Four Down...

[kaylarudbek]

and two classes left to go. Heh. A scary thought. The next item on the agenda after finishing my classes is to get a summer job. And then to finish off my HP fic and get onto putting down the backstory for the original fic. Which is now going to be SF, as I came up with the title "Three-Body Problem" for it this week. Yes. You are correctly reading the innuendo into that title. At least on the emotional aspects of the romantic plot...And there will be tons of backstory to work through. I need to get my hands on the Machiavelli, the Clausewitz, the Sun Tzu, and on some sort of political analysis of the Cold War. I have the idea of the basic romantic plot, now I need to put these people down into a universe. I am nursing the ideas, but need much more development. Writing fanfic is so easy in comparison...already got the world built at least partway for you.

Bad headache from sleep deprivation from finals. Need to give up using the Internet after 9 pm at night. (and how many times have I told myself this?)

Am still bemused from the link I found on lasultrix's journal to a FAP thread about religion in the HP-verse. I've seen other opinions, but to me, a cradle Catholic, the Malfoys and the Weasleys simply do not seem or feel Catholic. There's a few weak markers, such as Draco's swearing by God instead of Merlin and referring to "St. Potter, patron of mudbloods," and the Weasleys being a large family of redheads. The overall feel and impression I get from each family says to me non-practicing, as so many of the British are. In my fic, I'm going with the Weasleys as non-practicing Anglican, and the Malfoys as pagan holdouts. But then again, I'm a dumb American, so what do I know about it anyway?

--Kayla R.

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[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Weasleys - actually, I would have said they were practicing Anglican.

Malfoys as Catholics - in the UK quite a lot of the really old aristocracy are - Dukes of Norfolk for example, and I think the Dukes of Northumberland.

Minerva - Scots Presbyterian, I think.

I noticed you'd friended me, so I wandered over to have a look at your LJ. hope you don't mind :) Wondered how you'd found me...

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

Hi, there, angelofthenorth. I found you through various LJ's and FAP. I really liked your meditations that you posted, so I decided to friend you. I hope that I wasn't being too presumptuous.

Hmm, I think I'll have to take your word for it on the interpretation of the Malfoys' & Weasleys' religious backgrounds & practice status, as you are British and so you're picking up JKR's clues better than I am. And I do agree with you on Minerva McGonagall being Scots Presbyterian.

Sigh. I think that why I don't see the Malfoys as Catholic is partly due to my American Catholic background. We don't have many aristocratic Catholics here, at least not in the Midwest. We have plenty of Catholics in this region, but descended from European peasantry for the most part. I'll have to get my husband to read HP and get his take on it, because he's from an entirely different part of the U.S., and so would pick up different things than I would.

Well, for my own fic, I'll make the Watsonian argument that as the Catholics survived in Muggle England, so did the pagans survive in wizarding England.

And since I'm not familiar with the details of Anglican/Episcopal practice, that's probably why I didn't pick up on it...

"dumb American" Kayla R.

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Not dumb at all.

I wasn't saying that the Malfoys were Catholic, I was just saying they could be Catholic. Catholics tend to be both the richest and the poorest, oddly enough, as a lot of Catholics are Irish origin in the UK.

Thanks, not presumptuous, just curious, as all sorts of people have found my journal recently, and I'm always wondering how.

I say practicing Anglican for the Weasleys because they seem pretty ordinary. They could easily be Methodists.

The reasons that Catholics would survive and pagans wouldn't is that paganism was wiped out a few hundred years earlier, and those in power converted to Christianity, whereas with Catholicism, those in power stayed Catholics, and therefore more able to hand on the tales.