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mhalachai Inevitable Twenty-five: Baby's Got Something To Prove is posted.
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(and if TTH is broken:)
At Pomme de Sang
At Skyehawke
Okay, an all-Harry chapter! I'm kinda nervous about this chapter because I'm insane and am not sure I can write Harry. It's a seventeen-year-old boy who did not live through the events in HBP, so I figure he's a bit softer than that Harry. But it all makes sense for my Harry to do all this.
And yes, Anita will be pleased as punch with what happens in this chapter. As in, she'll want to punch someone.
So pretty please tell me anything you want! About the chapter, about life, about HBP... tell me it all, baby.
At TTH
(and if TTH is broken:)
At Pomme de Sang
At Skyehawke
Okay, an all-Harry chapter! I'm kinda nervous about this chapter because I'm insane and am not sure I can write Harry. It's a seventeen-year-old boy who did not live through the events in HBP, so I figure he's a bit softer than that Harry. But it all makes sense for my Harry to do all this.
And yes, Anita will be pleased as punch with what happens in this chapter. As in, she'll want to punch someone.
So pretty please tell me anything you want! About the chapter, about life, about HBP... tell me it all, baby.
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Date: 2005-07-31 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 01:00 am (UTC)I think that Harry is still feeling out life. He doesn't really know who he is yet. Does his life have another purpose beyond saving the world from Voldemort? I think he does have something to prove, but to himself, not necessarily to Richard or Jean-Claude.
Very nicely done!
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Date: 2005-07-31 01:10 am (UTC)And I'm really liking the dynamic between Jason and Nate and Harry. Before Jason, I'm not sure Nate ever had a real friend before. Add Harry to the mix and it's starting to feel almost normal. Also, even Harry's friendship with Ron was tinged a bit with Ron being in awe of the great Harry Potter to start. Witness what happened in GoF. It's good for Harry to be the goofy little brother for a bit, with Jason.
I would love to see Hermione meet Jason.
Can you wait.... about 30 chapters?
I think he does have something to prove, but to himself, not necessarily to Richard or Jean-Claude.
Exactly. Him and Anita both (it's creepy how much alike those two are)
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Date: 2005-07-31 01:12 am (UTC)"I spent all last night getting a vampire to mess with my head!"
"Who is it? It's illegal! I'll kill them!"
"It's your boyfriend JC!"
*glower* "I'm so going to kick his ass!"
etc.
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Date: 2005-07-31 01:32 am (UTC)And all and sundry who said Harry has something to prove .. I think yeah, he does, but I think it's more that he feels like he's always playing catch-up to his own reputation than that he wants to be all big and bad. Which I think you've conveyed, nicely.
-Sonya
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Date: 2005-07-31 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 01:43 am (UTC)That was an interesting conversation with Nathaniel about whether Nathaniel wanted Harry to leave. I liked Nathaniel's answer.
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Date: 2005-07-31 02:25 am (UTC)I'm glad you're getting what I'm trying to do with Harry, even if I'm having a hard time articulating it outside the story. In the end, the only person you ever have to prove anything to is yourself.
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Date: 2005-07-31 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 02:26 am (UTC)I think the Harry/Nate/Jason thing is very sweet. Very endearing. He can't have a Ron or a Hermione in the states, so he has Nathaniel take Mione's place and Jason take Ron's. And it sorta works.
I can't wait for the next part.
And especially loved the tiny Richard part in this. I love it when he shows and and glowers, much like he did in this chapter. It's so like him...
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Date: 2005-07-31 02:34 am (UTC)No one except for Byron and Requiem, but even that's minor. Byron's just a pain in the ass, is all.
And I have to say that even though I'm not going to be including anything from the DM spoilers in the story, hearing what LKH did with Meng Die has influenced how I'm using her in all this.
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Date: 2005-07-31 02:39 am (UTC)Harry's got a first-class berth on the ship Avoidance, setting sail on De Nile river any day now :P
Thanks!
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Date: 2005-07-31 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 03:13 am (UTC)*snerk* You just had to put that in didn't you ;)
I loved it. You know how much I love Harry and Nathaniel and Jason interaction and this chappie was all about that which is so great. I love how your Harry doesn't immediatly succeed at whatever he tries to do and I think the way he feels about the money situation is amazingly canonical. Fabulous as usual.
Ma Petite, not in this room. Blood would ruin the paintings.
