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Disappearing Hogwarts #4

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 29 Dec 2023 21:05:32 No.5877357 View View Reply Original Report

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In the last thread you:

> Dealt with the death of your best friend, and its consequences

> Began researching the Fifth Founder, and discovered an ancient book written by Rowena Ravenclaw herself

> Started training Occlumency, so no one can look inside your head

> Kissed the Hufflepuff and got a girlfriend

> Nearly died to a Dementor

> Got drunk with the girl living inside your head

> Met Gilderoy Lockhart and Augusta Longbottom, to varying degrees of success

> Discovered that the creature responsible for the death of your best friend is inside Scorpius Malfoy’s head

> Visited the Chamber of Secrets and learned the truth about what was buried there

> Won the final Battle of the year and looked into the Mirror of Erised, the single most eldritch artifact you’ve ever encountered

> Bought a beautiful dress for your beautiful girlfriend and took her to a nice Christmas party

And now…

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 29 Dec 2023 21:09:08 No.5877359 Report

Quoted By: >>5877360

Potter stands there waiting for your answer. You could just walk away and not talk to the Malfoys, but… Arty is safe, and if there is any time you can get a natural conversation with them, it is now.

“Fine,” you hiss at him. “Just don’t give me away.”

“I had a Slytherin son, Elliot,” Potter says. “I know how to be subtle.”

You don’t approach Draco and Scorpius directly, of course. Instead, you wait until one of the house elves is close to them, then move to get one of the small honeyed-ham rolls they’re carrying, offering one to Potter and then simply, by coincidence, staying there in close proximity to Slughorn.

“Ah, Harry, m’boy! Come on in!” Slughorn says, opening space for you two in the circle of Malfoy suck-ups. “We were just discussing your old colleague’s new philanthropic projects! He’s quite a busy man!”

“Yes, the Malfoys have always had a large position in the wizarding world’s politics, and it is quite time we give back to the people who’ve done so much for us,” Draco says, stroking his goatee. “After our… despicable participation during the last war, the name Malfoy has been tainted. Along with the Headmistress, we helped change what was poisoning the Slytherin house, so that it was no longer built on the hate for muggleborns. I intend to do the same for our name’s reputation. Green has always been associated with Slytherin, cunning, the Malfoys and the Killing Curse. Yet silver is also a Slytherin color, the color of the Patronus. We should never have allowed ourselves to be defined by only one of them.”

You don’t know if the speech was prepared and Draco is a good actor, but to your best ability to judge, he truly believes what he’s saying. His tone is entrancing and the whole circle, except for Potter, hangs on to his every word.

“Once the issue with the missing student is resolved, we can once more focus our attention on it. We shall use the Christmas break to scour the entirety of the school looking for him, from top to bottom. Professor Potter will even help us get into the Chamber of Secrets itself, if the boy has somehow managed to find his way there.”

“I’ve checked it already, of course,” Potter says, firmly. Yet you can feel the hint of doubt, as if he doesn’t quite believe the lie he’s telling. The Slytherin in him is not perfect. “The last time a student disappeared, she was taken there. But all I found was the great skeleton of a snake. The great network of pipes, however, is a much greater issue, and if he’s somehow found a way to hide himself from the School’s detection enchantments, then the only way of finding him is to search inch by inch. Malfoy’s men will be of great aid.”

“So has there really been no development?” You ask, in the tone of voice a teenager whose friend is missing would ask. “I can’t think what would make Taylor just vanish like that. Even if he decided to leave…”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 29 Dec 2023 21:10:10 No.5877360 Report

Quoted By: >>5877370 >>5877372 >>5877407 >>5877419 >>5877431 >>5877458 >>5877465 >>5877503 >>5877674

>>5877359

“That’s what makes it so mysterious. We’d know if he’d left through any of the known secret passages, or flying. Apparition and portkeys obviously don’t work,” Draco says. “The reason Potter’s wife’s disappearance was difficult to solve back then was because the basilisk was tied to Slytherin’s credentials within the Castle, so it could come and go as it pleased. With it dead… Well, the number of creatures that could accomplish the same has gone to zero, as far as we’re aware. Even the Headmistress would leave an obvious and unremovable mark in the records.”

“We could attempt to use some stranger artifacts, if all else fails,” Scorpius suggests, looking at his father.

“Dark artifacts, which our family has taken upon ourselves to contain,” Draco says, sternly. “And which are properly registered with the Ministry. I would not dare to touch any of them, much less bring them into the school.”

“Artifacts which could be used safely,” Scorpius answers, perhaps with just a tinge too much annoyance. “Once the children are away.”

“Unfortunately,” the senior Malfoy says firmly, looking at his son with severity. “There are children who remain here for the holidays, so that will not. Be. Happening.”

Huh. That was an odd interaction, you think. Either the Malfoys are playing a part… or they’re not as well aligned as I thought.

“But those are dark matters which are better discussed in offices and gloomier places,” Draco says, making it clear the subject is settled. “There are greater and better things to discuss in such a party other than these grim matters. How are the Potion classes, Professor Slughorn? Any as brilliant as my Scorpius?”

“Ah, young Elliot here is showing great promise! I’m sure you’ve seen his battle?”

And so they start talking about the Battle Classes, only once wondering how Potter had managed to create the semblance of so many inferi, to which he only replies “with great difficulty” and laughs. Scorpius seems angry for only a moment, before his face goes back to being polite, smiling and nodding along with his father.

> Move the conversation to a new topic (What topic?)
> Try to get Scorpius away to talk in private (About what?)
> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 29 Dec 2023 21:28:36 No.5877370 Report

Quoted By: >>5877372

>>5877360
>> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
don't think we'll be able to get more info without being too suspicious

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KybMZryU Fri 29 Dec 2023 21:34:25 No.5877372 Report

Quoted By: >>5877419

>>5877360
>Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
>>5877370 yeah, im thinkig the same, if anything, we learn that the Malfoys arent exactly on the same team, that means cocksucker is on its own so far, for now lets just go back to our miniwaifu and have a lovely time, after all thebullshit we´ve gone through we really deserve it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Fri 29 Dec 2023 22:32:25 No.5877407 Report

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>>5877360
>> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Fri 29 Dec 2023 22:46:56 No.5877419 Report

Quoted By: >>5877529

>>5877372
I think the next step would be to divide Scorpius and Cocksucker. Obviously we know he’s alive, but when he calls us out perhaps we can act as if we think he already killed Scorpius? And possibly list off everything he did to Lily, although obviously don’t mention her name.
If Scorpius isn’t a bad person, or just not naive, then it can help isolate Cocksucker further.
>>5877360
> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
Obviously keep the conversation going for a little while though.
Speaking of which, should we tell Potter that we didn’t actually come here to speak to the Malfoys? Or should we let him be confused on how we barely prodded them for information?

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Anonymous ID:uKW2A/oy Fri 29 Dec 2023 22:56:39 No.5877431 Report

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>>5877360
> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
Okay so we probably don't have to worry about Draco being an evil bastard. Probably.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Sat 30 Dec 2023 00:01:43 No.5877458 Report

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>>5877360
> Try to get Scorpius away to talk in private (Ask about those artifacts, in the way a curious guy obsessed with ancient magic and such might do)
Good way to understand what exactly he's playing with and/or at.

Also... Didn't Potter tell us Voldemort killed the basilisk years and years ago? If so, then Draco Malfoy's understanding of how Ginny Weasley-Potter avoided detection is flawed. There must be another way. We should talk to potter about that, later.

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Anonymous ID:KUgeo/f5 Sat 30 Dec 2023 00:18:07 No.5877465 Report

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>>5877360
> Try to get Scorpius away to talk in private (About what?)
Ask him about what kind of artifacts he might use, since we're just so desperate to know a way to find Taylor. Maybe we could find a way to help him out without his dad knowing? We don't really care about anything except finding Taylor, we just want our friend back, etc.

And then when he buys our memory loss worried about Taylor bullshit we tell on him to Potter and Draco. Fuck you bitch, get manipulated!

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 01:11:56 No.5877503 Report

Quoted By: >>5877529

>>5877360
So Draco and Scorpy aren't 100% on the same page, which is good. Means Draco isn't being mind controlled or anything. Scorpy seems to want access to the skeletons in the Malfoy closet, artifacts of dark power. It would be bad if he got was allowed to use them. Cocksucker's current host is less physically capable than Lily but is well connected and rich. Like, Potter is rich but the Malfoys are stupid rich.

I think we might be able to get more out of Scorpius if we got him alone, however I also want to enjoy the party with our wifelette Arty. And brain not working so well right now. I love the holidays.

> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 01:36:03 No.5877529 Report

Quoted By: >>5877552

>>5877503
>got was

Yeah brain not working too well and I was interrupted like 3 times trying to type that post.

>>5877419
Let the fucker be confused. I do think there is merit to the idea of trying to get Scorpios alone and prod for info on what artifacts he was referring to but there is a decent chance of him gaslighting us about them to make Elliot panic.

I wonder what Cocksucker is telling him to get him on board? Restore Slytherin's greatness? That we, personally are a danger to his house and the world in general? The same general spiel he gave Lily? That we fucked his GF when he was still in school and she said we were better?

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 30 Dec 2023 01:52:23 No.5877552 Report

Quoted By: >>5877573

>>5877529
>Little Elliott's aptitude
We were e en littler back then, and we've SEEN how we roll for such things now

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 02:02:25 No.5877573 Report

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>>5877552
Don't need a mallet to hammer a framing nail; its all in how and when you use it.

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Anonymous ID:KUgeo/f5 Sat 30 Dec 2023 04:21:28 No.5877652 Report

Quoted By: >>5877691

Also, it may be a bad idea to enjoy the party with Arty in front of Scorpius since, you know, he can take that as an avenue to attack us with if he ever wants to. I just think we should be on our guard whenever cocksucker is around, use the opportunity to gaslight him instead of letting him make the first move.

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Anonymous ID:o4XEFPHh Sat 30 Dec 2023 05:03:57 No.5877674 Report

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>>5877360
> Go back to Arty and enjoy the party
If cocksucker’s here, even if we’re sure he’s with us, I still don’t want him slinking off anywhere near arty if we aren’t there.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 05:28:25 No.5877691 Report

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>>5877652
I mean, he already knows we are with Arty. He taunted us about it at Last Light. Unless you are saying something different.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:27:50 No.5877971 Report

Quoted By: >>5877972

You listen to the conversation for a while, but it soon drifts into dull, everyday territory, such as the current affairs of the Wizengamot and how Elphias Doge is desperately looking for someone to replace him as Chief Warlock now that he’s reaching his mid-140s, and how Babajide Akingbade is doing a mildly acceptable job as Supreme Mugwump. Potter and Slughorn engage in a conversation about their students and their class preparations for next semester, and you are suddenly far more interested in whatever it is the house elves are serving than anything anyone is saying.

As soon as one passes by, you pick something up to eat and do the classic move of looking at your cup, visibly noticing it is empty, pretending to look around for a beverage that is not close by, looking pleased at something in the distance, then leaving to get some more of it.

Once you get your cup filled with something unfortunately not alcoholic, you go back to the much more pleasant circle of acquaintances that is Ms. Potter, the Scamander couple and Arty. The three interested in Magizoology are still talking excitedly, while Ginevra is leaning against the wall, swirling her cup of wine and casually looking around from a place that covers the entire room without appearing suspicious.

“Are they always this excited about magic beasts, Ms. Potter?” You ask.

“Only when they’re breathing,” she says with a smirk. “At least someone is enjoying the party.”

“Not much for these sorts of meetings?”

“Too Slytherin for my tastes. No offense.”

“Honestly, it might be too Slytherin for my tastes too. There are people in high places here, but most of them sound… hollow. Except for the Scamanders, the Malfoys, you and your husband… No one here seems to be all that powerful, or even important.”

“They aren’t, not in the traditional sense. But they have a loud voice, they have products in everyone’s houses. If you convince half of this room of something and get them talking, you guarantee at least a third of the votes in any Wizengamot session. Otherwise you wouldn’t see Malfoy caught dead in here.”

“Is he a threat?”

“Malfoy? Depends. If you get in his way, maybe. If you mess with his son? He won’t hesitate to burn every last galleon he owns to destroy you. But he has his own agenda, and he isn’t the same brat I hexed all those years ago, so I doubt you have anything to worry about, whatever it is that is happening to you.”

So Draco isn’t a problem as long as I’m not fucking with his son? You think. How wonderful.

“Potter, he… told you? About me?”

“That’s the secret for a marriage as long as ours, sweetheart. Never keep secrets from each other.” She smiles at her wine. “There is also another secret, but you’re too young to hear that one.”

“Right. Well, I suppose I should at least offer your friends the chance to get rid of Arty before she talks their ears off.” You push off the wall, nodding at her. “Thanks for the talk, Ms. Potter.”

“Any time, dear.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:28:54 No.5877972 Report

Quoted By: >>5877974

>>5877971

You approach the trio in time to hear Luna say “Well, actually it isn’t impossible that one of them has managed to swim across Gibraltar, though it would be far from their usual habitat. Though it would be easier than going around through Turkey.”

“Hey, what are you three talking about?”

“Uh, nothing,” Arty says, just a little too fast.

“Oh, Artemis here was just wondering if there was any chance of encountering a Nundu during her trip to Spain,” Rolf says offhandedly. “So we were discussing the possibilities.”

“Arty! And what do you mean, trip to Spain?”

“They said they have an expedition next July to Spain to search for a Catalonian Fireball, and they offered to bring me along on an internship!” She says, excitedly. Then, turning back to them, “Can he come too? I promise he won’t be any trouble!”

“I’m not a pet!”

“I’m sure we can find some space for him. He can sleep with the twins!”

--

The party moves on without any hassles. The music is not of the dancing kind, but the food is good and Arty is having a good time nerding out with the Scamanders, so you enjoy simply being with her. If nothing else, the party did serve its purpose of connecting people, even if it was your girlfriend who did it, not you.

The fact that it had somehow led to the couple roping her, and possibly you, into a search for a potentially extinct breed of Spanish dragon was worrying, but given that as far as you knew the world could very much end somewhere in the next six months… Well, just being alive to be worried about it would be good news. Besides, Arty hadn’t stopped smiling since the conversation, so you didn’t mind.

But the hour grows late and tomorrow you need to wake up early to make an emergency run to Hogsmeade and buy self-warming blankets, and Luna pats her pregnant belly and says it’s time to go home because she wants to eat french pineapples with cheddar, so you all say your goodbyes.

So you bring your tiny badger girlfriend through the halls and down back to the Hufflepuff common room's entrance.

“I’d invite you in,” she says, smiling. “But I don’t think Grubbly-plank would approve.”

“I could brew some polyjuice and sneak in, you never know.”

“But then you’d look like someone else, that would be no good. Best if we say our goodbyes outside.”

You kiss her. “Want to help me give warm blankets to poor giant spiders tomorrow?”

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:30:16 No.5877974 Report

Quoted By: >>5877984 >>5877985 >>5878001 >>5878003 >>5878115

>>5877972

She walks towards the stack of barrels that hold the entrance to her common room.

“You know, the view from the upper towers of Hogwarts is pretty great, but I don’t think it quite beats the one of you walking away in that dress.”

She blushes, a final time for the night.

“Flatterer. Hel-ga Huff-le-puff,” she says as she knocks on the second barrel from the bottom, middle of the second row. The side of the massive barrel that is the entrance to the common room splits open, revealing Apollo, waiting on the exact same spot he’d been when she’d left. She giggles. “See you tomorrow, Elliot. Thanks for the wonderful night, and for the gift.”

She skips away inside towards her brother and the door closes behind her.

You go back to your common room feeling like the luckiest man in the world, at least until you make it to the entrance.

“Hello, Elliot,” Scorpius says, smiling pleasantly, alone in the stone halls. “Did you enjoy the party?”

Crap.

“Not quite my kind, but it was fun.”

“Good. Say, last I was here, I left something with someone. Could have been stolen, I don't quite recall. A small dark stone, an old replica from that old story about the Deathly Hallows. It is very precious to me, and I’d like it back.” He looks directly into your eyes. “I wouldn’t have happened to have left it with you, have I? I wouldn’t want to step on anyone’s toes to get it, you never know what small, dear thing might get crushed if I need to go looking for it myself.”

> What do you answer? (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:42:39 No.5877984 Report

Quoted By: >>5877985 >>5877989 >>5878003 >>5878070 >>5878324

>>5877974
I don’t think he knows we remember yet. If he knew for certain we knew then he’d just say it outright, since no one’s around. He’s testing the waters right now, so to speak.

> Act confused
> I don’t remember you ever really giving me anything. We weren’t all that close to each other anyway, were we? Unless you count tutoring as being close to each other.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:45:50 No.5877985 Report

Quoted By: >>5877999 >>5878001 >>5878003 >>5878070 >>5878324

>>5877974
>Support >>5877984
but also
>Ask about those artifacts, in the way a curious guy obsessed with ancient magic and such might do

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 30 Dec 2023 19:48:02 No.5877989 Report

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>>5877984
this

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 30 Dec 2023 20:01:40 No.5877999 Report

Quoted By: >>5878009 >>5878118

>>5877985
Maybe we should even offer to keep an eye out for it as well? To sell the act further.
It should work. Everything we’ve done so far is a complete contradiction to what an Elliot with a passenger in his mind would do. The only ways I see our cover getting blown at this point is either if we slip up somehow, Cocksucker can sense Faith like she can for him, or he’s just insistent that we HAVE to be the one involved(which honestly isn’t ideal but not bad so long as Scorpius has doubts).
Either way, Christmas Break is when we’ll have plenty of time to get both Arty and Apollo up to speed though. For now though, next chance we get we should talk to Apollo. Both about our relationship with Arty(since we definitely shouldn’t have hidden that shit from him) and to look out for Scorpius, under the pretense that we think he may have threatened her to us using Slytherin-speak.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 20:12:50 No.5878001 Report

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>>5877974
>>5877985

Unless someone else comes up with something clever, this is okay. Maybe add:

>Oh, I don't think you would be stepping on anyone's toes if you wanted to maybe check your old bunk or around the common room, Scorpios. I'll even help you. Maybe you left it in some secret hidey hole? We are Slytherins. We all have our secrets. Wouldn't want someone to discover them. Don't worry, its not like I would go blabbing to Potter if you still have some more... interesting things stored as well, haha.

Threatening our snack-sized wife is not a good idea Cocksucker. We can make implicit threats as well. Fuck with her and we will take everyone down with us.

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Anonymous ID:W4v0TqIL Sat 30 Dec 2023 20:15:23 No.5878003 Report

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>>5877974
>>5877984
>>5877985
I’ll support.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 20:27:52 No.5878009 Report

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>>5877999
You also have some good points. Really need to have Apollo start with those Occulmency lessons but we can at least let him know Scorpius might target Arty because of an issue he has with us and to be on guard. And to not fucking body the guy. Like don't even be around him if you can help it but keep an eye on his sister, more than normal at least. Arty has a problem with getting star struck so maybe tell her to not listen to Scorpius if he tries to tell her something and don't be alone with him if she can help it, while we are in the forbidden forest tomorrow.

I don't think talking about how we are going to deep dick his sister, albeit with better phrasing, would be a bad idea either. He isn't dumb, I am pretty sure he has noticed what is going on with use by now. I think Arty has probably talked to him some at this point too. We were the first person he came to after she failed with her patronus after all and then she made him apologize for chimping out.

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Anonymous ID:uKW2A/oy Sat 30 Dec 2023 21:45:54 No.5878070 Report

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>>5877984
>>5877985
Supporting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 30 Dec 2023 22:57:39 No.5878115 Report

Quoted By: >>5878121

>>5877974
guy, as much as i would like to think that he can be confused by our acting, i dont think it´ll work...
he HAS to know that we know and its taunting us
i will support acting for now to get rid of him, but we HAVE to alert both Arty and Apollo to be on their toes, and i dont mean tomorrow, i mean as soon as we get rid of scorpious

god dammit, HeadQM, you couldnt give us ONE perfect night, could you?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Sat 30 Dec 2023 23:07:19 No.5878118 Report

Quoted By: >>5878134

>>5877999
>looking in our eyes to sense faith

God I hope she learned how to suppress herself too. We need to keep this bluff up.

If he knew we were original us, he'd definitely be more open about it.

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Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Sat 30 Dec 2023 23:08:30 No.5878121 Report

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>>5878115
Implying he won't tail us for confirmation he rattled us. If we let them know, it has to be done indirectly.

Itd be funny if we got him to think raven is the new opponent.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 30 Dec 2023 23:41:58 No.5878134 Report

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>>5878118
I think if Cocksucker could ID her, she would be able to tell. I hope at least. She was able to confirm he was in Scorpy, but I don't think it was b/c of the mindlink thingy they can do with each other. Our connection with her is stronger than before, so I hope that is helping some rather than being a liability.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:12:16 No.5878242 Report

Quoted By: >>5878251 >>5878262 >>5878353

So I have been thinking. Is Faith Helga Hufflepuff?

Her as she was when she was young? The wiki doesn't say how she died, and in the memory the dementor brought out when she saved us, she was with Merlin and 3 others. Merlin and 4 of his contemporaries. Sound a bit familiar? They said Salazar left the school over the muggleborn disagreement but he may have come back to help them when the void into Nothingness the people in the memory were facing appeared. That or one of the other people was the 5th Founder perhaps.

The void to Nothingness may have been contained by their efforts, becoming the Veil, that archway in the ministry, however in order to contain it Helga/Faith either sacrificed herself along with at least 1 other founder, Cocksucker or who he was before going mad after being trapped for Forever in the void, or was pulled in accidentally.

Faith has brown hair like Helga, blue eyes like her also, is well endowed like a young Helga likely was, is adept at conjuring food like Helga, manifested a yellow trimmed table cloth so Hufflepuff colors, can use ancient magic...

Cocksucker being Salazar also kinda makes sense in a couple of ways if for no other reason than he hates Faith enough to consider ripping her out of us when we were dying just so he could torture her and both his host happen to be purebloods. Mean while we are muggleborn and Helga was a strong proponent of muggleborns.

Just seems like quite a few pieces fit pretty well.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:23:26 No.5878251 Report

Quoted By: >>5878272

>>5878242
Out of curiosity, what makes you think Helga was well-endowed? Just a general Hufflepuff vibe because they're 'soft'? I guess she was described as round/plump, but then again this seems to be a point against it, since I don't remember Faith ever being described as fat.

Anyway, it would be weird if the founders manifested as their teenage selves despite growing to adulthood and even old age. Also: would an ancient blood purist like Salazar Slytherin really consider someone like Lily Potter II pure-blooded, when her grandma (Lily I) was a muggle-born?

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:34:04 No.5878262 Report

Quoted By: >>5878264 >>5878281

>>5878242
didnt we influenced a bit the look of Faith? it was also a thing from the beginning that PRIOR to us giving "HER" a name, it was refered as "They"
i may be misremembering thing, but i think we had a choice of selecting their gender at one point, i dont think HeadQM would have giving us that choice if that were the case, this is something HeadQM would had planned since the very beginning and giving us that option completly contradicts that

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:34:55 No.5878264 Report

Quoted By: >>5878281

>>5878262
we decided NOT to influence her appearance

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:43:50 No.5878272 Report

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>>5878251
In the pictures on the wiki, Helga is plump but also has fairly good sized knockers. I am just working from the assumption she was thin when she was younger since people do put on weight alot of the time as they get older. The images are her when she is middle-aged of a bit older. I also assume that is the age her description refers to.

I think the bare minimum for Salazar was at least one magical parent to go to Hogwarts, and even though Lily I was muggle born, both of Lily IIs parents are from wizard parents. I am less sure about Salazar=Cocksucker because we know way less about him.

As for the age reversal, the ministry dumped a bunch of time turners through the Veil like they were tossing car batteries in the ocean; basically fucking time up in there, putting time back into the void. Could have sscrewed up the 2 who escaped. She is also not physical, she lives in our head; what she appears like now may just be her half recalled "ideal" form. From a story telling perspective, Faith being young makes it harder to try and guess who she is. Would be the same if she was any of the legendary Arthurian women suggested before since I don't think any of them were teens when they died or disappeared.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 02:48:34 No.5878281 Report

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>>5878262
>>5878264

This. And she voice was always described as feminine before the manifested a body.

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Anonymous ID:KUgeo/f5 Sun 31 Dec 2023 03:45:50 No.5878324 Report

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>>5877984
>>5877985
Support.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:10:32 No.5878343 Report

Quoted By: >>5878347

“Faith, you think he still buys that I don’t remember him?”

“Maybe… In a world without Lily, maybe enough variables would have been altered that I’d end up in someone else. It’s difficult to foresee what stays the same and what changes when time is forcefully bent like that,” she replies in your head. “His connection with Scorpius must be as weak as yours was with me months ago. I’m not sure if they can even talk to each other at will yet.”

“So it’s possible he doesn’t know… Very well, then.”

You immediately become someone who has never seen the Stone of Resurrection in person, much less seriously considered using it.

“Huh, I don’t remember you leaving anything with me,” you say, frowning. “Other than Potions, we didn’t have that much in common. Maybe you left it somewhere hidden? I’m sure you must have had plenty of hideouts in the castle, every Slytherin does.”

He frowns, looking slightly annoyed.

“I’m sure that’s the case then, if it really isn’t with you. Just keep what I said in mind, you know. Just in case. You never know when those kinds of things can come up again.”

“Right. Oh, and about those artifacts you mentioned during the party,” you ask, feigning curiosity. “Do you really think one of them can help find Taylor?”

“Sure. There are many dark arts that could be useful. Father is reluctant to use them, of course, but I’m sure they could be used to discover what really happened that night. I’m sure they’ll show you and Ms. Cobris were not involved in his disappearance in any way.”

“What? You think I did it?” You ask, sounding horrified.

“It is a possibility, of course. The people who can have the most reason to want to hurt you are the ones closest to you. They’re the ones who know your secrets, after all. The ones who know all your hideouts, as you said. If Taylor managed to find one of yours, one you didn’t want him to find… Who knows what sort of thing you’d have done if that was the case.”

And if one were to use an ancient and dark artifact to create the evidence, you figure, why, a theory such as that could very well land on Draco’s ear, couldn’t it? What clever little snake you are.

“Well, I suppose Draco must know better than us what can and can’t be used safely,” you say. “I’ll trust his judgment.”

“I suppose we will,” he says, with a forced smile. “Have a good night, Elliot. Keep in mind what I said about the stone.”

“You too, Scorpius. I’ll send you an owl if I find anything that looks like it.”

He leaves and you stumble into the Slytherin common room, heart beating through your chest.

He had, without a doubt, threatened Arty. Did that change your schedule on telling her the truth? Or should you keep hiding it until they are fully trained? You didn’t know. It was too much to think about right now, your perfect night ending on a sour note.

You go to bed, to dream of tiny badgers in yellow dresses.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:11:36 No.5878347 Report

Quoted By: >>5878397 >>5878421

>>5878343

Instead, you find yourself in the forest once more. The stream of water has become a creek, water now flowing freely. The grass is a more vivid green, and Faith is looking in a mirror, like a fake copy of the true Mirror of Erised. Within it, you can see her, and you can see three other forms, their faces obscured.

“Hey,” she says, without looking. She looks just a bit plumpier than before, almost as if all the food she’d conjured before had affected her form.

“You know, they say you shouldn’t stare at that mirror for too long. A man wiser than me said that it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“I don’t have a life, Elliot. All I have… All I have is this forest.” She spits the words, angry. “All I have is the beast, and this river and you. This… this isn’t a life! It’s better than the darkness from before but… I want to be out there! I want to be with them, whoever they are. I want to remember!”

You sit by her side. It’s easy to forget that all this time you’ve been loving Arty and basking under the sunlight, she’s been here, in the gloom of this forest. To escape hell only to find herself in purgatory, with only a too-small window into heaven, and then to be shown your happiness is so far away from your reach that you can’t even see it…

The Mirror of Impossibility, what a cruel thing.

But it is what makes you wonder. It isn’t just one specific thing. It’s the yellow table-cloth, the food, the brown hair. It’s the kindness, the power, the gentle eyes.

It’s the Sorting Hat offering you another house.

It’s that no one knows what really happened back then.

It’s Potter saying that Scorpius had said that he was doing what he was doing for the sake of Slytherin. That it might have been literal.

It’s the four friends in the Mirror.

It all points to a possibility, one that isn’t certain, but that doesn’t hurt to ask.

Someone from the time of Merlin who could control Ancient Magic. That group had to be small, and someone with that amount of power was unlikely to be forgotten by history.

So it wasn’t a stretch to consider that maybe, just maybe, she could be one of the Ancient Magic wielders you knew by name.

“Faith… Do you think there’s any possibility of you… Of you being Helga Hufflepuff?”

And she looks at you… and her face changes. Not a lot. It is still young, it’s still lively… But it is now something you recognize from the paintings. The shades in the mirror clear and you can see their faces.

A muscular young man with his red mane of hair, beard only starting to grow.

A tall woman in a blue dress with pale skin, dark hair and sharp eyes.

A monkey-ish teen with ambitious gray eyes and the beginnings of a goatee.

And a plump girl with brown hair and the kindest eyes you’ve ever seen.

The four Founders, as they were when their bond was strongest.

“I… I think…” says Helga Hufflepuff, in almost a whisper. “I think I might be.”

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:13:30 No.5878353 Report

Quoted By: >>5878361 >>5878397

>>5878242
Well done, anon. Also, fuck you for guessing my twist

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:20:12 No.5878361 Report

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>>5878353
be honest, you doing the twist now because that anon guessed it or was the timing a massive coincidende?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:26:18 No.5878367 Report

Quoted By: >>5878371

>>5878361

Because he guessed it. It was a twist that could be easily checked by the MC, had plenty of evidence to back it up and Elliot would have asked if he'd thought of it. It would be unfair of me to ignore it for the sake of keeping my story structure intact.

I planned on revealing it at the end of this Act, which would probably be at the end of the thread, if my timing goes well. It is fine, I have more tricks in my pocket.

had it been a twist that couldn't be checked (like is Professor Quirrel actually Voldemort, or something like that, it would take more effort. But she was close to it herself, slowly morphing closer to her original form, a gentle push is all it took)

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:38:22 No.5878371 Report

Quoted By: >>5878373

>>5878367
Out of curiosity, how far into the next update were you before you saw that post and had to rewrite the entire next segment?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 04:43:20 No.5878373 Report

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>>5878371
Fortunately, not far enough that I had to rewrite anything. I'm writing the rest of the update now, just wanted to get this part out soon and see what happened

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:21:16 No.5878397 Report

Quoted By: >>5878400

>>5878347
Fucking CALLED IT!

>>5878353
Lol. Not my fault you write well enough to make me re-read the threads a couple of times boss. Once again, great work QM.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:22:58 No.5878400 Report

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>>5878397
Well dang, can't argue with results. Good job, anon.

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Anonymous ID:bt8i1IEu Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:23:41 No.5878403 Report

Quoted By: >>5878419

So are we gonna keep calling her Faith or start calling her Helga?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:34:50 No.5878419 Report

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>>5878403
She said before she wanted her real name back, after she figured out she was a real person at one time.

It would be kinda messed up to keep calling her what we did before she learned who she was. Unless she wants us to.

All 4 founders escaped and have thier own agendas, just none as malicious as Cocksuck/Salazar. Amalia might have Rowena in her. Might explain her hyper-competence in our battles; she has usually been the MVP from the very 1st one where her and Elliot were the only 2 people left out of the Raiders at the end. Reaching here but my sides would be meeting Taylor on the moon if I went 2 for 2.

Guessing this correctly made my night. I might roll like shit but my OCD/ADD could at least do this.

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Anonymous ID:uKW2A/oy Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:36:02 No.5878421 Report

Quoted By: >>5878428 >>5878440 >>5878443

>>5878347
Our brain ghost was Hufflepuff Prime the whole time. What is it with Elliot and Hufflepuff girls?

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:40:54 No.5878428 Report

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>>5878421
snakes and badgers are rivals in nature, i guess in this case the rule of "opposites atract eachother" works

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:54:20 No.5878440 Report

Quoted By: >>5878442 >>5878512

>>5878421
To be perfectly fair, at the very beginning there was a chance she'd be Ravenclaw depending on how you played Elliot/how I wrote him, but it was soon obvious that it would be Hufflepuff.

Honestly, I'm just happy I got away with blatantly copying the basic premise of BG3, up to the point of allowing you to "design your mind-guardian" and not being called out on it

--

“The Helga Hufflepuff?” Linda asks incredulously when you tell her the news the next morning.

“Shhhhh! Yes! Her. She was as shocked as I was. But it didn’t reveal anything else, didn’t unlock any new memories. She asked for some time to process it, and to be fair I need some time too. And, well, it makes it easy to figure out who’s in Scorpius' head, doesn’t it?”

“Oh Merlin. We’re facing Salazar? I knew he was a racist dickhead but… Well, it wasn’t as if I was going to feel guilty about killing him either way. So what? You think he offered riches to Malfoy? More?”

“Who knows? He controlled Lily by force, but Scorpius he needs to convince. But I know that if Salazar showed up in my head and ordered me around, I’d probably do what he said.”

“Does that change our plans?”

“Maybe. Maybe we could tell Draco? Tell Scorpius what Salazar did with Lily? I don’t know. Ah, crap! I’m late! Sorry, got to go!”

You dash through the dungeons and off the main door, where Arty is waiting for you.

“I don’t mind waiting,” she says. “But you do know that if you don’t make this delivery, my boyfriend will be forever hunted by giant spiders, right?”

“Trust me, I’m very aware. Shall we go?”

The trip to Hogsmeade is quick, though not cheap. You burn the rest of your allowance into self warming blankets, and drag the heavy box in a sled through the snow. Soon you’re wading through the forest, floating the box in front of you.

“Should we… call out to him? Going around shouting a massive spider’s name in the middle of a dark forest doesn’t seem too smart.”

“Lumos!” She says, as your wand is busy. “Just have to find a spider and follow it.”

“Could just be ‘Follow the butterflies’. Is there a creature that you can find following the butterflies? Hopefully one that doesn’t have the capacity to eat my face?”

“No. The Great Siberian Moth attracts butterflies, but its diet is composed exclusively of Slytherin faces.”

“Good to know. Another reason to stay out of Siberia.”

It takes a while to find a spider who seems to be headed into the forest instead of out. With Arty being far too comfortable as she walks through the dark woods, you head deeper and deeper into the forest. It doesn't take long for you to start seeing webs. Once they start being thick enough to impair your movement, Arty stops you.

“Good, this should be close enough. Now put the box down and speak his name into the web.”

“What?”

“The web can take the vibrations for hundreds of meters. Honestly Elliot! Do you not pay attention to our classes?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:55:21 No.5878442 Report

Quoted By: >>5878453 >>5878454 >>5878493 >>5878512 >>5878515

>>5878440

“Clearly, not as much attention as you do.” You bend down towards the mess of webs on the floor and say clearly. “Arahuios, I come to fulfill my oath to you.”

There is silence for a few seconds, which stretch into minutes. When you move to speak again, Arty shushes you. Eventually, you hear the sound of hundreds of paws skittering through the floor and the trees.

“Uh… How do we know it’s really him?” You ask.

“Acromantulas are awfully territorial. They’d have tried to kill us already if he wasn’t expecting us.”

“Oh, good to know.”

Hundreds of glinting eyes in sets of eight appear in the darkness. One of them, the largest set, approaches close to the floor.

“You came, Friend of Friend of Hagrid,” he says, in a deep, bassy voice. “I did not truly expect you to do so.”

