A World of Leverage

01/10/2024

Welcome welcome, friend! You are about to embark on a school story into Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. You do not need to have read the books to enjoy it, as an enormous amount of the books are actually written verbatim into this piece!

I care Way Too Much about the readers that grace my doorstep. You are one of them! Hello Reader!

So I am sorting you, and your comments throughout this process will gain you house points. Like in any good transfiguration class, these chapters will see many changes and shifts in form and feel and concept, and your comments along the way are deeply amusing and motivational to me. So why not make it a game?!

How to know your house sorting, according to this fic:

Question 1: Did you read A Moment of Leverage chapters 1 through 13?

• If Yes, continue forward to Question 2.
• If No, skip ahead to Question 4.

Question 2: What kept you reading?

• The big words and/or the questions about the world's universe that the fic invoked in you: +10 Ravenclaw
• The insight into the characters' minds, excitement about their on-going character development, and/or a sparkly-eyed kawaiii engine in your soul watching two people perfect for each other slowly fall in love: +10 Hufflepuff
• The fire between the two main characters, the rivalry and hatred and seething, and/or the pure emotional intensity in general: +10 Gryffindor
• The Non-Con, the Lust/Smut, and/or the Power Dynamics: +10 Slytherin

Question 3: What version of the elongated "A Moment of Leverage" multi-verse are you most excited for me to actually write? 

• The one where things get large-scale war super quickly and we deal with MULTIPLE power-hungry worldscale organizations all attempting to influence and shape the world in this revolution of the wizarding world power structure and its international accords, and also where one of those organizations is willing to go to extreme lengths but also is successfully dismantling the lasting influences and consequences of british imperialism and returning all of their stolen loot to the correct societies or decendents and so we're super torn on whether to condemn or root for them. And also we get to learn all about the original society of elves and how they actually work and why they exist the way they do today. And hidden backstory about the white supremacy involved in the formation of Hogwarts, and get to see people fucking do something about that. +10 Ravenclaw
  
  
• The one where nothing happens on a world scale and instead we just get to experience the most simple school story year literally of them all and also Granger and Malfoy fall inescapably in love with and loyal to one another, and also we spend a lot of time just hanging out with fluffy magical creatures. +10 Hufflepuff
• The one where Hermione is captured by death eaters after the war kicks off, only to be spirited out by a Theodore Nott who's been forced to invent a new timeline-jumping time-turner into an adventure-chase through various universes to repeatedly rescue herself and discover her hidden powers so she can return and save the day: +10 Gryffindor
• The omega-verse one, where Hermione has been "activated" by the events of a moment of leverage combined with Blaise's mysterious behavior having kept her hidden until she was old enough to be able to handle it, and now it's just a constant menagerie of her getting raped by anyone in reachable distance until she forms a reverse-harem "pack" of lovers around her who satisfy and protect this super special omega whose orgasm bestows extra magical power to those in immediate vicinity. Then there's a war fought over her, as a power source. Spoiler alert: in the climax she learns how to unlock and weild the power herself through a passionate energy-explosion moment of mix of belief in herself, being totally in love with Draco and being fully devoted to her pack, mind body and soul. +20 to Slytherin if you liked this for all the rape and objectification, +10 to Ravenclaw if you liked this for the idea of an omega energy weapon, +10 to Gryffindor if you liked this because of the heroism and plot of the climax, and +10 to Hufflepuff if you liked this for True Love Saving The Day and/or the idea of a happy poly pack.

Question 4: You desperately wish you could find more fanfiction with:

• Densely packed emotionally intense moments of choice and trial and temptation and nearly tangible heat: +10 Gryffindor
• Correct spelling, acceptable punctuation, and clever, creative takes on the subtle machinations of the fiction world: +10 Ravenclaw
• Well described experiences that one can imagine themselves in, safe and wonderful and exciting worlds to see oneself in: +10 Hufflepuff
• Non-traumatizing, well-tagged BDSM content that accurately understands what non-consent is sexy and what is super fucking icky: +10 Slytherin

Question 5: What is the best part of the enemies to lovers trope?

• The banter and verbal sparring: +10 Ravenclaw
• The heat and tension of barely re-routed sexual lust: +10 Gryffindor
• The mutual longing and proof of how good they are for each other: +10 Hufflepuff
• The power-dynamic mind-games, emotional sadism, and savored wins each takes over the other party: +10 Slytherin

Question 6: If I were to read every fic you've ever liked, which would be the strongest theme?

• Dramione-Shipping, and other One-True-Pairings of various works that you've liked: +10 Hufflepuff
• Well-Written Things: +10 Ravenclaw
• Lusty Thoughts, Enemies, War, and/or Weaponry: +10 Gryffindor
• Kinky Dynamics, BDSM Smut, and Sadistic Voyeurism: +10 Slytherin

Do you have strong enough of an identity with your house that you will figuratively or literally explode if you are sorted into anything else?

• If No, calculate the highest two point scores you gathered across the above quiz and then choose whichever one feels most accurate, leaning towards the highest scoring one if feeling emotionally tied. Let me know in the comments what you got!
• If Yes, calculate your winning house just for fun, and then defy it stubbornly by claiming your place in your CORRECT house in the comments below. ;)

01/11/2024

Sorting Hat Monologues (sorting those who have liked this piece)

Makani1964 - Hmmmm... interesting... all very well written favorites, so they have standards and taste, certainly enough to qualify them for Ravenclaw... all of their favorites involve intensity and heated feelings, though, so Gryffindor would also be a good choice... but also all of their favored pieces focus more on romance between two perfect lovers than world-changing events, write focused on the feelings, longings, motivations and character development, stay focused on the pairings, have happy endings, and involve a repetition of what is clearly their favorite couple to read about. Gotta be... Hufflepuff!!! (Also note to self and everyone else, their bookmarks are the bomb-diggity and I gotta read all of those works fully someday.)