Harry Potter and sedoretu
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januarFor quite some time (at least back to November of last year) I've been trying to figure out how to fit the characters of Harry Potter into a sedoretu society.
For those who don't know what a sedoretu is, in the society that has sedoretu, there are moeities. You are either a Morning or an Evening. Your moeity is that of your mother. You only have sex with someone of the opposite moeity. A sedoretu is (usually) a marriage between four people, a man and a woman of the Morning and a man and a women of the Evening. Within that marriage the two men can have sex together, the two women can have sex together, and each woman can have sex with the man of the opposite moeity. Got it? Good.
There are two ways I can make sedoretu. I can make them based on my favorite pairings that are not canon, or I can make them trying to go as much along with canon as possible. I'm going to start with the second one. There are going to be a few discrepincies from the books, but there shouldn't be too many.
The main sedoretu is obviously that of Harry/Ron/Hermione/Ginny where Ron and Ginny are one moeity (duh) and Harry and Hermione are the other. This actually makes a lot of sense.
For the sake of figuring out who is what, let's say the Weasley siblings (and Molly) are Morning. Starting with a large group of people who are the same moeity will make figuring out who is what a lot easier than starting with just a single person. So Ron and Ginny are Morning, and Harry and Hermione are Evening.
Off of those four, if you use canon boyfriends/girlfriends, you get other characters' moeities. Lavender Brown and Dean Thomas are both Evening, and Cho Change is Morning, which makes Cedric Diggory Evening. Harry took Parvati Patil to the Yule Ball, which could make her a Morning. However! Ron took Padma, Parvati's twin, so it doesn't work. I've decided that if two characters went to something as a one time thing (Yule Ball, Slughorn's parties), it doesn't mean the characters going together are opposite moeities. They could have gone as friends, like Luna and Harry. In this case, I am going to say that Parvati and Padma are Morning. Seamus Finnigan is also going to be morning, which can make a nice sedoretu of Dean/Seamus/Lavender/Parvati.
I've mentioned all of the core Gryffindors (i.e. Harry's year) except Neville. He could be either, but I'm going to make him Morning. Why? Because it's the opposite of Harry. It feels appropriate.
Let's move back to the Weasleys. There is still Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George, all of them Mornings. That makes Fleur Delacour, Penelope Clearwater, and Angelina Johnson as Evenings. Now, despite the fact that Lee Jordan wanted Angelina to go out with him, I still want to make Lee also an Evening. I can see a sedoretu that has Lee and Angelina on one side, and Fred, George, and another girl (possibly Alicia Spinnet?) on the other side (a sibling of one of the people in the base four can join a sedoretu). Well, Lee, Angelina, George and Alicia(?). But Fred is totally part of it in spirit.
I'm going to detour to a fanon pairing, which isn't too far out there since it doesn't deal with the main-main characters. I love the pairing of Percy/Oliver Wood. And it can work in canon, if Oliver is a Evening. So if the two of them were in a sedoretu together, it would be Oliver/Percy/Audrey(according to JKR, Percy's future wife)/other girl.
Time to change generations. This is where things get messy when trying to stick with canon. It's all the Black family's fault. But we'll come back to that in just a second. If is Harry is a Morning, then so is Lily Evans, and James Potter is an Evening. I love the idea of Lily and James being in a sedoretu with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. It's really kind of perfect. Plus a 3-1 gender ratio in a sedoretu is canon, so it could work. The next question is, what moeity is Sirius and Remus? The one I love the most is Sirius being Morning (then he and James would have sex) and Remus being Evening. However, the Black Family has messed things up.
According to the Black Family Tree, since his mother is the sister to their father, Sirius should be a different moeity than that of Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa. If Sirius is Morning, then the Black sisters are Evening, in turn making Draco Malfoy and Nymphadora Tonks both Evenings. Are you seeing the canon problem yet? If Tonks and Remus got married and had a kid, that means Remus is a Morning. Therefore, Sirius and Remus couldn't be together.
That's not even the worst mess up of the Blacks. If you start at the top of the Black Family Tree and work your way down, figuring out moeities, it turns out that Sirius' parents are of the same moeity. That's the problem with marrying your second cousin. Sooo, due to the mess that is the Black Family tree when trying to fit it into a moiety society, and since most of the family tree (like spouses and parents and such) isn't mentioned in the books, I'm going to say this: Sirius, Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narnissa are of the same moeity, Morning. That way Sirius could be with Remus in the past, and Tonks would be with Remus in the future. Heck, Tonks and Remus could even make a sedoretu with Bill and Fleur.
I think that's all of the main pairings in canon. Outside of canon, on the other hand... that's the story where Ginny and Harry are the same moiety, and Draco and Luna Lovegood are the opposite moeity, and the four of them make a sedoretu. That way I get Ginny/Luna, Draco/Ginny, Draco/Harry and Harry/Luna, all pairings that I like.
One final sedoretu: The Founders of Hogwarts.