“I honor my agreements,” you say, flicking your wand so the top of the crate opens, revealing its contents. “We agreed on warmth. Here it is.”

He stretches one of its long, hairy paws into the light and picks up one of the many wooly blankets. They are garish in tone, as they were the cheapest ones you could buy, but Arty had said Acromantulas weren’t very good with colors.

“It is warm,” he says, toying with it, gently rubbing it through his pincers. “You have fulfilled your obligation, and I have fulfilled mine. Now, tell me… Now that you no longer have anything to offer me, Friend of Friend of Hagrid… Why should I deny my children the taste of manflesh- What are you doing!?” He hisses, and you turn to see Arty scratching the belly of an acromantula about three feet wide, who seems to be very much enjoying it.

“Uh…” the small acromantula says in a shy guilty tone, almost frozen in place. “She… She seemed nice and I…”

“Get back into the darkness!” Arahuios bellows and the smaller acromantula quickly scuttles away from view. He turns back towards you, sounding both furious and embarrassed. “Leave!”

You do so, and wait until you are far, far away from the forest before laughing about it.

--

All your trunks are closed and you are ready to go back home. If you wish to talk to someone or do something quick before you leave, however, there might still be some time for that.

> Talk to someone (Who?)
> Do something else (What?)
> Go home

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 05:56:02 No.5878443 Report

Quoted By: >>5878510 >>5878512

>>5878421
It is a bit funny to me that Arty, while more petite than Helga sounds, also has blue eyes and brown/auburn hair and she was one of the options for Helga's initial appearance when she physically manifested. And like the post said, we were pretty close to being a 'Puff ourselves.

On that note, just saying that Arty would make a good Gryffindor according to Potter. I would die if Godric was in her head but she just doesn't listen to him because she thinks he is just a stress induced hallucination or something.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 06:11:35 No.5878453 Report

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>>5878442
>See if we can get Potter to arrange a meeting with Draco Malfoy, in private, without Scorpius

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 31 Dec 2023 06:12:47 No.5878454 Report

Quoted By: >>5878515

>>5878442
should we tell her now about scorpius? or are we telling her and Apollo when we get to our home? if so i guess now is a good time

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sun 31 Dec 2023 07:07:30 No.5878493 Report

Quoted By: >>5878515

>>5878442
Do we know anyone in our little circle who’s staying in Hogwarts for Christmas? Amalia? Riley? Talon?
Anyone we’re at least friendly with works. I want to ask them to send us any updates regarding the investigation to us via owl.
Having a good line of communication from home to Hogwarts is a massive benefit, and it’ll mean we won’t have as much catching up to do on Salazar’s progress.

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sun 31 Dec 2023 07:23:28 No.5878510 Report

Quoted By: >>5878517

>>5878443
Hoping this happens because it would be really funny if it did.
On that note, we do have an easy way to check. If Helga has been suppressing herself, we could just have her not do that for a moment, have her talk to us, and see if Arty hears her through looking into our eyes. IIRC we could hear Salazar even though we had only talked to Helga once before by doing that, so we can just repeat that but for Arty.

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Anonymous ID:uKW2A/oy Sun 31 Dec 2023 07:28:28 No.5878512 Report

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>>5878440
>I got away with blatantly copying the basic premise of BG3, up to the point of allowing you to "design your mind-guardian" and not being called out on it
Oh don't worry, I noticed. You HACK FRAUD!

>>5878442
> Go home

>>5878443
I really doubt it but it would be kind of funny.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 07:47:58 No.5878515 Report

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>>5878454
We should probably do it now, just in case Scorpius tries something before we leave. I kinda wish we had been able to see if Arty could have tried to convince the mer-people to half ass their search of the lake...

>>5878442
>>5878493
I will support this, as well as:
>Hug and bid good-bye to Linda. Tell her to write if anything comes up.
>Talk to Potter. The Ministry and their goons can't just black bag us at Hogwarts but ask if there is any chance of them doing so when we are at our home.

I wonder if mom and dad are going to toss us spending money for gifts since we are now broke due to spider blankets. We need gifts for them, Arty, Apollo, and Linda. Or maybe QM will just hand wave it and say we got those before spending the rest on those blankets.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 07:56:37 No.5878517 Report

Quoted By: >>5878537 >>5878577

>>5878510
That is true.

>We scan Arty with Helga
>All we hear is sobbing and screams begging her to just believe he is real
>He has been in there for a decade with her just ignoring him and is slowly going insane from it

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 08:46:02 No.5878537 Report

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>>5878517
>mfw

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 31 Dec 2023 11:11:32 No.5878577 Report

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>>5878517
Nah son
>Scan arty
>Hear Godrick in her trying to egg her on to go find a Manticore because it'd be cool
>She agrees

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:04:32 No.5878829 Report

Quoted By: >>5878831 >>5900314

Alright, final update of the year! Probably won't update tomorrow, but I'll be around if anyone has any questions! Thanks for participating and have a great new year!

--

You knock at Potter’s door, and moments later his voice comes from inside.

“Come in, Elliot.”

“How did you know it was me?” you ask, entering. He’s looking slightly more disheveled than usual, sleeves on his shirt folded while sitting on a comfortable chair reading the newspaper and drinking something amber.

“I have a spectral eye in my forehead that can see through walls.” He says, nonchalantly. “Either that or a minor enchantment on the door, one of the two.”

“Right. I just wanted to check up on you if… Well, I’m going home for Christmas and I was just wondering if there was anything that would stop, say, your friends at the Department of Mysteries from bursting through my door and taking me to study my brain.”

“No, I’m afraid you will be exposed to all the harms of the world while you’re out of Hogwarts. I’ll be sure to personally send your address to them.”

“You are in a very good mood today, aren’t you?”

“Trust me, Elliot, nothing makes a teacher happier than getting rid of their students for two solid weeks.” He puts the newspaper down and gets up, smiling. “But I doubt you’re at risk from the Ministry. If you don’t return, I promise I’ll personally bring down the building searching for you, how about it?”

“I’m honored you’d start a war with the ministry because of me, sir.”

“Well, it would be more to really test my battling skills, but your kidnapping would play a minor part in my motivations, yes.”

It is truly odd to see Potter this merry. He’s never gloomy, but right now he seems positively ecstatic. Strangely enough, now that he’s closer, you can see scratch marks on his exposed arms, almost as if he’d been in a clawing match with a particularly vicious cat.

“Well, if you say so, sir. Thank you. And merry Christmas to you and the family.”

And, from somewhere deep in the office, you hear Ms. Potter’s voice shout back “Merry Christmas to you too, dear!”

And you leave the office, unsure if you should be blushing or laughing.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:05:32 No.5878831 Report

Quoted By: >>5878833 >>5878846 >>5878870 >>5878886 >>5878902 >>5878992

>>5878829

“Elend, you’re staying, right?” You ask, dragging your trunk out towards the train station. Even some of the students that are staying go there, to say goodbye.

“Yep,” the gryffindor answers. “Fifteenth anniversary of my parents' wedding, they’re going on a trip with just the two of them. Why?”

“Could you keep me up to date on what happens with Malfoy’s investigation? I’d love to know if they find something.”

“Sure. Owl or patronus?”

“Owl. My parents are as muggle as yours, we don’t want a glowing bird to show up when I’m buying a turkey at the supermarket.”

He laughs. “Fair enough. See you next year, commander. Have a good end of year!”

“You too, lieutenant.”

You reach the station and most of the kids have already boarded. Arty is waiting for you.

“I… I’ve never boarded the train,” she says. “Actually… this will be the first time me and Apollo leave the magical world since I was eight.”

“You’re worried?”

“Terrified,” she says, with only a slight tremble before walking into the train.

You, Apollo, Arty and Linda manage to secure a cabin for yourselves, and soon the smoke blows and the massive locomotive starts moving. The trees move away and, slowly, Hogwarts disappears in the distance, the great lake vanishes and Hogsmeade can no longer be seen.

“Well…” Arty says, biting her lip. “Bye bye, home. See you in two weeks.”

You put your arm around her, rubbing her shoulder.

“Hey, you’ll be fine. You’ll be with me and Apollo.”

“I know,” she says, resting her head on your shoulder. “But I still get that feeling in my stomach that I don’t quite know if it comes from butterflies or wasps buzzing in there.”

--

You four ride the train, with you, Arty and Linda chatting and Apollo simply being there, for the most part. When Arty mentions that they’ve both finished the preparatory exercises of Occlumency and can start the classes when they return, a thought comes to your mind.

This is probably the most privacy you’ll have with them for the next two weeks. If you want to tell them the truth… This is the best time for it, at least until the way back. Theyr mind is not fully protected, but then again, neither is yours.

> Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.
> Don’t tell them yet. No point ruining their Christmas with it.
> Tell them a partial truth (What?)

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:11:21 No.5878833 Report

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>>5878831
its time
>Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:30:23 No.5878846 Report

Quoted By: >>5878857 >>5878858 >>5878870 >>5878886 >>5879870 >>5879898 >>5880208

>>5878831
> Tell them a partial truth (The Malfoys may or may not be bad people, but they're currently closely tied to the danger that took Taylor from us, and Scorpius in particular is dangerous... So don't be alone with him, and tell Potter if they start asking anything weird, trying to get you alone, or snooping around in your mind)

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Anonymous ID:KUgeo/f5 Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:58:35 No.5878857 Report

Quoted By: >>5879870

>>5878846
Support.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 31 Dec 2023 22:59:08 No.5878858 Report

Quoted By: >>5879870

>>5878846
this

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Anonymous ID:cSW0969q Sun 31 Dec 2023 23:27:55 No.5878870 Report

Quoted By: >>5879870

>>5878831
>>5878846
Support. We can tell the whole story when they actually start the classes.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 31 Dec 2023 23:43:04 No.5878886 Report

Quoted By: >>5878896 >>5879870

>>5878831
>> Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.

I think the difference between full truth and
>>5878846

are pretty minor if either of them get mind scanned and the full truth might make them more prepared.

I also think I have a good idea of Salazar/Cocksuckers plan.
Basically, he had planned to harness the power of the repository's ancient magic to allow his host to manipulate it as he was did and combine that with the resurection stone to use it in a way modern wizards can't. My guesses are to help him find the tomb or grave of the 5th founder and then either with the stone or via other means, bring him back enough that he could steal the mans power. What power you ask? The man who built the school must have had incredible power to modify it and its enchantments, in a way that is greater than even what the teachers and Headmistress can, and we have seen the crap they can pull. So at this point he would have ancient magic in massive quantites, complete control of the greatest wizarding school in the world and if he managed to kill Elliot by then, control of an Entity that can just unmake people/events.

He would be all but unstoppable at this point. Past this, his final goals are a bit vague but removal of all mugglborn from Hogwarts would be simple; he might even try and go as far as unmaking every muggle on earth. Total Muggle Death.

We denied him the repository, thankfully, but who knows how many sources of ancient magic are kicking around still.

Happy New Years fuckers

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 31 Dec 2023 23:52:21 No.5878896 Report

Quoted By: >>5878910

>>5878886
I'm mostly worried that telling Apollo that Arty was threatened will cause him to go fucking berserk and get himself or someone else killed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 01 Jan 2024 00:05:12 No.5878902 Report

Quoted By: >>5879870

>>5878831
> Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.
Fuck it lets dump all that trauma and cosmic terror on them. Apollo's going to be fucking livid, I just hope he doesn't try to murder Scorpio/Salazar the first chance he gets.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 01 Jan 2024 00:14:13 No.5878910 Report

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>>5878896
Well right now is about the safest place to do it, given we are on an isolated train full of wizards. If he chimps out, there are enough people to stop him and its not like he can turn the train around. He will also have 2 weeks before we return to cool his jets and Arty can calm him down. Thats my logic.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Mon 01 Jan 2024 04:04:56 No.5878992 Report

Quoted By: >>5879870

Happy New Year!

>>5878831
> Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 06:30:50 No.5879870 Report

Quoted By: >>5879893 >>5879973

>>Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.
>>5878833
>>5878886
>>5878902
>>5878992

> Tell them a partial truth
>>5878846
>>5878857
>>5878858
>>5878870

Perfectly balanced, as big votes tend to be. I'll go to sleep and roll a d2 if it's still tied when I wake up.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:15:15 No.5879893 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879870
>>Share the truth with them. They need to know now that Scorpius threatened Arty.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:19:16 No.5879898 Report

Quoted By: >>5879902 >>5879957

>>5878846
>>5878846
Supporting. This may be the safest place to tell Apollo in the event he goes apeshit, but not in the event someone is listening in on us, and with many other wizards here, who knows who could be listening in on us?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:21:13 No.5879902 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879898
Wait I’m dumb we’re alone. Never mind tell them the full truth.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:44:52 No.5879932 Report

Quoted By: >>5879933 >>5879962 >>5880464

I wonder if we could check ourselves for any bugs before hand? Can you use magic on the train? I doubt Scorpius planted one on any of us but still, if we can we should.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:45:43 No.5879933 Report

Quoted By: >>5879950

>>5879932
supporting this, lets make completely sure we dont have anything tracking us

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 02 Jan 2024 07:59:42 No.5879950 Report

Quoted By: >>5879959

>>5879933
I just googled it and magic is kosher on the train, so no reason not to. It there are tracking bugs, there might be listening bugs.

If Lily was erased, who discovered the bugs Ron planted on us at lunch a while back?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KUgeo/f5 Tue 02 Jan 2024 08:05:06 No.5879957 Report

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>>5879898
I think the main risk is us telling them and then they get their minds read by someone, say from the Ministry or Scorpius/Salazar pulling some fuckery. Our occlumency lessons are more advanced than theirs at the moment.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Hfg/CZF1 Tue 02 Jan 2024 08:06:41 No.5879959 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879950
It said that the bugs died as we walked into hogwarts in… I think it was thread 2?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Tue 02 Jan 2024 08:10:37 No.5879962 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879932
Also supporting checking for bugs.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Tue 02 Jan 2024 08:13:21 No.5879973 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879870
I mean they don't need to know what they're fighting over... that might be too much.

But knowing there's a fight, but they're probably safe from it for now is a good move.

Still, what's stopping the Malfoys from having bugged us. It's probably safer to be as 'clean' as possible until we're in the enchantments protecting Hogwarts

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Tue 02 Jan 2024 12:41:34 No.5880208 Report

Quoted By:

>>5878846
Supporting this too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:iTBa57CX Tue 02 Jan 2024 20:06:25 No.5880464 Report

Quoted By:

>>5879932
+1

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:02:00 No.5880510 Report

Quoted By: >>5880511

You look at Linda, and she knows what you’re about to say. She nods, and the two of you get up and start to cast spell after spell. You don’t know all the twenty-three enchantments that are recommended when speaking something of true importance, but between the two of you, you cover most of it.

“You two… I told you there was danger in my life, and that I was going to wait until you two could protect your minds to share it with you. But that danger is growing faster than I thought. So… I’m going to tell you. I’m going to tell you everything. If either of you don’t want to know, you can leave. I won’t blame you. It is the thing which killed Taylor. It’s more dangerous than anything we’ve seen before. Worse than Grindelwald.” You sigh, putting your wand down. “Worse than Voldemort.”

Arty wraps her hand in yours. Apollo nods, giving you the go ahead.

“Harry James Potter had a daughter. Her name was Lily. She was in her seventh year, she had the flaming red hair of the Weasleys, she was strong and fierce and kind. She was the Head Girl, and the leader of Gryffindor’s army. During the second week of class, she asked to meet me at night. I thought I was going on a date.” You grin as you remember the day, which now seemed so long ago. “She instead took me to her father, who said that neither he, nor she, nor Hogwarts itself had any records of my existence.”

And you tell them of the girl inside your head, and you tell them of Merlin’s Last Light, of what the creature inside Lily had done to her. You have to stop several times, your voice unsteady. When you can’t speak, Linda takes over. You tell them how Taylor died, how you lost your arm. She tells them how the battle ended. You tell them that the shadow escaped. You tell them how you freed the power in the repository. She tells them how she fought to keep you alive.

You tell them how time could not stand being so completely rewritten, so it had simply readjusted instead.

You tell them of the darkness inside Scorpius.

You tell them how he’d threatened you and Arty.

And, finally, you tell them the name of the woman inside your head.

“Helga?” Arty asks, barely a whisper, her face strewn with tears.

You nod, and a gentle voice whispers inside your head.

“Yes,” you tell her. “And she wants you to know she’s proud of you. Of both of you.”

“I… I don’t… I don’t know what to say.” She pulls you close, cupping your cheek gently resting her forehead against yours. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.” She turns to Linda. “You too. I’m so, so sorry.”

“If it hadn’t been us, it would have been someone else,” Linda says, the only one who hadn’t cried, as if her tears had run dry. “We survived. Someone else might not have.”

“And Potter… He still can’t know?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:03:01 No.5880511 Report

Quoted By: >>5880512

>>5880510

“We don’t know,” you whisper. “Faith… Helga thinks he can’t, but she isn’t sure. I decided not to risk it. Can you imagine what he’d do if he had the power in that repository, if he knew what his daughter went through?”

“He’d break the world,” Apollo says, in a tone of cold fury. His eyes are red from the tears and his hands are strangling a piece of the windowsill that had come off in his hand from how hard he’d gripped it. “He’d carve time itself to undo it, or burn all magic in the world to cinders trying.”

“I don’t know what is coming… But Potter might be the cause, willingly or not. So I kept him in the dark, even though he tries his best to figure out what is going on. Meanwhile, I’m trying to avoid Scorpius and Draco and Salazar for long enough to figure out who was the Fifth Founder and where he is. Like with Merlin’s Last Light, we don’t know where it is or what we’ll meet there. But we have to go, because the alternative is letting the world end.”

Arty stays in silence for a long, long time. When she finally moves, she turns to you. She takes your left hand and gently pulls the glove off, revealing the deep, dark scars that cover it. She wraps her hands around yours, and kisses it, once, twice, thrice. When she speaks, there’s steel in her voice.

“We’ll beat Salazar. We’ll beat the creature inside you. And we’ll find a way to help Helga. No matter what it takes. And I’ll be right beside you, until the very end.”

You wrap your arms around her and hug her tight.

“Until the very end,” she repeats, and for just a moment, you have no doubts that she’s right.

--

Once you’ve all calmed down, it is time to strategize.

“We can’t just kill Scorpius,” you say. “If we do, Salazar will just escape again, and Draco will hate us. We need to find a way to either extract him, whatever sort of creature he’s become, and trap him. But we have no idea how to do that. So… we need to stop his plan in its tracks, instead.”

“How?” Apollo asks.

“That is a fantastic question. It seems likely that… Merlin, the Interdict, the Four Founders, they’re all connected. In the old stories, the ancient tales, the greatest of magics are not done with only speech and the wave of a wand. We don’t know why that is, just like we don’t know why Wingardium Leviosa makes things fly, we just know that it is true. . You must perform specific actions, make significant choices. Spending your strength temporarily isn’t enough; a ritual requires permanent sacrifice. They don’t necessarily need to be big, but they need to be significant.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:04:02 No.5880512 Report

Quoted By: >>5880513

>>5880511

“The Unbreakable Vow, for example, requires three participants. The one who receives the Unbreakable Vow must be one who could have come to trust the Vower, but chooses instead to demand the Vow from them, and they sacrifice that possibility of trust. The one who makes the Vow must be someone who could have chosen to do what the Vow demands of them, and they sacrifice that capacity for choice. And the third wizard, the binder, permanently sacrifices a small portion of their own magic, to sustain the Vow forever.” You shake your head. “It’s a magic that should have been banned a long time ago, if it wasn’t just so useful to the Noble houses.”

“Fiendfyre requires the sacrifice of a drop of blood, forever lost,” Linda says. “And I’ve heard of one that needs a rope that has hanged a man and a sword that has slain a woman, but I couldn’t find out what that one does.”

“Indeed. But even then, these things are minor, relatively speaking. But as far as we know, Merlin, though a great wizard, was still bound by the rules of magic. So, the obvious question is… What would a ritual that binds the whole world take?”

“You… you think that-”

“That the Interdict of Merlin was made with the lives of the four Founders. There may be more that was sacrificed, I’m not sure.”

“The Cup of Sorrows,” Linda says. “You said there was an artifact that could be used to bind the whole world, and Ravenclaw left it with Merlin for safekeeping.”

“And he repaid her by banishing her and the three others to the darkness beyond time as a sacrifice to create the Interdict. That’s the gist of it, yes. It probably cost Merlin his life, too, as it’s said it was his last work. And with Merlin dead and the four Founders gone, all the knowledge that they held vanished. But there is someone else who knew a great deal about magic. Whoever the Fifth Founder was… Salazar wants to get to him, and I don’t think it’s simply to meet an old friend. I’m assuming he’s dead and whatever we’re looking for is in his tomb, that there’s not actually a thousand-year-old man walking around. Whatever the case, he’s either incredibly powerful or has something incredibly powerful with him. We need to find him first.”

“Why did he call him ‘Fifth Founder’?” Apollo asks. “They knew each other, shouldn’t he just call him by name?”

“I don’t know. Helga… Her memories have been lost, most of them, and a lot of what she knows comes from me. She can’t even teach me the spells she knew in life. The same could be true for Salazar, since Lily didn’t know his name, he didn’t either. I’m not sure.”

“So we study, find where the Fifth Founder is hiding, go there and, what?” Arty asks. “Take his power hoping we can use it to kill Salazar and the Beast inside you?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:05:03 No.5880513 Report

Quoted By: >>5880514 >>5880636

>>5880512

“We find him and see where we go from there. We don’t know what we’ll find, making plans past it is useless. We just ready up, get as many supplies as we can, as many resources and as much knowledge as we can… And deal with whatever comes when it comes.”

“While finding time to study enough to pass our exams,” Linda says. “Don’t forget that.”

“Uuuugh! I have O.W.L.s this year!” Arty says. “I don’t have time to deal with a world ending abomination!”

“Congratulations, now you know how Potter felt for his whole stay at Hogwarts.”

--

The rest of the trip goes off without too much trouble, except for when the lady with the food cart comes and accidentally triggers your wards, which causes a ruckus that gets three different prefects involved. Half an hour and minus twenty points for both Slytherin and Hufflepuff later, you’re stepping down onto Platform 9 3⁄4, having reminded the twins that they couldn’t, under any circumstances, do magic here.

Arty and Apollo follow you and Linda looking apprehensive, and when you step through the magical barrier separating the magical world from the muggle one, they frown at the smell. But you smile at the stench of smoke and the car noises from afar. It’s home, after all.

You two approach the three adults and the kid in the distance, which are a fairly odd combination together. The man is short and a little pudgy, but has a full head of blond hair just now starting to gray, wearing a fancy but well worn black coat to fight the cold weather. The woman by his side is maybe an inch shorter than him, with black hair and crinkles near her eyes from smiling so much. She wears faint makeup with a red lipstick, and at least three layers of coats, though she's still shivering.

The pale woman and girl talking to them, however, are explosions of color. In fact, with their matching green coats, yellow scarves and white knit caps, they look like enormous sunflowers who have forgotten what season they are in. As soon as they see Linda, they come running at her, while your parents prefer a more dignified, slow approach.

“Hi, mom,” Linda says, approaching the two colorful figures. “Hey Baubau.”

“Raven! Oh, I missed you so much!” The woman hugs her tightly. “Did you run out of makeup? I thought I had bought enough for the whole year!”

“No, it’s… it’s fine. I just got tired of it. You… You can call me Linda now.”

The woman pulls back and looks in her daughter’s eyes. Her energetic tone mellows out.

“Right,” She says in a soft tone. “Do you want to go home, get under a blanket and tell me all about it?”

“Yes,” Linda says, voice straining on her throat. “Yes, I do.”

The woman waves goodbye at you and your parents, and they leave quickly, the little girl asking a barrage of questions at her sister, all going unanswered.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:06:05 No.5880514 Report

Quoted By: >>5880524 >>5880536 >>5880546 >>5880566 >>5880686 >>5880709 >>5880768 >>5880808

>>5880513

“So,” your mother asks, approaching. “You two are Elliot’s new friends. I hope you’ve been keeping him out of trouble.”

“We try our best, but he really doesn’t make it easy on us,” Arty says, smiling.

“Arty, Apollo, this is Helen and Kendrik, my parents. Mom, dad, this is Apollo, Arty’s brother, and Arty, my… uh… girlfriend.”

“Girlfriend? My little boy got a girlfriend!?” You mom says, far too loudly, hugging you excitedly and making a point of embarrassing you as much as physically possible.

“Mom!”

“What!? I’m just hugging my son! Can’t a mom hug her son now that he’s got a girlfriend?”

“See son,” your dad says. “If you’d told me that you’d gotten a girlfriend in your letters, I could have prepared her and calmed her down, but you didn’t. So you only have yourself to blame, really.”

“Yep, I’m aware,” you say, having to force the air out through your mom’s death-hug.

She gives an equally tight hug to Arty, who is already being called her daughter-in-law, and to Apollo, who looks extremely uncomfortable, and soon you five are in the car.

“So, I was thinking,” your dad says. “It’s a three hour drive from here to our house in Cardif, and I don’t feel like driving six hours tomorrow again, so how about we go right to that Diagonal Alley you love so much so you can buy some Christmas gifts for your friends, huh? I know it’s a bit late but it should be fine if you do it quickly. Either that or you can come tomorrow by train without the boring adults to keep track of you. What do you prefer?”

> Go to the Diagon Alley today
> Take the train early tomorrow

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KybMZryU Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:16:46 No.5880524 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880514
>Diagonal Alley
kek, i see that common mistake is still alive
>Go to the Diagon Alley today
best to get stuff done now so we have as much free time possible later

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:tC3iRjqy Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:29:49 No.5880536 Report

Quoted By: >>5880709

>>5880514
>Go to the Diagon Alley today
He makes a fair point. We can do magical secret santa!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:S5BgU0eT Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:40:46 No.5880546 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880514
> Go to the Diagon Alley today

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2Vfna/eT Tue 02 Jan 2024 21:56:14 No.5880566 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880514
> Go to the Diagon Alley today

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Tue 02 Jan 2024 23:55:16 No.5880636 Report

Quoted By: >>5880678 >>5880686 >>5880709 >>5880768 >>5880985

>>5880513
>we didn't undo the wards

And now Potter, and the Malfoys, know something happened. Our bluff has been destroyed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:FduqhHDV Wed 03 Jan 2024 00:59:00 No.5880678 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880636
No. For all they know we were just some dumb students playing around with magic.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Wed 03 Jan 2024 01:16:02 No.5880686 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880514
>> Go to the Diagon Alley today

>>5880636
Damn.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 03 Jan 2024 01:49:04 No.5880709 Report

Quoted By: >>5880985

>>5880636
I doubt it. I think it was just meant to be a comedic aside. QMs usually don't ounish players for stuff like that without giving us a chance to avoid it or at least a roll.

>>5880536
I support magical secret santa.

>>5880514
> Go to the Diagon Alley today

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 03:04:52 No.5880768 Report

Quoted By: >>5880985

>>5880514
>> Go to the Diagon Alley today

Hope you had a good New Years, QM.

>>5880636
Linda and Elliot are Slytherins. Warding your train car to some degree is par for the course. I think it will be fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 03:33:21 No.5880785 Report

Quoted By: >>5880985

So, according to what I found, a galleon is worth about 5 pounds, which seems really fucking low, but just something to keep in mind when we are shopping. Apollo presumably doesn't have any money aside from maybe a small stipend and Arty can get embarrassed by expensive stuff as well as being pretty broke as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Wed 03 Jan 2024 04:19:45 No.5880808 Report

Quoted By: >>5880867

>>5880514
> Go to the Diagonal Alley today.
Also, ask mom if we need to buy a ring there or if she has one she'd like to give us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 05:37:51 No.5880867 Report

Quoted By: >>5880876

>>5880808
That would be fucking hillarious. Arty would turn red as a beet and the glare Apollo would give us would drop the temp in the car by like 10 degrees.
With all the stuff about being together till the end, whether it is ours or hers, we did pretty much tell her we are going to marry her.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 03 Jan 2024 05:44:11 No.5880876 Report

Quoted By: >>5880888

>>5880867
Teenagers say stuff like that, but actually talking about rings and marriage will make it more 'real' and explicit in a way that may be a bit... MUCH for her poor little heart.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:01:18 No.5880888 Report

Quoted By: >>5880896

>>5880876
True enough. The girl I was with in HS and college, we really thought we would get married when we finished university. Didn't work out.

>may be a bit... MUCH for her poor little heart

Also true. But if we can not die by the end of the school year, I wouldn't be opposed to getting engaged, with marriage after she finishes Hogwarts. 2 year engagements are pretty common to give people time to save money and plan weddings.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:14:40 No.5880896 Report

Quoted By: >>5880919

>>5880888
>trips
i fully support this, once we manage to erradicate cocksucker for good, marriage is the next immediate goal

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:43:14 No.5880919 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880896
Hopefully we can take care of this before school lets out, that way we don't have to deal with Salazar AND what ever BS is sure to happen in our 7th year.

I hope getting rid of him doesn't make Helga disappear as well. If possible, I'd like to help her get a body somehow or at least manifest outside our head. She is cool and the most chill of the founders.

I wonder if part of why Salazar want to find the 5th founder is because that might let him get a body. If he wants to rule the world, I am sure he would prefer doing so in his own body vs. puppeting someone else's.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:48:36 No.5880924 Report

Quoted By: >>5880925 >>5880926

>Salazar wants revenge on the “5th Founder”
>Revenge implies they did something to him
>Salazar’s main group in legends consisted of 5 people: the 4 Founders, and Merlin
>Merlin is implied to have betrayed them all to create the Interdict of Merlin

So the 5th Founder is just Merlin then, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:50:41 No.5880925 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880924
nah, it cant be that straight forward, i´ve came to that conclusion too, but its way too easy

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:53:19 No.5880926 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880924
>“And now, I get to take this enormous pot of power from its cage, kill you, and use it to wrench that gate from that tiny little soul of yours. Then I can saunter away to find the Fifth Founder and take his power. Or maybe I’ll kill you first and then break open the repository, it doesn’t really matter. That gate inside you should hold for long enough even after you’re dead.”

>“You… You want to release the creature?”

>“Release it?” It asks, almost laughing. “I want to control it! I want to open its cage, tackle it to the ground and wrap a leash around its neck. I’ll use it to take back everything Merlin took from me! From us! And when I have it on the palm of my hand, I’ll use it to break the world in half and reshape it in my image. You have no idea how long I spent in the darkness. For you, forever is just a concept. For me it was a reality. No. Longer than forever. Far, far longer.”

He refers to Merlin by name but just refers to the 5th Founder as... the 5th Founder. Makes me think they are two different people.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:27:44 No.5880985 Report

Quoted By: >>5880987 >>5881002

>>5880636

What >>5880709 said. As a general rule players should never be punished for a choice made by the characters without player input, much less when for comedic effect.

>>5880785

The exact conversion ratio between real world money and muggle money shall be handwaved, because the official rates are fucking insane (and because any time a QM tries doing it, the players attempt to game the system to make infinite money). I’m trying to come up with numbers for things like Arty’s wage, and none of the numbers even remotely make sense with what we’ve seen in the books with the Weasleys.

Like, a wand, a thing you will use for your entire life, costs seven galleons, and the conversion rate is supposed to be 1 galleon = £5. Ollivander is going to need several side-hustles if he’s only selling like, a hundred of them, once a year to the new students. At the same time, the Triwizard tournament’s prize was 1000 galleons, and was viewed as something that helped kickstart Fred and George’s business. Sure, it’s a decent chunk of money, but I doubt you could buy a huge store on the wizard equivalent of Broadway for that amount of cash.

So, like Rowling did with any sense of coherence and balancing of her books, it shall all not be referenced, and simply work by QM’s fiat.

>>5880768

You too, anon!

--

You’re soon parking, or trying to find somewhere to park, in Charing Cross Road, London’s traffic being as unpleasant as usual. Your hand itches to flick your wand and magically shift some cars to the side, but no. You wait as your dad goes around the block four times searching for a spot instead of just going a street over and parking there, and, finally, you step out into the fresh and cold London air.

“Does everywhere smell like smoke?“ Arty asks, scrunching her nose and scratching at her school-provided second-hand muggle clothes that look about thirty years out of date. She’d never bought muggle clothes before, as she'd never been in muggle territory.

“Just the fun places. Come on, the Leaky Cauldron is right there.”

“Me and your mom will be just going into that restaurant right there,” your dad points. “That pub of yours gives me a headache.”

Muggles couldn’t see the Leaky Cauldron, but Squibs like your parents were simply “heavily disincentivised”. They wouldn’t notice magical things if you didn’t point them out or it got directly in their way, and would generally frown when interacting with the things they could see, though the intensity of the discomfort varied. Your dad got a headache from simply glancing at the old pub, while your mom could look at it, but had gotten a migraine from going into it once. The old caretaker, Filch, lived in the Hogwarts castle without a problem even though he was a Squib.

Or maybe he had a constant migraine, and that’s why he used to be such pain in the ass. He retired in the previous year, and you hear he’s living somewhere far away with about a dozen cats.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:28:45 No.5880987 Report

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>>5880985

There is a glance between your parents, some sort of mental communication they had acquired after being together for two and a half decades, and your father ropes Arty and Apollo into a conversation. Meanwhile, your mom pulls you aside, opens her purse, pulls some bills out, frowns, then pulls some more before handing it to you..

“Is this enough?”

“Mom!” You hiss, quickly pocketing the money. “Don’t just wave money around! This is way too much!”

“Well, consider it your Christmas allowance. I want you to go and buy your girlfriend a good christmas gift.”

“I already got her a gift earlier.”

“Well, then you’re going to go get her another gift, because only a bad boyfriend would let his girlfriend pass their first Christmas day together without a gift.” She frowns. “And… in your letter, you mentioned they’re under the school’s care, right?”

You nod.

“Then don’t forget to share some of that money with them, so they can buy some nice things too.”

You already know Arty’s not going to like that, but you nod.

“Thanks mum.”

You hug her, and approach your father just in time to hear him say “And then, of course, during the Second Great Fire in 1940 this whole area was destroyed except for that one building right there, which baffled us muggles who didn’t know what it really was, of course.”

“Dad! Don’t start lecturing at them just because they’re too polite to stop you!”

“Son, talking endlessly about the things you love to people who pretend they’re paying attention is one of life’s greatest pleasures.”

“Oh, he knows,” Arty says, laughing. “Don’t get him started on Atlantis, or he’ll talk your ear off!”

“Hey!”

--

A few minutes later, you, Arty and Apollo are exiting Gringotts with a small bag of gold, silver and copper coins.

“Here,” you say, taking a few of each in your hands and stretching them to each of the twins. “Courtesy of the Hallaster family.”

Apollo takes it. Arty, of course, glares at you, hands on her hips.

“That’s not a gift.”

“It is. From my mom and dad to you. It’s just in its raw form instead of already preprocessed into merchandise.”

“That… that’s not how it works! I have my own money!”

You know a lost fight when you see one. “Fine. Here, Apollo, have these too.”

So you walk through Diagon Alley, passing all the stores which are old news to you, but which they have only seen twice before, when they were brought here to get their wands. While Apollo is constantly frowning, scanning the stores meticulously, Arty is looking into her bag of coins and muttering.

“And then there’s Annie and Jill and Tobias… That’s just ten Sickles for each… And plus an owl to send them…”

“What are you doing?”

“I’m seeing how much I have to spend for each present.”

