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+Augurey or loosing of sanity
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+
+:date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33
+:modified: 2020-04-13T11:18:25
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+
+(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 (I wrote
+a review_ of it). 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 finds 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
+the tension between them, which could lead to their breakup).
+Then he asks (only!) Hermione for help, and finally he breaks in
+in the middle of the night to the house where Delphini lives
+hidden, takes her away, and presumably kills her neglectful
+foster mother (he “takes care of her” in a rage after finding out
+how horribly Delphini was neglected). Then he brings her to
+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, possibly
+murder, and non-reporting of crime, and I wonder whether
+not-bringing her to St. Mungo for professional help does not
+constitute 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 threw the story
+away at 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 are 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 hasn’t heard about
+him for a year fallen apart for the biggest hero of them all,
+Neville. I can imagine Hermione deciding that after all her
+affection towards Ron was more curiosity or wish to have her
+first crush completed than true love. And no, Hermione not
+forgiving 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). And after reading “Inner
+Demons” (mentioned above) I very firmly believe in Harry taking
+care of orphans. However, the author was lazy and he just wanted
+to to get to the Harmony cooing over the small baby as easily as
+possible, so he went straight ahead. Grrr.
+
+----
+
+**[added on 2020-04-13]**
+
+However, I still cannot get rid of the basic premise of this
+story, because I truly believe this is so good idea. It is just
+such pity that the execution was so horrible. So, let me suggest
+this as a prompt for somebody to write it better (in the same
+manner the author of “`The Accidental Animagus`_” admitted_ that
+it was based on the idea from “`The Natural Animagus by
+wsbenge`_”).
+
+The start of the story could be exactly the same: The Trio in the
+Grimmauld Place found on the Black Family tapestry, that
+Bellatrix has a daughter with Tom Riddle. Then switch to the
+moment immediately after the Battle of Hogwarts and you can
+switch to search for the lost baby, which could make a foundation
+for a good plot (although not very long one). I could happily
+envision it as something similar to “`Hunters and Prey by
+Northumbrian`_”: the first large case of young Trainee Auror
+Harry Potter. This one could be probably even better than that
+one because you don’t have to play in rather unrealistic hidden
+werewolf village, but in the real world with realistically
+crushed but bitter and hateful former Death Eaters and pureblood
+supremacists. And it is even more fun because the whole
+investigation is done amongst them, but they cannot have even
+a shadow of suspicion of who that lost girl truly is.
+
+Then you can have the next part of taking care of an abused
+orphan, and Harry with his past would be very interested in
+caring for orphans (an idea which seems to be very
+underdeveloped, the only exception I can think of is above
+mentioned “Inner Demons by serendipity_50” and also the brilliant
+“`Dudley's Memories`_” and “`Snape’s Memories`_” by paganaidd).
+I generally don’t care about the shipping of Harry in all this,
+I don’t think it matters that much for the story, just if you
+want to break up Harry and Ginny, PLEASE, do a better job than
+the author of this story.
+
+.. _voldemort-father:
+   
+Of course, the premise of the story is based on the idea that Tom
+Riddle could father a baby in the first place. Yes, I don’t
+believe this story (and the Cursed Child, one of many
+disasters of that fanfiction story), that he would be capable
+of falling in love with anybody, and I have deep suspicion
+even about his ability to commit the deed. After all, he truly
+doesn’t have the human body, what he *has* is the alchemist
+construct, created by two sexually rather inept most likely
+still virgins; I wonder whether his body truly has all bits in
+the right places. Much more appealing (or much disgusting,
+that’s the same thing) would be if Delphini was either just
+by-product of some dark magic ritual (which would nicely lead
+to her being neglected and abandoned) or even intended object
+(produced by artificial insemination or its magical
+equivalent) of some ritual. What about the ultimate Horcrux
+created by sacrificing your own child? It would be an
+opportunity to create truly disgusting dark magic, which would
+eliminate all those jabbers about grey magic and acceptability
+of the Dark Magic.
+
+----
+
+**[one more update on 2021-02-15]**
+
+I saw a week or so ago `this comment`_ on `the riots in
+Charlottesville`_ by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The thing which
+particularly impressed me was his memory of growing up amongst
+bitter and depressed former Nazis, who knew they were fighting
+for the horrible cause, and what’s even worse, they’ve lost.
+“They lived the rest of their lives in shame. And now they're
+resting in hell.”
+
+I would love to read some novel about this environment, but
+I would love to see the parallel in the Harry Potter world as
+well. That’s the world where this Delphini would grew up, and
+where Harry would be searching for her.
+
+And yes, of course, I have to mention `this clip`_.
+
+
+.. _`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/
+
+.. _review:
+   {filename}singularoddities-review-escape.rst
+
+.. _`Late Morning Talks`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/20141410
+
+.. _`The Accidental Animagus`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/14078862
+
+.. _admitted:
+   https://potterficweekly.com/archives/1813
+
+.. _`The Natural Animagus by wsbenge`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4183350
+
+.. _`Hunters and Prey by Northumbrian`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/1857084
+
+.. _`Inner Demons by serendipity_50`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/601124
+
+.. _`Dudley's Memories`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6142629
+
+.. _`Snape’s Memories`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6329597
+
+.. _`this comment`:
+   https://youtu.be/BaN78rXX6Lc
+
+.. _`the riots in Charlottesville`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
+
+.. _`this clip`:
+   https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU