Unhappy Dark Lord and lot of small fixes.

14 files changed, 151 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/faith/anti-harmony.rst b/faith/anti-harmony.rst
index 6bb5e60..c20e4e9 100644
--- a/faith/anti-harmony.rst
+++ b/faith/anti-harmony.rst
@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@ Anti-Harmony or Notebooks and Letters
 (my comments on “`What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and 
 Understanding?`_” by angua9)
 
-As I wrote elsewhere_, I am not a big fan of Harmony stories (stories, where
-the main pairing is Harry/Hermione), but when they happen, I usually don’t
-discount them automatically, and some of them are really nice. Linked story,
-“`Escape by SingularOddities`_” is rather nice, but as with all stories, when
-the author moved from rewriting JKR books into her (his?) own story, the
-quality dramatically improved in “`Mr and Mrs Percy Weasley`_”. The biggest
-problem I had until recently with Harmony stories is relentless bashing of most
-interesting characters in stories (mainly Weasleys, but Mr. Dumbledore, as
-well).
+As I wrote elsewhere_, I am not a big fan of Harmony stories
+(stories, where the main pairing is Harry/Hermione), but when
+they happen, I usually don’t discount them automatically, and
+some of them are really nice. Linked story, “`Escape by
+SingularOddities`_” is rather nice, but as with all stories, when
+the author moved from rewriting JKR books into her (his?) own
+story, the quality dramatically improved in “`Mr and Mrs Percy
+Weasley`_”. The biggest problem I had until recently with Harmony
+stories is relentless bashing of most interesting characters in
+stories (mainly Weasleys, but Mr. Dumbledore, as well).
 
 However, then I read this excellent essay about problems with
 Harmonians, and my first reaction was rather negative. There are
@@ -24,21 +25,23 @@ some problems with the stories I read, and I have described them
 in the linked review above, but the essay seemed to be too
 dramatic.
 
-And then I read “`Notebooks and Letters by chem prof`”. The main idea of the
-story is very interesting: Hermione tells to her daughter how it really
-happened, and it is AU since “The Order of Phoenix”. Of course, Hermione here
-is not happy with JKR (they sold rights to the story in the Summer of 1997 to
-have enough money for the hunt of horcruxes) for many reasons (and many of her
-particular criticisms are completely valid), but mainly because of JKR’s
-shipping Hinny and because what she considers degrading description of her in
-“The Half-Blood Prince”.
+And then I read “`Notebooks and Letters by chem prof`_”. The main
+idea of the story is very interesting: Hermione tells to her
+daughter how it really happened, and it is AU since “The Order of
+Phoenix”. Of course, Hermione here is not happy with JKR (they
+sold rights to the story in the Summer of 1997 to have enough
+money for the hunt of horcruxes) for many reasons (and many of
+her particular criticisms are completely valid), but mainly
+because of JKR’s shipping Hinny and because what she considers
+degrading description of her in “The Half-Blood Prince”.
 
-As I said, the setting of the story (its metastory) is rather nice. The main
-story itself is just an average not too much over the top super!Harry &
-super!Hermione story (in the end most DeathEaters, including Lucius & Draco
-Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, are killed by few Dumbledore Army
-members including naked Hermione (naked because she was going to be raped) and
-Harry).
+As I said, the setting of the story (its metastory) is rather
+nice. The main story itself is just an average not too much over
+the top super!Harry & super!Hermione story (in the end most
+DeathEaters, including Lucius & Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix
+Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, are killed by few Dumbledore Army
+members including naked Hermione (naked because she was going to
+be raped) and Harry).
 
 And yet. Harmonian traits of the story killed it for me. Bashing
 is actually not that terrible, but general blandness of their
diff --git a/faith/augurey.rst b/faith/augurey.rst
index 422f86e..a376f66 100644
--- a/faith/augurey.rst
+++ b/faith/augurey.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Augurey or loosing of sanity
 :date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33
 :modified: 2020-04-13T11:18:25
 :category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+:tags: review, HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`The Augurey`_” by La Matrona, originally 
 published on Reddit_)
diff --git a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst b/faith/hinny_siblings.rst
index 07fd8e4..9892e02 100644
--- a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst
+++ b/faith/hinny_siblings.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Harry and Ginny as siblings
 
 :date: 2019-07-15T23:07:27
 :category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit
+:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit
 
-Originally published as “`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`_” on Reddit.
+Originally published as “`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`_”
+on Reddit.
 
