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Tom: You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name forever? No, Harry- I fashioned myself a new name. I AM LORD VOLDEMORT! Harry: Congrats on your transition, brother, but I am not calling you that.
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Tom: You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name forever? No, Harry- I fashioned myself a new name. I AM LORD VOLDEMORT! Harry: Congrats on your transition, brother, but I am not calling you that.
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[Tom and Harry sometime after the end of @dizzydreamerao3's Steps to Parnassus, probably]
Ron: I will never understand what you see in that little freak.
Harry: His swagless looks and cringe fail personality have captivated me.
Speaking of Voldemort Wins AUs, an underrated--trope? worldbuilding concept?-- is that Voldemort would be terrible at being a political leader. Yeah, he gets off on people groveling in front of him, but running a country, even as a dictator, mostly consists of tedious mundanity that would probably bore him half to death in a few months tops. Can you imagine Voldemort actually caring about politics or, god forbid, economy? In my mind, he's a mostly absent ruler who shifts 99% of his responsibilities on select few Death Eaters, holes up in like, the Chamber of Secrets and is only seen in public once every few months when there's a new 20 feet tall golden statue built of him or something.
And in the meantime, the country is low-key falling apart. Britain gets booted out of international magical confederations, trade contracts and agreements fall apart because nobody wants to deal with a country where rules can change any day depending on Voldemort's foul mood. Muggleborns and those who are not cool with the regime have little choice but to just up and leave to the US or France or something, and, as it turns out, they actually made up most of the working class, small business owners, researchers and educators. All of this quickly kickstarts an economic crisis. Ministry scrambles to do something, except it is now entirely filled with Voldemort's Death Eaters and stupid incompetent nepotism hires. Money, resources and people spill out of the country like air from a popped balloon. The portkey bans and floo network restrictions do little when nobody in the ministry understands people can just take a fucking muggle plane.
And as the situation gets more unstable, at some point someone (Voldemort himself, or someone in his inner circle) has to get the brilliant idea that the best way to deal with civil unrest, reaffirm Voldemort's glory and make Britain great again is to starts a small victorious war with, idk, Ireland (or worse, muggles). The small victorious war of course then lasts 5 years, costs the ministry millions of galleons and ends in an embarrassing peace treaty. Which is, of course, repackaged as a 'decisive victory' in the media, but nobody is buying it when the economy in shambles. There is probably an epidemic of lycanthropy going around, since Fenrir and the likes were recruited for the war effort and are now war heroes, meaning they can just do as they please. War veterans fall really neatly into organized crime. Voldemort tortures to death the poor soul who suggests they may need to ease up on the blood purity thing a little bit.
Basically what I'm saying is, the dark comedy/political satire potential of Voldemort Wins AUs is severely underexplored.
The Summer Hikaru Died is so Tomarry coded...
If I had a nickel every time an awesome Tomarry writer had a nickname that begins with Isali/Iseli, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
@isalisewrites and @iseliljathedreamer ily
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(From draw me after you (let us run) by @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger)
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I don't think it's (usually) done intentionally, but I also can't NOT think about how popular light side bashing HP fic tropes like "muggleborns are destroying the magical world by banning and replacing the traditions they don't understand with muggle beliefs and inventions" sound uncomfortably similar to very real nationalistic slogans and conspiracy theories.