Stunning HBP Developments

[persephone_kore]

Got the idea from a_t_rain: neither actual predictions nor actual... well, negative predictions (e.g. my "Snape is not a villain" or the obvious "Ron and Ginny will not 'go evil' despite the desires of the anti-Weasley contingent"), but outlandish pet theories or fun ideas that would shock you no end if they actually showed up in HBP. (This is perhaps not for the people who only go in for straight and strict prediction.)

So, what would make me fall over?


1. Salazar Slytherin as a werewolf.

2. Salazar Slytherin reincarnated as Crookshanks. (I don't think she's going in for reincarnation, honestly, but it was such a fun idea....)

3. Tom Riddle was born under the thirteenth astrological sign of Ophiuchus the Snake-Handler, and this is important.

4. The boa from the zoo plays an important role by distracting Nagini and seducing her from Voldemort's side. (Voldemort is distressed by his dear Nagini making his mother's mistake and getting involved with a nonmagical creature.)

5. Harry and Neville conspire to hatch a new basilisk using Trevor.

6. Salazar was actually a toad Animagus (and may have at least tried to hatch the basilisk personally).

Comments

[ashtur.livejournal.com]

*rofl*

Now I'm going to have visions of Salazar sitting there like a mother hen (er, toad) on a chicken's age *L*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I know! Isn't it great?

(...My outlandish theories are a little snake-heavy, aren't they?)

[ashtur.livejournal.com]

Just so long as you don't come up with telling us that Godric's animagus from was a mongoose.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

They liked each other, I'm telling you! ;)

Actually, Andrea and I do have an unposted Godric who would, in fact, be ideally suited to turning into a mother hen.

(...And I've read a story excerpt where Salazar literally ended up as one, due to having accidentally invented and botched Polyjuice Potion. Sadly, this tale seems to remain unfinished, so I don't know if a toad got on one of his eggs or what.)

[yma2.livejournal.com]

I like no.4, it could be such a dramatic romance! :swoons:

For never was there a tale, of such woe
Than this of Nagini and her boa-boa!

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

These are brilliant, particularly 3 (for sheer silliness), 4 and 6.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *grins* I was terribly amused to learn about Ophiuchus.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. :)

(Thanks!)

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

What got me was that it already pretty much fit the semi-random birthday we'd given Tom.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. *grins* (Of course, I think it also fits mine, which may be vaguely worrying.)

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've come across that particular bit of information -- Who? What? Where? When?

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can't remember exactly what prompted this, but I was looking up something about astrological signs. Because the standard dates for a given sign of the Zodiac were set a while ago, and there's been some astronomical drift, your sign by date may not correspond to what constellation was actually in position at the time. (Hermione, ever-correct, was born on one of about four days where she's a Libra no matter how you decide.) On top of that, a thirteenth constellation is actually sitting in the "ring" that the Zodiac ones appear to lie along: Ophiuchus, aka the Snake-Handler, aka (but possibly not for astronomical purposes) Aesclepius, the name under which I was familiar with the guy who got his ears licked clean by snakes as a young man, was thereby granted the ability to hear the speech of animals, and thus became a great healer, learned to raise the dead, and was eventually lightning-struck by Zeus for taking money for it. (In fact, that's why I have for some time written fic under the assumption that there may be healing spells incanted in Parseltongue.)

Anyway, Ophiuchus wouldn't really make for even divisions, but if it's included (and really, with the wizarding world attachment to prime numbers, somebody's got to be doing it, whether it's traditional or only shows up in Quibbler horoscopes), it would rule late November and early December. Alan and I had dropped Tom's birthday in late November for non-astrological reasons.

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

And we had Luna come up with an appropriately Quibbleresque conspiracy theory for why the rest of the world thinks there's only twelve signs. Whether or not we end up writing the actual story, we should use that bit of conversation somewhere, because it's funny. :)

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yes, we should.

I wish I'd spent less time dawdling around -- we haven't actually posted anything new in ages, and we could have put together so much that's probably about to get obsoleted, if we'd just gotten around to it. :/ I liked a lot of it.

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

Whether or not we end up writing the actual story, we should use that bit of conversation somewhere, because it's funny. :)

Oh yes - it sounds fascinating. You definitely should.