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(HP) A Girl and Her Book

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[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[x] Socialize with…
--[x] Whoever is willing to talk with you.
-[x] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

Get the lay of the room and see who is with us, who is against us, and who is in-between.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with Christopher Rose
-[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

[X] Learn who they are and what weaknesses they have. You will have ways of revealing the mediocre people that they are without being punished, but all Slytherin will know it was you.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.
[X] Endure them. They will stop in time. There's no need to confront them yet when your actions will speak louder than their words.
 
Corvus Black said:
I'm hoping you are setting this up to subvert the trope, and not actually going with "ice queen" Daphne.
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It's obvious Daphne had to drink a calming draught so she doesn't act too giddy seeing all the cute firsties.
I'm not sure why so many people are voting for Rose right now, that's a pretty ballsy statement to make this early from the first Weasley in Slytherin for a long time ( forever?), and one I'm not sure we have the power to back up right now. Especially if he is the only person we socialize with in such a public setting, this might close a lot of doors for us for a long time. We really have no leverage right now and at at least some people might be looking positively at our heritage and might wonder why we got into Slytherin. I'm not saying that we should start cursing mudbloods, but a bit of plausible deniability could go a long way. I get that he is interesting, but his interaction with Burke makes it seem unlikely for him to appreciate our interest. He seems either intimidated or a brown-noser.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.
 
Urgh feel really disappointed she end up in that house and bit horrified, make things harder to socialize with others both in and outside the house because I bet both older and younger Slytherins would put pressure on Ginny to stop her making friends with muggleborn and outside perception of her rigged any friendship attempts against her.
Guess those bloody traits bite us in the ass.

...it would be interesting if the amount of hell Ginny unleash would force Hogwarts to change her House if that's a thing.

[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Whoever is willing to talk with you.
-[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

[X] Learn who they are and what weaknesses they have. You will have ways of revealing the mediocre people that they are without being punished, but all Slytherin will know it was you.

Guess we will see if we will go to war against most of Slytherin in time.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
-[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Tracey Davis

[X] (Write-In) Put them down on The Listtm​. You do not forgive, you do not forget. But that doesn't mean that they need to pay for it now if it is inconvenient for you.
 
So in Slytherin then huh...Suppose will just have to deal.



[X] Do not attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Study in your dorm.
-[X] Write a letter to your oldest brother Bill


[X] (Write-In) Put them down on The Listtm​. You do not forgive, you do not forget. But that doesn't mean that they need to pay for it now if it is inconvenient for you.
-[X] In the mean time you'll learn what their weakness is and who they are.


Why not write to who she was closest to?

Also decided to do a sort of combination...

[] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[] Socialize with…
--[] Helen Prince
-[] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

I'm fine with this as well but I'll stick with not attending for now.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.
[X] Confront them. Burke will get his later. You will not tolerate insults to your family in your presence.

TBH, I'm a little shocked that not going with the most common vote has been received fairly well by SV
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Whoever is willing to talk with you.
-[X] They'll play games, probably. Join a game you see.
[X] Confront them. Burke will get his later. You will not tolerate insults to your family in your presence.

Establishing boundaries comes first, punishing people for violating them is second. Need to feel out the house, and Prince might not want to hitch herself to someone she just met when she's already stated her reluctance to do so.
 
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[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Tracey Davis

One true friend is worth a dozen fair weather friends.

Edit: but there's no point in not saying hello to an convenient older student who might show us the ropes purely to piss off certain parties.

[X] Learn who they are and what weaknesses they have. You will have ways of revealing the mediocre people that they are without being being punished, but all Slytherin will know it was you.

A list can grow long with nothing to deter fools from earning Ginny's wrath. Better to make a statement, and establish that we are far from the bottom of the pecking order.
 
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Well, I uh, didn't see that coming? Kinda expecting Ginny to do everything she can't to not freak out…
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with Whoever is willing to talk with you.
-[X] Stay quiet and learn about your housemates.

[X] Learn who they are and what weaknesses they have. You will have ways of revealing the mediocre people that they are without being being punished, but all Slytherin will know it was you.
 
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[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X] Helen Prince
--[X] Tracey Davis
[X] Learn who they are and what weaknesses they have. You will have ways of revealing the mediocre people that they are without being being punished, but all Slytherin will know it was you.
 
I wonder how Harry will take Ginny the Slytherin? This is before he had that conversation with Dumbledore at the end of year two where the old goat practically says in so many words 'yeah you are a lot like Slytherins, but you are not evil like them', so he will probably be at least a little conflicted seeing as he was almost in the House himself. Given that Ginny has a crush on him and Riddle has... an interest I think it is fair to say we will be pushed into interacting with him.

Actually, thinking about it, how will Riddle take this. Ginny Weaselly the Griffendor was only good as a tool to open the Chamber and let loose the monster, but the fact that she is in his House might incline him to more long term plans. Of course all that depends on how clever he is. going by canon he can be at any point between

'Clever enough to murder people at Hogwarts under Dumbledore's nose and come out smelling like roses' and 'dumb enough to be outsmarted by a flaming chicken and a twelve year old'.

We will just have to wait and see what he is like in this quest, but we should keep in mind that he is not necessarily the idiot canon shows him to be.
 
Blech, I'll withhold judgement for now but I'm considering dropping this quest. I have yet to read anything with a syltherin protag that wasn't outright parody that didn't leave me feeling worse for having read it.
 
