Where are you going with the "Stepbrothers" fics, and do you have any plans to stop?
I'm not sure that first one is a fair question; do you really want me to spoil the whole thing? ;) Then again, the answer to the second is that we haven't actually written any of it in a while -- we've got one more fic to catch up to at the Quill, and all we've got is posted at FA and ff.net. (Actually, I haven't finished much of anything in a while. Sigh.) It's not so much that we planned to stop as that we know a fair amount of what happens later, but haven't worked any of it into a story of its own yet. We might get there eventually.
Eh, let's see. Tom is, to your great shock I'm sure, going to grow up and marry Moira. We are saving Rubeus for one Olympe Maxime, because we are sentimental and don't see any reason the changes preclude their meeting. ;) Rubeus will finish school and acquire the position of Care of Magical Creatures professor rather sooner than in canon. He will also, having investigated things rather more thoroughly in this timeline, develop a thriving trade not in the Untradeable Acromantula eggs, but in hiring out live young Acromantulae who speak intelligently, are involved in negotiating their own contracts, and are quite pleased to take on the guarding duties for which their species was originally bred if their masters/employers provide a suitable den and plenty of juicy food. After all, too dense a population of spiders in an area where the food can defend itself is rather likely to turn to cannibalism.
Tom is going to head Slytherin House and teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and will purchase a second wand when Ollivander notifies him that the brother to his own has been sold. Between natural (cultivated) charm, power, and the cachet of being the Heir, he's rather popular, although there will always be somebody who grumbles about the other side of his family. Under his leadership, Slytherin certainly has a lot of pride but can't really get as isolated as it seems to be in canon (for a number of reasons); there is also rather strong encouragement in the idea that it is more productive to get on with people and/or get them to adore you than to turn up your nose and antagonize them, if at all possible. He may eventually retire from schoolteaching for a stint in politics.
By the time Harry arrives at Hogwarts, Snape will be long gone and happily (okay, grouchily) ensconced in a research lab somewhere. Peter Pettigrew will be teaching potions.
Why Ernie's great-aunt?
We thought it would be funny. Picture canon Ernie MacMillan's likely reaction to finding out that in another Might-Have-Been, his alternate calls Voldemort's alternate Uncle.
What do you think Stepbrothers Tom would do if there was a pure-blood movement similar to the Death Eaters in his lifetime? (only obviously less effective without Voldemort to lead it.)
Head it off at the pass if he could manage it -- he does, after all, have a certain amount of influence over a number of the children of families who might be most likely to be inclined to such a thing. Assuming it actually got going... I think he'd try to counter it by speaking on it publicly (with Salazar's basilisk at his side) and getting those of his students and... allies... who were amenable to help put it down if it came up in general conversation.
Of course... he'd probably be at the top of their hit list.
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Date: 2004-11-20 06:10 am (UTC)I'm not sure that first one is a fair question; do you really want me to spoil the whole thing? ;) Then again, the answer to the second is that we haven't actually written any of it in a while -- we've got one more fic to catch up to at the Quill, and all we've got is posted at FA and ff.net. (Actually, I haven't finished much of anything in a while. Sigh.) It's not so much that we planned to stop as that we know a fair amount of what happens later, but haven't worked any of it into a story of its own yet. We might get there eventually.
Eh, let's see. Tom is, to your great shock I'm sure, going to grow up and marry Moira. We are saving Rubeus for one Olympe Maxime, because we are sentimental and don't see any reason the changes preclude their meeting. ;) Rubeus will finish school and acquire the position of Care of Magical Creatures professor rather sooner than in canon. He will also, having investigated things rather more thoroughly in this timeline, develop a thriving trade not in the Untradeable Acromantula eggs, but in hiring out live young Acromantulae who speak intelligently, are involved in negotiating their own contracts, and are quite pleased to take on the guarding duties for which their species was originally bred if their masters/employers provide a suitable den and plenty of juicy food. After all, too dense a population of spiders in an area where the food can defend itself is rather likely to turn to cannibalism.
Tom is going to head Slytherin House and teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and will purchase a second wand when Ollivander notifies him that the brother to his own has been sold. Between natural (cultivated) charm, power, and the cachet of being the Heir, he's rather popular, although there will always be somebody who grumbles about the other side of his family. Under his leadership, Slytherin certainly has a lot of pride but can't really get as isolated as it seems to be in canon (for a number of reasons); there is also rather strong encouragement in the idea that it is more productive to get on with people and/or get them to adore you than to turn up your nose and antagonize them, if at all possible. He may eventually retire from schoolteaching for a stint in politics.
By the time Harry arrives at Hogwarts, Snape will be long gone and happily (okay, grouchily) ensconced in a research lab somewhere. Peter Pettigrew will be teaching potions.
Why Ernie's great-aunt?
We thought it would be funny. Picture canon Ernie MacMillan's likely reaction to finding out that in another Might-Have-Been, his alternate calls Voldemort's alternate Uncle.
What do you think Stepbrothers Tom would do if there was a pure-blood movement similar to the Death Eaters in his lifetime? (only obviously less effective without Voldemort to lead it.)
Head it off at the pass if he could manage it -- he does, after all, have a certain amount of influence over a number of the children of families who might be most likely to be inclined to such a thing. Assuming it actually got going... I think he'd try to counter it by speaking on it publicly (with Salazar's basilisk at his side) and getting those of his students and... allies... who were amenable to help put it down if it came up in general conversation.
Of course... he'd probably be at the top of their hit list.