Date: 2005-07-31 03:21 am (UTC)As for the subject field, I'm obviously implying what Anita will *want* to do to Meng Die. Anita, by this point in time, has come to the conclusion that the True Dead generally won't come back after you or yours. (Jean-Claude, on the other hand, discovered that it can be inconvenient if you later find out you need someone who has suffered True Death. And Richard? Richard is, IMO, *still* trying to find a balance for his Inner Monster and his Inner Humanist.) Personally, however, I hope it doesn't come to that. After all, to be a proper Soudre de Sang, Jean-Claude needs to have some of his "descendants" to survive and make more vampires, after all.
I would find it *quite* amusing if Meng Die found out - the hard way, of course - that Harry Potter isn't Superman, but underestimating him is a bit like underestimating John Constantine (from DC comics' "Hellblazer"). Because, while Harry (here, or in HBP) isn't anywhere *near* the SOB John can be, both have very weird luck (which suddenly fluctuates between "struck by the ambulance that was called after you were hit by two bolts of lightning in a row" and "picked up the winning lottery ticket after your worst enemy threw it away, without looking at it") and the ability to use some magic in ways that just Should Not Work (tm).
... Actually, that might not be as impossible as I first thought. Given some comments (during the whole "introduce who/what your are" bit) on the night that Anita met Harry, and some comments made by Dumbledore (to Harry) back in CoS, that might mean... Oh, Meng Die, darling, you *shouldn't* have mentioned about how Harry won't be underage forever! Oh, wouldn't *that* raise a few eyebrows, both in (at least the UK's) Wizarding World and on the Council!
I think I'll stop here. After all, if I'm even vaguely right, I don't want to ruin it. And, if I'm really off-course, I'd rather not embarrass myself further. ^_^
The Apprentice
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Date: 2005-07-31 03:32 am (UTC)I was recently rereading CoS and came to the part where the Weasleys and Harry were in the bank. Even when he was with the Dursleys, Harry never had to worry about money (or, at least, money would not have changed his situation at all). It certainly puts the money problems into a very theoretical situation for Harry.
My Harry does't suceed at everything that he does because Harry in the books doesn't. He is, after all, sort-of only human.
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Date: 2005-07-31 03:36 am (UTC)There were maybe six characters in this whole chapter, but I really liked the part each of them had to play in it. They just fit. It was nice.
Good. It's always good when the tone of an ensemble piece works out.
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Date: 2005-07-31 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 03:54 am (UTC)Right now, tho, it's really the Anita Blake world. We won't get into Harry's world for a little bit now.
So, um, it might be better to read the books first? Maybe I'm not the best person to ask.
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Date: 2005-07-31 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 05:24 am (UTC)The next chapter has a bit of Harry, but we go back to Anita for two chapters and a half after that. Then we go back to Harry in a big way, never fret :)
Thanks for your comments.
Soft Harry
Date: 2005-07-31 10:11 am (UTC)The first comment is regarding the fact that Inevitable-Harry is "softer" that Post-HBP-Harry. Given the type of events that seem to occur around Anita over the last few years, and given everything that's gone on since Harry and Anita met, Inevitable-Harry is going to have been toughened up (most likely quite a bit) by the time Sept. first comes around. If he survives, that is.
The second comment is regarding Jean-Claude's reaction to Harry's success, near the end of chapter 25. I don't doubt that Harry hasn't earned himself a few points on Jean-Claude's score card. What I am curious about, is whether the rules (regarding status) that were applied regarding Anita in Blood Bones, are going also applicable for Harry.
Eagerly hoping that Anita and Snape will cross paths,
The Apprentice
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Date: 2005-07-31 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 03:27 pm (UTC)With regard to this chapter specifically, I'm rather fond of this Harry. No matter how much he does or what he lives through, at his core he's still a little boy in cupboard wishing that someone cared for him. I think that comes across in everything he does--both in canon and in his universe. He's anxious to help, he's distraught when he thinks that he's caused problems and, most importantly, he's beside himself at the thought that people don't like him, or think that he's a trouble maker, or that he has bad intentions. So, he goes to extraordinary lengths to prove otherwise. In that sense, he reminds me of Nathaniel--at least in the glimpse of Nathanial I've seen. So, it makes sense to me that they would draw on each other's strength and find a common ground that others wouldn't necessarily understand. I wonder if Harry recongnizes the subtle shift in how he's being treated? It's not nearly so hostile or wary. But, would Harry get that? Or, will he always think he has to prove himself? Probably. That's my take. I can see Anita going crazy trying to drive that out of him.
