FATE OF HARRY'S TEACHERS: Quirrell - breakdown (still went on trip to Albania, came back and took up DADA) Lockheart - hermoine ousted him / got him fired Lupin - got snaped (aka snape is a d**k and revealed his werewolf status) Fake! Moody (Barty) - barty still came to hogwarts, intending to kill HARRY POTTER. still believed voldy was alive, despite any proof. harry end-of-yeared him. Moody - stuck in trunk for a year. not happy. Umbrdige - public opinion got her fired, after fudge was thrown from office and replaced by amelia bones. brought to hogwarts after fake!moody was discouvered, to "observe and correct" the school. no inquisitorial squad, no torture of students, dumbledore never left the school. there was still a dumbledore's army, but waaaay more lighthearted in nature. educational decrees (last part of year) backed by fudge, very unpopular with students (and the parents they complained to) lucius malfoy dropped support of fudge by christmas, decrees rolled in by february as a last ditch effort. lucius comes out against fudge by march/april, and is suuuuper popular in the papers for his "brave stance" "Lucius Malfoy: foxy father fights for freedom from fanatics!" Snape - resolution with harry ("I loved your mother, therefore you cannot blame me for being a d**k!") and quit at the end of the year. snape made a promise (to lily's grave, and dumbledore) to look after harry (HAH) until he turned of age. harry turned of age over the summer before 7th year, so snape never came back to school. went off to make potions in peace, FAR AWAY from school children. Actual Moody - still retired, not dead, bored. harry went to stay a grimmauld place over the summer (with not dead sirius) and met moody, who was one of several ex-order of phoenix members coming in and out of the place all summer. moody was disgusted at the state of DADA classes, and decided to deal with that s**t personally for one year. got fed up by the end of the year, and quit.
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STRUCTURE - the anchoring events
YEAR 1 intro year 1 everyone getting settled on train. NO PLATFORM BIT. train's already in motion when we open. one or both of Andy and I's character is already with the NPC in their compartment. 1.1 train (sept 1)
cutscene sorting, prophecy, death (prophecy could/ should sort of like the sorting hat songs?)
1.2 first event; regarding to prophecy (may) last full day before end of term (train to take them home is next day) the kids are enjoying their last day together, hanging out. anyone who fell out during the year (because of where they were sorted, or anything out that was plotted in the ooc) can have a confrontation, to settle things or make things worse. kids can show how they feel about going home: dreading it, looking forward to it, that sort of thing. and then the prophecy event happens, just as everyone was finally convinced that the prophecy stuff was bunk (nothing else of interest having happened during the school year)
cutscene wraps up year 1. fawkes dies (unknown to them, this is an omen of the prophecy) everyone thinks he's dead dead. the natural order has been upset, and his death is symbolic. "But soon the flames will fade and only Dark will remain."
* discuss how people have reacted to being in different houses (they bonded on the train. how have their houses affected how they interact/ regard each other) * do they still think about the start of term death? if so, why did it stick out to them so much? (remember: kids are resilient, and if they are still worried about what happened at the start of term to an almost-stranger, give us a reason why!) * did the prophecy really catch their attention? why? do they love divination? are they too curious for their own good?
YEAR 2 cutscene: "A year after the unusual death, the case has been closed" Within first week of school, prophet paper is delivered at breakfast. announces that case has been officially closed. cause of death due to existing condition, ruled accidental (does this spark curiosity from any characters? do they even care?)
intro to year 2 opens a few days after halloween, details the final cleanup from a halloween prank. a weekend. (offer to let one or more player-characters be involved with the prank)
2.1 storm is blowing in / has blown in. there is snow everywhere (earlier in the year than expected) and kids are psyched to go play in the first snowfall of the year. for some reason... the ceiling in the great hall isn't showing the storm / snow, though. it seems to be malfunctioning, which is... peculiar, isn't it? from that day on, the great hall rarely shows the correct weather, and when it does it's like a fluke (like a broken clock that's right twice a day)
2.2 in late april/ may. open to the last ten minutes of a history of magic class (only 2 houses present) where binns is on the topic of the "true dragon" and a few references to it throughout history. the other 2 houses are on a free period, right after their own HoM class that just ended (and went over the same material) so all 2nd years just heard about the same stuff. once the second class let's out (it's now lunchtime) the prophecy event for year 3 happens. the students don't really have much more time to pay attention to what binns said (if it even interested them in the first place) and go off to play heroes, or whatever.
