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(HP) A Girl and Her Book

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CedeTheBees said:
Fair point, but at the same time it feels like a worthy trade-off for someone who owns a literal horcrux.

Eyyyy we got 7 votes in all three categories. Let's stop it here. This feels auspicious lmao
Adhoc vote count started by CedeTheBees on Dec 27, 2021 at 5:58 PM, finished with 40 posts and 17 votes.
  • [X] Go to your room and study. Perfect time to get practice in for the semester!
    [X] A 13½" wand of Yew with an unknown core. It is ancient and aristocratic.
    [X] Plan: Magic Nerd
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Occlumens
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Wanderlust
    -[X] Weasley Pride
    [X] Go to your room and "study" with your new Diary. You have secrets for it, and maybe it has secrets for you.
    [X] Figure out what The Twins are up to today. Prepare counter measures.
    [X] Go check on Dad in his workshop and make sure that 'car' thing doesn't fly away.
    [X] A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.
    [X] Go catch up to Percy and ask him for help sending a letter back to Bill.
    [X] A runed 11" wand of Blackthorn with a dragon heartstring core. It reads "if nothing else, human."
    [X]Plan: potential kid
    -[X] Wandless Acolyte
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Prophetic
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Occlumens
    -[X] reduced abillity score - flying
    -[X] Weasley Pride
    -[X] Egyptian Curse
    -[X] Misanthrope
    -[X] Wanderlust
    -[X] Active Runes
    -[X] reduced ability score - flying
    [X] Go meet Harry and Ron out in the fields. Harry shouldn't have to be the one degnoming…
    [x] Plan weird child
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Prophetic
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Quibbles
    -[X] Broken Shield
    -[X] Opposed Wand
    [X] Plan Traveler
    -[X] Egyptian Spells
    -[X] One with the Wind
    -[X] Wanderlust
    -[X] Quibbles
    [X] Plan Hidden Depths
    -[X] Egyptian Spells
    -[X] Wandless Acolyte
    -[X] Occlumens
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Weasley Pride
    -[X] Opposed Wand
    -[X] Egyptian Curse
    -[X] Misanthrope
    [X] Go see what Mum is up to, and figure out whatever chores she has planned for you today.
    [X] Plan: Sharp mind
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Occlumens
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Wanderlust
    [X] Plan (Un)Lucky Sevens
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Prophetic
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Negative Impressions
    -[X] Egyptian Curse
    -[X] Leadfooted
    [X] A 12¾" wand of Walnut with a dragon heartstring core. It draws from absolute devotion.
    [X] Plan Egyptian Magic
    -[X] Egyptian Spells
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Misanthrope
    [X] Plan: Tempest
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Egyptian Spells
    -[X] Occlumens
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Weasley Pride
    -[X] Egyptian Curse
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Quibbles
    [X] Plan Wandless Wanderer
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Egyptian Spells
    -[X] Active Runes
    -[X] Wandless Acolyte
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Wanderlust
    -[X] Weasley Pride
    -[X] Opposed Wand
    [X] Plan Subtle Power
    -[X] Eidetic Memory
    -[X] Seventh Child
    -[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
    -[X] Wanderlust
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Yeah I suppose so, and upon rereading the update I misread how the Weasley Pride works, and it won't force us into fights, so I think I'm going to swap to your trait plan. I still want to go for the 9" wand for the "power without boasting about it" thing, just to rub it in the faces of all those families that spout about their blood purity at every chance they get.

[X] A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.

[X] Figure out what The Twins are up to today. Prepare counter measures.

[X] Plan: Magic Nerd
-[X] Eidetic Memory
-[X] Seventh Child
-[X] Occlumens
-[X] Decrease Ability Score (flying)
-[X] Wanderlust
-[X] Weasley Pride
 
[X] Go to your room and "study" with your new Diary. You have secrets for it, and maybe it has secrets for you.
[X] A 13½" wand of Yew with an unknown core. It is ancient and aristocratic.
[X]Plan: potential kid
 
[X] A 13½" wand of Yew with an unknown core. It is ancient and aristocratic.

[X] Plan: Magic Nerd

[X] Figure out what The Twins are up to today. Prepare counter measures.
 
Advocating for the unpicked options again: I'm surprised to see no interest in the "[] A 12¾" wand of Walnut with a dragon heartstring core. It draws from absolute devotion" wand. It is one of the more straight forward wands to figure out the owner of and fits well for those who want to become Dark Lady Ginny.

There's no formal bounty on figuring out who the wands belong to, but I'll note that they all belong to canon characters who have interesting interactions with Ginny and the Diary.
 
While having eidetic memory and being a natural occlument is both very cool and practical, it feels a bit boring in a narrative way to me. Just a bit too perfect in terms of mind, for an eleven years old girl. I propose having some good old "booo, dark" fun instead or pushing our family connection.

[X]Plan Omen
-[X] Seventh Child
-[X] Misanthrope
-[X] Decrease ability score: Flying
-[X] Second affinity: Dark Arts

[X]Plan Seventh Wesley
-[X] Seventh Child
-[X] Weasley Pride
-[X] Decrease ability score: Flying
-[X] Egyptian Spells
 
Gonna make some guesses about who owns what wand:
Guiding Bolt said:
A 12¾" wand of Walnut with a dragon heartstring core. It draws from absolute devotion.
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Definitely Bellatrix.
Guiding Bolt said:
A runed 11" wand of Blackthorn with a dragon heartstring core. It reads "if nothing else, human."
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No clue.
Guiding Bolt said:
A 13½" wand of Yew with an unknown core. It is ancient and aristocratic.
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Possibly Voldemort himself? I know his canon wand is 13" and Yew at least. The unknown core bit is throwing me off since we know his was phoenix feather. Possibly Malfoy, though I highly doubt it since he probably wasn't convicted.
Guiding Bolt said:
A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.
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My gut is saying Sirius. Apple and Phoenix Feather feels too friendly for a real Death Eater.
 
