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A THOUSAND YEARS
(#) Wolfric 2013-09-09
Fine chapter. Good to see Snape out of the picture. I wonder what Dawlish will get up to. Thanks for writing. W.Author's response
Heya Wolf.
I can only agree. A Snapeless world is a much nicer one.
Dawlish: Not a lot.
AlorkinA THOUSAND YEARS
(#) makarva 2013-09-09
snape puree XD
thanks for posting
Author's response
Snape Puree Giggle!
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(#) Ratus 2013-09-09
A good way for Snape to go, but Dawlish, I think he needs to slip up and be found.Author's response
Heya Ratus.
Next chapter will wrap this up, including Dawlish’ fate.
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(#) Rob 2013-09-09
A very nice part. I hope you have a suitable end planned for Dawlish, I would hate to see him walk free.
Author's response
Thanks Rob.
I do, and he won’t.
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(#) dennisud 2013-09-09
Love how this is building up and on a staircase of DE bodies! Can't wait to see Tom fry and Bumbles well you know!Author's response
Heya Dennisud.
I don’t like terrorists. There is no reforming them. The best way to be rid of them is to kill them off in a manner sure to ‘discourage’ any others from taking their places.
Tom: He’ll get his moment on the sun…or in his case, on it.
Dumbledore is dead already. It’s just a matter of time before that curse he contracted finishes the job.
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(#) ralphmullins 2013-09-09
Grate chapter. I like how you finally whacked Snape. Such a fitting end. Have you ever thought of having Harry some alien tech. this time around that he didn't find the last time. Like say a crashed puddle jumper or a hidden cache of alien and/or advanced tech. or some or say a Crashed Ebon-Hawk?Author's response
Thanks, ralphmullins.
Thank you. How many times can I run the same court scene over without it gettign boring? In this way, he at least gave them some excitement.
The only alien (sic) tech, would be the My Little and nobody will ever learn what happened to her. In the future it’s possible, but not in this story.
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(#) zamia 2013-09-10
Only good Snape is a Snape with an air conditioned chest. Should have minced him up and used him as an ingredient for potions. Don't know why Amelia takes it so easy on Dawlish after all his stuff ups. Will be watching for the solar flare Voldie's cruxes create when they hit the sun. Cheers.
ZAuthor's response
Heya Z!
Air conditioned chest! Snicker! I’d imagine such potions were illegal. Howebver, Snape is a non-issue, now.
Amelia: She isn’t, really firing him is about all she can do, given that she doesn’t know that he’s a Death Eater…yet.
Voldy’s ‘cruxes: There won’t be much of a flare. The pod is less than two meters long and about a half meter wide. The sun won’t even know it was there.
Ta.
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(#) Destroyerdrt 2013-09-10
Cannot wait to see Albus's reaction to Snape's death and that was the best way to kill him with out alot of pain and hmilation. I hope that Dawlish and those like him sufer some when Tom goes bye bye. Also will this story reach Hogwarts or will it end before? Ever thing in it make me think it will reach Hogwarts for at least one year but I could be miss-reading things.Author's response
Albie is in the urgent care unit at St. Mungo’s. I don’t suppose the healers will chance his reaction to more bad news given that the last bit of landed him there.
Unless…
Dawlish and Co: they will.
Hogwarts: No. With the next chapter this story is done. Any continuaton on to Hoggy’s would involve a five-year saga, and I have another story or two planned for that.
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(#) Cateagle 2013-09-10
An interesting chapter and I can't help but wonder what mischief Dawlish can get up to in his new assignment; be interesting if/when he's found out (I'll wager that it's either a slip-up on his part over some minor thing or the destruction of all those soul jars takes all the marked souls with it). I loved Amelia's reaction to Harry blackmailing Rita, it's quite a no nonsense one. I'll be looking forward to Minerva's reaction when Harry & Hermione show up at Hogwarts together and already very, very close.Author's response
Heya Cat!
Dawlish: Fortunately not too much. If he were to be left alone for enough time, he could reroute the appointments, change the dates of the wizengamot meetings, construct edicts on official letterhead that appear official, remove all the road signs, steal everybody’s left shoe…
But I’m not gonna let him play for too much longer.
Next (and last) chapter will explain what and why.
Wager: Damn! You guessed it!
Blackmail: Being a seasoned cop, Amelia is a pragmatic soul. She understands that sometimes in war, one has to use methods that are…quasi-legal at best.
