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[FF][RT] Hermione Granger and the Perfectly Reasonable Explanation - Chapter 9: Independent Study
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Author: u/RobinDrew Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE)*
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URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9950232/12/Hermione-Granger-and-the-Perfectly-Reasonable-Explanation
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Score: 33
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Created: 2016-06-02T14:54:54
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u/veruchai [+8] (2 hours later)
Happy to see this updated. I remember liking this one quite a bit.
u/ZeroNihilist [+4] (2 hours later)
Likewise. I may need to do a reread to refresh my memory.
u/kreschnav [+7] (15 hours later)
Of course I start reading this right when the latest chapter ends on a big fat cliffhanger. This always seems to happen to me.
u/Sceptically [+12] (19 hours later)
u/None [+3] (2 days later)
u/RobinDrew [+3] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (5 days later)
Lol! I like to lean on the fourth wall occasionally, but I don't think I'd go quite that far.
u/RobinDrew [+7] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (a minute later)
- Official Typo/Britpick Thread, if you are so inclined, helps if they're all in once place -
u/ZeroNihilist [+5] (2 hours later)
or a moment as mommy put a ... Mummy knew what to do
Mix of British and US spelling.
u/RobinDrew [+3] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (3 hours later)
Darn, thought I caught all those, thanks!
u/None [+4] (11 hours later)
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u/RobinDrew [+2] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (5 days later)
I'm always a bit worried. Imposter Syndrome and all that.
u/mycroftxxx42 [+4] (12 hours later)
I was not expecting a Peggy Sue. Interesting.
u/RobinDrew [+2] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (5 days later)
[-Spoiler if Peggy Sues worry you, otherwise just wait-](#s "The "Traveler" is not going to stick around very long - the story has always been intended to be about Hermione learning and growing, which can't really happen if she's replaced with someone who has already done that, or even gets "cheat codes" from her.")
Mostly it's just because I felt compelled to justify my divergence from canon. Which many people have told me isn't necessary (lots even said just make Tonks a Seventh Year like EY did), but I'm a fan of both continuity and "Hard Fantasy", if you will.
u/mycroftxxx42 [+2] (5 days later)
Hey, Peggy Sue's can be interesting. And They Shall Reap the Whirlwind is a long, and occasionally very bizarre, Peggy Sue involving an actual historical figure whose mind gets fed to and replaced by the mind of a 21st-century historian whose career was studying that specific person. (Arthur Harris, commander in chief of the British bomber command in WW2)
The story is amusing in places because almost none of the replacement's attempts to peggy sue the shit out of everything actually work. Failures range from frustrating to horrifying, but nothing is really easy for the protagonist in spite of having been dropped into a situation where they can potentially do the most good. It's a long story, and it does kinda lose the plot from time to time, but it's a good study of how foreknowledge is not an instant-win.
Your structure as written has a lot of potential, especially if you keep the perspective centered where it is, making the interloper essentially unknowable and separate. I think you could be onto something if you plot out everything from the interloper's perspective and only show us things from the current POV.
u/360Saturn [+4] (7 hours later)
Twist! Or maybe it's just because I haven't read this story for a while. Great to see an update either way. The plot thickens!
u/RobinDrew [+1] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (5 days later)
Or maybe the plot is just hardening on the outside, like a crème brûlée? :)
u/VanPeer [+5] The shard made me do it (a day later)
Excellent writing.
u/RobinDrew [+1] Ravenclaw - (Author: HGPRE) (5 days later)
Thank you!