Reviews for Cursed Be this Soul (that Ties Us Together) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() I very much like this story snd hope it could be updated in the future, has plenty of potential in it going off the comment section dispite people leaving massive walls if texts every chapter that no one would read . |
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![]() ![]() The foreshadowing is excellent. Jon is going to find a dragon while Hermione and Ned are in Highgarden. The solution to the dragon hatching problem (hiding Jon’s Targaryen heritage and preventing Robert killing Jon as a Targaryen prince) is wyverns. Wyverns exist in ASOIAF and are common in Sothyros. People can mistake dragons for wyverns in ASOIAF. No one has seen a living dragon, so it would be hard to prove a young dragon (if kept from breathing fire) was not a wyvern. Fires breaking out around the “wyverns” are just them knocking over candles with their long tails. What is more likely: Lady Granger has wyvern pets for her sons as surprise gifts or dragons long thought extinct hatched at Winterfell? Plus, ASOIAF dragons would be argued to be wyverns based on legs/wings in the Potterverse by Hermione. Ned could say his children have wyverns and be telling the “truth.” Ned already has giant direwolves as pets for his children, so it’s not that much to add wyverns. Maybe Hermione could add some more destructive foreign pets for her children to Winterfell so the “wyverns” get lost in the chaos, like conjured raccoons. The best misunderstanding for plot chaos would be for Barbrey Ryswell to think Jon is not really a Ned/Hermione kid based on timeline problems or other odd things with the story but... a Brandon/Ashara child. Hermione claiming Jon as her second son with Ned means he is rendered harmless for Teddy’s chances of inheriting Winterfell. As a Brandon bastard with another Westerosi noble, Jon Snow would be a senior line over Ned’s offspring potentially and many might choose him due to being raised in the North over Teddy. Ned’s line with Catelyn inheriting Winterfell is a little dubious right now with the Bran parentage issue and Robb not looking Northern and the other kids being two girls and Lady Granger kicking Lady Catelyn out of the castle/seeming to be a noble schemer like Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon. Barb thinking Jon Snow is Brandon’s is an interesting development, as pushing forward the true parentage knowledge/his superior claim to Winterfell would annoy Ned a lot. Plus, Jon should not be kept from the truth by the scheming Lady Granger and Ser Teddy, so a true Northern Stark can rule Winterfell. Poor Ned sweating when Barb asks to see him in private, her talking about importance of Jon knowing his parentage, Ned freaking out with the horrible treasonous Targaryen prince reveal... and then Barb smugly talking of Brandon, Ned hiding his true father from Jon, trying to take Winterfell from Brandon’s son, etc. As far as making money in Westeros for Hermione and Teddy, I would think of something that could be transfigured from cheap materials that would hold its form. Porcelain was considered “white gold” in medieval Europe before the secret of making it was discovered around 1700. Potterverse has Hogwarts students making teacups as basic beginner magic exercises. I do think the porcelain teacups would go back to the original materials with time normally, but if you did the transfiguration out of clay and minerals (easily found in the North)...I think you would continue to have porcelain items forever? Making porcelain teacups seems like something Hermione and Teddy would have a lot of practice at and could make a ton of awesome porcelain quickly. A boatload of porcelain would probably pay off a huge chunk of the Iron Throne’s debt, considering the value of porcelain in medieval Europe. As far as where Hermione is from/her supposed homeland in ASOIAF, the smallfolk will eventually just give her a homeland or home city on their own by guesses or rumors that is far away and she can just go with that? The ASOIAF smallfolk tend to call noble ladies from outside Westeros names like Larra of Lys for Larra Rogare or Serala of Myr for Serala Darklyn. So, the smallfolk are going to call her Hermione of X (x being her home city or country), the nobles will think that must be where she is from, and Hermione can just sigh and accept it like the Jon and Teddy parentage situation. |
