{"id":75490,"date":"2016-11-24T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/voidbat-kyraneko-myurbandream\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:10:47","slug":"voidbat-kyraneko-myurbandream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/voidbat-kyraneko-myurbandream\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

voidbat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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kyraneko<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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myurbandream<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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gotham-mother-of-monsters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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my problem with the \u2018harry becomes lord of 2\/\u00be\/5 ancient noble houses\u2019 trope is so unbelievably petty because its that fic writers don\u2019t take it to the potential extreme. like, okay, you wanna make harry the bossest of bitches i get that, i understand, i have that urge too from time to time, but c\u2019mon, be a little more creative about it please<\/i><\/p>\n

so how about a fic where harry goes to gringotts after the fighting is all over to try to make peace with the goblin nation because this boy does not need<\/i> more problems and after much hostility and some groveling and promises of future payments for damages caused a plucky goblin lass comes and shuffles harry into her tiny cube office to discuss the nature of his financial situation <\/p>\n

(this is a grave insult among goblins. getting handled by a female, first of all, because they are supposedly less capable bankers, hello misogyny among other species, and because they consider anyone who needs help with his money to be lower than cave scum. harry doesn\u2019t know about his. and if he did, he wouldn\u2019t care because he does, desperately, need help)<\/p>\n

and plucky goblin lass (who we will call PGL for short) brings out this MASSIVE tome of parchment and slams it down on her desk. a cloud of dust rises. harry sneezes and gets a terrible feeling. some of the parchment is mildewing. the stack is taller than his hand is wide. this can only end badly<\/i><\/p>\n

PGL tells him that he\u2019ll need to read the entire book<\/i> to fully comprehend the new scope of his property and harry kind of weakly says \u201cwhat??\u201d<\/p>\n

and it turns out that heyo, when the death eaters swore to follow voldemort with all their lives and souls and magic in their little racist hearts they actually swore a modified liege lord oath which also has the coincidental side effect of ceding all titles (and property connected to said titles) held to the lord in question too. haha how funny who knew<\/p>\n

and that\u2019s an ongoing thing. so voldemort was the de facto head of two dozen magical houses at the beginning of the war and he just picked up more as he gained more followers and he probably could have just voted himself and his crew into every position of the government and run the country like that if he cared to do it but voldemort was not about dat political life. he wanted change and he wanted it now. he wanted to MAKE AMERICA<\/strike> MAGICAL BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN. so he started a civil war and just never informed his loyal death eaters of that little fact because they didn\u2019t need to know.<\/p>\n

and you might think that gringotts vaults are tied into bloodlines but they\u2019re really not<\/i>. the malfoy family vault belongs to whoever is the current head of the malfoy family. normally, that\u2019s a malfoy and his malfoy spawn becomes the next head and so it passes through the family, accumulating inherited wealth. it was a working system until voldemort got involved and exploited the ever-living hell out of it.<\/p>\n

now this all becomes harry\u2019s problem because it turns out that Right of Conquest is an actual thing. what was voldemort\u2019s is now his and voldemort has has the time to accumulate A Metric Fuck Ton of stuff.<\/p>\n

also connected to titles are votes in the wizengamot. and whoo boy, this is where harry\u2019s problem becomes really really really problematic. because the noble families squabble over those votes like children, hoarding them and passing them down, occasionally trading them for advantageous marriages and such, but mostly jealously guarding them like the politcal gold they are. it\u2019s such a bitterly tight-fisted market that any one family has ~maybe~ three or\u00a0 four votes.<\/p>\n

and now harry bloody potter has a hundred of the things and a completely unintentional stranglehold on the government. whoops<\/p>\n

and then hermione would shotput harry straight into the
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against his protests and things would become so hilarious i just <\/p>\n

some jerkass attempts to increase his own salary for doing basically nothing<\/p>\n

\u201chow about no,\u201d harry and his hundred votes say.<\/p>\n

somebody attempts to tighten restrictions on where magical creatures like vampires and werewolves can work<\/p>\n

\u201chow about no.\u201d harry crosses his arms. \u201cactually, how about we repeal those bullshit laws already in place that make it almost impossible for werewolves to get a job right now, hmmmm? and how about we put something in place to catch abusive owners of house elves? and make sure they get paid? and vacation days? and healthcare? actually how about we get healthcare for EVERYBODY HOW ABOUT T H A T?\u201d<\/p>\n

ten generations of purebloods cry out in horror. look upon him ye mighty and despair.<\/p>\n

the years after voldemort\u2019s defeat don\u2019t go down in history as The Golden Era. in fact, thanks to harry bloody potter (and some incessant nudging by hermione granger), they go down as The Decade of Frankly Astonishing Strides Toward Equality *cough* enforced by a semi-plutocracy.<\/p>\n

