Ask Us Anything!

[alt_moderator]

The cast thread is filling up rapidly, and while we don't have to fuss about comment collapse, it is getting difficult to navigate...

So here's a new post, where we're asking YOU to ask US: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

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[ivorygates]

What happens to Lana?

[stormyhearted]

(To anyone who wants to comment.) Is there anyone you wish had been a played character, but it just didn't work out?

[keshwyn]

Why did Frank get his magic back but George didn't?

[stormyhearted]

Who has Neville's herbology journal, and what will happen with it?

[stormyhearted]

Oh, and another- Dolohov told Sally Anne that Neville and Harry's bodies had been cremated. Did he lie, or was he lied to? If so, who told him that- Barty, or Bella? Why did Rod know where they were- and why weren't they cremated?

[stormyhearted]

What is your favorite thing created for Alternity? (Place, spell, item, whatever.)

[kiya]

Okay, the big thing that's been on my mind basically since he was introduced is of course a Jason question: we saw that he was always at least a little subversive with his Glasgow contacts and how he covered for them.

The thing with the near escape and bomb in Ireland, did he do that on purpose to try to disable or take out some major DE figures, or was it a genuine inexperienced fuckup?

[stormyhearted]

I know I'm asking ALL THE QUESTIONS but I have one last query- what happened to Peter Pettigrew? The last mention of him I can find in the recaps in 1 February Y7 when Sirius said he'd come to collect Peter from Harry. I think I remember him going to Saltash or something? But I can't find any mention of it.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Is the fan theory that Margery Birdwhistle=Margaret Thatcher true?

What did Tim Berners-Lee do after the war? Was he involved in Bill's journal project at all?

With the cast list coming out, it was revealed that a lot of characters who played opposite each other in storylines were in fact played by the same person. How did you balance that? Was it ever hard?

What happened to that pop singer character who vanished around Y3?

Can you give us a sense of (a few of the) plots which were surprises but worked really well in the end? For example I always had the impression that Terry/Hermione was supposed to be endgame at first but Draco/Hermione ended up evolving organically...was I right? (Was it even known at first that Draco would be in the Order in the end?) Did you always know Harry and Neville would die?

What was up with the spelling of Seamus's name? In canon it was Finnegan, I think, and in the beginning people seemed to go with either that or Finnigan half the time, but by the end it was always Finnigan.

What is Bea like when she grows up? Does she remember her other dads?

Sorry for the torrent of questions! I'm a journalist IRL and now that I can ask I can't stop! I'll probably have more later.

[keshwyn]

Is there anything you would go back and change, if you could?

[annia]

By the end of year 7, can anybody still access the ISS lock? (Sorry, I can't remember the ages of the younger characters. )

I know Charlie uses stuff from the Order Only lock for his books, but does anybody save the stuff under the ISS lock? I'd hate to think that it never gets read again because there's so much important stuff in there.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Oh! Two Bellatrix-related questions...

I don't remember the exact threads, but it's implied at several points in the game that Narcissa is a match for Bellatrix, in terms of power and maybe as a duellist. (Most recently in her last thread with Hydra, where she said if she knew how bad things had gotten with Bella, she would have acted, the implication being she would have been successful.) Is this the case? Also, the Lucius/Narcissa and Hermione/Draco parallels at the end make me wonder how much of a closet badass Narcissa really is, and why she chose the path she did, if she is.

And what about Molly? Ginny's brainwashing made me think we were setting up for a "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" moment, which would have been glorious. Could Molly still wipe the floor with this Bellatrix, or would the fact that she's in top form as opposed to having been in Azkaban made it too much?

[kiya]

Other thread has reminded me:

Bella implied that she knew a way of saving V and wanted Rod's help to implement it. What was it? Did she need Rod particularly or was it just that he was the person she thought most likely to obey?

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure if you guys are still answering on this page, but if you are: what was going on with Dean? He was in a position where he pretty much NEVER had the chance to put his real thoughts on paper--but from the hints it seemed like there may have been stuff happening behind the scenes that we never got to see.

[stormyhearted]

Were it not for Bellatrix's interference, would Justin have been able to best Tosha at Penzance?

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

I checked the wiki but couldn't find anything (which of course doesn't mean it's not there) but I'm wondering about the theory behind binding spells for marriage. Did you guys create these for the game? How do they work...people have said there are different ones, but not what the differences are.

[(Anonymous)]

Am I too late to ask a question or two? Is there some newer thread I should be using?

- What exactly happened between Sally Anne and that Healer when she was a kid? We were never given specifics (I don't think?) and I kind of got a "molesty" vibe from it all. Did he assault her?

- Rowena Robins - what's her deal?! How did things end between her and Lucius? Did she really kill that guy, or was it a set up?

- Why does Lucius seem so much more reluctant to forgive Pansy than his son (or Harry)? He threw her letter in to the fireplace and ignored her for years? Isn't that a little extreme?

- What did Severus think about Hermione's crush on him? Because she definitely had one. And he definitely knew about it. :)

- Someone said up above that Dean's player left the game early. Is that why he was killed off in Year 6? Was there originally a different plan for him?

(I also just want to say that Ernie's, Blaise's and Cedric's codas all made me incredibly sad. Feels. So many feels.)

[(Anonymous)]

Omg, I'm so sorry. I know I'm approximately one jillion years late to this entry, but I just finished an epic re-read of years 5-through-7 and on the off-off-chance anyone is still hanging around and willing to provide answers, I HAVE TO ask:

- The long lost Sandoval sister. Tell me EVERYTHING. Was she really a squib? Where did she end up? Is she aware of her own parentage/origin story? (She should have her very own spin-off fic. I'm obsessed.)

- And on that note: Mr. Sandoval's first marriage. WHY did he produce so many squibs? Before I read Alternity, I never thought of squib-ism as a potentially genetic thing, but...maybe?

- What was up with Tony Parkinson? Was he a loyal Death Eater who just happened to have "questionable" musical tastes, or was there more to it than that?

- Did Dudley ever see his parents again? (Also, did he and Harry ever meet face to face? I wasn't completely clear on that.)

- Was it a conscious choice to have Harry die a virgin, or did it just kind of happen that way?

- Not part of my re-read, but it's been on my mind: When Dennis was killed (in Year 2?) Alice left a message in Draco's journal under the order lock, not intending for him to ever see it. I'm just wondering if he ever did, and if so, what were his thoughts?

Thanks! This has been the reading experience of a lifetime! In the past two weeks I've watched at least six Saoirse Ronan movies, and I place all the blame on Alternity!