the Ginger Cat
Slytherin!
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Amidst misconceptions and reconciliation, the lines that separate the Wizarding World will be destroyed. Enemies will serve one another as friendships are tested and forged. But first, the Sorting Hat Who Will Not Sort has a message for Hogwarts...
Warnings: some OOC (with reason). Definite and unabashed alternate universe, here: takes place from the beginning of sixth year. Snape and Harry interaction doesn't start until chapter 4.
Takes Place: 6th summer
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by dancingkatz
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 52 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Feb 2007 / 20 Sep 2006
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 52 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Feb 2007 / 20 Sep 2006
Series: None - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 15: FOURTEEN: Revealeo | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Oh, how cool is that! Severus had the same idea!
Oh, is your Severus 8 to 10 years older than JKR's? If he wrote that paper in his 6th year then it would have been in the 1976-1977 school year. In any case, I think his ocnclusions are true. All Muggles having a bit of magic in them would explain why the ball flickered for Dudley. It makes sense to me that it wouldn't react for Vernon and Petunia because they have consciously smothered everything that could possibly be considered "not normal" out of their psyches and lives. Dudley hasn't quite done that yet.
Bravo yet again. I'm on to the next chapter...
Author's Response:
Yeah, I really messed up the dates. For the sequel, I've got multiple timelines... this story made me discover I'm really bad at that sort of thing without lots of planning. ;)
-K
| Title: Chapter 14: THIRTEEN: The Tower | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Let's hope that Hermione (at least) picks up on the "Dark Lord" reference and figures out that Draco ordered Harry to say those things.
I expect that Ron will either figure it out or will eventually forgive Harry after Hermione explains things.
What's really sad is the truth of the statement. It's possible that Ron and Harry would have become friends as they would be roommates even if they hadn't met on the train. Given that Harry didn't want to be in Slytherin if Draco was after meeting the other boy at Madame Malkin's its most likely that he would have ended up in Gryffindor anyway. Hermione is another matter since he consciously decided that it was most likely that Harry would be in Gryffindor as his parents were and had forced to Hat to mis-Sort her before Harry was Sorted.
Still, even though the words were absolutely true, we normally don't tell our friends the truth because we love them and don't want to hurt them. We may be suspicious of their motivations sometimes, but we put it aside because the relationship is bigger and more important thn the detils of how it started. All of us hide these kind of feelings. They are legitimate but we give up the right to say anything about them in order to stay connected to those we love. Its like the reason why its so hard to tell a family member or friend who is self-destructing with drugs or alcohol or some other issue that you can't enable them anymore.
Incredibly well-written and emotionally racking, this is one of your best chapters yet. Bravo!
Author's Response:
I'm so glad it worked for you. :)
Yeah, as I was writing, I kind of wondered why canon!Harry never went into this frame of mind. He's certainly angsty enough.
I believe the answer is Professor Snape. All throughout Harry's childhood (age eleven on, anyway) he kept calling Harry 'our little celebrity' and going on and on about fame. This is awfully sneaky and doublethinky, but maybe Snape did that on purpose, to allow Harry to show everyone that he didn't really care about that, and so that Harry would stubbornly tell himself that he did not get where he was by using his name...
Maybe that's giving canon!Snape too much credit, but it sounds like the clever sort of thing he'd do.
-K
| Title: Chapter 12: ELEVEN: Conversations and Chemistry | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Oh, goody, you gave us CLUES! Now I'll just have to wait and see how the stuff in this chapter works with the future chapters so I can try to figure out what you are doing.
Rae is such a darling girl and I think it did Harry a lot of good to be able to be a "big brother" to her. I really liked it that he passed on Professor Snape's advice about letting her emotions out (now if he will only take that advice himself!). And the additional advice not to cry alone was good, too.
I like Yolande. She seems like a very intelligent and level-headed girl. I especially liked her promise to make sure that Harry gets his cloak back from Draco.
Speaking of Draco, I am wondering where he is. I have a feling that his Head of House will be having some words with him for missing class.
Great job (as usual)! Bravo!
Author's Response:
Yay! More comments on the OCs! Thank you. :)
-K
| Title: Chapter 13: TWELVE: Power and Prestige | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Hmmmm. I can sort of see Harry thinking about his friendships that way. After all, he never had friends during his formative years, and his only examples were Dudley and his gang (if you could call them friends). Also, the emotional damage he suffered would cause issues with believing that he could be liked for himself.
You know, I think Harry is being more truthful with Draco than he has been with almost everyone else. But that makes sense. He doesn't want to say anything that would chase Ron and Hermione away on the off-chance (to his mind) that they were his friends because he is "just Harry" rather than being "The-Boy-Who-Lived".
Very sneaky of Draco that business with the cloak. Als, I can see him flirting (agressively or awkwardly) with Hermione. It's sort of the mirror of the good girl being attracted by the bad boy, isn't it?
Excellent work again! Bravo!
Author's Response:
Harry is totally being more truthful with Draco, and for just the reasons you describe. He doesn't believe it really matters what Draco thinks of him, so Draco's presence gives him carte blanche to say whatever he would like, to unload any truth he wants. That's kind of attractive, I think, to someone like Harry, who is typically very closed-off.
-K
| Title: Chapter 11: TEN: Cloak and Cauldron | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- I still am not sure what's gong on with Harry, in that I don't know what caused the change in his behaviour. The possibilities I have come up with are that the stresses of the past 15 years have finally caught up with him and he has unconsciously bottled everything away in the obscura as a means of self-preservtion, that he has been hexed somehow, that he's been under a heavy-duty enchantment for most of his life and it is failing now, or that Voldemort has done something to him through the scar connection. Probably all of them are incorrect but it doesn't matter as I know you'll explain things in time.
