fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #1753 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1753 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Secret of Kells]

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[Shortpacked/Strangers With Candy]

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[Ricky Gervais]

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[Marshall Eriksen]

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[Queer as Folk]

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[Thor]

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[Tropic Thunder fake trailer]

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[Kane chronicles]

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(Transformers: Prime)

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50. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

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51. [TRIGGER WARNING for abuse]

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52. [TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault]

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53. [TRIGGER WARNING for gore]

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It's glorious in how repulsive it is :P. I feel slightly greasy after writing this. I don't know if I could ever muster the energy for their trip to the zoo, or even come up with anything grosser than the adventures in bacon preparation.

Somehow I don't blame you for feeling this way. But I think you'd definitely have an audience for this! It's kind of hard to describe. Perhaps it's like those paintings you see depicting Dante's hell. Glorious but repulsive as you say. Only you know with fanfic and bacon involved.

Still it would be nice if the Potter fandom perhaps got in on this (maybe you should put it on ff.net or a journal entry- advertising on a HP comm for the eternal easy access for the masses?).

You actually do see the occasional fic where the Dursley's treat Harry like a son (sometimes with Petunia raising them alone the odd time without Vernon), but while I do like them in their own way, usually Harry doesn't GET the canon!Dudley treatment. Instead both Dudders and Harry are raised normally in those stories which when you think on it, doesn't make as much canon sense as your fic.

I think this adds to the fascination and repulsion. The fact this so easily could have been canon given the way the Dursley's are presented to us and how Dudley was in fact raised in the books themselves.

I'm probably going to post this on my FF later, so hopefully it will go over well.

You could get into a big nature versus nurture debate over Dudley, and whether Harry would react the same way. Was Dudley's seventh book mini-redemption just him growing up, all from the dementor attack, or some inner kindness finally taking a stand against years of being spoiled?

I just wrote a very long fic for the dudley_redeemed fest (still anonymous until after posting), but honestly, one of the easiest things to redeem Dudley seems to be to get Petunia and Vernon out of the picture as quick as possible.

With the cartoonishly evil Dursley's, there are so many ways Harry could have turned out far worse than he did, not to mention completely unsuitable for Dumbledore's plans. I read someone's essay somewhere (yay vagueness) about some of the different after effects of abuse and what a gamble Dumbledore was taking. What if Hagrid had found an emotional cripple in the hut on the rock, a kid so cowed that he wouldn't stand up to anything? Or a child so desperate for attention that he didn't mind getting it in negative ways, and became a nightmare to try and control, even for normal things like school? Or a child so starved for attention that they would devote themselves heart and soul to the first person that gave them the time of day, good or bad? (some people in the comments of the essay made the argument that that's kind of what happened anyway). I know it's a book, and a kid's book, so it was always going to turn out okay, Harry was not a broken child, and he doesn't grow up into a war veteren with PTSD. But there were just a lot of variables that could have made a far worse person, and one of them could well have been excessive kindness.

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