1)While his name would be up there, who knows what other interesting things we would pick up from properly observing him
2)How is this in anyway revealing we have Mage Sight?
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2)How is this in anyway revealing we have Mage Sight?
Harry saying: Mage Sight in front of people.
We still haven't practiced using the abilities silently, I believe.
Or is it activated by thought?
We are saying a lot of things. Very quickly even, we are a spell machine gun. They could very easily miss the Mage Sight, and even if they do pick up on that, don't know what it does beyond the very obvious bits (which is only a small part of it).
We already did this in the update and it was missed. How else would we have seen that he's a Traitorous Rat Animagus.
By looking at the name tag above it.
If we used the mage sight on the rat we'd have seen something like this:
[Wormtail, Traitorous Rat Animagus, lvl ??]
HP: ??
MP: ??
Abilities: ??
Traits: ??
Relationship:??
Like it did for Fawkes:
What use is it learning Pettigrews HP and MP after he's captured?
Relationship will be bad.
Abilities: animagus
trait: coward
If we had gotten his backstory from using it, I'd be OK, but we're not really getting any useful info. Could be that it says that he's a death eater, but that will be revealed anyway...
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Regardless, if we can't see his level then we won't be able to see his stats, I think. The GM can probably just ignore that part. It's kind of late to actually change the vote.
We are able to do it now since Write is a 1st level spell and Harry knows it. That said I don't know if I trust Hagrid not to blab about something like that.
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Yeah, Hagrid leaks information like a leaky pensieve.
That's likely the best way of helping others learn and improve skills faster. I doubt that others will be able to use skill books even if they are in the party.
You know, I just thought of something rather amusing (to me, at least). Considering how Snape did his whole celebrity rant to Harry in canon when he didn't really do anything up to that point, I can't imagine what he'll say this time.
"Harry Potter. I suppose merely killing the dark lord as a baby just wasn't good enough for you. No, instead you couldn't be satisfied coming to your first day at Hogwarts without first revealing the plot of a traitor who we now know framed Sirius Black, getting additional training from a great ex-auror, learning years of spells in advance, and inventing your own spells. Well, for your arrogance, I'll just be taking infinite points from Gryffindor."
"Harry Potter. I suppose merely killing the dark lord as a baby just wasn't good enough for you. No, instead you couldn't be satisfied coming to your first day at Hogwarts without first revealing the plot of a traitor who we now know framed Sirius Black, getting additional training from a great ex-auror, learning years of spells in advance, and inventing your own spells. Well, for your arrogance, I'll just be taking infinite points from Gryffindor."
Harry: "Not to worry Professor with my ridiculously OP abilities I will be able to get and infinity of points from the other teachers which will mean I will break even."
And this is the story of how Severus Snape spontaneously combusted.:lol
True but I suspect our escapade and the resulting boost in Harry's fame will undo a lot of that good will. Not to mention that this will get Sirius Black out of Azbacan. He and Snape do not have a pleasant history together.
I think he'd care more that the traitorous rat who was actually responsible for selling out the woman he has true, pure love for even a decade after her death was captured and brought to justice.
Oh he'd care about that too of course... but Snape is ultimately a very petty person who has never been able to move on beyond the (positive and negative) emotional associations of his school days. Thus I do not think Sirius Black becoming a part of Harry's life bodes well for maintaining pace with the Heroic Slimy GitTM.
Just don't have the two interact with any degree of frequency. I think that should be manageable, given most of our interactions with Sirius will be personal and in our off time while the other will be at school.
Wonder if Snape shows as evil? He certainly has done acts which would mark him as evil, but its possible his job as a spy for Dumbledore might have brought him to some degree of neutral?
Quirrel almost certainly shows as evil. Wonder if we should use Detect Evil during sorting. Would certainly be revealing (and win or lose, after Pettigrew we certainly have IC justification for paranoia).
So some good, some ill.
Snapes reaction will probably also depend a lot on how Harry spins it. I mean if we give good reason for the special Moody training and gives lots of the credit to Moody (and I figure Moody does deserve that, Gamer or no), Snape is less likely to react poorly.
Having mastered all possible potions up to 3rd year and having taken his advice will also hopefully impress him slightly.
Don't really know what would be the best approach with Snape? Don't really want him as an enemy, but not sure I trust him as an ally either.
Probably also depends a lot on Harrys actions.
For example, if we learn that Sirius tried to kill Snape using Remus as a murder weapon, and then seriously rebuke Sirius for that (I mean lets face it, WTF! Thats the way to start showing up on Detect Evil), Snape might be impressed. On the other hand, we could also point to Snape that a decade in Azkaban with Dementors is certainly punishment enough and that Snape does not necessarily hold the moral high ground given HIS actions.