Wow, that was a lot. Now I just have to get myself to write the stories. Meeps.
For those who don't know what a sedoretu is, in the society that has sedoretu, there are moeities. You are either a Morning or an Evening. Your moeity is that of your mother. You only have sex with someone of the opposite moeity. A sedoretu is (usually) a marriage between four people, a man and a woman of the Morning and a man and a women of the Evening. Within that marriage the two men can have sex together, the two women can have sex together, and each woman can have sex with the man of the opposite moeity. Got it? Good.
There are two ways I can make sedoretu. I can make them based on my favorite pairings that are not canon, or I can make them trying to go as much along with canon as possible. I'm going to start with the second one. There are going to be a few discrepincies from the books, but there shouldn't be too many.
The main sedoretu is obviously that of Harry/Ron/Hermione/Ginny where Ron and Ginny are one moeity (duh) and Harry and Hermione are the other. This actually makes a lot of sense.
For the sake of figuring out who is what, let's say the Weasley siblings (and Molly) are Morning. Starting with a large group of people who are the same moeity will make figuring out who is what a lot easier than starting with just a single person. So Ron and Ginny are Morning, and Harry and Hermione are Evening.
Off of those four, if you use canon boyfriends/girlfriends, you get other characters' moeities. Lavender Brown and Dean Thomas are both Evening, and Cho Change is Morning, which makes Cedric Diggory Evening. Harry took Parvati Patil to the Yule Ball, which could make her a Morning. However! Ron took Padma, Parvati's twin, so it doesn't work. I've decided that if two characters went to something as a one time thing (Yule Ball, Slughorn's parties), it doesn't mean the characters going together are opposite moeities. They could have gone as friends, like Luna and Harry. In this case, I am going to say that Parvati and Padma are Morning. Seamus Finnigan is also going to be morning, which can make a nice sedoretu of Dean/Seamus/Lavender/Parvati.
I've mentioned all of the core Gryffindors (i.e. Harry's year) except Neville. He could be either, but I'm going to make him Morning. Why? Because it's the opposite of Harry. It feels appropriate.
Let's move back to the Weasleys. There is still Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George, all of them Mornings. That makes Fleur Delacour, Penelope Clearwater, and Angelina Johnson as Evenings. Now, despite the fact that Lee Jordan wanted Angelina to go out with him, I still want to make Lee also an Evening. I can see a sedoretu that has Lee and Angelina on one side, and Fred, George, and another girl (possibly Alicia Spinnet?) on the other side (a sibling of one of the people in the base four can join a sedoretu). Well, Lee, Angelina, George and Alicia(?). But Fred is totally part of it in spirit.
I'm going to detour to a fanon pairing, which isn't too far out there since it doesn't deal with the main-main characters. I love the pairing of Percy/Oliver Wood. And it can work in canon, if Oliver is a Evening. So if the two of them were in a sedoretu together, it would be Oliver/Percy/Audrey(according to JKR, Percy's future wife)/other girl.
Time to change generations. This is where things get messy when trying to stick with canon. It's all the Black family's fault. But we'll come back to that in just a second. If is Harry is a Morning, then so is Lily Evans, and James Potter is an Evening. I love the idea of Lily and James being in a sedoretu with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. It's really kind of perfect. Plus a 3-1 gender ratio in a sedoretu is canon, so it could work. The next question is, what moeity is Sirius and Remus? The one I love the most is Sirius being Morning (then he and James would have sex) and Remus being Evening. However, the Black Family has messed things up.
According to the Black Family Tree, since his mother is the sister to their father, Sirius should be a different moeity than that of Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa. If Sirius is Morning, then the Black sisters are Evening, in turn making Draco Malfoy and Nymphadora Tonks both Evenings. Are you seeing the canon problem yet? If Tonks and Remus got married and had a kid, that means Remus is a Morning. Therefore, Sirius and Remus couldn't be together.
That's not even the worst mess up of the Blacks. If you start at the top of the Black Family Tree and work your way down, figuring out moeities, it turns out that Sirius' parents are of the same moeity. That's the problem with marrying your second cousin. Sooo, due to the mess that is the Black Family tree when trying to fit it into a moiety society, and since most of the family tree (like spouses and parents and such) isn't mentioned in the books, I'm going to say this: Sirius, Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narnissa are of the same moeity, Morning. That way Sirius could be with Remus in the past, and Tonks would be with Remus in the future. Heck, Tonks and Remus could even make a sedoretu with Bill and Fleur.
I think that's all of the main pairings in canon. Outside of canon, on the other hand... that's the story where Ginny and Harry are the same moiety, and Draco and Luna Lovegood are the opposite moeity, and the four of them make a sedoretu. That way I get Ginny/Luna, Draco/Ginny, Draco/Harry and Harry/Luna, all pairings that I like.
One final sedoretu: The Founders of Hogwarts.
Wow, that was a lot. Now I just have to get myself to write the stories. Meeps.
