Harry Potter Earl of the North
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MOTHERFUCKER. I've got to recreate that entire textwall. Holy damn I hate this proxy so much.
Alright. Alright. I'll keep this one short, and not embellish. At least that way, I won't lose the fucking farm if my proxied IE decides to randomly blow itself out it's own asshole.
Because Random Dark Wizard is not likely to tell Harry shit. Random Dark Wizard would not give a flying fuck whether or not the Dementor's affected Harry, and they certainly wouldn't train Harry in magic necessary to get out. If they had magic that could get themselves out, why aren't they out?
Plus, any Dark Wizard worth their salt would keep the whole "you are Polarix" thing to themselves. That's an advantage over Harry Fucking Potter you've got right there. Sell that information to the right person, and it's your ticket to sipping rum on a beach somewhere while getting your back scrubbed by a woman who isn't using her hands.
Alright. Alright. I'll keep this one short, and not embellish. At least that way, I won't lose the fucking farm if my proxied IE decides to randomly blow itself out it's own asshole.
Because Random Dark Wizard is not likely to tell Harry shit. Random Dark Wizard would not give a flying fuck whether or not the Dementor's affected Harry, and they certainly wouldn't train Harry in magic necessary to get out. If they had magic that could get themselves out, why aren't they out?
Plus, any Dark Wizard worth their salt would keep the whole "you are Polarix" thing to themselves. That's an advantage over Harry Fucking Potter you've got right there. Sell that information to the right person, and it's your ticket to sipping rum on a beach somewhere while getting your back scrubbed by a woman who isn't using her hands.
Given the example of Sirius (and Harry, for that matter), its not unreasonable that there could be more fairly innocent people in Azkaban. Possibly even more innocent than Sirius was - he didn't do what he was accused of, but at least one of his foolish pranks could have lead to jail time, under other circumstances.
This has the virtue of not needing you to contrive a means for Harry to still have his canon skills and (some of his) experiences.
This has the virtue of not needing you to contrive a means for Harry to still have his canon skills and (some of his) experiences.
a prisioner that is less in touch with reality, because hey the delusion that i'm actually teaching Polaris is so much better than being in this damned prision, and like those before me have said not every Azkaban prisioner is Dark/Evil/had a reason for being convicted, or just Have Sirius Smuggling himself there as a dog, i mean he did get out, he can get in and the 'Veil' a displacement portal so he still 'dies' as canon andcomes back when needed.
I'll start with this first.
Remember this, it was the fact that Sirius knew he was innocent that kept him sane from the effects of the dementors. Otherwise he would have gone crazy. Secondly Azakaban has never had a breakout before Sirius and thus people wouldn't know where to begin on how to break out. Sirius certainly didn't tell any dark wizards how to do it.
Harry could let slip the fact that he knows how to beat the effects of the dementors and that he will tell the wizard how to do it if he teaches him certain magics. Tell you could it be that talking with Harry and teaching him keeps the dark wizard sane or whatever. It certainly beats raping canon badly just so you can have a character be where you need him to be.
Or they could figure that if they ally themselves to Polarix who just happens to be the only fucking know survivor of the AK then he could attain massive power/wealth. I'm sure that Harry will treat anyone that gets him out of Azakaban, and trains him, well. Or do you not want Harry to be a dark wizard? Considering you views on good and evil that is a possibility.
Remember this, it was the fact that Sirius knew he was innocent that kept him sane from the effects of the dementors. Otherwise he would have gone crazy. Secondly Azakaban has never had a breakout before Sirius and thus people wouldn't know where to begin on how to break out. Sirius certainly didn't tell any dark wizards how to do it.
Harry could let slip the fact that he knows how to beat the effects of the dementors and that he will tell the wizard how to do it if he teaches him certain magics. Tell you could it be that talking with Harry and teaching him keeps the dark wizard sane or whatever. It certainly beats raping canon badly just so you can have a character be where you need him to be.