You peek inside the bag, and are pleasantly surprised to see there’s a decent amount of gold in there.

“Arty, how many people are you buying gifts for?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:29:46 No.5880989 Report

Quoted By: >>5880993 >>5880999 >>5881002 >>5881013 >>5881074 >>5881098 >>5881133 >>5881206 >>5881221 >>5881558 >>5881584

>>5880987

“Well, there’s everyone in my army, then the people in my year in Hufflepuff, then the ones I’m helping train, and…” She says, counting on her fingers. “And then there’s you and Apollo and Linda. Should I get something for the teachers?”

“Arty, that’s the most insanely Hufflepuff thing I’ve ever heard, so much so that Helga Hufflepuff herself is snickering in my head and telling me to stop you. You don’t need to buy a gift for everyone you know!”

“But what if people hear that they didn’t get a present from me and someone else did!? That wouldn’t be fair!”

“Arty, Christmas doesn’t mean going bankrupt. I’ll get a gift for you, Apollo, Linda, maybe my other lieutenants if I find something I think they’ll like and I’m feeling generous. Everyone else can take a hike, they’re not entitled to gifts.”

“But- but-”

Apollo steps in front of her, crouching down until he’s eye-level. Then he flicks her in the forehead.

“Ow!”

“Elliot is more normal than us.” He says. “Don’t question when normal people tell you you’re being weird.”

“I’m the one who tells you that!” She says, rubbing her forehead. “And he’s not that normal!”

“He said few gifts. Get few gifts.”

She frowns, pouting.

“Fine! But if people hate me because of it, I’ll say it’s your fault!”

--

The three of you walk around, but it soon becomes obvious that you have a problem. Namely, you all need to buy gifts for each other, but it ruins the surprise of Christmas when you see the thing that’s being bought.

“Right, so we split up, buy our stuff, then meet back here in an hour.”

They both nod.

“And no buying gifts for the entirety of Hogwarts.”

Arty scrunches up her nose and shows you her tongue before leaving in the direction of a bookstore. Right, now comes the problem of what to buy her.

You have three ideas. First is a pouch that is bigger on the inside. You won’t manage to buy one that’s as big as yours, but… Maybe you could get one with an air-refreshment spell? It won’t be like the fabled Scamander’s trunk but… it’s a start.

Second is proper enchanted robes. She’s using just plain robes, but you could get some with cooling and warming charms. If she ever needs to fight in the snow, doing so without five layers of clothing will certainly help.

Third is good old jewelry. She’s bought practical clothes and school supplies, but nothing properly for herself, not for luxury. It’ll be nice to see her with something beautiful of her own.

What will you get her?

> A pouch that’s bigger on the inside.
> Enchanted climatized robes
> The most beautiful necklace you can find that fits in your budget
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:41:40 No.5880993 Report

Quoted By: >>5880999 >>5881558

>>5880989
> Other (Write in)
Are there any magical or quasi-magical items in Harry Potter lore that help with befriending/taming a pet beast? it's bad form to get someone a pet without asking, but the means o acquire and care for their own pet when ready...?

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:54:52 No.5880999 Report

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>>5880993
she can barely make enough for herself, i dont think getting her a pet is the wisest idea anon

>>5880989
> A pouch that’s bigger on the inside.
while i feel she would appreciate this, im not sure if this is something she REALLY needs
> Enchanted climatized robes
my inner min-maxer says that this would be the best gift, but my inner roleplayer says that she would be slightly offended over getting her whats technically "school supplies" since she is so adamant about it
> The most beautiful necklace you can find that fits in your budget
i think this one might be the one, something "extra" that wont get in her way and shows our love for her in a materialistic way
and if we could charm it so it could also have a secondary use, that would be awesome, tho im not entirely sure what that secondary use could be...

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 09:00:38 No.5881002 Report

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>>5880985
Squibs, huh? Didn't see that coming. So are we technically even muggleborn? Squib-born? Since squibs are just, like, failed wizards, would that make us a pure blood? And I am glad I am not the only one who though that conversion rate was fucked. Maybe if they are talking about pounds from 1900 it would make some sense.

>>5880989
This is very cute. Apollo telling Arty she is being weird is the reverse Uno of the year.

> Other (Write in)
A pair of beautiful earrings. She had to borrow some last time, so it would be nice to give her some that are hers. Also she looked really, really good in the ones Talon lent her.

Why did he have nice looking girl's earrings? You think him and Andre are friends? Hahaha.

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Anonymous ID:cUl9eoT4 Wed 03 Jan 2024 09:34:56 No.5881013 Report

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>>5880989
>The most beautiful necklace you can find that fits in your budget
I think it’s cute.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:32:00 No.5881033 Report

Quoted By: >>5881098 >>5881260

If necklace or my suggestion wins, I think we might try to get her something with her birthstone; peridot btw.

It is often a yellow-green color, which kinda works as she is a Hufflepuff dating a Slytherin lol.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Wed 03 Jan 2024 11:31:15 No.5881074 Report

Quoted By: >>5881558 >>5881584

>>5880989
>Omnioculars. A really nice pair.
Literally the perfect gift for her. The basic ones are cheap as fuuuuck, so I imagine one that's decked out with 'the works' is still within our price range. Seriously, it suits her hobby the BEST and it suits her new life-threatening situation the best.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Wed 03 Jan 2024 12:47:26 No.5881098 Report

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>>5880989
>The most beautiful necklace you can find that fits in your budget
Earring are good as well.

>>5881033
I'll support this too. And maybe we can charm it with something that could help her?

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Wed 03 Jan 2024 13:57:14 No.5881133 Report

Quoted By: >>5881206

>>5880989
>Arty scrunches up her nose and shows you her tongue before leaving in the direction of a bookstore. Right, now comes the problem of what to buy her.
I mean we didn't ask mom if there was a family ring we should use...so wedding ring?
But if we don't want to kill her with a heart attack and ourselves with Apollo, badger shaped broach? Maybe with a snake about it. Oh and Omnioculars.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:10:18 No.5881206 Report

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>>5880989
>>5881133
If we can afford to get the binoculars and a small piece of nice jewelry I will switch my vote to that. Silver hair clip? Bangle? I do like the snake with badger; show the world she is ours. If you fuck with her, the might of Lord Hallaster will fall on you like the fist of a furious god.

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Anonymous ID:4EUWo00n Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:25:59 No.5881221 Report

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>>5880989
>>5881002
+1

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:48:45 No.5881256 Report

Quoted By: >>5881559

So hypothetical question, if during his adventures, Elliot finds a way to undo the Interdict of Merlin by IDK, destroying the Cup of Sorrows which is holding it together... should we do it? We have at least some idea of what unchecked magical power and progress can look like. See the Atlanteans and the fucked up shit we can infer from the artifacts we know they made. At the same time we can also see what gimping Wizardkind has caused; mad men desperate to leave a legacy, suffering which could have been stopped or fixed, an end to the age of wonders, ect.

I would vote yes, if for no other reason than to spite Merlin. He sounds like a dick who though he knew better than everyone else.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2Vfna/eT Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:55:35 No.5881260 Report

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>>5881033
I can support this.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 04 Jan 2024 02:11:24 No.5881558 Report

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>>5881074
I'll support this instead of >>5880993 (my original vote)

>>5880989

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 04 Jan 2024 02:13:02 No.5881559 Report

Quoted By: >>5881598

>>5881256
He may have in fact had a really good reason that Helga/Faith just can't remember yet. Maybe Salazar, or someone, was already trying to rewrite time or do something else monumentally malevolent with old magic

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Thu 04 Jan 2024 02:56:01 No.5881584 Report

Quoted By:

>>5880989
>>5881074
Supporting.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 03:13:54 No.5881598 Report

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>>5881559
My original theory was that it took the 4 founders sacrificing themselves to seal the void they were looking at in the memory Faith remembered when the dementor attacked us. My only issue was that Salazar doesn't strike me as the self sacrificing type. The prospect of the Nothing void destroying everything might have convinced him? So Elliot might be wrong that they were used to power the spell that created the interdict?

Didn't Merlin create the time turners? Hmmmm.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:14:14 No.5881843 Report

Quoted By: >>5881844

First, you take care of Apollo and Linda. For him, you get three new sets of nice robes, as Arty had told you. For Linda you find a very niche store that sells pieces from a wizard game that also uses animated pieces, like wizard chess. The game itself is an insane mess of rules, but the pieces themselves are sold separately, and you can see her making plenty of use of them in her mock battles.

For your three other lieutenants, you pick each a large pack of chocolate frogs. And, finally, after looking around to see if there wasn’t a small hufflepuff watching you from afar, you enter a store for quidditch apparel. Ten minutes later, you’re leaving with a wrapped package containing a brand new, far too expensive Ominocular, which can zoom, slow down, freeze and replay actions at will. You didn’t buy it for Quidditch, of course, but the ones at Magizoology stores were much worse than this one.

You had tested with a cat that was passing outside the store, and watched as it jumped in excruciatingly slow motion and swatted a fly on the wall. Yes, this would do nicely.

You leave the store and go back to your meeting spot, where Arty and Apollo are already waiting for you. He gives most of the money back to you.

“How many presents did you buy?” You ask, raising an eyebrow.

“Two.”

“Is it for me and Elliot?” Arty asks.

“Yes.”

She sighs.

“Not that few gifts, Apollo!”

So the next half hour consists in you two helping him pick people to give gifts to, then helping him pick the gifts. He was truly hopeless, and it honestly made you a bit excited to see what in Merlin’s name he could have possibly gotten you.

As the night falls proper, you three make a quick stop at the owlhouse to send off the gifts, then at Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, where you try to pay but Arty shushes you and pays first, and head out enjoying your treats. You meet back with your parents, who have purchase bags of their own, and after a quick dinner at the closest McDonalds, which utterly bewilders Arty, you all embark on the long trip back home.

Arty stays with her face glued to the window the whole trip, watching the lights pass and asking questions about everything (How do the street lights work? How does the car move without magic? How are the buildings so tall?) and you answer them as best as you can. Eventually, you start smelling the distant salt air of the sea, and soon you’re parking in front of your home in Cardiff.

It is, admittedly, a large house for the number of people who live in it. Your parents had bought it when they were planning to have a second kid, but it never happened, and with you going away for most of the year a lot of rooms go unused. Fortunately, that means there’s a spare bedroom.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:15:16 No.5881844 Report

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>>5881843

The first thing from the entrance is the tv room, also known as the library. One half of the wall to the left of the tv is covered with your father’s history books, the other with your mom’s law books. Another wall has your section, a mixture of fantasy, science fiction and exoteric books, and alos those books that don’t fit in any of the other places, including at least one row of cooking books. The tv room has a small stair that leads to a slightly elevated area which holds the fancy-looking dining room (which is really only used when you have visitors) and a small but stocked bar, mostly filled with wines, from your mother’s clients, and whisky, from your father’s colleagues. It connects to the kitchen and to a set of stairs, which leads to a corridor with your parents’ bedroom, a guest room turned storage room and now, hopefully, turned once more into a guest room, and your bedroom.

On the corner of the tv room is a Christmas tree, still undecorated, of course.

“Let me show you where you two will be staying,” you say, taking them upstairs.

“I hope you two are alright with sleeping in the same room,” your mom tells Arty and Apollo. “If you aren’t, I’m sure Elliot can lend you his room and sleep with your brother instead, Arty!”

“We’re fine, thanks Ms. Hallaster!”

“Please! Call me Helen!”

“Ok, Helen!”

--

After the long train trip and the long car trip, you’re all tired and sleep comes easily. It is fairly strange to wake up under this strange ceiling. The bedroom is, of course, the same way you left it. Your computer is still there, unused but not gathering dust as your mom would never allow any part of her house to be dirty, much less when you are here.

You get up and out of your bedroom only to see a completely disheveled Arty in her pajamas, still looking half asleep, a messy head of bed-hair.

“Hufgnh…” She groans as she zombies past you and into the bathroom.

“She’s always like this when she wakes up,” Apollo says. “She needs a few minutes to get started. Screaming loudly in her ear also does the trick, but she will try to hex you afterwards.”

“Thanks for the heads up,” you say, laughing. Then you notice a pile of folded clothes on a chair against the wall with a note on top of it.

Elliot always told me wizards didn’t know much about us, and I think they forgot to look at how we dress for the last few decades. I took the liberty of buying some things a little more current while you three were in the Diagonal Alley. I hope they fit! We can go shopping for more later today!

One brushing of teeth, dress-up and a whole frowning Arty later (“But it isn’t Christmas yet, she shouldn’t be giving me a gift!”, quickly followed by a flick to the forehead from Apollo), you three make your way down for breakfast.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:16:17 No.5881845 Report

Quoted By: >>5881850 >>5881856 >>5881861 >>5881863 >>5881932 >>5882149 >>5882156

>>5881844

“So,” your mom says. “I think we could eat, go to the market get a few things that are missing for Christmas, get you two some new muggle clothes-” Arty squirms in her seat as you expected, “And then you three are free to enjoy the afternoon! And at night we can decorate the tree. What do you think?”

“Sounds good! Have you started defrosting the turkey yet?”

“Elliot, this isn’t my first Christmas feast!”

“Just asking!”

Once all the purchasing is done… Where do you plan on taking Arty and Apollo?

> To the mall, show them the muggle society
> To the beaches, there won't be any sun, but they at least can see the sea for the first time
> Take them to the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
> Take them through the tourist route, showing them the history and all the Doctor Who-based stuff
> Show them what video-games are
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:28:05 No.5881850 Report

Quoted By: >>5881861 >>5881863

>>5881845
> Take them through the tourist route, showing them the history and all the Doctor Who-based stuff
And when our autistic friend gets over-stimmed...
> Take them to the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
We have something mellow we can do that he'll enjoy.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:49:31 No.5881856 Report

Quoted By: >>5881861 >>5882003

>>5881845
quick question, how many "days" are we spending here and how many of that will be an actual update? cuz i want to make the most of it and i wouldnt mind taking our time with this section, after the cosmic horrors and unending battles, a nice extended comfy session feels like paradise to me

>To the beaches, there won't be any sun, but they at least can see the sea for the first time
i think they would appreciate the wonders of the vast sea, specially Arty, we could also tell her a bit of the many muggle sea creatures, we could get her interesed in oceanography once we tell her that only like 5% of the muggle ocean has been explored

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 07:58:38 No.5881861 Report

Quoted By: >>5881863

>>5881845
>>5881850
Supporting this.

>>5881856
>quick question, how many "days" are we spending here and how many of that will be an actual update? cuz i want to make the most of it and i wouldnt mind taking our time with this section, after the cosmic horrors and unending battles, a nice extended comfy session feels like paradise to me

I agree 100%

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 08:06:57 No.5881863 Report

Quoted By: >>5881918

>>5881845

>>5881850
>>5881861
Or wait, wouldn't it be better to wait to bird watch till like the day after Christmas, so Arty can try out her new omnioculars?

I will change my park vote to:
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet

Because it has the potential for hilarity. Also I love that they got to try the pinnacle of muggle cuisine, MickyD's. Amazing.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 10:26:34 No.5881918 Report

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>>5881863
If internet wins, this needs to be the BGM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 04 Jan 2024 11:23:12 No.5881932 Report

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>>5881845
>Take them to the Mall. Make sure to stop by the mall's Arcade. You WILL destroy Apollo at something.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 04 Jan 2024 14:57:01 No.5882003 Report

Quoted By: >>5882209 >>5882224

>>5881856
You arrived in the 22nd of December and leave on the 5th of January, so two weeks. As for number of updates, I'm thinking this next one, then Christmas, then two more (maybe one extra for New Year's if I can come up with something), so four more updates, maybe five.

But, as usual, that can change depending on the direction my writing takes me (or if Voldemort decides to come back from death for the exclusive purpose of kidnapping your girlfriend for no good reason, or some equally horrible tragedy happens :) ).

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 04 Jan 2024 19:44:05 No.5882149 Report

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>>5881845
>> Take them to the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
>> Take them through the tourist route, showing them the history and all the Doctor Who-based stuff

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Anonymous ID:yU93B/2e Thu 04 Jan 2024 19:58:17 No.5882156 Report

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>>5881845
So we have a few hours to kill? Nice.
> To the beaches, there won't be any sun, but they at least can see the sea for the first time
Then
> To the mall, show them the muggle society
And after that we can chill out with a combination of
> Show them what video-games are
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 21:37:14 No.5882209 Report

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>>5882003
>if Voldemort decides to come back from death for the exclusive purpose of kidnapping your girlfriend for no good reason, or some equally horrible tragedy happens :)

I am almost more excited to see what Arty and Apollo got Elliot than to see what I got for IRL Christmas.

The MVP for me was either this really nice heated blanket, because I am always cold, or the new competition pistol.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Thu 04 Jan 2024 22:00:01 No.5882224 Report

Quoted By: >>5882244

>>5882003
If we have two weeks, and there are only six things on the list, can we try to do everything in a frantic whirlwind that will get us stern talking to by our girlfriend?
Also, the Cardiff University does have a lot of Arthur studies. Maybe swing by the museum for terrible attack by Salazar or Mordred?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 04 Jan 2024 22:43:26 No.5882244 Report

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>>5882224
That would be amusing. I really do want to milk this down time for all it is worth.

And I guess Kendrick is a History Prof. at the Uni while Helen is a lawyer? That would give Elliot a pretty comfy life. Not millionaires but I knew a bunch of kid with similar setups when I was in HS, since it is a college town.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 05 Jan 2024 03:14:05 No.5882381 Report

Quoted By: >>5882389

This update is taking far longer than usual due to the simple fact that I have never actually been in anywhere in the UK that isn't London, and I'm having to google what the fuck Cardiff has that is in any way interesting so Elliot can show it to them.

One day, I'll learn to plan these things. But it is not this day.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Fri 05 Jan 2024 03:20:57 No.5882389 Report

Quoted By: >>5882530

>>5882381
I did the same. But for weird shit. There's a harem room in the castle.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 05:44:52 No.5882530 Report

Quoted By: >>5882834 >>5882888

>>5882389
Harem you say...

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 05 Jan 2024 09:11:53 No.5882642 Report

Quoted By: >>5882643 >>5882834

First, you five go to a clothing store, and after a while Apollo and Arty come out with enough clothes to spend the week without having to use Hogwarts outdated dresswear. Arty in particular looks adorable in a bright pink winter coat she picked herself and which, for only the time since you've known her, fit her properly. Fortunately for you, she also has no notion of muggle pricing to know you mom bought them good clothes.

Once that’s done, you five go to the nearby supermarket, your dad mostly to push the cart and pay for stuff while you and your mom go through fetching some missing ingredients.

“Do we have wine?”

“Mom, we always have wine. You basically stockpile wine.”

“Not my fault people think lawyers survive on a diet of wine and fancy cheeses.”

“I don’t hear you complaining about the cheeses.”

“And you never will. But they could afford to vary a bit.”

“I’ll let them know you’re drinking exclusively tequila now.”

“Ha! Not since I had some from a plastic jug at college and woke up feeling like death on the next day. But I wouldn’t say no to a nice gin, or even a cocktail. Say, isn’t brewing potions basically magical bartending?”

“I know at least ten different potioneers who would hex you if they heard you saying that.”

“Good thing I have my brave and powerful son to protect me. Do your friends drink?”

“They’re fifteen and sixteen.”

“Doesn’t answer my question,” says the woman whose upbringing was half of the reason you were put in Slytherin. “And you know it very well.”

“I haven’t seen Arty drink and Apollo definitely hasn't. You… probably don’t want two magical kids getting drunk for the first time in your house. Things could get messy really quick, most of all with accidental magic.”

“Here’s some wisdom from your elders: you don’t have to drink until you puke every time. You can stop after one glass. I was just asking to see if they’d drink the champagne during New Year’s.”

She looks over her shoulder to where your father is talking to the twins and helping them place one of each different kind of extremely industrialized and brightly colored muggle candy in the shopping cart and convincing Arty that, no, it's really no problem at all.

“They’re… special, aren’t they?” She asks. “I mean, Taylor and Raven were different but… They have something else, don’t they?”

“Sort of. I told you they were orphans in my letter, but… They had a complicated childhood, in more ways than one. It… left some scars, though I think Apollo got the brunt of it. I think he tried his best to protect her from the worst. She has problems letting people give her stuff, even got a job because she doesn’t want to use the school funds, and he… we’ll you’ve seen it. And he goes absolutely feral if anything threatens her.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 05 Jan 2024 09:13:14 No.5882643 Report

Quoted By: >>5882644 >>5882834

>>5882642

“I’ve worked with some children from troubled homes,” says the woman whose upbringing was half of the reason you were almost put in Hufflepuff. “It’s never easy. Some get really possessive, some get really aggressive, some grow reclusive. Some think they always need to be a good kid, or they’ll get beaten or abandoned again. Best you can do is be there for them when they need it. That and get them a trained professional.”

“No therapists in the wizard world, unfortunately.”

“None?”

“In a world with mind-reading and potions that let you impersonate someone else easily… People who know everyone else’s deepest secrets would be too big of a target, and everyone knows that. And those who are powerful enough to not care about that risk have bigger things to do, so the profession just never really appeared. That’s as far as I can guess, at least.”

“Then you can be a good friend,” she says. “You can’t change the whole world, Elliot, but you can help the people around you. If everyone did that, if everyone were to just add a bit more light to the people around them… Why, then I would be out of a job, but at least the world would be a better place.”

“Also, while they’re away,” she continues, making sure they’re still out of earshot. “You said she’s a fifth-year student, right? Do wizards have anti-pregnancy potions or should I buy you a box of condoms?”

“Mom!”

“Don’t you ‘mom’ me! She’s the first girl you brought home and I know my share of teen parents and I don’t intend on letting my son become part of that statistic!”

“No, we’re nowhere close to that yet!”

“Well, if you ever get to that, don’t be stupid. Does Hogwarts have sex-ed?”

“I am not discussing this with you in the middle of the supermarket!”

“Oh, shush, no one’s listening. So, do they have it?”

You sigh, shushing the giggling Helga inside your head. “There’s a corner of the infirmary with anti-pregnancy potions that you can just go and get without anyone seeing or talking to you.”

“Oh good! At least they do something they’re better than us. Maybe that’s why there are so few of you.”

“That and the genocidal wizard a couple decades ago.”

“That too.”

--

Once you’re done with your purchases, you go back home and you, Arty and Apollo depart. First you have no clear direction, just wandering the streets and enjoying the cold winter air.

As you walk, you talk about the city, getting a handle on what part of muggle culture they know and what part they don’t. Arty remembered “the bright moving paintings”, but didn’t know what they were called, so you tell her all about about it, your favorite tv shows, and of course, Doctor Who, which every good british boy was contractually obliged to watch, if only at the very least the Christmas specials. Any time you pass by somewhere interesting, you tell them about it, the city filled with old and fond memories.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 05 Jan 2024 09:14:15 No.5882644 Report

Quoted By: >>5882646

>>5882643

It is winter, so when you enter the Royal Arcade it is filled with people trying to get out from the biting cold. It is one of seven old Victorian structures with hundreds of local shopping boutiques, restaurants, cafes, stores, the whole lot, a strange mix of old and new that works, making the whole thing cozy and modern.

Arty is clearly loving stopping on every single shop window to look at all the new stuff, but it doesn’t take long for her to stop.

“Is there somewhere less crowded?” She asks, and it doesn’t take much to figure out why. Apollo is looking to be positively on what you can only call attack mode, tense, hand constantly flinching to where his wand is hiding before he catches himself, as if a group of death eaters could jump out from the nearest coffee shop at any instant.

Before a tragedy happens, you leave, heading north towards Bute Park, a massive stretch of green that covers a great chunk of the city, the old Cardiff Castle watching over you nearby. The morning snow has mostly melted, but the grass is still wet, so you find a small coffee shop with outside tables where he can relax.

“Uh… thanks.” He says when you sit down, looking sheepish.

“It’s fine. It was a bit too crowded today, people doing last minute Christmas shopping.”

“It was fun watching you talk,” Arty says. “You sound just like your dad did when he was talking about London.”

“Yes, Taylor said the same thing when he came to spend Christmas,” you say, with only a slight tinge of dread. “Ever since last year my mom started getting our voices confused if we speak when she’s not looking. I’m hoping to at least avoid khaki shorts in my future.”

“I think robes suit you much better.”

“I was thinking more along the lines of golden vests imbued with the power of Merlin, but yes, robes will also do fine.”

You order and soon you each have a cup of steaming hot chocolate in your hands.

“If you’re not too afraid of the cold, I was thinking we could come here some day after Christmas. Right before the sun rises. There are swarms of birds that come to go for the bird feeders or the trees.”

“Ooooh, I’d like that! You’d mentioned there was a park close to your house, but I was thinking it was a small thing. This place is huge! I mean, it has a Castle! Who even lives there?”

“No one, really, it’s just a tourist attraction now. We can visit it later. But my dad works right there,” you say, pointing at the great buildings of the Cardiff University, right beside the park. “I think the main buildings are closed now, because of the holidays, but we can still see the grounds. And I think the Ice Bar should be set up close to it!”

“What type of bar specializes in ice?” Arty asks, confused.

“No, the bar is made out of ice.”

“That sounds impractical,” Apollo says.

“It is, that’s why it only exists in winter. And you have to book a time slot beforehand, if I recall correctly, so it shouldn’t be too full if we go.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 05 Jan 2024 09:15:56 No.5882646 Report

Quoted By: >>5882653 >>5882661 >>5882676 >>5882723 >>5882733 >>5882834 >>5882949 >>5882957

>>5882644

Once you’re done with the hot chocolate, you head for the university. It’s one of several buildings that surround a large rectangular garden, which include a library, a church, a museum, the police station, the crown court and the city hall, all bundled up in a single huge area. You’re passing by the Ice Bar in the way there when Arty squeals.

“They have an ice rink! I haven’t been ice skating in forever!”

Oh no.

“The lake freezes every year, Arty,” you say, your voice strained.

“Yeah, but transfiguring good ice skates is really hard and I didn’t want to borrow one and I didn’t have the time! Can we go?”

Ice skating. You had tried it once when you were seven, fallen on your face and hurt yourself. Then an irresponsible uncle had let you watch a slasher movie where the killer chopped someone’s head off with an ice skating shoe, and then every time you came close to it you thought about falling and someone skating over your hands and cutting them off, so from that day on you had decided to stay firmly on solid, non-slippery land, thank you very much. If you had to go on ice, you’d use spiked shoes, and not simply slide on what was basically two blades haphazardly tied to a shoe.

Taylor had asked for the same thing when he spent Christmas with you, and you had gone with him, and your legs were shaking so bad you could barely move and your hands couldn’t unclamp from the railings, some deep, primal fear taking hold. It’d been so bad he hadn’t even mocked you about it.

“Oh, you have to buy a ticket,” she says, reading the signs over where people gracefully glide over the frozen surface. “Can I borrow some money to go? I promise I’ll pay you when we get back to your home!”

It’s now your turn to feel like you’re in attack mode, every muscle tense, like an aracnophobe faced with an acromantula, except yours is white and has knives at the end of its feet. There is no way stepping into this doesn’t end poorly for you.

> “I’m… Out of money.”
> “You two can go, I’ll watch you from here.”
> Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Fri 05 Jan 2024 09:25:02 No.5882653 Report

Quoted By: >>5882661

>>5882646
>Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too
anything, and i mean ANYTHING! for our miniwaifu, we doing this!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 10:01:09 No.5882661 Report

Quoted By: >>5882957

>>5882646
> Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too

Watching Elliot eat shit on the ice is too good to pass up. Maybe Arty would be so kind as to hold us while we glide around, petrified?

>>5882653
Exactly. what the wifelette wants, the wifelette gets. I would laugh my ass off if Apollo turns out to be some kind of skating protege, doing spins, pirouettes, jumps, ect

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 05 Jan 2024 10:38:15 No.5882676 Report

Quoted By: >>5882707 >>5882834 >>5882958

>>5882646
>Go Ice Skating, but see if Helga will help you cheat. Or at least give you some tips, damn it!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 11:13:58 No.5882707 Report

Quoted By: >>5882717 >>5882727

>>5882676
>"Let me guide your skates"

Kek.

I am fine with Elliot sucking at this, personally.

On the topic of Helga though, our last interaction was kinda sad. I wonder if our connection is strong enough to let her body jack us, with our permission? Let her enjoy somethings at least for a little while, like real food. I trust her enough to be okay with that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Fri 05 Jan 2024 11:35:10 No.5882717 Report

Quoted By: >>5882731

>>5882707
i´ll support this, everyone gets a gift, including her, she could use our body to re-experience some stuff, who knows, maybe it could trigger some memories

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:8eHgJ4SY Fri 05 Jan 2024 12:09:00 No.5882723 Report

Quoted By:

>>5882646
> Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:8eHgJ4SY Fri 05 Jan 2024 12:18:54 No.5882727 Report

Quoted By: >>5882731

>>5882707
>Helga bodyjack
As nice as this would be, I don’t think it’d be a good idea. Isn’t she still holding back the beast inside of us? If she takes control then who’s gonna fight it back? Us? As good as we are, I dunno if we should do that.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 12:28:57 No.5882731 Report

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>>5882727
I mean, we would ask her if it would be safe to to it before, just for a little while. And I think the beast is more or less on lock down following Last Light. We haven't had it interrupt of dreams with her since at any rate.

And like:
>>5882717
said, it might be a nice gift.

On the more practical side, if we ever get incapacitated, knowing she can take over for a bit might save our lives. Remember how Salazar was able to just no sell a pair of stunners from Linda and Taylor when he was using Lily's body?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Fri 05 Jan 2024 12:34:23 No.5882733 Report

Quoted By:

>>5882646
> Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Fri 05 Jan 2024 17:59:57 No.5882834 Report

Quoted By: >>5883043

>>5882530
Indeed I did. 'Harem' inspired Arab Room.

>>5882642
>>5882643
>Says the woman whose upbringing was half of the reason you were put in Slytherin
>Says the woman whose upbringing was half of the reason you were almost put in Hufflepuff
I love this line, I just wanted to tell you how good this was.

>>5882646
> Accept that you’re going to die in a painful and humiliating manner, in front of Arty, and that she’s going to laugh over your corpse, and go skating too
But also >>5882676, with the caveat that she fails too 'cause they didn't have good ice skates back in the day. So we can both land on our ass and have a laugh at it.

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Quoted By:

>>5882530

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Fri 05 Jan 2024 20:56:33 No.5882949 Report

Quoted By: >>5882957 >>5882958

>>5882646
We've already given both of them the truth. We CAN ask if we can let Helga relive ice skating with them. Hell of a thing to go skating with the creator of your house.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 21:24:00 No.5882957 Report

Quoted By: >>5882958

>>5882646
>>5882661

You know what, I will change to:
>>5882661
>>5882949
What these guys said.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 05 Jan 2024 21:25:02 No.5882958 Report

Quoted By:

>>5882957
I meant
>>5882949
>>5882676

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:26:58 No.5883043 Report

Quoted By: >>5883047 >>5883056 >>5883064 >>5883179

>>5882834
Aw, thanks anon!

--

“... Helga, I…” you think as you step into line. “I might need you to take over a bit.”

“You want to use up your connection with me, one that can supercharge your magic far beyond normal capabilities and help you defeat enemies that would be otherwise invincible, to go ice skating?” She asks, amused.

“Uh… yes. Because… you know… I figure you miss seeing the sun and the wind and… everyone deserves a christmas gift and… uh, something like that.” YOu say, with some difficulty coming up with reasons.

“I see, so you’re not doing this because you’re terrified of stepping onto that ice, you’re doing it because you’re a good, considerate person, is that correct?”

“Uh, yes?” You answer as a man puts a pair of skates into your shaking hands.

“Too bad, I don’t feel like it.”

“Helga!”

“You need to face your fears, that’s what courage is all about!”

“I’m a Slytherin, not a Gryffindor!”

“Then talk your way out of it. You made this choice, not me.”

“Come on, help me out here!”

“Ah, so you do want my help!”

You put on the shoes and start shimmying your way to the ice, hyperventilating.

“Yes! Yes, I do!”

“Say the nice word, then.”

Your boots touch the ice.

“Please!”

“Hum, since you’re asking so politely, then sure. I still can’t fully take control, even when you allow me to, but let’s see what I can do for you.”

> Roll a d100-25 (-50 from the fear, +25 from your newly reinforced connection with Helga), Bo3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KybMZryU Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:29:45 No.5883047 Report

Quoted By: >>5883049 >>5883138 >>5883165

Rolled 20 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5883043
oh man, this is gonna be fun

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KybMZryU Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:30:45 No.5883049 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883047
>-5
oh, we are actually dying here...
not killed by a cosmic horror, but ice skating...i guess thats ONE way to be remembered for eternity

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:44:22 No.5883056 Report

Quoted By: >>5883059 >>5883138 >>5883165

Rolled 49 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5883043
Guide my Skates!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:46:16 No.5883059 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883056
Fuck, did not notice it is MINUS 25.

These first two rolls don't count right, QM, haha

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sat 06 Jan 2024 00:55:45 No.5883064 Report

Quoted By: >>5883138 >>5883165

Rolled 58 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5883043

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 01:08:00 No.5883071 Report

Quoted By: >>5883138

So we nearly immediately trip and eat shit, even with a powerful ancient witch making us suck less, bowl over an entire family of 4, break our nose on the ice, then gel our skate stuff in the wall. EMS has to be called to free our foot and out face from the frozen blood pooling around it.

>Helga has lost respect for you
>Arty is reconsidering being by your side till the end, since the end will probably be you slipping down some icy stairs and breaking your neck
>Apollo just looks smug while triple pirouetting with his leg above his head

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 06 Jan 2024 03:07:06 No.5883138 Report

Quoted By: >>5883144 >>5883262

>>5883047
>>5883056
>>5883064
Elliot is so fucking bad at ice skating even Helga can't save him from planting his face into the floor.

>>5883071
Nah that's what would've happened if we got a 1.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 03:16:24 No.5883144 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883138
I mean 33 isn't as bad as it could have been, I guess. I feel like we have rolled about that bad on an unmodified d100 before.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 06 Jan 2024 03:38:39 No.5883165 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883047
>>5883056
>>5883064

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Sat 06 Jan 2024 03:55:30 No.5883179 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 18 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5883043
COMICALLY FAIL! COMICALLY FAIL! COMICALLY FAIL!

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 04:24:39 No.5883198 Report

Quoted By: >>5883202

While we wait for the hilarity to ensue, some things:

Our connection with Helga is now stronger than Cocksucker/Salazar's was when he was with Lily, based on the bonus. This is good.

If we have to confront Scorpius, we should probably not mention the voice in his head is Slytherin prime and just keep calling him Cocksucker.

I think the creek/stream in our dreamscape probably represents our bond and connection with her, as it has been slowly growing from basically just a trickle

If we can, I would like to have a dream Christmas with Helga. It might not be as good as the real thing but it is a nice gesture. The only 2 things that can affect her are us and the beast, so maybe if we concentrate, we could manifest a small gift that would stay with her, like a hair clip or something.

Elliot's mom has the second most Slytherin job possible as a lawyer. Only a politician would trump it.

We need to, with Arty's help, make it clear to Apollo he can't fuck up Scorpius, that in fact both of them need to stay as far away from him and his dad as possible.

When we get back to Hogwarts, after we asses the situation, we need to start preparing, as do our allies. Brewing extra potions, finding some one to help tutor us and them in battle magic, researching what we can about Salazar and the 5th founder, ect. Since Arty is our little social butterfly, maybe try and see if she can establish a loose info network, at least with the 'Puff girls.

