A Spell in Parseltongue (A Quest of the Potterverse)
- Thread starter phil03
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Chronobreak
Chara Appreciator
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Sophistication and Academia
[X] Here There Be Giants
Tithed_Verse
Vainglorious
- Location
- Iowa
- Pronouns
- They/Them
No votes for the cute puff witch?
Chronobreak
Chara Appreciator
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm more into cool wizards than cute witches.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- Him/He
Hummm... As tempting as it is I would have to go with a firm no on this one. This is the kind of thing that get massive alarm bells ringing when it come to the Statute.
On a broader note, and since nobody availed themselves of the option yet: as stated in the OP approval voting is OK at this stage so if they're is more then one plan you like and you would want to vote for feel free to do so.
[X] Take It to the Bank
-[X] Witch
-[X] Half-Breed
--[X] Goblin
-[X] Lions
-[X] Huffelpuff
-[X] Exile
-[X] Sandalwood, Leprechaun Beard, 8 and 3/4 inches
I like a good underdog story. Becoming a Prefect in spite of all disadvantages and prejudices speaks well of our ability and effort, and that starts the quest on a good note for the kind of decisions that the Hogwarts staff is willing to make. The Goblins have been fleshed out enough in canon to give the QM many ideas while still allowing a lot of creative space, and our parents' forbidden love might have been the reason for our Exile as well, beside the muggle and wizarding wars.
-[X] Witch
-[X] Half-Breed
--[X] Goblin
-[X] Lions
-[X] Huffelpuff
-[X] Exile
-[X] Sandalwood, Leprechaun Beard, 8 and 3/4 inches
I like a good underdog story. Becoming a Prefect in spite of all disadvantages and prejudices speaks well of our ability and effort, and that starts the quest on a good note for the kind of decisions that the Hogwarts staff is willing to make. The Goblins have been fleshed out enough in canon to give the QM many ideas while still allowing a lot of creative space, and our parents' forbidden love might have been the reason for our Exile as well, beside the muggle and wizarding wars.
Punchweasel
Maverick Weasel
- Location
- Central Illinois, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Him
I was about to post a new plan, but yeah I'd definitely vote for this.
Edit: ...But then I noted the Approval Voting option, so I might as well put mine up as well. Thanks for the heads up @phil03 , I probably should have read more!
[X] Plan A Roaring Lion
-[X] Wizard
-[X] Muggleborn
-[X] The Lions
-[X] Gryffindor
-[X] Exiles
-[X] Vine wood 13' with a phoenix feather core.
I was thinking a refugee from the war that learned they were magical when they managed to get to England with their family.
Of course if my option doesn't win I'd want my vote to next go towards Take It To The Bank, and if that loses have it go to Here there be Giants. Whatever wins I'd definitely want us in The Lions.
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- Location
- nz
[X] Sophistication and Academia
[X] Be extraordinary
[X] Be extraordinary
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- Location
- il bel paese dove il sì sona
- Pronouns
- He
Interesting that there is no stronger interest in being Tom Riddle's co-prefect so far, but I do have to admit that a take on the half-giant type probably different from what we know from Hagrid would also be interesting.
That said, I find the implications of human-giant relationship to be somewhat (a lot actually) disturbing, so I am not going to vote for that kind of parentage.
That said, I find the implications of human-giant relationship to be somewhat (a lot actually) disturbing, so I am not going to vote for that kind of parentage.
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- Location
- India
[X] Plan A Roaring Lion
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- Him/He
As a general rule the Hogwarts of this era is, if not rotten at least very flawed. Dippet himself is very old school and tend to favor Purebloods and the Wizarding Patricians type, even if muggleborns prefects are far from unheard off.
There is also a pretty solid case to be made that prefects are chosen, and more generally decisions at the school are made, at least as much to keep everybody in the Governor Board (and the political factions they support) at least reasonably happy then for anything else.
If we go with an Half-Breed prefect you would essentially managed to be selected in spite of all of that. Your choosing would also reflect that Dumbledore efforts to change all of this has, after all, started to get results.
On a more general note voting will be open until at least friday evening.
I decided that after we are done with this round of voting we will transfer to a line based rather then a plan based vote going onward. I can see the merits to both but, as I am finding my marks as a QM, I find that plans tend to concentrate the discussion around a few choices that peoples particularly care about while I want to encourage discussion on every single choice as much as possible.
