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Tale of a Shattered Soul (Potter-verse Diary Riddle quest)

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[X] Magic is the key, shine brightly, shine true and they will flock to you
 
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[X] Magic is the key, shine brightly, shine true and they will flock to you

Given we're moulding her into our minion, telling her to be TOO perceptive might be a problem if she catches onto us.
 
[X] Magic is the key, shine brightly, shine true and they will flock to you
 
[X] Magic is the key, shine brightly, shine true and they will flock to you

The write-in is alittle too busy even if I agree with it. The second option about manipulation/cunning is good except it gives away Riddles only means of influencing Ginny so much rather point her in the direction of excelling in magic to prove herself to her classmates and set her on the path of better helping Riddle get out of the book.
 
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Interlude I: An Unexpected Letter
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    • An Unexpected Letter​

    The Burrow was always much quieter with the children away, Molly Weasely thought wistfully as she sat down at the kitchen table, never quite so quiet as it was now with even Ginny away at school. The red haired witch sighed as she opened the letter in her hand, a letter from Ginny. For all the reassuring words she'd already penned Molly could not quite wrap her head around her youngest ending up in Slytheryn. She worried and fretted as she had not done since she had sent off Bill to Hogwarts years ago. As she read through her daughters words both the worry and the bemusement grew.

    "Arthur!" she yelled after her husband, to cover the noise of whatever Muggle contraption he was pocking at.

    The witch started a little when he appreciated beside her, perhaps he had let too much of her worry slip into her voice.

    "What is it Molly?" he asked pushing his glasses up his nose reflexively.

    "It's Ginny,.." she answered, unsure how to continue.

    "Did she get in trouble?" Artur prompted pulling up a chair beside her and summoning a pair of drinks.

    "I'm not sure. Listen to this: Could you please write back with which of the students on this list have families who are snobs, Death Eaters, people dad would get into a fist-fight with or all the above."

    Arthur's ears reddened at the mention of the altercation in Flourish and Blots, but he smiled nonetheless. "That seems a sensible thing to ask, in keeping with her house too," he teased. From the first he'd been more comfortable with Ginny's Sorting.

    "It's not funny," Molly retorted. "How does she even know what a Death Eater is?"

    In response she only got a silent look over the top of wire-framed spectacles. How could she not, the look clearly said.

    "She sounds so.. so unconcerned about..." the witch pressed on, aware it might not have been the most coherent reply. It was hard to put the gnawing sense of dread into words. She tried to tell herself it was just jitters truly she did. "She isn't safe Arthur... dark wizards... the children of death eaters."

    "My mother," Arthur put in dryly. "She was in Slytherin seven years through and I like to think he came out alright, what with falling in love with a "blood traitor" like father, being a loving mother and then a dotting grandmother."

    Now it was Molly's turn to blush. "It's just Ginny sounds so at ease and so suddenly too... like she has plan, I'm worried who she might fall in with."

    "Isn't her request enough to prove she's being as careful as can be?" Arthur asked gently. He only got a disgruntled sigh in return to which he replies by wordlessly taking her hand in his

    "Do you remember I told you the Hat wanted to put me in Hufflepuff?" he continued, a seemingly random thought. "I asked for Griffindor and it said I showed courage so it agreed."

    "You don't think Ginny asked for Slytherin?" the witch replied. "Her first letter was distraught."

    "I wasn't planing to ask for Griffindor either until the Hat started talking," he answered with a shrug. "You know how upset Ron was about his brothers "putting him in the shade" no matter how we tried to reassure him. Who's to say Ginny didn't feel the same?"

    "It certainly made a fuss," Molly agreed grudgingly. "And once the hat had spoken she could have panicked." She had to admit her youngest had a streak of cunning in her, she'd been sneaking her brothers' brooms out of the shed for years now and not even Fred and George had caught on.

    "So let's see that list," Arthur reached out for the letter. He smiled as he read it, even chuckling once. Then he frowned in thought: "Flora and Hestia Carrow... as pure as it gets eh?" Arthus mussed. At his wife's scandalized look he added. "Of course I wouldn't tel Ginny those rumors." Seeing her pacified he continued. "Astoria Greengrass... her father hangs around Malfoy but he's not a toady, Melifula Selwyn... they're so standoffish no one knows for sure if they even noticed You Know Who... Josephina Rowle.. can't think of anything worse than an incident involving Fire-whiskey and illegally modified brooms... I'm hardly one to judge there."