We need to train transfiguration with Apollo. After us hosting him and his sister for 2 weeks, surely we will be close enough that is an option. If we were better last time, we might have been able to save Taylor. Likewise, when we do Potions with Arty, we should get him and Linda there too if possible to maximize efficiency and the number of brews we have on hand.

We need to check on the Stone and the Library at some point. I suggest testing the stone to make sure Scorpius didn't find it and replace it with a fake in order to get our guard down. It is what I would do, after all. We don't have to use it but trying to reducio it or something might work. I doubt the real deal could be affected by something like that.

While I am very glad I am finally done with my previous hospital job, I am now very bored with the holidays done. Might come in handy for this quest lol.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 06 Jan 2024 04:28:38 No.5883202 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883198
supporting all of this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 06 Jan 2024 06:07:50 No.5883262 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883138
>Nah that's what would've happened if we got a 1.
my man, i got a -5 when i posted from work...

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 06 Jan 2024 07:08:57 No.5883309 Report

Quoted By: >>5883320 >>5883333 >>5883338 >>5883436 >>5883684 >>5883785

I was hoping to get the scene out before going to sleep, but my penchant for drama and my chronic inability to write a fucking lighthearted scene and not turn it into a discussion of trauma, phobias and PTSD is really getting in the way.

I'll just delete the two and a half pages of text I wrote and write a scene where something nice happens to Elliot for a change, because Merlin knows he deserves it, but that means no update before I go to sleep today, and I have a busy day and night tomorrow, so next update will take a while. These updates without a clear objective are really difficult for me to write, for some reason.

A question to pass the time: If there are two large scenes, two updates worth of it, with no important decision to be made between them (say, this ice skating and then Christmas), do you prefer that I:

> Hold until everything is complete and post a massive update
> Post the first scene when I finish it, then the next when it is ready, without a question prompt in-between them
> Post the first scene, ending with a mostly unimportant/minor roleplaying question, then work on the second one while the voting goes on, knowing it might take longer as I need to take the voting into account

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 06 Jan 2024 07:22:17 No.5883320 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883309
>> Post the first scene when I finish it, then the next when it is ready, without a question prompt in-between them
this one feels optimal, that way WE get content
(You) dont get to feel like you arent doing anything
and it gives everyone something to look for that we know WILL come out relatively soon instead of just randomy waiting for whatever the next update will be

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 06 Jan 2024 07:43:25 No.5883333 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883309
> Hold until everything is complete and post a massive update
I'm fine with waiting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 06 Jan 2024 07:52:35 No.5883338 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883309
>What ever is easiest and most enjoyable for you to write. If you want to dump a huge scene, do that. If you want to season the second part with a bit of RP flavor, do that.

Personally, if it is not more strssful or annoying, I like:
> Post the first scene, ending with a mostly unimportant/minor roleplaying question, then work on the second one while the voting goes on, knowing it might take longer as I need to take the voting into account

The characters are a big part of why I love this quest so anything that fleshes them out more is great. And I, like a couple of other people want to milk our break for all it is worth.

Thanks for your hard work HeadQM. Have a good nap.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sat 06 Jan 2024 11:48:58 No.5883436 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883309
>> Post the first scene when I finish it, then the next when it is ready, without a question prompt in-between them
It's a good way to give anons something while not burning yourself out.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 06 Jan 2024 19:34:13 No.5883684 Report

Quoted By:

>>5883309
> Post the first scene, ending with a mostly unimportant/minor roleplaying question, then work on the second one while the voting goes on, knowing it might take longer as I need to take the voting into account
This is just my personal preference as player, but ultimately you should pick the option that makes you feel best about continuing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 06 Jan 2024 20:51:04 No.5883785 Report

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>>5883309
>> Post the first scene when I finish it, then the next when it is ready, without a question prompt in-between them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:04:12 No.5884419 Report

Quoted By: >>5884434 >>5884446

Speculation time. Who do you think Rowena would be in, assuming she's in anyone at all?
My guess would be that she'shiding inside her own daughter's ghost, due to the strong connection between the two, in Harry and directing him in a subtler way than the others, possibly with a weaker connection due to the fact that he's already an adult, or the most likely theory brighton, since he's supposedly the most clever and is upset he was sorted into ravenclaw instead of his preferred house, which the sorting hat would usually take into account.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:10:21 No.5884423 Report

Quoted By: >>5885381

I am finally back from a baby shower and some other fun with old friends and not ready to go to bed, so while having a couple of drinks, I did a quiz for wand specs for Arty. Or as best as I could, trying to answer like she would.

>Cedar wood with a unicorn hair core, 11in and unbending flexibility

Which is kinda fun since it is the same wood as Elliot's and Arty had mentioned her core was Unicorn hair once. I think that means better at charms with it but I am not sure what malus would correspond. Dark Arts?

Does anyone have the link to what QM used for Eliott's wand?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:20:47 No.5884434 Report

Quoted By: >>5884437 >>5884446

>>5884419
Brighton would be a decent bet. I also half joke about it being Amalia.
She is smart, has been the MVP in a lot of battles, and was what looked like a possible love interest in the first thread so she might have had the chance to be a bigger part of the story.

Potter would be horrible, since he is already clever. Or maybe he is clever b/c of Rowena? Hmmmm.

Who do you think Godric might be in? Once again I had "jokingly" suggested suggested Arty. She is stupidly brave and Potter said she would have made a good Gryphindor. Maybe that was what the hat 1st suggested, but she went with Hufflepuff because Apollo was in that house and she saw how he hadn't made any friends over the year he was there with out her?

Riley could also be an option I suppose or maybe her sister?

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:26:07 No.5884437 Report

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>>5884434
Godric? I actually give that one to Apollo. He's brave when it matters, and fair. Remember, he explicitly refused chances to increase his odds of winning when it would have been convenient for him to do so, simply because he wanted to win on his own merit. He also showed sportsmanship by giving a pseudo-tie to another team. And despite his fears of flying, he tackled every challenge that required it of him. Despite his trouble in populated spaces, he went to the mall with us. He also favors a simplistic approach that I feel Godric would like, for example...just recruiting as many people as he can in the second to last battle.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:28:23 No.5884439 Report

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>>5884437
As for why Godric wouldn't be speaking up or helping in any way noticeable by whoever he inhabits, well...Godric isn't the type to gang up on people. I think he'd keep to himself and maybe silently encourage people to do their best with their own power. He'd only step in if it really, really mattered.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:46:24 No.5884446 Report

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>>5884419
>>5884434
It could be that they didn't even manage to escape the void like Helga and Salazar did. I don't think they'll show up anytime soon.

>>5884439
>I think he'd keep to himself and maybe silently encourage people to do their best with their own power. He'd only step in if it really, really mattered.
He's not Kreia from KotOR 2, if he's just hanging back and watching it all happen I'm going to be pissed off.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:49:47 No.5884447 Report

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>>5884446
I mean, he might not even have a remote idea that something's wrong depending on who he's in. And if he's in one of the twins, he wouldn't have known until very very recently...and if he didn't try to communicate in any way prior, his connection is probably very, very weak, so he'll have to start building it up to be able to communicate the way Helga does.
Either that or the void might spit him out later. I don't think Helga and Salazar got spat out at the same time, given how much more time Salazar had to work.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:50:32 No.5884448 Report

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>>5884437
>>5884439

That does make some sense. Apollo was pretty brave to confront their dad/caretaker when he was diddling Arty as well. Granted, I am sure there was plenty of anger, but it does take courage to stand up to a full grown man when you are like 8 or 9. Hell, along with the magical twins thing, Godric might have been lending Apollo some power that he uses subconsciously, which is part of why he is so strong.

Apollo might not even realize the voice in his head is someone else, since he has brain problems, or maybe those brain problems keep Godric from actively communicating with him? He has also been described as impulsive by Linda, which might fit Gryffindor Prime.

From the wiki, Gryffindor was:
>he was respectful and fair, choosing to wield a sword instead of magic against Muggle combatants out of a sense of fair play as magic would be a most decidedly unbalanced weapon in a duel against a simple sword. In addition to showing his sense of fairness, his deference to the duelling style of opponent also shows a need to challenge himself, proving his worth and courage,

Could be, though I am not 100% the other Founders escaped the Nothingness. We also have 1 1/2 years left. Could be we haven't even met thier vessels if they got out.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 07:53:40 No.5884449 Report

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>>5884448
Forgot to add, yeah, Apollo never tried any underhanded or tricky tactics other than setting up a gramophone to distract us...

If either of them have their own mind ghost and neglected to mention it after we told them everything...I would not be happy.

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Anonymous ID:1IGGZZF5 Sun 07 Jan 2024 09:48:09 No.5884494 Report

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Merlin had the same fate as the others, afaik. Could he be with someone? Who?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 09:56:53 No.5884498 Report

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>>5884494
Elliot THINKS Merlin might have gone down with the others, and that it was to create the Inderdict. I personally think the Founders died/were used in a ritual not to create the Inderdict, but to seal up the Nothingness void we saw them facing in Helga's memory. I think this is what created the Veil in the Ministry basement.

Personally, I think Merlin survived that and then used his own life and the Cup of Sorrows to make the Inderdict after the Founders were gone, possible because unchecked magic is what caused the void Helga remembered to form.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 10:05:52 No.5884502 Report

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>>5884494
Knowing him, probably his own fuckin' painting. I have my doubts that he would create it for the sole sake of telling obtuse riddles about the cursed vaults. It smells of a contingency plan to me.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 11:28:07 No.5884528 Report

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>>5884502
Shadowruns!

But trapping your "soul" in a painting sounds like hell on earth, honestly. Wouldn't put it passed him but damn...

I suppose we can add that to the list of shit to do when we get back: Check out Merlin's painting for conspiracy reasons.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 07 Jan 2024 13:26:14 No.5884582 Report

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>>5884528
>trapping your "soul" in a painting sounds like hell on earth
It strikes me as a vast improvement over the alternative that Helga's stuck with. Watching another person's life through a tiny little window and being stuck in a lifeless mindscape for god knows how long.
I would imagine the painting's "will" would be incredibly easy to override, and whenever he doesn't feel like being an active participant he can default to the painting's programming...which still acts exactly like he does. And if he wanted to tell something to someone, he wouldn't really have to go mindcrushing like Salazar or hope that his host passes the message along like Helga. There's a lot of freedom, going from nothing to a living painting.
Bonus points for getting to go on adventures through other paintings nearby and hit on the hot painted babes.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 07 Jan 2024 14:28:26 No.5884603 Report

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>>5884582
Eh that sounds like it might be okay. Granted I am a bit fuzzy on exactly what painting are? Do they have any real consciousness or are they just like a program meant to replicate the subject's behavior? Can they learn and change? Surely they don't have a soul? They can take commands from people they think they should take commands from... are they basically NPCs from an RPG, repeating canned dialogue and walking the same routes again and again until the painting is destroyed?

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 08 Jan 2024 01:44:17 No.5885162 Report

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>>5884603
The portrait people have their personalities and behaviors set by the wizard or witch that enchants it, usually whoever drew the picture. Traditionally this involves giving them a few set phrases they can parrot and some basic routines they can go through, and in 99% of cases that's it. But as we see in the Headmaster's Office (and with Merlin's own portrait), a portrait can be painstakingly instructed to expand its capabilities, possibly with the aid of adjustments on the enchantment itself. Enough effort put into it can make them an extremely convincing copy of the original, but they never stray from what they're 'taught' or 'instructed'. I think it's safe to say they don't have a soul, but something LIKE a soul is always a possibility.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 08 Jan 2024 02:36:23 No.5885192 Report

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>>5884603
They're essentially a very well-designed AI chatbot designed to mimic the mannerisms and attitudes of one specific person, and some attempt to respond to user/passersby inputs by saying what they think their 'character' would say.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 08 Jan 2024 03:33:42 No.5885230 Report

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>>5885192
That is basically what I was imagining. So IF Merlin's soul or what ever did end up is his painting, you could say we would have a "Ghost in the Magical Machine". Oh-hohohoho

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 08 Jan 2024 08:02:04 No.5885381 Report

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>>5884603
Paintings are a memory etched into paint, a memory made by the painter. It doesn't know anything about the person that the painter didn't, and it has just as much soul as ChatGPT. It doesn't hold new memories for long, it can't learn, and new events will slowly fade away from their "mind". Some even say ghosts are a self-made "painting" carved into the environment by the wizard's death. They also suffer from lack of a memory related to recent events (which is why the History of Magic classes related to the recent Wizarding War is lectured by someone who isn't a ghost), though some say that they're unable to learn simply because they're not where they belong.

This is in the quest, of course. In book-cannon, it's never truly explained or explored.

>>5884423
>Does anyone have the link to what QM used for Eliott's wand?
I think just I got all possible values from Pottermore or the wiki and rolled on them, but it has been a while.

--

You hold on to the railings around the rink with an iron grip, thanking your winter gloves for hiding your white knuckles.

“Come on, Elliot!” Arty says, sliding past the entrance and into the middle. “Woooooo!”

“Elliot, if you want me to help you, you need to let go from the railing,” Helga says in your head.

“Uh-huh. Got it.”

“You’re not letting go.”

“I’m aware.”

“Anytime you want.”

“Uh-huh.”

Arty comes towards you almost flying then turning at last second, braking and stopping right next to you effortlessly.

“Is there something wrong?” She asks.

“No! No, I’m, ah, it’s just been a while since I’ve been skating and, uh, I’m out of practice,” you lie, hoping to Merlin she takes the tremor in your voice for cold. “You go ahead, I’ll be right with you.”

“Ok!”

She slides away again.

“Ok, gently now, Elliot,” Helga whispers softly in your mind. “One hand at a time. Relax, I got you.”

You forcefully pry your left hand off the railing, then your right one. There is lead in your stomach, colder than the ice around you. Your body is stiff as a board.

“Ok, I’ll nudge you in the right direction now, but you need to relax.”

“If I relax, I’ll slip and fall!”

“You won’t slip, I’ll guide you.”

“You said you couldn’t take control!”

“I said I couldn’t take full control, I can still help you. Here, let me just-” You feel her trying to move your leg and instinctively fight back against the intrusion in panic, pulling back with force, far too much force. Your leg slips backwards, propelling you forwards. You stumble , wide eyed as you frantically try to regain your balance. “No- Don’t- you just need to- Stop fighting me!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 08 Jan 2024 08:03:06 No.5885382 Report

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>>5885381

But you don’t have the brain power to answer, every neuron firing in some variation of a high pitched scream of horror as you swing your arms and legs wildly around, trying desperately to get back to the safety of the railing, but it’s too far away, so you flip around in place, out of control as each movement you do just takes you further and further away and more and more off center, until both your legs come out from under you and you fall, your back hitting the ice with a thwack! and a scream of horror. You immediately curl up in a ball to avoid having your fingers chopped by an errant skier, sliding through the ice like a scared, upturned turtle until your back hits the opposite edge of the rink.

You hoist yourself up and out of the ring and into the wet grass outside.

“Ow.”

“Elliot! Are you alright!?” Arty asks, sliding into a halt by where you’re lying down.

“Ego is plenty hurt,” you say, looking up into the sky. “Body is mostly fine.”

“Are you doing that thing boys do where they need help, but the only person available to help them is a girl, so they don’t ask for help and end up embarrassing themselves?”

“I did ask for help from the one living in my head, but even she couldn’t do anything about it.” You sigh. “I can’t do it to save my life. My body locks up when I think that if I fall someone could slide over my fingers and chop them off.”

“You know wizards can just regrow them, right?”

“Not the point!”

She giggles.

“Come on up, let’s see if two Hufflepuff girls can’t help you.”

“You just want to see me fall again.”

“That too. Come on, what would you do if I was bound in chains, helpless, in the middle of a frozen lake with a horde of undead coming for me? Just let me die because you can’t skate over?”

“I’d summon a broom.”

“Anti-flying magic.”

“Apparate.”

“You don’t know how.”

“Spiked boots.”

“Too slow, I’d be dead by the time you arrive.”

“Let you die and go find another Hufflepuff to date.”

“I’d come back to haunt you, you’d be doomed for life.”

“I have a beast from the darkness beyond darkness in my head. I figure I’m already pretty cursed.”

“I guarantee you I’d be worse.”

You groan, sliding back into the arena and leaning on the railing to try to stand up.

“Yeah, yeah. If I die from a skying-shoe to the throat, it’s your timeline that gets consumed by darkness.”

“Grab my hand, focus on letting me pull you before you try moving yourself, no, not like that, no, you’re gonna fall-.”

What follows is ten full minutes of slipping, falling, screaming and flailing and cursing every single god you can remember. When the torture finally ends, you’re tired and sore, leg and hands shaking, but, fortunately, with all digits still attached. You climb out of the rink and shove the damn bladed shoes into the hands of the man waiting at the exit.

“Thanks for the show,” he says, to which you respond with a very polite “Go fuck youself.”

Doesn’t take long for Arty to catch up.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 08 Jan 2024 08:04:09 No.5885383 Report

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>>5885382

“Hey, wait up!”

“Sorry,” you sigh. “I really don’t like ice skating.”

“I noticed. You could have just said no, you know?”

“But then I would have lost this wonderful opportunity to sulk about it.”

She laughs, then places her hand against your cheek, pulling you down.

“Well, thank you for humoring me.” She kisses you. “Maybe next time we can try it in the frozen lake far away from everyone so you don’t have to worry about your fingers.”

“Maybe next time we can try staying on solid ground?”

“Say what, then next time you pick something that terrifies me for us to do together, huh?”

“I’m not sure you can be terrified. Even Potter said you’d be a great Gryffindor.”

“Did he, now? But courage doesn’t come from not being afraid, but from facing your fears. And even if you did fall on your butt on that ice, you did face yours. And there’s also the whole thing about also facing an unspeakable horror. All things considered, I’d say you make a pretty good Gryffindor too.”

“Arty, that line only works on Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws! Any Slytherin worth their salt would be offended!”

She kisses you again.

“I see. Is that kiss enough for you to forgive me?”

“Make it two.”

She does so.

“Now,” she says, looking around. “Where is Apollo?”

You find him doing laps on the rink, going faster than you thought was humanly possible with the manager of the place frantically and uselessly shouting at him to slow down, and you get close just in time to see as the grip of the ice fails on a curve and he’s sent flying over the railings, face first into the dirt.

“See,” you tell Arty, who is no longer at your side but instead running to check on her brother. “I told you those things were dangerous.”

--

The night is made out of two things. First, starting the preparations for next day’s dinner, which your mom planned to have enough food to feed an army of about three hundred famished barbarians.

Second, is decorating the tree. Your mom appears with five boxes of decorations, putting one on the hands of each of you, and you set out spreading them onto the tree. Your dad’s in charge of the lights, while you, Apollo, mom and Arty place the balls, bells and other baubles.

“What’s this one?” Arty asks about an ugly brown thing in a transparent plastic ball.

“That’s something Elliot made when he was five, no, six, in school for Christmas,” Your mom answers. “It’s supposed to be Santa, made of clay.”

“Yes, and it was Santa for about three hours until someone shook it and broke it to pieces. She still puts it up every year, though I don’t know why,” you add.

“Well, I think it’s cute,” Arty says, hanging it on the tree.

“See, your girlfriend has good taste.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 08 Jan 2024 08:05:12 No.5885384 Report

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>>5885383

You roll your eyes and keep on hanging the decorations until there is only one thing left. Using the muscles you’ve gotten from training for Potter’s battles, you pick up Arty and lift her up so she could place the star on top, which came with a tiny golden fairy dancing around it (two Sickles, five Knuts at Gambol & Japes, anti-muggle enchantment included). It is very clear to see who placed which set of decorations, as only Apollo had put his in a precisely spaced, evenly distributed manner.

“So, how do you like your first Christmas tree?” you ask.

“It’s beautiful,” she says, placing two packages under it. One, you know it is Apollo’s new trunk. The other one’s yours.

“You have no idea how curious I am to see what you got me.”

“Well, you’re going to have to wait a couple of days. I hope you enjoy it.”

“I’m sure I will. Now excuse me, because my father’s trying to make a cocktail with three ingredients in equal parts and failing at it, and the potioneer in me can’t stand for that.”

“See?” Your mother shouts from the other side of the house. “I told you it was the same thing!”

--

The 24th arrives with snow, a white Christmas gently covering the streets and with no signs of relenting, to the misfortune of Apollo and your dad, who are outside hanging late Christmas lights. Fortunately for you, the fire is roaring in the fireplace and in the oven as you and your mom prepare the meal, with Arty frantically trying to help where she could.

The turkey is in the oven, you are seasoning a set of pork ribs which aren’t very Christmassy, but that is a sort of tradition in your household because your dad loves them, your mom is putting together the salad and the punch, while Arty spent the last hour preparing sides which both you or your mom would have made in ten minutes, tops.

“This recipe has no consistent measurements!”

“Which one are you making?” You say, peeking over her shoulder into the old, handwritten book. “Oh, just know that when that book says it’s a cup of something, it isn’t a cup as in the actual measurement, but that one brown cup over there that belonged to my grandmother, who wrote that recipe.”

“You wouldn’t believe how long it took us to figure that one out,” your mom agrees.

“Whyyyyyy?”

“‘Cause that’s the cup she had available.”

“But… But she could have just measured it later. You two could have measured later and fixed the recipe!”

“Why? We have the cup.”

“Aaaaaaargh!”

And so, the day goes, with a lot of work and preparation. Finally, there’s one last thing to decide on… A dessert.

> A Strawberry Cheesecake, a classic, thick, heavy, decadent, and a lot of damn work
> Chocolate Brownie with Creme Brulêe, simple but easy to screw up, yet very gentle and refined
> Chocolate Fondue, to eat together in front of the fireplace, while enjoying some wine and good company
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 08 Jan 2024 10:51:33 No.5885438 Report

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>>5885384
>“Why? We have the cup.”

You have no clue how many recipes my grandma and mom have that rely on an ancient non-standard measuring devices or the like. Since grandma died, we have never been able to replicate her lace cookies because we don't have the old measuring things she had used for 50 years when making them, despite having her "recipe". I can make really good ones but they aren't the same.

>Individual chocolate lava cakes with vanilla or sweet cream ice cream on the side

They are super simple and quick, so Arty can help, and when well made they slap.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Mon 08 Jan 2024 12:10:47 No.5885459 Report

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>>5885384
>>5885438
+1

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 08 Jan 2024 16:46:04 No.5885541 Report

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>>5885384
But we already have a Christmas pudding drying on a hook. We should use that, with brandy and set it on fire and make sure the one that has the coin goes to Apollo or Arty.
And if these votes are tied I mean, we can always have a lot of desserts...

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:05:11 No.5885556 Report

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>>5885384
>Chocolate Fondue, to eat together in front of the fireplace, while enjoying some wine and good company
perfect for cuddling next to the fire

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:18:26 No.5885652 Report

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>>5885438
Sure lets do this one

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>>5885438
Supporting.

>>5885384

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 09 Jan 2024 04:29:11 No.5885996 Report

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>>5885438
>>5885459
>>5885652
>>5885889

Throughout the day, owl by owl delivers its package and a small pile forms beneath the tree, filled with all shades of wrapping paper. It’s far more than usual, but that is to be expected given that there are three wizards in the house, and all of them are army generals, so this year’s flock is considerably bigger and dad needs to keep on refilling the bird feeder so they can have something to eat before departing once again.

And the new experience of not only teaching someone how to cook, but also getting nitpicked on everything you do by the disembodied voice of the woman who created a third of all food-related charms used in Hogwarts to this day, to which you firmly and politely say “Shush, grandma. Here we do things the muggle way.”

“Arty,” you say, handing her a bowl with chocolate chips and butter with one hand while you mix some eggs and sugar with the other. “Can you microwave this for me? Do it for a minute, check if it’s melted, then do it again until it's all gooey.”

“Uh… ok. I can do that.”

You keep whisking the eggs with a mixer (which even Helga remarks is extraordinarily convenient), until you have a thick, pale yellow mixture that looks gorgeous.

“Arty, is that chocolate melted yet?” You ask, not taking your eyes off your mixture.

“Uhhh… No.”

“Huh? Just-” you turn around to see her looking completely lost in front of the machine, which she’s obviously never used before. You snicker. “Asking the witch to use the microwave. What could go wrong, huh?”

“It’s not my fault, your thingy is broken!”

You gently take the bowl off her hands, place it in the microwave. “This machine warms things up, really quickly. You choose the time here, with these buttons, then press here, and it will heat up for that amount of time. Just don’t put anything made of metal in it, or it explodes.”

“It explodes?”

“Eh, dramatically catches fire, more like. Still, we don’t want that to happen.”

Once the chocolate is melted, you pour into the molds and set it somewhere the ants won't reach.

“Shouldn’t we cook it?” She asks.

“Not now. I’ll put them into the oven once we serve the food, they take ten minutes to bake.”

“I don't know what that thing you put in is, but if it is like anything I've baked you’ll either burn them or undercook them,” Helga says in your head. “It won’t bake evenly that quickly.”

“That’s the point. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Helga. The culinary arts evolved a bit in the last thousand years, let’s see if they impress you.”

--

By nightfall the lights are shining around and in the house, the food is slowly being taken out of the oven. Your dad has the same Old Fashioned on his hand for the past hour, your mom is on her second glass of wine and trying to convince Arty to try some, you are slowly sipping your beer while Apollo is frowning at his steaming cup.

“Are you trying to transfigure that juice into wine with the power of your mind?” You ask.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 09 Jan 2024 04:31:02 No.5885997 Report

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>>5885996

“Trying to figure out what's in this.”

You take the cup from his hand and take a sip.

“Cloves, lemon, sugar, no,… demerara sugar, whiskey, touch of cinnamon. Not bad. Did my mom give this to you?”

“Your dad.”

“Huh, maybe he’s starting to listen to me. Just… try not to drink too much. I’ll get you safely drunk at Hogwarts, if you want, but I’d prefer keeping my house whole for Christmas.”

“Ok.”

“You’re still frowning.”

“There’s a gift from Riley.”

“What about it?”

“For me.”

“And?”

“I don’t get it.”

“Maybe she just wants to thank you for the Battle Class win?”

“My army told me she hated it.”

“You don’t have to like a gift to want to repay it.” You take a sip, watching from afar Arty give in and sip some of the red wine, then scrounge up. “Or maybe she just… you know… likes you.”

“Like you and Arty?”

“... Maaaybe?” You say, cautiously.

“Why?”

“Who knows? The heart works in mysterious ways.”

“Right.” You two stay in silence for a while. “I don’t know how to deal with that.”

“With honesty, whichever way you decide to take it. And privately, so if anyone says no you don’t get embarrassed in front of everyone.”

“Right,” he says, nodding. “Uh, thanks. For the advice and this whole thing.”

“Hey, that’s what friends are for. Now, I think I can smell the ribs being done. Dinner’s ready!”

--

It is funny to see that even though Arty has eaten Hogwarts’ feasts for the past five years, you can still surprise her with food. You have all the classic Christmas food, of course, but you also have plenty of modern goodness that the wizarding world has seemingly never heard of. You prepare a plate with a bit of everything before sitting down to eat.

“You know,” you think. “I think that if we ration our connection well, you can taste a bit of everything, even the dessert. You haven’t eaten anything real for a while, haven’t you?”

“I… I can summon things on my own,” Hufflepuff says. “If I override your tastebuds, you won’t taste them as well as you should. You worked hard for it.”

“You don’t need to hold control the whole time. Besides, I eat it every year, and I’m sure there’ll be leftovers for tomorrow. Come on, dig in.”

“You’d have done well in my house, indeed.”

Your hand takes the fork and knife and cuts through the turkey in your plate, before taking it to your mouth. You chew, and it is an interesting sensation. The flavor is deeply dulled, like food without salt and seasoning. Still some of it passes through, and it’s enough for you to know it’s delicious.

“Fuck,” you hear her say. “This is good.”

“Told you,” you say with a grin. “Now let me try it.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 09 Jan 2024 04:34:54 No.5885998 Report

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>>5885997

The plum-sauce basted turkey is phenomenal, the ribs are melting, the buttery green beans with garlic are just the right amount of crunchy and salty, the roasted potatoes are golden brown, the cranberry sauce that your dad always pours liberally on top of his entire plate is just perfect. There is silence as everyone starts eating, you and Helga switching control of your mouth every few seconds.

“What even is this?” she asks as you eat. “This isn’t a real fruit, is it?”

“Roasted pineapples. There was a whole continent that was discovered between now and then, and they had some pretty great fruits of their own. Wait…” You realize as you take the fork to your mouth. “Dad, when did potatoes arrive in Europe? And cocoa?”

“Late fifteen-hundreds and mid-seventeeth,” he answers, mouth full. “Why?”

“Just curious,” you answer at the same time you think, “Oh Merlin, you've never eaten chocolate before! You’ve never eaten potato before! You never had french fries!”

“What are those?”

“Oh, you can be sure I’ll show you the next time we pass by a McDonalds! But first, let’s get some of those ribs!”

You chew, thinking of the world of unexplored cuisine you can show her during the next few days and grinning all the while.

“So, Arty, how did you and Elliot meet?”

She takes a while to answer, mouth full. Meanwhile, you’re taking a swig from your beer (“Why is it bubbly? Beer in my time wasn’t bubbly!” Helga helpfully informs you), so you’re unable to step in.

“He helped me deal with a bully when I was buying a new cauldron, and then we met in the restaurant I work in the weekends, and he did an impassioned speech about finding Atlantis, so then when Battle Class started he was the first winner, so I figured I’d ask him for help since he’s not in my year.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 09 Jan 2024 04:35:56 No.5885999 Report

Quoted By: >>5886012 >>5886030 >>5886033 >>5886034 >>5886048 >>5886114

>>5885998
“Battle Class?” Your mom asks, curious. “Elliot didn’t mention anything about a Battle Class. What, specifically, does one do in Battle Class?”

Crap. You know that if you take over the conversation, your mom will be certain that it is ten times worse than whatever you reveal to her. You can only hope Arty-

“Oh, four people in each year were selected to be commanders of armies of other students, and every couple of weeks the armies fight each other,” Arty says, oblivious to the fact that your mom would probably not be very excited about her son her being involved in what was basically the wizard version of an organized street fight. “Me and Apollo are also commanders!”

“Really? How interesting!” Your mom says in fake excitement. “How do the teachers stop people from getting injured in those fights?”

“Well, magical healing is really good. As long as no one uses a dark curse, we can heal almost anything!”

“I’m sure it’s done safely, dear,” your dad says, in his calming tone of voice. “I can’t imagine the teachers letting anyone get seriously injured.”

“Oh no, it can get pretty dangerous.” Arty adds, oblivious to your plight. “Wasn’t there one time one of your potions went off on someone’s hand, Elliot? I remember someone saying someone had to have their fingers regrown, but don’t remember who.”

“Yes, Elliot,” your mom says, glaring at you. “Was it your potion who blew someone’s fingers off?”

Crap.

> “Uh… Not on purpose.”
> Tell them that accidents happen, but most battles are perfectly safe
> Say Arty must be misremembering, you don’t recall anything like that ever happening and people are prone to exaggeration
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 09 Jan 2024 04:45:14 No.5886012 Report

Quoted By: >>5886052 >>5886608

>>5885997
>Helga cursing because food is too good
we need more interactions like these, witches reacting to muggle stuff will never not be fascinating to me, almost like those stupid reaction videos but actually interesting. more of Arty and Helga plz

>>5885999
shit, i kinda want to be honest here, we dont wanna test mom here, who knows if she´ll find a loophole in Hogwarts stuff with her lawyer powers and manage to sue them and get us out of there
>Tell them that accidents happen, but most battles are perfectly safe

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:10:00 No.5886030 Report

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>>5885999
> Emphasize that you have SPECIFICALLY attended seminars between each match wherein the Headmistress and Battle Class Professor both emphasized how they would be preventing repeats of previous accidents in future battles
Just like the gradual development of safety equipment in Muggle college sports. It's totally normal!
Best of all, it's not a lie! Even if wizard notions of safety will NEVER converge on more practical, Muggle definitions

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Anonymous ID:NPYlqanS Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:17:14 No.5886033 Report

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>>5885999
>Deer in Headlights

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:18:02 No.5886034 Report

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>>5885999
We're taking a swig of beer. Can we continue drinking until we're back at Hogwarts, or at least until mom is no longer asking questions?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:34:11 No.5886048 Report

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>>5885999
> “Uh… Not on purpose.”

> "Technically it might not have been MY potion, specifically. I had to teach them to brew on the fly. Cut corners where we had to so we could make it in the time we had. For all I know it was the one my friend Amelia managed to make that... went off unexpectedly? Really, Hugo was to blame. He shouldn't have tried to destroy my army's potions."

>"These competitions are perfectly safe, of course. Its not like they are making us fight dragons or something. Professor Potter had to do that when he was younger than Arty, you know! If anything, things are MORE safe than before, haha."

>Kick Arty in the shin with a look that says, 'Do not mention some of our army had to fight a dragon'.

Damn you Arty, you are too cute to be mad at, but please. Please don't tell our mom how many times we would have died this year if we were not a wizard.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:46:39 No.5886052 Report

Quoted By: >>5886054 >>5886210

>>5886012
>more of Arty and Helga plz

Yissss. I wonder if we had enough batter to make an extra lava cake so Helga could enjoy one all on her own? We are going to get fat if we keep eating for two.
I don't think mom will try to take us out of the school but the Hogwarts legal fund may never recover if she learns to much.

>>5886034
If we don't say something, the twins will just keep talking. Apollo is Apollo and will just answer stuff truthfully because he has no tact, and Arty is naive enough to not understand why this stuff might make a muggle mom's BP spike and her eye start twitching. At least dad seems cool with it.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:50:26 No.5886054 Report

Quoted By: >>5886065

>>5886052
>Elliot becomes kind of a chubby dude because he has a famous foodie witch backpacking in his brain
Lol, I wouldn't even be mad, that's sort of hilarious. With our Raider tophat and monocle, we'd look like a cartoon robber baron.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 09 Jan 2024 05:55:38 No.5886060 Report

Quoted By: >>5886065

now that i think about it....we have easy access to food ingredients and cooking equipement...
anyone down for weed brownies?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 09 Jan 2024 06:06:38 No.5886065 Report

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>>5886054
Lol. Kek.

His dad is a bit chunky apparently so no out of the question. However, we intend to explore Lost Places and we might have to squeeze through tight spaces. Cat animagus is great for this reason. Plus we don't want to crush Arty when we are on top, haha.

>>5886060
That goblin pipe weed will ruin you life son! Besides, we are a potions guy. Lets stick to the Wizard equivalent of Rx pills.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Tue 09 Jan 2024 08:10:31 No.5886114 Report

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>>5885999
> “Uh… Not on purpose.”
We actually meant to use it to maim our enemies.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Tue 09 Jan 2024 12:58:21 No.5886210 Report

Quoted By: >>5886266

>>5886052
Ok, can we shake our heads, look incredulous and as if we were go explain away all these little confusions AND keep drinking until we black out or mom just stops?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:38:01 No.5886266 Report

Quoted By: >>5886267

>>5886210
Probably no blacking out. Getting a bit drunk? Sure. We have to be up early tomorrow! Plus how are we gonna have some 'Christmas Cheer' together with Arty if we are too shit faced?

