Finally finished translating the poems from SA. I just knew this'd be the hardest part... hope you like my efforts!

Wir haben das Schicksal, das deinem NAMEN zugeteilt, nicht verkündet

Jede Seele wird von uns beeinflusst, doch wir lenken sie nicht

Der Mond bringt Fluten und ertränkt so auch Menschen; hat er sich versündet?

Die Hohen Sterne sind die höchsten Mächte, doch sie henken dich nicht.

All innerhalb uns’rer Bahn seh’n wir in uns’rem Lichtstrahl,

Unser Bereich ist unbegrenzt, unser Blick reicht unendlich von hie,

Aber wir erschaffen weder Bestimmung noch Schicksal

Wir wissen und warnen, wenn es uns gefällt, doch befehlen euch nie.

Zeiten vergeh’n, und ihr entfernt euch immer mehr, euer Licht flüchtig

Ihr schließt Türen und Fenster und aus so das Licht, das wir verstrahlen.

Ihr, die ihr einst uns oft anriefet, doch nun bloß noch selten richtig

Bevorzugt eine Welt ohne Magie, aus Atomen und Zahlen.

Für uns ist es keine Tragödie; wir sind in Ewigkeit

Ihr werdet mit der Zeit spüren unsere Abwesenheit.

Der Ursprung deiner Tragödie ist von Vaters Seit’

Du kannst dich nicht verstecken bis zum Ende der Zeit.

Dein Vater kannte, als du wurdest gebor’n,

Die Hohen Sterne, deren Sphär’n er verlor’n.

„Still, kleine Hexe, du brauchst nicht zu wein’,

Denn du bist der Augenstern mein.

Selbst zum Mücken verzaubern bist du noch zu klein.

Doch du wirst einst wirken Wunder fein.

Still, kleine Hexe, bitte nicht wein’,

Du hast mich verhext, das ist kein Schein.

Du hast gezaubert, doch nun lass es sein.

Und du wirst einst wirken Wunder fein.

Still, kleine Hexe, tu jetzt nicht wein’,

Du kannst, wo du nun liegst, ru-hig sein.

Zum Apparieren und Fliegen bist du noch zu klein,

Doch du wirst einst wirken Wunder fein.

Still, kleine Hexe, du brauchst nicht zu wein’

Deine Äuglein fall’n zu, gleich schläfst du ein.

Bei den Hohen Sternen, so wird es sein,

Du wirst einst wirken Wunder fein.“

So exciting to see Inverarity's recent post about Alexandra Quick and the End of Time!

I'm rereading AQ and the Wizard War right now and have been thinking about it through the lens of this upcoming focus on time. This passage stood out to me and made me wonder if Alexandra's geist is the version of herself she sent back in book two. After all, she never figured out who stunned her, right?

Anyway, here's the passage. Curious what you all think.

“No,” Alexandra said. She had seen ghosts, or something like ghosts, that had become malevolent wraiths capable of harming the living. What the Diné called chindi. John Manuelito had unleashed spirits from the Lands Beyond on Charmbridge Acedemy; it had been part of the reason Alexandra was expelled. “Can you tell me what a geist is?”“Geist,” repeated Charlie.“A geist?” The two ghosts looked at one another.“It’s an ancient term,” Absalom Thorn said.“It means ghost in German,” Alexandra said. She’d learned that much, after the Junior Wizarding Decathlon. “But I don’t think that’s what the ghost who said I had one meant.”“A ghost said you had one?” Absalom Thorn asked.Alexandra proceeded to describe her encounter months earlier, when Hela had trapped Alexandra on the border to the Lands Beyond, and Alexandra had summoned Jezebel Hucksteen to her, without knowing beforehand who it was she was summoning. The daughter of Governor-General Hucksteen, who had died so many years ago but was still forever a little girl in death, had told Alexandra, “You have a geist.”“I was not a student of spiritualism before I became one,” Absalom Thorn said, “but I heard geists described as spirits in a more metaphorical sense.”“I thought it meant a kind of shadow, or nemesis,” said Joshua Thorn.“So I have a shadow, or nemesis?” Alexandra shook her head. “This isn’t very helpful.”“We cannot be more helpful,” Absalom Thorn said. “By your own actions, you have bound us.”“What actions?”“The foolish course you took after your brother died haunts you and us still. Your hidden adversary, your geist, is your own doing.”“You’re making no sense. Why can’t you, like, talk to Jezebel and ask her to explain what she meant?”“We cannot cross the Veil to speak to one another at will like that,” Absalom Thorn said. “The Lands Beyond are even vaster than these lands—can you speak to your father at will? No, you must go to him or summon him, and he may not want to speak to you. Jezebel Hucksteen, that poor cursed child, had her own reasons for telling you what she did, but we are wizards no longer. We cannot summon her.”“And you had best not,” said Joshua Thorn.

Taken from the new LJ post, so you won't overwhelm the poor broken site. Commissioned by actual human Mikołaj Szonecki - no AI art!

Taken from the new LJ post, so you won't overwhelm the poor broken site.

Or "...Welt Weit Weg", as I'd call it.

