Interesting. Sharks said he’d give it to me only if I asked, and I did, so let’s take a look at this. I did skim the top of it when he sent it to me, and I have to say, I wasn’t expecting the format. “Well,” Hagrid said. He seemed a bit put out, but […]

I will. Honestly, the main reason I put him in Hufflepuff was that I don’t feel like I know him well enough to put him anywhere else yet. He ended up in Hufflepuff because of Hufflepuff’s willingness to “take the rest”, not because of the core values of the house. Unlike Rachel, but apparently Wildbow doesn’t […]

Already, the memory was fading.  Had it even happened?  As hard as she struggled to retain it, it was eluding her.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry Hana, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

It was like a dream that escaped her when she woke, but so slippery that even the idea that she’d dreamed in the first place was quickly retreating from her mind.

Usually when you dream, you at least have the context of having fallen asleep and woken up, even if you can only tell because time has passed. In this case, by the looks of it, time didn’t pass, and she didn’t fall asleep or wake up. So even if this had been only some kind of dream, it’d probably feel roughly like this.

The soldier shouted something too complex for her to understand, directed at his comrades.  Hana let the scraps of the memory slip from her attention.  This, here, was the priority.  Either she walked forward, and she would die, or she would stand by and watch the others die for her cowardice.  With just the vestige of an idea that something had happened, she had been shaken from her paralysis.  Maybe she could step forward.

Maybe Karahindiba’s influence could help her out here somehow?

Also it seems likely that Karahindiba was the cause of the paralysis in the first place, so it ought to be gone now – or at least lessened, now that it’d be out of fear only of the traps.

She raised her foot-

And stopped.  Something stood in her way.  A blur hung in the air at chest level, crackling, shifting with a manic ferocity.  She let her foot fall back down where it had been a moment ago and stared at the kaleidoscopic shimmer of black and green.

Well then.

Kaleidoscopic is a good word that ran through my head during Karahindiba’s description, by the way.

So what is this, then? The beginning of some kind of portal she could escape through? Some kind of powerup?

She touched it, and felt a weight settle into her palm.  Her hand automatically closed around it, feeling the warmth of it.  It felt almost like when she pet a friendly dog.  An odd thought, given what she found herself looking at.

A… seed, perhaps?

(Who’s a good eldritch doggo? You are, you are…)

(I don’t see a part 2, so splitting it up was probably a good call.) Hm, let’s see. It’s time to play sorting hat for a moment. Taylor: Slytherin. No doubt. She’s resourceful, cunning and ambitious, even though her ambition to become a hero kind of fell by the wayside as of the Decision. If […]

mathemagical-girl: krixwell-liveblogs: Huh, really? I could’ve sworn I remembered the opposite from somewhere in canon. Then again, you guys know how forgetful I can be sometimes, so maybe I was misremembering. Are you sure it wasn’t about patronuses, though? Those definitely aren’t a personal choice. they’re probably thinking of patronuses, because i distinctly remember that […]

Huh, really? I could’ve sworn I remembered the opposite from somewhere in canon. Then again, you guys know how forgetful I can be sometimes, so maybe I was misremembering. Are you sure it wasn’t about patronuses, though? Those definitely aren’t a personal choice.