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Name That Auror
Jan. 4th, 2007 06:13 pmFirstly, welcome to the various new people on my flist, either from the Harry Potter Friending Meme 2007 or elsewhere!
Anyway, a question for you all.
If you happen to have read my "Tonks' First Case" story Nymphadora Tonks and the Liquor of Jacmel (and if not, naturally I can but encourage you to do so :D) you'll remember the Auror who works with Tonks on that case, one Cassius Scrimgeour. He was of course originally meant to be the OotP Scrimgeour, but after HBP was retconned to Rufus' great-uncle with the aid of a cunningly inserted get-out clause.
However, I'm intending to revise NTLJ and polish it up a bit, and among other things Rufus will have a more prominent role as Auror boss from the start (rather than getting the job at the end in a quick soft-shoe shuffle to match the story up with canon). That being the case, Cassius really needs to be less closely connected with him, although he still needs some sort of loose family connection to fulfil certain bits of plot -- I was thinking great-uncle by marriage would be far enough away?
But he'll definitely need a different surname to avoid putting new readers off. I'm afraid I can't do ticky boxes, but I thought I'd present the options and ask which one people thought would work best. :)
( What's in a name? )
Anyway, a question for you all.
If you happen to have read my "Tonks' First Case" story Nymphadora Tonks and the Liquor of Jacmel (and if not, naturally I can but encourage you to do so :D) you'll remember the Auror who works with Tonks on that case, one Cassius Scrimgeour. He was of course originally meant to be the OotP Scrimgeour, but after HBP was retconned to Rufus' great-uncle with the aid of a cunningly inserted get-out clause.
However, I'm intending to revise NTLJ and polish it up a bit, and among other things Rufus will have a more prominent role as Auror boss from the start (rather than getting the job at the end in a quick soft-shoe shuffle to match the story up with canon). That being the case, Cassius really needs to be less closely connected with him, although he still needs some sort of loose family connection to fulfil certain bits of plot -- I was thinking great-uncle by marriage would be far enough away?
But he'll definitely need a different surname to avoid putting new readers off. I'm afraid I can't do ticky boxes, but I thought I'd present the options and ask which one people thought would work best. :)
( What's in a name? )