I am almost done retyping the Arty lewdfic, on page 8, after my normal computer shitted itself a couple days after Christmas and I had to bring out my old laptop. Only like 5 more pages to go, reconstructing it from hand written notes, changing things due to new posts, and proof reading. Should be done by tonight or tomorrow morning.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:39:12 No.5886267 Report

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>>5886266

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 09 Jan 2024 21:40:58 No.5886519 Report

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>>5886267
>her hips press back and borth slightly against your thighs and the stiff shaft between your thinghs
ooh this is gonna be good

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 10 Jan 2024 00:28:05 No.5886608 Report

Quoted By: >>5886609

>>5886012
>sue them and get us out of there
Well, Muggles (and squibs by extension) have around the same legal standing as kittens, so that's unlikely. Parents of Muggleborns are given some rights in a limited sense, but taking them off their education? That would be very difficult.

Not that she couldn't find other ways of making your life hell, of course. She's your mom, after all.

--

“Uh… Not on purpose?”

Your mom narrows her eyes.

“It’s a new class!” You say, quickly trying to mend the situation. “You know, accidents happen, but it’s mostly safe! And gets safer with every battle! It’s not like we’re having to fight dragons or anything!”

“Didn’t you and Brighton-”

“And besides!” You say, kicking Arty under the table. “We’re always learning how to improve. It’s an important lesson to learn, most of all if you intend on having a job as an auror! Or if you plan on exploring old ruins! Who knows what sort of dangers one might encounter and need to defend against!”

“Uh-huh,” Your mom says, clearly unconvinced. “I see. And how about you Apollo? Do you also think these battles are perfectly safe?”

“Not when we’re fighting an army of undead.”

“An army of undead!?” She says in a high pitched shriek.

“Defanged!” you say as fast as you can while Arty glares at Apollo. “They were defanged and declawed! Perfectly safe!”

“An army of undead can’t be perfectly safe!”

“Dear, I’m sure that magic makes plenty of things that seem outrageous to us be much less problematic than they appear. If we were to tell anyone from two centuries ago that people could jump off cliffs, they’d never believe us parachutes were safe.” Your dad gently places a hand on her arm. “Why, do you remember how shocked we were when we found out they flew in actual brooms?”

“This seems rather more serious than that!”

“Well, Elliot, has anyone been injured in a way they couldn’t fully heal?”

“No! They wouldn’t allow it if we could be seriously injured, and Madam Pomfrey is a fantastic healer. And we wizards are much hardier than muggles!”

“See, dear? Hogwarts is perfectly safe.” Your dad says, calming. “No one is going to die there.”

You do a pretty good job of not flinching, and you can only hope your mom is too focused on you to not see how Arty’s fork freezes in mid air.

“Fine. We will talk about this later, then,” your mom says, in almost a hiss.

Crap.

“In my time, no muggle parent would ever consider Hogwarts to be more dangerous than simply living life outside it.” Helga says. “It is incredible how far you’ve come without wands.”

“It’s the unstoppable progress of technology. Managing to more than double our average lifespan was an even bigger achievement than landing on the moon.”

“Landing on what?”

“The moon.”

“What do you mean?”

You grin at your plate. “Oh boy, do I have some news for you.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 10 Jan 2024 00:29:06 No.5886609 Report

Quoted By: >>5886610

>>5886608

You eat, drink and avoid the subject of anything related to school for the rest of the night. Finally, you place your chocolate lava cakes into the oven, get some store bought ice-cream (you can’t make everything yourself, after all) and by the time it’s soft enough to easily scoop some, the cakes are done. You serve each one with some vanilla ice cream and a sliced strawberry, one for everyone and finally, for yourself.

“Cooked on the outside,” you say, breaking the cake so the chocolate inside can flow. “Gooey on the inside. Careful, It’s hot. Take some ice cream too.”

Helga does as you say.

“What is this?” She asks as she quickly scoops some more.

“Chocolate, brought in from central and south america. Also a great medicine against dementation. Hey! Save some for me! And slow down, that’s my mouth you’re burning!”

Once everyone is done eating and complaining you didn’t make more, you spend some time chatting, dad complaining about his students, mom about a difficult client, you mentioning non-compromising things from school and Arty laughing at your dad’s terrible jokes. And, minute by minute, midnight creeps closer.

“Merry Christmas!”

“Merry Christmas!”

You hug your dad, then your mom (who whispers in your ear “Don’t think you escaped that conversation, sir”), then Apollo (extremely awkwardly), and, finally, Arty, who complements the hug with a kiss.

“Merry Christmas, boyfriend,” she says, looking at you as if you were the only person in the whole world.

“Merry Christmas, girlfriend,” you reply in kind, arms around her waist, hers on your shoulders. “Did you enjoy your Christmas eve?”

“The best one I’ve ever had. About to be even better when I see you open the gift I got you. Either that or I’m going to die of embarrassment, that’s also a possibility.”

“Why?”

“You’ll see,” she says, blushing.

“Do I need to be worried?”

“Not as long as you don't let anyone else see it?” She asks, now avoiding looking in your eyes. “I spoke with one of the muggleborn Hufflepuff girls and… it should be right.”

“I see,” you say, only slightly worried. “Is this one of those things that can be coming from muggles and wizards misunderstanding one another completely?”

“I certainly hope not!”

You turn to the big pile of presents and see plenty of packages, but you’re looking for the one you saw her place there when you first arrived. It’s a small box, extremely light. Making sure there is no one behind you who can possibly see what’s in it, you slowly open it.

Inside it is a selfie from Arty from the day you went to the Diagon Alley. She’s in a fitting room of some clothing store, biting her lower lip, holding the camera above her as she took the picture. The picture waves at you, then signals for you to keep looking. You look at the other picture in the box and-

“Oh my,” Helga says. “That’s certainly not appropriate!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 10 Jan 2024 00:30:07 No.5886610 Report

Quoted By: >>5886611 >>5886628

>>5886609

You slam the box closed, searching for Arty who seems to have discovered that the open window is extremely interesting.

You slowly open the box again.

No, what you saw the first time was very much correct. It was pretty much the same picture as the first, except for the fact she was even more embarrassed than in the first one, and for the very obvious lack of any clothing above the hips.

You shove the box as far into your pouch as it can possibly go, because there are two people in this room who would never let you live it down if they saw it, and one who would kill you and scatter your remains over an area large enough to cover seven different languages and several dozen local dialects.

You go back to opening presents, but find yourself strangely unable to focus on the task at hand, your thoughts elsewhere. You open Elend’s gift, an expensive-looking pocket Sneakoscope (“Just in case you’re serious about finding ancient places”), Amalia’s pairs of socks (“I was going to get you something else, but you explicitly said you wanted these, so who am I to argue?”) and Talon’s large tin of treacle toffee from his parent’s store. Linda’s gift had arrived through Amazon, not owl, and was a small piece of a real meteorite (“So we never forget him.”) and your parents got you a new, amazing-looking leather jacket. Apollo, who might just remind you what Crucio feels like if he discovers the gift his sister gave you, bought you the wizard equivalent of a lego set.

And if anyone asked you what gifts you had gotten from Christmas, you’d only be able to name one, the one buried deep in your pouch.

“Aren’t you going to open your presents, Arty?” Your dad asks, somewhere out of view.

“Ah, I’ll get right to it!” She answers. “Just taking in some air! The fire got me a bit too warm.”

Arty comes by and kneels by her pile of gifts, still looking quite red, but not as much as before. Your brain still isn’t working properly when she asks, still refusing to look at you.

“Did… Did you like your gift?”

“Yes,” you say, barely managing to croak something out. “I liked it very much. Very, very much.”

“Good. It was very difficult to find a good Developing Solution in Diagon Alley.”

“I… could brew you some, you know, if you ever… need some more.”

She blushes, still fumbling with a particularly difficult to open package, but doesn’t answer.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 10 Jan 2024 00:31:39 No.5886611 Report

Quoted By: >>5886640 >>5886676 >>5886700 >>5886782

>>5886610
It takes a while to open all the gifts, all of you having received a great amount of small ones from many in your armies, and you thank Merlin for the time to calm down and be able to become something resembling a coherent human being again. Apollo in particular got a huge number, as many in Riley’s army had also decided to send him something. He stands by the tree, a great pile of different trinkets, clothes, foods and baubles in front of him.

Then he stands up, a strange look on his face, and walks out through the front door at a brisk pace.

Arty looks up, surprised.

"What? Uh, hey Apollo, wait!"

> Go after him alone
> Go after him with Arty
> Let Arty go after him by herself
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Wed 10 Jan 2024 01:02:08 No.5886628 Report

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>>5886610
'So we never forget him'. Oh ow my soul.
But > Go after him with Arty because I wanna see how this turns out and she may need help and it could be girlfriend related?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 01:20:34 No.5886640 Report

Quoted By: >>5886737

>>5886611
> Go after him with Arty

Oh, Merlin, I think we broke him.

Arty is a best and a cute. Who wouldn't love a girl that gives you fap bait of herself for Christmas?

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 10 Jan 2024 02:00:03 No.5886676 Report

Quoted By:

>>5886611
> Go after him with Arty

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Anonymous ID:gXrWsMLc Wed 10 Jan 2024 02:28:15 No.5886700 Report

Quoted By: >>5886717

>>5886611
> Go after him with Arty
We’re gonna die, explosively.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 02:50:48 No.5886717 Report

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>>5886700
I could see Apollo possibly lashing out due to being overwhelmed by all this new stuff. I could see him blaming us for pulling him out of his comfort zone, making him no longer able to just ignore the world around him aside from the things he likes. Hopefully, this just ends with a shouting match and maybe a few tears. He is also quite possibly a bit intoxicated.

Apollo has grown on me since we first fought him in battle #1 so lets try and be there for our brother-in-law.

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Wed 10 Jan 2024 03:29:38 No.5886737 Report

Quoted By: >>5886760 >>5886766

>>5886640
The worst part is that we can’t even use it, unless we’re comfortable with fucking Helga Hufflepuff watching us masturbate.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 10 Jan 2024 03:56:00 No.5886760 Report

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>>5886737
Fucking Helga Hufflepuff almost took us ed in our dreams once, and then masturbated inside our skull while fondling her huge hufflepuffs

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 04:05:50 No.5886766 Report

Quoted By: >>5887659

>>5886737
Our relationship with Helga is kinda messed up already.

I mean, she has seen us make out with and probably feel up Arty a few times at this point. Even before we found out "Faith" was Hufflepuff Prime, I love that term. GJ anon who coined it. she wanted to dream fuck us. She then masturbated in our head, drunk, and probably thinking about Elliot. I am sure we have jerked off since our connection became strong enough that she is pretty much always in the back ground.

I briefly addressed this in the lewdfic, Which I will need to edit bc Elliot's family open gifts on Christmas Eve like savages and Apollo pulling an Apollo... with Elliot basically telling her to turn around and don't mind the noise.

But look on the bright-side, when we screw Arty, it will technically always be a threesome! Score!

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 10 Jan 2024 04:22:11 No.5886782 Report

Quoted By: >>5886797

>>5886611
>Go after him with Arty

>arty givins us fuel for lonely nights as a gift
oh, im placing money on her making the "first move"

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 04:47:23 No.5886797 Report

Quoted By: >>5886805 >>5886864

>>5886782
Should we give her a dick pic for Valentine's day? Maybe we should try and convince Apollo to give one to Riley as a thank you for whatever she got him. Riley would be thrilled I am sure.

But yeah, I do imagine Arty being the one to bring sex to the table vs. Elliot. She did kiss us first, after all. I feel like Elliot is a bit too much of a nice guy to initiate. Dark Lord Hallaster, on the other hand, would have no problem tossing his tiny Hufflepuff girlfriend on the bed and ravishing her.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 10 Jan 2024 04:55:53 No.5886805 Report

Quoted By: >>5886819 >>5887608

>>5886797
Usually girls don't get super jazzed about unsolicited dick pics. Solicited, maybe. I bet it's weirder when that pic is a literal moving photograph. Given Apollo is categorically incapable of playing it cool with her reaction if it goes sideways, I think we should not tell our autistic bud to do such a thing.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 05:11:45 No.5886819 Report

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>>5886805
It was mostly a joke but now I just spent a good 30 seconds laughing at the idea of Riley opening a letter from Apollo, expecting an Apollo like thank you card, and a moving pick of him helicoptering his shlong falls out.

Depending on what happens next, we should probably encourage him to get a thank you card and maybe some chocolates or something for Riley for when we get back to Hogwarts. And maybe give him some advice on either how to let her down easy or try and roll with it and see what happens.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:07:37 No.5886864 Report

Quoted By: >>5886889

>>5886797
Arty would kill Elliot if he convinced Apollo to send Riley dick pics. Don't tempt the wrath of the Hufflepuff Fury.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:29:56 No.5886888 Report

Quoted By: >>5886910

https://youtube.com/shorts/6psLCStLNk4?si=POAYahrvPC1ckKNt

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:30:06 No.5886889 Report

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>>5886864
Lol. Mostly a joke. Mostly. I would find it pretty amusing if Arty showed she is just as protective of Apollo as he is of her and Riley ends up with a broken nose and a black eye, because our tiny Hufflepuff Fury caught them making out and though Riley was taking advantage of her brother.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:47:15 No.5886910 Report

Quoted By: >>5886911 >>5887659

>>5886888
Who let Elliot start making TikToks?

I mean cute girls with blonde hair and blue eyes are based, but thots are nothing next to the masculine love of Lost Places, Places of Power, and adventure.

I wonder if the leather jacket Kendrick and Helen got our boy looks like Indiana Jones' jacket? If so, all we need is the hat. Carpe Retractum works for our whip, stunners are a good substitute for a revolver, all we would need then is a tiny Asian 1st year as our comic relief character.

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Anonymous ID:jfwCKM07 Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:53:32 No.5886911 Report

Quoted By: >>5886921 >>5886948

>>5886910
>tiny Asian 1st year
Kek, I fully support getting us our own short round

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 07:12:24 No.5886921 Report

Quoted By: >>5886924 >>5887204 >>5887364

>>5886911
Lets not even learn his real name and just refer to him as Short Round or uses slightly offensive, old timey terms for Asians.

Bonus points if the kid has a bad accent.

"Chop-Chop, Chop Suey! Adventure is afoot!"
"My, oh my, my moon-faced man, what a predicament we are in!"
"You may not be a Hufflepuff, Short Round, but with spell casting like that, I'd say you are the real Yellow Peril!"
"Excellent work my flat faced friend, we'll show those dark wizards a thing or two now!"
"With protegos like that, we might as well just call those chaps Mongolians and you the Great Wall."
"Thanks for the aid, my Asiatic Assistant. Turns out Peking duck and opium aren't the only good things to come from the mysterious East!"

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Wed 10 Jan 2024 07:16:36 No.5886924 Report

Quoted By: >>5886948 >>5887364

>>5886921
if the opportunity for this ever presents itself, we taking it

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 07:52:16 No.5886948 Report

Quoted By: >>5887364

>>5886924
Yes. Yes we are.

>>5886911
>>5886924

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 10 Jan 2024 16:36:48 No.5887204 Report

Quoted By: >>5887344 >>5887364

>>5886921
"Short-Round, uses you Amazing Aptitude for Arithmancy to calculate exactly how bad of a bruising these chaps are about to get!"

"Fetch my potions kit and pipe, my Far-Eastern Friend, this problem will require Slytherin subtlety to solve."

"Explended! Your Esoteric Eastern explanations have come in handy once more. Now, to make for Shangra-La!"

"Arty, don't mind the help, my most Devious and Doating Dear, it is merely my newest assistant! Now then Short-Round, help my wife with her baggage. Agartha awaits!"

"Talon, my mahogany skinned man, how goes your investigations in the Dark Heart of Africa? Surely it is splendid to see your country-men once more."

'No time fore love Dr. Hallaster!'
"Love is the only thing worth making time for my boy! We'll get you a harem to make the princes of Xanadu jealous yet! Once we find Xanadu, of course."

"Short-Round, fetch my abomination hunting wand, and a bandolier of our finest potions. We have a long night ahead of us, my stalwart Sinosphere squire."

"Have you met my wife's pet Nundu yet? A capricious and curious cat she named "Dindu", in honor of the late Newt Scamander. Don't worry, he only melts people when she asks."

You should be Lord Hallaster-maxxing. You need to be investing in colonial explorer gear. You need to be buying Arty period appropriate dresses you can flip up and ravish her in. You need to be practicing casual British racism, one liners, and planning how to steal magical artifacts from indigenous peoples. You need to be Lord Hallaster-Maxxing.

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Anonymous ID:jfwCKM07 Wed 10 Jan 2024 20:26:33 No.5887344 Report

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>>5887204
>Gunning down eldritch beasts with a magically enchanted maxim gun while wearing a pith helmet
>small Asian feeding us ammo

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Wed 10 Jan 2024 21:02:25 No.5887364 Report

Quoted By: >>5887561

>>5887204
>>5886948
>>5886924
>>5886921
Kek, I laughed. I think our lad's a bit too nice for that, though.

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>>5887344
Fine tradition! Fine tradition I say!

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 01:25:05 No.5887561 Report

Quoted By: >>5887596

>>5887364
Of course, Elliot is too nice, but Lord Hallaster?

Lord Hallaster being the identity we form to maintain at least some of our sanity after Cocksucking Salazar lets Linda join Taylor at whatever lies beyond the last train station.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:00:54 No.5887596 Report

Quoted By: >>5887603

>>5887561
We really should have tried to be Lord Hallaster instead of a Rock when we block mind control.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:11:21 No.5887603 Report

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>>5887596
I agree, but baby steps. Being Raven Everdark, most evil witch this side of the Atlantic worked well for Linda. However, rock is simple. Rock has no thoughts. Rock endures when others falter and fail.

We can move up to LORD Hallaster after we master being stoned. Hue.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:18:11 No.5887608 Report

Quoted By: >>5887626

>>5886805
arty would probably get a bit of a laugh out of getting a valentines dick pic in return for giving elliot her nudes for christmas, apollo's relationship with riley is far from having reached that point

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:43:03 No.5887626 Report

Quoted By: >>5887629

>>5887608
Heh heh. Valentines dick pic. Maybe we should put a mustache under it and a monocle to the side above it. Give Arty the full Lord Hallaster experience.

I wonder how wizard law would view this? Technically, Arty is now guilty of creation and distribution of child pornography.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:47:26 No.5887629 Report

Quoted By: >>5887647

>>5887626
lets make sure to give her a treat and give her a full body pic, mayeb if we manage to get some abs or a hint of them, it would make her VERY excited

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:18:11 No.5887647 Report

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>>5887629
You know, I don't think Elliot is full Otter-mode yet, but all the battle class training and working with Lily before she got erased probably trimmed off any baby fat we had, at the least.

I do think trying to get fit might be a good idea, if we have time. With Salazar's help, Lily or her body after he mind broke her could pull off some pretty impressive feats of athleticism. Could probably come in handy. Apollo can spot us. Might be good for his mental health to work out some problems on the bench.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnXI6j-063k

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:35:58 No.5887659 Report

Quoted By: >>5887661 >>5887686

>>5886766
>Elliot's family open gifts on Christmas Eve like savages
Clearly stated to be after midnight, anon. Perfectly within the rules of engagement.

>>5886910
>I wonder if the leather jacket Kendrick and Helen got our boy looks like Indiana Jones' jacket?
Well, it certainly fucking does now.

--

Arty goes off running after Apollo and you spare just a moment to give your parents a glance of “wait here” before dashing off after her. You get out of the house to see Apollo has broken into a full brown sprint, and you dash after him. You quickly reach Arty who’s not managing to keep up, the almost half a meter of height difference between them taking its toll.

“I’ll catch up!” She says as you pass her. “Go!”

“Apollo! Wait!”

You run after him, thankful the streets aren’t covered by ice so you don’t slip as you barrel full speed down the road, the Christmas lights flying past. He turns when he can’t keep on going straight, but he doesn’t seem to be running in any specific direction, just… away. You’re halfway between him and Arty in height, so you manage to keep up with him better, your lungs burning as the chase turns into minutes and you curse some half-baked thought about brooms and accio and how not being able to use magic was bullshit, turning left, then right, then left again and-

Apollo trips and falls, rolling on the asphalt. You finally catch up with him, gasping for breath.

“Apollo- you- you can’t- ah fuck- fucking shit- you run fast- motherfucker- you can’t- you can’t run away like that.” You finally manage to wheeze.

But he doesn’t answer, just laying down next to the pothole that took him down, clutching his chest.

He’s crying.

You plop down by his side.

“Hey… You good?”

“I don’t- I couldn’t- I don’t know. I never…”

“It’s alright,” you say. In the distance, you see Arty appear. When she sees you two, she leans on a nearby lamppost as she catches her breath. “Take your time.”

“There was… a very old memory. Someone crying. A broken tree. Old. And I wanted there to be something under it. But it was empty. The house was dark. My stomach growled. And the tree was empty. And feet, turning one way, then the other. Flying. The feet were flying. And there was crying. And she was so loud.” He says, and there is a deep anguish in his voice, his chopped phrases difficult to parse his meaning. “And this time… This time the tree was new. And there was so much under it. And… and I wasn’t starving. And the tree was full. And I… I didn’t know what to do.”

You look around to make sure there are no incoming cars, but it’s Christmas so the roads are empty. You lie down beside him.

“My chest hurt,” he says. “And I was crying. I don’t know why I was crying now. Everything was fine. But there was… too much.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:36:59 No.5887661 Report

Quoted By: >>5887663 >>5887686

>>5887659

“Sometimes… sometimes we realize how far we’ve come,” you say. “Sometimes, when we’re in the good times, we forget how bad things could be. And when we remember… that can hurt. But, as a wise old muggle once said, not all tears are evil. It’s ok to feel overwhelmed, every now and then.”

“I… don’t want to see the tree empty again,” he says, simply. “I don’t know why that’s important.”

“Because people need others to live, even you. People will come and go, some presents will disappear and others will show up, maybe there will be more or less, but that tree won’t ever be empty again. You have Arty, you have me and your army. And you’ll find others. And above all else, you have your magic. No one will ever be able to take that away from you.”

“I never needed other people before.”

“Yes, you did. It’s just difficult to notice that you did when you never had people so close. Solitude can be… addicting. It’s so easy to choose it, because the other path takes work. But now you know how it feels to be loved and wanted. And that’s a feeling worth fighting for, isn’t it?” You watch Arty slowly limping closer to you. “When I won the last battle, I got to look into the Mirror of Erised with Potter. And Potter said that he saw himself with his family. That’s all it took for him to be happy. Him and his family, safe and alive. That connection, that care, that warmth... that’s the kind of thing that makes us whole.”

“People live alone,” he says, shaking his head.

“But they only thrive together. Even the Founders needed each other. Not because of the powers the others had, but because of their friendship. Only then they built Hogwarts. And once their friendship broke, well… We’ve never seen another Hogwarts since.”

He stays in silence for a while.

“Maybe.”

Well, that was as good as you were probably going to get.

“Sorry for running,” he says. “I’m… not good at these things.”

“I’m sure you won’t be the last person on earth to freak out. You’re good, Apollo. Just a little bit cracked in places. But then again, we all are. I’m certainly not one to talk.”

“But you do talk.” He says. “I wish I could talk like you.”

“And I wish I could obliterate my transfiguration exams like you can but, hey, we can’t have everything, can we?”

“Are you two clowns going to just lay there on the street the whole night?” Arty shouts. “Or are you going to come help the girl whose legs are cramping from running after someone twice her size?”

You laugh, then slowly stand up, offering him a helping hand.

“Come on, Apollo. Let’s get back to the tree that is full. And if things get too much again… Maybe just run to the bedroom, instead?”

He accepts the help and nods.

“I’ll try to do that.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:38:00 No.5887663 Report

Quoted By: >>5887664 >>5887686

>>5887661

You return home, taking your time since Arty’s legs are still burning from the effort and it takes her some time to be able to walk normally again. When you arrive, your parents are waiting with bowls of ice cream. Also, Arty has a few more presents unopened, so she gets right to it.

She gets earrings from the Hufflepuff girls on her year, a box of chocolate frogs, an assortment of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, a nice yellow flowery dress from your parents, until she finally reaches the final box, the one at the bottom of the pile, the one that had been placed there first, and reads the name of the sender.

Slowly, she turns to glare at you.

“Hey, blame her!” You point at your mom. “She’s the one who said I couldn’t not give you a gift on Christmas.”

“But you already got me a gift, and it was wonderful! You shouldn’t have gotten me another!”

“Well, you can just get another set of the first gift you got me to make it even. I wouldn’t mind.”

She narrows her eyes at you, but blushes. She opens it, peeking through the Omniocular at you.

“It’s for watching beasts,” you say. “It can slow down, speed up, and even freeze the image, so you can examine every detail for as long as you need, even those the naked eye can’t see.”

“Ohhh. Apollo, can you flick Elliot in the forehead?”

Without a moment of hesitation, Apollo does so.

“Ow!”

“Would you look at that!” She says, turning a small dial on the device. “And I can make him do it again. And again. And now in slow motion! Did you know you scrunch your whole face when you get flicked?”

“Ha, ha,” you say, rubbing your forehead. “Very funny.”

“I thought so.” Then, in a more serious and kind tone, hugging the Omniocular. “Thanks. I love it.”

And so, with all gifts being opened and everyone being overfed, you all head to bed, Arty giving you one last kiss for the night, looking at the pouch in your hip, blushing terribly and running away to her bedroom with a meek “good night.”

You close your bedroom door behind you, lock it… and reach into your pouch.

“That picture is very much not appropriate!” Helga says in your head.

“Shall I remind you what you once did inside my head after drinking too much?”

“That was before I knew who I was!”

“Does that change anything?”

“It does!”

“I don’t really think so.”

“It doesn’t matter! A girl shouldn’t just… give those kinds of pictures away to men!”

“I’m her boyfriend. What’s considered good and proper between a couple has changed in the last thousand years.”

“Doesn’t matter!”

“And yet, I don’t feel you not looking at it. I’m not sure how that makes me feel, really. Should I tell Arty that Helga Hufflepuff is a pervert?”

“Lies!”

“Tough luck. Now go away.”

“Psh!”

But you do feel her presence leave your mind, at least for the moment.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:39:01 No.5887664 Report

Quoted By: >>5887669 >>5887679 >>5887686 >>5887691 >>5887706 >>5887740 >>5887754

>>5887663

When you do get to sleep that night, the forest appears before you. Yet, for the first time, it is by your choice. You feel the pull of the forest and chase it, instead of being yanked towards it by “Faith”.

“Has your ‘business’ been concluded?” She asks as you arrive, in a soft but mocking tone.

“Yes,” you say, sitting on a stump by her. “I figured we should talk to each other. About you.”

“Me?”

“Yes. Did you… remember anything else? Anything that could help us? Anything about the Fifth Founder?”

She shakes her head. “No. My memories are tied to what you know, it seems. Figuring out I was me helped, but… All I got is glimpses, feelings. Nothing concrete. All I remember is that I disliked him.”

“The Fifth Founder?”

“Yes. Not in a hate manner, more in a… he displeased me, sort of way. Not enemies, just a slight distaste. Yet I can’t for the life of me remember why.”

“Do you think he was really Ravenclaw’s husband?”

“Maybe. I remember someone saying she had a daughter, no?”

“Yes, the-” You stop mid-sentence. “I am a moron.”

“Why?”

“Because the daughter left a ghost who I could be asking stuff to!”

“I… I’m not so sure,” she says. “I remember the Fifth Founder existing, but I don’t remember him being with us for long. If he left or died, I do not know but… I do not believe he lived to see too many decades. And if it were that easy to discover, why, then surely someone would have done so.”

“I see. Well, I’ll speak with her anyway, maybe she’ll have something to say.” You look up, into the dark-green sky of the forest. “You know, if there’s anything you need, anything I can do for you… You can just ask. I’ll do whatever I can to make this life better for you. Or more bearable, at least.”

“Thank you. It’s been a challenge, I’ll admit. It doesn’t surprise me how Slytherin took control of that girl. Once we’ve been deprived of it for so long, reality can be… addicting. But what you give me is enough. I’ll live, I’ll fight. And when we defeat this creature, then we can think about how to break the rules of magic and find a way of putting me in a body. But until then, I’ll endure.” Then, with a giggle, “As long as you let me have a bite of real food every now and then, that is.”

“You’re going to get me fat, that’s what will happen.”

Is there anything specific you want to talk about before departing?

> Write in

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:58:16 No.5887669 Report

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>>5887664
Hug.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 11 Jan 2024 04:12:44 No.5887679 Report

Quoted By: >>5887754

>>5887664
A hug seems appropriate. Also maybe ask her what all she can remember, if anything, about Salazar when he was alive. Could be key.

Oh, and does she think Rowena or Godric are, like... 'Around'? Does she have any way to scan for that sort of activity.

All probably beyond her current capabilities, but worth asking.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 11 Jan 2024 04:19:40 No.5887686 Report

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>>5887659
>>5887661
>>5887663
>>5887664
>we brought up Apollo's old fucked up christmas memories from before they became orphans
fuck

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Thu 11 Jan 2024 04:25:16 No.5887691 Report

Quoted By: >>5887706 >>5887740

>>5887664
Guys, I wonder if we could… transfer helga into another body. Perhaps one without a mind/soul (like a dementor victim or something) so as not to pull a salazar.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 04:48:42 No.5887706 Report

Quoted By: >>5887708

>>5887664
Hug. Also try and manifest a modern cookbook which we have read for her to look through when she is bored. Maybe some novels we know by heart as well.

>Merry Christmas Helga. We are going to beat Salazar. We are going to recover your memories. And, one way or another, we are going to get you a body of your own. I promise.

So lets work through Apollo's memory. A shitty Christmas because they were poor even before he killed their caretaker and they became homeless. I guess the feet flying is from him blasting that bastard through the window of their apartment and the crying was Arty who had just been sexually abused or almost at any rate.

Also, thanks for making me tear up a bit. It HAD been a while since we were reminded how our girlfriend and her autistic brother were severely emotionally and, in Arty's case at least, physically abused as children.

>>5887691
That might be kinda fucked. Like imagine your aunt who has been in a magic coma for years suddenlt waking up and being a completely different person, one with no memories or attachments to you or her family.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 11 Jan 2024 04:51:01 No.5887708 Report

Quoted By: >>5887717

>>5887706
>chuck tingle watermark
kek

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 05:05:13 No.5887717 Report

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>>5887708
I am working from a shitty back-up computer right now. Not too particular where my images come from. Meh.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 11 Jan 2024 05:58:26 No.5887740 Report

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>>5887664
>Do you have any ideas on how we're going to extract Salazar from Scorpio?

>>5887691
That's still kind of fucked up if they have friends or family. I don't think Helga would like it much.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Thu 11 Jan 2024 06:18:05 No.5887754 Report

Quoted By: >>5887942

>>5887664
>Write on
ooh, just like that? aight
>Stand up, walk closer to her and gently hug her
>Promise her we'll find a way to fix everything
>maybe sit next to her by a small fire (if we can)
>have a heart to heart with her
i feel like the whole compassion and care could work as a "fuel" of sorts, give her hope and determination to fight
also this >>5887679
she can definitely "feel" Slytherin, maybe trying to search for Godric and Rowena is worth a shot
>after all that we finish with a "Merry christmas"

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 11 Jan 2024 12:14:45 No.5887942 Report

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>>5887754
>i feel like the whole compassion and care could work as a "fuel" of sorts, give her hope and determination to fight

Quite likely. Or at the least it helps boost her connection to Elliot, along with finding out more about her and what happened 1000 years ago. On a practical level, being nice to the powerful ancient witch who grants us magic super powers and keeps and eldritch horror from devouring us and and the world is smart. To say nothing of Elliot being a big softy. Terribly un-Slytherin, that.

We might ask what the status of the Beast is. She seemed to be able to seal it at the Last Light though it can still fuck with us as the dementor showed.

I am really curious where we be if we pursued Faith/Helga as a romantic interest now that she knows who she is.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 12 Jan 2024 05:44:00 No.5888777 Report

Quoted By: >>5888778 >>5888802

Hey, remember when I said I was planning Christmas to be a single update and it now turned into four? Good times.

--

“Do you have anything that could help with Salazar?” You ask. “Or any idea how we could pull him out of Scorpio?”

“Not a single clue. If we understood how this whole thing happened, maybe, but… If this is Atlantean magic, as you suppose, then we’re grasping at straws. Their artifacts are unknowable. We can understand the rules they follow, but to divine their inner workings… that is a far, far grander project, and not one I know any to have done successfully. Perhaps only Atlantean magic will suffice.”

“But Rowena said you were trying to bend the Cup of Promise, maybe you were able to, after all? If it really is the Goblet of Fire, I have never heard of it having any properties other than selecting the members of the Triwizard Tournament. And it was bewitched once, by a normal wizard.”

“Is that what you read in the stories about Potter?”

“Yes… and those have been proven to have plenty of falsehoods. I see your point.”

“Besides, enchantments could have been placed on top of it to stop certain things from coming to pass instead. Say, an enchantment around the cup that only allowed things related to the Triwizard Tournament to pass into it, so that its more dangerous possibilities could not come to pass, or any other solution out of many that did not involve a direct change of its magic. It could be that the people watching it choose Potter were tricked, somehow. And it could be that it is not the Cup of Promise after all.”

“Fair. We’ll get nowhere without seeing the Goblet,” you say, thinking. “Do you think it’s possible they’re also here? Rowena and Godric?”

“It is a possibility. If they are, however, I do not know how to track them, nor how to call upon them since they might not know who they are. I could possibly sense them if we lock eyes with them and they’re not actively hiding themselves, but it will also depend greatly on how entrenched they are within their hosts’ minds.”

“I see. And of the people we’ve met?”

She shakes her head. “I sensed someone only within Scorpius.”

“Shame, we could use the help.”

You two sit in the silence for a long time.

“I can’t help but notice there is no beast of horror prancing around.”

“Yes, and it worries me. It still does eventual attacks, but nothing with the ferocity from before. I have sealed all pathways of entry it could use, but I fear it may be… saving its strength.”

“For what?”

“To attack when we are weak, I suppose. Or to go with greater fury if you meet a dementor once more. Beyond that, I do not know.”

“I see. I’ll try to stay away from soul-sucking monsters, then.”

“Please do.”

[Cont]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 12 Jan 2024 05:45:01 No.5888778 Report

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>>5888777

You stand up, and then an idea comes to mind. You stretch your hand, and from it a leather-bound tome begins to appear. First the cover, then the pages, then the ink upon them. It is, you quickly realize, exhausting, but after a few minutes you produce a nice tome with the words “Cooking for ancient dummies” emblazoned in the front.

“Here. It doesn’t have every recipe I know, but… It should keep you entertained for a while.”

She takes the book and hugs it.

“Thank you.”

You hug her tightly.

“Merry Christmas, Helga. Thank you for everything you’ve done.”

“Merry Christmas, Elliot. I couldn’t have asked for a better head to live inside of.”

--

So Christmas day proper comes, and it passes with more food and lounging inside the house as the snow piles outside. You eat, you take another look at the gifts you received from your friends, and find yourself spending far too much time assembling Apollo’s present, what basically amounts to a wizard-lego version of the Whomping Willow, which made it very difficult to build properly as it kept on whipping your fingers.

Elend’s Sneakoscope and Linda’s meteorite go into your pouch so you can put it into a proper place by your bed when you return to Hogwarts, the clothes go into your bag and the food you share with the others. Not that there is any lack of food, of course, but it is good to have a little variation from the previous day’s feast.

