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authorMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2021-05-06 20:01:05 +0200
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Small typos and grammar fixes in Unhappy Dark Lord.
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@@ -23,54 +23,53 @@ Lordship, Tom Riddle:
diary.
2. Hufflepuff’s Cup — while still travelling he left it in the
- middle of Sahara desert, specifically at Reggane_; which
+ middle of the Sahara desert, specifically at Reggane_; which
unfortunately was the place of French Nuclear tests in 1960
completely evaporating it.
3. Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring — left in the Gaunt’s shack, which was
- a miserable ruin with unknown owner (obviously Gaunts didn’t
- bothered to register their ownership in the Muggle land
- registry). So, when Muggles were building a highway pass, it
- was silently eliminated (better to ask for forgiveness than
- a permission). Hundred metric ton bulldozer_ was not impressed
- by few slithering snakes and run through wards over the shack
- without even noticing them. The ring in the box was later
- found by a construction worker, who was immediately killed by
- the curse. After even the emergency doctor, who was
- investigating the incident, has been killed, the company
- decided to cover up whole disaster, and threw the ring
- (holding it in the protective cover) into a blast furnace,
- which quickly overcame all Horcrux protections and it was
- destroyed.
+ a miserable ruin with an unknown owner (Gaunts didn’t bother
+ to register their ownership in the Muggle land registry). So,
+ when Muggles were building a motorway pass, it was silently
+ eliminated (better to ask for forgiveness than permission).
+ A hundred metric ton bulldozer_ was not impressed by few
+ slithering snakes and run through wards over the shack without
+ even noticing them. The ring in the box was later found by
+ a construction worker, who was immediately killed by the
+ curse. After even the emergency doctor, who was investigating
+ the incident, has been killed, the company decided to cover up
+ the whole disaster, and threw the ring (holding it in the
+ protective cover) into a blast furnace, which quickly overcame
+ all Horcrux protections and it was destroyed.
4. Slytherin’s locket — he left it in the cave near the sea and
it was salvaged by Regulus Black. Kreacher was not clueless,
he asked for help His Mistress (a bit of elvish sophistry
- … when she is dead, she is not member of the family any more,
- so he could tell her whatever he needed) and found a book in
- the Black Library, and after learning how to, he made trip to
- Rockall_ and using Fiendfyre.
+ … when she is dead, she is not a member of the family any
+ more, so he could tell her whatever he needed) and found
+ a book in the Black Library, and after learning how to, he
+ made a trip to Rockall_ and using Fiendfyre.
5. Ravenclaw diadem — it was left in the Room of Hidden Things,
and later found by Winky, who was cleaning up all things left
- in the castle by her now imprisoned young Master, Barty Crouch
+ in the castle by her now-imprisoned young Master, Barty Crouch
Jr., when he was still nineteen, but excessively smart and
planning for DADA Mastery. While looking for some lost stuff
- in the Room, she found excessively Dark magical object. She
+ in the Room, she found an excessively Dark magical object. She
knew that her young Master would like to preserve it, so she
travelled with it for him to Azkaban (wards didn’t stop the
elf’s apparition), but she was attacked there by Dementors. In
- panic, she dropped the diadem, apparated away, and the horcrux
- was immediately sucked dry by a Dementor savouring extra Dark
- piece of soul.
+ a panic, she dropped the diadem, apparated away, and the
+ horcrux was immediately sucked dry by a Dementor savouring
+ extra Dark piece of soul.
-6. Harry’s piece of soul — Dumbledore was not idiot, even without
- knowing what it was exactly, before Harry was deposited with
- Dursleys, Dumbledore scraped out unknown piece of Dark Magic
- matter in the Harry’s head, while it was still fresh and it
- still didn’t take a root in his skull. It went out easily and
- without support of anything living died on the pavement of
- Privet Drive, Surrey.
+6. Harry’s piece of soul — Dumbledore was not an idiot, even
+ without knowing what it was exactly, before Harry was
+ deposited with Dursleys, Dumbledore scraped out an unknown
+ piece of Dark Magic matter in Harry’s head, while it was still
+ fresh and it still didn’t take a root in his skull. It went
+ out easily and without the support of anything living died on
+ the pavement of Privet Drive, Surrey.
So, when Harry got to Hogwarts in September 1991, there were no
Horcruxes remaining and Harry had wonderful seven years of study,