Slytherin!
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Harry lived with the Dursleys for six months then little over a year with his godfather when Sirius gets an invitation from Dumbledore to take over Professor Binns' classes.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11)
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Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > Keepers of the Snitch
Membership status: Member
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Reviews by omega13a
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Romance/Het, Violence
Chapters: 45 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Aug 2009 / 21 Aug 2009
Series: The name is Potter Black! - Challenges: None
Chapters: 45 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Aug 2009 / 21 Aug 2009
Series: The name is Potter Black! - Challenges: None
| Title: Chapter 32: Planning and Reacting | 29 Aug 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- One thing that amazed me in cannon is that how Crouch Jr. was able to impersonate someone for so long and not get caught. For example, someone was stealing stuff from Severus' supply of ingredients. Why didn't ask some house elves to hide in his office to see who it was? Another one of those great mysteries of cannon.
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!
| Title: Chapter 34: Unpleasant consequences | 29 Aug 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- Poor Sirius and Remus... And its all because Sirius got on the bad side of Skeeter.
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!
| Title: Chapter 35: Dealing with trouble | 29 Aug 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- Severus seamed a little out of character in the beginning of the chapter. But then again, he acted like that when telling Dumbledore about Voldemort's plans in 1981 though he wasn't quite that bad.
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!
| Title: Chapter 36: The fine art of dating | 13 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- I have to say I like how you handled Krum dating Hermione a lot better than JK. Krum is like 18 and Hermione is 14. To the best of my knowledge, not one adult appeared to think Krum dating Hermione was inappropriate and tried to interfere. Though maybe Rita Skeeter's article could count.
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.
| Title: Chapter 37: Snake in Lion’s fur | 13 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- Hmmm... Using one's wand to commit suicide sort-of contradictory to that a wand will never harm its master stuff we learned in DH. But than again, would a wand harm its master if its master wanted to? If that's the case, than maybe the reason why Bellatrix is so crazy is because she practiced the crucio curse on herself one too many times. ;)
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!
| Title: Chapter 38: Friendly support | 13 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- For someone who is mad at Rita Skeeter, Hermione sounds like she partialy believes Skeeter. That or Hermione has found a new hobby in teasing Sirius and Remus.
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!
| Title: Chapter 39: Projects progressing | 14 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- It must have been painful Dumbledore to come to the conclusion Harry is a horcrux. There is one that I wondered about in canon (and in your story as well). Did Dumbledore look into the possibility of removing the soul fragement from Harry without having Harry get himself hit with the killing curse. For a person who is famous for discovering different uses for dragon blood (one them according to JK is an oven cleanser of all things...) it seems unlikely that he wouldn't research things out before just giving up, especially in your story when he is closer to Harry than in canon.
Author's Response:
Yes he has been looking but he hasn't found a way. I mention that on a later chapter too as well as on this one.
"And maybe, just maybe, he could find another way out of this. "
Dumbledore won't give up, and now that he has stopped the denial phase, which is very common, no one wants to face the fact that a son or grandson will die, he is on the phase where he'll try to save Harry at any cost.
I don't know about canon, sometimes I feel like Dumbledore had always planned for Harry to sacrifice himself (that glint of triumph in book 4 shows that he was already thinking Harry would die back then). I don't know if he ever looked for another solution but be sure that my Dumbledore isn't sending Harry to the slaughter that easily. He isn't giving up. Here he was having a private introspection of what would happen if the worst had to happen, if he was left with no choice, who would he choose, Harry or the rest of the world. But by no means is he giving up.
Thanks for reading and the input!
| Title: Chapter 40: The calm before the storm | 14 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- Dumbledore is just lucky Harry didn't fallow Severus' instructions. If Harry did, I don't want to know what would have happen.
Also, about the Elder Wand, just why does Dumbledore use that wand? Sure, he doesn't brag he has the elder wand, but anyone who knows its history would learn he won it and may try to steal it from him (if anyone is crazy enough to do so). If he wants to make sure its not used by another dark wizard again, why couldn't he have hid it in the Mirror of Erised or put in vault in Gringott's or something? Another great mystery of the universe.
Author's Response:
I don't know. Never thought of that. I just followed Canon here. But I might wager that Dumbledore did enjoy having a Deathly Hallow in his possession.
Thanks!
| Title: Chapter 41: The return of the servant | 19 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- I remember when I first read this. I wanted to strangle you for having Severus die.
Author's Response: Strangle me? But I'm such a nice person! He, he. Thanks!
| Title: Chapter 45: Rest for the Weary | 20 Sep 2009 |
| Reviewer: omega13a (Signed) |
- One thing that I didn't like about the the last couple of chapters was the getting ready for Severus' trial. It seemed like something that should have been at the start of "Life Goes On" because its building up to something while everything else that is happening at the same time is winding down. Also, the Hermione in your story has more brains than in canon during the equivalent period of time. It took the canon Hermione until a Hogsmeade weekend in winter to come up with the idea your Hermione did here. Minister Fudge in canon viciously denied Voldemort's return in canon. The canon Hermione should have had enough sense to get the truth out to people outside of Hogwarts before Minister Fudge spreads his version of events.
Author's Response:
Thanks, well, my characters are all a little different since they've had the support of not very common adults here. Most parents wouldn't openly discuss what Remus, Sirius and Severus do with Harry, and he then talks to his friends, so I figured all of them would be slightly different.
The building up as everything else is dying down was done on purpose, or else no one would want to read the sequel. You get to know what they are planning but to see it you have to go read the sequel, kind of like Harry,Hermione and Ron deciding not to go back to Hogwarts and go after the Horcruxes at the end of book 6. At the end of book 6 I got that feeling, "Okay, so where's the next page?" and when I decided to divide this in two I wanted to leave you all with the same feeling.
Thanks for the input!