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A Harry Potter Quest: He who was not

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Well, the Dursleys will need to be informed. It would be unethical to a criminal degree not to inform them of the danger. Who knows what will happen afterwards? They would understandably not want Potter near them, what with the very real danger of Potter embarking upon monthly, bloody rampages in the near future.

As poorly as the Dursleys treated Potter, looking at the situation from their perspective, one can at least somewhat understand their position. No matter who it is, one would understandably not be pleased about randomly having a baby dumped upon one's doorstep in the dead of night with nothing more than a note informing them that they are now obligated to care for said child, apparently without receiving any financial support or other assistance to do so, no less. Even with said baby being one's relation, one would be hard-pressed to be enthused about the circumstances.
 
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WhiteNights said:
If anything, due to Harry being a werewolf he definitely can't live with the Dursleys for an entire summer anymore.
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Well this is the silver lining i his mind kek.

Honestly snape would probably be disposed to catch the rat, you know how he is with thing related with lilly and is not potter annoying but rather Jacob wich is wierd but generally can actually make a case to convince him.
 
Wonder if DoD teacher Sirius is in the cards if we nab Peter.

That'd be a thing.
 
Tzaphquiel said:
As poorly as the Dursleys treated Potter, looking at the situation from their perspective, one can at least somewhat understand their position. No matter who it is, one would understandably not be pleased about randomly having a baby dumped upon one's doorstep in the dead of night with nothing more than a note informing them that they are now obligated to care for said child, apparently without receiving any financial support or other assistance to do so, no less. Even with said baby being one's relation, one would be hard-pressed to be enthused about the circumstances.
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There is a difference between taking a situation badly, treating a kid with disinterest, and taking in the kid and having him live in a broom closet under the stairs.
 
Perhaps I missed something, but I thought we voted to spend 5 time echoes to save Potter. Wouldn't that have given the roll a +25 rather than +5?
 
[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.
 
MysteryCPU said:
Perhaps I missed something, but I thought we voted to spend 5 time echoes to save Potter. Wouldn't that have given the roll a +25 rather than +5?
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They are and were added that way, our defense roll with time echoes last update was +96, we just get a -5 malus on to of that taking it to +91. What Tabula is saying is that the bonus to the roll is equal to 5 time echoes, not that 5 time echoes is worth +5.
 
[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.
 
[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.
 
[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.

Who doesn't like being able to sense magic. Could probably help with being ambushed or detecting lingering magic. Maybe even help with spell creation.

In regards to curing lycanthropy, I'm not sure that it is possible. I'm sure numerous wizards before Jacob have tried and failed and that if it was just merely hard then someone would have figured out a cure by now. If it is possible at all then Jacob would basically have to be a better wizard than Albus Dumbledore for him to figure out a cure (and that is years away at least).
 
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[X] Spongify (Deep Understanding) - Transfiguration. The Softening Charm is a spell that softens a target area or object, making it rubbery and bouncy. Rare is someone with your understanding over the spell, you can hit large spaced at once, making your surroundings your domain. With good timing, you can even make attacks bounce back on the attacker. +5 to Defence Rolls.
 
[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.

I think it's possible to cure lycanthropy, especially if this quest draws upon any werewolf legends where it can be cured. We just need to figure out how and enlist as much help as possible. Maybe our little gremlin pact buddy knows.
 
ShyGuy said:
Who doesn't like being able to sense magic. Could probably help with being ambushed or detecting lingering magic. Maybe even help with spell creation.

In regards to curing lycanthropy, I'm not sure that it is possible. I'm sure numerous wizards before Jacob have tried and failed and that if it was just merely hard then someone would have figured out a cure by now. If it is possible at all then it is years off as Jacob would basically have to be a better wizard than Albus Dumbledore for him to figure out a cure (and that is years away at least).
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To be honest, the Wizarding World seems to have been stagnating for centuries regarding magical research, and despite Lycantrophy being a curse known for millennia the first effective treatment has been developed in the mid-70s, less than 20 years ago...

I am not saying that Jacob would be able to figure out a cure BUT I really doubt that there has been any serious research on the werewolf curse for centuries beside the Wolfsbane Potion (which was developed by a single researcher at a relatively young age, taking into account that his nephew is of our age) ... Especially when werewolves were and still are considered pariahs at best, monsters to be exterminated at worst, I really doubt that Wizard Government has ever put together a team and funded them to actually try to cure the curse.
 
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[X] Magic Sense II – You remember feeling the magic of your brothers. There was warmth and familiarity. Underneath your senses there had been something else, waiting to wake. Your ability is starting to take form and get more sensitive. You sense more magic than before around you; it is like a vibrant sensation that fills the surroundings.

I'm ultimately going this one because it's much harder to upgrade it and sensing magic is cool af. Also we can get spongify later on. It will really sting if we get the good ending taken away because we rolled bad and this could have made the difference. But that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Fanhunter696 said:
I am not saying that Jacob would be able to figure out a cure BUT I really doubt that there has been any serious research on the werewolf curse for centuries beside the Wolfsbane Potion (which was developed by a single researcher at a relatively young age) ... Especially when werewolves were and still are considered pariahs at best, monsters to be exterminated at worst, I really doubt that Wizard Government has ever put together a team and funded them to actually try to cure the curse.
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While we probably could find a cure, or at least, a treatment better than what's already out there. The question should be, do we want to. Do we want to spend the time that could be used to go on adventures and do other cool stuff on finding a treatment for being a werewolf?

Because personally, while it would be cool, there are other things I'd much rather do with our time.
 
