Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]
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- USA
Thank you. Now the plan is really good. Strong bonds with our family, fair bit of focus on mental stuff and theater is a potentially interesting direction for a child.
Birdsie
Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy
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- Poland
Will is a resource that would've been almost exclusively to maintain academic performance. Its other use would've been to resist the Unforgivable Curses. However, given your choices, its use as a resource is... nonexistent, and as such, it will no longer be utilized.
Gabbie
That One Writer
- Location
- Italy
- Pronouns
- They/Them
We are The Boy Who Lived. Of course we'll find a use for it.
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- USA
We are The Boy Who Lived. Of course we'll find a use for it.
No need. Not having to worry about a Will resource is more than good!
[X] Plan: look at all those options!
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[X] Plan: All Yellow
I didn't mean to offend or have you go on the defensive like this, sorry.
I'm considering the possibly good points you raised in the rest of the post, but we'll see for sure where things stand once the QM decides it's time. Either way, have a good one, mate!
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- USA
Strongly recommend Books, Books, Books as one of the choices we go with. Knowledge is power and in this darker and more dangerous world we are going to need power. Lots and lots of it. Nurturing a love of reading books will be very useful when we get to Hogwarts.
[X] Plan Harry "Potential" Potter
[X] Plan: All Yellow
[X] Plan: All Yellow
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan: All Yellow
[X] Yes
[X] Many Things
[X] Causing Unspeakable Mayhem & Fixing It
[X] Books, Books, Books
[X] Watching Silly TV Shows & Doing So With Your Family
[X] Your Dear Uncle, Mister Vernon Dursley
[X] Many Things
[X] Causing Unspeakable Mayhem & Fixing It
[X] Books, Books, Books
[X] Watching Silly TV Shows & Doing So With Your Family
[X] Your Dear Uncle, Mister Vernon Dursley
[x] Plan Power of Heart
-[x] Maybe
-[x] The Past
-[x] Making Lots of Friends
-[x] Books, Books, Books - Most kids hate reading, but you love reading! Especially the books that have pictures in them.
-[x] Your Awesome Cousin, Mistah "DD" Dudley Dursley - He's great like that. +++Dudley.
Emphasizing Hufflepuff, still have books. I think people are overemphasizing the importance of a love of books and personal power, but democracy = compromise sometimes. I really think getting lots of friends will build our social, which is important for maximizing Hufflepuff.
[X] Plan: All Yellow
-[x] Maybe
-[x] The Past
-[x] Making Lots of Friends
-[x] Books, Books, Books - Most kids hate reading, but you love reading! Especially the books that have pictures in them.
-[x] Your Awesome Cousin, Mistah "DD" Dudley Dursley - He's great like that. +++Dudley.
Emphasizing Hufflepuff, still have books. I think people are overemphasizing the importance of a love of books and personal power, but democracy = compromise sometimes. I really think getting lots of friends will build our social, which is important for maximizing Hufflepuff.
[X] Plan: All Yellow
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- USA
I would say that people underestimate personal power. Would You-Know-Who be anywhere near as a great a threat as he is without his immense personal power? Would he have gathered all the allies he has if he was an average wizard when it comes to power and skill? Without his awe inspiring power...how many would have truly backed him?
Let us aim to become akin to You-Know-Who. A Hufflepuff Lord with dazzling levels of power and skill. Backed with a loyal group of wealthy and connected people. We've already picked options that will set the foundation...we just need to follow through.
But yes, I do like this plan and will vote for it.
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Gabbie
That One Writer
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- Italy
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- They/Them
You need to bold every single pronoun that refers to the Dark Lord.
Birdsie posted a power scale in Discord:
0.01 - Average Muggle.
0.25 - Average Squib.
0.5 - Average three-year-old Wizard.
1.25 - Average Hogwarts student at beginning of Year 1.
1.5 - Average Hogwarts student at the end of Year 1.
2.5 - Average Hogwarts student by the middle of Year 4.
3 - Average Hogwarts student by the end of their education. Average centaur, Veela or giant.
4.5 - Average Hogwarts Professor.
6.25 - Average hundred-year-old Wizard.
7 - Average House Elf.
7.25 - Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (allegedly)
8.25 - He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (allegedly)
10.01 - A level never reached by anyone (allegedly)
20 - A primordial being such as Death.
Note that it is progressively exponential - there isn't much difference between a Muggle and Squib, but there is a lot of difference between a hundred year old wizard and Dumbledore.
This is why I say that matching Him in personal power is not going to happen. Among other things, we just don't have enough time. With Equal in Truth, we will reach a professor's level by graduation - far below His power. Also, He has likely done rituals to increase his power that we would be unwilling to do.
That's why I don't want to try to match him skill for skill, but rather lean into our strengths and oppose him in other areas.
0.01 - Average Muggle.
0.25 - Average Squib.
0.5 - Average three-year-old Wizard.
1.25 - Average Hogwarts student at beginning of Year 1.
1.5 - Average Hogwarts student at the end of Year 1.
2.5 - Average Hogwarts student by the middle of Year 4.
3 - Average Hogwarts student by the end of their education. Average centaur, Veela or giant.
4.5 - Average Hogwarts Professor.
6.25 - Average hundred-year-old Wizard.
7 - Average House Elf.
7.25 - Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (allegedly)
8.25 - He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (allegedly)
10.01 - A level never reached by anyone (allegedly)
20 - A primordial being such as Death.
Note that it is progressively exponential - there isn't much difference between a Muggle and Squib, but there is a lot of difference between a hundred year old wizard and Dumbledore.
This is why I say that matching Him in personal power is not going to happen. Among other things, we just don't have enough time. With Equal in Truth, we will reach a professor's level by graduation - far below His power. Also, He has likely done rituals to increase his power that we would be unwilling to do.
That's why I don't want to try to match him skill for skill, but rather lean into our strengths and oppose him in other areas.
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- USA
Spoken like a quitter! We must seek all opportunities to grow and power and we will become an An Equal In Truth. Nothing less is acceptable.
We can lean on other strengths and oppose Him in other areas but at the end of the day we will come into magical conflict with Him and other powerful foes. And Harry wants to become the greatest wizard to ever live. Let's not make that something he doesn't strive for with all his heart before his education even begins.
Why is an average House Elf as powerful as Dumbledore?
Birdsie
Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy
- Location
- Poland
Consider: Even if you train for months, you cannot wandlessly apparate through the Hogwarts Wards. Do you know who can?
It's your world I don't mind if House Elves are Gods in your universe but I was under the impression House Elves and Phoenix don't travel by apparition like wizards and buildings aren't warded against travel by these creatures.
[X] Plan: All Yellow
Birdsie
Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy
- Location
- Poland
It'd probably do well to read canon Harry Potter first. Ironically, maybe out of everything in this AU, House Elves are the one thing that's almost entirely unchanged. House Elves inherently have much greater magical power wizards.
(Relevant Quotes if you don't wish to look.)
Their magic is described as "incredibly powerful" multiple times, and there are implications that wand use would be able to make it even more powerful.
Being magically powerful, however, does not mean they are magically skilled or can skillfully operate the same devices as wizards. They aren't "gods." If you took away Dumbledore's wand, he'd be roughly capable of performing feats slightly greater than those of House Elves (accounting for this AU's raised power level.) This says far more about how ridiculously poignant Dumbledore is magically than it says about House Elves.