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Going to Dorset again, so thought I'd post a couple old photos from 2024. This is Old Harry and his wife, taken on a boat tour from Poole Harbour 2.7.24
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Going to Dorset again, so thought I'd post a couple old photos from 2024. This is Old Harry and his wife, taken on a boat tour from Poole Harbour 2.7.24
Man, throwback to when I was suuuuper into Gravity Falls. I think my best pieces are from that time. I MISS IT.
THROWBACK THMONDAY: "The Wonderful World of Harry Potter, Among Other Things"
Pretty much just me posting stuff here that I've posted other places, mainly deviantART and the blogger my friend and I had for a while, because I'm particularly proud of it or I want to call to attention a point that I've made.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 25, 2012 "It occurred to me a short time ago that if I went to Hogwarts at the same time as the Golden Trio, as a normal student knowing nothing more about anything than the average magically-raised witch, I would not like Harry Potter. Or Ron. At all. Think about it from the point of view of a person in, say, Hufflepuff (which is where I would be, btw), in Harry's year, who didn't really have much contact with those outside of her house. Here's a boy, all famous and stuff, who though he never really misuses or gloats about it, does make a lot of stupid decisions that always end up getting him in trouble, even though there were several obviously better ways. And people are fawning all over him and making him seem like so much more of a big deal than he really is. He's not a good student, he relies on sports for any kind of standing with anybody, even the teachers. Although admittedly that wouldn't earn as much scorn from me as it would in this universe, because I would be a huge Quidditch fan and play it myself. Anywho, all of these factors, viewed from a distance, make up exactly the kind of person I despise. Yet when you read the books and see into Harry's head, you know he's not all like that, and of course you like him, how could you not?Goes to show, yet again, that you should never, ever assume. Even when it's easier to do so than find out the actual truth. Oh yeah, and Ron. I would like him even less than Harry, because he's not even good at Quidditch. I mean, seriously, step back and looks at what Ron's good at from an outsider's POV, besides being an idiot and eating. That's right, NOTHING. I'm not Ron-bashing, mind you, that's just how he would look to someone who didn't know him. (Quick note from now-Liz: I LOVE Ron even more than I did then, but I still think that the above is fundamentally true) Hermione I think I would be acquaintances with, and be envious of from afar. Or not. I don't I know and I never will, but it's still fun to think about. Also, werewolves. According to canon, they can reproduce with each other and or with humans. And, according to canon, a contractible disease turns into a genetic one, as Remus tells us oh-so-heartbreakingly. in book seven. I personally don't like this logic. One of my favorite My favorite fanfic universe EVAR, the Dangerverse (first story of five here) tweaks it a little bit to say that one of the side effects of lycanthropy is sterility/infertility, which makes SO much more sense. Especially if you looks at real-life hybrid species like the mule or the liger. But that's not what I'm talking about at the moment; I'm talking about canon. Sitting somewhere at school being bored (probably social studies), some random questions popped into my head about werewolves, and I started to write them down: If the mother is a werewolf, what species is the child? Does the species of the father matter? What happens to the child when the mother transforms? How does the species of the father affect the child if the mother is human? Would the trait be gender-linked, like color blindness, or would it be like any other kind of hereditary trait? Or is the inheritance random? Or were Remus's worries actually groundless and it's not actually possible to pass lycanthropy on to your child? This is basically what I came up with: If the mother is a werewolf, the successfully born child will also be a werewolf. Not every child conceived would be a werewolf, but only those that are will survive. This is because if the mother changes forms during a full moon and the child doesn't, the human fetus would be too large for the wolf's womb and, well...yeah. If the mother is human (this is where I drew a bunch of Punnett squares to try to figure it out, but I failed because I was writing this in my notebook at 11 PM and I couldn't remember if the gender linked trait was recessive or dominant) So yeah, I couldn't really figure out anything with the Punnett squares because I am not a geneticist. So my basic theory on the fly here is that if the mother is a human and the father is a werewolf, there is less of a chance of the child being a werewolf than there is being a human. Which is good. But also, if lyncanthropy is a recessive trait, there would also be the chance that a child with two human parents could become a werewolf from birth, if the parents had some werewolf in their lineage, which I think would get some publicity in the wizarding world. Something to ask JK Rowling if when I meet her, I guess. Now I have to go back to writing the first draft of my research report with none of my notes and only half my sources. Wish me luck!"