H&H: Not in this story. Sorry.
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(#) Teresa 2013-09-10
My, my my.......Snape's trial was definitely in the running for "fastest opening of a trial in history". Really, Snape should have known better than to take pot shots at Augusta and Amelia. Of course, death by reducto is better than the Kiss. One can't be surprised by his preference. On the other hand, I'm sure that the people who threw the curses his way felt much better after he'd been put down. Any chance that some were previous students and/or parents of same? With a "teacher" like that revenge would be dreamt of, prayed for, if necessary begged for! I can see people who'd suffered his attentions "teaching" or otherwise going bankrupt making offerings to every deity in the pantheons if the bastard was dead. Was Dawlish just making sure that Snape didn't out him or truly trying to help him escape? It's a good thing Amelia's having him watched, even though she isn't aware of his treachery. I also liked Rita's little discussion with Harry. Between Harry and Amelia Rita's stuck on the straight and narrow! I wonder if having to stick to the truth will give her hives? The talk with Minerva and the Founders was interesting, and seeing Voldy cast from Slytherin's line was great! I look forward to seeing Voldy's last trip via spaceship. He always claimed that he was the first at doing something, now he can be the first disembodied sociopath to take a dive into the sun. Many thanks for another excellent chapter! :)Author's response
Heya Teresa!
Pot shots: He wasn’t really. He knew that the wizarding people are basically sheep. If he managed to kill Augusta, and kill or grievously wound Amelia, the population would be in an uproar. The government would be in disarray and like Dawlish, he knew that the blood heads would grab for power as quickly as they could. It’s also quite likely that Dumbledore would help them by speechifyin’ his patented line of peace and forgiveness.
Death by Reducto: Suicide by cop, and you’re right. Quite honestly if I were in his position, I’d do the same.
The Aurors acted on training, and each only fired a single reductor at someone who’d just cast a killing curse and was aiming at their boss. That there were more than dozen Aurors in the courtroom was just his tough luck. On the other hand they knew what he was capable of, and were probably hoisting one at the nearest cop bar to celebrate his ‘unfortunate demise’. It’s the same in the mundane world.
Relatives/Parents: It’s possible, although not likely, as most of the Aurors at this point int time would have Snape’s contemopraries. (remember, here, Snape has only been screwing with people’s futures for five years.
On an aside; given the lack of proper Potions training, and that a N.E.W.T. in Potions is required to be an Auror, makes me wonder how Tonks managed to get one in canon. If Snape is as bad as he’d been portrayed, there should have eben no way for her to attain a NEWT at all. Remember, she’s a halfblood; her mother is a blood traitor and her father is a mudblood.
Begging, bargaining or making sacrifices to kill him: That would have been unprofessional, and my version of Madam Bones is a stickler for professional behavior. (I personally despise rapists, but when I was a police officer, unless he pulled a weapon, I’d do my very best to take him in unharmed. If he did…well I made a promise to myself that I was going home alive every night.)
Dawlish: Not really. Dawlish is an undercover type. (What Snape should have been had he been written correctly) Snape knew he was going to be kissed. Amelia had already said that and the evidence against him was unsurmountable, especially given that he’d already testified that Dumbledore’s delusions were just that. A spy, spies. He remains unobtrusive, collects information and sends it on. (James Bond is not a spy, he is an assassin, and not a particularly effective one.)
As for Dawlish, Amelia will be learning of his affiliation when she returns to Earth.
~I also liked Rita's little discussion with Harry. Between Harry and Amelia Rita's stuck on the straight and narrow! I wonder if having to stick to the truth will give her hives? ~
I’m glad you liked that. It’s about time somebody put up some flypaper. I’m sure with sufficient thought, she could find a way around his restrictions, but for the time being, she as you indicated between a wall and a flyswatter.
Hives…no. But possibly a nervous twitch whenever an Auror comes near.
The talk and the casting out: I actually wrote that for another fic, but it worked here too. Casting Riddle from the line ensured that in the unlikely event he survived his punishment and returned to Earth, he’d have no magical connection to Slytherin house.
Voldy’s last trip: Somehow, I don’t think he’s gonna appreciate the honor. After all, he’s gonna be riding in the boot.
Disembodied sociopath (et al). I wonder if that can be hyphenated. Much cooler than He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Until next time.
Alorkin
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