The rest of the day is spent in front of the TV with Arty under your arm, either watching the Muppet Christmas Carol, or listening to your father tell some story about ancient Christmas traditions, or the Christmas truce of 1914, or where the custom of hanging stockings comes from. Then comes the Christmas board game night, a tradition in the Hallaster household which is mostly just your parents playing against each other, your mom trying to exploit every loophole in the rules, your dad trying to remember the tactics historically used to win and everyone else being hopelessly outmatched.

It isn’t a grand event, it isn’t a big epic moment, but it’s… normal. Safe. Sane. Like a bubble of warmth, where nothing can go wrong, and the things that go wrong don’t matter. An island of light in the craziness that your life’s become.

Christmas passes without a hitch, and every now and then, while your parents argue about the rules of some new game, Arty naps leaning on you, and all is well in the world.

--

It’s the twenty-sixth of December and the Christmas spirit is slowly giving way to the wonder of New Year’s Eve. Still, you have a few days between now and then. What will you do with your free time? (Pick one)

> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
> Take them to Cardiff Bay, the centerpiece of the city, with shopping, entertainment and food
> Show them what video-games are
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet
> Catch up on your studies with them (What subject?)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Fri 12 Jan 2024 05:57:09 No.5888781 Report

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>>5888778
>Introduce them to the wonders of the internet
as much as my inner GAMER wants to destroy n00bs, the internet is just the natural choice here, imagine how their little brains will just EXPLODE with the amount of info that would thwarth the Hogwarts library, plus, i feel like Helga may me very curious about it too
maybe we could show Arty some more..."internet selfies" when nobody else is watching

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 12 Jan 2024 06:30:13 No.5888797 Report

Quoted By: >>5888802 >>5888855

>>5888778
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet

> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Fri 12 Jan 2024 06:40:41 No.5888802 Report

Quoted By:

>>5888777
>remember when I said I was planning Christmas to be a single update and it now turned into four?
I'm enjoying it as-is, so no worries at all, QM!

>>5888797
These two!

>>5888778
> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
Helga a cute, and Mom and Dad are a blast, so well characterized.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 12 Jan 2024 08:05:39 No.5888847 Report

Quoted By: >>5889644

Just a note, have Elliot be sure to clean up his browser history if the internet win. We do not need to traumatize the twins.

"Elliot, why are there so many thing that pop down from the 'search bar'? Did I break it? What does 'hot witch cosplay xxx', "what is a normal size age 15', 'handholding, missionary, reproduction' mean?"

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 12 Jan 2024 08:40:14 No.5888855 Report

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>>5888778

I am a retard and didn't see the pick one.

> Introduce them to the wonders of the internet

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Fri 12 Jan 2024 13:45:29 No.5888944 Report

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>>5888778
>> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 12 Jan 2024 18:49:31 No.5889156 Report

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>>5888778
>> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 13 Jan 2024 03:38:32 No.5889644 Report

Quoted By: >>5889657 >>5889725

>>5888847
nah, if we showing them the wonders of the internet, then we showing them ALL the wonders of the internet, we dont keep secrets from miniwaifu and the only ones we do is because we cant tell her yet, but eventually will, a succesful relationship is build in trust and not communication

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 13 Jan 2024 03:52:04 No.5889657 Report

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>>5889644
That's fine but maybe we still clean our search history and ease her into that. We also don't want to give Helga a spiritual heart attack.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 13 Jan 2024 05:21:16 No.5889725 Report

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>>5889644
You know, if Apollo wasn't there as well, it might be pretty funny if Arty saw the weird shit Elliot is into, however I am not sure about that with her over-protective vaguely autistic brother looking over our shoulder. But fuck if I know, he might not even really make the connection. Also Helga has enough shit to tease up about what with us telling her to GTFO for a bit so we could jerk it to the nudes our perfect wifelette gave to us.

We all know his browser history is just going to be ancient civilizations and maybe shit posts.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 13 Jan 2024 05:26:23 No.5889729 Report

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>>5889725
Better image.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 13 Jan 2024 05:50:27 No.5889741 Report

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You figure that the parks and the rest of the city will be packed during the period between Christmas and New Year, so you decide to enjoy the benefits of a muggle home instead.

“This is a computer. Think of it as a magic box that does things for you. This black box here is its ‘brain’, this is where it shows what you ask it to, and these things are what you use to interact with it,” you tell both Arty, Apollo and Helga, showing them the cpu, the monitor and the mouse and keyboard. It was a computer from five years ago, sure, but it still did the job. “Much like any magical artifact, you need to know how to ask the question in the right way. It is set in its way, and if you can’t manage to get it to do what you want it to do, it isn’t its fault. It’s your fault for now knowing how to interact with it.”

“So there are two levels in which a computer operates. First is locally. I have things which I stored in its mechanical brain, and if, say, a deadly spell were to destroy it, it would be lost. But, some smart muggles thought really hard about it and decided that it would be very interesting if one computer could speak with another computer, using its own arcane language. Thus, the internet was born, a huge, interconnected web of computers, spanning the whole world. And this,” you say, opening your browser. “Is how you search for things in this enormous mess that is the internet. For example, say something you’d like to know more about.”

“Uh… I don’t know,” Arty says. “The life of Harry Potter?”

“Muggle things. Wizards don’t generally use the internet, and the ministry keeps a close watch to make sure nothing leaks.” But, just to prove your point, you type ‘Harry Potter’ on the search bar and, as expected, the only results that show up are about Harrys who happened to own pottery stores. “See? Though if we look for something that leaked into their world, such as ‘Merlin’...” You type it in, and soon have the Wikipedia page open and you read. “Merlin is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles. The familiar depiction of Merlin, based on an amalgamation of historic and legendary figures, was introduced by the 12th-century British pseudo-historical author Geoffrey of Monmouth and then built on by the French poet Robert de Boron and their prose successors in the 13th century.”

“But they think it is a myth?”

“Like all other magical things. Things like the Bigfeet and the Loch Ness monster are too big to cover up totally, so the ministry just hides them as legends instead. Anyone who sees them and talks about it is considered a crackpot.”

“You said before that muggles have landed on the moon,” Helga says in your head, and you relay the message to the others. “I don’t believe you.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 13 Jan 2024 05:51:29 No.5889742 Report

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>>5889741

You grin and type “Earthrise”, and in moments the picture you’re looking for shows up. A great field of white and gray under a black sky. And hanging in the sky suspended by nothing, a blue planet with white clouds swirling.

“That… that is how the earth looks from the moon,” you say, voice filled with pride, and Helga’s voice hitches in her throat. Without magic, without the power to bend the world to its will with just the wave of a wand, muggles had managed to do what no wizard had ever accomplished before. You type some more, switching through pictures. “Here is a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, of Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon.”

“Why are they using that white thing?” Apollo asks, curious.

“There’s no air on the moon, so they put on those clothes that keep them with a supply of fresh air. They got there with a rocket,” more typing. “Which is this huge machine with huge amounts of fuel, they burn it, the fire pushes them forwards, and that’s how they leave earth. That tiny thing beside the rocket is a person, by the way.”

“Impossible,” Helga says, and there is a tremor of true fear in her voice. “The muggles could never… They were struggling just to stay alive!”

“And it took a thousand years of death and suffering for us to get there. Sometimes… Sometimes I wonder if magic made things too easy. I wonder why wizards stagnated, why we weren’t the ones to go there first.” You say. It is truly no wonder you and Taylor had become friends. Much like Atlantis was the physical embodiment of magical might, that flag on the moon was the embodiment of muggle might. Except it wasn’t just muggle. It was human. Just a slightly different kind of human than you. One who couldn’t take the easy way out, one who was forced to sit down and do the math. “That was Taylor’s dream, to build a house with that view. And, between mine, his and Linda’s, his was the most realistic.”

You type a few more words, and “The Blue Marble” shows up in all its glory.

“That’s how Earth looks from space. And not a single wizard has ever seen the way muggles have.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 13 Jan 2024 05:53:02 No.5889743 Report

Quoted By: >>5889746 >>5889766 >>5889793 >>5889802 >>5889819 >>5889889 >>5890059

>>5889742

During the next few days, you teach them both how to use the internet, how to stay away from malicious sites, how to use Wikipedia and so on. It is on the afternoon of the thirty-first, when Apollo has become absolutely engrossed with your old set of Legos, that you notice Arty’s missing for several minutes now. You go searching for her, and after going to every other room in the house, you slowly open the door to your bedroom.

“Arty?”

She jumps in the computer chair, clearly not expecting company.

“Oh, Elliot!” She says, slightly nervous, “I… I didn’t hear you.”

“What are you looking for in there?”

“Oh, it’s.. It’s nothing,” she says with a hint of sadness in her voice, closing the page before you can see. “Just a silly idea. It... it didn’t work, anyway.”

She leaves, looking quite glum.

You watch her go, then turn to the computer. It wouldn’t hurt to look, would it?

You open up the browser, go into history and see a series of short google searches.

“who is artemis pertingers mom”, “who is artemis pertingers mother”, “artemis pertinger parents”, “apollo pertinger parents”, and so on, several variations on the same theme.

Oh.

You are no expert googler but… perhaps you could do a better job?

> Try to find more about Arty’s parents. Knowing it couldn't hurt, could it?
> Leave. Apollo’s memories make it clear some things are better staying buried, and you know there is no way to unlearn a secret
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 13 Jan 2024 06:02:55 No.5889746 Report

Quoted By: >>5889766 >>5889793

>>5889743
> Leave. Apollo’s memories make it clear some things are better staying buried, and you know there is no way to unlearn a secret
Oh. :(

We can look into it some other day, after we've talked to her about it more openly and gotten her permission. This isn't something you take over and then spring on someone.

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 13 Jan 2024 06:27:04 No.5889766 Report

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>>5889743
this >>5889746
once we managed to save the world, we can fully focus on them

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Anonymous ID:vSRTVY8W Sat 13 Jan 2024 07:39:52 No.5889793 Report

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>>5889746
>>5889743
>support

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 13 Jan 2024 07:53:46 No.5889802 Report

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>>5889743
>Apollo has become absolutely engrossed with your old set of Legos
Naturally.

> Leave. Apollo’s memories make it clear some things are better staying buried, and you know there is no way to unlearn a secret
Probably best to leave it for now.

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Anonymous ID:NRxEi1q3 Sat 13 Jan 2024 08:38:19 No.5889819 Report

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>>5889743
> Try to find more about Arty’s parents. Knowing it couldn't hurt, could it?
But ask if this is what she really, really wants. In any case, we probably won’t find anything.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 13 Jan 2024 11:47:33 No.5889889 Report

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>>5889743
> Try to find more about Arty’s parents. Knowing it couldn't hurt, could it?
>I can help you, but only if both of you really want. Sometimes the past should stay buried, but sometimes you NEED to know where you came from. You need answers even if they end up not being the ones you want to hear.

Yes, I am choosing the option that will probably end in tears.

If mom was a muggle, she likely gave birth at a muggle hospital. That means records. We need to ask if she remembers what town they were born in. If it is a small one that helps significantly, less so If it is like London or something. They presumably went to muggle school before they found out they were wizards, that is a clue as well. Ask if she recalls any thing like being sent to a prison filled with other sniveling kids.

We might need to really ask what happened to mom and dad, if their "caretaker" was dad or someone else. Figure out if Pertinger is moms maiden name or their dads last name.

Muggles are very good at keeping records. If they were ever in the system at all, some elbow grease should help bring some things to light.

We might not want to tell Helga about ICBM MIRVs and how many are kicking around. And no showing her footage of Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 13 Jan 2024 12:16:59 No.5889900 Report

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>>5889889
Crazy conspiracy time.

They are not to young for mom to have been a Death Eater from the Second Wizarding War, one who managed to hide for a few years before being caught. She went into hiding, got knocked up and then the ministry finally tracked her down. The ministry kept her out of prison long enough for her to give birth, twice, before sending the pair to be raised by their father or a family member. Right now her mom is rotting in Azkaban, serving a life sentence for some pretty evil shit and only having briefly ever seen her kids. Idea might work as well if dad was the Death Eater and either fled when their mom was pregenant or got caught and mom died giving birth to Arty and they were put in state care or a relative's.

Yes, I do love angst, why do you ask?

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 13 Jan 2024 18:14:06 No.5890059 Report

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>>5889743
>> Leave. Apollo’s memories make it clear some things are better staying buried, and you know there is no way to unlearn a secret

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 14 Jan 2024 05:09:33 No.5890893 Report

Quoted By: >>5891029 >>5891201

i just remember that we promised to take Helga (and by extension Arty and Apollo) to a McDonalds, i wonder how they´ll react to the gifts of the modern era food overlords

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 14 Jan 2024 08:11:22 No.5891029 Report

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>>5890893
Helga will either think it is amazing that muggles are able to have cheap, hot food readily available to that degree or try to convince us to burn the building down as it is an affront to her culinary pride.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 14 Jan 2024 16:45:21 No.5891201 Report

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>>5890893
we already did

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Anonymous ID:2Vfna/eT Sun 14 Jan 2024 18:01:57 No.5891267 Report

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>>5889889
>spoiler
Ah yes the dark side of technological progress.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 14 Jan 2024 20:38:07 No.5891405 Report

Quoted By: >>5891406

“What would you do, Helga?” You ask.

“Not telling.”

“Why?”

“Because, even though I live in your head, it is your life,” she says, kindly. “Living, and making mistakes, is part of it. I’m helping you save the world, not decide how to behave towards your friends. Those are choices, and consequences, you need to make by yourself.”

You sigh… then close the browser. If Arty wanted you to be involved, she’d have asked. Maybe one day she will, but not now. Not today. Or maybe that’s something she wants to do by herself, and that’s her right too, once she learns how to use the internet better.

But it’s not your choice to make for her.

So you just go back to the living room, where Apollo has created a multicolored replica of Hogwarts made from your whole bucket of lego pieces and is now trying to discover what he can cannibalize from it to build Hogsmeade.

--

It is a funny thing that, unlike muggles, wizards don’t care much about New Year’s Eve. At Hogwarts, it mostly passes by unnoticed, except for the few muggleborns who stay during the holidays and do a celebration on their own in a mostly empty Great Hall.

So it takes you a while to explain to Arty and Apollo how exactly muggles celebrate the crossing of years. Most importantly, to explain fireworks, as your parents plan on going to watch the display at the City Hall. Wizards do have fireworks, but they're not as popular and none of the displays you’ve ever seen come even close to the size of the ones the muggles do.

“Now, it makes noise, like a bunch of explosions really far away, because that’s what it is. But it’s perfectly safe so… there is no need to freak out.” You say, slowly and every so slightly worried a lot.

Apollo just nods, and you just sigh, hoping to Merlin that no display of accidental magic happens today.

So you five go to a nice restaurant, have a nice meal which gets plenty of delighted quips from Helga, and start heading towards the City Hall Lawn, where you usually go to watch the fireworks.

It is utterly packed with people.

Your father keeps on driving past them, taking a left and parking in the university parking lot.

“Uh, the Lawn might be a little too full,” you tell your dad as you get out of the car. “Maybe… maybe it's best if we stay a bit further away?”

“What? The main place to celebrate the New Year and watch the fireworks is utterly full of people!?” your dad says in mock shock. “Who could have foreseen this!?”

“No, dad, it’s serious. I think-”

He pats you in the head and tells you to watch and learn.

You two walk by the city hall, but instead of turning right and joining the mass of people waiting in the grass… You instead turn left, heading to the building right beside the city hall, Cardiff’s branch of the National Museum.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 14 Jan 2024 20:39:08 No.5891406 Report

Quoted By: >>5891408 >>5891424 >>5891469 >>5891552 >>5891566 >>5891585 >>5891671

>>5891405

He takes you past the main doors, around the back, and finally, to a small service door on the side of the building. He pulls a ring with about a dozen keys, puts one in the lock and opens, putting a finger over his mouth in a “stay quiet” motion.

So you walk through the semi-dark museum, only the emergency lights showing your way, great skeletons of ancient dinosaurs watching over you, making Arty say that she thought muggles didn’t know about dragons, which leads to your dad pausing to make an extremely long lecture about the creatures, only stopping when your mom points at her watch. You continue walking, your dad expounding on dinosaurs as you go up a set of spiral stairs, through a corridor, then up a ladder which leads to a hatch.

You climb out into the roof of the building. There are remains of scaffoldings and other things from a renovation a while ago, but all in all, it is open, clean and, most importantly, empty. The garden full of people stretches out below you as midnight approaches.

“Dad… did you get permission for this?”

The other half of the reason you were sent to Slytherin and almost to Hufflepuff just winks at you.

Your mom pulls a bottle of sparkling wine from a basket she’s carrying, along with a variety of finger foods for you to pass the time. When the New Year arrives, the sparkling wine is popped and the fireworks light up the skies, you cross into 2025 with a kiss, and there is nothing wrong with the world.

--

The following day, you wake up with an owl tapping on your window.

“Dear Commander,” you read. “It’s difficult to discover what the Malfoys have found out precisely, but it appears their search of the lake has come up with something, though I’m not sure what. Scorpius was seen raging for hours yesterday. Whatever it is, frustrated him to no end. Still no news on Taylor. Have a happy new year - Elend.”

If you had to guess, Scorpius had once again found the entrance to Last Light, and discovered what you’d done with it.

Well, that changed the game. You don’t doubt the “search” for Taylor will end soon, now that Scorpius no longer has any reason to be there. The problem is… what will he do next? Will he try to find the Fifth Founder without that power? It’s the only logical move, you think, unless there is another huge repository of magic buried somewhere.

But you still have half a week of holidays. What will you do with your remaining time in muggle-land? (Pick two)

> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
> Take them to Cardiff Bay, the centerpiece of the city, with shopping, entertainment and food
> Show them what video-games are
> Buy something you’d have trouble transfiguring/can’t transfigure (What?)
> Catch up on your studies with them (What subject?)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 14 Jan 2024 20:45:30 No.5891408 Report

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>>5891406
>> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
>> Show them what video-games are

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Anonymous ID:mByH0SRQ Sun 14 Jan 2024 21:04:18 No.5891424 Report

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>>5891406
> Show them what video-games are
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 14 Jan 2024 22:06:01 No.5891469 Report

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>>5891406
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
> Catch up on your studies with them (What subject?)
Transfiguration. We can't use magic but we can certainly learn how Apollo sees it.

With Elend's letter, we need to try and start maxxing. Taylor died last time because we slacked off, believed we had more time than we had.

See if we can't help the twins with potions by just helping us prep ingredients for meals. Precise, proper preparation is key in a bunch of potion recipes.

So Cocksucking Salazar found the dead repository. We imagined he would. Not out of our calculations. Via Helga we know that Isadora made at least one other, much smaller. One which may still be intact... which is concerning.

In good news he did not likely find either the library or the Stone in the Room of Requirement.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sun 14 Jan 2024 23:42:28 No.5891552 Report

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>>5891406
> Show them what video-games are
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 14 Jan 2024 23:56:18 No.5891566 Report

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>>5891406
>Show them what video-games are
>Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 15 Jan 2024 00:10:16 No.5891585 Report

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>>5891469
+1

>>5891406
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
> Catch up on your studies with them (What subject?)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 15 Jan 2024 00:43:26 No.5891633 Report

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>>5891469
the time wasn't our fault

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 15 Jan 2024 01:21:28 No.5891671 Report

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>>5891406
> Show them what video-games are
> Take Arty and Apollo early the park, see if you can catch a glimpse of any birds
Yet another kick in Salazar's spectral balls. You love to see it.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 06:39:58 No.5891903 Report

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>>5891633
Technically, if we had been clever enough, we could have figured out there was a date difference. Taylor complained about it once when we first started researching and the Julian/Gregorian calendar difference is a IRL thing.

>>5891671
>Yet another kick in Salazar's spectral balls. You love to see it.

Yeah, he is not going to be happy to see us. It is completely possible now that he is going to try and fuck with us as revenge. Frame our boy or do something to harm Arty. We must endeavor to piss him off more, to the point he makes Scopius throw a blood clot or pop an aneurysm.

He touches the wife, he gets the knife.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 15 Jan 2024 08:12:37 No.5891948 Report

Quoted By: >>5891950 >>5892601

I was writing and went to check on what console Elliot would have had, and I realized this fucker was born in 2008, so he probably didn’t even touch anything older than a PS4, and now I’m feeling fucking ancient.

So, here you go, you fucks get to feel ancient too. Just a half-update for now, finishing the “Going to the Park” half after sleeping.

--

It takes a while until one of them asks about the dusty black box by the TV.

“That? That is… a type of computer, but made specifically to play games. Let me show you…” You hover over the PS4, but then decide to go for the Switch. It had been one of the very last birthday gifts you’d gotten from your parents before discovering you were a wizard. The controller feels right at home in your hands. “Some games you can only play alone, some you can play together. Some are cooperative, some are one versus the other. Huh, what’s good for someone who’s never played a game in their life before… Can’t go wrong with Mario, can you?”

You boot up Super Mario Wonder, which you still haven’t finished, and start up a new save with three players, distributing the controllers, showing them how to hold them. You pick Mario, Luigi for Apollo and Peach for Arty.

“Uh… what do I do?” Arty asks.

“Well, for now, try pressing the buttons. See what they do!”

It’s funny, seeing someone play video-games for the first time, and by funny you mean excruciating. What is second-nature to any muggle kid is slow going for them, from just learning how to move, to coordinating holding the run button and going the right direction at the same time, to jumping the right distance, and simply managing to go all the way to the right so the game can properly start takes you ten whole minutes.

You pass by the little flower guys whose names you forget, who all say hi to you.

“Hi!” Arty says. “What’s your name?”

The character on the screen fails to answer, and it takes you a minute to understand what exactly she’s expecting to happen.

She’s expecting the character to answer, of course, because that’s what animated pictures and paintings do.

“Riiiight. So muggle moving pictures don’t quite react like that,” you explain. “Only our characters can interact with them, that’s the pink princess, the guy in the red hat and the guy in the green hat. And our characters can only do a certain set of things.”

And so the explanations go for a while. Eventually, you all watch as Bowser becomes a giant flying castle through the power of drugs.

“Why did the flower transform him like that?”

“Magic,” you answer.

“That’s not an explanation!”

“Heh, welcome to my life.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 15 Jan 2024 08:13:40 No.5891950 Report

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>>5891948

Soon, you’re stomping on your first goombas (“Noooo, they were sleeping!”), becoming elephants (“Why did it do that?”), collecting coins (“Look at the size of those things! They must be very rich here!”) to having your first flower-induced drug trip. Apollo manages to die twice to a koopa, and Arty questions every single aspect of game-logic you find (“Why do some flowers talk, some walk, some give you powers and some turn you into a castle? And now they’re singing! Why are they singing!?”) and feeling sorry for every enemy you stomp (“He was just walking by, you didn’t need to kill him!”).

But, Mario being Mario, the sheer power of its game-design and loveliness of the game takes you through the first world and boss. Once you manage to convince Arty that, yes, the characters are not real, and yes, they’ll be fine if you stop playing, you try putting on Mortal Kombat, which, obviously, they both utterly suck at.

“You ripped off my head!” She shrieks, shocked. “You can’t do that to people!”

“Well, I just did. Now let’s see how you fare against someone your level. Here, Apollo. Take it.”

Once Arty wins with the extremely refined technique of repeatedly jumping and kicking, you stomp them both one more time for good measure. Since getting beat repeatedly is not the most fun thing in the world, however, you decide to switch once more, looking at the time.

And that’s when you have an idea.

It could possibly be a terrible idea, but it could also be extremely fun.

You boot up Minecraft. You show Apollo how to create a new world. You show him how to move in a 3D world. You show him how to punch trees and craft. You show him Creative Mode. And then you watch him absolutely lose himself in the game.

It takes a grand total of 30 minutes.

“Welp, you two can keep on playing if you want, but I think I’ll go for a walk,” you say, stretching. “Do any of you want to go too?”

“I’ll go!” Arty says, jumping up.

“Uh-uh,” Apollo says, utterly transfixed. You put on a coat and go out the door, leaving him in the loving hands of a world made of blocks.

Finally, some alone time.

You and Arty intertwine your hands and walk through the cold streets of winter. You wait until you’re at least a few blocks away, look around to make sure you’re alone, then turn to Arty and press her against a wall.

“Excuse me, but I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now,” you say before kissing her. You kiss her deeply, hungrily, the way you wanted to do but couldn’t for your entire time here with Apollo looking over your shoulders.

“Ah, Elliot!” She manages to exclaim between kisses, but not much is said beyond that for several minutes, and even then, you just stop because you’re out of breath.

“That… was very sudden,” she says, once you’re both recomposed.

“Sorry, but when your girlfriend gives you this as a Christmas gift,” you say, pulling her picture from your pocket. “How can someone react any other way?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 15 Jan 2024 08:14:41 No.5891951 Report

Quoted By: >>5891954 >>5891960 >>5892601

>>5891950

“Elliot! You- You can’t just wave it around!” She says, wide eyed, trying to snatch it from your hands, but you hold it above her reach.

“Why not? It was a gift, right? If it is mine then I can do whatever I want with it. Maybe I’ll have it expanded into a poster, hang it in the Slytherin dormitory.”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

“I think it would look lovely-eep!” You shout as she hits the back of your knee with her foot and your leg gives way beneath you. She jumps as you stumble, snatching the picture off your hands. She looks at it, then glares at you, blushing.

“Come on, you didn’t think I’d be talking about that picture,” you say, taking back the picture of her fully clothed. “That would just be mean.”

“Ha-ha,” she fake-laughs, but she’s smiling. “You dummy.”

“Now, tell me,” you say, standing back up and putting your arms around her. “Who exactly gave you that gift idea? I think I want to send her a late Christmas present.”

“You think you’re pretty funny, don’t you? Teasing a beautiful, innocent lady like that?”

“Beautiful? Definitely. Innocent? Eeeeeh…”

She pokes you in the ribs.

“You keep on doing that and you’re never getting another one ever again.”

“Alright, alright, no more mocking,” you say, putting your hands up in surrender. “But seriously now… The pictures were beautiful. Both of them.”

You don’t think you’ll ever get tired of seeing her blush.

“I’m… glad you liked them.”

“I did. I liked them very much. Though maybe you could have given them to me somewhere that wasn’t right in front of my parents and your brother?”

“Sorry. I wasn’t… I wasn’t really thinking about anything other than being nervous about it.”

“It’s fine, it worked out in the end. That does leave one question to be answered, though.”

“Why do I feel like you’re setting me up?”

“Because I definitely am.”

She sighs. “Very well. What question?”

You approach and whisper in her ear.

“If you want one from me. I can guarantee you all this exercising for battle class is really paying off.”

You wait for her answer, but she doesn’t give you one. You pull back to see she’s fully hiding her face behind her hands, ears red.

“Is that a yes?”

She nods.

“But!” She says, still hiding her face. “Just like mine! Nothing else! Nothing… untowards.”

“Alright,” you say, grinning. “I’ll see what I can do.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Mon 15 Jan 2024 08:31:46 No.5891954 Report

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>>5891951
>“Just like mine! Nothing else! Nothing… untowards.”
alright,. no dick pics for now, lets get some baby oil and cover ourself in it so we can be shiny and give her a mini heart attack

>>5891950
>Apollo got adicted to Minecraft
full lets play when?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 09:05:13 No.5891960 Report

Quoted By: >>5891963 >>5891975

>>5891951
>Giving Apollo unrestricted access to Minecraft
>We come back and there is now a full scale Hogwarts, including blocky portraits, floating candles, and somehow, moving staircases

>Arty wanting some mostly nude pics of Elliot so she can jerk off to his manlet abs and pecs

This was a fun update. Merlin, I love the magical-muggle interactions in this quest.

Once more Arty is a cute and a best.

We are definitely paying for this stuff when we get back to Hogwarts. Panic mode, engage.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Mon 15 Jan 2024 09:09:28 No.5891963 Report

Quoted By: >>5891980

>>5891960
>spoilers
sigh, dont remind me, HeadQM is gonna give us hell when we come back for this, at least it was fun while it lasted and it gave us post-game content and at least 2 more extra goals after we beat the main plot

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 15 Jan 2024 09:30:26 No.5891975 Report

Quoted By: >>5891980

>>5891960
To be fair Taylor and "Lily" dying was because of horrible rolls and Lily's soul-death was unintentionally caused by player choice. I will never not find it funny that Lily died because she was friendzoned when we decided we liked the tiny go-getter Hufflepuff more. Turns out she was more Weasley than Potter what with her terrible fucking luck.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 09:59:30 No.5891980 Report

Quoted By: >>5891987 >>5892271

>>5891975
> Lily died because she was friendzoned

Yeah, looking back, that was somewhat amusing. Horrible but amusing. I mean, I have FELT like dying in similar situation but that being the straw that broke the camels back? Lol.

I am not sure that more prep could have fixed things, but IC, I think Elliot might. Even having the twins with us as back up would have had the risk of at least one getting got.

Those rolls were pretty fucking shit but "Lily's" + 65 to opposed rolls was ridiculous.

Reminds me, we really do need to try and find someone to tutor us with battle magic again. I doubt Scorpy-boy has anywhere close to Lily's bonus but he is also older than us, ergo more magically powerful, and comes from a family with both dark artifacts in a vault and a history of knowing dark magic spells. He is probably at least as good at us with potions and better at charms. Probably closes that gap a bit, since a real fight won't be like battle class. Fucker could bring all the potions he wants to buy and all the magic items he could steal from Daddy with him.

>>5891963
Finding Arty and Apollos parents is one of them, but what is the other? Getting them therapy?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Mon 15 Jan 2024 10:04:30 No.5891987 Report

Quoted By: >>5892003

>>5891980
>but what is the other? Getting them therapy?
Giving Helga a body, maybe actually finding Atlantis too if we dont need to find it for the main quest

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 10:53:56 No.5892003 Report

Quoted By: >>5892033 >>5892273

>>5891987
Ah, I am a dumbass. Or maybe I was just thinking that would come up in the main quest? Anyway, yes we will. Although losing that sweet +25 and her dream interactions will suck a bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Mon 15 Jan 2024 11:59:26 No.5892033 Report

Quoted By: >>5892177

>>5892003
Almost forgot, marrying Arty

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 18:03:25 No.5892177 Report

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>>5892033
That is like a main goal. Right after stopping Salazar and keeping the world from getting erased by the beast. Probably before finding Lost Places, since she doesn't have a ton of time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 15 Jan 2024 19:56:56 No.5892271 Report

Quoted By:

>>5891980
we had plans for it, but the dates fucked that up

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 15 Jan 2024 19:58:14 No.5892273 Report

Quoted By: >>5892302

>>5892003
by then we hopefully won't need that +25 anymore

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 15 Jan 2024 20:45:49 No.5892302 Report

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>>5892273
Hahaha. And then we find the secret final boss.

If any thing, we did learn from Dec. 1 being actually Nov 18th, I hope, it is to not put stuff off till the last minute.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 16 Jan 2024 03:28:57 No.5892601 Report

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>>5891948
>>5891950
>>5891951
2cute. Good writing, QM.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 16 Jan 2024 05:47:04 No.5892718 Report

Quoted By: >>5892721

I would like you all to know that I have never and will never get over the fact there is a group of birds called “tits”, which, according to Bute Park’s website, are frequently seen in the region. Their subgroup names amuse me even further, and I’ll take every opportunity to joke about it.

--

You take a long walk with Arty, stopping to get treats and show her the city a bit. You chat about everything and nothing, from the muggle world to school.

“Ohh, you’re learning Apparition, aren’t you?” She says excitedly when you mention classes.

“Yep. It’s… certainly going to be interesting, as long as I remember to come out the other side with all my limbs. We’ve also been learning nonverbal spells, that’s going to be a whole other world of hurt.”

“I bet every commander will be racing to learn it. It’ll change the whole game in Battle Class! The seventh-years pull some crazy flanking maneuvers with it!”

“They do but… You should have seen Lily fight with it, no one even came close. She’d apparate two, three, four times in a row around her target, blasting them from every side. It was insane to see.”

“I wish I could remember her,” she says. “I know plenty of what you say is actually Salazar pretending to be her, but… She didn’t have to help me with battle class. From what you said, she started helping me when… when she was still herself. She sounded nice.”

“She was. Deeply, deeply broken, but a good person. Salazar wouldn’t have been able to control her like that if she wasn’t.” You sigh. “She’d have been a good friend, and one hell of an ally.”

You walk in silence for a while, deep in thought.

“You know it’s not your fault, right?” Arty asks.

“I do. I didn’t know what was going on, and even if I did, there was nothing I could have done. She was doomed for years before I even met her. Doesn’t mean I can’t feel guilty about it, every now and then.”

“I get it. You’re also thinking it, right? That once we go back to Hogwarts, things will change?”

“Yeah. I don’t know what Scorpius is doing but…”

“But whatever it is,” she says, taking your face in her hands. “We’ll get through it together. Me, you, Linda, Apollo and a massive pile of potions.”

You smile. “Couldn’t have said it better myself.”

You return home a few hours later as the sun sets to see a strange sight. Your computer, which is not, in any way, a notebook, has been brought down into the living room, with Apollo playing the Switch while browsing what appears to be about thirty tabs of the Minecraft wiki.

“Oh Merlin,” you say, in horror. “I’ve created a monster.”

--

It’s five in the morning of the next day, and you’re cold, miserable, tired and half buried in the snow as the sun slowly creeps over the trees.

“Why did I agree to this again?”

“Because you’re a good boyfriend accompanying his girlfriend on her hobbies.”

When you had suggested going bird-watching in the early morning, you hadn’t quite realized the implications.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 16 Jan 2024 05:48:16 No.5892721 Report

Quoted By: >>5892723

>>5892718

“Right. Then could this good boyfriend suggest a new hobby? I know one where we’re inside, and close to a fire.”

“Shush, you’re going to scare the birds!” She hisses at you.

“What birds? We’ve been here for half an hour in the middle of the darkness!”

“That’s because you keep scaring them with your loud voice!”

So you stay, grumbling to yourself something about potions and hot chocolate and being warm, while the light gently covers Bute Park and the animals finally start to wake up.

“Look, look!”

You look at where she’s pointing and see a small mound of fluff shuffling through the fresh snow. Once it gets closer, you see that it is an enormously fat squirrel, no doubt taking advantage of tourists wanting to part with their food in exchange for a couple of pictures. It hops along towards you, no doubt eager to get its next meal from the two big pink apes thinking they’re hiding in the snow.

“Oh, look at you!” Arty says, stretching out her hand so it could climb on top of it. “You’re huge! Did you eat a whole watermelon by yourself? Well, you’re going to make a really greasy meal for an eagle if you keep on going like that!” She shuffles through a small pouch on her side, holding the squirrel away from it. “Here, have a piece of carrot.”

The squirrels looks almost offended at her offering.

“Now, don’t be like that!” She says, pushing the piece of carrot into its tiny hands. “You need to slim down!”

It takes the carrot, looks it over, then tosses it away with a mad squeak.

“Hey! That’s not polite! You go away now!” She gently but firmly tosses the fat squirrel into a pile of soft snow and it shakes its tiny fist at you before scurrying away. “Can you believe the arrogance?”

“I also expected much more from such an intelligent and noble beast.”

She shows you her tongue.

Fortunately for the freezing tips of your fingers, it doesn’t take long for the sun to melt the snow piling on the trees, making it fall, shaking up the leaves and scaring off a flock of birds. Arty watches excitedly through her Omnioculars, looking through the lenses at where they’d been long after they’d flown away, the slow-motion function holding them in place in her view.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 16 Jan 2024 05:49:17 No.5892723 Report

Quoted By: >>5892731 >>5892735 >>5892746 >>5892748 >>5892791

>>5892721

“Oh, look at that! They’re beautiful! Come look!”

