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edenfallingIt's snowing in Ithaca, and has been off and on all day. Currently it's shifted to a lighter, fluffier snow -- earlier bouts have been much denser, faster, and verging on sleet -- but in an hour or so I'll most likely have to go back outside and shovel the sidewalk again. Bah.
In other news, I cannot get the final scene of "Secrets" ch. 13 to come out right. It's a conversation between Ginny and Sir Vladislav which currently has three purposes. 1) Ginny needs to talk to someone to start wrapping her head around a rather complex issue of responsibility, victimhood, blame, agency, and so on. 2) I wanted to retroactively explain why Sir Vladislav didn't notice Tom-in-Ginny's-body bringing the basilisk up from the Chamber for all the Petrifications, nor tell the professors that Ginny was NOT physically abducted and, in fact, vanished into Myrtle's bathroom of what appeared to be her own free will. (See, I do sometimes catch my own stupid plot holes. It just takes a while. *headdesk*) And 3) Ginny has to decide to go explain herself and/or apologize to Colin Creevey.
This is rather a lot to jam into one conversation, especially when one party can't talk and is forced to write his dialogue in very badly spelled English!
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I dunno, maybe I can leave out some lecturing and stuff about other characters and just have Ginny reach point 3) on her own. That might work better, and would certainly be less hammer-in-the-face unsubtle on the moral message front. *makes face* Or maybe I'll just start on ch. 14 and see if I can work out, from how Ginny deals with Colin, what might have led her to approach him.
In other news, I cannot get the final scene of "Secrets" ch. 13 to come out right. It's a conversation between Ginny and Sir Vladislav which currently has three purposes. 1) Ginny needs to talk to someone to start wrapping her head around a rather complex issue of responsibility, victimhood, blame, agency, and so on. 2) I wanted to retroactively explain why Sir Vladislav didn't notice Tom-in-Ginny's-body bringing the basilisk up from the Chamber for all the Petrifications, nor tell the professors that Ginny was NOT physically abducted and, in fact, vanished into Myrtle's bathroom of what appeared to be her own free will. (See, I do sometimes catch my own stupid plot holes. It just takes a while. *headdesk*) And 3) Ginny has to decide to go explain herself and/or apologize to Colin Creevey.
This is rather a lot to jam into one conversation, especially when one party can't talk and is forced to write his dialogue in very badly spelled English!
...
I dunno, maybe I can leave out some lecturing and stuff about other characters and just have Ginny reach point 3) on her own. That might work better, and would certainly be less hammer-in-the-face unsubtle on the moral message front. *makes face* Or maybe I'll just start on ch. 14 and see if I can work out, from how Ginny deals with Colin, what might have led her to approach him.
