The Alternity Re-Read: October, Year 1

[alt_moderator]

As with September, here is the October pdf file.

This post is spoiler-free, but there is no need to avoid spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

Oooh, unintended foreshadowing. From a post by Teddy on October 6th.

Neville: Do you remember seeing aeroplanes?
Sally-Anne: I do. They looked a bit like paper darts.

[naomikritzer]

Milli, October 8th:
"Yesterday my cat was sick on my bed because someone fed him fish and he is aler gick alergic to fish so it smelled bad until the house elves came to clean up the sick but Daphne wont come upstairs now because she says it still smells of fish. Daphne is a stupid swot Fergus is a nice cat he cant help that he can't eat fish without being sick."

This wasn't unintended foreshadowing so much as a thing that became a callback for us over the years. I may have regularly forgotten the name of Pansy's kneazle (Pyewacket) and had to check on it, but I never forgot that Fergus was allergic to fish and would puke if he ate it. Fergus puked a lot, and he was clearly the sort of cat that would eat any damn thing someone offered him, even if it always make him puke later.

[gwendolyngrace]

The Order used to have dead drops. That's entirely sensible. Wonder what happened to those?

Also, I know I wrote them myself, but I'd forgotten how those early Lucius posts how couched his language was. Things like, 'was flattered that Our Lord asked me for advice' - all of which was calculated to make his role (and culpability) in governmental decision-making look far less executive and more influential.

Also, OMG, Pansy was a brat!

[naomikritzer]

Arthur posts about Jane Tanisbee. We called back to that, later, with the plot about Strangeweale's device.

[gwendolyngrace]

Well, another inconsistency, one of many I am sure:

Lucina Prewett Crouch was lost and became Norah Robards Crouch.

[reenie]

Everyone was pretty much terrible (to varying degrees) at sounding even remotely British. or 1990s-ish.

[naomikritzer]

The Marie plot. Sigh. In retrospect, I kind of think we should have used that plot to hint at the coming horcrux stuff. (Marie seems almost like a horcrux gone wrong -- like, someone tried to make a horcrux, but didn't quite pull it off.)

[lapin_agile]

Okay. So just to show how far I'm lagging behind in reading... I just came to Poppy's first post, and that's not me writing her. I went and looked it up. I didn't answer the casting call until January.

I had totally forgotten that someone else played her first. (But I'm kind of glad because her voice in this first post really doesn't sound like my writing. Phew.)

[(Anonymous)]

ha! Umbridge complaining about terms like "toadies" and "head bullfrog" being bandied about :)

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