Hi, I don’t think our paths have crossed on LJ before (except for me barging into you conversation with rogueslayer452 over on her LJ)
You weren't barging!
I already have a headcanon that's very dark and I will eventually write into a fic. For simplicity's sake, Gellert kind of did what he did with Credence to the old Graves, and manipulated him into basically giving his identity. This is also why Tina didn't really balk at his trying to murder her and Newt (with the execution Pensieve - I don't want to think Seraphina Whatsit had intended that to be the punishment, and the attendants looked Imperiused or Confunded), he'd been acting strange for so long that in her mind, he'd finally made his true intentions clear and it all "made sense." :/ But that's only headcanon. That's the problem.
yit was always more about the world she created than the actual story.
I loved her world so much. Someone also pointed out how many characters were were to love. Although in fairness, the first two books didn't give us nearly as many either - but we still had the twins and the Hogwarts staff and... yeah. This was basically like if CoS only had the trio, we find out Ginny is Ron's sister halfway through, and the only times we meet McGonagall are when she's mad at someone. Whereas we know she was there the night Harry was left with the Dursleys - tried to spare him, even - and instead of punishing him for flying, she put him on the Quidditch team. She was still the "strict teacher" for several more books, but she had those little moments. We don't get that here.
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Date: 2016-12-05 04:42 pm (UTC)Hi, I don’t think our paths have crossed on LJ before (except for me barging into you conversation with rogueslayer452 over on her LJ)
You weren't barging!
I already have a headcanon that's very dark and I will eventually write into a fic. For simplicity's sake, Gellert kind of did what he did with Credence to the old Graves, and manipulated him into basically giving his identity. This is also why Tina didn't really balk at his trying to murder her and Newt (with the execution Pensieve - I don't want to think Seraphina Whatsit had intended that to be the punishment, and the attendants looked Imperiused or Confunded), he'd been acting strange for so long that in her mind, he'd finally made his true intentions clear and it all "made sense." :/ But that's only headcanon. That's the problem.
yit was always more about the world she created than the actual story.
I loved her world so much. Someone also pointed out how many characters were were to love. Although in fairness, the first two books didn't give us nearly as many either - but we still had the twins and the Hogwarts staff and... yeah. This was basically like if CoS only had the trio, we find out Ginny is Ron's sister halfway through, and the only times we meet McGonagall are when she's mad at someone. Whereas we know she was there the night Harry was left with the Dursleys - tried to spare him, even - and instead of punishing him for flying, she put him on the Quidditch team. She was still the "strict teacher" for several more books, but she had those little moments. We don't get that here.