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A Spell In Parseltongue - an HP Universe Roleplay (Claim Thread)

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CommanderBlade said:
No but Lucian is about as muggle as you can get for a wizard and he definitely wouldn't sit back.

If he heard rumors of a creature that is trying to purge the school of all muggleborns he definitely would be on guard and would probably keep tabs on all muggleborn students in Hufflepuff.

Plus to be honest Lucian breaks the mold for a normal half blood.
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Yeah but would he hang out in a girl's bathroom?


The chamber of secrets was basically walled offer by accident and then flooded again unknowingly until the new plumbing works offered an opening into the school. Lucian may be a preferred target but all the victims OTL were basically anyone unlucky enough to be wandering about near the Girl's bathroom whenever the snake was released.

Though one wonders how the snake apparently got released previously without anyone realising...

There is an illuminating Cracked video about the other founders letting Slazar into the school given how openly insane he was. I think it bears mentioning given how strange and bizzare the chamber is.
Who the hell decided to link the chamber to a bathroom and why on earth did Slazar decide that at some point somone would decide to talk snake to a door and kill loads of muggle borns?

Surely he could just jinx the school instead given how voldemort wracked up one victim per year that way.
 
phil03 said:
Well, I'd assume most senior prefects are gonna keep tabs on their muggleborns and while Lucian culture will certainly doesn't help (even some among the progressives will cringes at his catholicism considering the historical tensions) its ultimately about blood for someone like Riddle.
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Oh yeah completely forgot about the fact Lucian is a devote Catholic. Which does not bode well for him but hey it is not in his nature to hide it he just knows a time and place for everything.

Although that could be a interesting thing to incorporate into his character when it comes to Quidditch with a prayer before the game since that is very damn common to this day.

Hmmm I think I need to flesh out more of his past at Hogwarts. I already painted a picture of his relationship with Purists being pretty negative but I haven't really made any note of his early school days which would be a interesting thing to incorporate since he would be treated like any Muggleborn but also have the extra weight of being a American am being from the South.

I can already say that Year 1 was probably hell on earth and year 2 being a little better then year 3 being absolutely hell and from there so on so forth.
 
CommanderBlade said:
Oh yeah completely forgot about the fact Lucian is a devote Catholic. Which does not bode well for him but hey it is not in his nature to hide it he just knows a time and place for everything.

Although that could be a interesting thing to incorporate into his character when it comes to Quidditch with a prayer before the game since that is very damn common to this day.

Hmmm I think I need to flesh out more of his past at Hogwarts. I already painted a picture of his relationship with Purists being pretty negative but I haven't really made any note of his early school days which would be a interesting thing to incorporate since he would be treated like any Muggleborn but also have the extra weight of being a American am being from the South.

I can already say that Year 1 was probably hell on earth and year 2 being a little better then year 3 being absolutely hell and from there so on so forth.
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As a Catholic myself I have to wonder about praying before a sporting match...
 
Mortis Nuntius said:
Yeah but would he hang out in a girl's bathroom?


The chamber of secrets was basically walled offer by accident and then flooded again unknowingly until the new plumbing works offered an opening into the school. Lucian may be a preferred target but all the victims OTL were basically anyone unlucky enough to be wandering about near the Girl's bathroom whenever the snake was released.

Though one wonders how the snake apparently got released previously without anyone realising...

There is an illuminating Cracked video about the other founders letting Slazar into the school given how openly insane he was. I think it bears mentioning given how strange and bizzare the chamber is.
Who the hell decided to link the chamber to a bathroom and why on earth did Slazar decide that at some point somone would decide to talk snake to a door and kill loads of muggle borns?

Surely he could just jinx the school instead given how voldemort wracked up one victim per year that way.
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There was an article on Pottermore a while back saying that, while they're wasn't any killing, the chamber was know in the Gaunt familly and open from time to time. A certain Corvinus Gaunt was stipulated to have had something to do with the present arangement with the plumbing.

There was another one saying that purism as we know today pretty much appeared in the 17th century and went on from there. It would fit with the theory I had about Salazar and the chamber as well as its opinions about muggleborn students: his opposition wasn't due to a purism who hadn't existed yet but all with the persecutions against wizardkind at the time. Bringing them at hogwarts would attract attention to them and to the school, endengaring both. Its misguided as a belief, especially with what we know about the obscurials, but its understandable in the circumstances. The chambers and the snake would have been there to give a further mean of defense in case of muggle attacks.

Latter on, when purism became a thing, people latched on Salazar opposition to muggleborn students and forgot the actual reasons for it, hence why slytherin house became more and more a rallying point for them and centuries of evolutions made things progressively worse until Tom pretty much make it play this role on steroids.

CommanderBlade said:
Oh yeah completely forgot about the fact Lucian is a devote Catholic. Which does not bode well for him but hey it is not in his nature to hide it he just knows a time and place for everything.

Although that could be a interesting thing to incorporate into his character when it comes to Quidditch with a prayer before the game since that is very damn common to this day.