Or they could figure that if they ally themselves to Polarix who just happens to be the only fucking know survivor of the AK then he could attain massive power/wealth. I'm sure that Harry will treat anyone that gets him out of Azakaban, and trains him, well. Or do you not want Harry to be a dark wizard? Considering you views on good and evil that is a possibility.
Rule of Cool: Sirius is cooler than Random Dark Wizard. Also, I'd have to invent some random OC, and then make them important. I'm already going to be juggling more important OCs than I'd like already with the new groups that will be introduced (warlocks, snowpeople, dwarves, vampires, ect).
Besides. The AU will be interesting. Sirius is a cool character, Harry is a cool character, and them doing things together in a post-DoM world is a pretty good premise. I'd much rather have Sirius bonding with Harry and teaching him the finer points of being a wizard than the other potential scenarios I can think of. Harry alone would be boring, and it's been done. Harry with Bellatrix is half the reason this thread exists, and Harry getting help from Dumbledore would upset the "three different sides to the war" angle I'm trying to shoot for.
Right. Unfortunately, I actually have someplace to be right now, so I'm going to make this one short, and not completely explain myself. I'll come back later and clarify if necessary.
Dumbledore does not believe in prophecy. He never has. He would never construct a plan around or alter an existing plan to adhere to a prophecy that had just been made and/or revealed.
However, the prophecy still needs to be there. We just have to devise a reason for why. My idea is simple, and effective. Dumbledore would never check on the prophecies or keep up to date with them, even if he could, because he has no interest in them. So the only way to bring this to his attention is to throw it into his face. In a quirk of fate, this prophecy about Harry and Voldemort is given in the exact same manner and circumstances as the last one was: Trelawny gives it to Dumbledore while the two of them are alone, making Dumbledore the sole witness to it.
Now, the prophecy itself is fairly vauge. However, there is at least one part of it that Dumbledore would be able to decipher with relative ease. The Dark Lord is clearly referring to Voldemort, and Dumbledore knows damn well who "The Wand of Death" is (i.e. him). So Dumbledore is able to ascertain that this prophecy is predicting that not only will this war continue for some time, but that the war will be divided into three major factions: Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Dumbledore and those who stand with him, and this enigmatic third individual, the 'North Star,' who is appparently about to rise to power.
Since this is something that pertains to the war against Voldemort, Dumbledore would obviously bring it to the Order's attention, in spite of his personal reservations about divination and prophecy, because this sort of thing is exactly what the Order exists for.
So Dumbledore doesn't care about the prophecy personally, but brings it up anyway because it pertains to Voldemort and the war.
Besides. The AU will be interesting. Sirius is a cool character, Harry is a cool character, and them doing things together in a post-DoM world is a pretty good premise. I'd much rather have Sirius bonding with Harry and teaching him the finer points of being a wizard than the other potential scenarios I can think of. Harry alone would be boring, and it's been done. Harry with Bellatrix is half the reason this thread exists, and Harry getting help from Dumbledore would upset the "three different sides to the war" angle I'm trying to shoot for.
Right. Unfortunately, I actually have someplace to be right now, so I'm going to make this one short, and not completely explain myself. I'll come back later and clarify if necessary.
Dumbledore does not believe in prophecy. He never has. He would never construct a plan around or alter an existing plan to adhere to a prophecy that had just been made and/or revealed.
However, the prophecy still needs to be there. We just have to devise a reason for why. My idea is simple, and effective. Dumbledore would never check on the prophecies or keep up to date with them, even if he could, because he has no interest in them. So the only way to bring this to his attention is to throw it into his face. In a quirk of fate, this prophecy about Harry and Voldemort is given in the exact same manner and circumstances as the last one was: Trelawny gives it to Dumbledore while the two of them are alone, making Dumbledore the sole witness to it.
Now, the prophecy itself is fairly vauge. However, there is at least one part of it that Dumbledore would be able to decipher with relative ease. The Dark Lord is clearly referring to Voldemort, and Dumbledore knows damn well who "The Wand of Death" is (i.e. him). So Dumbledore is able to ascertain that this prophecy is predicting that not only will this war continue for some time, but that the war will be divided into three major factions: Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Dumbledore and those who stand with him, and this enigmatic third individual, the 'North Star,' who is appparently about to rise to power.