![]() ![]() Excited to see what happens next at Highgarden. It looks like they are stuck with Robert as King. Ned is Robert’s friend and would not want to see him die if he could be saved. Ned also would uphold line of succession and want Stannis as the next King if Robert died...which would mean a Florent Queen and be totally unacceptable to the Tyrells. Ned is too honorable and loyal to Robert right now (maybe he could be brought around by Hermione if the situation got bad enough) to declare himself King of the North and secede from the Seven Kingdoms. Robert is awful and a danger to Hermione and Teddy, but I think a lot of it is based on trauma and loss of loved ones. A powerful witch in House of the Dragon is Alys Rivers, possibly hundreds of years old and maybe alive in the present day and maybe powerful on the level of a Potter witch. The tv show fills time with Daemon Targaryen having dreams/visions/hallucinations (possibly from Alys Rivers potions or the haunted nature of Harrenhal) that make him see things...like his dead wife, his dead brother the former king, a young Rhaenerya, the dead son of rival King he ordered killed, etc. The visions/hallucinations sort of fix Daemon and make him loyal to Rhaenyra/realize he should not be king. Hermione should be able to give Robert dreams/hallucinations and Teddy can do impersonations with metamorph skills of his parents (Steffon died in front of Robert on a shipwreck, hugely traumatic), of teenage Lyanna (Ned should have good memories of her and think of things to say that would give Robert closure/protect Jon as not her son but Hermione’s), of the abandoned daughter he once loved Mya Stone with no marriage prospects and stuck escorting mules in the Vale, of a fake Stannis and Renly (saying things Robert needs to hear/that the brothers could not express to each other), etc. Those hallucinations could be Robert’s Targ blood acting up or the medicine from the maesters or the stress of the assassination attempt or...a lot of things besides Witch Granger and Wizard Teddy. Sure, Robert saw Teddy summon a glowing spirit wolf...but he also saw his dead parents and dead Lyanna so...Lol. That’s the best way to keep magic a secret, here, after the magic spilled everywhere. The Iron Bank and the royal debt are a huge issue, especially for Ned as Hand of the King. Robert does not want to marry a Tyrell, I would guess due to the soulmarks and scheming family nature, and getting rid of Cersei as wife is problematic due to proving parentage of the three kids. Hermione could save the day here for a while with some temporary conjuration. If you look Crazy Rich Asian rich so the high interest rates on a gigantic debt are unimportant to you, the Iron Bank may be willing to let the loans go on forever and keep being issued even with the Lannister trouble. Robert seen to be in negotiations with the Tyrells rolling in wealth and Hermione floating around covered in a kingdom’s ransom worth of new jewels every day by Ned’s side means the Iron Banks debts are...insignificant and paid back easily to the bank representative that arrives in Highgarden? Like, Hermione’s jeweled gowns are temporary creations and transfigured from old Tyrell or Targaryen trunks with scrap silk in the castle attics, but it looks like she could afford to pay the realm’s debt back hundreds of times by handing over a couple jewelry boxes. The Tyrells did offer to pay ten percent of the realm's debts, I think, when the Iron Bank called the loans in the show so, meh, they're good for a giant pile of gold if on Robert's side and the Iron Bank would know that. |
![]() ![]() Ah! Your writing is so good! How are your stories so amazing? I swear, I get hooked on everything you write. And this fic is so freaking cute! The ‘Mom is really good at escaping dungeons since she’s made a habit of annoying people’ bit was hilarious. And both Hermione and Teddy bring the awesome to whatever scene they’re in. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Excellent story so far. I hope to read more soon. |
![]() ![]() ![]() I hope you'll find time to update this. This is such a masterpiece |
![]() ![]() Hermione and Teddy believe they are successfully disguising themselves, but I’d love for everyone to know she is a witch and soulmates with Ned. Muggles don’t see wizards/witches back home even when directly confronted with magic because they want to rationalize/don’t think magic is a thing at all except in fairy stories, but that’s not the case in the superstitious North of Westeros that believes in magic. Big time curse signs I see so far (on the level of Jenny of Oldstones for the Targaryens): two male Northern-looking bastards to a rich beautiful foreign lady from a super honorable Ned, married to an awful Southern lady that obviously cheated on him with Bran at least (so damaged the Stark line and maybe destroyed the Stark line if suspicion falls on Robb’s parentage due to non-Stark looks like the Strong boys in House of the Dragon), Ned looks pretty suffering heavily without Hermione for decades and perks right up when she arrives back (which is big soul mate clue), Ned’s family being killed horribly (father, brother, sister) around the time of their meeting two decades ago, Hermione