In the meantime, I just wanted to say that the little scene where Harry was smelling his father's scent on the cloak brought me awfully close to needing to go get a box of tissues. Luckily, Ihad my handkerchief in my pocket. I've known for a long time that scent is one of the most emotive senses (my mum passed away in 1998 and I have a jumper of hers that still smells like her. I hug it when I'm really depressed about things) and I could really identify with Harry right then. It was a lovely piece of writing.
Bravo!
Author's Response:
Ah! Well, you guessed a lot pretty early. Well done!
I do like the idea that Harry has been under an enchantment which is only failing now. (That is the plot to one of my current WIPs. Shh!)
I'm glad the scent thing worked for you. Funny; I am visiting my sister right now, and when she hugged me she said, "mmmm. You smell like a [name of our family]." I thought that was hysterical, but true - whenever I hug my sisters I'm like "yay... family-smell." :D
-K
| Title: Chapter 10: NINE: Lessons | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Scary Draco? Dear Author, scary is nowhere near a strong enough term for what that boy is! He's a terrifying, gut-wrenchingly horrific sociopath!
I do understand how the characters insist on taking over. And if I didn't say it in my previous review, I absolutely loved the "Chat in the Burrow".
Bravo for another fanta-bulous chapter!
Author's Response:
Yes. Or actually a psychopath, because he does a good impression of socialized much of the time.
-K
| Title: Chapter 9: EIGHT: Draco's Demands | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Hmmmm. Yes, Draco is very scary here. But he is also, in a Slytherin way, being fairly considerate at the moment.
Well, we are learning how Harry's getting through his punishment, but what was Draco's punishment for casting Crucio? I understand the spell didn't get through, but the fact is that he still cast it, intending it to hit Harry. Even if Draco knew that Harry could probably block it or dodge it, he still cast an Unforgiveable.
I do like the First-Year OCs. They are quite believably written and their personalities are charming.
Bravo!
Author's Response:
Thank you!
-K
| Title: Chapter 8: SEVEN: Chat at the Burrow | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- I really loved Ron in this chapter. It really made up for his prejudice in the earlier chapter. This time it was Harry who I wanted to shake. OK, I understand that he isn't intentionally handling everything that's happened to him in the worst possible way but I really wish he would listen to his best friend.
Hmmm, I wonder if he has been nudged into locking everything up inside himself by something or someone... Well, I'll wonder and go on to the next chapter. You did an excellent job, as always. Bravo!
Author's Response:
Heh. You are very astute.
-K
| Title: Chapter 5: FOUR: Advanced Potions | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Well, that was interesting. Just what did happen to all of Harry's outrage? Was it just low blood sugar, or something else?
And just who wrote that E on Severus' list?
I hope the Professor doesn't insist on Harry re-doing all the summer homework.
Bravo!
Author's Response:
Heheh. Low blood sugar.
Also: you are a VERY FAST reader. :)
-K
| Title: Chapter 4: THREE: the Unsorted House | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Reviewer: dancingkatz (Signed) |
- Oh, my! Now why was I surprised to find Ron just as bigoted as Malfoy? I really shouldn't after all. He is from a Pureblood family and though the Weasleys are nice people and genuinely like Hermione and Harry, they have grown up through the generations with the same unconscious social expectations as wizards like the Malfoys. Even Mr. Weasley is guilty of the prejudice if you look carefully at his happy surprise when he discovers a new Muggle device. It's like saying "Oh, how clever!" when a 4-years old points to C-A-T and proudly announces "Cat!"
In any case, it looks like Ron is going to have a lot to learn this year. I'm sure he'll figure it out eventually and become a better person for it.
Dumbledore is the one person who comes off really badly in this chapter as far as I'm concerned. First of all, he is totally ignoring everything the Sorting Hat said before it immolated itself. I seriously doubt that even Dumbledore could create a new Sorting Hat even if he is apparently one of the most powerful wizards alive, at the least whatever he would create would be poisoned with his prejudices. I have a feeling that all four of the Founders together created the original Hat and so all four of their prejudices ended up balancing out in the end. And then he just announces that Harry is to teach Defense on the days that Remus can't right out of the blue, putting Harry on the spot. There was no reason that he couldn't have given Harry a heads up before hand. A House Elf or Fawkes could have delivered a note as soon as HArry arrived, for Merlin's sake! Talk about inconsiderate!
Hermione shines in this chapter and really appreciate that. So many fics just make her bossy or a snobby know-it-all or just a walking encyclopedia whose only purpose is to be a deus ex machina who provides Harry with exactly the information he needs at exactly the right time o he can solve whatever mystery exists. It's lovely to see her be a real three-dimensional character here. Thank you for that.
Bravo, again!
Author's Response:
Yeah, spot-on about the whole "aren't Muggles CLEVER" thing. Drives me mad. It's like those people who look at native cultures and see how they manage without electricity and running water. The whole 'alternative medicine' thing where Ron's dad asks for stitches made me especially furious. Although the books make just as much fun of Mr. Weasley himself for this quality (he clearly doesn't understand how anything works - and BTW stitches for a bite are not always wise). Still. He's supposed to be the good guy, and the best we could do is someone who sees Muggles as *curiosities*?
Yeah, DDore comes off very foolish in this chapter. And to my mind, in a book about bigotry, Hermione must shine! She is the most conscious of these things. :)
-K