Thread response post #3

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

A LOT of interesting storylines have been running lately. Anyone who has a second, link to a thread or two of interest, and a comment about it, and I'll copy it into the post.

Here are mine:
-Whoever guessed the Mirror of Erised would be in Buckingham Palace was correct. We still need to figure out what Harry saw, though.

-The kids wonder how Muggles ever got along without wizard favors. That's like taking the wands away from wizards and then wondering how they ever got from place to place without cars.

-I cheered at Tonks breaking free of the Crouches.

-The sympathy between Pansy and Sirius is great. "Hello, dangerous criminal." "Hullo, rabble-rouser." I hope they get a chance to meet in person someday. Also, Remus and Sirius's interactions are so sad.

-Amycus's evil Christmas message made me laugh.

-At 11, shouldn't Harry be too old for "let's be friends because our parents are friends"? It struck me as another example of how he is oddly childish sometimes, which I suspect is due to an upbringing where he was rarely encouraged to think for himself or take care of himself.

From travelintheways:
-I found Draco's Christmas post very interesting: "Mostly, I wish that things and people would just let Harry alone! He's never done a bad thing to anyone and he's a much pleasanter person than me, so, I wish that... they would just let him be." For the most part, Draco's been staying in his canon character, and I found this outburst of genuine empathy touching and intriguing. He must mean all the, ah, attention Harry's receiving after bumping into the Mirror.

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[travelintheways.livejournal.com]

Posted just after you did, I found Draco's Christmas post (http://alt-draco.livejournal.com/4017.html) very interesting: "Mostly, I wish that things and people would just let Harry alone! He's never done a bad thing to anyone and he's a much pleasanter person than me, so, I wish that... they would just let him be." For the most part, Draco's been staying in his canon character, and I found this outburst of genuine empathy touching and intriguing. He must mean all the, ah, attention Harry's receiving after bumping into the Mirror.

Draco's been in a foul mood too lately. I'm wondering (and I may not be recalling the thread quite correctly): did Draco see something in the Mirror too? Now that's something I'd LOVE to know about.

With Harry thinking about how hard the LP's younger life was (the sympathetic soul that he is), and how he used to think the LP didn't love him, I'd wager a Chocolate Frog that his desire had something to do with family/parents who loved him - not much different from canon Harry's desire, really.

[qwerty88.livejournal.com]

"-At 11, shouldn't Harry be too old for "let's be friends because our parents are friends"? It struck me as another example of how he is oddly childish sometimes, which I suspect is due to an upbringing where he was rarely encouraged to think for himself or take care of himself."

My mother _still_ thinks I should have been friends with the daughter of one of her best friends.

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

Amycus's post includes a rather infamous quote.

[aquagia.livejournal.com]

I think Lucius's role in this is very interesting. I mean, what he tells Harry about the mirror is pretty damn close to what Dumbledore told him in canon--just said in a different way:

But in this case, that's not the most important reason not to have meddled; it's more to do with the false images that artifact produces. You continue to dwell on them, I see. My advice is to put the whole affair from your mind. It is fruitless to spend your time dreaming of impossibilities. Men have driven themselves mad doing so.

Lucius is completely filling the Dumbledore role of father figure/advisor for Harry. Now, it's always been my opinion that Lucius (even book Lucius), while being a murderer, bigot and general asshole besides, still really loves his child and family. At this point in the game I'm placing Pansy and Harry in his "family", so I'm very intrigued to see what will happen with them.

You guys. This game is making me love Lucius even more than I already did. Not good. Haha.