Oh Severus.

[wintercreek]

Oh, Severus. I was wondering who was going to infiltrate Hogwarts under polyjuice. When Barty faked his own death, I thought it might be him ... but to parallel canon year four it should be someone working for insurgency, which makes Severus perfect. And allows for both the occlumency lessons of year five AND potentially for Harry to get more information about his parents.

Also, I will be quite busy for the rest of the evening. No need to leave me irritating notes. Hah.

( Rampant speculation about the future )

Speculation aside, my hat is off to the players. Y'all are simultaneously crafting a 'verse that hits all the parallel points of canon in ways that are satisfying AND playing out a story that is uniquely and organically it's own. For each major event (and some minor ones!) I have had both a feeling of pleased inevitability and breathless surprise: I cannot foresee what you'll do, but once you've done it I can't think of a better way for it to have happened. Cheers to you.

Daphne's Dad

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A thought occurred to me while I was cooking dinner tonight: is the reason that Daphne wants to research old gossip magazines because she thinks Raz might be her father? We already know that she is the oldest in her year, which means she was born in October 1979. In the most recent thread, Daphne points out to Padma that she is looking for articles from 1978/1979 in particular. And given that her mum was panicking that Daphne might tell her dad, it seems possible doesn't it?

I thought at first that she just wanted to learn more about her mum, but given her specificity with her focus of research, I think it means something more. I love Raz's character already, but it would be an amazing arc to see how this all plays out (especially in his relationship w/ Sinistra) if he really is Daphne's dad.