YEAR 3 3.1 suit of armour incident. everyone (including McG) think it's another halloween prank, at first. it's not. 3.2
YEAR 4 4.1 away tri-wizard tournament for 17+ 4.1 inter-house tournament takes place (only 2nd iteration); the first one (four years ago) went really badly.
YEAR 5 5.1 maybe the train again, if anyone made prefect. 5. 2 or ? dance?
YEAR 6 - the year of the evil DADA teacher (when they 'defeat' the teacher, they think they have solved the problem?) 6.1 a NEWT-level history of magic class, that all of them have taken (even if their scores were only, like, an A) because it lets all of them be together, in the same class. it also lets them keep an ear open for any more references to the "true dragon" from binns (who is frustratingly tight-lipped outside of class/ doesn't even respond to them, like he doesn't know that they're there) maybe binns starts to mention something, but disappears before he can finish (the magic sustaining his ghostly form was absorbed to prevent him from talking... not that the students know that)
YEAR 7 7.1
7.? fawkes regenerates from the ashes that dumbles keeps in his office. it's unexpected, and symbolic of them completing the propechy, or closing in on their destiny
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 12:24 am
tri-wizard (harry graduated the 1997/1998 year; 8th year would have been 1998/1999)
harry's 4th year (hogwarts) (1994/1995 school year)
harry's 8th year (1998/1990 school year) (durmstrang)
2002/2003 school year (beauxbatons) - our kiddies 4th year
2006/2007 school year (back at hogwarts)
2010/2011 (away)
-------- Original Year of Start: 2001/02 (4? years post harry potter)
Our kiddies: 1st year: 1998/1999 <- would be the year after harry. want to put a year between. 2nd year: 1999/2000 3rd year: 2000/2001 4th year: 2001/2002 5th year: 2002/2003 6th year: 2003/2004 7th year: 2004/2005
TIMELINE OF EVENTS 1943 - chamber of secrets opened by tom riddle 1943 - myrtle warren killed by "monster", hagrid sent to azkaban 1943 - tom riddle fails to learn how to make a horcrux 1981 - voldemort attacks the potters, and is vanquished 1981 - harry potter hailed as the boy who lived 1990 - muggle studies professor quirrell takes a year sabbatical from hogwarts to travel to albania 1991/92 - harry potter starts hogwarts 1991/92 - professor quirrell returns from albania (not possessed) to become the DADA teacher 1991/92 - troll gets in at halloween due to error when updating castle wards. hermione almost squished. golden trio friendship blooms 1991/92 - quirrel quits as DADA professor after nervous breakdown 1992/93 - harry potter’s 2nd year 1992/93 - professor lockheart revealed to be a fraud by hermione 1992/93 - the chamber of secrets is not opened 1993/94 - harry potter’s 3rd year 1993/94 - sirius black escapes from azkaban; ministry posts dementors at hogwarts 1993/94 - pettigrew is revealed to be the traitor but escapes. sirius' name not cleared 1993/94 - lupin quits as DADA professor after being outed as a werewolf 1994/95 - harry potter’s 4th year 1994/95 - the tri-wizard tournament comes to hogwarts. cedric chosen as hogwarts champion; wins competition 1994/95 - barty crouch jr. impersonates mad-eye moody as DADA professor. makes several attempts on harry's life before being discovered. 1995/96 - harry potter’s 5th year. 1995/96 - ministry interference at hogwarts (using crouch jr. as an excuse) appoints umbridge as DADA professor 1995/96 - DA created because umbridge is a horrid teacher. is an actual club, done in "rebellion" to umbitch 1995/96 - umbridge fired by board of governors, spearheaded by lucius malfoy 1995/96 - minister fudge loses office 1996/97 - harry potter’s 6th year 1996/97 - flagship weasleys' wizard wheezes store opens in diagon alley 1996/97 - madam amelia bones becomes the new minister for magic 1996/97 - horace slughorn coaxed out of retirement to take over as potions professor 1996/97 - snape becomes the DADA professor. quits at the end of the year, leaving hogwarts behind 1997/98 - harry potter’s 7th year 1997/98 - actual moody becomes DADA professor for year. avoids the curse of the DADA position by signing a 1-year-only contract ahead of time 1998/99 - tri-wizard tournament takes place at durmstrang 1999/00 - our kiddies 1st year at hogwarts! 2000/01 - our kiddies 2nd year 2001/02 - our kiddies 3rd year 2002/03 - our kiddies 4th year. tri-wizard tournament at beauxbatons 2003/04 - our kiddies 5th year 2004/05 - our kiddies 6th year 2005/06 - our kiddies 7th year
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WEIRD EVENTS IN THE CASTLE
* homicidal suits of amour. only one at first, and then a few days later, all of the suits of armour start attacking people. McG ends up pulling out some badass transfiguration (ala the final battle that never happened) to protect the students.