Since this is something that pertains to the war against Voldemort, Dumbledore would obviously bring it to the Order's attention, in spite of his personal reservations about divination and prophecy, because this sort of thing is exactly what the Order exists for.
So Dumbledore doesn't care about the prophecy personally, but brings it up anyway because it pertains to Voldemort and the war.
And now for the bit I had to leave out. Ron and Hermione.
In this fic, Ron and Hermione are confusing. In the beginning of this story, they lie. I want you to keep this in mind. In the beginning of this story, they knowingly and willingly testify against Harry, saying they had caught him doing things like practicing the Dark Arts, among other things, that made it obvious that he was going Dark. This was supposedly necessary to make everyone believe that yes, Harry really did murder all of those muggles, because as we all know, one of the first signs that someone might be gradually turning evil is that you just randomly up and straight murder everybody. And it worked. Their testimony was key to putting Harry into Azkaban. Do note that unlike most fics where Dumbledore is evil and/or crazy/misguided, Dumbledore did not put them up to this. They lied to him too.
How they could get away with lying to a man who is literally a walking magical lie detector is a question that remains unaddressed within the scope of this fic.
However, this is strange for two very important reasons. The first is one you might have already noticed. They literally have zero motivation to do this. Ron and Hermione lack any sort of reason to hang Harry out to dry like that. They just, apparently, randomly decided to screw him over just for the lulz, seemingly during the very trial itself. Now, while this behavior is expected from characters who might be willing to lie their asses off to make Harry suffer (Draco would totally do that, imo), Ron and Hermione are not two such characters.
So problem one: there is no answer to the question 'why.' At all.
Problem two is arguably even worse. Silvere seems to forget that Ron and Hermione did this not too long afterwards. In a fic that is a monstrous 50 chapters in length, by chapter 5 Ron and Hermione are spun as being 'victims of the trap set by Voldemort and Lucius,' as opposed to what they really were in chapter 1 and 2, which was 'dirty filthy lying opportunistic Judas-wannabes.'
In this chapter, and later chapters like it, they exist in a strange kind of limbo, in which they were both lying but also victims of Voldemort's deception to frame Harry. This literally is a paradox if you stop to think about it. If they were lying, then that means they knew it wasn't true, but decided to say it was anyway (for whatever mysterious reason). If they were victims of Voldemort's plot, then that means that they were telling what they thought was the truth, and thus being perfectly honest. They were merely wrong.
These two stances are mutually exclusive. You cannot be telling the truth and lying about the same thing, at the same time. Plus, they had no motivation. At all.
I can't go into much further elaboration here without getting into MST territory, but suffice to say, Ron and Hermione? They need to change.
Here's my idea, and it starts with a confession. I'm a fan of Ron when he's being a dick. I acknoweldge, and even argue, that he is not this in canon. I understand that the idea of him being a real ass is not canon, and requires a deviation that is clearly in OoC territory. However, the fact remains that I'm only entertained by Ron when he's being a douche. It's personal preference. Not canon. But I just like him better that way. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because fanfiction tends to lionize everybody and their mother. Harry, obviously. Neville, horrifically. Luna, more often than not. Hermione, almost always. And quite a few others besides. To be honest, it's kind of refreshing to have at least one person that's getting poked in the opposite direction. It's a nice change of pace from everyone and their mother being spun as a badass messiah.
In canon, Ron is kind of vanilla. He's more of a prop than anything. The only times he gets any real character development, it's when he argues or gets angry with Harry or Hermione, but then (usually) apologizes for it later. Sure, you could make him a spell-slinging morally upstanding badass. And that's cool. But to be honest? It is my personal opinion that him being poked towards the dick side of the Force is more entertaining.