 .. _`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`:
     https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/bevfuu/lf_harry_ginny_are_brother_and_sister/
diff --git a/faith/hp_redemption.rst b/faith/hp_redemption.rst
index 1175a35..a482aaa 100644
--- a/faith/hp_redemption.rst
+++ b/faith/hp_redemption.rst
@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy?
 
 (originally posted_ on Reddit)
 
-Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of some
-former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration camps, etc.
-Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term “conversion” or
-“penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It
-requires true acknowledgement that these deeds happened, to own them,
-and to admit that they were evil. It requires honest asking for
-forgiveness. I don’t want to get any political, but it requires at least
-on the personal level, something like what Germany did after the Second
-World War (see for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_).
+Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of
+some former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration
+camps, etc. Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term
+“conversion” or “penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse
+previous deeds. It requires true acknowledgement that these deeds
+happened, to own them, and to admit that they were evil. It
+requires honest asking for forgiveness. I don’t want to get any
+political, but it requires at least on the personal level,
+something like what Germany did after the Second World War (see
+for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_).
 
 What do we see in most so-called redemption stories of Draco
 Malfoy (or Severus Snape, or Petunia Dursley)? Excuses that those
@@ -34,9 +35,9 @@ main heroes stand in the wreckage of their lives, they are
 disgusted in themselves, and they try to build up their lives
 back.
 
-Perhaps the closest I got to it was `Exile by bennybear`_, but 
-even that was more story of a pureblood trying to find his way in 
-the strange world of muggles then true redemption story of 
+Perhaps the closest I got to it was `Exile by bennybear`_, but
+even that was more story of a pureblood trying to find his way in
+the strange world of muggles then true redemption story of
 dealing with guilt. Nevertheless, it is still a very good story.
 
 Or perhaps `Dudley’s Memories`_ and `Snape’s Memories`_ by 
diff --git a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst b/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst
index afaaa13..a20dbef 100644
--- a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst
+++ b/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
 :category: faith
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
-(my comments on “`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104`_” Reddit thread)
+(my comments on “`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by
+u/frostking104`_” Reddit thread)
 
 .. _`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104`:
     https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/fje6nu/lf_fics_to_introduce_me_to_femharry/
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
    most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon and femslash
    was juicier for (I guess, usually) him. One unashamedly so is
    IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at that (other is
-   `4699043`_). Or there is non-smutty, just fun, variant in
+   `21206021`_). Or there is non-smutty, just fun, variant in
    `Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`_.
    
    The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they didn’t
@@ -93,8 +94,8 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
 .. _`11396276`:
    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11396276/1/
 
-.. _`4699043`:
-   https://archiveofourown.org/works/4699043
+.. _`21206021`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/21206021
 
 .. _`Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`:
    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13132217
diff --git a/faith/no_superheroes.rst b/faith/no_superheroes.rst
index 92889fc..8cf023a 100644
--- a/faith/no_superheroes.rst
+++ b/faith/no_superheroes.rst
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ history):
     https://archiveofourown.org/works/601124
 
 .. _`the only thing which matters`:
-    https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/whats-wrong-with-ginny.html
+   {filename}what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst
 
 .. _`Hunters and Prey by Northumbrian`:
     https://archiveofourown.org/works/1857084
diff --git a/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst b/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
index 189458e..72d9fab 100644
--- a/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
+++ b/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Harry/Hermione ship?`_” by patriot_man69420_)
 I don’t `hate the ship`_, although I generally prefer Hinny,
 I could admit that `Ginny is extremely poorly written by JKR`_,
 and fanfiction has to add a lot of her personality to make her
-livable (which fortunately Northumbrian and other great Hinny
+viable (which fortunately Northumbrian and other great Hinny
 writers did). I can even agree that when we limit ourselves just
 to what’s in the books, Harmony is even more likely. I also fully
 support the notion that foundation of every long-lasting romantic
diff --git a/faith/post-communist-conservatism.rst b/faith/post-communist-conservatism.rst
index e5dcfb7..2899404 100644
--- a/faith/post-communist-conservatism.rst
+++ b/faith/post-communist-conservatism.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ conservative, because they are more aware of what they can loose.
 
