Male. Early twenties. Varying interests.

A couple of words about In the end, it is not well

The title (and chapter titles) come from a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne called the Garden of Proserpine. You're probably familiar with the opening line, "Here, where the world is quiet," which was adapted into the motto of VFD in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Admittedly, I don't have a particularly good reason for using the poem—it doesn't mesh exactly with thriller and suspense—but my hope is rather that it lends an air of melancholy and tranquility to the normal grittiness and adrenaline of a suspenseful read.

I can't place any specific inspiration for the story, but with literally hundreds of thousands of Harry Potter fics written, I did want to try my hand at something new. So as far as I know, this is an original concept. I'd always thought the circumstances behind Sirius' imprisonment were a bit sketchy (although I'm not sure I buy into conspiracies about Dumbledore's explicit involvement to get him locked away). This aims to remedy questions there, and set out in a new direction that I think is quite reasonable, by canon standards.

As for the character of Rita: I understand why Rowling views the press the way she does—paparazzi in particular, deserve the vitriol. I also think seeing the world from Harry's eyes may have colored things a bit. Finally, I expect reportage would be different during wartime than peacetime. Rita is also younger and not as hardened (She's 29, which is the canon age for 1981). With that said, I've still taken some liberties. This is "Slightly AU," after all. My effort is to make a reasonable simulacrum to canon Rita, with enough differences to make her not-detestable.