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'lo, TeCh. Nice to see you getting a second opinion.
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!
Her with the hat
Well, I'm curious, but I need a bit more story to work with.
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Thanks Furiko, even though I know you only posted in this thread to get that pun wider exposure 
And I'm planning on updating once a week until I run out of buffer (or, by some miracle, finish the story without running out of buffer).
I just read the latest chapter, and I am really liking this story so far. I am also very curious to see how Dumbledore will react to such a snarky Harry.
edited 28th Jan '13 2:31:38 AM by 32ndfreeze
"But if that happened, Melia might actually be happy. We can't have that." - Handsome Rob
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Haven't read any of the Dresden books, but this is pretty amusing anyway.
The Mod with the Migraine
I'm wondering why he hasn't tried sneaking out of the secret passages mentioned in the books, finding a phone, and calling Ebenezer, just to see if it works.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
Wellp, Chapter Four is up, and things continue to get weird.
And believe it or not, Blue Ninja 0, I actually thought of (almost) that- at some point, Harry is going to realize that he's in 1991, which is going to lead to him contemplating phoning his 18-year-old self at Ebenezer's, although he probably won't bother, since it's doubtful that teen Harry would listen to some random British pipsqueak...
And, thinking about it, if there even is a Potterverse Harry Dresden, he likely isn't even an orphan, since the way his mother died is impossible there. But eh. Gonna skip the Peggy Sue Timey-Wimey thing, since it's kind of headache-inducing to try and figure out all the ramifications
The Mod with the Migraine
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Not what I meant - Dresden by book 12 knows about the Blackstaff job and, more importantly, could give all of the information gained from the books about the Black Council to the one wizard entitled to do something about it. However, I more want to see it happen because obviously HP and HD are not in the same universe (magic works completely differently, as was already noticed) and so Harry will get some random guy in the Ozarks whose going to think he's getting phone calls from a British mental asylum. 
Her with the hat
Okay, I'm definitely liking the set-up of things now, and especially that rather than the typical "protagonist decides to use his special powers and canon-knowledge to fix everything all by himself". Butterfly effect kicking in will be fun. (Also, actually showing some trust in Dumbledore, who despite his plotting tendencies is on the side of the angels.)
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.. Maximal hilarious misuse of having read the books.. Hmm.. Go to the chamber of secrets, talk the basilisk into guarding the mirror of erised ? The basilisk can petrify spirits, so it can clearly put voldy out of commission too, and as long as he does not have time to talk at it.... Or just do nothing - the mirror is pretty clearly a voldemort trap, and everything harry did in book one helped the bastard.
... thank you, tzeinspring.
The smile you just inspired was so evil it made my face hurt.
Hehehehe...
What's Harry Dresden's opinion of Azkaban? If it isn't "remove it from the map with a few dozen Colony Drops" I am not sure I would like to continue reading, much as I like the fic so far.
The Mod with the Migraine
...maybe because he's never had adults who cared about him before in his life and he doesn't know what that feels like and he knows Sirius is his godfather but Sirius is also kinda scary and he's not sure what it'd be like to live with him but moving means that he has to say that the Durseleys were abusive and he's been repressing that ever since he was a kid so he could help present the image of a "normal family"?
I dunno, emotions are complicated.
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
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He's talking about Mr Dresden. Not the abused kid in the glasses, the socially-awkward adult in the trench coat.
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The Mod with the Migraine
@Maridee: Dresden, in some ways, has the more trouble trusting adults than Potter. That said, he knows Sirius is innocent, suffering, in a hell-hole that even he probably wouldn't wish on anyone. Letting him stay there, because he'd feel awkward about living with him, is a level of pettiness not seen in anything pre-Changes*.
With the newest chapter, I find the thought of a Harry with both forms of magic really, really worrying. I suppose it's better than a Winter Knight, Lasciel embraced, Demonreach throned Dresden, but not by much.
Also, I kind of want to see Marcone and Lucius square off. Because I don't know who would win.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
oh, okay, that makes more sense then.
