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Reviews For The name is Potter Black!
Also, Sirius not wanting to admit his age, my mother does the same thing. She's been calibrating her 35th birthday as long as I can remember... (I'm 25 BTW and the youngest of my two sister is 13/14 years older than me.) Author's Response: LOL! Sirius is so vain! I so can see him denying his age! Hermione has been corrupted, poor girl. That's what she gets for keeping the company she keeps. Thanks!
Author's Response: I figured the wand won't go against it's master and all, so since the master wanted to AK themselves it would have worked. But then again you have to remember a detail, Crouch Jr. isn't using his wand (he couldn't, Dumbledore would know if Moody had changed wands) and we don't actually know if he was the one who won the wand from Moody, could have been Bellatrix, or if anyone did win the wand or just caught Moody some other way. Aha, so which is it? Hum, was the wand his or not? That will remain one of those unsolved mysteries like: what the hell was Denis Creevey doing in hogsmead when he was just a second year? Thanks!
Anyways, I've been a little tied up and hadn't had much time to re-read this story. Author's Response: Thanks! I always thought that Hermione's parents should have objected a little, but then again maybe they didn't know. I know that four years doesn't seem that much a difference but it all depends on the age of the person, four years when you're 30 and 26 are not that much but at 18 and 14 it's a lifetime of difference. One is almost an adult and the other is barely entering teenage years.
Also, the hat wanting to put Sirius in Slytherin? The young Sirius strikes me as being way too reckless for Slytherin to have been a possibility. The older Sirius in your story, yeah. I can see him taking one of "What Hogwarts House Would You Be In?" tests and getting Slytherin or having Slytherin in a close second. As for Dumbledore about knowing about something and not acting on it, that sounds like something he would do. Remember in DH, "Keep and eye on him?" Also, you do have a good point about the rumor mill in the wizarding world. I'm a little suprised that Quibbler and The Prophet were the only two news sources in the wizarding world (Witch Weekly and those other magazines don't count). With the Prophet's inaccuracy, the Quibbler's insanity, and given JK said the wizard population of Brittan is like 3000, logic would say the people would be able to know what is true and what is not. I find it hard to believe that an entire society would rather believe a newspaper rather than their family and friends... Author's Response: I figured someone as Severus being so out of charachter would drive how dangerous the task was with more efficiency then if Sirius was the one having a fit, especially since he tends to overreact here. I mean, besides the trio, evryone in Canon was acting as if Harry facing a dragon was the same as Harry going to play soccer. I don't know, sometimes I think Sirius had a lot of Slytherin qualities. He was loyal to his friends, and brave and most of all he wanted very badly to defy his family (as he let it clear in that memory in DH). But he was ruthless and he was very, very selfish in my opinion. He thought of himself and forgot how anything afected others (I think the prank and the fact that he went off after Pettigrew without a thought to Harry proves that). That doesn't mean he is a bad person, just not perfect, and who is after all? But my point is that putting oneself first always is quite the Slytherin quality. I don't think anyone can fit perfectly in only one house, and most people must have gotten more than one possibilitie when conversing with the hat. Remember, this is Sirius telling the story. The hat might have even thought Gryffindor best for him even if Sirius hadn't said anything, and just have mentioned Slytherin. Like it did with Hermione. And I could definetly see Remus in Revenclaw, I bet he got a little pondering too. But I thought Sirius, who wanted to be anywhere but Slytherin, and preferebly were the aneurism his parents would get would be stronger, wouldn't have even given the hat a chance to ponder and would start to argue for Gryffindor at once, and then off course remember that he was the one to convince the hat, even if the hat had shouted to the whole hall that it would have but Sirius in Gryffindor regardless. But in the end I think the hat would have chosen Gryffindor, just as with Harry, because even if Sirius does have Slytherin qualities the Gryffindor ones are predominant. But I also think, that just as with Harry in the books to a younger Sirius, the hat having considered Slytherin might have been a great shame that he would keep a secret. But as you said, as an adult in my story he has grown, and can now admit that freely and even taunt Severus. I don't think canon adult Sirius would have. Thanks for the input!
Also, both in your story and in cannon, it seams rather odd that none of the teachers attempt to stop the rumor mill when it gets out of control. If something like that happened at my high school, the principle would discuss it during the school bulletin. Junior High... That would be a different story. The principle was part of the rumor mill, especially when it came to the relationship between the art teacher and an English teacher. Author's Response: That might depend from school to school then. In my high school the teachers wouldn't stop anything, as a matter of fact the juiciest gossips were about the teachers. As long as they weren't doing anything illegal and it didn't interfere with their work both what students or teachers did was mostly their business and the school didn't interfere. There were quite a few of teachers who were married and had gotten married having met there. But I have no idea how education is in England so I go by what happened in my schooling, both in Brazil and Italy. From what I can see the American schools are a huge part of the child’s social life. And maybe because of that the teachers reach not only in the students' school life but social life too. I don't know if I'm right or not, that is my perception from someone who bases my knowledge of American schooling on TV and the one year of College I attended there. I might be completely wrong. In Brazil, as well as in Italy, school was just school, from eight to one and then you had the afternoon where you attended whatever extra activity you had and did your homework. There weren’t' clubs, and school related extra activity. Your friends weren't only confined to your friends from school since you also had many activities that had nothing to do with school, like English class, guitar lessons, ballet or whatever the child takes fancy too. And because of that as I said as long as it wasn't illegal or interfering with "productivity" their social lives were not the teachers business. I figured the English way of viewing school might be closer to the Italian, so I just went on with my own way. I know, that since they are a boarding school they are more involved with the students then normally, but honestly those articles about their love-life weren't that damaging to require any dramatic action. There could have been extra attention because Harry was famous but I didn't see the need for that. I think that was a business for family to take care, not the school, and in Canon Harry has no family to sue the Prophet and here, well, there might have been one or another Howler from Sirius, but what could he do other than that in the Wizarding world system? The slander the prophet does next proves that there isn't much justice or truth printed in that paper and I kept it close to canon that way.
Thanks for reading and giving your input!
Author's Response: Yes, that definetly was a mystery. I figured Dumbledore must have had some idea but just let everything play out to see what happened. Thanks for reading and giving your input!
Author's Response: Yeah, but Arthur just had to butt in! Evil glares at him! Thanks!
Author's Response: I know but in my story I needed the stone destryed so Albus wouldn't be tempted. So I changed canon there. Thanks!
Author's Response: I know! But so cute!
That sounds like something Hagrid would say. heh I still laugh at that line. Author's Response: I know! LOL! I think he said that in book 4 about dragons! Thanks! |
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