arrives back in Westeros for the curse to swing into action to have Ned beheaded publicly for treason/kill his household/kill his king, his lady wife plotting to kill the king/kill her husband/hiding out in a brothel with the maester of coin bankrupting the realm. Lol, I see the White Walkers/Others return will be placed on Hermione/Ned as well here. I do think the Northern lords would try to separate Ned/Hermione as soulmates if they had just met each other that month, but they have two kids together so...it’s way too late now per the soul mate lore? Of course, Karstark considers himself close Stark kin (well, he is as close as everyone in the North, really, but he sees himself as close enough to get sucked into the soul mate curse as a Stark cadet branch...which is why he is not a Hermione fan here and would totally blame his sons’ death in the original timeline on Hermione/Ned). Hermione, the soul mate, was not around for decades but Catelyn tormented Ned, damaged the Stark line with Bran, plotted to kill the king, etc. with her thousands of miles away, so I can see a majority of the lords being...well, the curse has struck, can’t stop it now, let them be together (like, Jenny of Oldstones was tried to be stopped with the crown prince at first, but then the she was accepted at court). Man, I can see everyone thinking Hermione went away to "Valyria" (lol, Teddy’s imagination) as her trying to stay hidden from Ned/prevent the soulmate curse from activating even worse (perhaps seeing some worrying curse intensifying signs before she fled his arrival). I mean, obviously, the soul mate curse drug Hermione thousands of miles from her realm to King’s Landing so she could die horribly with Ned (as all soul mates do per the lore) except Hermione’s powerful magic was enough to stop the unhappy ending. Now cue the grumpy soul mate curse plotting something else to destroy Ned/Hermione...like the White Walkers. |
![]() ![]() Feeling sorry for Hermione having a soul mate that thinks they are curse marks. I hope they can be together despite the bad reputation of soul marks in Westeros. The Targaryen royals seem like a family to have been hit hard by soul marks or curse marks multiple times in Westerosi history. Valyrian culture probably does not see soul marks as a bad thing because of the ability to have multiple spouses (so soul mates did not stop political alliance marriages) and prominence of magic users with psychic bonds to dragons in society (so understanding of the magic behind the marks). The Targaryens were okay with brother/sister marriages and having the very explicit Red Keep tapestries (until the Hightowers took them down) when that wasn’t a thing for the rest of Westeros culturally, so soul mates being a good thing/not a curse and not to be hidden might fit under that. Viserys the First from House of the Dragon appears to be a good candidate to get slapped with the curse mark folklore and cause horror at soul mates in Westeros among nobles. So, Viserys and his first wife (Aemma) being known soul mates (which Viserys would not hide like the Targaryens don’t hide brother/sister marriages)...Viserys “killed” his soul mate with constant births to get a male heir (that died in a day), kept a female heir to the realm from his soul mate against all advice (which led to the Dance of the Dragons) versus the normal male heir, ignored his soul mate’s child issues (Strong sons), had a rotting disease that made him a slowly rotting corpse for decades (obviously part of the soul mark curse according to the Westerosi but some random accident infection like Greyscale per Hermione), could not really love his second wife due to pining for Aemma (and he would not have married the second wife except for pressure from Westerosi nobles to marry again for dynastic reasons), laid the groundwork for the death of the Targaryen dragons, caused the realm and numerous family members to burn in the Dance of Dragons, etc. However, Viserys being a normal Valyrian dragon rider of a middling family pre-Doom wouldn’t have the pressures/issues of a Westerosi royal and could have lived happily ever after with his long-living soul mate and playing with his giant Valyria model without making hard choices/causing a disaster. Likewise, Ned being a normal muggle or wizard in Hermione's home world would not cause a curse to be with a soul mate, but here as the Warden of the North/Head of House Stark... So, I’d say it was Westeros noble culture that is the toxic curse and not soul mates. |