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Pure Blood Supremacism and Prejudices and Houses Dynamics at Hogwarts in 1942-43
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- Him/He
And discussing the state of the school at this point in time lead me to think that this was as a time as any to post this in this thread and start sharing some worldbuilding
Pure Blood Supremacism and Prejudices at Hogwarts in 1942-43:
The roots of the conflicts many of your parents suffered through goes deep, such a fact has been accepted by most thinking wizards as self-evident. While opinions do diverge as in which year its tale need to began to be told, we have chosen the school year of 1942-1943 and the first opening of the Chamber of Secrets as our point of departure. Before we began, however, we believe a quick overview of the attitudes regarding blood status among the Hogwarts students of the time would be necessary.
Most of those would lived through the years immediately preceding the Second Wizarding War can remember quite well the dynamics prevailing in our beloved school in that regard: a substantial majority of students had recognised purism for what it was and had rejected it while the still numerous others who continued to hold to such false ideals took them to gruessome extreme as they often sympathised with Voldemort cause, or at least openly using slurs such as mudbloods and proclaimed their hatreds for muggleborns. While some who fell prey to the purists ideals managed to not fall to such despicable lows they remained few in numbers. In the Hogwarts of 1942-43 things were quite different. Both the First Wizarding War and the progress of the late 50's and the 60's had yet to happen, with all that entailed for the Wizarding society of Great Britain. The Global Wizarding War, as well as its effects on the internal politics of Wizarding Britain, and the diminishing percentage of pureblood students in Hogwarts had ensured that the winds of change where already blowing but what effects they already had palled in comparaison to what would come in the next decades.
As a result, the Hogwarts of Dippet was profoundly different from the one the Boy Who Lived entered for the first time, particularly in regard to the attude of its inhabitants concerning the false ideals of blood purity. While most of the students roaming over the castle in those days could be deemed purists and such prejudices where, most assuredly, as reprehensible in the 1940's then in the 1990's, their intensity varied from one wizards to another. While some professed ideas who wouldn't have been out of place among the ranks of the Death Eaters most hadn't fallen so low. In fact, more then a few purists where cordial enough when meeting muggleborns, holding on to vague belief in the superiority of the purebloods on average but fully ready to aknowledge and praise muggleborns or Half-Bloods having proven themselves ''despite'' their origins. As it happens, many of those less hatefull purists genuinely disliked the lenghts to witch some of their more extreme counterparts would go in the name of their bigotry, as well as purists inspired slurs and bullying in many cases, and would, in considerably more then a few cases, play key roles in the defeats of both Grindelwald and Riddle, often making great sacrifices in the name of the common cause in spite of what they shared with her ennemies.
There reside the paradox of the Hogwarts of 1943: while certainly containing more believers of the very belief of pureblood superiority, in the name of whom the Chambers was open for the first time, then it would 50 years latter they're were, nevertheless, far less students willing to applaud the ravages of the Basilisk then they're would be in 1993.
Houses Dynamics in 1942:
Most students of the recent history of Wizarding Britain will probably be quite familiar with the tense relations prevailing between Hogwart House's in the lead up and during the Second Wizarding War as, Slytherin and Gryffindor faced each other in an heavily politicaly charged tug of war, with the bulk of both Ravenclaw and Huffelpuff stauchly supporting the latter, to the dismay of those bearing Salazar snake without being partisans of his descendant. As a consequence, many have come to imagine that such a state of affairs represented the norm throughout the school history.
In reality, however, it is quite likely that a wizard having studied alongside the Boy Who Lived would have found the houses dynamic of the 19th century almost recognisable. To be sure, the ever-existing rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor was already a feature, but his intensity would pale in comparaison to what one could have observed latter and its political aspect, while already existent, would only latter gain the importance it would latter have. Moreover, it also cohabited with an also fairly heated rivalry between Ravenclaw and Huffelpuff, who had often been a fixture of the school since Helga and Rowena famous disagreement on wheter the school should above all seek to ensure that even its less gifted students could follow the pace of its classes or rather design them to push their most talented of its pulpils to unlock their full potential.
