I figure *I* try to stay fit at the things I do, there's no way *Severus* isn't given the stakes he's facing are a lot higher. It could literally mean the difference between life and death one day.
If we assume Millie has the 'Slytherin ambition' gene... She canonically isn't mentioned in Hermione's NEWTs classes, so I pictured her in CMC, and I could totally see her Thestral wrangling.
Yeah, but I'm sneaky. You always get one side of the story with characters and then later learn a little more that fleshes them out. Millie and her mum are very different people with very different priorities. A woman who has always been praised solely for her looks could have trouble connecting with a daughter who holds no stock in what her mum might consider her single asset. (And let's not forget disappointment.) Likewise a daughter in those circumstances could resent the mother nontrivially. It might not be a precisely differentiated view. Particularly coming from Millie... lol
Very glad it didn't ruin her for you. Now you can see this is where it was going with her all along, and things slot into place. Ideally I'm trying to give readers the same sort of experience Hermione has in seeing the Slytherins first as a unit from the outside with often murky motivations and then more and more as the individuals they truly are from within as time passes.
Siege mentality means they stick together. The key difference to the 'Puffs being a willingness to turn on you if you violate the 'rules'. Of course, those rules are complicated and undocumented and liable to change to reflect the politics. (Lots of luck to 'em...) This was *not* a good time to have been a Slytherin.
There's this scene of Flitwick being inadvertently sent flying by practising students in the books, and it's funny, but it's also very much a wtf? from someone who is supposed to have won no end of trophies at duelling. (It made me question some of those skills, tbh.) He also teaches a full load, including more NEWTs students than Severus has (grading!), and then has orchestra and chorus... (Does the math...) When is he taking care of his House? And is this how Luna's (canonical) bullying slips under his radar?
Thanks! 😊
Not everyone can be the perfect Slytherin, and I like the idea of the outliers, the oddballs and seeing how they fit and again how they don't. And I like watching the others try to cope with that, because if they are under siege and need every last wand, then they need to find a way to be tolerant of their differences as well. (Actual tolerance doesn't come anywhere near as naturally to them as the 'Puffs, so it's a struggle. Fortunately they can negotiate a working peace.) Hunter has a nice little scene 'Thursday' that I liked. Glad you like him, he's a good egg. (With a willingness to hex Ron. He sort of won me over right there, really... lol)
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Date: 2019-10-24 02:21 am (UTC)If we assume Millie has the 'Slytherin ambition' gene... She canonically isn't mentioned in Hermione's NEWTs classes, so I pictured her in CMC, and I could totally see her Thestral wrangling.
Yeah, but I'm sneaky. You always get one side of the story with characters and then later learn a little more that fleshes them out. Millie and her mum are very different people with very different priorities. A woman who has always been praised solely for her looks could have trouble connecting with a daughter who holds no stock in what her mum might consider her single asset. (And let's not forget disappointment.) Likewise a daughter in those circumstances could resent the mother nontrivially. It might not be a precisely differentiated view. Particularly coming from Millie... lol
Very glad it didn't ruin her for you. Now you can see this is where it was going with her all along, and things slot into place. Ideally I'm trying to give readers the same sort of experience Hermione has in seeing the Slytherins first as a unit from the outside with often murky motivations and then more and more as the individuals they truly are from within as time passes.
Siege mentality means they stick together. The key difference to the 'Puffs being a willingness to turn on you if you violate the 'rules'. Of course, those rules are complicated and undocumented and liable to change to reflect the politics. (Lots of luck to 'em...) This was *not* a good time to have been a Slytherin.
There's this scene of Flitwick being inadvertently sent flying by practising students in the books, and it's funny, but it's also very much a wtf? from someone who is supposed to have won no end of trophies at duelling. (It made me question some of those skills, tbh.) He also teaches a full load, including more NEWTs students than Severus has (grading!), and then has orchestra and chorus... (Does the math...) When is he taking care of his House? And is this how Luna's (canonical) bullying slips under his radar?
Thanks! 😊
Not everyone can be the perfect Slytherin, and I like the idea of the outliers, the oddballs and seeing how they fit and again how they don't. And I like watching the others try to cope with that, because if they are under siege and need every last wand, then they need to find a way to be tolerant of their differences as well. (Actual tolerance doesn't come anywhere near as naturally to them as the 'Puffs, so it's a struggle. Fortunately they can negotiate a working peace.) Hunter has a nice little scene 'Thursday' that I liked. Glad you like him, he's a good egg. (With a willingness to hex Ron. He sort of won me over right there, really... lol)