![]() ![]() Poor Lady Granger spending weeks of research in the Red Keep library when she should have asked a village bard about soul mates. Has folklore or bard stories been written down and studied in Westeros yet because The Tales of Beedle the Bard was fifteenth century (even if earlier versions of the stories were floating around). The maesters seem to look down on smallfolk tales and legends or leave that to bards and nursemaids, so a maester might add a soul mate footnote to a random book on a region, king, or war but not have a separate book on soul mates. That means Lady Granger must dig through a mountain of books for footnotes on curse marks to cobble together a poor understanding of the Westerosi subject (which seems to have happened here). Or, Lady Sansa could say something (oh, that maester has the story wrong!) that makes Lady Granger realize that she has a soul mate subject matter expert on hand. Sansa loves all the romantic songs and stories, which involve soul mates often, like Jenny of Oldstones. Lol, Ned thinking Lady Granger is bonding with his children over bedtime stories/taking her place as their new mother when she is trying to find a way back to Earth. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Aww... Please write more of the story... It was just getting good... |
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![]() ![]() Lol, Teddy spills the beans on Lady Granger here! Frequent dungeon visits do make her seem dangerous. I don't think Teddy told Hermione back at Winterfell that he told the Tyrells she was not an innocent, adorable lady, so Hermione is going to Highgarden thinking her lady disguise still works. This could be funny. If you want an academic research reason to visit the Eyrie of Ned's childhood and avoid the soul mark accidental transport across worlds to Eyrie story, Lady Granger could go with researching the story of the Winged Knight. The Winged Knight appears to be the King Arthur of the Andals, flew on a giant falcon, married one of the Children Forest, and was friendly with giants and merlings. Per Sansa telling Robin bedtime stories, there are hundreds of stories about the Winged Knight and he is an Andal cultural hero like King Arthur (but was originally a First Men cultural hero). Teenage Lady Granger lands in a random village in Westeros, asks about magic, and smallfolk would have magical stories about the Winged Knight to tell her and could point her to his homeplace at the Eyrie. Now, the Winged Knight is a legendary figure from thousands of years ago or never existed, but smallfolk are not the most reliable source of dates or if something is a real figure or myth. Therefore, Lady Granger goes to the Eyrie (probably flying there on a magical creature), meets a startled Ned Stark sneaking into the Eyrie from a balcony window in an isolated spot, and Ned must hide Lady Granger from Lord Arryn’s court with her flying creature transport/innocence to the ways of Westeros. King Aerys catching a hint of a non-dragon riding culture able to fly around his realm would have been bad for Lady Granger due to his paranoia. Lord Arryn would feel obligated to report Lady Granger’s existence to King Aerys if the news of her arrival came out, so Ned had to hide her and protect her while at the Eyrie doing her academic Winged Knight research. Cue Ned stashing Hermione in his bedroom in a trunk, under the bed, on the balcony, etc. when Robert wanders by and hears them laughing incidents. So, the Winged Knight as King Arthur of the Andals means every smallfolk village has a different version of the hundreds of Winged Knight stories and every version may be equally “correct” academically. Lady Granger can ask Mace Tyrell about the Winged Knight and receive one version of his legend, Loras Tyrell might have another of the Winged Knight legend (from his local nurse maid’s village perhaps or a childhood maester from another part of the Reach), Prince Renly has his version of Winged Knight stories from Storm’s End, random smallfolk servant at Winterfell has their version, etc. and all are good for Hermione to research the "magical truth" of the Winged Knight. Lady Granger could use her research into a bedtime story to make her seem adorable and harmless to the lords and ladies of Westeros and give her an explanation of wandering around and talking to all sorts of people and going to all sorts of places. Of course, you would want to know the stories and legends of the realm you were planning to invade if you were a foreign military, which might set off King Robert. A foreign military knowing local themes and stories to endear the smallfolk to them is bad news, like Aegon the Conqueror probably was doing something like that at the time of the Conquest. Lady Granger probably is actually interested in the Winged Knight academically, as she did see how Ron Weasley knew about the Deathly Hallows as a child’s bedtime story/it helped her in the horcrux quest with Harry but she did not as a muggleborn new to the wizarding world. This is a research project the Starklings could help with easily, especially Sansa that loves and collects stories. |
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