Furthermore, far from being isolated from the other houses Slytherins often enjoyed good relations with Ravenclaw, as many had come to see commonality between the emphasis put on cunning and professional achievements by those wearing green and silver and the one put on wisdom and academic prowesses by those arboring blue and bronze. Similarly, the lions proved to often get along rather well with the badgers, as the chivalrous ethos the former aspired too went along quite well with the emphasis of the latters on loyalty and kindness. Broadly speaking, relations between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw where quite neutral at the time, as where those between Huffelpuff and Slytherin appart from a vague disdain of the latters for the formers.
In 1942, much of the old enmities and friendships between houses remained but the growing numbers of Muggleborns and Half-Bloods with a muggle parent who entered Hogwarts had already began to change the school and Wizarding Britain as a whole. Has the Shorting Hat refused to short any of the formers in Slytherin and only rarely put some of the latters there, Salazar house was essentially left out of one, if not the, most momentous demographic change in the history of the Wizarding World and had grown increasingly distinct from the other houses, while its reputation for being more welcoming to the most strident variants of purism made it naturally suspect to most wizards with ties to the muggle world. Above all those considerations the shadow of Grindelwald also loomed large.
To be sure, all houses had produced partisans of his at one point or another but Slytherin alumnies and students still represented the majority of those British Wizards he could still count on as 1942 came and went. Moreover, Salazar house's tendency to tolerate pro-Grindelwald attitudes in its mist to at least some degree, as well as the way many of its students deemed themselves neutrals, stood in stark contrast with the three other houses, where fierce support for the International Wizarding Confederacy was the norm and the smalest expression of pro-Grindelwald sentiments would often lead to social ostracism. As such, the green and silver snake had grown somewhat suspicious to many outsiders, even to some with deep family ties to it.
In that regard, as in many others in Hogwarts and Wizarding Britain, change was afoot, and, far from blocking it, the opening of the chamber would only accelerate it.
Excerpts of Wizarding Britain in the 20th century, an History of our Society for Young Wizards and Witches, 2013.
Made in a future that might or might not exist in this universe...
Pure Blood Supremacism and Prejudices at Hogwarts in 1942-43:
The roots of the conflicts many of your parents suffered through goes deep, such a fact has been accepted by most thinking wizards as self-evident. While opinions do diverge as in which year its tale need to began to be told, we have chosen the school year of 1942-1943 and the first opening of the Chamber of Secrets as our point of departure. Before we began, however, we believe a quick overview of the attitudes regarding blood status among the Hogwarts students of the time would be necessary.
Most of those would lived through the years immediately preceding the Second Wizarding War can remember quite well the dynamics prevailing in our beloved school in that regard: a substantial majority of students had recognised purism for what it was and had rejected it while the still numerous others who continued to hold to such false ideals took them to gruessome extreme as they often sympathised with Voldemort cause, or at least openly using slurs such as mudbloods and proclaimed their hatreds for muggleborns. While some who fell prey to the purists ideals managed to not fall to such despicable lows they remained few in numbers. In the Hogwarts of 1942-43 things were quite different. Both the First Wizarding War and the progress of the late 50's and the 60's had yet to happen, with all that entailed for the Wizarding society of Great Britain. The Global Wizarding War, as well as its effects on the internal politics of Wizarding Britain, and the diminishing percentage of pureblood students in Hogwarts had ensured that the winds of change where already blowing but what effects they already had palled in comparaison to what would come in the next decades.
As a result, the Hogwarts of Dippet was profoundly different from the one the Boy Who Lived entered for the first time, particularly in regard to the attude of its inhabitants concerning the false ideals of blood purity. While most of the students roaming over the castle in those days could be deemed purists and such prejudices where, most assuredly, as reprehensible in the 1940's then in the 1990's, their intensity varied from one wizards to another. While some professed ideas who wouldn't have been out of place among the ranks of the Death Eaters most hadn't fallen so low. In fact, more then a few purists where cordial enough when meeting muggleborns, holding on to vague belief in the superiority of the purebloods on average but fully ready to aknowledge and praise muggleborns or Half-Bloods having proven themselves ''despite'' their origins. As it happens, many of those less hatefull purists genuinely disliked the lenghts to witch some of their more extreme counterparts would go in the name of their bigotry, as well as purists inspired slurs and bullying in many cases, and would, in considerably more then a few cases, play key roles in the defeats of both Grindelwald and Riddle, often making great sacrifices in the name of the common cause in spite of what they shared with her ennemies.