SO. With that in mind, I don't want to be giving Ron massive props here. However, by the same token, I want to keep this realistic, and realistically, Ron would never be so much of a bag of dicks that he would cheerfully boot Harry's ass into Azkaban and then take over as much of his life as possible (new Gryffindor Golden Boy, new leader of the DA, ect). That's Malfoy levels of dick, which is well beyond what Ron is capable of.
So here's my idea. Hermione is losing her mind over Harry getting railroaded into Azkaban. She's going through wizarding law, court cases, trial records. Everything she can get her hands on that could possibly get Harry out of Azkaban. This situation hits both of the two things that really set her off. It's Harry in trouble, and it's a blatant miscarriage of justice. This is saving the House Elves colliding head-first with following Harry to the DoM to rescue Sirius. Hermione isn't sleeping. Hermione isn't eating. Hermione hasn't bathed or changed her clothes in days. At this point, she is being fueled entirely by a combination of caffine and mania, and woe betide the person who tries to convince her to take a break, because taking a break is like giving up and letting Voldemort and Fudge win stop talking to me I need to concentrate.
Hermione is kind of obsessed about this. In fact, Hermione is kind of going to read every goddamn book that has anything to do with law and punishment if that is what it takes to get Harry out of a hellhole filled with murderers, rapists, Dark Wizards, and an endless soundtrack of Harry's parents being murdered by Voldemort.
Does Ron care that Harry is in Azkaban? Yes. But here's the thing: Ron doesn't feel the need to do anything about it. Why? Simple. Dumbledore is already doing every he can to get Harry out, as is the Order. Ron simply feels that it's a waste of time to do anything, because really, what could they do? Besides, it's Dumbledore. Harry will be out in no time, and then they can all hang out again and everything will be fine. There's no need to worry about it. Relax.
So. Hermione is going up a wall and across the ceiling, while Ron is blaise abou the whole deal. Naturally, this kind of pisses Hermione way the hell off.
How could you possibly say that, Ronald!? Harry is listening to Voldemort kill his parents right now, and all you can do is shrug and eat a sandwich!?
Look, Hermione, I don't understand what you expect me to do! Dumbledore is working on it. So is mum and dad and Moody and a bunch of other people. They'll get him out eventually.
Eventually? Eventually!? How can you possibly say that like it's okay!? Every second Harry spends there is a disgusting violation of absolutely every right he has! It's a miscarriage of justice! It's ministry corruption!
Yeah? And what exactly do you expect me to do?
I don't know, Ronald. How about you maybe try helping me look through all this!?
Why? That's just a waste of time!
And so forth, and so on. I feel that these reactions are fairly in-character for both of them. Hermione would naturally become absolutely obsessed, and Ron being indifferent to the idea of actively helping plays right into both his personality and his flaws. Ron can be accused of a fair number of things, but the biggest one by far is a lack of empathy and introspection. Pretty much all of his arguments with Hermione in canon were because he was not able to objectively look at himself, or put himself in someone else's shoes. Dumbledore and the Order is working on it, so for Ron, that's as good as problem solved. Sure, Harry's not back, but he will be, eventually. So why get worked up about it? Ron literally cannot understand why Hermione is losing sleep over this, seeing how Dumbledore is on the case. Likewise, Hermione cannot understand how Ron can be so indifferent to the fact that Harry was just railroaded into Azkaban and is being smeared yet again by the media.
I'm not going to lie. Hermione is probably going to punch Ron in the face over this. Either way, it's going to drive a massive rift between them. And it is my personal opinion that this is a canon compliant way to do it.
Thoughts?
In this fic, Ron and Hermione are confusing. In the beginning of this story, they lie. I want you to keep this in mind. In the beginning of this story, they knowingly and willingly testify against Harry, saying they had caught him doing things like practicing the Dark Arts, among other things, that made it obvious that he was going Dark. This was supposedly necessary to make everyone believe that yes, Harry really did murder all of those muggles, because as we all know, one of the first signs that someone might be gradually turning evil is that you just randomly up and straight murder everybody. And it worked. Their testimony was key to putting Harry into Azkaban. Do note that unlike most fics where Dumbledore is evil and/or crazy/misguided, Dumbledore did not put them up to this. They lied to him too.
