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I'm more 🤔 about Purityworld!Wizarding Italy having a couturier named after the Greek mountain of the gods, haha.

Does anyone besides me know about the original Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne? They were some of my favorite childrens books when I was little. I get the idea that they are fairly unknown. Is this because they were eclipsed by the Disney version? I have never watched that, partially because I think they might spoil it.

Aside from old kids books, I'm a pretty big sci-fi/fantasy nerd. I'm currently reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, one of the silliest and most ridiculous book I have ever read.

Edit: Sorry about the rant. This was meant to be a welcome, but it turned into a rant. Oops.

... Potterverse Sergio would still likely have very little to do with it, as as I said he would be more likely a muggle, not a wizard. As per what we know of Wizarding Italy in canon... very little. it exists, it has a Quidditch team, and... that's it.

Oh god, I loved Suedom. I read it... off of Miss Cam's I think? Or hS's backup of Miss Cam's. Or a Wayback Machine archive. I forget.

Anyways, I think Suedom might be my favorite thing piece of Early PPC work. Or, well, PPC-adjacent. Like OFUM! But it was so so good. And... very very depressing, at times.

Just....head explodes

That about sums up my reaction.

—Ls

Yeah, the whole Slytherins are evil thing is just exhausting and leads to nonsense like Pureblood Culture. Lots of these fics have good Slytherins where the only "good" thing about them is that they're not actively joining up with Voldemort. But they still are snobby and racist!

Interesting stuff about Sergio and Nikki (and Kathleen)! Yeah, there's not really space. Nikki probably would go to Mahoutokoro, idk what Sergio does because the two flavours of European wizard are apparently French and German/vaguely Slavic. (There's also a Russian school but Durmstrang's got Bulgarians so....)

ETA forgot that the Purityworld author had a fic where fem!James' parents were on holiday to "Magical Rome" and there's apparently some couturier called Olympus in "Wizarding Italy" in their worldbuilding post. Yes. Olympus.

And that's an even more interesting take on the "undercover" part - an AU version of your characters nested into the story itself to subvert it. Sure, that would be OCs meddling with canon characters... but to fix a more heinous crime against canon.

And no, I don't have Potterverse AU versions of my characters to lend you, I'm afraid. Sergio is definitely the non-magical member of my classic trio, so he would definitely be a Muggle in this setting. Not really getting a single feet in Hogwarts I'm afraid, especially not in such a purity-obseessed setting XD And witch Nikki would surely be an outcast here for loving a Muggle, which could be interesting for the setting but again she wouldn't really be allowed near Hogwarts either. (And that's discounting the fact that, as an Italian and a Japanese, they likely would have no reason to meddle with the British wizarding world.) And Corolla would likey not exist in such a setting. Being a whimsical, silly technomagical sentient construct is simply too ingrained in her character, there is no AU human version of her. Period.

However, this reminded me that I actually had toyed in the past with the idea of sending Sergio, Nikki and Sergio's sister Kathleen in some kind of long undercover assignment in Hogwards. Not part of TWWA, mind you (though at least Hogwarts did make it into the Unraveled World), but either somehow as part of the canon timeline, or as part of an unspecified alternate timeline as I wanted it to take part over multiple years, but at the same time that's... well, a lot of years to simply take off my characters' lives XD

I did get to the point I actually did some wandlore research to find the wands the would probably chose my characters, though. Here's them for those curious:

Sergio: Pine, Phoenix feather, 13 inches 3/4, Pliant Nikki: Cherry, Dragon heart string, 13 inches 1/4, Quite Flexible Kath: Acacia, Dragon heart string, 13 inches 1/2, Slightly Flexible

And, for the heck of it, I also decided those Corolla and Ami would get, though they would have no part in this:

Corolla: Dogwood, Dragon heart string, 14 inches, Springy Ami: Oak, Unicorn hair, 10 inches 1/4, Swishy

And I had also decided that, while Sergio and Nikki would be sorted in Gryffindor (of course, since that's the Designated Brave Hero House), Kathleen would be sorted into Slytherin instead. And try to subvert the "Slytherin House is only for the baf guys" stigma, since that was a bit of a subpar writing choice to have roughly 1/4 of Hogwarts be implied to be outright bad guys in the making. However, like most of my sillier plot bunnies, this never got anywhere.