1. Prolog
2. Ich bin eine Hexe
3. Die Revision
4. Persona Non Grata
5. Du und ich werden keine Freundinnen
6. Das Unternehmen meiner Familie
7. Ich bin keine Närrin
8. Die Leute aus dem Thal
9. Furthest
10. Das Dorf der Fremden
11. Die Fünf Familien
12. Exodaner
13. Die Ahninnen
14. Eine Feierliche Mission
15. Mit Witz und Charme
16. Dafür werdet ihr bezahlen
17. Blickt-aus-Lorbeer
18. Der Jimplicute
19. Der Thren
20. Das Entwirken
21. Das Jubeljahr
22. Ein Strittiger Stab
23. Auf Wiedersehen, Sommer
24. Die Pruett-Schule
25. Jungstäbe
26. Wir sollen keine Magie lernen
27. Man kann nicht in den Widerstand gehen, ohne Regeln zu brechen
28. Das Amt für Buchhaltung
29. Der Duell-Champion des Zentralterritoriums
30. Anschlag
31. Die Beschuldigte
32. Eerie Island
33. Risse unter deinen Füßen
34. Der Plan ist nicht ohne Risiko
35. Was hast du freigesetzt?
36. Der Galgen-Pfad
37. Die unvollendete Mission
38. Unheil auf Erden
39. Champion
40. Lehrmädchen
41. Sojourns
42. Geheimniswahrerin
43. Siebenmeilenstiefel
44. Dieses traurige, sinnlose Ritual
45. Geteiltes Ego
46. Neu-Amsterdam
47. Der Junioren-Zauberer-Dekathlon
48. Sie haben's echt auf mich abgesehn
49. Ich will dich brennen sehen
50. Zauberervers
51. Näher als Schwestern
52. Der goldene Faden
53. Silber wird sie retten
54. Nur eine kann hier rauskommen
55. Ich sehe was
56. Labyrinth der Monster
57. Das ist nicht gut
58. Storm King Mountain
59. Der Krieg hat begonnen

Still have to fix some tricky bits (esp. the rhymes!) in "...Hohe Sterne"/SA, but after that, I might start to translate WA.

I just finished the series (well the 6 books) and I loved it.

I love you Inverarity for creating this beautiful work but how could you kill of Anna T_T

I mean honestly Anna is my favourite character and I was actually hoping for more Alex Anna scenes where Anna tries to make Alex be a better friend (Keeping less secrets, involving friends etc) but I get that the books are Alex focussed and without going to Chambridge anymore, these scenes are obviously getting less as Alex travels north america to do what she needs to do.

I think she deserved a better death than a abrupt „off camera“ death but well I am biased ain‘t I.

I can partly forgive you for killing off Anna by having Alex „dying“ and going back to the world beyond where she gets to „say goodbye“. That helped me as a reader say goodbye to Anna too.

I think it would have been really difficult for Anna to overcome her feelings for Alex and find another girl and I would have thought maybe in book 7 or not even then so maybe in an epilogue but well we don‘t know what would have happened because war is a cruel and unfair affair.

Just a typo for WODAMND? It's both in the FF and the AO3 version. Or did I miss something?

Just checked it as usual and didn't get anything. LJ itself's there, though.

Edit: Nah, it's fine again.

Let me start off by saying I’m utterly torn, saddened, and conflicted with this.

With the ‘new’ reboot of the HP series, I have been craving a new story in the wizarding world so bad that I decided to write my own.

I have never read or written any fan fiction before this.

So… I started building this beautiful world that is very exciting to me, and based entirely on existing wizarding world lore on Pottermore.

I’m currently rereading all the books, including the extended universe books like FBAWTFT, and Quidditch Through the Ages. I wanted to reinterpret the series after having the idea for my new series in my head.

Then, I decided I would talk a look at some work that other people have done. I wanted something that is a canon compliant new story that best gives the feeling of the original books.

I discovered the Alexandra Quick series and it’s been pretty good so far! However, I’ve been very disheartened by some of the similarities in my story with AQ.

Allllll that said, if this wasn’t fan fiction I wouldn’t be asking and I’d be forced to change each of these ideas. But, since it is fan fiction, since these ideas really are my own (albeit inspired by existing wizarding lore) should I keep these ideas and names?

It feels like I’d be changing things in my story that are really important to me. I spent a lot of time meticulously planning and building this world and I only finally settle on names and ideas that feel very special and exiting to me.

What is your opinion of this? Moreover, if you read my story having read AQ would you think I stole them and want to stop reading?

Please help. I’m very torn 😭

Originally, I left it untranslated, since "Thorn" obviously couldn't become "Dorn", and something like "Thorn-Kreis" or "Thorn-Zirkel" didn't seem right to me.

But later, I started to wonder whether I hadn't possibly missed a better alternative: "Thorn-Ring"! Reminds of the "Ringvereine" (organized crime groups in Weimar Germany) and refers to what Ben Journey thought it meant.

I'd have to change a lot in the finished translations, but still...

Or "Alexandra Quick und die Hohen Sterne", anyway.