* they all get corralled into the great hall because REASON (something has gone to hell; maybe the suits?) and the kids are outside of the hall for some reason. some sneak out? some are being protected by McG, stuck in the hallways. one was using the loo? (or a group of girls)
* the weather in the great hall stops reflecting the weather outside. don’t make a big deal out of it IC, at least not the first time it happens (ex: stormy as all hell, when it’s sinner outside)
* the malevolent thing under the school is trying to kill them (more as the years go by) but maybe the wards will occasionally kick in properly to try and save them? a few instances of the castle coming to their defence, instead of trying to off them.
* 5th/6th students are disappearing. at first, they think it might be a vanishing cabinet, but as more students disappear (or after a sufficient length of time, or once break rolls around) they call in the aurors. OUR CHARACTERS TO THE RESCUE?
* get stuck in their common rooms.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 12:55 am
SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE CHARACTERISTICS (mutually exclusive) * no seer; the evil thing killed the only seer in the group * no vampires or half-vampires, or anything. no
* top of the year * metamorphmagus * parseltongue * werewolf * veela / part veela * empath * other half-human * practically a squib * legilimens * harry potter levels of willpower (ie: strong willed enough to throw off imperius, wilful) * naturally gifted - wandless magic, silent spell casting, natural occlumens, spell crafting.
POSITIONS IN HOGWARTS * prefect / head boy or girl * quidditch player * * *
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OVERARCHING PLOT mark 1 hogwarts on magical s**t-storm, which is about to explode. it is absorbing magic and reaching its limit.
mark 2 magic creature that is absorbing magic passively, and then started hunting magic down actively. it makes you weaker, and then NOMS. it was born by an impossible sequence of events, which is drawing near again.
"a true dragon" (wreaking a path of destruction across the world)
hunted by a multi-national group destroyed but the essence absorbed into the earth. it died, but it was A LOT of magic, and that leaves an impact on things.
the spot has slowly been attracting and absorbing magic since. for a long time, it was ONLY attracting magic to it. after ENOUGH time, it started to absorb magic, slowly at first and then ramping up. (which explains the large, very magical forest that grew nearby) founders of hogwarts found a random "MAGICAL HOTSPOT" (it has been attracting magic, yes, but also attracting creatures and people OF/ WHO HAVE magic. the founders weren't immune) decided to build hogwarts on/ around the magical hotspot
* one of the scenes from the role-play has to be the kids in history of magic, learning about the true dragon. * quidditch game gone terribly wrong: during a quidditch game, all the brooms suddenly lose their magic. at the same time. foreshadowed by some brooms acting a bit twitchy/ off, and then one broom loses power. and then a moment of peace. and then drop them all (its the true dragon stealing their magic)
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:32 am
TO DO LIST:
* Profile and Reserve Skeletons * Threat Graphics * Write the Prophecy
PLOT POINTS TO DO:
First Year: ( event one ) chill; Train -- followed by sorting death ( event two ) action; Last Full Day of Term / Prophesy Event / Fawkes Death
Second Year: ( event one ) chill; Post Halloween Prank / Great Hall Ceiling / Storm? ( event two ) action; History of Magic Class / Info on True Dragon
Third Year: ( event one ) action; Halloween Suits of Armour "Prank" ( event two ) chill / action; Hogsmeade
Fourth Year: ( event one ) chill / action; Winter Formal During the Break -- something happens with stars ( event two ) action; Dark Forest - We're going on an adventure / Detention ** interpersonal blowout
Fifth Year: **YOU CAN NOT IGNORE THIS ANY MORE** ( event one ) action; Quidditch Game -- things drop out of sky ( event two ) action; Trapped in Common Rooms / School Trying to Kill Them -- over holidays? during class? early morning? ** house of horrors ** early morning herbology ** multipul leaving but only PC makes it out, portrait slams ** Ravenclaw impossible riddle / Slythering password in Parsletongue / FL Can Not be Awoken / Huff Doorhandle Disappears ** prefect rounds ** happens immediately after new wards / hard suspicion on Ministry Rep / 6Y DADA ( event three ) chill; OMG Something Going On -- overhear 5Y DADA and 6Y DADA fighting