How they could get away with lying to a man who is literally a walking magical lie detector is a question that remains unaddressed within the scope of this fic.
However, this is strange for two very important reasons. The first is one you might have already noticed. They literally have zero motivation to do this. Ron and Hermione lack any sort of reason to hang Harry out to dry like that. They just, apparently, randomly decided to screw him over just for the lulz, seemingly during the very trial itself. Now, while this behavior is expected from characters who might be willing to lie their asses off to make Harry suffer (Draco would totally do that, imo), Ron and Hermione are not two such characters.
So problem one: there is no answer to the question 'why.' At all.
Problem two is arguably even worse. Silvere seems to forget that Ron and Hermione did this not too long afterwards. In a fic that is a monstrous 50 chapters in length, by chapter 5 Ron and Hermione are spun as being 'victims of the trap set by Voldemort and Lucius,' as opposed to what they really were in chapter 1 and 2, which was 'dirty filthy lying opportunistic Judas-wannabes.'
In this chapter, and later chapters like it, they exist in a strange kind of limbo, in which they were both lying but also victims of Voldemort's deception to frame Harry. This literally is a paradox if you stop to think about it. If they were lying, then that means they knew it wasn't true, but decided to say it was anyway (for whatever mysterious reason). If they were victims of Voldemort's plot, then that means that they were telling what they thought was the truth, and thus being perfectly honest. They were merely wrong.
These two stances are mutually exclusive. You cannot be telling the truth and lying about the same thing, at the same time. Plus, they had no motivation. At all.
I can't go into much further elaboration here without getting into MST territory, but suffice to say, Ron and Hermione? They need to change.
Here's my idea, and it starts with a confession. I'm a fan of Ron when he's being a dick. I acknoweldge, and even argue, that he is not this in canon. I understand that the idea of him being a real ass is not canon, and requires a deviation that is clearly in OoC territory. However, the fact remains that I'm only entertained by Ron when he's being a douche. It's personal preference. Not canon. But I just like him better that way. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because fanfiction tends to lionize everybody and their mother. Harry, obviously. Neville, horrifically. Luna, more often than not. Hermione, almost always. And quite a few others besides. To be honest, it's kind of refreshing to have at least one person that's getting poked in the opposite direction. It's a nice change of pace from everyone and their mother being spun as a badass messiah.
In canon, Ron is kind of vanilla. He's more of a prop than anything. The only times he gets any real character development, it's when he argues or gets angry with Harry or Hermione, but then (usually) apologizes for it later. Sure, you could make him a spell-slinging morally upstanding badass. And that's cool. But to be honest? It is my personal opinion that him being poked towards the dick side of the Force is more entertaining.
SO. With that in mind, I don't want to be giving Ron massive props here. However, by the same token, I want to keep this realistic, and realistically, Ron would never be so much of a bag of dicks that he would cheerfully boot Harry's ass into Azkaban and then take over as much of his life as possible (new Gryffindor Golden Boy, new leader of the DA, ect). That's Malfoy levels of dick, which is well beyond what Ron is capable of.
So here's my idea. Hermione is losing her mind over Harry getting railroaded into Azkaban. She's going through wizarding law, court cases, trial records. Everything she can get her hands on that could possibly get Harry out of Azkaban. This situation hits both of the two things that really set her off. It's Harry in trouble, and it's a blatant miscarriage of justice. This is saving the House Elves colliding head-first with following Harry to the DoM to rescue Sirius. Hermione isn't sleeping. Hermione isn't eating. Hermione hasn't bathed or changed her clothes in days. At this point, she is being fueled entirely by a combination of caffine and mania, and woe betide the person who tries to convince her to take a break, because taking a break is like giving up and letting Voldemort and Fudge win stop talking to me I need to concentrate.
