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[X] Plan Lightning
I never knew just how much I needed this.
I never knew just how much I needed this.
Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]
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- You
My main reason for choosing Hufflepuff is that is that they are often overlook and looked down upon, they are kinda the underdogs, looks like that dosent matter here. Looks like Hufflepuff will win thogh so i am not going to change my vote.
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[X] Plan: Harry Potter and His Quest For Knowledge
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So Trismegistus is one of the choices that Harry will have which is pretty great. Unfortunately, we are not a child prodigy and don't have increased skill gain for magical subjects. For this alone I recommend a minimum of two subjects/areas being magical skills.
Charms is probably the highest priority as it is heavily versatile and even has some overlap with the Dark Arts (Birdsie confirmed) due to curses, hexes, jinxes being basically Dark Charms. That is such a wide range of spells that not picking it is sabotage in my opinion given the greater danger of this world.
Transfiguration is no doubt going to be very useful here I am sure. Dumbledore used it effectively in canon and it should be even better here. It is also one of the two big magic subjects everyone has along with Charms.
So in my view Charms + Transfiguration would be a great combo. A nice and well rounded wizard when it comes to magic that is Wand based.
The last choice is…something I am uncertain on. Another heavily magical focus? Potions? Maybe DUeling? And if possible a topic such as politics/intrigue?
Charms is probably the highest priority as it is heavily versatile and even has some overlap with the Dark Arts (Birdsie confirmed) due to curses, hexes, jinxes being basically Dark Charms. That is such a wide range of spells that not picking it is sabotage in my opinion given the greater danger of this world.
Transfiguration is no doubt going to be very useful here I am sure. Dumbledore used it effectively in canon and it should be even better here. It is also one of the two big magic subjects everyone has along with Charms.
So in my view Charms + Transfiguration would be a great combo. A nice and well rounded wizard when it comes to magic that is Wand based.
The last choice is…something I am uncertain on. Another heavily magical focus? Potions? Maybe DUeling? And if possible a topic such as politics/intrigue?
For Trismegistus we'll need Occlumency to protect Harry's mind from You-Know-Who, especially due to the Mark of the Equal providing You-Know-Who easy access to Harry's mind.
Charms is the most versatile and useful subject. It has applications in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Patronus, Shield spell and most combat magic come under Charms.
I'm worried Harry will be under threat of assassination, mind control, (love potion etc.) posession or other more subtle means when he is introduced to the Wizarding World. I'd like Harry to be good at protecting himself against such threats.
Charms is the most versatile and useful subject. It has applications in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Patronus, Shield spell and most combat magic come under Charms.
I'm worried Harry will be under threat of assassination, mind control, (love potion etc.) posession or other more subtle means when he is introduced to the Wizarding World. I'd like Harry to be good at protecting himself against such threats.
Apologies if this has been spelled out elsewhere, but what happens if we do choose another House despite being the Lord of Hufflepuff?
The Puffs seem to be extremely powerful and cultish in this universe. If non-Hufflepuff!Harry starts to throw around his undue influence on house members, I think we should assume they'll react like reasonable people and treat this as a security risk.
The Puffs seem to be extremely powerful and cultish in this universe. If non-Hufflepuff!Harry starts to throw around his undue influence on house members, I think we should assume they'll react like reasonable people and treat this as a security risk.
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For Occlumency my only concern is when would we even have the opportunity to study it? Might be a while before it comes into play even with Trismegistus. It would certainly be useful I'm sure but another subject/area might offer us more in both the short and long term. And it will likely be a while before we would need to start worrying about Occlumency.
Not sure if we even would have the option of picking our House.
As for Hufflepuffs becoming wary of Harry...in another scenario it probably would be a potential concern assuming that Lord of Hufflepuff didn't smooth over such issues...Harry is also the BWL here further has an influence on people. Potential synergy with Lord of Hufflepuff should be plenty to head off any concerns over our influence because of course it is right and proper for the BWL to have such influence over people even those that are Hufflepuffs.