Sixth Year: ( event one ) chill; Mandatory History of Magic Class / Planning -- followed by Bins Disappearing ( event two ) action; Event that Implicates DADA Teachers ( event three ) action; Think They Dealt with Problem -- maybe DADA Teacher, Auror / Unspeakable friend or relative of 5Y DADA
two / three - idea of the attracting and draining of magic is dropped here ** "there was a great power here once" ** they think he is trying to absorb the power to become a dark lord ** not working for anyone, not summoning anything, just self interest
Seventh Year: ( event one ) action; Things Come out of Dark Forest ** fifth - seventh help defend, fourth years look after youngins ( event two ) chill; thy name is True Dragon, this is thy Destiny ** find portraits of ancestors ** "my bloodline ended seven years ago" / ghost of ancestor of the kid who died ** "this is not the only hidden chamber" ( event three ) action; Final Confrontation vs True Dragon ** it is killing everything magical, when defeated magic flows back out ** backlash and kill
SUMMER EVENT: Ministry Questioning -- it explains what he was doing there
Ministry Man 1 - 4 Year = Legit just doing his job 5 Year = Thing Grabs Him
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PROFILE THREADS
Banner or What Have You
Generic Information * Current Year Porfile * Background * Personality * Hobbies / Etc
Relationships
Post Per Year * Age Specific Information * Complete Years: Any information that changed
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first post (banner) coding is f'd-up in guilds, but FINE in threads
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❝ BASIC INFORMATION ❞
.FULL NAME full name .NICKNAME common nicknames. can seperate into friends, family, bullies, ect .BIRTHDAY all first years are 11/12, so date of birth is the only thing needed .GENDER male, female, ect .BLOOD muggleborn, half-blood, pureblood .WAND wood, length, core (feel free to provide links or explanation of what wood or core means)
❝ BACKGROUND ❞
in paragraph or point form. please don't go on forever.... your character is eleven. i mean, there is a limit to how much has happened in their life so far.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 2:01 am
second post (profile; current year) coding is f'd-up in guilds, but FINE in threads
❝ FIRST YEAR ❞
.BEST CLASS one, maybe two. .OTHER TALENTS skills and abilities other than subjects .WEAKNESSES must provide at least one magical weakness .EXTRA CURRICULAR prefect, quidditch, commentator, club, pranking, "detention, hurhur"
.LIKES in list form (going down, or across with commas between) .DISLIKES in list form (going down, or across with commas between)
.PATRONUS they don't have to be able to produce it .BOGGART fear .AMORTENTIA three-five smells
.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ⇝ fun facts ⇝ quirks ⇝ extra fears? ⇝ copy/paste to add more ⇝ you don't have to have anything here
❝ APPEARANCE ❞
FACECLAIM name and link to "age appropriate" image or large gif
HEIGHT / BUILD general description (ie: tall and athletically built) HAIR length, colour, how it's worn/ style IN-CLASS STYLE in class OUT-OF-CLASS STYLE out of class
POLYVORE or other link to clothing style. completely optional.
❝ PERSONALITY ❞
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❝ SECOND YEAR ❞
N/A YET - TO BE UPDATED
❝ FIRST YEAR ❞
.BEST CLASS one, maybe two. .OTHER TALENTS skills and abilities other than subjects .WEAKNESSES must provide at least one magical weakness .EXTRA CURRICULAR prefect, quidditch, commentator, club, pranking, "detention, hurhur"
.LIKES in list form (going down, or across with commas between) .DISLIKES in list form (going down, or across with commas between)
.PATRONUS they don't have to be able to produce it .BOGGART fear .AMORTENTIA three-five smells
.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ⇝ fun facts ⇝ quirks ⇝ extra fears? ⇝ copy/paste to add more ⇝ you don't have to have anything here
❝ APPEARANCE ❞
FACECLAIM name and link to "age appropriate" image or large gif
HEIGHT / BUILD general description (ie: tall and athletically built) HAIR length, colour, how it's worn/ style IN-CLASS STYLE in class OUT-OF-CLASS STYLE out of class
POLYVORE or other link to clothing style. completely optional.
❝ PERSONALITY ❞
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