the manner in which he failed softened the blow a bit. Of all the ways to fail (e.g. not being judged worthy, or his method failing against the protections), this has to be the 'easiest' to take. He did everything right, but simply ran out of time. And although I expect his failure to bother him from time to time throughout the year, he now has tons...
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 24, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  7. Blazzano
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    This implies you missed the joke... Therefore this part is utter bizarre shit. Now, if you were to say that my joke wasn't funny, that would've been more valid. But actually, this sort of thing is why I rather enjoy this thread - shit's always getting out of hand. :awesome
    Post by: Blazzano, Nov 14, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  8. Blazzano
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    From FF.net's reviews for the fic: "Just so you all know, this story actually has more chapters written, only they are posted over at darklordpotter website. I'm not sure why he hasn't posted anymore over here but he is still writing so if you want to continue reading, go over to darklordpotter.net. If you can't find it there, you probably don't deserve to read it." "Check Dark Lord Potter forums, it's up to chapter 16 there." "http:/forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=17021...
    Post by: Blazzano, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  9. Blazzano
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    If the Goblet's magic detests all cheating, then this is true. But I think that what Santi was going for - or more specifically, how Santi's Harry thinks it works - is that it doesn't actually work this way. Harry believes that the Cup is not judging the "destination" (i.e., cheating to enter), but the journey. And there's no doubt that agreeing to have someone mess with your mind, after trying all manner of other magical means, is a lot more daring and courageous than having a good...
    Post by: Blazzano, Nov 9, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    I'm treading my own ground again, but whatever. A Goblet that is biased against people who don't enter their own name is an excellent natural defense against people being entered against their will. This defense works with or without an age line, on people of all ages. It makes sense for it to be there. It's a simple solution to the problem, which is in line with my views of the Goblet (simple yet powerful magic). It's not an infallible method, and IMO it doesn't need to be....
    Post by: Blazzano, Oct 6, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  11. Blazzano
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    Might as well go for six champions, then... Hogwarts: Cedric Diggory Beauxbatons: Fleur Delacour Durmstrang: Victor Krum British Institute of Xanatos Gambit Victims: Nathan Potter Cocky Protagonists Academy: Harry Potter École Derpe de France: Monsieur Redshirt
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 22, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    If you think about it, it would make sense for the Goblet to be biased against people who don't enter their own names. It would be a simple, strong defense against people being forced to compete who don't want to enter (i.e. some asshole putting their name in the Goblet). That said, I think it's merely a strong bias, not an out-and-out automatic disqualification. Ultimately, the Goblet has to choose someone. It will have to choose Nathan in this fic, if Santi goes down the same route...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 20, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    That's a pretty likely possibility. Really, it depends on how flexible the Goblet's magic is - how much it actually "knows" about the current situation. But if it doesn't care about the age line, I'm thinking that from its perspective, it will be comparing Harry, who had someone else put his name in the Goblet, to a bunch of other candidates who didn't. Which gets back to the whole courage thing. It once again sounds unfair to Harry, but it still works out from the symbolic point of view.
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 18, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  14. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    That isn't necessarily how it might work, given the bulger idea that you quoted. It could be argued that being willing to accept help from a younger wizard, and then following through and making the most of said help, is a type of courage and good judgment. On the other hand, having Krum put Harry's name in the goblet requires no courage, no magical prowess, and no daring. And although it may seem unfair to penalize Harry for taking the easy way out of a challenge that none of the...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 18, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    True enough, you can't disprove the idea of additional powers for the Cloak if you're the "appropriate" owner. But I'm inclined to think something else, because of a quote from Dumbledore earlier in the chapter: Dumbledore could not have used the cloak nearly as effectively as Harry did, because he wouldn't have run into as many situations where he'd need to hide others with it. Possibly he wouldn't have been inclined to even think of using it that way. Contrast that to Harry, who...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 14, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  16. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    I'm not sure there was ever any attempt to say that the Peverell cloak could hide you from everything, even after the Hallows revelation of book 7. It's considered "perfect" because it's gone through the years without the usual fading or wear-and-tear, and it also seems immune to being damaged by spells passing through it. And it can't be summoned (possibly another aspect of the same attribute that keeps it safe from spell damage). But it's never worked against every magical detection...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 12, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    On paper, it's a poor combat spell against a group of enemies, for most of the reasons you describe. You can argue that it was effective against this particular group of enemies, though, for purely psychological reasons. Harry and Calypso using the Cruciatus intimidated the hell out of the kids who were still conscious. As a culturally significant Unforgivable curse, it probably made them realize that this was no mere schoolhouse brawl, but serious "big boy" business they were getting...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 6, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  18. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    It depends on how much Calypso comes to care for Harry as the story goes on. If she really is in love with him (or falls in love in the future), I could see her siding against her father. If she sides with Harry, she might get herself killed for her trouble. Either way (betrayer!Calypso or dead/comatose/etc. Calypso) would anger Harry something fierce, and might put him further down the path of being a vicious "dark" wizard.