[X] Go to your room and "study" with your new Diary. You have secrets for it, and maybe it has secrets for you.
[X] A 12¾" wand of Walnut with a dragon heartstring core. It draws from absolute devotion.
[X] Plan: Magic Nerd
 
CedeTheBees said:
No clue.
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No, idea either, but it's a pretty good assumption that they were very prejudiced against non-humans.
CedeTheBees said:
Possibly Voldemort himself? I know his canon wand is 13" and Yew at least.
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Maybe, but as much as he was tied to the ideas of aristocracy with the death eaters, Riddle himself doesn't particularly strike me as Aristocratic. While he is descended from the Gaunt family he's a half-blood by their own definition, and was raised in a non-magical orphanage.
CedeTheBees said:
My gut is saying Sirius. Apple and Phoenix Feather feels too friendly for a real Death Eater.
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I'm thinking no here. Not boasting doesn't seem like it fits with all the pranks the Marauders pulled on people.
 
7th Hex said:
No, idea either, but it's a pretty good assumption that they were very prejudiced against non-humans.
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Oo. This is a completely valid reading of the wand's inscription, but it is not the intention of the inscription. It is more of a self-deprecative message than a statement on non-human individuals.

CedeTheBees said:
Gonna make some guesses about who owns what wand:
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You have the obvious one right. The other ones you have good ideas on, but not the correct final guess. I probably won't comment more on this until the vote's over, but I appreciate the engagement.


The vote will stay open until 2:00 PM CST (12/28/2021). From there, we'll wrap up the prologue and get on to Hogwarts.
 
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Looked up wand woods to try and figure out the owners based on the compatible personalities described, and apparently canon!Ginny and Voldy both used Yew wands. Which makes me wanna drop the Yew one now tbh
 
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[X] Plan Looney Tunes
-[X] Positive Impressions
-[X] Egyptian Spells
-[X] Prophetic
-[X] Short Attention
-[X] Broken Shield
-[X] Quibbles
 
[X] Figure out what The Twins are up to today. Prepare counter measures.
[x] A 12¾" wand of Walnut with a dragon heartstring core. It draws from absolute devotion.
[X] Plan: Magic Nerd
 
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CedeTheBees said:
Looked up wand woods to try and figure out the owners based on the compatible personalities described, and apparently canon!Ginny and Voldy both used Yew wands. Just makes me wanna go with the Yew one even harder now tbh
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Fair, but it makes me all the more hopeful that Apple will catch up. Just for a little bit of difference to go with the changes so far.

Also, these wand don't actually have to come from death eaters. Wizards who died in the war is the only qualifier. The reason that the Apple and Pheonix seems too happy to be from a death eater may just be that it didn't come from a death eater, but someone on the other side. If we want to not link ourselves to the death eaters, that may be the wand to go with.

Looking at it again, it seems like we have two wands from each side of the war:
On Voldemort's side we've got Bellatrix, and the aristocratic wand, which screams stuck up old pureblood family.

On the other side we've got the power without boast wand, which feels more like someone who wouldn't put too much weight in their blood, but has a long family they were proud of anyway, and the self-depreciating "human" wand which sounds like came from a muggle-born or someone who didn't have very much to them that mattered is the wizarding world.
 
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CedeTheBees said:
Possibly Voldemort himself? I know his canon wand is 13" and Yew at least. The unknown core bit is throwing me off since we know his was phoenix feather. Possibly Malfoy, though I highly doubt it since he probably wasn't convicted.
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this one is from the discription ancient so it's likely a wand passed down through a family. so it's probebly a sacred 28 pureblood who died or went to azcaban
 
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The program, put in place by Barty Crouch Sr., is meant to re-home the wands of wizards that have died during the course of the war or to re-home the wands of individuals imprisoned on life sentences in Azkaban.
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Somehow didn't see this bit. Totally thought they were all just confiscated from Azkaban. That changes things, and I'm 100% switching to Apple. Which I'm gonna guess belonged to Lily.
 
7th Hex said:
The reason that the Apple and Pheonix seems to happy to be a death eater may just be that it didn't come from a death eater, but someone on the other side. If we want to not tie ourselves to the death eaters, that may be the wand to go with.
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I'm convinced.

[X] A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.
[X] Go to your room and study. Perfect time to get practice in for the semester!
[X] Plan: Magic Nerd
 
[X] Plan: Magic Nerd

[X] Figure out what The Twins are up to today. Prepare counter measures.

[X] A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.
 
I honestly think it would be interesting to take the Quibbles option to see how that would go. Granted that and positive impression could be an interesting combination.
 
[X] A 9" wand of Apple with a phoenix feather core. It is proud, and needs not boast its power.
[X] Go to your room and study. Perfect time to get practice in for the semester!

[X] Plan: Sharp mind

Not a fan of wanderlust since we would be staying in Hogwarts for 7 years so who knows how bad Ginny's mental health by the end of Christmas, never mind the end of the year and with Riddle's diary playing havoc with her mind unless she can do worldwide apparition in a hurry and freedom to leave which ha unlikely over her parents and teacher's objections.
 
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Jrin said:
Not a fan of wanderlust since we would be staying in Hogwarts for 7 years so who knows how bad Ginny's mental health by the end of Christmas,
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According to the author (on discord) we would have opportunities to keep it in bay with stuff like trips to the forest and deep lake, the eygptian trip planned soon will also reduce it for a long time.
 
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