...In that case. well. Dresden does know that he was abused, and that Potter was abused. but I'd wager that Dumbledore has an idea, too. he just made the decision that it was safer for Potter to be emotionally abused and brought up as a Muggleborn/without celebrity than to grow up not emotionally abused, with magic, and with celebrity. Although if everyone trusted Dumbledore to put him somewhere safe without questions, I don't know why Remus couldn't have been just as safe.
Dresden might speak up for Potter's sake, but I'm not sure he'd do it for himself? As annoying as the Dursleys are, they're people he can handle. He's gone through worse before. Although I'm not sure he'd want to sacrifice his autonomy that much.
well, how do we know that he didn't? That'd be one of the first things I'd put on my list of things I remembered about the Harry Potter books. 1)the horcruxes and their locations, 2)Voldemort is in the castle, 3)Sirius is innocent and Peter is a rat (literally), 4)you were in love with Grindelwald and also the story with Ariana (as a test for accuracy), 5)Crouch Jr. is out of Azkaban, 6)location of Malfoy's cache of Dark artefacts, 7)the location of the Chamber of Secrets, 8)Umbridge's scheming, 9)Rita's an Animagus, 10)the whole dying-not-dying thing really does work.
...my money's on Marcone. Marcone has the advantage of not being prejudiced against Muggleborns.
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
.... I have a really unpleasant theory about Dumbledore and the Dursleys. Remember what the locket-horcrux did to the trio in book seven? Just being near a horcrux is mind-warping, yet Harry managed to go nearly two decades with one lodged in his head with no detectable effects on his personality, when by rights he ought to be... well, Gollum.
I think the blood wards Dumbledore was so very concerned with maintaining did exactly one thing - They moved the corrupting effects of the horcrux in the scar from Harry to the Dursleys. Who were probably perfectly nice people until they got designated ringbearers without being asked.
...*head esplode*
but the horcrux is divided enough from Harry's psyche that killing it doesn't have any adverse effects on him. and he was able to dream about voldemort's experiences...while he was at Hogwarts...
maybe the locket was stronger because Voldemort was embodied and powerful? and Harry'd just grown so accustomed to his own Horcrux that it didn't have any effect on him.
...no. Petunia was that spiteful before she married Vernon, and Vernon's influence wouldn't have made things any better.
and Dudley was capable of change...while Harry was away...
I need to think about this.
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
Heh. Well, first things first- Dresden told Dumbledore that Sirius was innocent, and that he could prove it; however, that's about all he can do at the moment. Don't forget, he's currently eleven, and, while something of a celebrity, his influence is sharply limited because of his age, and, in some ways, because of his fame. It's pretty easy for 'the boy who lived' to become 'that crazy kid who's claiming uncomfortable things', as we saw with Rita Skeeter and the Daily Prophet in books four to six-ish.
Also, yeah, the Dursleys were fairly horrible people long before Harry was born- the background info given on Pottermore confirms that pretty emphatically. Harry had Voldemort-dreams at the Dursley's as well.
And Lucius vs. Marcone? That's so one-sided it's not even funny. Lucius has the disadvantage of being the villain of a childrens' series, and, as such, has to be able to be outwitted by said children. Marcone suffers no such handicap, and any meeting between the two would probably end with Lucius getting shot in the head mid-sneer.
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... and now I'm imagining Lucius as Luke Valentine and Marcone as Abridged!Alucard. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
The Mod with the Migraine
Don't worry about it too much, Blu- it does get addressed, just not right away. Don't forget, it's not just that he has to prove that Peter Pettigrew is still alive, he has to prove it to the right people.
As far as the rest goes... heh. You'll see. Although, don't forget- his memory of the books isn't 100%, so there may be things he misses (I based it on my own recollections of the books, making a list before I started so that it wouldn't get confused by the research I was having to do). So yeah. Things are coming, it's just that they may take a while to completely leave the rails
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