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A Harry Potter Quest: He who was not

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GoukaRyuu said:
I'm not seeing it as a "harem", I just foresee comedy moving forward. To my knowledge, there is only one girl overtly interested in Jacob in that way, Megan. Tracey could conceivably be there as well, or on the way there, but we haven't gotten as much with her so it is hard to say if she sees Jacob as more than a friend/rival. I think any talk of this being a "harem" is exaggeration.
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The thing is that 95% of Harem animes main dynamic is based on that kind of comedy, the dense male lead who is a Clueless Chick-Magnet, and how the female leads react to him being so stupidly dense... So no, I wouldn´t call it an exaggeration
 
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Fanhunter696 said:
The thing is that 95% of Harem animes main dynamic is based on that kind of comedy, the dense male lead who is a Clueless Chick-Magnet, and how the female leads react to him being so stupidly dense... So no, I wouldn´t call it an exaggeration
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Admittedly, I am more looking forward to Padma and Morag just needing a drink because Jacob just keeps blowing their expectations out of the water.
 
What's with the sudden girl/shipping focus just because Fleur entered the picture? How about we let things proceed in a natural fashion like, I don't know, the last 200k words which seemed to have worked well for everybody (in-story and Chat) involved.

Let's vote, debate and spitball when we get to that particular bridge, and not derail too much now.

Edit: The whole name dropping and 'funny' stuff tends to feel a bit needy.
 
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I was wondering what is the chances for jacob to freak out timmy no nose when they meet?
Because the teen have 0 fear for the self proclaimed dark lord, hell Timmy's trump card requires P- in dark magic.
 
MrRobot said:
I was wondering what is the chances for jacob to freak out timmy no nose when they meet?
Because the teen have 0 fear for the self proclaimed dark lord, hell Timmy's trump card requires P- in dark magic.
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Jacob is besides the lack of hatred for muggleborns the ideal Wizard in Tommy's eyes but that also makes him potential competition, he may want to take Jacob under his wing to nurture his potential and to keep an eye on him.
 
ArcanaVitae said:
Jacob is besides the lack of hatred for muggleborns the ideal Wizard in Tommy's eyes but that also makes him potential competition, he may want to take Jacob under his wing to nurture his potential and to keep an eye on him.
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There's one main problem, jacob don't fear or respect timmy, like at all. Form his point of view he is kinda a waste so hanged up by his past and mortality that focused his talents to push other down rather than rise up, in short just another Slytherin bully that give the house a poor name, is just that this one is murderous
 
ArcanaVitae said:
Jacob is besides the lack of hatred for muggleborns the ideal Wizard in Tommy's eyes but that also makes him potential competition, he may want to take Jacob under his wing to nurture his potential and to keep an eye on him.
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I think that you are underestimating how much the Death Eaters and Voldy hated "Blood Traitors"

And I really doubt that Voldy would care about "Nurturing Jacob´s Potential"... He obviously wanted talented wizards serving him, but not anyone that had the potential of outshining him, so he would probably just try to kill Jacob.
MrRobot said:
There's one main problem, jacob don't fear or respect timmy, like at all. Form his point of view he is kinda a waste so hanged up by his past and mortality that focused his talents to push other down rather than rise up, in short just another Slytherin bully that give the house a poor name, is just that this one is murderous
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Exactly this... To see how a genius born once a century uses all his talent as a monkey would use a particularly pointy rock to assert his dominance by beating the rest of the pack if they stay out of line would be mostly a disappointment.

It would be really funny if Jacob ends up winning the Tri-Wizard tournament and Timmy tried to use Jacob´s blood for the ritual... Only to discover that Jacob don´t really consider him important enough to be his "enemy"

Having said that I hope that even if Jacob doesn´t particularly respect or fear Voldy, he is still a Dark Wizard with a body count in the triple digits, so the best way of dealing with him is to GTFO.
 
Yeah timmy simplily have more time to accumulate skills and experience, we are not Dumbledore to contest him directly.
 
The fact that horcruxes are only a P- in dark magic makes me wonder what Voldie's ranking actually is in the skill. I imagine he's definitely up there in charms, transfiguration and the other Hogwarts subjects. But the low ranking of a horcrux kind of make's me think he's not actually that great in the area (relatively)

Then again, he did make Nagini and made the ritual to get himself resurrected and those are quite potent.
 
The way i see it dark magic in the quest is an umbrela term to any occult discipline that is not covered by other classification, to anything fae like, eldrich or generally otherworldly wich include soul stuff.
Looking trough this lenz the so called dark lord did not necessarily needed to be really god at dark magic.
He is extremely powerfull at conventional wizarding but for him dark magic is only the edge he needs to blugeon hos way to the top rather any true intrest.
 
It's not really that making a Horcrux requires P dark arts, it's just that Jacob needs a P in Dark Arts to investigate if splitting a soul is even possible. And then maybe give him a theory of how to possibly create a Horcrux.

[ ] 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: Dark Arts P. Gives Ability: 'Horcrux'; ?)
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Kinda like how I know, in theory, how to make a nuclear bomb. Could I make one if I had all the components in front of me? Of course not. Making an actual stable Horcrux probably requires higher levels of Dark Arts. It obviously requires some sort of preparation involved. Otherwise people would be accidently making Horcruxes all the time whenever they killed someone.
 
trooperist said:
Kinda like how I know, in theory, how to make a nuclear bomb. Could I make one if I had all the components in front of me? Of course not. Making an actual stable Horcrux probably requires higher levels of Dark Arts. It obviously requires some sort of preparation involved. Otherwise people would be accidently making Horcruxes all the time whenever they killed someone.
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I don't agree with that comparison, specifically because the action actually gives the Horcrux ability. Meaning that Jacob would be fully capable of going out and creating, whereas you in the nuke example don't. It seems to me that he's going on a deep dive on the process of creating a horcrux so that he is fully able to perfrom the ritual.

To bring it back around to the nuke example it would be like you researching how to enrich urainum, create a detonator, what all the components are and where to put them. This is done to such a degree that if all the bits to make one were placed in front of you, you'd be able to actually put it together rather than looking at the pile of stuff and being like "fuck if I know".
 
MrRobot said:
There's one main problem, jacob don't fear or respect timmy, like at all. Form his point of view he is kinda a waste so hanged up by his past and mortality that focused his talents to push other down rather than rise up, in short just another Slytherin bully that give the house a poor name, is just that this one is murderous
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Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face (c).

Or in other words, it's easy to disrespect a powerful terrifying wizard when a) he's dead b) he's not right there with you c) you don't consider just how terrifying someone has to be so that people are scared of uttering their name a decade after their death.

Fanhunter696 said:
I think that you are underestimating how much the Death Eaters and Voldy hated "Blood Traitors"
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But Jacob's not a Blood Traitor? Or did I miss something?
 
Fanhunter696 said:
Yeah, we should probably put in our side objectives for the year to raise Muggle Studies up to P+ or A-
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GoukaRyuu said:
"Still, I don't think I could have made a map or whatever those goggles he was wearing were. I definitely want to talk to him if given the chance." Fiery determination burned in Hermione's eyes. Given the amount of secret passages detailed in Jacob's map and not the Marauder's Map, Harry could only hope the boy would be able to avoid Hermione until the end of term. She would probably cool off a little during the summer. Hopefully.
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I don't want to restart that whole discussion again but given Hermione's interest I think there's a chance for the topic to creep up and get explored. Probably thorough enough for Jacob to realize that muggles are not mindless ghouls.
 
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