Jrin said:
Guess those bloody traits bite us in the ass.
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Nah, there were multiple warning, both from the author and some voters that the ravenclaws aren't going to win with their one argument, variety and better arguments that reasonated with Ginny gave Slytherin strength, there is no blaming traits alone for this one.
DragonParadox said:
yeah you are a lot like Slytherins, but you are not evil like them',
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Let's be honest, Slytherin might have been intended to be the house of ambitious and cunning, but in the book most of the people in it are neither, this is mostly the house of bigot purbloods.
DragonParadox said:
'Clever enough to murder people at Hogwarts under Dumbledore's nose and come out smelling like roses' and 'dumb enough to be outsmarted by a flaming chicken and a twelve year old'.
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This is might have been arrogance, he had an entire year to observe Harry and Harry was kind of a meh wizard, he probably compared him to himself and Harry came awfully short, until he decided Harry beating original him was either a fluke or had nothing to do with Harry.
 
ROTH963 said:
Let's be honest, Slytherin might have been intended to be the house of ambitious and cunning, but in the book most of the people in it are neither, this is mostly the house of bigot purbloods.
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Well yeah Rowling wrote an entire house filled with evil children, the Hogwarts houses are at their core:
  1. Hero
  2. Nerd/NPC
  3. Yellow (or if you are being kind that one with Diggory)
  4. Evil
When one is not a child reading it, that is more unrealistic than the magic. There should be at least a large plurality of people keeping their heads down in every house. To give an example in Half-blood Prince Blase Zambini, one of the few Slytherins we knew nothing about opens his mouth for practically the first time. What does he say? Something innocuous, something colorful, hell something that shows a normal character flaw for a sixteen year old? Of course not, he practically admits in public that his mother is a serial killer.

Top notch characterization that. Then again Rowling was under the impression that one act of heroism would be enough to redeem Snape form spending seven years bullying children under his authority.

ROTH963 said:
This is might have been arrogance, he had an entire year to observe Harry and Harry was kind of a meh wizard, he probably compared him to himself and Harry came awfully short, until he decided Harry beating original him was either a fluke or had nothing to do with Harry.
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Being fair that is in fact accurate, not the fluke part, it was Lilly Potter which Riddle recognized. Though the fact that he was still obsessed with the kid whose main skill was broomstick flying after realizing that does not say much for Riddle's wits either.
 
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DragonParadox said:
Being fair that is in fact accurate, not the fluke part, it was Lilly Potter which Riddle recognized. Though the fact that he was still obsessed with the kid whose main skill was broomstick flying after realizing that does not say much for Riddle's wits either.
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To be fair to Tom, even though Dumbledore is somewhat dismissive towards prophecies , all of them we know of got fulfilled so knowing the one about himself makes a lot of sense. That he had to bail out basically all of his followers and visit the ministry himself anyways was more on them. In sixth year he took out the leader of the opposition and laid the foundation to take over the most or second most important location in wizarding Britain. His ultimatum to Harry in seventh year could have preserved at least some of the already pretty depleted population if it was successful. Oh, and in his resurrection he pretty much neutralized the biggest advantage Harry had over him. But that's the most cheritable reading I can come up with , but OTOH after all the stuff Harry pulled off over the seven years I would also be somewhat pissed and feel like he got too lucky.
Rowling really didn't do a great job of filling the other houses, it's somewhat ridiculous that the main character basically had one friend and one crush in 3/4 of the Hogwarts population even though he had classes together with them for a long time.
 
MossPiglet said:
To be fair to Tom, even though Dumbledore is somewhat dismissive towards prophecies , all of them we know of got fulfilled so knowing the one about himself makes a lot of sense. That he had to bail out basically all of his followers and visit the ministry himself anyways was more on them. In sixth year he took out the leader of the opposition and laid the foundation to take over the most or second most important location in wizarding Britain. His ultimatum to Harry in seventh year could have preserved at least some of the already pretty depleted population if it was successful. Oh, and in his resurrection he pretty much neutralized the biggest advantage Harry had over him. But that's the most cheritable reading I can come up with , but OTOH after all the stuff Harry pulled off over the seven years I would also be somewhat pissed and feel like he got too lucky.
Rowling really didn't do a great job of filling the other houses, it's somewhat ridiculous that the main character basically had one friend and one crush in 3/4 of the Hogwarts population even though he had classes together with them for a long time.
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The thing is even if adult Voldemort could be excused for all his silliness (and that is a whole other conversation) it still does not justify Riddle at 16 being so focused on the kid he now knows did not do anything special. There is no way to deduce 'prophecy' from the PoV of Diary Riddle, but wait it gets dumber

What was he going to do if he won at the end of the year. So Basilisk kills Harry, Ginny is drained to death and he is alive... down the wet hole no one knows about with only one exit to a castle that is currently being patrolled by the teachers and that will presumably be patrolled for months by the Ministry.

What was he planning to eat down there while the search died down?

For that matter why the giant snake, if all he wanted to do was kill Harry he could have poisoned a chocolate frog with something lethal but with a delayed reaction while possessing Ginny. If giant snake and broomstick accident are both indirect enough to bypass the protection of Lilly's blood (BTW that this is not very good Harry should check the warranty :V ) then so would poison. Give it to him a few hours before bed and they will not find his body until morning, plenty of time to run.
 
[X] Attend the Slytherin Welcome Party in the Common Rooms (Pick 2).
-[X] Socialize with…
--[X]Helen Prince
--[X]Tracey Davis

[X] (Write-In) Put them down on The Listtm​. You do not forgive, you do not forget. But that doesn't mean that they need to pay for it now if it is inconvenient for you.
 
Hmm. Helen Prince has 8 votes but split evenly between stay quiet and tracy davis for the second option. Might be time for a compromise, unless approval voting is allowed?

Chistopher Rose and stay quiet are currently in the lead with 6 votes.
 
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