Hermione is kind of obsessed about this. In fact, Hermione is kind of going to read every goddamn book that has anything to do with law and punishment if that is what it takes to get Harry out of a hellhole filled with murderers, rapists, Dark Wizards, and an endless soundtrack of Harry's parents being murdered by Voldemort.
Does Ron care that Harry is in Azkaban? Yes. But here's the thing: Ron doesn't feel the need to do anything about it. Why? Simple. Dumbledore is already doing every he can to get Harry out, as is the Order. Ron simply feels that it's a waste of time to do anything, because really, what could they do? Besides, it's Dumbledore. Harry will be out in no time, and then they can all hang out again and everything will be fine. There's no need to worry about it. Relax.
So. Hermione is going up a wall and across the ceiling, while Ron is blaise abou the whole deal. Naturally, this kind of pisses Hermione way the hell off.
How could you possibly say that, Ronald!? Harry is listening to Voldemort kill his parents right now, and all you can do is shrug and eat a sandwich!?
Look, Hermione, I don't understand what you expect me to do! Dumbledore is working on it. So is mum and dad and Moody and a bunch of other people. They'll get him out eventually.
Eventually? Eventually!? How can you possibly say that like it's okay!? Every second Harry spends there is a disgusting violation of absolutely every right he has! It's a miscarriage of justice! It's ministry corruption!
Yeah? And what exactly do you expect me to do?
I don't know, Ronald. How about you maybe try helping me look through all this!?
Why? That's just a waste of time!
And so forth, and so on. I feel that these reactions are fairly in-character for both of them. Hermione would naturally become absolutely obsessed, and Ron being indifferent to the idea of actively helping plays right into both his personality and his flaws. Ron can be accused of a fair number of things, but the biggest one by far is a lack of empathy and introspection. Pretty much all of his arguments with Hermione in canon were because he was not able to objectively look at himself, or put himself in someone else's shoes. Dumbledore and the Order is working on it, so for Ron, that's as good as problem solved. Sure, Harry's not back, but he will be, eventually. So why get worked up about it? Ron literally cannot understand why Hermione is losing sleep over this, seeing how Dumbledore is on the case. Likewise, Hermione cannot understand how Ron can be so indifferent to the fact that Harry was just railroaded into Azkaban and is being smeared yet again by the media.
I'm not going to lie. Hermione is probably going to punch Ron in the face over this. Either way, it's going to drive a massive rift between them. And it is my personal opinion that this is a canon compliant way to do it.
Thoughts?
This is an interesting point that is raised. I have to give Silvere credit: if you're going to pick a timespan where things changed radically in the magical world, the 13th century is the place to go. Everybody was at war with pretty much everybody else, a crusade was going on, Christians were attacking Egypt in retaliation for invading, the Papacy was being disputed, and the Mongols were beating the shit out of Russia.
And, perhaps most importantly of all, the Magna Carta was signed. All of which happened in a span of less than twenty years.
If you think we live in interesting times now, you ain't seen nothing yet. The entire universe as we knew it was blowing itself out it's own asshole and turning inside out during the 13th century. Those were the high middle ages. Kings were getting raised up and then overthrown, lines on every single map were being drawn and redrawn and redrawn again, and there were so many wars going on that I'm surprised nobody at the time just said 'fuck it' and decided to just attack everybody and save themselves time.
IF the House of Polarix were to have existed, this would have been the time for it to have fallen.
So Polarix predates the Magna Carta. Hell, it probably goes all the way back to King Arthur. The original Lord Polarix could have been one of the wizards who helped Merlin and King Arthur unite England and drive back whatever evil that was doubtless threatening the world at the time (smart money is on Morgana LeFey). In return for services rendered, Arthur could have made Polarix a real Lord, and given him dominion over the Northern lands of Europe and likely areas of England as well.
That could very well be why the Polarix name and Polarix Lordship holds such authority, and why the Throne of the North matters so much. The power of Polarix goes all the way back to the original source of all nobility in that part of the world, magical or otherwise: none less than King Arthur himself.
Harry could very well be a descendent of someone who was actually knighted with Excaliber, and learned their magic from Merlin. That's a hell of a pedigree.
