Yes. I think it's those survival instincts again. He can do blinkered vision if he wants to, and if it's in his interests. Whereas, Mulder, quite often doesn't have what you'd term survival instincts. Or at least, he doesn't prioritize them as high as finding out what he wants to find out. I've often wondered how the X-Files would have fared if they'd been discovered by someone with a quieter, more subtle approach, who sat quietly in a corner for a decade or so collecting evidence and presented it all at once at a right moment, rather than the Mulder approach of shouting each discovery from the rooftops as he makes it. Okay, that's an exaggeration... but I'm sure that he could have got through his FBI career without turning his reputation into a joke if he'd played the game alongside all the other players. Though I guess he might have looked at himself as getting a little dirty while doing it, and he wouldn't be comfortable with that.
And yes, I can imagine that Mulder would lap that world up if you took him to tea with the Weasleys, or to visit Hogwarts and talk to people like Dumbledore. But I'd try very hard to make sure that Snape was away that week, and that he didn't get to chat with too many of the Slytherin kiddies whose parents think the return of Voldemort is a Good Thing.
I like the way your Marita works in this universe. It's interesting the way that coming from another world means that she can know all the same stuff about power games and politics, and somehow be less touched by it. Plus, the crossover is a useful way of getting another strong female into the Potterverse, which doesn't have as many of them as I'd like.
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Yes. I think it's those survival instincts again. He can do blinkered vision if he wants to, and if it's in his interests. Whereas, Mulder, quite often doesn't have what you'd term survival instincts. Or at least, he doesn't prioritize them as high as finding out what he wants to find out. I've often wondered how the X-Files would have fared if they'd been discovered by someone with a quieter, more subtle approach, who sat quietly in a corner for a decade or so collecting evidence and presented it all at once at a right moment, rather than the Mulder approach of shouting each discovery from the rooftops as he makes it. Okay, that's an exaggeration... but I'm sure that he could have got through his FBI career without turning his reputation into a joke if he'd played the game alongside all the other players. Though I guess he might have looked at himself as getting a little dirty while doing it, and he wouldn't be comfortable with that.
And yes, I can imagine that Mulder would lap that world up if you took him to tea with the Weasleys, or to visit Hogwarts and talk to people like Dumbledore. But I'd try very hard to make sure that Snape was away that week, and that he didn't get to chat with too many of the Slytherin kiddies whose parents think the return of Voldemort is a Good Thing.
I like the way your Marita works in this universe. It's interesting the way that coming from another world means that she can know all the same stuff about power games and politics, and somehow be less touched by it. Plus, the crossover is a useful way of getting another strong female into the Potterverse, which doesn't have as many of them as I'd like.