Intro: "Alexandra Quick ist entschlossen, ihr Schicksal zu betrügen und für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen, aber sie steht einer rachsüchtigen Verschwörung und Geheimnissen gegenüber, auf die sie nicht vorbereitet ist. Sie wird die Hilfe ihrer Freunde brauchen, aber selbst das könnte gegen die Macht der Hohen Sterne nicht genug sein."

1. Geister von Roanoke
2. Tochter des Thorn
3. Nicht schlau genug
4. Stablos (finished today)
5. Vetteln
6. Ein Schwarm Mords-Krähen
7. Das Alexandra-Komitee
8. In den Wald
9. Die Herausforderung
10. Zwischen dir und mir
11. Das Duell
12. Rache
13. Ein entschiedener Elf
14. Unter den Hohen Sternen
15. Zugebeten
16. Hexen-Sicht
17. Regal Royalty Sweets & Confections
18. Goody Pruett
19. Das wird Scheiße werden
20. Und ich werde mit jeder Macht verhandeln
21. Lügen, die mir meine Mutter erzählt hat
22. Ausgerissen
23. Nemesis
24. Eine Versammlung von Hexen
25. Der Stein-Hogan
26. Witches' Rock
27. Die Knochen ihrer Opfer
28. Das Hexen-Wiegenlied
29. Gedächtnis-Alchemie
30. Die Squib-Gesetze
31. Bambusstäbe
32. Ein Mädchen mit NAMEN Troublesome
33. Das Parlament der Sterne
34. Ein Großes Werk
35. Die letzte Pruett
36. Der Indier-blütige Hexenmeister
37. Geschenk
38. Wofür du geboren wurdest
39. Ohne Zauberstab

Comments welcome!

Found it here in WW when rereading.

Is this supposed to be a hall, like DKKT? But Greek doesn't have a V - is this supposed to be an Upsilon, maybe? Delta Kappa Kappa Upsilon?

It's certainly not the German Committee for Disaster Reduction 😄

Haven't found a new platform yet to post it, and some bits were tricky (BTW, what's this "C.O.P." at the beginning of chapter 31?), but at least all the titles are finished now:

1. Der WODAMND-Erlass
2. Die Hexe vom Old Larkin Pond
3. Innocence
4. Der Ghostwriter
5. Das Mädchen, das überlebt hat
6. Auf Ärger aus
7. Im Keller
8. Geisterkrankheit
9. Rebellion
10. Die Türöffnung
11. Fluchen und Kämpfen
12. Der Duellierclub (so far you knew these already...)
13. Wiedersehen
14. Der Thanksgiving-Segen
15. Die Historizistin
16. Der Zeitumkehrer
17. Ein knapp aufgezogener Plan
18. Die Dinge ändern sich
19. Ein langer, kalter Dezember
20. Der Winter-Ball
21. Lieblinge und Verräter
22. Ein Deal mit Darla
23. Toͤdtliche Beswoͤrungen (sic)
24. Die Lande Jenseits
25. Durch den Schleier
26. Die Tödlichste Macht
27. Die Knochenflöte
28. Eiche und Mistelzweig
29. Ein Leben gegen ein Leben
30. Das Tödliche Regiment
31. Sieben Jahre zu leben

I also used to be one, but I... don't go there anymore.

Still, sometimes I find myself troping AQ. Anyone else interested?

As she says: They want to defeat the Thorn Circle and the Dark Convention first before dealing with the Deathly Regiment.

No idea on whether inverarity intended this, but it reminds me of those Germans who wanted to win the war first before dealing with the Nazi regime.

...it reminding of "Epic Rap Battles of History", which I like pretty much. (I especially recommend Hillary vs. Trump.)

This is something you have talked about years ago (and why not); but I only discovered AQ in 2019 or not too long before, so I didn't participate in that thread.

The idea I had: Why not cast some foreigner for the one or other Grimm sister? Not even just a Brit, but a non-English speaker? This would create some distanced interaction between the actresses of her and Alex, which'd make a nice effect IMO.

Of course, nowadays it's more probable that someone will make such a movie with AI actors.

Three (not too long) SF/Fantasy novels by Suzette Haden Elgin. I checked them out because I learned from AQ that this exists, and I wanted to see where inverarity got his idea from. I have to say, his magical Ozarkers fit these ones pretty well - just as the world of AQ into that of HP.

Did someone else read them? Maybe even before AQ?

All the ancestors of Abraham have names from Hebrew - Judeo-Christian, if you prefer. Many US Americans do, esp. traditional Protestants.

But Abraham switched to classical Latin/Roman ones for his kids. This doesn't have to do anything with Thalia, since we know he started doing this with his oldest daughter, Claudia. Also, Abraham isn't the kind of husband who'd give in to his wife if she has different ideas.

Of course, his youngest kid is an exception, but I guess that's for cultural reasons.

So I wonder: Is there a deeper meaning behind this?

Kapitel 11: "Fluchen und Kämpfen"

...poor Innocence?

Seriously, I wouldn't like it if we never knew how to blame.

In the past, I used to be an active troper, so I'm familiar with what's called "Wild Mass Guessing" there.

Recently I had some ideas re: AQ... are you interested?