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 5, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  19. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    Is Voldemort the one behind some of those shitty 1970s disaster films? Earthquake, for instance? :awesome
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 4, 2011 in forum: General Fics
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    I agree entirely that the magical traces that link the object to its past don't have to be directly attached to the object, though I don't have any particular dislike for the idea. To put what you said in another way, they may simply exist, and that's all that needs to be said on them; I believe it doesn't affect my attempt at a solution. As for the question of why food-to-food transfiguration is possible... *twitch*. It's something I haven't actually tried working out in its entirety,...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 24, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  21. Blazzano
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    It's easier to deal with the food animal problem if you work with the "bad food" hypothesis, instead of the "can't transfigure food at all" hypothesis. If bad food can be transfigured, you could say something like this: You transfigure a mound of elephant shit into a cow. In all physical respects, it's a cow. It's made out of the components of a cow, it eats like a cow, behaves like a cow, etc. But even though it's a real cow, it has an extra property that natural cows don't have....
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 24, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  22. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    And then two paragraphs later comes the bit about "good" food: The reason there's room for the "bad food" interpretation is that we're talking about an exception to Gamp's Law - and we don't even know what Gamp's Law is. It could easily be along the lines of what you said: "There is no difference between a transfigured something, and a natural something." In that case, transfiguration of food could be possible, but it would be different in some way that makes it inedible in the long...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 23, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  23. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    The underlying principle of it all goes back to something Rowling wrote in HBP, IMO: "Magic always leaves traces." How you prefer to imagine these "traces" working is up to you, and might be fodder for some fanfiction authors. But it's all that's needed to explain how someone can transfigure something back to its original form without knowing the form (see also: McGonagall returning ferret!Malfoy to his natural state). I understood what you meant here, Expelliarmus, but I have to say...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 17, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  24. Blazzano
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    Ah, my bad. I tried finding the bits that explained what happened when Harry confronted Quirrell, and it seemed pretty vague. Good for Santi - leaves him a heck of a lot of room for whatever plan he's come up with for Nathan / Voldemort. How is it that a thread can be both the best and worst in DLP's history? I mean, what the fuck is going on, here? I'm not certain that there's even a single multiple-post poster in this thread who hasn't been drawn into the derp at least once...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 16, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  25. Blazzano
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    There's no love protection, but there is something unusual afoot. Voldemort still died from a reflected killing curse; Albus didn't make it into the house in time to help. Voldemort might still believe that there's something special in Nathan's blood that's worth incorporating into his new body. And really, that might be true - it would just need a different "mechanism" than the canon love protection thing.
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 15, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  26. Blazzano
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    To bring back one of the earlier unimportant topics (yeah, yeah, I know :facepalm ), I wanted to try and find a picture that approximates my mental image of Calypso. So I did a Google image search for "dark hair emo teen girl," and found one. Yes, that's possibly another :facepalm right there, but oh well. Take away the emo trappings and the piercings, and this girl (jpg link) sorta seems to work. Not someone I'd consider a stunner, but I don't think Calypso is a stunner either. And...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 15, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  27. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    At first it seems incongruous. And then... ...it doesn't. A normal dicking works fine most of the time. But when you absolutely, positively have to fuck up the day of every uppity, snippy, dark arts-using girl in the room, go for the Dumbledore way. Accept no substitutes. :awesome
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 12, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  28. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    I'm glad that Harry's road into the Tournament wasn't nerfed down (e.g. by getting rid of the age line). I still prefer him as a spectator, but him getting into the tournament is more tolerable to me if he has to work for it - or if it takes some interesting plot twist. The Triwzard Tournament is the real beginning of Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived, IMO. Not to say that the preceding years have been unimportant or uninteresting, but the tournament and the post-Voldemort aftermath...