Ultimately those two will never be friends, but we can try to act mature and try to foster atleast a pact of non-aggression. Though this might alienate Sirius so dunno.
Quirrel almost certainly shows as evil. Wonder if we should use Detect Evil during sorting. Would certainly be revealing (and win or lose, after Pettigrew we certainly have IC justification for paranoia).
So some good, some ill.
Snapes reaction will probably also depend a lot on how Harry spins it. I mean if we give good reason for the special Moody training and gives lots of the credit to Moody (and I figure Moody does deserve that, Gamer or no), Snape is less likely to react poorly.
Having mastered all possible potions up to 3rd year and having taken his advice will also hopefully impress him slightly.
Don't really know what would be the best approach with Snape? Don't really want him as an enemy, but not sure I trust him as an ally either.
Probably also depends a lot on Harrys actions.
For example, if we learn that Sirius tried to kill Snape using Remus as a murder weapon, and then seriously rebuke Sirius for that (I mean lets face it, WTF! Thats the way to start showing up on Detect Evil), Snape might be impressed. On the other hand, we could also point to Snape that a decade in Azkaban with Dementors is certainly punishment enough and that Snape does not necessarily hold the moral high ground given HIS actions.
Ultimately those two will never be friends, but we can try to act mature and try to foster atleast a pact of non-aggression. Though this might alienate Sirius so dunno.
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If we somehow managed to get him as an ally, probably by playing up being Lilly's son and perhaps allowing him to "discover" the similarities between Harry's childhood and his own I think we can trust him implicitly. His obsessive nature would make him quite reliable.
The thing is Snape was NOT innocent; I don't trust any memory that was left laying out in a pensieve for Harry to find. (How convenient! The singular MOST private person in the tale leaves out memories for Harry to find... That can't be a setup! /sarcasm)
We also know that memories can be edited by a skilled occlumens... Or at least are not viable in court so...
Frankly I want to know what Snape did to EARN that sort of treatment. Also, Snape was directly responsible for Harry being an orphan in the first place by telling Voldemort the bloody prophecy. Why the fuck we'd trust anything from him other than potions instructions is beyond me.
We also know that memories can be edited by a skilled occlumens... Or at least are not viable in court so...
Frankly I want to know what Snape did to EARN that sort of treatment. Also, Snape was directly responsible for Harry being an orphan in the first place by telling Voldemort the bloody prophecy. Why the fuck we'd trust anything from him other than potions instructions is beyond me.
Snape should be True Neutral, I think. He's not the nicest person in the world by a long shot, but he has pure true love for a person and he doesn't believe in the pureblood nonsense. At worst he'll glow slightly evil, though the Dark Mark will likely glow as well.
Quirrel will burn like a fucking evil sun of pure red evil fire, given he's a Horcrux.
So some good, some ill.
Snapes reaction will probably also depend a lot on how Harry spins it. I mean if we give good reason for the special Moody training and gives lots of the credit to Moody (and I figure Moody does deserve that, Gamer or no), Snape is less likely to react poorly.
Having mastered all possible potions up to 3rd year and having taken his advice will also hopefully impress him slightly.
Don't really know what would be the best approach with Snape? Don't really want him as an enemy, but not sure I trust him as an ally either.
I agree that humility is the word of the day in regards to claiming credit for this. Don't be a pompous jackass like Lockhart and we should be ok. Also just continue to act more like Lily than James when he's around.
He was an unpopular greasy kid who was in Slytherin and had a fascination for the dark arts. More than enough for a bunch of quintessential Griffendors like the Marauders to pick on him IMO, especially someone with Sirius' history (breaking from his family etc..) and poor impulse control. Things like that tend to be self-reinforcing too...
This is also the same general time frame that the DE's were heavily recruiting in Hogwarts. People like Lucius Malfoy and SEVERUS SNAPE to name examples. Their world was a warzone and Snape frankly fell under the title enemy combatant quite willingly.
So yeah. My sympathy is in the dictionary between shit and syphilis especially for anyone named Severus Snape.
This implies the victims of bullying do something to earn what is done to them. Basically it comes down to a combination of a bad first meeting (Snape wanted to be in Slytherin, which James did not like) and the fact that Severus and Lily where good friends while James had a huge crush on her. (he was super jealous) Severus was also a studious introvert with few close friends and James was an extroverted, arrogant jock with a whole gang of friends, which made the bullying quite easy.
It's debatable whether Snape would have become a Death Eater at all had it not been for James bullying him and subsequently causing the incident that ended Snape's friendship with Lily. Severus's role in the Harry Potter story is that of a tragic figure - a few changes of circumstances and he'd have been in a very different place.