Hmmm I think I need to flesh out more of his past at Hogwarts. I already painted a picture of his relationship with Purists being pretty negative but I haven't really made any note of his early school days which would be a interesting thing to incorporate since he would be treated like any Muggleborn but also have the extra weight of being a American am being from the South.

I can already say that Year 1 was probably hell on earth and year 2 being a little better then year 3 being absolutely hell and from there so on so forth.
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The issue with catholicism is, even the progressives and the moderates have grown with stories of witch burning and therefore have been accustomed to see Christiany as an ennemy of the wizard world. While those among them who know Lucian personnaly might overlook it and the others won't hate him for it they will still see him with suspicions because of it, hence leaving him alone in front of the purists.
 
phil03 said:
There was an article on Pottermore a while back saying that, while they're wasn't any killing, the chamber was know in the Gaunt familly and open from time to time. A certain Corvinus Gaunt was stipulated to have had something to do with the present arangement with the plumbing.

There was another one saying that purism as we know today pretty much appeared in the 17th century and went on from there. It would fit with the theory I had about Salazar and the chamber as well as its opinions about muggleborn students: his opposition wasn't due to a purism who hadn't existed yet but all with the persecutions against wizardkind at the time. Bringing them at hogwarts would attract attention to them and to the school, endengaring both. Its misguided as a belief, especially with what we know about the obscurials, but its understandable in the circumstances. The chambers and the snake would have been there to give a further mean of defense in case of muggle attacks.

Latter on, when purism became a thing, people latched on Salazar opposition to muggleborn students and forgot the actual reasons for it, hence why slytherin house became more and more a rallying point for them and centuries of evolutions made things progressively worse until Tom pretty much make it play this role on steroids.



The issue with catholicism is, even the progressives and the moderates have grown with stories of witch burning and therefore have been accustomed to see Christiany as an ennemy of the wizard world. While those among them who know Lucian personnaly might overlook it and the others won't hate him for it they will still see him with suspicions because of it, hence leaving him alone in front of the purists.
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Which results in fights where Lucian shows people how to bare knuckle box. :D

But in all seriousness Lucian really could care less what they think. He is not about to burn them at the stake and really after he hit his teen years and his father's death forced him into more responsibilities then before he knows that honestly it really doesn't matter what some pureblood thinks.
 
phil03 said:
There was an article on Pottermore a while back saying that, while they're wasn't any killing, the chamber was know in the Gaunt familly and open from time to time. A certain Corvinus Gaunt was stipulated to have had something to do with the present arangement with the plumbing.

There was another one saying that purism as we know today pretty much appeared in the 17th century and went on from there. It would fit with the theory I had about Salazar and the chamber as well as its opinions about muggleborn students: his opposition wasn't due to a purism who hadn't existed yet but all with the persecutions against wizardkind at the time. Bringing them at hogwarts would attract attention to them and to the school, endengaring both. Its misguided as a belief, especially with what we know about the obscurials, but its understandable in the circumstances. The chambers and the snake would have been there to give a further mean of defense in case of muggle attacks.

Latter on, when purism became a thing, people latched on Salazar opposition to muggleborn students and forgot the actual reasons for it, hence why slytherin house became more and more a rallying point for them and centuries of evolutions made things progressively worse until Tom pretty much make it play this role on steroids.



The issue with catholicism is, even the progressives and the moderates have grown with stories of witch burning and therefore have been accustomed to see Christiany as an ennemy of the wizard world. While those among them who know Lucian personnaly might overlook it and the others won't hate him for it they will still see him with suspicions because of it, hence leaving him alone in front of the purists.
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That makes sense but also seems like white washing if you know what I mean.


As for the the CC and witch burning that was actually more of a local thing. The church officially believed magic was impossible so accusing someone of Witchcraft was heresy (which was a burning offence). Also most of the famous witch hunts were by protestants. I'll not go into it because its a disturbing and ambiguous topic but basically its kind of one of those instances where the narrative matters more than a fluid truth ever did.
 
CommanderBlade said:
Which results in fights where Lucian shows people how to bare knuckle box. :D

But in all seriousness Lucian really could care less what they think. He is not about to burn them at the stake and really after he hit his teen years and his father's death forced him into more responsibilities then before he knows that honestly it really doesn't matter what some pureblood thinks.
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Oh, I know and everyone know it tough but its an ingrenated thing and while Lucian may not care what they think having a Potter, Crouch, Greengrass, or Bones liking you somewhat can be a powerfull measure of protection. As Eleanor Colville is probably noticing IG as we speak actually.

Mortis Nuntius said:
That makes sense but also seems like white washing if you know what I mean.
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I can understand how it whould look that way. For me, it was a way of reconciliating what is said of Salazar in canon with the whole ''They're is nothing wrong with Slytherin overall'' thing that is repeated often enough.

As for the catholic church, true but I doubt most wizards can make the differences between christian sects.
 
