Detective Work (INT + CRE + Perk), DC 50, 70 → 1D100+17 → 100(83 + 17
Niceee
→ You have earned 4 Time Echoes.
This is great, what do they do exactly? I don't remember.
New Option: The Splitting of a soul (2 Normal Actions) – Through experience and deduction have you come to realize that the manipulation of a soul is possible through intense emotions, good or bad. This has created new questions to which you have no answers yet. You will not attempt it … but your curiosity is demanding to know what is theoretically possible if one sets out to go the lengths. (Required: Alchemy P-, Dark Arts P. Gives Ability: 'Horcrux'; ?)
Spicy, we might want to research this since this sounds like the opposite of what Flamel did to create us. So it might give us a deeper understaning of the soul, and presumably give us alchemical insights.
When you left the room there was only a crying boy and a broken wand left behin
That's satisfying, ngl. Seems like our Jacob can handle himself well in a fight, an won't stand for bullies. Also, I wonder if we can talk to Potter about riddle? Sounds like it would be an interesting interaction. We should tell our friends as well I think.
 
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I am in favor of not telling them, at least the part about the Tom being Voldy, that is just asking for DEs to interrogate and torture them.
Vicious would have been doing him permanent damage as punishment.
I think that piece of glass hit his eye. I don't think that will be something that can be fixed with a potion or a healing spell. So by definition, it is pretty permanent damage.
 
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I am in favor of not telling them, at least the part about the Tom being Voldy, that is just asking for DEs to interrogate and torture them.

I think that piece of glass hit his eye. I don't think that will be something that can be fixed with a potion or a healing spell. So by definition, it is pretty permanent damage.

Replacing a lost eye from something that wasn't cursed magic damage is trivial with potter magic.
 
Replacing a lost eye from something that wasn't cursed magic damage is trivial with potter magic.
I guess you can use something like a specialized Polymorph potion to polymorph a new eye... what happens when you drink a Polymorph potion of yourself when you are critically injured? Would love to experiment.

Why? It is not like the Death Eaters would know we know. We aren't exactly in contact with them, and we aren't friends with people who would tell them about it.
Mostly, for need to know. They don't really need to know that Tom is Voldy. I mean what can they do with that info? I can't think of anything good that would come out of them knowing that volatile bit of info, other than making them a target if they let that info slip or they were eavesdropped while we are discussing it. It likely won't happen, but better to minimize the risk than just asking for trouble.
 
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I guess you can use something like a specialized Polymorph potion to polymorph a new eye... what happens when you drink a Polymorph potion of yourself when you are critically injured? Would love to experiment.

I don't know the exact specifics of how they would do it but regrowing bones is just a 'simple' potion, i'd be shocked if they couldn't regrow eyes. Moodys lost eye was almost certainly due to 'dark magic'
 
Brutal fight, I wonder what the consequences will be.
I think we should share the info. Last vote we picked the 'I only can judge myself ' choice which to me tends to being more aware that others may have different perspectives. I think we should take this learning into account and benefit from our friends perspective.
 
I'm trying to imagine the consequences of the fight itself. Because that has to have consequences given the level of injury to the fellow plus his snapped wand.

Pretty certain that's not something that can just be healed by any student but actually requires Madam Pomphrey (?) [however you spell the name]. That said I'm very happy with the fight and the response to it because man unexpected but great.
 
Mostly, for need to know. They don't really need to know that Tom is Voldy. I mean what can they do with that info? I can't think of anything good that would come out of them knowing that volatile bit of info, other than making them a target if they let that info slip or they were eavesdropped while we are discussing it. It likely won't happen, but better to minimize the risk than just asking for trouble.
Ah, but if we share our findings and they become common knowledge...what're they gonna do? Kill all the people?
It's the same thing with refusing to call him You-Know-Who, I feel.
 
The hurt to the Montague pride cannot be restored now.

He lost the magic fight, then escalated into a physical (muggle) fight and lost that as well. Got his face beat in, eye lost and wand snapped.

IE the Montague was weaker than him in all forms of combat and you said (by wand snapping) he is unworthy of being a wizard.
 
I really liked this chapter.

I enjoy reading about Jacob resolving mysteries.
The way he used to uncover the truth of Tom Riddle origins in this chapter, is reminding me on how History is actually researched today.
We can feel the excitement that comes with the research in itself and I love it.

About the fight scene, I find interesting to see how Jacob evolved from his experiences.
The way he handled the aggression was understandable considering the circumstances, but a bit too gruesome for me. - Is it weird to say I'm worried about his mental health ? -
It was striking for me the gap between, Jacob only basing his actions on reason and logic and, Montague totally swept away by his emotions.
I think we should rise Jacob empathy.
 
Yeah, I was kind of very surprised noone ever put together Tom Marvolo Riddle with Marvolo Gaunt. Even though, I must say, Jacob is making a lot of leaps in his logic about Riddle being Voldemort. What if Riddle went away to Tibet and is an enlightened monk, meditating all day? Or a shaman in a far away African country? Or one of Voldemort's victims? There are many ways a wizard this bright might dissapear from paperwork.

That fight was kind of vicious and very fun. Go Jacob!

Going to be voting for this, no sense hiding it as far as I'm concerned.

This knowledge will make them targets, and it's useless to any of them. It's better to not taunt a sleeping dragon.
 
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It's the same thing with refusing to call him You-Know-Who, I feel.
I think that it is arguably much worse (for Voldy at least), we are calling him by his Muggle name that he left behind, which means to see him through his carefully built Voldemort Persona...

And we see him by what he truly is, an hypocrite terrified of dying and which acts with the same maturity as a teenager throwing a tantrum.

I'm trying to imagine the consequences of the fight itself. Because that has to have consequences given the level of injury to the fellow plus his snapped wand.
That is something that I fear, Jacob's response has pretty much ended any chances of us being bullied or jumped on ever again... but I am pretty sure we are getting a couple months of detention, if only because even if ge attacked us first he has ended up seriously hurt out of this.
 
Didn't Dumbledore reveal the connection to all of the school at some point anyway?
There is a difference between taking out an entire school and eliminating three inconveniences.
EDIT: The danger, and utility, of knowing a secret is inverse to how well spread it is. If we keep silent, then, as long as Jacob doesn't slip up somewhere, there is no reason for any Dark Lords or their followers to suspect anything of him.
 
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Didn't Dumbledore reveal the connection to all of the school at some point anyway?

Even if he did, it was after it became clear that Voldemort is not defeated and is a current enemy for everyone; right now Voldemort is a spooky fairly tail 20 years old. And regardless, we're not at Dumbledore's level.

There is a difference between taking out an entire school and eliminating three inconveniences.

I think another logic should be applied here - killing people who possess the knowledge would be useless; people who spread it, on the other hand, are valid targets. And I don't believe two Hufflepuffs will have the self control to never talk about this.
 
There is a difference between taking out an entire school and eliminating three inconveniences.

But how would he even know if also all the others have the same knowledge?
Not to all the School, he told it to the Weasly family who were at Hogwarts for the dissappearance of Ginny.

Didn't Dumbledore say something about it in the 4th/5th/6th book? I'm pretty sure that happened when he was talking about how Riddle was just a person.
 
We're starting to stockpile a lot of time echoes, how about we start using it for actions that have a semi decent chance of success in the future? Or towards learning spell, alchemy or potions as a flat +5 bonus?
 
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