There reside the paradox of the Hogwarts of 1943: while certainly containing more believers of the very belief of pureblood superiority, in the name of whom the Chambers was open for the first time, then it would 50 years latter they're were, nevertheless, far less students willing to applaud the ravages of the Basilisk then they're would be in 1993.
Houses Dynamics in 1942:
Most students of the recent history of Wizarding Britain will probably be quite familiar with the tense relations prevailing between Hogwart House's in the lead up and during the Second Wizarding War as, Slytherin and Gryffindor faced each other in an heavily politicaly charged tug of war, with the bulk of both Ravenclaw and Huffelpuff stauchly supporting the latter, to the dismay of those bearing Salazar snake without being partisans of his descendant. As a consequence, many have come to imagine that such a state of affairs represented the norm throughout the school history.
In reality, however, it is quite likely that a wizard having studied alongside the Boy Who Lived would have found the houses dynamic of the 19th century almost recognisable. To be sure, the ever-existing rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor was already a feature, but his intensity would pale in comparaison to what one could have observed latter and its political aspect, while already existent, would only latter gain the importance it would latter have. Moreover, it also cohabited with an also fairly heated rivalry between Ravenclaw and Huffelpuff, who had often been a fixture of the school since Helga and Rowena famous disagreement on wheter the school should above all seek to ensure that even its less gifted students could follow the pace of its classes or rather design them to push their most talented of its pulpils to unlock their full potential.
Furthermore, far from being isolated from the other houses Slytherins often enjoyed good relations with Ravenclaw, as many had come to see commonality between the emphasis put on cunning and professional achievements by those wearing green and silver and the one put on wisdom and academic prowesses by those arboring blue and bronze. Similarly, the lions proved to often get along rather well with the badgers, as the chivalrous ethos the former aspired too went along quite well with the emphasis of the latters on loyalty and kindness. Broadly speaking, relations between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw where quite neutral at the time, as where those between Huffelpuff and Slytherin appart from a vague disdain of the latters for the formers.
In 1942, much of the old enmities and friendships between houses remained but the growing numbers of Muggleborns and Half-Bloods with a muggle parent who entered Hogwarts had already began to change the school and Wizarding Britain as a whole. Has the Shorting Hat refused to short any of the formers in Slytherin and only rarely put some of the latters there, Salazar house was essentially left out of one, if not the, most momentous demographic change in the history of the Wizarding World and had grown increasingly distinct from the other houses, while its reputation for being more welcoming to the most strident variants of purism made it naturally suspect to most wizards with ties to the muggle world. Above all those considerations the shadow of Grindelwald also loomed large.
To be sure, all houses had produced partisans of his at one point or another but Slytherin alumnies and students still represented the majority of those British Wizards he could still count on as 1942 came and went. Moreover, Salazar house's tendency to tolerate pro-Grindelwald attitudes in its mist to at least some degree, as well as the way many of its students deemed themselves neutrals, stood in stark contrast with the three other houses, where fierce support for the International Wizarding Confederacy was the norm and the smalest expression of pro-Grindelwald sentiments would often lead to social ostracism. As such, the green and silver snake had grown somewhat suspicious to many outsiders, even to some with deep family ties to it.
In that regard, as in many others in Hogwarts and Wizarding Britain, change was afoot, and, far from blocking it, the opening of the chamber would only accelerate it.
Excerpts of Wizarding Britain in the 20th century, an History of our Society for Young Wizards and Witches, 2013.
Made in a future that might or might not exist in this universe...
- Location
- Earth
[X] Sophistication and Academia
[X] Here we go again
Shapeless Phobos
Filthy Casual
[X] Sophistication and Academia
[X] Here we go again
[X] Here we go again
Akatsunami
The Bonetatoist
- Location
- Brazil
[X] Take It to the Bank
Yeah, this plan is just way too interesting to pass up.
Yeah, this plan is just way too interesting to pass up.
Terran Imperium
[French]
- Location
- Southern France
That doesn't count, the vote needs to be first in line.
- Location
- Spain
[X] Sophistication and Academia
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