 .. _`the episode 30`:
     http://theeasternborder.lv/podcast/episode-30-punishment-final-part-the-gulag-within-me/
+
 .. _`Michael Oakeshott`:
-    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oakeshott
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oakeshott
+
 .. _said:
-    https://matej.ceplovi.cz/cizi/on_being_conservative.html
+   https://matej.ceplovi.cz/cizi/on_being_conservative.html
diff --git a/faith/preaching_the_message.rst b/faith/preaching_the_message.rst
index 3d013ee..b292c25 100644
--- a/faith/preaching_the_message.rst
+++ b/faith/preaching_the_message.rst
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ you are just lead to find it on your own.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Write_a_Play
 
 .. _`how the hero got from A to B`:
-   https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/whats-wrong-with-ginny.html
+   {filename}what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst
 
 .. _`characters start to behave like an idiots just to keep the plot together`:
-    https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/augurey-or-loosing-of-sanity.html
+   {filename}augurey.rst
 
 .. _`Atlas Shrugged`:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
diff --git a/faith/problem-of-wands.rst b/faith/problem-of-wands.rst
index 8e0ccc5..dd1d8e7 100644
--- a/faith/problem-of-wands.rst
+++ b/faith/problem-of-wands.rst
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ suspense of unbelief is more simple, but when they tried to
 make a film from the Narnia Chronicles, the result is a pure
 disaster: thirteen year old boy fighting adult warrioress just
 looks ridiculous, whatever film magic you apply (similarly,
-it turned impossible to make a good film Aslan … whatever
-they tried he looks still like a overgrown plush toy).
+it turned impossible to make a good film Aslan … whatever they
+tried he looks still like an overgrown plush toy).
 
 The same problem applies to the Harry Potter series: we need
 to believe that a seventeen year old boy (with substandard
diff --git a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst b/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst
index c8fc41f..b101a57 100644
--- a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst
+++ b/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ never fulfils this promise. I would suggest reading it at least
 for the exposition, but be prepared to dream about continuation.
 
 .. _`Terms of Matrimony`:
-    https://matej.ceplovi.cz/cizi/terms-of-matrimony.epub
+    {filename}terms_of_matrimony.rst
 
 .. _`Fanfiction.net`:
     https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9931566/13/Terms-of-Matrimony
diff --git a/faith/unhappy_dark_lord.rst b/faith/unhappy_dark_lord.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ceb9dfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faith/unhappy_dark_lord.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+Horcruxes and Unhappy Dark Lord
+###############################
+
+:date: 2021-04-29T23:15:46
+:category: faith
+:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+Originally published as “`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy
+Dark Lord`_” on Reddit.
+
+.. _`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy Dark Lord`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/n1e9pm/quest_for_immortality_by_the_unhappy_dark_lord/
+
+I was thinking about this very unhappy adept for the Dark
+Lordship, Tom Riddle:
+
+1. Diary — while Tom Riddle was still travelling after leaving
+   Borgin and Burkes, and he considered dropping it into `Mariana
+   Trench`_ as the safest place to be. Safe it was, but the diary
+   was squashed by the weight of the water (15,750 psi, 1107.33
+   kg/cm², 10 kilometres depth), a ton on each square centimetre
+   was just too much even for the magical protections on the
+   diary.
+
+2. Hufflepuff’s Cup — while still travelling he left it in the
+   middle of 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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+   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
+   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.
+
+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.
+
+So, when Harry got to Hogwarts in September 1991, there were no
+Horcruxes remaining and Harry had wonderful seven years of study,
+where the most memorable events of his life were his Quidditch
+victories and his first date with `${somegirl}`.
+
+.. _`Mariana Trench`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
+
+.. _Reggane:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggane
+
+.. _bulldozer:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D11
+
+.. _Rockall:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall
diff --git a/faith/werewolf-stories.rst b/faith/werewolf-stories.rst
index 38ea95a..1c6132d 100644
--- a/faith/werewolf-stories.rst
+++ b/faith/werewolf-stories.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ somebody in the end of the third year). I found them surprisingly good:
   very much looking forward to future instalments of the story.
 
 * “`A Werewolf and a Veela Walk Into a Pub by Ares.Granger`_”
-  * After previous two mostly excellent stories, I was a bit
+  After previous two mostly excellent stories, I was a bit
   disappoint by this one. It is mostly opposite of them: whereas
   these are mostly about hardship of living with the curse
   (particularly in the Muggle world), here Harry’s (only)
diff --git a/faith/working-class-snape.rst b/faith/working-class-snape.rst
index 570e70a..8433b8c 100644
--- a/faith/working-class-snape.rst
+++ b/faith/working-class-snape.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Working class Snape?
 
 :date: 2021-02-28T19:16:02
 :category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my post “`All Our Kin: Snape and Evanses flight from the urban poverty of early 1980s`_”)