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 12, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  29. Blazzano
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    The average Durmstrang student must be better at dueling, almost by definition. That gulf of experience is just too great. Perhaps Hogwarts once had a Dueling Club that didn't suck, and maybe things would have been different back then, but not any more. In the other shared subjects, I'd expect the average student to be roughly the same - Durmstrang is a better place for certain types of students and worse for others. But dueling and dark arts? Fuck naw.
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 30, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  30. Blazzano
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    I think he will be egocentric and abnormally concerned with his greatness - in fact, I believe he already is, to a certain extent. At the same time, yes, he genuinely cares for certain people. It is possible for a person to be both things, so long as they don't take the egocentrism to extremes (e.g. sociopaths). And ultimately, I think both Harry's ego and Harry's loyalty to his few friends and loved ones will come to define what he becomes.
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 23, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  31. Blazzano
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    Yes, it seems more likely that they'd be taken by a Durmstrang student (or graduate) on their own time, if and only if that wizard needed them for his post-school life. They might be necessary for a post-Durmstrang wizard who wanted a U.K. Ministry job, for instance...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 16, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  32. Blazzano
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    This hints at what will be Santi's greatest year four challenge, should he enter his version of Harry into the tournament. Canon!Harry's "sucky" performance was good enough for second place through two events. We don't know how he would have done at the third event without the assistance of the others, of course. Sure, Santi can get Harry into the tournament with no difficulties at all. And then what? If a lazy, average 14-year-old canon!Harry can be competitive with his vastly...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 10, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  33. Blazzano
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    Yeah. Put another way, I don't think this is supposed to be "the moment" that turns him into a dark wizard. Rather, it's one of the important moments that will start him on the road to hardening the fuck up. With this Harry's talent it's easy to forget that at his core, he's still a boy who grew up in a loving home, and who hasn't really gone through any major trials. He's soft, in other words. IMO his response to the whipping incident reflects his realization that, at this point in...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jun 30, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  34. Blazzano
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    The way things are going now, there's a clear separation between the events of original canon/Nathan (which has pretty much been on rails following the original book where possible), and the story of Harry. If Harry becomes Durmstrang's representative in the Triwizard, he'll be slamming those two worlds together more thoroughly than before. That's fine, if that's what Santi wants. Or Harry can stand on the sidelines, and the result could be just as interesting. Finding an excuse for...
    Post by: Blazzano, Mar 31, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  35. Blazzano
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    The relationship does feel a bit odd, but I'm holding off on downrating it given the ages of the two people involved. If it seems a bit rushed and awkward at times, does that really distinguish it from a great deal of pre-teen romances? For those who don't like Calypso, there's still the possibility that she'll get offed. Violently. As for the overall shape of the story, it is fairly simple to this point, but given what we know of the canon timeline and Harry's eventual "dark" turn,...
    Post by: Blazzano, Mar 26, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  36. Blazzano
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    This should be obvious enough by now. At Durmstrang, if you complete all seven levels of education in a subject ahead of schedule, you can take a secret eighth 'Boss' level. In Boss-level courses, the only two grades are Fail and "Fuck Yea."