And, perhaps most importantly of all, the Magna Carta was signed. All of which happened in a span of less than twenty years.
If you think we live in interesting times now, you ain't seen nothing yet. The entire universe as we knew it was blowing itself out it's own asshole and turning inside out during the 13th century. Those were the high middle ages. Kings were getting raised up and then overthrown, lines on every single map were being drawn and redrawn and redrawn again, and there were so many wars going on that I'm surprised nobody at the time just said 'fuck it' and decided to just attack everybody and save themselves time.
IF the House of Polarix were to have existed, this would have been the time for it to have fallen.
So Polarix predates the Magna Carta. Hell, it probably goes all the way back to King Arthur. The original Lord Polarix could have been one of the wizards who helped Merlin and King Arthur unite England and drive back whatever evil that was doubtless threatening the world at the time (smart money is on Morgana LeFey). In return for services rendered, Arthur could have made Polarix a real Lord, and given him dominion over the Northern lands of Europe and likely areas of England as well.
That could very well be why the Polarix name and Polarix Lordship holds such authority, and why the Throne of the North matters so much. The power of Polarix goes all the way back to the original source of all nobility in that part of the world, magical or otherwise: none less than King Arthur himself.
Harry could very well be a descendent of someone who was actually knighted with Excaliber, and learned their magic from Merlin. That's a hell of a pedigree.
Or you could go with the 1870's.
Personally I plan to kill of bunch of Potters (read: All of them except a boy too young to be told the big things but smart enough to pull the wool over everybody elses eyes) during the Siege of Paris.
My reasoning is that during that time muggle siege weapons radically shifted and the old ward schemes to deal with the old weapons were not only ineffective but worse:
Somebody, depending on who you talk to a dissaffected muggleborn or proto-pureblood activist, has figured out how to turn these artillery shells into the magical equivalent of HARM missiles (=These missiles are used by RL militaries to kill RADAR emitting stations like say the RADAR of AA missile battery) tuned to these ward signatures.
The Potter's Paris residence, lavishly equipped with all manner of wards attracted them like flies.
Personally I plan to kill of bunch of Potters (read: All of them except a boy too young to be told the big things but smart enough to pull the wool over everybody elses eyes) during the Siege of Paris.
My reasoning is that during that time muggle siege weapons radically shifted and the old ward schemes to deal with the old weapons were not only ineffective but worse:
Somebody, depending on who you talk to a dissaffected muggleborn or proto-pureblood activist, has figured out how to turn these artillery shells into the magical equivalent of HARM missiles (=These missiles are used by RL militaries to kill RADAR emitting stations like say the RADAR of AA missile battery) tuned to these ward signatures.
The Potter's Paris residence, lavishly equipped with all manner of wards attracted them like flies.
Polarix has been around for "millenia." It goes back further than that. Even if it didn't, Harry isn't getting the blood from James. It's not the Potters that are the heirs to the Throne of the North. They can't be. It would have been found out by now if they were. IF the Lord of the North is something inherited through a bloodline, it has to come from the Evans line. Potter can't have anything to do with it.
Sorry to go back two steps and bring up "who's behind cell #345"
But I thought as I read the story that using LUPIN would have been a better idea than either Serious (since he's technically dead if ya put this sometime after 5th year) or random wizard.
I agree that the Belatrix pairing in Earl was forced so never mind trying to railroad that pairing back into the rewrite.
The Ron and Hermione angle is perfect, without Harry there to buffer them shit's gonna hit the fan.
Now personally timeline wise I would of said that sometime JUST after 6th yea, with Dumbeldore dead and the Ministry being corrupted from within, if shit hits the fan before Harry and his little group up and go on their little adventure that would have been the ideal time to start.
As for snow bitches... sorry but whenever I see that I think back to Rosario+Vampire.
But I thought as I read the story that using LUPIN would have been a better idea than either Serious (since he's technically dead if ya put this sometime after 5th year) or random wizard.
