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  1. ip82
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Aesthetics only. A few tedious parts shortened and a few rewritten.
    Post by: ip82, May 22, 2008 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Nah, I'm just uploading some one shot, so I updated old chapters with 'refreshed' versions from my HD.
    Post by: ip82, May 21, 2008 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    I've been stuck at the duelling scene for months. Actually, due to a variety of reasons, I haven't been around HP much lately, other than alphaing for a few authors and following a couple of favourite fics. I know better than to promise anything, but when I get back into it, the next chapter shouldn't take long to come out (I'm more than 2/3rds of the way in).
    Post by: ip82, Apr 2, 2008 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Thanks for review. I'm working at PR at the moment, 6-7 K's into the chapter. I took some time to figure everything out (had to edit a part of the outline).
    Post by: ip82, Mar 28, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    About Harry dreaming his revenge for 5 years... You see, the thing is that this drive for revenge was a large part of his motivation to improve himself. After realizing his growth has been stunted his entire life, he desperately wanted to prove to himself he was better than what they wanted him to be. Without this (partially) irrational desire, he wouldn't have achieved nearly as much as he did. Err, I might have been misunderstood here. He had always planned to face down Voldemort head...
    Post by: ip82, Mar 10, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Heh, it seems about half the readers abhorred this scene and the other half loved it... *shrugs* BTW, a quick update. In the meantime, I've edited and reposted all chapters of Potter's Resistance. I'm now starting the next one.
    Post by: ip82, Mar 5, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Hmm, it was supposed to go beyond his normal 'level of humanity'. See the chapter's title. And think of this as a test Harry had to go through - either he buckles down and reverts to his old self or outlast the crises and becomes the Voldemort's true equal. Sorry, that's the whole point of skipping his training :-) Don't worry, there'll be no special surprises and Deus-Ex machinas jumping in to save Harry's arse. Just think of him as an above-average wizard, with dueling skills more or...
    Post by: ip82, Feb 22, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Chapter 3 is posted now. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3087210/3/ As always, my profile was updated as well, if anyone cares. Well, that's it. I'm off now to write some Potter's Resistance. See you next year :-)
    Post by: ip82, Feb 22, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Heh, once again, I'm bringing up an example of Snape & Moody. Even though Snape's no longer there, the wards have to be designed so to allow even such two people to enter the premises, without activating the counter-defenses. If these was the wards meant to protect some ordinary family, you'd be right. But when projecting wards for a military-like organization, you have to consider that people in it are basically strangers, often brought together only by a similar idea or a goal. So the...
    Post by: ip82, Feb 21, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Why? I'm sure there's tension within the Order. They'd surely set up notification if someone is slightly unstable, but to block out entrance? That would surely create a mess of things (imagine Moody & Snape, if he was still there). Harry is walking down the perimeter while the wards are asking questions. There's just so much that can be asked in such limited time frame.
    Post by: ip82, Feb 19, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    In my defense, this was just 40% of my original chapter. But it was just long, so I had to split up...
    Post by: ip82, Feb 17, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    You're right about the gnome. It is drawn out, even after deleting a bunch of lines. It happened to me before, in the last 2 chapters of PR. Every time I start writing an in-depth dialogue, I try to make it as perfect and realistic as possible; cover all the potential holes, put in realistic diversions and chitchat, have each character offer a reasonable resistance to manipulations, add several twists and turns.. etc... It seems that's definitely taking it too far. I'll try to correct this...
    Post by: ip82, Feb 16, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Chapter 2 is up. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3087210/2/ 15K words. Chapter 3 will be in a few days, up to a week.
    Post by: ip82, Feb 16, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    No worries, it's like 15+K so you'll need more than a day :-)
    Post by: ip82, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Yeah, I'll send it in an hour or two. Thanks for applying BTW.
    Post by: ip82, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    I'm giving it one last look-over, I'll send it once I'm done.
    Post by: ip82, Feb 14, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Second chapter is completed... and third probably, since I'll have to split this one in two parts (too long... again). Unfortunately, I can't get in touch with Athenia. So if someone is willing to beta this chapter, PM me today.
    Post by: ip82, Feb 14, 2007 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    It's understanding of the phrases that triggers the brain-lock. It's not some foreign magic that's influencing him; it's his own brain that is trained to act certain way if certain thoughts pass through his mind. Don't worry, Harry will have his own solution for this problem, which you'll see in the next chapter (which keeps growing bigger and bigger). I'm actually surprised it hadn't been mentioned yet... Ah well.
