@Tabula Rasa Something that have just occurred to me, once we learn the Blue Wideye Potion, can we sell it to other students?
This potion would be quite useful for any regular student, but extremely valuable for 5th and 7th years... As we saw in the books OWL students made business with many illegal substances to get better results in their exams.
Even if we just ask for a reasonable price (2-3 times the cost of the materials) in advance we can easily brew enough potions for selling the. To our customers and keeping a few of the batch for Jacob's use in the coming months...
I like this idea. If we do so though, we need to probably set the price for a dose to be around 25 - 30 Galleons, as the ingredients for a single does costs around 15 Galleons. If we can make a cauldron full of 10 doses for around 150 Galleons costs, then we can quite easily make profit and keep a few for our own use.
Your eyes didn't leave the empty spot on the wall. A round glyph staring back at you. Only now did you realize that your heart was beating hard against your ribcage. Your breath was short and puffed, producing a faint cloud of mist in front of your face.
When you turned around, you were grinning.
"Then we may have to find other spots like this!"
→ 1/10 progress in putting the runes found on the castle wall down to paper. Every successful roll of the Runes Club's findings will advance this progress. You can also spend actions on this.
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New Spell Research: Focillo - Charm. The Warming Charm creates warmth from the tip of the caster's wand in a small cone. It can also be casted on a person. With more willpower, the heat can intensify and hold for longer stretches, though never hot enough to become dangerous. Slow clockwise circles that continue while you concentrate, while the spell builds up. (Comment: That's new. Why is it a continuous movement until it builds up? What do the wand movements do?) DC: 50.
The happiness when you find new projects to work on is nice. The sadness when you think of the Action Economy hell isn't though. I do wonder what the runes on the castle's walls will give us. Maybe more secret passages? Looks like a long term project though, one that we may not be able to finish this year. We will have to see how the Rune's Club rolls on this I guess.
As for the spell, Focillo looks like it would be useful if we were exploring. Something we should probably grab before we do a big exploration action at least, if we are going somewhere that has the possibility of being cold or in the rain.
If you were right about your theory about the Hogwarts castle in itself being a method to teach students, the staircase would be a metaphor for the dichotomy of magical theory; while one side of magic was clearly structured following a more or less sound logic, other parts of it were driven by pure instincts and meaning. A wizard needed to understand both to be able to dive into any kind of deeper understanding.
I do like this. Hogwarts being more than just a place of learning, it subconsciously tries to teach the students through patterns built into the castle itself.
A personality can only find its unique defining traits with autonomy and epiphany through substantiated decisions, so it was up to me to forget about presumptions this time and let it be. As I am your mother, I nonetheless hope that you do not rush into things and give yourself time to adapt.
It may be advisable to wait a month before we look at the Journal again. If we take our mother's advice that is. Maybe we can switch between taking a Case and looking at our Family Journal. That way we aren't doing to much all in one month. Alternating between the two sounds like a good idea if we don't want to have Jacob get burnt out/traumatized.
Regarding the vote,
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This is no laughing matter – You don't think you will be able to argue with either Goyle, nor the older Slytherin, but you might be able to reach an agreement with Nott. Both of you still remember the debt he owes you. If it doesn't work, pull your wand out. You do not think that you can hold yourself against three students, no matter their talent, but you'll be damned if you go down without hurting them. (
High DC for talking them out of it, High DC for the ensuing fight.)
Just because this the harder choice, doesn't me it is the wrong one. I don't want us to always reach for our wand first if there is another avenue to pursue. Besides, I'm interested to see if Nott would back down considering that he owes us. Does he have what it takes to back down, or will he continue along this path against us despite what we've done for him? I'm interested in finding out to be honest.
Also, I'm interested in finding out if there is actually a reason for this and that Justin was actually bothering Goyle. I don't think that is the case and it is probably just plain old bullying, but you never know. So talk first, and ready our stick just in case.
Edit: If there was anyone that I would hope to emulate with our ancestors right now, then it would be Isaac. This seems like something he would attempt and I'm fine with that.
Edit2: Also, in regards to Yoda and the Jedi. They were peacekeepers before all else. They always started with negotiations first. They only pursued
aggressive negotiations if regular negotiations fell through.