I do think, however, that he seems poised for a melt-down . . . He's an emotional wreck, not sleeping, not eating, and he's heaped so much guilt, so much pressure on himself that it seems that something is going to have to give. Big time. Dunno--could be completely off base. I often am! : )
Anyway, great chapter--looking forward to the next one.
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Date: 2005-07-31 05:59 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2005-07-31 06:09 pm (UTC)Another person who Harry's trying to prove himself to, althought he doesn't realize it yet, is Damian. When your grandfather is a 1000-year-old vampire, a guy can start to feel like a total kid (especially since his only real family, the Dursleys, spent years teling Harry he wasn't good enough)
Thanks for commenting.
Re: Ma Petite, not in this room. Blood would ruin the paintings.
Date: 2005-07-31 06:17 pm (UTC)I'm not quite sure what you're getting at in your second to last paragraph, but you can email me if you want to chat further. Mhalachai et gmail dot com.
Re: Soft Harry
Date: 2005-07-31 06:23 pm (UTC)Regarding Harry as "tougher".... the events in HBP and the death therein will have impacted Harry in quite a different way than him killing Bellatrix in IN. That's one of the main reasons I'm not going down the HBP road... I need that particular character. But yes, Harry's already tougher than he was at the start of the month. He's had to deal with Death Eaters, the ramifications of Anita's trauma, and the threats of the local vamps. Fun times, all. But Harry's a survivor, and will make it through this unscathed.
Status for Harry.... If I recall Blue Moon correctly, the Vargamour is sort of outside the pack hierarchy, but then I'm not sure if that was because Marian was human. Anyway, it will all be dealt with in time.
I can say that Anita and Snape will probably 88% sure cross paths. And you can guarentee that it's not going to be pretty.
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Date: 2005-07-31 11:34 pm (UTC)Re: Soft Harry
Date: 2005-08-01 04:18 am (UTC)As for Harry's Status, there's a few points to recall:
First, Harry's not always going to be with St. Louis' pack. He does intend to finish his seventh year at Hogwarts, after all. (Of course, wanting to do something and being able to do it are two different things.) Not to mention that (even before HBP came out) it was pretty clear that the lycanthropes in the UK have "issues". And I can't Harry just letting that go. He's no Hermione, but given how it's affected Remus...
Second, even if the "no pack fight" rule applies to a Vargamour who *is* a werewolf, that doesn't let Harry off the Status hook. Partially because of the fact that not every lycanthrope plays by the rules, not mention the non-lycanthropes (like Meng Die, or the Death Eaters). But mainly due to the fact that Harry has this bad habit of standing up (for his friends, for what he feels is right, or what he feels is the truth) when it might well be wiser to sit down and shut up.
Third, and finally, Harry might not want to live his life in the St. Louis area. Personally, I think Harry is proud and independent. Or, at the very least, that he yearns for his independence and (due to the Dursleys) will (sooner or later) have problems dealing with Grandpa Damian and mothering-mode Anita. I can honestly see Harry visiting often, but deciding not to live in the area. Particularly when you consider his ties to people like Ron, Hermione, and the twins.
As for Snape and Anita, I agree that it most likely will not going to be fun. At least not for those who are also present. Snape has a viper's tongue, with a built in poison gland, and Anita has knives that aren't as sharp as her tongue. Add Harry, whom Snape despises (due to James) and Anita has taken under wing, and you can just *see* Dumbledore and Jean-Claude working desperately to separate them before it's too late.
The Apprentice.
Thirsty
Date: 2005-08-01 07:00 am (UTC)Re: Ma Petite, not in this room. Blood would ruin the paintings.
Date: 2005-08-01 07:18 am (UTC)Looking back at my idea, I can only think that my Inner Fred and George (or is that my Inner George and Fred?) came up with it. While they were testing out a snack based on the Ardeur.
... Oh my, I just thought of Fred and George being let loose upon the poor city of St. Louis. Possibly even deciding to open up a second store in the city.
The Apprentice
Re: Thirsty
Date: 2005-08-01 07:43 pm (UTC)We're back to both of then in the next chapter.