I started this story to challenge the information presented in Hogwarts: A History, the traditional history textbook mentioned in Harry Potter. What if, I thought, the facts presented in Bathilda Bagshot’s were part of a mass cover-up of earlier truths presented, even in previous, now banned, books on the founders of the wizarding school? For instance, the founders were from Middle-Earth. Godric’s Hollow was just an ordinary town cohabited by Muggles and wizards. The debate over blood status being an entry qualification started earlier than suspected or recorded.
"While you're watching us do the things that we do,/ We're... watching... YOU!" - Plain White T's (Ever wonder why things worked out the way they did in Hobbit4Lyfe's stories? Now you can find out the answers!)
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Carols of Christmas: A Dickensian Tale, Part 2: "An inspiration for a FanFic"
After reading the story and seeing many movie and stage variations of A Christmas Carol, I began to think, we know all about Scrooge, but what about everybody else? I was developing some plotlines for parts two and three of my One Wizard’s History series, but I wanted to also have a story that was mostly just the Dickens characters alone, not only included in the worlds of Hogwarts, Middle Earth, and the like. I started Carols of Christmas to answer that one question: What about everybody else? I included Scrooge in the intro chapter because I knew he would obviously come up quite a bit eventually, but not necessarily in his own narrated chapters, though he was the central focus of the Dickens story. I mainly originally wanted to focus on Jacob Marley, as well as Bob Cratchit, because I’d already mentally developed their back stories quite well before starting COC, when I was planning OWH. I was also planning the Ghost of Christmas Past’s story to be revealed in part 3 or 4 of OWH, not part 2. His story ended up being more in-depth in Carols of Christmas than I first intended for Chapter 10. At the request of one of my readers, I revealed information about Fred that, in 2006, I realized I knew would also be relevant to One Wizard’s History, though I forgot about it until Chapter 11. The title, Carols of Christmas: A Dickensian Tale, itself is an obvious reference to the classic story.
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