Tanya’s Hogwarts Adventures (Youjo Senki, Harry Potter)

[Snooze]

All shall fear the pimp hand of Voldemort!

 

[13thDiner]

#AccidentallyTransVoldemort

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I think Voldi is already terrifying as is. Giving him uncanny valley levels of repulsion will buff him too much.

 

[Aigloss]

I think Voldi is already terrifying as is. Giving him uncanny valley levels of repulsion will buff him too much.

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Uk magical are already histerical at his name. Can't get much worse.

 

[Blasterbot]

Uk magical are already histerical at his name. Can't get much worse.

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look up r63 voldemort then. do it. I dare not tread there.

 

[Half_Baked_cat]

look up r63 voldemort then. do it. I dare not tread there.

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Surprisingly, not a lot.

Meh, I already commissioned an image of what Voldemort will be looking like.

 

[DyrantCore]

This is giving me Dr. Facilier vibes. Not sure what a Loa is, but the accent makes me think of the bayou.

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Old Voldie found a proper practitioner of Voodoo and summoned THE Baron, basically Voodoo's bad mouthed, party animal, drink enjoying version of Hades.

Baked, you nailed Baron in my opinion, I'm liking the direction you're taking this.

 

[The Unicorn]

"Hmm, yes," the man said, giving a toothy grin. "Dis will do. Dough I mus' warn you the Loa are na ta be trifled wid. You make your request, give them what dey want, and pray dey like you enough."

"That will not be a problem," Voldemort hissed from the back of Quirrell's head.

"Den you both kneel here," the man said, grabbing a staff that has been leaning against a wall. "And we begin now."

Voldemort scowled as Quirrell motioned for the woman to kneel down, head bowed before joining shortly after.

The staff met the ground with a thudding crack, a rhythmic pounding beginning as the man began circling Quirrell and the woman. Incense began smoking throughout the shack and the already dark shack became even darker.

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Great chapter, and great depiction of the Baron but this part bugs me. While I can see Voldie being both knowledgeable, ruthless and stupid enough to make such a deal with the baron and think he can get the better end of the deal, I have difficulty seeing him trusting anyone, much less someone he didn't control with the ritual, and that's exactly how this scene comes off - Voldie trusting an unknown Voodun practitioner he has no control over to perform a critical ritual he doesn't know enough to perform himself.

 

[ZacSunTiBidea]

Great chapter, and great depiction of the Baron but this part bugs me. While I can see Voldie being both knowledgeable, ruthless and stupid enough to make such a deal with the baron and think he can get the better end of the deal, I have difficulty seeing him trusting anyone, much less someone he didn't control with the ritual, and that's exactly how this scene comes off - Voldie trusting an unknown Voodun practitioner he has no control over to perform a critical ritual he doesn't know enough to perform himself.

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On the surface, that does appear to be a break in Voldie's obsession with control, but it checks out with deeper probing.

Voldie's canon control freak issues were actually rather few. 1) killing the brat who would end him. 2) 'it has to be potter's blood'.

And those were matters explicitly regarding his eternal reign. Most everything else, he's fine sending minions or having paid-off politicians handle, so it's not a personality-deep need to be in control.

Now, contacting the Baron is also related to his immortal reign, but it's a half-step removed. As was noted in this chapter, his horcruxes work. He's got time. The only reason he's rushing things is because it's aggravatingly difficult to get any work done without a host and he's running out of host time. He's not yet obsessed with killing Harry, he just wants a body so he can get on with the important stuff.

That half-step of separation allows him to only grumble at the facts of Cheval - inviting a Loa to ride in your body. One of those facts is that if you want something out of the session, the spirit you invoke has to already have a rapport with the person it's riding. And building that rapport is the work of years.

So, having researched the matter, Voldie knows that the ritual has to be done by a dedicated practitioner, and that the ritual itself is just calling the Baron and inviting him to hear a request. It's not the part that he'd be doing himself anyway.

The part he needs to be in control of is the negotiation. Which he was.
Sure, there's no possible way he grasps the Baron's sense of humor enough to see why the price is so reaonable, but he'd need a rapport with the Baron to grasp that, which circles back around to why he could force himself to trust a freelancer in the first place.

 

[Half_Baked_cat]

Indeed. He has a limited amount of time to work with. He has a multitude of options, but most of them have other cons to using them.

Lets look at the canon one first:
Cons: Needs to be performed specifically near where his father is buried. Voldemort does not want to associate with his father if possible
Needs blood of the enemy. That would require either Harry or Dumbledore ideally. In a time crunch situation, that is hard to arrange.
Needs flesh of the servant. Would Quirrell count if Voldemort is in his body? Questionable and not worth the risk for Voldie. So he would need to involve another servant. Possible, but not worth it considering the blood of the enemy problem.

Essentially, the reason he went with this one is that other rituals would:
1. Take too long to setup even with an unspecified amount of time that is probably about a year to do the setup in.
2. Require hard to gather ingredients that may take longer than a year to gather.
3. The restrictions on what Voldemort can do are more restrictive than Bawon's.

So, looking again at the ritual used:
1. That it happened to happen on Halloween is convenient as it is a point where the world of the living and dead is thinner, but was not time critical. Hell, Halloween in 1992 wasn't even a full moon. I checked. It was a crescent. I believe waning crescent specifically.
2. The only ingredients really needed was rum and cigars. Or, in this case, Rhum. What is the difference between rum and rhum? Mostly what product of the sugarcane is used. Rum is usually more molasses usage. Rhum is usually more sugarcane juice usage. A basic Bacardi would have worked, but Baron Saturday recognized that regardless of how Quirrell got the rhum, he went out of his way to get top shelf stuff. That is ego stroking and the Baron is not above getting stroked.
3. The restrictions Voldemort heard are fashion based and that he basically has to maintain his form by imbibing rum. In theory, he could have made Snape make potions to help maintain his form, but this is easy to do as it isn't even a potion. It is a muggle product he can easily keep acquiring through various means. The party requirement was a non issue. Sure, it is annoying, but the requirements to maintain his new body was far more important. How much rum must he drink? He does not know, but assumes he will feel it when he needs more. And even if he doesn't a glass a day is a safe minimum bet. Best to do a glass per meal at minimum instead. Is he right? Time will tell, but compared to other restrictions which could include what he is doing, this is very lax and one of the reasons he figured this route may work.

Cons he hasn't realized yet:
1. #AccidentallyTransVoldemort He doesn't know yet that he is going to be female. That will be a con, but not one he is overly concerned with as his gender is not too important to his identity.
2. He looks nothing like he did. This will cause issues with people believing he is... well... Voldemort. This can be overcome.
3. He needs to work out how to handle his next revival because this current body is not immortal so he will need another ritual and probably needs to set it up while his current one is still alive.

 

[Sunny_cat]

Dumbledor: "Is that Tom?"
Snape: "I believe so"
Dumbledor: "He looks... peppy"
Snape: "Yes... like grape pimp"

 

[ZacSunTiBidea]

Meanwhile Lucious: "Bah, the dark lord killed himself on an infant. I don't need to keep his rubbish while I'm being raided."

Mere months later: Dark Mark burns.

Lucious: "shitshitshit"

And soon, some Death Eater: "Who's this harlot claiiiiiiieee!" - continues writhing in Crucio.