I agree that the Belatrix pairing in Earl was forced so never mind trying to railroad that pairing back into the rewrite.
The Ron and Hermione angle is perfect, without Harry there to buffer them shit's gonna hit the fan.
Now personally timeline wise I would of said that sometime JUST after 6th yea, with Dumbeldore dead and the Ministry being corrupted from within, if shit hits the fan before Harry and his little group up and go on their little adventure that would have been the ideal time to start.
As for snow bitches... sorry but whenever I see that I think back to Rosario+Vampire.
Just for the record? Dumbledore's not this dumb. By this point, I fully expect him to have a very good idea of exactly who Polarix is. Why? Look at the facts that Dumbledore has:
~ The prophecy was given to him, and him alone, by Trelawny, in the exact same way that the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort was. It clearly identifies Dumbledore and Voldemort in the prophecy, but the 'Heir of the Old World' is not clear.
~ Harry escapes Azkaban on his own, and is nowhere to be found. Not long afterward, the Lord of the North is sending around decrees and making movements, when the Throne has been empty for centuries.
~ While the descent of the Potter line is both well known and public knoweldge, nobody has ever really examined the Evans line for anything unusual or magical, because they had no reason to. Lily was just Yet Another Muggleborn, like so many hundreds of others. Why would she be unusual? So half of Harry's ancestry is, technically, completely unknown.
Dumbledore is a genius. There's no way he wouldn't put these pieces together. Even if he doesn't have the hard evidence to prove it, Dumbledore would have to suspect that Harry is the 'North Star' mentioned in the new prophecy.
Add in the fact that Dumbledore, unlike most wizards, does not overlook or marginalize muggles and the muggleborn, and I don't see how he couldn't suspect it at this point.
And I can see why.
"C'mere, sweetheart. Let me show you the Black Rod of Polarix."
~ The prophecy was given to him, and him alone, by Trelawny, in the exact same way that the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort was. It clearly identifies Dumbledore and Voldemort in the prophecy, but the 'Heir of the Old World' is not clear.
~ Harry escapes Azkaban on his own, and is nowhere to be found. Not long afterward, the Lord of the North is sending around decrees and making movements, when the Throne has been empty for centuries.
~ While the descent of the Potter line is both well known and public knoweldge, nobody has ever really examined the Evans line for anything unusual or magical, because they had no reason to. Lily was just Yet Another Muggleborn, like so many hundreds of others. Why would she be unusual? So half of Harry's ancestry is, technically, completely unknown.
Dumbledore is a genius. There's no way he wouldn't put these pieces together. Even if he doesn't have the hard evidence to prove it, Dumbledore would have to suspect that Harry is the 'North Star' mentioned in the new prophecy.
Add in the fact that Dumbledore, unlike most wizards, does not overlook or marginalize muggles and the muggleborn, and I don't see how he couldn't suspect it at this point.
And I can see why.
"C'mere, sweetheart. Let me show you the Black Rod of Polarix."
It should be noted that in order for my idea to work, the process of becoming an Animagus would have to not involve anything you couldn't acquire or do in a maximum security prison cell. That means that becoming an Animagus can't involve wands, potions, or any sort of extra magical accoutriments.
Fortunately, that kind of fits with what we've seen of it in canon. You don't need a wand to use an Animagus form if you've got one. It's possible a wand is not necessary in any part of the process. It would have to revolve around using magic without a wand, and possibly involve meditation and mental exercises.
Fortunately, that kind of fits with what we've seen of it in canon. You don't need a wand to use an Animagus form if you've got one. It's possible a wand is not necessary in any part of the process. It would have to revolve around using magic without a wand, and possibly involve meditation and mental exercises.
Having Polarix gaining it's kingdom from Arthur also makes sense if you want to give Harry a sword, since so many legendary blades came from King Arthur's Court.
One of the Legendary blades that were never recorded in history could replace the black rod from Silvere's Story.
The Frozen Blade of the North.
One of the Legendary blades that were never recorded in history could replace the black rod from Silvere's Story.
The Frozen Blade of the North.