    Post by: Blazzano, Mar 24, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  37. Blazzano
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    How much longer do you think it'll take for Santi to finish the story? Because it may be worth it if I get to say that the thread size is "over 9000," one day...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jan 30, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  38. Blazzano
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    I've got no strong feelings against you, Feanorrrr, but every time I see your user name, I think: "Feanorrrr. It's what happens when "Feanor" and "Isil-durrrr" have a kid together." It goes without saying that this joke is astonishingly stupid and lame. I blame you, somehow. :awesome
    Post by: Blazzano, Jan 19, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  39. Blazzano
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    Also, given the kind of fight they were having, you don't actually have to assume that Molly had Bellatrix's level of skill. You could say that Bellatrix would win a duel between the two of them 9 times out of 10, and it still isn't a plot hole if canon turns out to be the 1 out of 10 chance. To use a sports analogy, Molly and Bellatrix were in "sudden death" - one successful hit meant a kill. And Bellatrix was clearly overconfident; she sat there laughing and got owned, just like...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jan 8, 2011 in forum: General Fics
  40. Blazzano
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    I say that she's going to do at least several of the above, possibly in this order: 1. Grow closer to Harry, eventually becoming a real GF 2. Betray him in some way after Voldemort rises again 3. Change sides again, choosing Harry over the DEs and/or her father 4. Get her ass killed for her trouble 5. Harry: "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" (starts bashing heads)
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 27, 2010 in forum: General Fics
  41. Blazzano
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    Abandoned Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi - M

    Putting minor changes aside, I'm hoping that the basic tone of the scene doesn't change too much. Santi might not have consciously thought it through this way, but as greywizard said, somehow these moments of softness at Harry's core do lend a bit of an organic feel to the character. Please don't yield too much to the consensus in this specific instance, Santi. The consensus is basically laying out a smooth path to forge Harry into a tremendous badass, but IMO, it shouldn't be smooth....
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 22, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    This. Some of the most symbolically appropriate animals lack nobility and/or lack usefulness as an animagus form. I mean, this Harry reminds me a bit of an octopus, really - octopuses are among the most intelligent invertebrates, and very versatile. But turning into a slow, squishy, aquatic octopus is next to useless. A chimpanzee is intelligent and can be crafty, and its animagus forum is far more useful. But the chimp lacks the nobility of some bird species, or a honey badger, or...
    Post by: Blazzano, Dec 20, 2010 in forum: General Fics
  43. Blazzano
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    By naming the twins as they have been, you can still have a "Harry-centric" story, while having a character identical to canon still working in the background. Harry-centrism may sound like a petty reason, but since there are readers out there who primarily want to read about Harry, it does make a difference.
    Post by: Blazzano, Nov 20, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    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...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 26, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    True indeed - Harry is much happier at Durmstrang. That'll be one of the reasons why I'm interested in seeing where this fic is headed. He's much more satisfied with where he's at, yet at the same time is still getting exposure to dark magic more quickly than he would have otherwise. I'm still thinking that he's going to grow up to become a "good guy" who scares the other good guys: i.e., an anti-Voldemort force of nature who is every bit as vicious against Death Eaters as the Death...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 16, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    The funny thing is that, in the long run, I don't think Harry will actually learn more from Durmstrang. Good and exceptional students would tend to benefit from a school like that, of course - no need to wait for the more plodding types to catch up to them. If Durmstrang didn't care about ancestry, Hermione would have loved that environment. But the real prodigies - people like Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Harry - would go on to become masterfully skilled wizards regardless of which...
    Post by: Blazzano, Sep 16, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    Snape's cutoff for being accepted to N.E.W.T-level Potions was an Outstanding grade. Slughorn accepted students of E or higher. If there were only one student per year with an Outstanding grade, that would mean that each N.E.W.T Potions class before Slughorn was limited to a single student - possible, but unlikely. It'd be more of a tutoring session than a class at that point.
    Post by: Blazzano, Aug 19, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    Well, it certainly doesn't matter in any important way, though I think it's an interesting data point. But heck, I suppose that means I made the thread at least two posts longer with some very trivial crap. FFFUUUUUUUUUUU- ... Thanks for the correction about Flairgold's fics, BTW - I can never quite work myself up to attempting that read.
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 28, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    Because of debates like this one, the thread for this fic is now the third longest single-fic thread on DLP (I think). Two of the longer ones are from Shezza's Denarian series, and the other one I found was Miranda Flairgold's "A Second Chance..." fic. And the story is only in 2nd year. Holy crap. Santi, you may want to sit on that experiment scene for a bit, depending on if you'd rather write new scenes or not. Then you can return to the experiment when you're idling between new...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 28, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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    It's rather remarkable how much discussion this story generates. Hopefully you're pleased with that, Santi, because considerable parts of the discussion are interesting. As far as Harry's discovery goes? Yeah, it does seem a bit flimsy. But it still works to some degree because it does manage to exceed canon's scope on this sort of cross-discipline magic. And as Sesc mentioned, it doesn't use any Muggle voodoo or the like to accomplish that. But since some people are offering...
    Post by: Blazzano, Jul 18, 2010 in forum: General Fics
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