The Gary Stu that turns Harry into a vampire-like thing? Turns out, he's a member of an uncanonical race called 🥁 🥁 🥁 Gren Tre, whose attributes include:

Gren Tre What are they?

Gren Tre a very old creatures they were

supposedly lived in the earth till a earthquake

that happened in the prehistoric time

awoke them driving them to the surface

to feed.

They are similar to gods Very powerful

they have two mates. most will never find both mates

but some will.

a Gren Tre is able to get pregnant as these creature are so rare

we do not have any information on

the Mating or the pregnancy.

In existence there have been at least 100 Gren Tres alive.

and he turned Harry into one as well. Without consent too.

I don't think Draco would appreciate the taste of metal.

Draco refers to himself as a seme at one point. Don't ask how he knows a Japanese slang term.

because he's from Twisted Wonderland, thus providing the perfect chance to compare the magic systems of his universe and Potterverse's. He was even in a dorm that's pretty clearly an expy of Slytherin. I'll leave writing Mme Beauchamp to you, as she's largely your character now; you'll build upon her character in ways you prefer.

My contribution might be slow due to real-life and writing schedules (and gaming).

In terms of modern politics, the Purebloods' obsession with making more magic babies has some real-world parallels. The Pureblood Culture obsession with girls' chastity has a direct real-world parallel. And Hermione's pressure to become the model minority "New Blood" rather than be relegated to the subjugated minority "Mudblood" parallels the model minority myth because... it does. When you try to assimilate into a group that otherwise hates your kind, you police yourself for any deviation from the norm because if the group finds out you're deviant, they will throw you back in with the subjugated minority. I know this because I've lived it, watching the perceptions of Chinese-Americans fall from rich studious nerds to plague rats. I did not speak Chinese for most of 2020 because of that.

You don't have to think too much about this and simply just read the fic for what it is -- a rewrite of the Potter books that takes a popular fanon worldbuilding to logical extremes, but I did put in the research into how to make this world work, and I like it when Doc uncovers the research :P

There's also a Muggle Studies class, but you're right, it's very inaccurate! Jacques frequently got into fights with the professor when he took the subject.

~Lily, who is Not Angry, just trying to explain!

You just need to be able to write a character well.

If you want, we could throw Carlisle with Émilie and one of the Four Demonly Kings. It would be fun to have them meet, and Carlisle would have to explain canon to them. I could provide the necessary canon knowledge, you can write your character(s). If you’d like, that is. My email is clickable.

Otherwise, this may just go to my pile of fics that I really should get to. It’s rather large.

—Ls

Now I get more of what you and doc were talking about. Though I’m not quite sure why y’all were comparing things to modern politics so much.

Anyway, I wonder if the Culture class or whatever it’s called is a replacement for Muggle Studies. If it isn’t, I imagine that Pureblood Culture!Muggle Studies wouldn’t be a very accurate or fair class at all.

—Ls

so I'm afraid I can't do any missioning for it. Hey, this might be a chance to give Émilie a debut!

The spelling...and...the illogic...just no...the characters only being “borrowed”...PUT THEM BACK, FIC(s)!!! And why is the vampire thing named Billy!?! headdesk

Would you be interested in doing a co-write mission to this, Yuki? Maybe involving Émilie? Because... it needs to die.

—Ls is testing out a new Bleepproduct—Bleepa-cola. Here, take some.

I present to you Unknown and its sequel Better Days, a delightfully misspelled and ineptly written adventure in which Harry is randomly turned into a vampire-like… thing by an exchange student from Australia, then Draco and Harry date Snape and have rear-end babies with him. Dumbledore is bashed for not wanting Harry to get pregnant and become unable to fight Voldemort, and Draco and Snape are nicknamed "Dray" and "Sev" respectively. Just have a look at these gems to see how hilariously bad the fics are; from the first fic:

harry looked at [Ron] and sighed

"the problem with that is...you promise not to get made or anything?"