(all thanks to a third tier plot never really explored by a would-be dictator YOU\u2019RE ALL WELCOME)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Omg this is beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Harry as an accidental Lord Vetinari, oh my god.<\/p>\n

Harry dealing with that all these pureblood families outright hate<\/i>\u00a0him. They were loyal to the Dark Lord, loyal to blood supremacy, loyal to their own enrichment and empowerment via the casting down of others, and now here\u2019s Harry Potter, who opposes all of these things, who killed the Dark Lord and vanquished their dreams: their new Lord and Master.<\/p>\n

And they can\u2019t do anything about it because not only is it a binding magical contract but it\u2019s their<\/i>\u00a0tradition, their<\/i>\u00a0law, their<\/i>\u00a0way of doing things, and they can\u2019t attack Harry without shattering their own foundations in the process; they can\u2019t even really convey their dislike of Harry because it would be disloyal to their own House.<\/p>\n

So, all these pureblood wizards from old families who both hate Harry Potter and everything he stands for but also as a point of honor are perversely proud of him. He\u2019s a wizard; he\u2019s a half-blood, but he\u2019s also the scion of a House of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, and he\u2019s a powerful and talented wizard who vanquished the greatest Dark Lord history has ever seen. And he\u2019s the Head of a dozen great and ancient wizarding Houses, he\u2019s their<\/i>\u00a0Head of House so to speak, and they tie themselves in knots trying to figure out how to feel about him.<\/p>\n

And the ones who don\u2019t have a noble House, but only have their votes in the Wizengamot that Harry Potter owns, and you just don\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0throw tradition out and start casting votes on your own inclination, well, they aren\u2019t honor-bound and pride-bound to claim and embrace him, but they make their social standing from copying the greater Houses, and when their betters are quietly and gracefully saying\u00a0\u201che\u2019s a chaos-minded tyrant, but he\u2019s our<\/i>\u00a0chaos-minded tyrant,\u201d well, they buck up and agree.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter, unlike Voldemort, isn\u2019t lashing out at random or threatening to kill their children, so it\u2019s sort of an improvement in many ways, even as they want to scream and throw things over all his reforms.<\/p>\n

And after all, the old Houses value power. And Harry, above all, has power.<\/p>\n

He goes down in pure-blood history as the Tyrant. The most powerful Lord their family lines have ever known. The man who reshaped their world. Elderly wizards tell their great-grandchildren long after his death that\u00a0\u201cI knew the Tyrant.\u201d \u201cI beheld him when my father took me to the Wizengamot, and he spoke to me.\u201d \u201cWhen I went to Hogwarts, he gave a guest lecture.\u201d This far removed, at the end of their lives, the details of his rule are forgotten, the overturnings of tradition lost to history, and he is remembered with pride, even with adoration.<\/p>\n

Their Tyrant. Their Lord. Harry Potter, the Greatest Wizard that Ever Lived.<\/p>\n

(There are pictures of Harry at Hogwarts, at the Ministry, at St. Mungo\u2019s, outside the Auror Office and in front of the Minister\u2019s Office and in the entrance hall to the Wizengamot and in both the entrance hall and the Headmaster\u2019s office at Hogwarts, and in every House he ruled. He wears stately robes and an impressive hat, gold jewelry, a beard (dark in some pictures, silver-shot in others, pure snowy white in still more, for he lived to be an old man himself, older than Dumbledore, older than Griselda Marchbanks, who lived to dance at his wedding), his glasses accentuating his brilliant green eyes, his scar more prominent in the pictures than it ever had been in life, surrounded with such trappings as the Sword of Gryffindor and the Elder Wand and a skull that purports to be that of Lord Voldemort.<\/p>\n

Also at Hogwarts, in a back corridor next to a set of of dancing trolls and an overzealously combative knight, is a portrait commissioned by the executor of Harry Potter\u2019s estate, in response to directions left in his will. This portrait depicts an eleven-year-old boy in brand-new wizard\u2019s robes, with broken glasses and untidy hair that happens to cover his forehead. The portraits of his older selves go wrapped in the lofty dignity of the position he attained later in life; this child, filled with the untarnished wonder of the magical world, goes freely among the portraits with an anonymity Harry Potter never found in life, and loves it.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GIVE ME THESE BOOKS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

voidbat: kyraneko: myurbandream: gotham-mother-of-monsters: my problem with the \u2018harry becomes lord of 2\/\u00be\/5 ancient noble houses\u2019 trope is so unbelievably petty because its that fic writers don\u2019t take it to the potential extreme. like, okay, you wanna make harry the bossest of bitches i get that, i understand, i have that urge too from time … <\/p>\n

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