    For all her husband's words were sense and should have soothed her troubled mind Molly Weasely's dreams were dark that day and many days to come, though she never could fully remember them with the dawn.

    OOC: Thought you guys could use a break from Tom both in terms of format and character so I figured a look at Ginny's family, while also slipping in the names of her year mates would work. Poor Mrs Weasely the truth is worse then she can imagine.
     
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    • Rumors? The Gaunts were more inbred than the 2 daughters of Oedipus x500.
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    Josephina Rowle.. can't think of anything worse than an incident involving Fire-whiskey and illegally modified brooms... I'm hardly one to judge there."
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    Thorfinn Rowle never got identified as a Death Eater?

    I guess Ginny hanging out with Astoria wouldn't be too bad.

    Possibly inbred? Hmm... she could make the Carrows into her Crabb and Goyle. :evil:
     
    Flora and Hestia Carrow
    Probably the children of Amycus and Alecto Carrow, who are inbred death eaters and siblings. With what Arthur said, their parents probably weren't active during the first rise and thus no one expects them to be Death Eaters.
    Might be an easy way to some muscle that even arrives pre-corrupted.

    Astoria Greengrass
    Sister of Daphne Greengrass. Would be a possible stepping stone to get to Malfoy and Parkinson and thus their parents.
    Not sure if it's wise to provoke Lucius before we have a new body through.

    Melifula Selwyn
    Josephina Rowle
    The names ring some bells, but nothing comes to mind. Might be patsy material.
     
    Artemis1992 said:
    Thorfinn Rowle is one of the incompetent deatheaters.
    Like, loses to the kids easily and accidentaly AKs another deatheater in battle. Propably Crab/Goyle levels of stupid.
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    Well... that's what you get when you recruit only by blood, not merit.

    We should fix our ideology before we get out of the book. Ginny looks far more promising then the rest of her year so far.
     
    veekie said:
    Remember Tom himself is half blood
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    That's what always bothered me. Why did Tom adopt an ideology where he, who is obviously superior to any pureblood you can name, is considered dirt and the inbred morons that grovel before him are the pinnacle of humanity?

    Wouldn't it have made more sense to adopt a full merit ideology that says that his parents matter squat since is better in every aspect you could think of then all other wizards?
     
    Azel said:
    That's what always bothered me. Why did Tom adopt an ideology where he, who is obviously superior to any pureblood you can name, is considered dirt and the inbred morons that grovel before him are the pinnacle of humanity?

    Wouldn't it have made more sense to adopt a full merit ideology that says that his parents matter squat since is better in every aspect you could think of then all other wizards?
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    Most likely so he can use their existing prejudice to accumulate power and an easy recruitment tool. Also these inbred morons hold most of the wealth and power in Britain.
     
    Azel said:
    That's what always bothered me. Why did Tom adopt an ideology where he, who is obviously superior to any pureblood you can name, is considered dirt and the inbred morons that grovel before him are the pinnacle of humanity?

    Wouldn't it have made more sense to adopt a full merit ideology that says that his parents matter squat since is better in every aspect you could think of then all other wizards?
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    Voldemort being a half blood himself was never publicly known, and nobody dared ask or raise it in his presence. He picked the pureblood movement because it had power, connections, plenty of dissatisfaction, and was easy to manipulate.
     
    Pandering to the lowest, common belief is hardly productive in the long term. There are much cleaner ways to recruit minions with Toms insane charisma.
     
    ...it's a power grab.
    He's going to ride them to power and then who cares what they believe once he owns Wizarding Britain?

    And Tom is charismatic, but not supernaturally so. People need to have some reason to follow him. Whether the reason is utter bullshit is irrelevant so long as they believe him enough to get him into power.
     
    And he would rule over ashes and inbred morons. Not a great endgame in my opinion.
    The population of wizarding Britain is a lot smaller and more diverse then 1930s Germany.

    And you don't need supernatural charisma to manipulate people, just skill and Tom has that in spades.
    People tend flock to you if you declare them great and important, whatever the reason you give. Look at real world politics.
     
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