    Post by: ip82, Dec 4, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Thanks for the praises. And sorry for the delay. I started writing again after a bit of a RL induced pause. Currently, the next chapter is around 20K long; should need a 3-4K before its over (I hope).
    Post by: ip82, Nov 25, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Teoretically, if such spell existed AND if he'd be sure that Dumbledore had used English and not, for example, latin. Of course, not hearing English would have made living in modern world rather difficult for Harry...
    Post by: ip82, Oct 19, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    I haven't written anything in weeks, RL problems. Should clear up my schedule a bit starting next week.
    Post by: ip82, Oct 9, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Intelligence and temper are two completely unrelated things. As for rage, who wouldn't be enraged after discovering what Harry had uncovered (mind control)? Don't worry about his temper, we should see one whole lot different Harry in the second chapter (11K for now, BTW). Who said Dumbledore had sacrificed himself for his pawns? That's your own vision of the events from HBP; not neccesserily the only one, or the 'right' one. He hasn't exactly tried to study or memorize...
    Post by: ip82, Sep 2, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    That's why there are multiple code words. Even if he blocked one phrase, he could never be sure that there aren't another one that could get him.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 17, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Well, that'll depend on how well I pull the final few twists, right?
    Post by: ip82, Aug 16, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Dunno, I've written 4K of the next chapter, which is about 1/3 of the plot planned. We'll see.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 16, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Actually, that's not a paradox. It's true that time travelling Harry had helped out his younger self, but he did it unwittingly. He hadn't traveled in past in order to help himself; he travelled attempting to save Sirius. What we were discussing here was mixing cause and effect - Harry travelling to the past in order to murder his father and wanting to murder his father because he knows he had travelled in the past. That scene from POA was nothing like it; Harry had no clue who was...
    Post by: ip82, Aug 16, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    True, but if you never saw your father getting murdered, then you wouldn't have the reason to travel back in time to murder him in the first place. Thus, mixing up the cause and the effect. That's actually a time-loop, an illogical occurance that cannot happen even in theory. Your other example is another common time paradox, but this could be classified there as well.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 15, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Actually, no, it wouldn't have made sense. If Harry truly travelled back in time and then altered the timeline by sending all the letters and stuff, then he would have canceled the future he came from. Or look at it this way: If him travelling back in time had created the sequence of events leading to his time-travel, then who had started the cycle in the first place? Thus, the cause becomes the effect, which is cause, which is effect etc... That's a school example of a time paradox....
    Post by: ip82, Aug 15, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    1) He needed some time to figure out what to do. 2) He was in shock. 3) He lost track of time. 4) The advanced guard came in early. He had, that's where he went after he left the Hogwarts wards. I obviously skipped these parts because I didn't want to write another training fic (I already have one). Yeah they will. But they don't have all the information Harry has, as well as Dumbledore's books on Horcruxes and his journal... Since this recieved rather good feedback, I'm...
    Post by: ip82, Aug 15, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    If you want to make a guess about the clues, I'd appreciate if you did it on PM... and told me what kind of answer you expect.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 5, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    The infallibility to the chamber of secrets is a big myth of fanfiction. Ever since the 2nd year, Dumbledore and the half of the school knew where the entrence was. And beyond that is just a one foot wall and then a pipe leading to the chamber. Chamber's whole mystery was that it was SECRET. Now that everyone knows where the entrence is, it's just another restricted part of Hogwarts, only with parseltongue passwords.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 5, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    I think that was clear enough. The mark was there all along, just not visible. The magic from the ritual made the stuff the message was made of glow.
    Post by: ip82, Aug 5, 2006 in forum: Dark Arts
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    Abandoned Yin and Yang by IP82 - M

    Title: Yin and Yang Author: IP82 Genre: Mystery/Action/Adventure Rating: M/R Chapters: 3 Words: 50,787 Updated: February 21, 2007 Published: August 5, 2006 Status: Abandoned Pairings: No romance Suggested category: "Dark Arts" Summary: Post-HBP; Following a trail of mysterious messages with a Yin & Yang symbol on them, Harry comes to certain devastating revelations, pushing him down the path to darkness. Dark!Harry, no romance. Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3087210/1/ Ok,...
    Thread by: ip82, Aug 5, 2006, 191 replies, in forum: Dark Arts
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