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phil03 said:
Oh, I know and everyone know it tough but its an ingrenated thing and while Lucian may not care what they think having a Potter, Crouch, Greengrass, or Bones liking you somewhat can be a powerfull measure of protection. As Eleanor Colville is probably noticing IG as we speak actually.
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If only Lucian was way more ambitious then he actually is and he would be set. But no the most likely thing he would do and is currently doing is asking for tutoring lessons.
 
CommanderBlade said:
If only Lucian was way more ambitious then he actually is and he would be set. But no the most likely thing he would do and is currently doing is asking for tutoring lessons.
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Oh no need to actually ask: most purists will probably be ''Look: Crouch has a new pet! Lets bother someone else!'' Even the thing they have for each other isn't has much a problem in that regard: appart from the Blacks, Travers, Lestrange, Gaunts and a few others most purist are willing to wed with half-blood by pragmatism and the others can at least close their eyes.

Thing is, Lucian isn't doing discrete so he has and will provoke them
 
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phil03 said:
Oh no need to actually ask: most purists will probably be ''Look: Crouch has a new pet! Lets bother someone else!'' Even the thing they have for each other isn't has much a problem in that regard: appart from the Blacks, Travers, Lestrange, Gaunts and a few others most purist are willing to close their eyes to mariage with half-blood by pragmatism.

Thing is, Lucian isn't doing discrete so he has and will provoke them
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And then again Lucian has some iron skin and really doesn't care any more although there are triggers for him that really get him going but insults against him are nothing.
 
You know I just had the funniest thought on what would happen if for some damn reason all of Lucian's friends came and visited him while he was at work in the factory and the sheer amount of culture shock.
 
Sailor Midgard said:
Uh. @phil03
Is there ANY religious faith in tne Wizarding workd? At all?
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In the books we see that Harry Potter's parents rest in a Christian graveyard (Anglican I suppose) and they celebrate Christmas. On the other hand there are no mentions that I remember at least of Easter, religious service or ministers (likely to avoid controversy) so it is kind of an open question. In the 90's it seems a very secular society with Christian roots, not that different than Muggle Britain after all, but obviously them being religious open a big theological can of worms that is probably not possible to solve here in this thread.
 
Yanez said:
In the books we see that Harry Potter's parents rest in a Christian graveyard (Anglican I suppose) and they celebrate Christmas. On the other hand there are no mentions that I remember at least of Easter, religious service or ministers (likely to avoid controversy) so it is kind of an open question. In the 90's it seems a very secular society with Christian roots, not that different than Muggle Britain after all, but obviously them being religious open a big theological can of worms that is probably not possible to solve here in this thread.
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Well, Christmas, or rather Yule, is older than Christianity.
The witch-hunt must have soured them on organised Christianity for sure, but they could have ended with a low church or dissenter approach.
On the other hand, the purebloods , the true traditionalists, seem to have no connection to religion between a vague reverence for their ancestors....
I really do not know.

I am asking because a) Theos ancestor John Dee was deeply interested in Theurgy and Angel summoning IRL
And b) Mary is Scottish, and Scotland was at least then deeply religious.
 
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So... can I open the chamber then? Because I'm getting a bit bored and it seems Slughorn's player is AWOL.
 
General Mod-Annoucement:

As the game hasn't seen much activity since a moment me and Yanez have decided on a hiatus for at least one week to see if we can rethink a thing or two and recruits more players. If it isn't possible we would unfortunately have to extend it indefinitely.
 
phil03 said:
General Mod-Annoucement:

As the game hasn't seen much activity since a moment me and Yanez have decided on a hiatus for at least one week to see if we can rethink a thing or two and recruits more players. If it isn't possible we would unfortunately have to extend it indefinitely.
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As I said, I'm still interested in this, but time is of the essence. I'd be fine with a hiatus and would certainly come back afterwards.
 
CommanderBlade said:
It's kinda sad that the game has died. Well it was fun while it lasted.
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It indeed was :) tough I might not have quite died yet: me and Yanez where discussing it some days ago and we came to the conclusion that we might try to revive it for late in april: people would be less busy with their studies and both I and Yanez have things in RL that should be winding down as well.

Thats if there is interest, of course.
 
phil03 said:
It indeed was :) tough I might not have quite died yet: me and Yanez where discussing it some days ago and we came to the conclusion that we might try to revive it for late in april: people would be less busy with their studies and both I and Yanez have things in RL that should be winding down as well.

Thats if there is interest, of course.
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Hey if I am still stationed in Florida you can bet I'll come around for it again.
 
phil03 said:
Thats good to hear and we have already discussed some changes that could make it work better next time around (more mini-arcs like the expedition with Kettleburn for example) but we are very much open to suggestions from anyone :)
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I guess one would be make the flow or time a little more rigid like have established months like say Augest runs from Monday to Sunday and has three mini events that are character specific and one large event. Then we move on to next so on and so forth.
 
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