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+Augurey or loosing of sanity
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+:date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(my comments on “`The Augurey`_” by La Matrona, originally 
+published on Reddit_)
+
+What is my pet-peeve is when the characters behave like idiots 
+just to keep the plot together. Let’s see. I have just deleted 
+“The Augurey” from my computer.
+
+First of all, just let me state, I have nothing serious against 
+Harmony. I probably prefer Hinny, just because I don’t feel like 
+going against canon when not necessary, and because Northumbrian 
+and “`Inner Demons by serendipity_50`_” have shown me it can be 
+done well, but otherwise it doesn’t bother me. For example, 
+“`Escape by SingularOddities`_” is a rather decent story. So, it 
+is not that.
+
+SPOILERS AHEAD, so please skip if it bothers you (and it doesn’t 
+make sense to mark everything as a spoiler, not much will make 
+sense without them).
+
+It is not even the original premise of the story. The Trio while 
+still hiding in the Grimmauld Place find out through the Family 
+Black Tree wallpaper (finally somebody found some good use for 
+it!) that Delphini happened (after all, Bellatrix was Black 
+originally). Harry, having a soft heart for orphans, finds her 
+after the war (completely neglected and abused), saves her and 
+brings her as his own. I have never heard about it before, and it 
+could lead to a nice story. So, it is not the basic plot either.
+
+What bothers me, is **how** it is done. Harry for reasons nobody 
+ever explained (and which don’t make sense either) decides to 
+hide his wish to look for Delphini from everybody (including and 
+especially from Ginny; it looks like the only reason is to make 
+a tension between them, which could lead to their break up). Then 
+he asks (only!) Hermione for help, and finally he breaks in in 
+the middle of night to the house where Delphini lives hidden, 
+takes her away, and presumably kills her neglectful foster mother 
+(he “takes care of her” in rage after finding out how horribly 
+Delphini was neglected). Then he brings her to the Grimmauld 
+Place, where Hermione finds a book on the paediatric care and 
+cures her. So, to summarize, Harry (who still planned to be an 
+officer of the law at that point) just committed completely 
+useless breaking and entering, abduction of a baby, murder, and 
+non-reporting of crime, and I wonder whether not-bringing her to 
+St. Mungo for professional help does not constitute a criminal 
+neglect as well. What’s Hermione’s reaction? She doesn’t report 
+him to the law officers, but she gushes about his big heart and 
+how great a man he is. Sorry, I thrown the story away in that 
+moment, so I don’t know how it continued.
+
+There are zillion other things he can do (even if the existence 
+of Delphini should stay hidden from the wizarding world), just to 
+mention the first idea which came to my mind, he can ask for help 
+his buddy The Minister for Magic, there is zero reasons to keep 
+this whole thing hidden from Ginny and other Weasleys.
+
+There are many decent ways how to break up with your girlfriend 
+decently, and there are many possible reasons which could be 
+found. I can happily imagine that after Ginny haven’t heard about 
+him for a year fallen apart for the biggest hero of them all, 
+Neville. I can imagine Hermioine deciding that after all her 
+affection towards Ron was more curiosity or wish to have her 
+first crush completed than true love (no, Hermione not forgetting 
+Ron his leave after being cursed by the locket makes as much 
+sense as anybody accusing Ginny of bringing the basilisk to the 
+castle, i.e. none at all). So, I believe even post-War Harmony 
+can be written in a reasonable manner (I tried to make 
+a suggested talk between Hermione and Ron in “`Late Morning 
+Talks`_” to show how I would do it). However, the author was lazy 
+and he just wanted to to get to the Harmony cooing over small 
+baby as easily as possible, so he went straight ahead. Grrr.
+
+.. _`The Augurey`:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12310861/1/
+
+.. _Reddit:
+    http://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/cj5w7b/what_are_you_least_favorite_cliches_in_the_fandom/evbm3bb?context=3
+
+.. _`Inner Demons by serendipity_50`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/601124
+
+.. _`Escape by SingularOddities`:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11916243/1/
+
+.. _`Late Morning Talks`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/20141410