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[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering this for awhile, but since Year Three is the next up, I may as well ask the question now...

Who will be the titular Prisoner of Azkaban in this universe?

I'm thinking either Snape or Peter. We haven't heard what actually happened to either of them, have we?

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[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

It would be pretty awesome if it was Snape, because I'm MISSING HIM.

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm not sure what would bring him to Hogwarts, though. Maybe just wanting to protect Lily's son, but why now?

[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

No idea. I've just spent thirty minutes looking at the summary on Harry Potter Lexicon, and I have no bloody idea how they're going to go about it. Almost everything is different!

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

That just makes me more excited for the fifth, sixth and seventh years. Things are just going to get more and more different all the time!

[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

What about the third year, though? Hermione can't get the time turner because she's a muggle-born, Hagrid isn't around to show the 3rd years Buckbeak, Black isn't in Azkaban so he can't break out and come scare the pants off Ron. If I had to write this story, I'd tear my hair out.

Which is why I'm glad they're doing it and I'm not, actually.

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm assuming the Prisoner (whoever it is) will scare someone else, instead... maybe Draco? Or if Sally-Anne's rat, I could see her being in Ron's place. But then it would have to be a female prisoner, since men can't get in the girls' dorms. (Oh! But if it's going to be someone in Slytherin playing Ron's role, then maybe the prisoner has to be from Slytherin too, to better find it and sneak in?)

And if they still use Buckbeak, I guess Professor Brutka will have to bring him into the story.

And I have no idea about the time turner. Who's likely to be taking too many classes? Sally-Anne maybe, and Padma, but even then I doubt they'd try as many as Hermione did.

[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

If the prisoner has to be from Slytherin, then my money's on Snape. I just can't figure out how Snape would know Peter is a rat. Also, why would Peter have remained a rat when Voldemort came to power? He would have been on the winning side then.

As for the time turner, maybe Pansy? Or Hydra, so she can take everything her mother wants and still take what she wants as well?

Yeah, no idea.

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed, by the way, that instead of the DADA teachers getting fired every year, it's the Head of Gryffindor? Lockhart was both, but I find it interesting. I wonder who will be Gryffindor Head next year... and who will teach DADA, since Lupin can't!

[ladyrelaynie.livejournal.com]

True. Hmmm. So Tom would have to have taken the curse off the DADA teachers and switched it to the Gryffindor Heads, since he put the original curse on before he came to power, after being denied the job by Dumbledore. I could see him doing that, he's vindictive enough.

[wintercreek]

I'm leaning very hard for Peter being Sally Anne's new rat. It's just too convenient that she would get one now, as a relatively central character, and have him not turn out to be Peter. (Unless this is a red herring, in which case I'm chasing it gleefully for the amusement of the players. *g*)

I'm also wondering if Sirius is going to get captured this summer and briefly be a prisoner in Azkaban? I can't see how Snape would survive it without making him a animagus - isn't that all that kept Sirius sane in canon?

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that about Peter too! It could easily be a red herring, but it's fun to think it could be him. Now that I think of it, Ron did mention that Percy used to have a rat called Scabbers. But we have no way of knowing if that was Peter still, or just some real rat.

The net does seem to be closing around Sirius. I could see him getting captured, but wow, that would be a huge blow to the Order and other resistance. On the other hand, it would be amazing to see him escape after that... especially if someone else broke him free! I suppose they wouldn't need too, though. He could get free the same way again.

[lorax1.livejournal.com]

I miss Snape too, but I'm wondering whether they'll stick to the plot (Sirius Black is thought to be near Hogwarts) rather than the title -- with Sirius already a fugitive from justice, if there were reports that he was back in Britain the same plot would follow rather naturally, I think.

I think Sally-Anne's rat is a red herring - I don't think Peter would have let himself be captured by Carrow and used for experiments, there are just too many ways that could go very horribly for him. (Speaking of Carrow, there's another character who was imprisoned in Azkaban in this universe!)

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

Oh, true! And I could see Carrow going after Harry.

[isiyanka.livejournal.com]

True, but I think Carrow is this universe's Snape (up to the seventh book, because he must be evil, really), meaning that the students will constantly suspect him of all evil things, even when he hasn't done them.

And I don't know what to think of the rat yet.. I don't think Peter would've let himself be captured either, but I still think it is significant. Somehow ;)

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

Oh, true. He's Red Herring!

If it's not significant, they're doing a great job of making us think it is. :)

[trogon.livejournal.com]

Barty Crouch Jr. has just mentioned a mysterious "Prisoner Z-13":

http://alt-crouch-jr.dreamwidth.org/2534.html

So, it looks like they will be having a Prisoner of Azkaban (rather than having the Sirius-on-the-loose plot). Both Snape and Peter are still possibilities, of course; anyone else?

[spiffariffic.livejournal.com]

I just saw that myself and came to see if anyone had posted about it! :)

Z-13... I'm horribly curious. I don't suppose the code is a clue at all to the identity, is it? Probably not, alas.

Someone who could have an appeal. So someone whose activities could be seen from a few different lights, not that that helps us a whole lot... but it has to be someone from Harry's past or who knows his family, I think, or they'd have to change an awful lot about the story.