You peek through the instrument and see a beautiful black and yellow bird frozen mid-air against the sunrise, the light gently flowing through its wings, the cold morning air condensing its breath into smoke, like a tiny feathered dragon.

“Oh wow! What are these called?”

“I think they’re great tits, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to check your internet thingy later.”

…

“Well, if I wanted to see great tits I could have just looked at your picture- ow!”

--

So, with the days passing, Saturday arrives. You pack your bags and get everything ready for the trip back tomorrow. There’s still a haze of comfort around you that only your home can give you. Arty is learning how to cook from your mom making dinner, Apollo is putting in what is probably his sixtieth hour into Minecraft in the past four days, and your dad is failing at making a proper cocktail while talking about some amusing historical fact.

All is as it should be.

Tomorrow morning, you’ll hop into the car and head to Platform 9 ¾. Today you still have some final hours, if there’re any quick, final things you want to do before your time with the muggles is up and you get back to the insanity of your normal life.

> Just enjoy a nice dinner with family
> Ask/tell your parents something (What?)
> Do something in the house (What?)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:01:06 No.5892731 Report

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>>5892723
> Ask/tell your parents something (What?)
Just make sure to huge them both, thank them, and tell them we love them. Never know if we'll get another chance...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:05:48 No.5892735 Report

Quoted By: >>5892791 >>5892792

>>5892723
>Ask/tell your parents something (What?)
>make sure you isolate them
>"so...mom...dad, i know this might come as a sudden and out of nowhere, but how would you feel if i were to...lets say......marry Arty?"
we are going to work on giving her as much time as possible, but maybe some early planning could be advantageous for this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:14:18 No.5892746 Report

Quoted By: >>5892748 >>5892791 >>5892808 >>5893016

>>5892723
Just realized that Apollo is definitely going to try to create a Magical Crafting Table when he gets back to Hogwarts. And maybe an Enchantment table. That's a thing in minecraft these days, right? I think so. I haven't actually touched it since pre-wolves.
>Pack some of the more useful muggle books you have available into your bags. Books on engineering, survival skills, historical war tactics. Maybe print a few things out, staple them together, and throw them in a binder to take with you as well. You have a feeling you'll need every advantage you can get soon.
Never underestimate the potential of a wizard that knows how to create a punji pit, or how to destabilize a single section of a tunnel without collapsing the rest of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:17:25 No.5892748 Report

Quoted By: >>5892751

>>5892723
> Do something in the house (What?)
Look up something that'll help us against Salazar, whether it is online or otherwise. Maybe we should think outside the box for a bit; if magic isn't as reliable then perhaps something from the muggle world could be the key.
And do what this anon >>5892746 voted for too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:19:49 No.5892751 Report

Quoted By: >>5892753 >>5892764

>>5892748
Imagine.
"You fool no magic can get through my barrier."
"Let's see if thermite does the trick, then."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:22:07 No.5892753 Report

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>>5892751
hah based

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Tue 16 Jan 2024 06:32:11 No.5892764 Report

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>>5892751

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:04:54 No.5892791 Report

Quoted By: >>5892792

>>5892723
>Great tits
Hue.

>>5892735
>>5892746

Support.

For the first, mom was already calling Arty her daughter-in-law which is great.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:12:02 No.5892792 Report

Quoted By: >>5892798 >>5892802

>>5892735
>>5892791
Guys, we've been dating less than a year and are... Like, 16?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:15:29 No.5892795 Report

Quoted By: >>5892797

I came up with a shitty magizoology joke Arty will probably hate.

"What do you call a giant female spider who want's to eat your face Arty?"

"Geeze, I don't know, Elliot."

"An Acro-Ma'am-tula."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:16:28 No.5892797 Report

Quoted By: >>5892805

>>5892795
>Crusio

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:17:40 No.5892798 Report

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>>5892792
we are also fighting and timeline erasing cosmic horror and she is 1/3 into her lifespan, shit aint gonna wait for us

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:23:24 No.5892802 Report

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>>5892792
With out some serious Ancient or maybe Dark magic, she is going to be dead in 20 years. Floating the idea of getting married to her after graduating with mom and dad isn't a terrible idea since weddings are expensive and they would likely be the ones paying for the wedding. And the sorrow will be even sweeter when she bites the bullet because of Salazar. Full Dark Lord Route when that happens.

It used to be relatively common to get hitched straight out of HS.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:29:08 No.5892805 Report

Quoted By: >>5892808

>>5892797
It's pronounced Cru-Ci-O, not Cru-Si-O.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 16 Jan 2024 07:35:08 No.5892808 Report

Quoted By: >>5892855

>>5892805
I don't know why, but this made me remember something else to add to the pack.
>>5892746
>And some of mom's books for learning Latin.
Legal uses so much latin that it'd be insane if she didn't have some books on it. And all of the magic taught in hogwarts is based on latin, so presumably knowing the actual meaning of the words will help.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 16 Jan 2024 09:24:02 No.5892855 Report

Quoted By:

>>5892808
Maybe? We are already able to read a bit of Latin, but brushing up could help with checking out some of the books in Niamh Fitzgerald's library. Same if we can find something for low and middle English I suppose. I had to figure out how to parse that shit when getting my history degree to look at primary sources and I hate the British now.

We are apparently from Wales. I wonder if we speak or understand Welsh? If dad, at least, is a native I feel like he would have made Elliot learn at least a bit given he is a History Professor.

Not sure about Latin helping with spell casting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 16 Jan 2024 16:44:11 No.5893016 Report

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>>5892746
enchantment tables have been in for a very long time, it's almost a completely different game now compared to back in 2011

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 17 Jan 2024 00:12:01 No.5893343 Report

Quoted By: >>5893344

You wait until your dad’s finished with his drink, grab a cup of coke and make a gentle signal with your head towards the door. You don’t know what he makes of that, but he does finish up his lecture and follows you out the door, where you’re watching a light drizzle fall over the snow.

“Last day, huh?” He says. “Eager to go back to breaking the laws of physics?”

“It’s been a… rough year so far,” you say, which is the understatement of the year. “But I did get Arty and… She’s more than I could’ve ever hoped for.”

“I’m happy for you, son. She seems lovely.”

“She is.” You hesitate for a moment. “How did you know? That mom was the person you wanted to spend the rest of your life with?”

“That serious, huh? Well, I first need to say that teenage romance is a byproduct of you being flooded with a million different hormones and that most teenage romances inevitably end up splitting up before a half a year, so you shouldn’t be too disappointed or feel guilty if it does end in heartbreak.” He says, taking a sip from his drink. “That being said, the answer to your question is about three days.”

“That fast?”

“That fast for the first time. But the first time is the easy part. The hard part is doing it every day after that, for the next fifty years. Once that fiery passion from the beginning ends, it stops being something you just do and starts being a choice you need to make again and again. Some people make it easy, some people make it hard. Some days it’s simple, some days it’s the hardest thing in the world. And that’s the real test.” He smiles and puts a hand on your shoulder. “But you’re still far from that, I’m sure. If there’s one advice I can offer, it's to never go to bed mad at each other. Talk about it, solve the problem. Number one cause of divorce is poor communication. Oh, also, whenever you two get around to that and get your hands on the magical equivalent of birth control, have lots of sex.”

“Dad!”

“It’s true, one of the best indicators of the health of a long relationship is how much sex you have. Look at me and your mom!”

“Wha-”

“I mean, you have no idea what we have to do when you’re around to have some time for ourselves!”

“I do not need to hear that!”

“That’s why we soundproofed our bedroom.”

And you flee from the conversation before you discover anything else you don’t want to know.

--

Technology doesn’t work near magic, so it isn’t like you can just pull out your phone and research while in Hogwarts. You will begin learning to apparate soon, but you’ll only be able to get your apparition license once you turn 17 in August, which means it’ll still be a while before you can just pop away from magic’s reach to google something.

This means getting a few new books in your trunk.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 17 Jan 2024 00:13:22 No.5893344 Report

Quoted By: >>5893353 >>5893537 >>5893685 >>5894017

>>5893343

With the help of your father you pick a few select tomes on historic war tactics you’re sure Linda would love to read, and even a copy of the old reliable Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”. You don’t have much on engineering or survival, given the nature of your parents’ professions, but you dust off your old printer to print out some relevant material your father mentions to you. You’re not sure how useful guerilla tactics from the Vietnam war will be for your Battle Class efforts, but it beats not having them.

> +3 to your Banked Rolls from Linda!

You think about hugging your parents tightly, saying that you love them but… that would lead to a lot of questions right now. No leave it for tomorrow, before hopping onto the train. It’ll stop them asking things you can’t answer.

So instead you just have dinner with them. You eat the meal your mom and Arty cooked together, convince Apollo to finish up whatever project he’s building in Minecraft so he can finally get his things ready for tomorrow, and stash the things you can’t take with you.

Finally, the house is dark and you lay down to sleep, but it doesn’t take too many minutes of rolling around in bed before there is a knock on the door.

“Arty?” you ask. “Do you need anything?”

“Apollo already went to sleep and, well…” she says. “We’ll be back at Hogwarts tomorrow and… There are things that we won’t be able to do there. I’d like to do one of them, now.”

Your eyes shoot open.

“Not that, you git!” She hisses at you, voice low. “I just wanted to… sleep. With you. Just sleep. We can’t do that in Hogwarts, different houses, different genders, dormitories with a dozen other people. But… Do you think I could fall asleep in your arms tonight?” She asks, smiling. She’s not blushing, there’s no embarrassment in here. Just warmth.

And yes, you do think that it might cause problems with Apollo, if he sees it, or your parents, if they notice it, or any other number of issues. But what are you supposed to say? No?

“My bed’s not that big, but… I figure we can squeeze in.”

You jump in bed, lift the cover and she crawls by you, snuggling against your body. But it’s not sexual, not erotic. It’s just companionship. It’s just love. It's just... someone you could choose, again and again and again, for as many times as there would be days.

“You’re warm,” she says, wrapping your arm around her.

You kiss her head. She feels so small and frail in your arms, like you could break her if you squeezed too hard.

“And you’re soft. I think… I think I could get used to this,” you say, burying your head in her auburn hair, taking in her smell.

She giggles, her gentle breathing lulling you to sleep. “Me too.”

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Wed 17 Jan 2024 00:19:15 No.5893353 Report

Quoted By: >>5893685

>>5893344

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 17 Jan 2024 02:16:59 No.5893537 Report

Quoted By: >>5893685

>>5893344
Well that's just adorable.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Wed 17 Jan 2024 03:35:52 No.5893685 Report

Quoted By: >>5894017

You know, I honestly want Apollo's 60 hours to have some sort of bonus to us. Like, he did build a one-to-one model of Hogwarts and can just go 'oh yeah, the secret passage is right here' because he just made the damn place.

>>5893344
>>5893353
>>5893537
Also yes, this is adorable as fuck and I am almost more scared to get back to Hoggy Hoggy Warts.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 17 Jan 2024 09:32:46 No.5894017 Report

Quoted By: >>5894094 >>5894197

>>5893685
We might talk to Apollo about maybe not going into the Dept. of Mysteries. He is wasted there. He could end up as the greatest magical architect/engineer since the 5th Founder. Assuming he doesn't die from being involved with our shit. Just saying, we already lost half our friend circle on one adventure.

>>5893344
I either just tossed a clot or you managed to give me a heart boner.

Falling asleep with a girl you love in your arms for the 1st time is one of life's greatest pleasures. Learning how to sleep in the same bed with out one of you waking the other up every few hours is another of them. Takes a lot of work. Gonna need to practice with Arty, starting with naps in the Room of Requirements or abandoned class rooms.

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Wed 17 Jan 2024 12:52:01 No.5894094 Report

Quoted By: >>5894124

>>5894017
What if he is the 5th reborn? or, at least, has him in his head?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 17 Jan 2024 14:20:26 No.5894124 Report

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>>5894094
That would be massively amusing. I don't think the 5th got sacrificed like the other founders and therefor can't be a brain ghost, but the 5th being a weird autistic dude is fun. Helga said she disliked the man for some reason and people with the 'tism can be off-putting.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 17 Jan 2024 16:54:21 No.5894197 Report

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>>5894017
>making me miss my ex like this
Dangit, anon.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:01:46 No.5894345 Report

Quoted By: >>5894346

You sleep deeply, dreamlessly, and when you wake up you feel more rested than… than ever since Lily Potter brought you to her father’s office in the middle of the night.

Your mouth is full of auburn hair, but still. You’re rested.

“Hey,” she whispers between your arms. “Good morning.”

“Morning. Did you sleep well?”

“Been awake for a while, just enjoying the bed,” she says. Then, shuffling against you, “And you woke up well, apparently.”

You look down, and it’s your time to blush. “Uh, I- uh, I can’t- It just does that, sometimes!”

She giggles, getting up. “So I hear. But it’s still early, so I should go back to my bedroom. Avoid questions, and all that.”

“I’m sure we could still squeeze a couple minutes more.”

“We could but… Then we might also do something dumb.”

“I… I promise I’ll keep my hands to myself.”

She turns to you, gives you a peck in the lips and rests her head against yours.

“You’re a gentleman, Mr. Hallaster. But it isn’t you I’m worried about.”

Your throat is suddenly dry. Your words have been failing you since you woke up and they haven’t decided to start helping now.

“I- I- I wouldn’t mind-”

“I would,” she says. “Some day I won't, but one step at a time. Not today. Not when we have to get ready to leave in an hour, wouldn’t you agree?”

“We… don’t need to go… you know, all the way.”

She pushes back, frowning. “Don’t ruin the moment, Elliot.”

“Sorry. Hard to think when you do that kind of thing.”

“I bet,” she says. She gets close again, until your noses are almost touching, taking your hand in hers. Then she takes your open hand and presses it against her left breast. “You can use that memory to help you fix yourself.”

Then she skips out of the room, only stopping to look back and giggle. “Look at that, you can blush as much as me, after all.”

“By Merlin,” Helga says as you simply sit there, mouth hanging open, brain completely exploded. “That girl can give as good as she gets, can’t she?”

--

“I would like you to know,“ you tell Arty as you’re loading your trunks in the back of the car. “That you’re a fiend.”

“I don’t know what you could possibly mean, Mr. Hallaster,” she says, sweetly.

“Did you wake up early and just stay thinking about what you’d do?”

“Your ‘friend’ woke me up. Once I stopped blushing I… I had some time to think about what I’d do. Did it work?”

“Far, far too well.”

“Good. Because I meant it. But one step at a time.”

“And, purely for scheduling reasons, when would the next step be?”

She grins and blushes a bit. “My confidence comes out in unplanned bursts of recklessness, Mr. Hallaster. Or do you think I have an agenda scheduling which part of my body I’ll allow you to touch next?”

“I wouldn’t mind that.”

“And if that agenda were to cover ten whole years before anything interesting happened?”

“Then I’d start tearing pages when you aren’t looking.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:02:47 No.5894346 Report

Quoted By: >>5894347

>>5894345

She grins and kisses you. “One step at a time. I love you, and-” she blushes, but doesn’t break eye contact. “And I fully intend to walk this path with you. But the journey is just as important as the destination, and I intend to enjoy the journey. Besides, if that means I get to see you blush a couple more times between here and there, well, then that’s even more fun, isn’t it?”

“I don’t think that’s good for my heart.”

“I’m sure you’ll live.”

The trip to King’s Cross is long, but not tedious. Your parents ask questions about what they thought of the muggle world, and while Arty answers most of them, they manage to coax some out of Apollo too. There is also a sense of… physicality with Arty. After a night together, she feels less embarrassed of touching you. There’s no barrier there anymore, no anxiety, nothing to be embarrassed about. As you come out of the car, she sneaks under your arm, pulling her trunk with one hand as the other arm is wrapped around you.

And you feel the same thing about yourself. Before you were always careful about where you were putting your hands because you needed to be respectful to her. Now you know that… Well, after what she did this morning, that ship has definitely sailed.

You feel like it’s going to be a lot harder to make her blush now.

“Well, here you go, platform 9 and platform 10,” your dad says. “I’ll really never get used to this thing.”

“Thank you for coming and being such great guests,” your mom says. “Feel free to come again whenever you can.”

“Thank you for having us,” Arty says, giving them each a hug. “This was the best Christmas I’ve ever had.”

Even Apollo nods, though he says his goodbyes with a handshake instead of a hug. “Thanks. It was… very fun.”

Finally, you hug them tightly.

“Thanks, mom, dad. Thanks for being… Thanks for being the best,” you say. “I love you two.”

“We love you too, son.” Your dad says. Your mom hugs you, giving you a kiss on the cheek. “Take care, and don’t hurt yourself in those battle classes your dad convinced me to not ask you about.”

You laugh. “I’ll be sure to do that.”

“And don’t forget to go to that corner of the infirmary you told me about. I don’t want any grandkids until you’re at least 18!”

You simply sigh, but nod. And, a few moments later, you’re running face first into a wall that isn’t really there, stepping back into the world of magic. The sounds of cars vanish, the fumes of burnt gasoline are gone, the smell of trash disappears, all replaced by the bright and magical atmosphere of the wizarding world.

Arty and Apollo go talk to some of their classmates while you just take in the world. The chill air passes by, and you simply pull your wand and, just because you can, you cast Thermos on yourself. Magic courses through you, and the commander of the Raiders of Lost Worlds returns to his former self.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:03:48 No.5894347 Report

Quoted By: >>5894358 >>5894366 >>5894372 >>5894374 >>5894385

>>5894346

“You look cheery,” says a familiar voice. You turn around to see Linda, still without the makeup she used to wear but with her hair in two braids, like you haven’t seen in a while.

“You too. You look better. Linda or Raven?” You ask.

“Linda. Raven is just for Occlumency now.”

You nod, understanding.

“Once more into the fray?”

“Indeed. Had a nice Christmas with the Hufflepuffs?”

“The best. You?”

“Cried my heart out with my mom and gained five pounds, but I feel saner now. Want to get a compartment before they’re all packed?”

The trip is peaceful, with the occasional member of one of either Arty's, Apollo’s or your army passing to say hello. Arty excitedly tells Linda about her Christmas, then goes off to meet the other Hufflepuffs, far more of a social beast than you are, but when the cart with food passes she’s there, and when you enter the thestral-led carriages she’s on the seat by you.

There is the feast, where the Malfoy’s are conspicuously absent, and finally you walk towards the dungeons.

“Well, Ms. Pertinger, I’m afraid this is where we must part ways,” you say. “I want you to know it was a pleasure to have you in my humble abode, and you'll always be welcome to return.”

“The pleasure was mine, Mr. Hallaster.” She takes the Omniocular, points at you and presses a button. “There, now I can look at you whenever I want. At least until I need to look at a magical beast, so you have until then to get me a picture of yourself, understood?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

She kisses you, and you watch her walk away with a dumb smile on your face.

--

You are once more in Hogwarts. Classes will return tomorrow, including a three-month Apparition elective which will put Battle Class on hold for the first four weeks. Without exams looming, you’ll have some more free time than usual. What will you use your free time for? (Pick two)

> Research the Fifth Founder
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study Muggle War Strategy with Linda (Get 1 Banked Roll to Army Rolls, only one per Battle)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:17:50 No.5894358 Report

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>>5894347
> Research the Fifth Founder
> Study with Linda
Get a jump on our main quest and catch up with our bestie.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:26:07 No.5894366 Report

Quoted By: >>5894374 >>5894445

>>5894347
>Research the Fifth Founder
>Other (Write in): make sure to search our room for anything that might have been planted to follow us/hear us, also warn everybody we know and care about to do the same
we dont know what the Malfoys did but lets make sure they arent keeping an eye on us, use revelio and other disabling charms until we are exhausted

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:36:59 No.5894372 Report

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>>5894347
> Research the Fifth Founder
> Study with Linda
The Malfoys have fucked off so it's probably safe to go back to the Ravenclaw's library for now. Probably.

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Anonymous ID:Z9J5ECEg Wed 17 Jan 2024 20:38:07 No.5894374 Report

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>>5894347
>>5894366
Support. Can’t be too careful.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Wed 17 Jan 2024 21:22:49 No.5894385 Report

Quoted By:

>>5894347
>Research the Fifth Founder
>Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
One month without battle classes? Can we start working on a Polyjuice Potion, then? I'd like to prepare one with one of our very own hairs. The ability to make people look like you is damn good in an army battle, the books already show a scene where duplicate people is a big advantage. And we might need to use it elsewhere, potentially, if things go down a certain way.

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Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Wed 17 Jan 2024 22:44:05 No.5894445 Report

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>>5894366
>support
>Apollo battle magic

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 18 Jan 2024 07:39:14 No.5894809 Report

Quoted By: >>5894810

Once you are well rested, you wait until everyone has left the dormitory to begin casting spells. First thing you do is check your brand new Sneakoscope Elend gifted to you, but it is quiet. Then comes Revelio, Aparecium, Appare Vestigium, and a couple other detection spells you’ve picked up along the way while you search the bed.

“I already removed it,” Potter says from behind you, and you do scream this time. You’d grown accustomed to not being haunted by your teacher during your vacations. “Also, welcome back.”

“Hello, Professor,” you say, rubbing the bridge of your nose. You had just spent over twelve hours in Hogwarts, so it was high time for Potter to be a bastard. “What did you remove, exactly?”

“This,” he says, pulling a small, dark bead, cracked in its center. “The tracking device Scorpius Malfoy put in your bed during your time away. The spell you were looking for to reveal it was Inflarum Revelare, by the way, though I wouldn’t suggest you use it unless you want to drain most of your magic.”

“What is it?” You ask, examining it.

“A piece of dark magic that would have attached itself to you when you slept and shown your location to the one who has its twin. Good instinct on checking the bed, but as a word to the wise, I’d recommend casting the spells before sleeping in it,” he says. “I was going to show it to you after breakfast, but you were taking your sweet time, so I came to check.”

“Good to know teachers can just sneak into our bedrooms without us knowing.”

“Elliot, I was almost killed by four of my six Defense teachers and almost mindwiped by one of the other two. Trust me, we can do a lot more than just sneak into your room unseen.”

“And how did Scorpius do it?”

“He and others had to come in the common room to access the Chamber, and afterwards he asked me to stay for a while for old time’s sake and I allowed him. I was curious to see what he’d actually do, and I don’t think he knows or cares that I have the Map. So, any idea what he wanted from you?”

“No.”

“Would you like me to guess?”

“Why do I have a feeling that you’re going to do it anyway?”

“Because it is the Stone of Resurrection, which somehow came into your possession after vanishing from my personal vault, and which you hid in the Room of Requirement. Scorpius has been going there a lot recently.”

“Oh, come on! How could you possibly have guessed that!?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 18 Jan 2024 07:40:32 No.5894810 Report

Quoted By: >>5894811

>>5894809

“Well, it disappeared, but it was unlikely that it had been destroyed, as it is an artifact of Great Power, and if it was destroyed I figure the other two would have reacted,” he says, sounding proud of himself. “Which meant that it was still around. You are the center of this whole debacle, so you were the obvious suspect, second only to whoever it is that is the cause of all of it. And though I doubt your ability to break into my hidden vault, I don’t doubt the capacity of an Ancient artifact said to be from Death itself to break out of it through some means unknown to wizardkind.”

“Then Scorpius showed up searching for something, and went into the Room of Requirement, which you are one of the few people who knows the location of, as Hufflepuffs do take secrets seriously and haven’t told anyone where you helped train them. Now, Malfoys can buy most things, so it couldn’t be something that could simply be purchased, and I doubted you simply had some embarrassing photos of him. So I took a guess that my son Albus had told him the location, and he told you. He was looking for something you have, the only thing of note you could possibly possess is the Stone. I figured my chances were good.”

You had forgotten how aggravating Potter could be, most of all when he had two full weeks of nothing to do but think about things. The funny thing was that in this new timeline, he was right. Lily had been the one to take it originally, but with her being erased… The Stone had simply appeared in your possession overnight through means no wizard alive would have ever been able to guess.

“So,” you say, resigned. “I figure you want me to go and get it for you?”

“Oh no, I know better than to question the will of an Ancient artifact such as that. I will ask it back of you if I see a reason but… No, for now, it can stay, unless you need me to keep it safe. Though I will advise you to hide it better. As Voldemort has shown, the Room is not a perfect place to hide things. As in many other things in life, I’d suggest you don’t follow in his footsteps.”

“Is… is it dangerous?”

“Yes. I also wouldn’t let you keep it if you had used it, but that is simply because you’d already have thrown yourself off the highest tower in Hogwarts.”

“Linda she… she thought it might do something like that. Everyone we know who used it died shortly after. Including you, if that part of the story isn’t a lie. We figured it was cursed, or something.”

“Not cursed but… When the people you love the most ask you to join them, when they beg you to go with them to the next grand adventure, when they tell you there is nothing to be afraid of,” his eyes are suddenly far, seeing something you can’t see. “It is very, very difficult to resist.”

“Is it real?” You ask, and you can’t leave out the hint of hope in your voice. “Can it- can it really…”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 18 Jan 2024 07:41:33 No.5894811 Report

Quoted By: >>5894820 >>5894837 >>5894853 >>5894908 >>5895005 >>5895204

>>5894810

“If it could, Elliot, if I thought it was really real, if I thought there was any chance of it being no different than the images in the Mirror… I figure I wouldn’t have come out of that forest, over twenty years ago. They helped me when I needed them, they even protected me against the dementors when I couldn’t muster a single happy thought to cast a patronus, but… they were leading me to my death. I don’t know if it uses your own memories against you or what but… no, I don’t think it’s real.”

You two sit in silence for a while.

“Can… Can I ask then, what did you see? When Voldemort, when he-”

“No.” he says immediately, but without anger. “You may not.”

You nod. You figure there was no question that was more personal than “What did you see when you died?”

“In any case,” he says, lighting up the mood and pulling up the Map. “Scorpius is having breakfast in the Great Hall right now. If you intend to go there and move it, or give it to me for safekeeping, I can guarantee you won’t be followed by him, and that I won’t follow you.”

> Leave the stone where it is
> Place it in another version of the Room
> Keep it always with you from now on
> Store it into the repository’s library
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Thu 18 Jan 2024 07:57:14 No.5894820 Report

Quoted By: >>5894908 >>5895005

>>5894811
god fucking dammit Potter, you are good...
>Other (Write in)
is Hagrid´s pumpkin patch still there? maybe we could hide it inside one of his many pumpkins or under one
its the perfect place where some moved dirt isnt suspicious and pumpkins are big enough to not be moved by anyone

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 18 Jan 2024 08:21:34 No.5894837 Report

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>>5894811
Fucking Potter, the nosy fucker. Well at least he prevented Salazar from tracking us. What if we hide the stone in the chamber of secrets? Salazar probably doesn't know how to open it since he needed Potter to open it for him and has already checked it. We carve a small hole into the inside of the basilisk's skull and stuff the stone inside.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 18 Jan 2024 09:15:32 No.5894853 Report

Quoted By: >>5894897 >>5894908 >>5895005 >>5895160 >>5895204 >>5895437

>>5894811
Before anything else,

>Ask Potter to see the map briefly
>Try to see if he recalls something only he would actually know from a prior conversation

Scorpius is good at potions. I am not 100% this isn't just him polyjuiced into Potter. It is unlikely but Potter just popping up and fixing a problem we didn't even know we had is a bit suspicious.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 18 Jan 2024 09:48:01 No.5894897 Report

Quoted By:

>>5894853
Good point, I'll support this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MpJOlilI Thu 18 Jan 2024 10:17:32 No.5894908 Report

Quoted By:

>>5894811
>>5894853
>>5894820
Supporting both of these.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Thu 18 Jan 2024 13:57:22 No.5895005 Report

Quoted By:

>>5894811
>>5894853
+1
But then
>>5894820

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 18 Jan 2024 19:05:16 No.5895160 Report

Quoted By: >>5895334 >>5895437

>>5894853
doubt it's Scorpius, there'd be some kind of indication by this point of Salazar's presence

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 18 Jan 2024 19:50:21 No.5895204 Report

Quoted By:

>>5894853
Supporting.

>>5894811
Also
>hide it in the pumpkin patch if it's an option
I don't want to store ALL our eggs in one repository-shaped basket.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 18 Jan 2024 22:10:18 No.5895334 Report

Quoted By: >>5895335 >>5895437

>>5895160
I doubt Potter is him as well but we are talking about an artifact of power. Not capital P power, but something we know that Salazar needs or at the least wants. Trust but verify.

It is mid-game now, shadowruns inside of shadowruns. Once we know Linda is Linda for sure, we also need to set a new codeword as well since it has been at minimum 2 weeks since the last one. "Meteorite" would be okay.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Thu 18 Jan 2024 22:11:18 No.5895335 Report

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>>5895334
i support this

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Thu 18 Jan 2024 23:44:29 No.5895437 Report

Quoted By: >>5895492

>>5894853
>>5895160
>>5895334
It might not be Scorpius, but nothing so far contradicts it being Draco as far as I’m aware. We don’t know how much he knows about the situation, but I’d rather be safe than sorry and assume he thinks the situation is urgent enough to warrant a polyjuice.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 19 Jan 2024 00:25:05 No.5895492 Report

Quoted By:

>>5895437
How would Draco know all these details about the Resurrection Stone and shit, though? I'm fine with playing this properly paranoid, mind you... But whoever this is (probably just potter, desu) knows more about what's going on than Draco Malfoy does.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:15:23 No.5895975 Report

Quoted By: >>5895976

“Alright, I’ll go move it. I can find a place to store it, I’m sure. In an unrelated note, did you ever figure out who the girl was?”

“In the Mirror?” Potter asks. “Nope. Kids say they’re safe. I even freaked out for a moment, thought maybe I’d forgotten her like I forgot you, but unless the whole world forgot about a fifth Potter that doesn’t seem likely.”

It takes every fiber of Slytherin in you to show no reaction.

“Ha! I’m sure a Potter girl would be a handful,” you say, trying to keep the mood light. “Who knows, maybe in eleven years?”

“Well, Ginny always wanted a third, don’t know why we never got around to it. But that’s no subject to discuss with a student.” He shows you the map, the name of “Scorpius Malfoy” under a small point in the Great Hall, right next to “Draco Malfoy”. “Now go, I don’t suppose they’ll be eating for much longer.”

“Uh, can I see… me? I think you said Hogwarts doesn’t recognise me. Does the map even show me?”

He flicks his wand and the parchment flutters and shifts. And you see, in the Slytherin dormitory… “Harry Potter”, all alone.

“It doesn’t seem to recognize me or Salazar as an entity either,” Helga says.

“I see how this could have freaked you out in the beginning of the year. It is unnerving.”

“I agree,” he says, folding it and placing it back into his pocket. “Polyjuice can’t beat this thing. The Cloak of Invisibility can’t beat this thing. You could. I’d say my reaction was fairly mellow given the circumstances.”

“For which I thank you. Now, I need to go move an Artifact of Power to a safer location.”

You leave and, being sure to keep on watching around you, head to the Room of Requirement. You enter the old pink tea-shop and find the Stone hidden within, the strands of Ancient Magic seeping from it, the line within a circle within a triangle showing its power.

“Maybe I should just get Scorpius to use it,” you say, amused. “See if it can convince him to jump off the Astronomy tower.”

You get out of the Room, then step back and forth three times.

“I need somewhere to hide things.”

“I need somewhere secret.”

“I need somewhere safe.”

And when you open the door again, the Room has changed into a great room with many Lost things. It isn’t as grand as the one Potter had once used, that one had been destroyed beyond use, but it still is a cluttered mess.

You don’t actually intend to hide it here, but if anyone is still somehow tracking you, it should give them somewhere wrong to search.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:16:38 No.5895976 Report

Quoted By: >>5895978

>>5895975

You cast an anti-summoning charm on the Stone, then wait for a few minutes before exiting with it in your pouch. You stroll through Hogwarts, fast but not too fast, out of the main doors and into the gardens. You go down to the great pumpkin patches close to the Magical Creatures classes and find a large rock, large, heavy and jagged, with a peculiar and easily recognizable shape. You tap it with your wand and it cracks in half, then carve a small hole in one of the halves, put the Stone in it, put the other half back together and say, firmly.

“Reparo!”

The rock seals back together, and you place it back where it was, completely unremarkable. Just another random rock, in a place no one would ever think to look.

“Heh, people who create temples for their horcruxes are fucking chumps.”

--

“So this is the place?“ Arty asks as you, her, Apollo and Linda enter the great room with the map on the floor and the ruined paintings. “This is where-”

“No. The repository is through that door,” you point. “Beyond a cave. But there’s nothing there anymore, just chunks of darkened goblin silver. No, what we want is here, but before that… Revelio, Aparecium, Appare Vestigium,” you say, going through the detection spells you know, before taking a deep breath and finishing with “Inflarum Revelare!”

You sway in place, feeling dizzy from the magical drain. Potter was right, this spell isn’t fucking around. Still, nothing shows up, and your Sneakoscope is quiet. You start to wonder if this damn thing really works or if Elend bought you a dud.

You go through the arcane and random steps to open the library, which consists of about five minutes of doing absolute nonsense, until finally, you gently press the final stone for four and a half seconds and the painting clicks.

“Oh, so you weren’t just just being silly,” Arty says as you pull the door to the library open.

“I was starting to doubt it,” Apollo says.

“Welcome,” you say. “To old Headmistress Niamh Fitzgerald personal library. We’re here searching for any reference or article or mention to the Fifth Founder. Who he was, what he was doing, where he died, anything at all. He may or may not be Ravenclaw’s husband, so maybe keep an eye out for that.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:17:39 No.5895978 Report

Quoted By: >>5895980 >>5895990 >>5895992 >>5896209

>>5895976

“Did you speak with the Gray Lady?” Linda asks.

“I did, yesterday. She said her dad died not long after she was born, she has no memories of him. Her mother never told her his name, said he was a madman and it was better if they both forgot him. Apparently the relationship went from bad to worse in the last decade, then he got sick and died.”

“She disliked him enough that she refused to speak his name, but stuck with him for ten years?” Arty asks, mouth gaping.

“For the sake of the school,” Helga says in your head. “And because no one can hate you like the ones who love you can. You can hate someone, despise them, and still love them. People are funny like that.”

“Looks like it. Come on now, let’s see if we can find something definite about him.”

> Roll a d100+15 (as you have help now!). Bo3

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:21:17 No.5895980 Report

Quoted By: >>5896059

Rolled 71 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5895978
Hey, uh, can we make sure the sneakoscope is legit somehow and not a fake/bugged one sent by scorpius under the guise of it being sent by elend?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:LW1n1fpj Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:35:36 No.5895990 Report

Quoted By: >>5896059

Rolled 33 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5895978
Rollan

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Fri 19 Jan 2024 08:37:50 No.5895992 Report

Quoted By: >>5896059

Rolled 49 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5895978
alright, our first roll after some deserved vacations, lets see if our rest managed to reset this thing

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 19 Jan 2024 11:21:37 No.5896059 Report

Quoted By: >>5896209

>>5895980
Pretty good roll. I think the Sneak-o-Scope is probably legit but we could just go and and speak with Elend to make sure he actually sent one to us at the least.

>>5895990
>>5895992

I see most of our rolls are still sub par when Hugo isn't around. Maybe we should actually befriend the bastard, just so he will attract the bad luck?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 19 Jan 2024 17:02:30 No.5896209 Report

Quoted By:

>>5896059
>I think the Sneak-o-Scope is probably legit but we could just go and and speak with Elend to make sure he actually sent one to us at the least.
It's only polite to thank him, after all! Supporting this course of action when we can.

