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2022-09-08
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2024-09-19
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If The Sun Caught Icarus

Summary:

In the early Middle Ages, Italian poet: Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy. Arguably (not arguably) the greatest piece of Italian literature ever recorded.

Centuries later, a literature student obsessed with dead, gay wizards turned it into a fanfiction.

Voldemort isn’t coming to hogwarts. The inferno is—-and like the oracle Cassandra, Regulus can see everything that is about to happen, but can do nothing to stop it. The marauders are forced to do nothing but sin uncontrollably until they pass through the inferno onto purgatory for judgement day. Will they make it to paradiso? Will James Potter, sun incarnate, save Icarus from his tragic fall from grace, or will Regulus drag him down with him?

Notes:

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST CHAPTER!!!

Hello
i am dante (i wish) and i’d like to tell you a bit about my fanfiction just to excite you <3333

i will also be releasing my plan of hell below which will act as the absolute guideline of the first part of this story. (i didn’t invent the guideline it’s in one of my copies of inferno)

before i do this—-i’d like to tell you about my inspiration for this fic, and because i’m 99% sure i can’t put images on here i’m going to ask you to quickly go to a search browser and look up “Gustave Dore Canto 32” and go to images. There you will find two major illustrations in black and white. One has three men, one has four men. These two illustrations are what kickstarted this idea (i wonder if you’ve drawn a comparison yet.) In case you haven’t noticed, in both illustrations there is a man in a “lake of ice” beside 2/3 other men. When i first saw this illustration my mind travelled immediately to the cave where regulus drowned. In fact, i was so convinced of its resemblance that i opened up my copy of dante’s inferno and went to canto 32—which this illustration is based on. The sins of canto 32 are this: (Treachery) Traitors to family, traitors to nation, and traitors to guests. Ring any bells? Their punishment: forever trapped in a lake of ice located in a cave. are the bells ringing yet???

(i’m wholeheartedly convinced jk rowling stole this idea from dante)

go read the divine comedy by dante (or at least read inferno—it’s the best one and i fear i will not do it justice.)

please bombard me with questions.

Chapter 1: Plan of Hell

Chapter Text

PART ONE
(each chapter will follow the theme they are titled as.)

Plan of Hell (Inferno)

Threshold - The Apathetic
(Sins of Incontinence)
Circle 1 - Limbo - Pagans and the Unbaptised
Circle 2 - The lustful
Circle 3 - The Gluttonous
Circle 4 - The avaricious and the spendthrifts
Circle 5 - The wrathful and the melancholic

Circle 6 - The heretics

 

(Circle 7: Violence) - (Malice: Sins of Violence and inhumanity)
7.1 Ring 1 - Violence against others (murder and plunder)
7.2 Ring 2 - Violence against the self (suicide and profligacy)
7.3 Ring 3 - Violence against God and Nature (blasphemers, sodomites and usururs.)

 

(Circle 8: Fraud) - (Rottenpockets: Sins of deceit against those who have no cause to trust)
8.1 - Pimps and seducers
8.2 - Flatterers
8.3 - Simonists
8.4 - Soothsayers
8.5 - Corrupt Officials
8.6 - Hypocrites
8.7 - Thieves
8.8 - Intellectually dishonest
8.9 - Rabble-rousers
8.10 - Counterfeiters

(Circle 9: Treachery) - (Sins of deceit against those who have cause to trust)
9.1 Traitors to family
9.2 Traitors to nation
9.3 Traitors to guests
9.4 Traitors to benefactor