LoEG: Century 2009 - Boy Meets God
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scans_dailyA century long conspiracy to bring about the Antichrist comes to a head, and just when it seems all looks lost, an unexpected person comes to the rescue...
Triggerwarning for gore
I should note that her appearance isn't out of nowhere, she's appeared in the background series times throughout the series to my knowledge.
That's right, in the LoEG universe, Mary Poppins is either God or the most powerful being in the universe, and by extention, the entirety of fiction. Heh. And how she defeats the AntiHarry is actually kind of special to, to be honest.
Weirdly enough, this does actually make sense in the context of the novel itself, as one of the overall themes of the book is the progression of literature from having primarily male protagonists to female ones. There are numerous examples of this throughout the book, including the new M (Emma Peel, last seen in the Black Dossier under her maidenname Night) being the first of the characters who bore the title to actually be actively heroic in her own way.
A thing that amused me though, is after all the fuss that Moore and his fans have made over the use of his characters in Before Watchmen (even though they're technically DC's characters, and reimaginings of their other characters like Captain Atom, the Question etc. at that), the fact that he made the choice to overtly use other people's characters in this that are still under copyright to other people. Namely through his decision to use Harry Potter as the Antichrist, a thing hinted since the 1910 volume, as well as an explicit reference to both James Bond and the "JB is a title" theory that the director of Die Another Day claimed was canon.
Triggerwarning for gore
I should note that her appearance isn't out of nowhere, she's appeared in the background series times throughout the series to my knowledge.
That's right, in the LoEG universe, Mary Poppins is either God or the most powerful being in the universe, and by extention, the entirety of fiction. Heh. And how she defeats the AntiHarry is actually kind of special to, to be honest.
Weirdly enough, this does actually make sense in the context of the novel itself, as one of the overall themes of the book is the progression of literature from having primarily male protagonists to female ones. There are numerous examples of this throughout the book, including the new M (Emma Peel, last seen in the Black Dossier under her maidenname Night) being the first of the characters who bore the title to actually be actively heroic in her own way.
A thing that amused me though, is after all the fuss that Moore and his fans have made over the use of his characters in Before Watchmen (even though they're technically DC's characters, and reimaginings of their other characters like Captain Atom, the Question etc. at that), the fact that he made the choice to overtly use other people's characters in this that are still under copyright to other people. Namely through his decision to use Harry Potter as the Antichrist, a thing hinted since the 1910 volume, as well as an explicit reference to both James Bond and the "JB is a title" theory that the director of Die Another Day claimed was canon.
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Date: 2012-06-20 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-20 04:46 pm (UTC)It's more like if someone had decided to turn Harry's life into something akin to the Truman Show to get him ready for the role they had in store for him. Admittedly the adults in Harry's life manipulating him to further their own ends (for good or ill) is something that I understand it shares with the source material, though here there are significant enough departures to make the characters and places in this comic Harry, Hogwarts etc. the things in name only.
The fact that Voldemort was active in the 1940s (I think that's the case isn't it?) in the books isn't addressed in the story, nor is he a member of Hogwart's teaching staff either, like he claimed he was in 1969.
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:03 pm (UTC)yeah, i'm still... not really seeing a lot of connections to the original story other than scar + chosen one boy + tom riddle + wizardry school. eugenics? truman show? what on earth.
it sounds like alan moore very vaguely heard about the harry potter series, maybe through annoying young family members of his, and did his thing.
it's no skin off my back, i was just confused for a bit with all of your descriptions, trying to figure out how it was all supposed to connect.
I hope this makes sense
Date: 2012-06-20 05:23 pm (UTC)So all the lessons, snippy teachers, adventures with his friends, having a central bad guy to fight etc. was all fake, and a means to control Harry until Voldemort/Haddo was ready to end the world on his own terms.
It was the Truman Show in that everything was fake (except for his friendship with Ron and Hermione, they seem shocked Harry turned on them) and it was all a sham intended to manipulate him for the bad guy's doing.
Harry in this continuity is the Moonchild, a magically empowered being from an early twentieth century fantasy book that I think was written by that Crowley guy, created by a magician called Oliver Haddo, who is himself a fictional version of A. Crowley. Haddo defied death by transplanting his soul into the bodies of other magicians who'd go on to be similar dark magicians in works of fiction through the Twentieth Century, before getting trapped in the body of Tom Riddle due to a combination of a psychic duel with Mina Murray and his host body getting shot by a hitman because he'd screwed over some gangsters.
Through his various lives as a wealthy leader of cult of similar dark magicians he organised a project that started in 1910 with the intention of breeding a Moonchild which he'd use to destroy the world and rebuilt it in his imagine.
Once he was stuck in Riddle's body he moved the project to Hogwarts, where he magically compelled the teachers and other members of staff to go along with his web of lies while he hid in the records office, and could later covertly oversee HP's schooling at the school.
Unfortunately, for all his scheming he didn't take into account that Harry wouldn't want to be the Moonchild/AntiChrist, so the premature reveal that his life was a facade caused the boy to snap, rampage and then hide from the world so that he wouldn't have to go through with it.
Re: I hope this makes sense
Date: 2012-06-20 05:51 pm (UTC)(*) - quotation marks because this tom riddle doesn't really sound like the source material's tom riddle at all, as far as motivation or absolutely anything else goes.
yeah, still wondering if alan moore only vaguely heard about harry potter. which is not a problem! that sounds like an interesting story concept. just... very tenuously related to the original.