Comment on In the Shadow of my Misfortune

  1. aadarshinah Wed 24 Jul 2024 08:49PM UTC

    by a hobbitstale

    Okay, I can finally look at the family tree!

    1) I had been thinking the last few chapters that Omnis/Anne was endgame, and I love it.
    2) I also love that the Gaunt that sent Alya the annoying letter (if I'm remembering correctly) is Omnis' father, and he just basically told her to be as rude as possible to her. Oh to be a fly in that family's dining room.
    3) Thank you for making Marvolo and Isobel Gaunt cousins, not siblings, as I've often seen. There are a disturbing number of cousin marriages on that family tree, but that's to be expected. (Poor Omnis, being siblings with Marvolo!
    4) So the Henry Potter Sebastian beat in Crossed Wands last year is Alya's great-grandfather! I so want to see the first time Alya meets the guy. Especially if he ends up being one of the ones to ask her out.
    5) I love that her great-grandmother is a Lovegood. And that there is a distant relationship to Malfoy. Oh pureblood inbreeding.
    6) ...Sirius is connected to Neville's mother. I so want to know the story there.

    Absolutely A+ fascinating. I love it.

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    1. Finexs Sun 28 Jul 2024 10:23AM UTC

      Okay, so:

      1) I'm glad you like it! I have no idea when or how that's going to happen, but I just want Anne and Ominis to be happy, and I honestly feel like the two of them would make each other really happy. I don't think we ever even saw them interact, but in my mind, they fit together so well xD

      2) I spent a lot of time debating on what their relationship should be - uncle and nephew or father and son. And while I still think that uncle-nephew would have been funny as well, I think that them being father and son offers far more potential for drama, so that's what I went with

      3) I'm pretty sure that, technically speaking, cousin marriages aren't illegal Sirius parents were cousins, if I remember correctly. But if the gaunts actually married siblings all the time, they would have died out far sooner than they have. Matting cousins is still bad, of course, and I tried to represent that in the family tree with as many dead infants as I could, but it's better than siblings marrying each other. Also, that's just absolutely disgusting. I'm pretty sure that they originally tried to marry siblings, but then they realised that the kids came out weird and then they went for first, second and third cousin marriages instead. Still keeping it in the family and the bloodline "pure", you know?

      4) I read in the Wiki that Henry Potter's nickname was Harry and while I know that quite a few people are aware that Henry is Harry's/Alya's great grandfather, I was hoping to make his identity a little less obvious by calling him by his nickname xD I'm currently working on the chapter that has their first interaction, that should be the one coming out in September, I think? Sorry for the long wait xD

      5) It's honestly quite hard to find families without causing soem forms of inbreeding. They are all related now, somehow, but that's not my fault xD Also, I really wanted her to have Lovegood in the family xD She's also very distantly related to Neville!

      6) tbh, that connection is just there because I have them both named as Alya's godparents. I already tried to break that line, but I guess there's nothing I can do :/ So I guess now it looks like they had an affair lol

      Thank you so much, it was a lot of work xD

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      1. aadarshinah Sun 28 Jul 2024 10:57AM UTC

        by a hobbitstale

        I was actually expecting you to tell me Siri’s, Alice, and Frank had a poly thing going on, but that makes sense to.

        It depends on the time and place? Some places encourage 1st cousin marriage to this day and I think like 10% of all marriages are first cousin marriages? But other places only allow it for 2nd cousins and beyond. Still, it’s amusing that all the Gaunt marriages are cousin marriages, in the sense of “well that takes dedication or else you really didn’t want to change the initials anywhere.”

        I mean technically everyone on earth is related? If your ancestors are European, then I think the most distantly related your parents can be is like 15th cousins? I forget the exact details. The problem is restricting your gene pool too much. Like 5th cousins is usually considered perfectly fine, and 3rd cousins is probably fine too if there are no genetic diseases in your family tree… so a relatively small, relatively self-contained community like the wizarding world is probably okay until the population gets too small. Like, say, post Voldemort War small.

        I do think Ominis and Anne would be happy together… but you’re right I don’t think we see them interacting anywhere so that all up to you a guess.

        I hate you a little. I am now 10 hours into a legacy replay and my wrist is killing me. (Also so much nausea. Ugh) it’s all your fault.

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