AN: I have completely redone the layout for this story. There are many changes in Prologue A that is now Chapters 1 & 2. Teh hierarchy system was just too confusing and has been replaced by something I think is simpler and easier to follow. Please, please let me know what you think of those changes. I'll be working on Prologue B which will just be called something along the lines of the 1998 chapter.
Also review responses from the original story set up, with hopes of answering some questions, clear some confusion, and admit a few things?
Excessivelyperky:
Umbridge first: You were right in what you said about her being hung out to dry. I've changed the interaction while keeping some of it the same. You can find this in the new chapter 1. I hope you read it and tell me your thoughts because I have you to thank for that inspiration.
As for Severus and the undesirable thing from the original that is mostly the same now: Yes, but of his own doing until after fifth year. Here- and I think it's canon though I'm not positive- Severus while being friends with Lily kept away from most of his own housemates voluntarily until he began to get more into the Dark Arts, which he researched on his own after hearing his housemates. Really at that point I think it was really only a small number that he had been close too and some or even most were out of Hogwarts at this point in canon. Remember Lily was the only person he was really close to and trusted at this point in time in canon I believe. Then there was the fall out... over name calling... after an extremely humiliating attack in his formative and impulsive years. I see him calling Lily Mudblood and their falling out causing him to truly intergrade into the others who were already following Voldemort after Lily refused to forgive him. If I have something wrong, let me know what and I'll let you know if it's now canon for my AU lol. Hope that clears up some of that confusion.
Baboy Ako:
It is true, and I would find it hard to believe for Lily of all people to allow her child to go through years of torment only for them to be killed. But in this story line, she has zero anything to do with Harry. I stick to my belief that the first couple years Harry was relatively cared for with the Dursleys... I feel even Petunia wouldn't torment a 1.5- to 3-year-old to do really anything. Once he was walking and everything on his own- presumably before even Dudley who was more than a month older than Harry- then the chores began.
And Albus would totally be the kind of person to just tell her he was doing well despite anything. Then with James as his number 1 supporter there to assuage whatever worries she had- despite him truly not being aware either- she would have eventually stopped asking about him. She wouldn't be privy to the true extent of his torment at her sister's hand and her family until much later, possibly more than half of his school years. By then, yeah, it's awful this happened to a child, but that would be all he was by then... A child who was a stranger to her. Also, by this point, she's with her husband and their friends know about them, and by the time the reveal happens she's pregnant with a child who she won't be abandoning.
And my final argument for her betrayal and abandonment: She was convinced her child was going to die regardless... Mostly through the information of Albus and the wording of the Prophecy. Some people, if they know someone or something is going to die, choose not to get attached to save their own feelings. And she probably knew that he would have love and support through others that weren't her, so she could save her own feelings without guilt... Until Harry cursed her and the others with his final breath.
Hope this explains my reasoning for her actions.
