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"If you treat the mob with kindness, these creatures fancy themselves invulnerable; if you hang a few, they get tired of the game, and become as submissive and humble as they ought to be."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
🚨RICHARD HEART ARRESTED IN ISTANBUL TODAY!
Hex and PulseChain founder Richard James Schueler, known as Richard Heart, was detained this morning in a Beşiktaş raid by Turkish intelligence and police.
He was wanted by Interpol on a red notice.
Authorities seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches, firearms, and computers linked to crypto activity.
He faces allegations of large-scale crypto fraud involving the U.S., Finland, and Spain.
Video via @CagdasEvren.
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Being a dad is just telling yourself “it’s been an expensive month, we’ll get back on track next month” over and over again until you die
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The most perfect layout for the story would be:
-Initially rebuffed by harry on the train in book 1, initially she's starstruck and wants harry as a lackey out of vanity
-Over the course of the next several books, she grows a deeper appreciation for him
-Chamber of secrets seeds her admiration, she duels Potter and despite all her snide remarks, she gets humiliated by him. Initially she's upset, but there's a small short scene of her feeling a bit proud that Harry is so skilled.
-Her feelings transform from respect and admiration to a HARD crush during the Yule ball, both of them get left behind by their dates, and after initial snide remarks and jabs, they dance together, just a single short dance. However, it's only later that night that she realizes why her heart flutters when she sees his face.
-Half-Blood prince is when Harry begins to fall for her, during his observations of her movements with the Marauder's Map. What initially is him cynically observing someone he sees as an enemy becomes concern as he realizes how over the last year she's become a wreck. No longer the stunning and confident girl she used to be, she's tired, depressed, and Harry tries to help. It's that exact concern that blinds him to the fact that she's become a Death Eater, and it dooms Dumbledore.
-The bathroom scene is where it becomes tragic. Harry sees her as what she has truly become but been suppressing when she's at Hogwarts: A death eater. Forced to work for the man who killed HIS FAMILY. Threatened with her life and the life of her own parents if she doesn't kill his own beloved mentor. She loses the fight, she nearly dies, and the whole time afterwards she wishes she did because then at least she would get away from what she has become.
-The biggest deviation from the original story would be that after the rescue in the room of requirement, she doesn't disappear from the story. Instead, Voldemort keeps her around with the desire to groom her into part of the next generation of Death Eater, as his right hand. He forces her to do terrible things, and all the while she hates herself for being too weak, too cowardly to fight back. However, it's only when Harry arrives during the seige of Hogwarts that she recognizes that she has to make a choice. She witnesses Voldemort laying into Harry, winning the duel, and chooses to break the Death Eater ranks and turn her wand on her master.
-She confesses her love for Harry, and he reciprocates those same feelings for her. They both carry baggage, a pile of mistakes and unresolved issues, but they understand and care about each other in a way nobody can possibly hope to understand, they are opposite sides of the same coin. Their pure, authentic, mutual love burns Voldemort like nothing else, a familiar pain that terrifies him.
In the end, just as Voldemort was killed for the first time by a love he could never understand, he is slain for the final time by a love he could never extinguish.
Something else to note is the sheer number of ways there are to make this work and potential endings for their relationship, that do almost nothing to harm the main plot (and in some cases strengthen it)
I've talked about the Yule Ball before but let's talk about Sectumsempra
We know the overall gist of the scene, of course: Malfoy is in over his head, having a mental breakdown in terror because Voldemort's just threatened his life and he has nowhere to go. Harry walks in on him and for once in the book doesn't see a Death Eater, he sees a peer at the end of his rope breaking down and in fear for his life. Then they duel, Harry tries out a spell he doesn't know and nearly kills him.
As-is the scene already works, but if you add in romantic tension between Harry and Malfoid before this point the meaning and context of the moment changes completely on both ends.
Say their relationship was the one that fell apart in book 5 rather than the one with Cho, for example, and the scene plays out as normal. The event doesn't change, but what it means to Harry and to Malfoid absolutely does. Because these two aren't antagonistic peers anymore, they're former lovers, and maybe this is what breaks Malfoy to the extent she finally asks Snape for help. Some have suggested she'd instead go to Harry; personally I don't buy it and even if I did it would make the ending near impossible BUT it's still a potential answer.
Now say you're fine with changing the events. Another possibility is that Malfoid and Harry duel briefly, but Malfoid breaks down and stops casting. Harry comforts her to the best of his ability, but she can't tell him anything, and they end up kissing in the destroyed remnants of the bathroom. Or Harry goes to visit her in the hospital wing (which Harry is only able to do because Malfoid requests him specifically). Harry tries to comfort her, and looking back on it later he could potentially realize his morale boost was what she needed to finish the vanishing cabinet and get Hogwarts invaded.
Making Malfoy a girl sounds like such a small change but it really does give the story a dozen new tools to play around with.
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Jesus is not a fake god. He is a historical figure with strong contemporary attestation, claimed divinity through resurrection accounts that launched the world's largest religion, and stands apart from the purely mythological figures in that image.