Dumbledore and Snape are masters of Occlumency within Harry Potter canon. Flitwick as a former duelling champion should also be good at Occlumency. I'd consider Occlumency to be a necessity for Harry as it provides a wide range of protections. Occlumency can be used to defeat the truth potion, helps in defending against posession, prevent You-Know-Who or Quirrel from reading his mind via legilimency. Avoid the Mark of the Equal being used against Harry by You-Know-Who.
If Harry wants to be a decent duelist he would need Occlumency. In canon Snape was easily able to defeat Harry by using Legilimency to read Harry's mind during their fight.
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we dont Know that ic though we would have to be a legilimency victim to Know what Even legilimency is and idont see a teacher teaching Harry that, if he wasnt. so if we do choose occlumency we would have to Wait abit for The full affeCT
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. I get the feeling QM will not include novice Natural Legilimense as a boon for Heir of Slytherin if there wasn't some way to progress in Legilimency and Occlumency in the Quest.
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Yes, Dumbledore and Snape are users of Occlumency but it all comes down to when or if they would be willing to teach us Occlumency. Year 1 or 2? Really doubtful they would see the need barring something like the early return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named there should be no immediate need for either one to teach us Occlumency. Yes, Occlumency is important and at some point we must early it but in the early years? It shouldn't be a priority. Furthermore...Draco was able to learn it to a decent enough level in canon within the span of a single summer break. Hard working Harry here? He should be able to do something similar if not even better. I do think we would be better served with something other than Occlumency as one of our three picks for Trismegistus.
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might be heir of slytherin exclusive ? Like something happend to make harry aware of HIS legilimency. It does say NATRUALlegilimency maybe he was born with it?? i dunno. You raise a good point
yannoshka
Thunda birb
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- Smartarse cramschool
Harvard is 'Murican. I think you might want to use Cambridge here. Yanno, the other great British university.
[X] Plan Lightning
Birdsie
Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy
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- Poland
No. Harvard is correct. It underlines the fact that obtaining admission to learning in other countries is unproblematic.
yannoshka
Thunda birb
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- Smartarse cramschool
Meh, sounds to me like rationalizing 'muricanism, but I just might be too jaded, and it is your quest, so whatever.
That said, I'm on the Cambridge side of the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry, so, that is probably my central complaint
Nonsense,I don't want my counsin to learn with those Yankee: Vernon Dursley.
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Anyways...getting back on topic. For Trismegistus...what do we think of the following setup?
Transfiguration + Charms + DADA
Transfiguration and Charms for the pure magic ability and DADA for dealing with the Dark Arts and duelling. A build where we would be magically very very capable and know how to use it effectively against the Dark Arts. We would have to worry less about that and could spend a bit more focus on other things. Another potential setup is:
Transfiguration + Charms + Potions. Would make us extremely capable with all three of the "big" magic subjects at Hogwarts.
Transfiguration + Charms + DADA
Transfiguration and Charms for the pure magic ability and DADA for dealing with the Dark Arts and duelling. A build where we would be magically very very capable and know how to use it effectively against the Dark Arts. We would have to worry less about that and could spend a bit more focus on other things. Another potential setup is:
Transfiguration + Charms + Potions. Would make us extremely capable with all three of the "big" magic subjects at Hogwarts.
Given our lord of hufflepuff and boy who lived traits, "leadership" or "charisma" are a must.
Our "build" as it were is more akin to a general than a single powerful wizard.
Choosing to do anything but to go "all in" on that will be suboptimal
Do you have critical information I'm missing? Because, as things stand, I see no reason to believe we can pick anything but a magic-related area for Trismegistus, and I see no explanation on how this quest works, system-wise, beyond the voting aspect that characterizes this type of interactive fiction.
If making decisions and sweeping declarations based on baseless assumptions is optimal, then I don't mind being sub-optimal. But if you do have more pieces of info, then please consider sharing, as it would be great to know.