The Harry Potter Fanfiction Thread

Memo to the fandom: Nymphadora Tonks' ability to change her appearance is criminally underused. I thus challenge you to put it to use.

She likes somebody. She uses her Auror training to sneak into their residence and go through their porn stash to figure out what body type they like most.

See, my thought went immediately to espionage and surveillance. Or countersurveillance: if she has a change of clothes ready, it can be pure hell to try and tail her—then again, her fieldcraft isn't exactly first-rate...

That'd work, but it's the sort of thing more suited to a long fic than a short one; like the Buddy Cop Story thing I'm still nominally working on.

I do occasionally try to make things simple in a challenge.

Have I already suggested The Wire WITH WIZARDS? Looong, arduous, meticulous sting operations using magical equivalents of wiretapping and surveillance, against smart, organized, paranoid, lethal Dark Wizards, that are so entrenched in Wizarding society that, even when you get rid of a group, another will just take their place. Certainly, the theme of institutional failure through lack of coordination, careerism, and incompetence works perfectly when it comes to the Ministry of Magic.

someone wrote a drabble/short story about Tonks living as someone else in order to marry Harry. She may or may not have killed the girl she replaced. I honestly can't remember, I want to say that she did. Just to clarify, in the story she was married to Harry, had been the one he married the whole time, and it was a story about her internal monologue about revealing herself to him.

But yeah... there are many ways to use Dora's abilities that go way underutilized in canon/fanon.

edited 15th Jan '15 8:26:26 PM by river_raven

Her name can be shortened to Dora?

I... are there any Dora the Explorer fics featuring Tonks?

I've seen Tonks called Nym, Dora, Bubblegum (for her hair color) and Tonkie.

Personally I've always held "Adora" in reserve for someone's pet name for her, but they'd have to be very close; close enough that I wonder if they might as well call her by her proper name anyways and she'd let them get away with it.

Nymphadora is a terribly long name, so I'm sure it has a bajillion ways to shorten it. Or it did until Tonks got tired and started to go by just her surname.

Could shorten it to Nympho.

Heh heh

Nympho.

Nympho Adora.

There it is, Rowling and her secret vice!!!!!!

Both of her names are sex puns, far as I can tell.

IIRC, Nymphadora means Gift of the Nymphs and Tonks is some sort of slang for a quick lay or something along those lines.

Oh yeah... Hermione/Bellatrix is a ship that people do.

Fuck you for reminding me.

That's so kinky it's scary.

The fandom in a nutshell, then.◊ Except with less organization and more friendly fire.

Also a lot more shooting themselves in the foot.

edited 4th Feb '15 2:53:16 PM by Night

op plz nerf

My bet is, Tsukihime.

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If only the Avada Kedavra was more thought out than just "Unblockable Instant Kill Lol"...

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Brainstorming: the British Wizarding government and its muggle cousin are estranged because, though many patriotic wizards and witches signed on to fight for king and country during World War 2, the British Wizarding government as a whole refused to. This is a direct result of the British Wizarding experienced of World War One, where nearly thirty-three percent of the British Wizarding population was killed fighting for the crown.

This contrasts with the experience of the Americans (World War 2 was the first war where the wizards were enlisted because prior to that Wizarding America had no functional federal government), the French (where the Wizarding government surrendered to the Germans in WW 1, but never surrendered during WW 2), and the Germans (who fought in WW 1 and suffered just as badly if not worse compared to the British, but did not fight in World War 2 as such; the German Wizarding world was consumed in a civil war related to the activities of Gellert Grindelwald).

edited 7th Feb '15 7:20:27 AM by Night

Hmmm. That would be an interesting decision for the British Ministry to have taken. I'd posit that, perhaps, fascism took more of a root in Wizarding Britain than it did in mundane Britain? Mosley and company were discredited after Hitler and the Nazis became disreputable, despite the pro-fascist leanings of certain Royal Family members and such high-ranking luminaries like J. F. C. Fuller. Wizarding purebloodism, on the other hand, apparently remained reputable enough that Voldie was able to stage a revival of the phenomenon postwar, which would have been nearly unthinkable with fascism.

Hence, the extension: while the ordinary wizarding community was as liberal as its mundane counterpart, there existed enough sympathy for Grindelwald and related ideologies to keep the Ministry paralyzed, replacing "Jews and Bolsheviks" with "muggles and muggleborns".

I'd go one step further and say that most of the rank and file were sympathetic to Grindenwald, and only those with muggle ties or the truly liberal families like the Weasleys were against it in those days. Certainly the anti Grindenwald faction would have been in the minority until midpoint through or after the war. My working theory is that it was Voldemort's actions against neutral or liberal purebloods that swayed the balance, and not a pro-muggleborn movement. I may be wrong, I've not read any of the extra content JK might have published on the subject aside from her discussion of Grindenwald's work as pro fascist

That certainly fits how Sirius described it - his family, and others like them, supported Voldemort until he starting showing just how far he was willing to go.

edited 7th Feb '15 7:19:33 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Given how insular they are, my bet is on the British Magical Government not really giving a crap either way. It wouldn't surprise me if they had just buried their heads in the sand and pretended nothing was going on in the mainland.