Ron looked at him and sighed "alright"

"I'm gay'

Ron just looked at him

"your gay"

"yes"

"but when"

harry looked back over the garden and sighed

"well i'm in love with Sev..Snape"

"WHAT!"

Harry winced and hurried away into the garden

From the sequel:

Harry smiled and tackled him down on the couch and started to kiss him. Slidding his tong along Draco's

bottom lip and stuck his tong into his mouth and started to fight for dominice with a tong battle with draco's

tong.

Imprinted on my psyche, Suedom. Isekai into weird Sue-overrun Middle-earth? Sign me up. (No don't--)

I'm glad you enjoy Sev! And yes, Greengrass is... certainly A Character hahaha

Yeah, it's very medieval -- technically Regency, since the original fics read like if someone tried to smash Harry Potter and Jane Austen together without understanding how either work, but I'm being pedantic hahaha

Jenni's already shown up on her Chocolate Frog card! And Jacques and Liu Siyuan -- Ryan Liu in this AU -- are set to show up in later years. I feel like I call it deep undercover because they're functioning like natives to the canon and they aren't going to make any references to HQ or any of that (I don't even think they have knowledge of the PPC -- Jenni might, since she's Jenni, but she's not going to talk about that on screen :P while Ryan and Jacques are just Potterverse AU versions of themselves), but they are in the story to help the protagonists take down the system. So they're not going to suddenly make references to the PPC or call for backup from HQ.

I mean, if you have existing Potterverse variations of your agents, I could have them cameo, but otherwise there'll be no call for backup since it's not really a mission in a traditional sense, but rather in a meta sense (since PPC missions deconstruct what's wrong with a given badfic, but this one is deconstructing an entire genre of fic).

But thank you for the offer!

You made a wonderful job at describing an absolutely disgusting world - you managed to make Professor Greengrass' first lesson a much creepier version than Snape's one. (I kinda like this Snape- Sorry, Severina though. I think she encompasses perfectly what Snape would've been to the Potter family if Lily survived in canon)

The dressing style of the wizardry nobility, though, looked nothing short of ridicolous to me. But tha'ts alright, it got a chuckle out of me, and it really drove the point across just like the rest. In just a few chapters, you managed to paint a great image of how medieval a Pureblood AU is - cringey when badfic, truly horrifying when done well in the gritty detaiils (of which there haven't been much yet, but your implying work was great).

I'm intrigued on how yo plan to use your Agents though, and the idea of a "deep undercover mission to destabilise the Pureblood Culture AU genre" really got me interested. Definitely following this.

Oh, and if Jenny, Jacques and Liu need backup they're free to ask around. A certain retired couple and a certain whimsical DoSAT techie would love to help. Well, more like one of the three would really enjoy putting down stuck-up Pureblood supremacists with very muggle, very non-magical lead.

Hey, it was fun seeing a story told mostly from a new recruit's perspective—not even a recruit, actually, a precruit!—where they have to do a lot of the physical work of observing the fic, and continue to act out their role in it. This wound up being a very unique mission indeed!

I think you lost a "much" in the sentence:
How longer are ye gunna sit dere whinin'?

—doctorlit thought Ratatouille was just kind of okay, was probably not the target audience of "people who enjoy eating"

So, an admission: when I first came across this as a newbie, I skipped straight to the PPC agents appearances at the end, and had no interest in the original portions. >_> But! I shall read it all now! The concept of this "bridge" is very intriguing; who created it? How was it placed in the internet? How does it work? I look forward to finding out!

I'm amused that, in that snippet of fic at the beginning, the author can't spell "Legolas" correctly even once, but keeps her OC's "Fishywishylishiel" consistent every time!

Alas, if I'm searching properly, it seems "A Short," the story that inspired the story that inspired Suedom, is no longer on the Pit.

—doctorlit, bridging the gap between sleep and work, and bringing fiction with him, in his own way