A'Harry Pottering I go...

[coyotegoth]

Today's fun: writing an intense Snape/Bellatrix confrontation, as part of a prologue to a story set immediately after Half-Blood Prince. If the rest of it rolls out as smoothly as this did, it could really be something.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Eeeee. we're excited over here.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Two requests, if I may:

1) What are the major unanswered questions that would need to be resolved in a hypothetical me-written version of Book Seven? (Dumbledore's absolute trust in Snape- which will be prove to be well-founded... that sort of thing.) And, which characters most need to make a reappearance?

2) Out of the billion or so HP sites on here, where's best to post weekly installments for a wider readership?

(Dude, I cannot wait to see what you think of my version of Snape.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

1)
- Dumbledore's trust in Snape as you mention -- we need to know the why, and to a certain extent the timeline of when he switched sides and when who knew about it.
- Prophecy issues -- does Harry have to die to kill Voldemort, and if not, what's that business about death in the prophecy -- that has to be made to make sense.
- Narcissa (she's not a DE but how strong are her sympathies? Have they been changed by the position Draco was put in? There's a lot of issues of her emotional life that inform a lot of things on that side of the equation, and while we don't need to know, I think it makes any tale richer).
- Pansy -- into Draco because he's a Malfoy or into Draco?
- Draco: Marked or not?
- Lucius -- safe in prison? mind-raped by Dementors? escaped? or what?

2) If I fucking knew. Kali and I are having a devil of a time figuring out what's active and where people are reading these days.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also:

Draco: cowardice or ethics?

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

If you need a beta reader, I volunteer my eyeballs!

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Much appreciated! :) (I may bring the prologue to M's housewarming.)

[randallsilver.livejournal.com]

Snape works for Dumbledore and nobody else, that much is obvious.
Draco will switch sides. He was an inch away from it in the last book anyways.
Harry is the last Horcrux. In order to destroy Voldemort, Harry must be dead as well.

My predictions for the last book ;-) so don't do anything like that and make your own version, would be my advice!