Basically blame the wizards of having thier heads up their asses even when is in the society best intrest.
But another thing to note is that jacob, hermione, cedric hell even percy are at least once on generation geniuses that can gel all O's on newts they can do things that hadn't done before.
Cruzerblade said:
Because personally, while it would be cool, there are other things I'd much rather do with our time.
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I can see this being the new "runes colection" if we delve in potions and alchemy that seem something people want to do.
 
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MrRobot said:
But another thing to note is that jacob, hermione, cedric hell even percy are at least once on generation geniuses that can gel all O's on newts they can do things that hadn't done before.
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Not quite sure I agree with that, not completely anyway. Jacob seems to be the once in a generation talent, on the level of Dumbledore or Riddle. He has enough skill in DADA and Runes to get an O in the 6th year exams and Os on the 4th year exams for Charms, Transfiguration, Potions and Alchemy (if they had an alchemy exam) and all of those are only a single upgrade away from being an O in 5th year. He blows anyone else at the school out of the water.

As for Hermione, Cedric and Percy I'd place them at the same level of talent as someone like Snape or Lily, still very very respectible and definitely in the upper echelons of wizarding society, but certainly not on the same level as Jacob.

That's my take on it anyway, please correct me if I missed anything.
 
Cruzerblade said:
While we probably could find a cure, or at least, a treatment better than what's already out there. The question should be, do we want to. Do we want to spend the time that could be used to go on adventures and do other cool stuff on finding a treatment for being a werewolf?

Because personally, while it would be cool, there are other things I'd much rather do with our time.
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Probably, since voldemort will have a werewolf army, being able to cure it sounds like it would throw a massive wrench into that
 
Cruzerblade said:
I'm ultimately going this one because it's much harder to upgrade it and sensing magic is cool af. Also we can get spongify later on. It will really sting if we get the good ending taken away because we rolled bad and this could have made the difference. But that's a risk I'm willing to take.


While we probably could find a cure, or at least, a treatment better than what's already out there. The question should be, do we want to. Do we want to spend the time that could be used to go on adventures and do other cool stuff on finding a treatment for being a werewolf?

Because personally, while it would be cool, there are other things I'd much rather do with our time.
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Hey, wouldn´t you want to get an order of Merling before we are old enough to graduate sound great...

And you know, there are worse things to be known for than for curing one of the most feared magical diseases in the world...
 
Fanhunter696 said:
I am not saying that Jacob would be able to figure out a cure BUT I really doubt that there has been any serious research on the werewolf curse for centuries beside the Wolfsbane Potion (which was developed by a single researcher at a relatively young age, taking into account that his nephew is of our age) ... Especially when werewolves were and still are considered pariahs at best, monsters to be exterminated at worst, I really doubt that Wizard Government has ever put together a team and funded them to actually try to cure the curse.
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The idea that, "nobody has developed a cure because of the lack of funding or public pressure to find one" seems like wishful thinking. As long as Werewolves have existed, there has been a need for a cure. That there isn't one isn't a matter of funding or lack of will, it is because a cure, if one exists at all, would be extremely hard to make. Likely decades of work.

The idea that Jacob could knock out a cure in a year or two with some effort put in is extremely hard to swallow.

Edit: That's also even assuming that people, or Jacob, want to sink time into this when there are so many other cool mysteries to explore.
 
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It may also give us an excuse for learning more about the dark arts.
Dumbledore : "Jacob, why do you know so much about the dark arts"

Jacob: "do you want lycanthropes to be cured or not old man"
 
Cruzerblade said:
That's my take on it anyway, please correct me if I missed anything.
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Less missed and more misiterpreted, but wasn't very clear to be fair, it was not that all where on the same level but rather that all of them are "once in a generation geniuses" by wizard stantards.
Point was much of the stagnation may be because most wizards kinda sucked or at least take magic so much for granted that they had no intrest in better their way of life and tus lycanthropy is "incurable".
 
ShyGuy said:
The idea that, "nobody has developed a cure because of the lack of funding or public pressure to find one" seems like wishful thinking. As long as Werewolves have existed, there has been a need for a cure. That there isn't one isn't a matter of funding or lack of will, it is because a cure would be hard to make if it was possible at all.
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Yeah, and a single dude in his 30s managed to create the only effective treatment for the werewolf curse discovered in centuries...

I am not saying that Damocles Belby was not a genius potioneer, but let´s be honest there has been plenty of genius through the centuries, if the wolfsbane potion or something similar has not been discovered until the 70s has to be because the interest in finding a cure or treatment for the curse was not truly was not all that high... Because if you read the Wizarding World stories about the past, the means available for a wizard today are not much different than they were 500 years ago, and there has never been an inflection point like the industrial revolution was for the muggles.
 
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ShyGuy said:
Edit: That's also even assuming that people, or Jacob, want to sink time into this when there are so many other cool mysteries to explore.
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This is what I'm most hesitant about. Can we find a cure? Yeah probably. Do I want to invest the time in the cure when there's so much more interesing stuff to do? Nope, not at all. Maybe if we were closer to Harry I could see us doing it, but I personally, just really don't care enough.

MrRobot said:
Less missed and more misiterpreted, but wasn't very clear to be fair, it was not that all where on the same level but rather that all of them are "once in a generation geniuses" by wizard stantards.
Point was much of the stagnation may be because most wizards kinda sucked or at least take magic so much for granted that they had no intrest in better their way of life and tus lycanthropy is "incurable".
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Ah yeah fair enough. In that case I would definitely put Hermione and Cedric in there. Not 100% sure about Percy though, he's intelligent, but also seems to lack the outside the box thinking that would lead him to a werewolf cure. Maybe later in life when he's more experienced he'd come into it.
 
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