>>5895978

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:28:35 No.5897099 Report

Quoted By: >>5897100

It takes a while for everyone to settle down into their own style of studying. Arty lays down on a small sofa, holding the book above her almost begging for it to fall on her face, Linda uncomfortably lays on the stone floor with five tomes around her, Apollo sits cross-legged on a small stool staring at a set of scrolls with enough intensity to burn a hole through them, and you, who is sits down at a table like a normal human being.

Among the several books, there are also many copies of Ravenclaw’s book, which you had partially copied into loose sheets of paper using a Replicating Quill. It took a while, but it was the most promising lead you had so it made sense to spread it out.

You look for ancient wizards who lived at the time of the Founders, you look for ancient witches who lived at the time, you search for good sorcerers and evil sorcerers, great alchemists and vile necromancers, and every single path you take leads you nowhere.

“This guy’s a fucking ghost,” you say after hours of fruitless endeavor. “Wait, can actual ghosts have children?”

“No,” Linda says immediately.

“Do I want to know how you’re so sure?”

“I could show you the book I read it in, but then the illustrations would make you throw up all over this beautiful floor. But I might have something. Oh no.”

“What?”

“You’re going to freak out about it.”

“Why? What is it?”

“Promise you won’t go insane about it?”

“No. Spill it.”

“From Maris Profugi,” she sighs, then starts reading. “Of the atlantean healing arts, I’m afraid there are none left. I have searched this planet far and wide for them, and redoubled my efforts when - there is a scribble, then more scribbles, then she finally settles on ‘companion’, but there’s an arrow pointing to it and saying ‘change later’. Anyway - when my companion fell ill. He had as much skill with healing as with transfiguration, but even he could not find a cure for his own illness.”

“Our old student, Merlin, had then shown himself to be an even greater healer, and offered help. I always suspected he had found something he never told us about, and the terms of his help still make me believe as much. He told me that it was possible he could heal him, but that it would force my companion’s - underlined, of course - companion’s body, and that the effort alone could kill him. If he died during the process, Merlin said, his body would need to remain away from me and I’d never see it again. My companion made the decision quickly. He’d go, and if he died, he died. And so,” Linda’s voice is almost fearful when she reads the following words. “I allowed Merlin to take him to his secret healing lands, and that was the last time any of us saw him. He now rests by Arthur, or so Merlin says, sealed there by whatever magic he tried to employ and failed. I do not blame him-”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:29:36 No.5897100 Report

Quoted By: >>5897102

>>5897099

She continues speaking something unimportant, but by that time you’re not paying attention, too busy screaming.

“THE FIFTH FOUNDER IS BURIED IN FUCKING AVALON?”

--

It takes a while for you to stop dancing and cackling like a madman.

“The Fifth Founder is in Avalon! The Fifth Founder is in Avalon! Dalala! The Fifth Founder is in Avalon!”

“Hey! Dancing snake! Doesn’t matter if we know the place he’s buried if we don’t know where the place is!” Linda tries snapping you out of your ecstasy, but it is useless.

“Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!”

“Elliot, I’m going to hex you!”

“Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!”

Your whole body jolts together with her silent Petrificus Totalus, but even through your frozen smile a muffled sound that roughly sounds like “ahahon” can be heard.

“It’s useless, he’s beyond saving now.”

“Shame,” Arty says, flicking her wand and ending the paralysis. ”I quite liked him.”

You have reduced yourself to giggling on the floor, clutching your belly. It’s like a thousand years of conspiracy theories finally coming together in this single, completely undignified moment.

When you finally exhaust yourself and the muscles in your face hurt from grinning so much, you manage to stand up once again.

“Avalon! He’s in Avalon!”

“No! Is he? I hadn’t heard!” Linda says, with fake surprise.

“You don’t understand how ridiculously cool that is. Merlin’s healing lands! And, potentially, a place with atlantean magic that only Merlin knew about!”

“Still doesn’t tell us where it is, though,” Arty says.

“Well, tells us where it isn’t. Not anywhere normal,” you say. “We aren’t just looking for a grave in a random graveyard, we’re looking for a Place of Power.”

“Which makes it ten times more difficult to find?”

“Probably, otherwise other people would have already found it and it wouldn’t be the ‘mythical Avalon’, it would just be ‘that place over there’. But can you imagine? If we find it?”

“People have been searching for it for centuries. What makes you think we’ll be the ones to find it?” Linda asks. “Or do you think everyone else was just incompetent?”

“I honestly think everyone else was incompetent and stupid, yes.” You say, with complete confidence. “But we don’t have to find it, technically. Salazar knows where it is, or at least clearly thinks he does. All we have to do is get it from him. Clearly, it isn’t somewhere easily accessible, or he’d be there already instead of trying to get the old repository.”

“Right. And how do we do that, exactly? Just pour some veritaserum when he’s not looking?”

“That I don’t know.”

“But finding where it is without messing with him would be better, wouldn’t it?” Arty asks. “This way we can get there first without him knowing.”

“Yes. But it isn’t just a problem of getting there. I’d guess there are wards, or something blocking his access, otherwise he’d just… go. But yes, we need to get there so we can figure out what these wards are.”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:30:37 No.5897102 Report

Quoted By: >>5897103 >>5897128

>>5897100

“So we can keep on studying, focus on getting the information from Scorpius somehow or…?”

“Follow him when he goes there.”

“Difficult. He could just apparate.”

“Well, we’ll think of something.”

--

It is Friday, the time you usually have Battle Class. Instead, you stand in the Great Hall, where the Anti-apparition enchantments have been temporarily removed.

“Destination, Determination, and Deliberation,” says a small blond wizard in front of the class. He’s oddly colorless, with transparent eyelashes, wispy hair, and an insubstantial air, as though a single gust of wind might blow him away. “Step one: Fix your mind firmly upon the desired destination. Step two, focus your determination to occupy the visualized space! In this case, the space is the circle in front of you. Step three, and only when I give the command… Turn on the spot, feeling your way into nothingness, moving with deliberation!”

Yeah, you got pretty much nothing of that, and the people around you seem equally anxious.

“One, two, THREE!”

You spin around, already forgetting what the three D’s stood for, lose your balance and almost fall over. You’re not the only one, the hall full of stumbling people. You see Brighton flat on his back, while Riley had instead done a pirouette with her eyes closed and somehow ended up inside the hoop, looking thrilled until she sees her friends roaring in laughter.

“Never mind, never mind,” the instructor says. “Adjust your hoops, back to the original positions…”

The second attempt is no better. Or the fifth. In fact, the fifth is worse, because there’s a horrible howl of pain as a hufflepuff’s arm, just her arm, sits five feet from where it started, the rest of the body forgetting to follow along. Once that is quickly fixed, the horrified student sobs her way out of the Great Hall.

“Helga, any hints?”

“Uh, spin harder?”

“That doesn’t help.”

“I’m sorry if my amnesiac self isn’t good enough for you. Would you prefer if I fetched you another mind-spirit?”

An hour later, the girl’s splinching was the most interesting thing that happened. When you leave, you’re all annoyed, bored and dizzy.

“I think I tasted my lunch again a couple of times,” Linda says.

“I was hoping to have apparition superpowers, or something like that and do it on the first try. How about you, Apollo?”

He hesitates. “I think I preferred ender pearls.”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:31:38 No.5897103 Report

Quoted By: >>5897107 >>5897121 >>5897126 >>5897148 >>5897168 >>5897197 >>5897266 >>5897277 >>5897309 >>5897324 >>5898036 >>5898649 >>5898830

>>5897102

During the weekend, You, Arty, Apollo and Linda have Occlumency (from which Arty comes out blushing, but also grinning), then finally, head for some butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks, with Arty serving. Apollo, though you insist otherwise, heads to Hogwarts.

“Hey, you three!” you say, joining a table with Talon, Elend and Amalia. “Missing the battles?”

“Better than those damn Apparition classes,” Elend says. “I feel like an confounded bailarina.”

“You would look cute on a tutu,” Amalia says.

Talon laughs. “I’d pay half of Elend’s fortune to see that.”

“Thankfully, I don’t need to take that offer.”

You chat a bit, thanking Elend for the Sneakoscope, Talon for the food and Amalia for the socks (which were, in fact, quite comfortable), then speaking about what you’re expecting for the new semester.

“What a quaint little group,” says a voice from behind, pulling a chair beside you. “You won’t mind if I join you, will you? I’m afraid my usual group no longer comes here.”

“Scorpius!” You say, smiling while gripping your tankard hard enough to hurt. “How great to see you here! How are the investigations?”

“Oh, you know how it is,” he says, placing a hand on your shoulder. “Confidential, I’m afraid.”

Arty arrives to distribute your butterbeers and freezes when she sees Scorpius.

“Oh- ah- hi, uh, sir. Wha-what would you like to drink?” She asks, clearly nervous.

“I’ll just have a fire…” He stops, frowns. “What wine do you have?”

“I’ll… bring you the wine menu… sir.”

She leaves, then returns a moment later with a fancier looking menu, and the same forced smile.

“Here you go, sir.”

“Why, thank you,” he says smiling. “What a lovely little waitress.”

“Has an owner already,” Elend says, oblivious. “Elliot here has been dating her for a while.”

“So I heard,” he says, looking her up and down. “A shame. Were it in my time here, I’d love to have my shot at her. But every Slytherin knows that you shouldn’t meddle in another Slytherin’s affair’s unless you plan on becoming their enemy. And I don’t plan on becoming little Elliot’s enemy. It isn’t as if he’s destroyed anything I was after, after all.”

And, as your eyes lock, you hear the voice inside your head.

“I’m tired of games. Either you stop pretending she’s not in your head, or I’ll make him kill the girl the moment she sets foot outside this bar.”

> Pretend nothing is happening
> Look surprised and confused
> “You do that and you’ll have to find another host, because he’s dying too”
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:41:20 No.5897107 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897103

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 20 Jan 2024 09:01:53 No.5897121 Report

Quoted By: >>5897123 >>5897128 >>5897148 >>5897197 >>5898475 >>5899169

>>5897103
>Pretend nothing is happening.
>When he eventually goes to leave, cast Obliviate on him when his back is turned. Make him forget he ever saw any of you here today, as powerfully as you can manage. It should leave him stumbling off in a daze, and you can always tell the others that you accidentally shredded his favorite pair of robes the other day and wanted to make him forget about it so he wouldn't hold a grudge.

Best plan I've got. A mind demon needs a mind spell to properly affect, I would imagine. And the cover story is believable enough given what he JUST said outside of our heads. Totally sounds like he's harboring a grudge and trying to be subtle about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 20 Jan 2024 09:04:14 No.5897123 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897121
And for those of you who think it'd be too obvious or would have a weakened effect, remember: He did the exact same thing to us CONSTANTLY when he was in Lilly. It works on people with mind buddies.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 20 Jan 2024 09:08:45 No.5897126 Report

Quoted By: >>5897128 >>5898475

>>5897103
>Pretend nothing is happening
WE ARE A ROCK, WE ARE A ROCK, WE ARE A ROCK!
also supporting this, keep it all in and then drain ourselves by hitting him with the strongest fucking Obliviate of our lives, who fucking cares if people stare at us, DO NOT LET HIM LEAVE INTACT

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 20 Jan 2024 09:10:08 No.5897128 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897126
forgot to quote the support >>5897121
GOD DAMMIT HeadQM, you are gonna have me in a panic until the next update here, well played you fucking dick

>>5897102
>Apollo is making Minecraft references now
ooh he is gone...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 20 Jan 2024 10:02:35 No.5897148 Report

Quoted By: >>5897620 >>5899169

>>5897103
> Pretend nothing is happening
The son of a bitch is bluffing. Inconvenience and gaslight!

>>5897121
I'll support trying to obliviate him if it's at all possible. It'd be pretty funny if we started doing that every now and then.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 20 Jan 2024 10:49:40 No.5897168 Report

Quoted By: >>5897171 >>5897296 >>5897839 >>5898475 >>5898492

>>5897103
So Salazar cannot make good on that threat. Both Elliot and Apollo will be there to walk Arty back, at the least. We can probably count on Linda being there as well because she knows about Scorpius and and he is just sitting right there.

>“I’ll just have a fire…” He stops, frowns. “What wine do you have?”

>He stops, frowns

So this kind of indicates that Salazar is is not really in control. Salazar was apparently a massive drunk. Like firewhiskey was the go-to when we saw Lily. Scorpius telling his mind ghost, that no, they are drinking wine is a good sign.

We might actually need to try and help Scorpy-boy out here. He has an ancient wizard mind-ghost head person he woke up with one day. His is insane and evil. It wants to isolate him, make him scared, afraid, weak so he can take over. We saw that with Lily.

Scopius was, as a student, a decent enough person to become friends with Potter's kid. I don't think he is a bad person.

We couldn't save Lily, we stuck her in the friend-zone and apparently that was the last crack it took to let Salazar break her completely.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sat 20 Jan 2024 10:56:58 No.5897171 Report

Quoted By: >>5897290 >>5897296

>>5897168
you might be onto something here...but right now, nobody messes with our miniwitchfu, im down for helping him but right now we have to defuse the situation and protect Arty at all costs

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 20 Jan 2024 11:53:03 No.5897197 Report

Quoted By: >>5897266 >>5897309 >>5897839 >>5898475

>>5897103
>And I don’t plan on becoming little Elliot’s enemy.
>little Elliot
Salazar is in control here, if his time as Lily shows anything.
>>5897121
We would need the false memory charm that Salazar used the first time Lily Obliviated us in order to make it work.
I suspect that Scorpius isn’t all that convinced that we’re some tiny evil wizard or whatever the hell Salazar told him, and is trying to bait us into some sort of negative reaction for that manipulation. Obliviation without making sure he doesn’t know he was Obliviated in the first place will just make things worse.

If we can do Obliviate + False memory charm, sure. Otherwise:
>Act surprised and confused

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sat 20 Jan 2024 14:51:56 No.5897266 Report

Quoted By: >>5898475 >>5899169

>>5897103
>>5897197
+1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Sat 20 Jan 2024 15:28:20 No.5897277 Report

Quoted By: >>5897296 >>5898475 >>5899169

>>5897103
>talk to scorpius not the demon.
>Hey scorpius, you remember these x good times we had together? It would be a real shame if a voice in your head got between us. I'm sure there's a better way to gain power and recognization from malfoy. Remember voldemort and (whatever the cunt from the first book name is that had voldemort on the back of his head.) How'd that end again? Ah yes the power of friendship overcame that evil.

We know Salazar isn't fully in control. If we can get scorpius to fight back we might have a chance of freeing him. Forcing Salazar to find a new host.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 20 Jan 2024 15:54:18 No.5897290 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897171
I can agree with the the sentiment that if you mess with the wife, you get the knife. Salazar is bluffing here however. He isn't completely running the show and I really do not think Scorpius is willing to kill someone, at least right now. The more we make him question the voice in his head, the less Salazar can convince him to do shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 20 Jan 2024 15:59:55 No.5897296 Report

Quoted By: >>5897400

>>5897168
>>5897171
>>5897277
problem with this is we still don't know how to kick him out while keeping his host alive

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:67CodmiI Sat 20 Jan 2024 16:16:55 No.5897309 Report

Quoted By: >>5899169

>>5897103
>>5897197
Supporting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 20 Jan 2024 16:35:27 No.5897324 Report

Quoted By: >>5897400 >>5897596 >>5898475 >>5898492

>>5897103
>Pretend nothing is happening.

I'm tempted to say out loud, so everyone can hear: "Hey, how did you just project your voice into my head, Scorpius? And did you just threaten Arty? What the fuck?"
Anywhere else, we'd sound crazy. Here at Hogwarts, where magic is real and commonplace, people may just take us seriously AND we can sill keep denying the truth to him and confusing him...

But then he'll still know Helga's in our head. When Arty arrives, maybe pull her into our lap so she can't leave without us.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 20 Jan 2024 17:40:06 No.5897400 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897296
Technically, Isdora's method of removing pain and sorrow from a person's soul could work, I think. Likewise, if we could convince Scorpius at some point to just not listen to Salazar, to not use his power so their connection remains weak that would fix the issue for a good long while. Like Helga has been with us since the second week of the school year and can't take over Elliot's body, even when we want her to. If we stopped him from growing his link with Cocksucking Salazar, the dude would basically be trapped in an unwilling host and powerless.

>>5897324
I am pretty sure Salazar's threat is empty. Arty gets walked back to the castle by Elliot and a dude who could probably out magic most aurors. He also probably can't control Scorpius enough to bodyjack him and Scorpius isn't dumb enough to kill a Hogwarts student in cold blood. I think the key here is to not panic, not give up the game. The only reason Salazar would try and pull this is because he either has started doubting himself of Scorpius has started doubting HIM.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 20 Jan 2024 21:00:48 No.5897596 Report

Quoted By: >>5897603 >>5897703

>>5897324
I think we should also make sure Amalia is with us as well. I wouldn’t put it past a Slytherin, Salazar especially, to make us think he’s threatening Arty, when in reality he’s threatening Amalia instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 20 Jan 2024 21:12:54 No.5897603 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897596
he wouldn't have much to gain from attacking her

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 20 Jan 2024 21:31:44 No.5897620 Report

Quoted By: >>5898475

>>5897148
On second thought I'd like to retract my support for obliviating him.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 20 Jan 2024 22:36:52 No.5897703 Report

Quoted By: >>5897766 >>5897835

>>5897596
It would be a real kick in the teeth if by "him" Salazar was referring to Elend and "her" meant Amalia. Elend was at the castle for 2 whole weeks while Scorpius was there as well. Lotta time to get Imperio'd or what not.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sat 20 Jan 2024 23:23:38 No.5897766 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897703

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sun 21 Jan 2024 00:16:17 No.5897835 Report

Quoted By: >>5898017

>>5897703
I wasn’t thinking that far ahead, but yeah that’d be a real Slytherin move right there.
Do Imperio’d people have an easier time casting Avada Kedavra if the person controlling them makes them do it? And/or can do it themselves? Idk if Scorpius can, but maybe because Salazar can it ends up allowing Elend to cast it on Amalia.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sun 21 Jan 2024 00:18:40 No.5897839 Report

Quoted By: >>5897973 >>5898475 >>5899169

>>5897197
>>5897168
Changing my vote to
>Pretend nothing is happening
and supporting the Obliviation only if we can False Memory Charm him right after, exactly how Lily did it to us. Just remembered that the only way someone would hear Salazar is if they have a mind entity as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 21 Jan 2024 00:31:45 No.5897860 Report

Quoted By: >>5898017

He may be bluffing about forcing scorpius to kill arty, but there's a very real chance he just used legilimency on any number of our relatively untrained friends. Like Arty, for instance.
Obliviating him ensures that he doesn't remember whatever it is he mind-read, if he did indeed do so. It buys us a 'secrecy of allies', if nothing else, where he's unsure who among our number is clued in.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 01:31:45 No.5897973 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897839
do we even know how to do the memory charm? also how would we explain it to Talon, Elend and Amalia?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 21 Jan 2024 01:47:45 No.5898017 Report

Quoted By:

>>5897860
It is a possibility. Somewhat unlikely by my analysis, however.

Arty does know the full story, but he saw her for all of like 30 seconds when she was taking Scorpius' order. I am not sure how long it takes to scan a mind but that seems too short.

Linda has enough talent for Occlmency she could end up as completely unreadable, so she is probably alright.

Elliot was able to guess that Draco was trying something and is probably good enough for us to at least get a roll if we were being mind read.

Talon, Elend, and Amalia know Jack and his brother Shit about anything important, so that is good.

Apollo left early so he is likely safe, and I have a feeling that for right now, the only thing someone would get from his mind are complete articles from the MineCraft Wiki.

So really, our only weak link is Arty, who I don't think was close enough for long enough to Scorpius.

Trying to mind wipe a dude who is a member of the Sacred 28, is older than us, better at charms, and can just Disapperate if we don't get him on the 1st shot seems very reckless. At best, he and Salazr know we know something. At the worst he runs to Papa Malfoy and we are fucked. It was stated that Draco cares enough about Scorpius to burn his entire fortune if he was harmed. Right now Draco is kinda neutral. Aggroing him would make our life hell.

Regardless, if he could have gotten anything from us, there would be no reason for Salazar to make his gambit. If he already knew about Helga, that Elliot knew about him, why the threat?

>>5897835
I am positive Scorpius know all of the Unforgivables; his house was known for some pretty evil shit back in the day and they just have Dark Artifacts laying around.
A quick search reminded me that Draco did Imperio someone who then used it on someone else. Now I wonder if Patronus works the same. Like could we have Apollo puppet us and then spit out a giant silver bear?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 01:56:26 No.5898036 Report

Quoted By: >>5898475

>>5897103
>> Look surprised and confused

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:12:02 No.5898475 Report

Quoted By: >>5898492 >>5898493 >>5898515 >>5898649 >>5899059

Current states of votes right now:

>Pretend nothing is happening.
>>5897839
>>5897620
>>5897324

>Pretend nothing is happening. Try to obliviate him when his back is turned
>>5897121
>>5897126

>Pretend nothing is happening. Try to False-memory charm him when his back is turned. If impossible, Act surprised and confused.
>>5897197
>>5897266

>Look surprised and confused
>>5898036

>talk to scorpius not the demon.
>>5897277

And >>5897168 I don't know if you actually voted for anything.

--

Obliviation/Memory charms are not easy to do with precision, and doing them on someone else will put you in trouble with he law, and Malfoy is an important and powerful family with many contacts and great influence. Unless you followed him, stunned him somewhere hidden and then performed it with some time to spare, results would be messy. It's not something you can do silently or without anyone noticing with your level of skill and practice with the spell.

A second reminder is that you can only hear him because you have Helga in your head. Acting surprised will give away that you still have her there, but suggest you don't remember it/timewimey stuff made you forget her.

I'll wait another good while in case this changes any votes.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:24:23 No.5898492 Report

Quoted By: >>5898504 >>5899169 >>5899185

>>5897168
>We couldn't save Lily, we stuck her in the friend-zone and apparently that was the last crack it took to let Salazar break her completely.
She wasn't actually attracted to us or anything, so my interpretation was that he COULD have broken her for a while now and taken total control, but hadn't bothered because (until we friendzoned her) he thought her input on how to behave around others so they trust him was useful.

>>5898475
In light of the expanded explanation, I change my vote to
>>Look surprised and confused
>say out loud, so everyone can hear: "Hey, how did you just project your voice into my head, Scorpius? And did you just threaten Arty? What the fuck?"
from >>5897324

Thank you, QM.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:24:26 No.5898493 Report

Quoted By: >>5899169

>>5898475
change to pretend nothing is happening

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:32:11 No.5898504 Report

Quoted By: >>5898508

>>5898492
I think saying out loud that Scorpius threatened Arty is a bad move. He can just deny it and at best we look crazy, at worst we look suspicious since we're accusing the guy who is looking for our mysteriously missing friend of threatening to murder someone. We'd likely also make an enemy of Draco.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:35:29 No.5898508 Report

Quoted By: >>5898518

>>5898504
Yeah, but like I said originally... Anywhere else, we'd sound crazy. Here at Hogwarts, where magic is real and commonplace, people may just take us seriously AND we can still keep denying the truth to him and confusing him as to whether we know anything and need 'taking care of'

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:is7s3G4Z Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:38:44 No.5898515 Report

Quoted By: >>5898521 >>5899169

>>5898475
fair enough, in that case i change my vote to >5898492
>Look surprised and confused
>say out loud, so everyone can hear: "Hey, how did you just project your voice into my head, Scorpius? And did you just threaten Arty? What the fuck?"
we could disguise it by saying he just did some sort of advanced Legilimency in order to deflect and hide Helga

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:40:44 No.5898518 Report

Quoted By: >>5898523

>>5898508
I doubt anyone but Linda, Arty, Apollo and maybe Potter would believe Elliot over Scorpius Malfoy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:42:34 No.5898521 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898515
that'd still leave them with way too many questiond, safer to just act like nothing happened

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:43:47 No.5898523 Report

Quoted By: >>5898531 >>5898540 >>5898833

>>5898518
Maybe, but if we want to maintain the illusion that we lost our memory of the old timeline, this reaction sells it best. I could also go for just:
>"What? Who said that?!"
and standing up dramatically... But if e stick with blurting it ll out, it also alerts Salazar (if he doesn't yet know) that Salazar is an evil man who threatens to harm children.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:51:06 No.5898531 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898523
The best reaction would be to just look surprised and confused rather than say anything at all. I'm pretty sure this is Salazar's voice we're hearing anyways not Malfoy's.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 07:06:58 No.5898540 Report

Quoted By: >>5898908

>>5898523
better to keep up the act of pretending we don't know he exists

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 21 Jan 2024 12:00:33 No.5898649 Report

Quoted By: >>5899169

>>5898475
I could have sworn I put my vote in my first post but I guess I managed to delete that part when I was editing it a bit. I guess I shouldn't post right after waking up.

>>5897103
> Pretend nothing is happening

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:S5BgU0eT Sun 21 Jan 2024 15:33:23 No.5898830 Report

Quoted By: >>5898833

>>5897103
>>Look surprised and confused
>say out loud, so everyone can hear: "Hey, how did you just project your voice into my head, Scorpius? And did you just threaten Arty? What the fuck?"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:S5BgU0eT Sun 21 Jan 2024 15:35:12 No.5898833 Report

Quoted By: >>5899169

>>5898830
I'll change my vote to support >>5898523

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Sun 21 Jan 2024 16:42:29 No.5898908 Report

Quoted By: >>5898913 >>5898915 >>5898956

>>5898540
Wtf is the point of pretending we don't know? He knows we know... we destroyed the fucking magic reserve. He mind melded us too lily. What's the point of playing dumb in front of arty and Apollo and Linda? We already told them about Salazar.....

Like there's literally no point or benefit to doing this.... at all.

We KNOW that he doesn't absolutely control scorpius. We knew that about lily too (after the fact). It took years of manipulating lily and lying about how it was good to control her.

Now let's connect the bouncing ball.

WHAT DID HE PROMISE SCORPIUS SO THAT HE WOULD LET SALAZAR IN AND CONVINCE HIM TO DO THESES THINGS????????

WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO UNDERMINE THAT.

By 1. Talking to fucking scorpius. Hey your brain dude is super evil and he's just going to make you kill people and defile your self for funsies. And whatever he promised you won't happen.

2. There's a high likelihood of you just getting deleted from the fabric of reality if you die with him in you. I really like you and your dad. And he's giving you false promises.

There's literally no benefit from allowing scorpius to not know shit. We need him willfully fighting against Salazar. Or Salazar just going to break scorpius too.

The longer this goes on and we don't intervene the more likely Salazar will just have complete control. Then we're back to lily yeeting forbidden spells at us round 2. And guess what we don't come back from that. And that's definitely the way to get more people on our side killed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Sun 21 Jan 2024 16:50:08 No.5898913 Report

Quoted By: >>5898916 >>5898957 >>5899014 >>5900480

>>5898908
And not to be a fucking dick but we have a auto win button that the QM didn't realize he gave us.

We can tell Potter everything. Then we obleviate him.

We could realistically tell any adult have them briefly help us then obleviate them.

We already know this would work cause the world hasn't ended and we're still learning occlumency.

We could tell Hermione on the same bases.

We could have Potter read our mind. So he learns everything. Have a nice convo and then delete the interaction.

I bet we'd learn some shit. We could tell Potter about spells to purge people out of other people.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 16:50:33 No.5898915 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898908
>He knows we know... we destroyed the fucking magic reserve
No necessarily. He knows that we destroyed the magic reserve, or that something after Lil's death destroyed it, but everyone else forgot Lily and nobody seems tor remember what happened to Taylor. As far as Salazar knows, the repository can destroyed in some event shortly before everyone's memories reset, including ours.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 16:51:37 No.5898916 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898913
Do you think Potter, once learning that one of his children was erased from existence and that another might yet be as well, would let us mind-wipe him?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 17:32:38 No.5898956 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898908
did you forget there's more people than just arty, apollo, and linda here? we can't just start talking to him about this in a fucking crowded bar, we'd have to explain everything to them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 17:34:32 No.5898957 Report

Quoted By:

>>5898913
do you really think he'd just let us obliviate him? QM wouldn't make getting around the issue that easy

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 21 Jan 2024 18:54:20 No.5899014 Report

Quoted By: >>5899023 >>5899035

>>5898913
You have false assumptions. First, that we could just obliviate Potter or another skilled wizard. Potter, for example was a good enough duelist and later a magic cop that he could stand up to Voldemort and after snake-face died, become the youngest Head Auror ever. We know he fought off two other Aurors after the dementor incident on his own. We are not at the skill level of an Auror.

Hermione is the magic president of the UK and we know from when went to the Remus Lupin cafe, has like half a dozen bodyguards with her when she is in public. I do not think the secret service agents with her would look to kindly on us pulling a wand on her and we would end up in the hands of the wizard CIA who have no issue waterboarding us with vitreseurm

Prior to Last Light, when Helga could still see the future, it was explicitly told to Elliot that anytime Potter knew what was going on, that when other adults knew that they told him, it all ended in ruin. Helga still thinks the same conditions are in play right now.

Our Oculmency tutor is bound by an Unbreakable Oath which would kill her before she tried to tell anyone about the stuff she found in our head, even if she didn't get mind wiped by a guy who is good enough such that it is his job.

We have been told OOC by HeadQM that we are not amazing at using Obliviate.

While I do think that turning Scorpius against Salazar is a good option, the 1st step is to make him doubt his mind ghost. The second is to find out what he promised to Scorpius. And yes, at some point, letting Scopius know what happened to the last person who Salazar was in would probably be beneficial.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 19:07:42 No.5899023 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899014
This anon gets it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Sun 21 Jan 2024 19:23:28 No.5899035 Report

Quoted By: >>5899051 >>5899169

>>5899014
Why would we obelivate when we could have the one doing ours make an unbreakable oath and do it.....

Here for the slow people.

Hey potter I want to tell you the truth and get your input. But we need to obleviate you after wards. Let's have both of you make an oath I will even make an oath too.

Our oath we will tell the truth to potter.

Potters oath I will hear the truth we will discuss it. Then I will be obleviated after the discussion is finished.

The obleviater Then makes an oath to obleviate after our discussion is finished.

We could easily write down our response to scorpius. No problem with people over hearing us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 19:50:33 No.5899051 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899035
You want Harry Potter to agree to make a magically-enforced mutual death-pact with us? You think he WILL? That's what an Unbreakable Vow is. We'd also need a witness who can cast it, though Potter probably knows soemone. We could try to convince him or Hermione to do such a thing, but they'd have to REALLY REALLY trust us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 21 Jan 2024 20:07:43 No.5899059 Report

Quoted By: >>5899169

>>5898475
>Obliviation/Memory charms are not easy to do with precision, and doing them on someone else will put you in trouble with he law, and Malfoy is an important and powerful family with many contacts and great influence. Unless you followed him, stunned him somewhere hidden and then performed it with some time to spare, results would be messy. It's not something you can do silently or without anyone noticing with your level of skill and practice with the spell
Lily managed it tons of times against us in public spaces without arousing suspicion the blink of an eye, but it's somehow a stretch for us to do it to him? I get we might not be AS skilled with it, but sheesh. Better work on our obliviating to mindfuck him later, I guess.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 21 Jan 2024 22:21:58 No.5899169 Report

Quoted By: >>5899185 >>5899198 >>5899431

>>5899059
She only did it to you in two occasions, one in the classroom when you heard Salazar in her head for the first time, and then repeatedly on you in the quidditch field, which was empty. She was also skilled with it because she's done it before including on herself to try to forget the things she'd done for Salazar. Those never lasted long.

>>5899035
Unbreakable Vows are not to be used lightly, as any grand proclamation on what you will or wont do which affects your life is, you know, a pretty big fucking threat to anyone even if it is just a one-off thing. Besides, you'd need to find someone willing to permanently sacrifice a part of their magic to maintain the vow, which would not come cheap.

Ok, current vote distribution if I didn't miss any posts:

>Pretend nothing is happening.
>>5897839
>>5898649
>>5897148
>>5898493

>Say out loud, so everyone can hear: "Hey, how did you just project your voice into my head, Scorpius? And did you just threaten Arty? What the fuck?"
>>5898515
>>5898492

>Act surprised and confused/"What? Who said that?!"
>>5897266
>>5897309
>>5898833

>talk to scorpius not the demon.
>>5897277

>Pretend nothing is happening. Obliviate
>>5897121

I'll give it a couple more hours before closing, just in case I got anyone's vote wrong

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 21 Jan 2024 22:35:27 No.5899185 Report

Quoted By: >>5899218 >>5899338

>>5899169
I'm willing to back
>Act surprised and confused/"What? Who said that?!"
since >>5898492 isn't winning.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 21 Jan 2024 22:48:20 No.5899198 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899169
That fucking spoiler.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 21 Jan 2024 23:10:06 No.5899218 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899185
doing that is fucking stupid

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 01:08:48 No.5899338 Report

Quoted By: >>5899341 >>5899343 >>5899388 >>5899988

With >>5899185
>Pretend nothing is happening.
and
>Act surprised and confused/"What? Who said that?!"
are tied, and I'm closing the vote. In this situation I'd normally go with rolling a d2, however, 2 of the 4 ids on the second vote are 1 or 2 id posts, so I'll make the executive decision of going with the first option. Not my favorite method, but it is an important vote, and it seems the fairest approach.

As someone who doesn't play as much as they QM, how do other QMs solve situations such as these?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:v3hDNfUz Mon 22 Jan 2024 01:12:49 No.5899341 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899338
I’d imagine they wait for a few solid tiebreak votes, or wait for people to change their mind (a bit like how they decide the popes) but I don’t imagine the latter happens that much.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 22 Jan 2024 01:13:39 No.5899343 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899338
I do much as you did, though in my experience players generally appreciate a heads-up that you'll be discounting 1post IDs so they can backlink if they're on mobile or away from home. You gave lots of head-up for people to break the tie and cast final vote, though, so it seems fair enough to me even though I didn't win the vote.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:12:57 No.5899388 Report

Quoted By: >>5899394 >>5899597

>>5899338
A final destination, timed vote used to be used a lot on tg but part of why that worked was because quests were way more popular or well attended there. Disregarding 1 ID posts is pretty common these days because there are at least a couple of retards on this board who have admitted to samefagging the fuck out of quests in the past. One of them nearly killed Sworn to Valor.

If you think samefagging becomes an issue, you could require players respond to the 1st vote of every thread within like a day and link back to their post if they want their subsequent votes to be counted for since we have IDs. Not perfect but it helps.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:22:56 No.5899394 Report

Quoted By: >>5899402

>>5899388
I think that makes sense, but it penalizes people who have bad timing and are busy or away for the first couple of days of a thread, locking them out of participation for a whole month or more. I thus just limit 1post IDs from major votes, and don't usually put a major vote in the first few updates when I start a new thread.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:35:53 No.5899402 Report

Quoted By: >>5899406

>>5899394
Yeah it isn't perfect and I don't think the issue is so bad right now to 100% need it. Like, I had to bust my ass at work before I left that job a few times, for a few days in a row at times. Didn't really want to stay up playing a Harry Potter fanfiction game when I got home from a 16 hour shift. I also ended up in the hospital for a few days when I randomly had a seizure so I missed the whole 3rd battle. So I get that. IDK, it seems like the only 2 times this has been an issue were now and the AK vote.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:40:09 No.5899406 Report

Quoted By: >>5899415 >>5899424

>>5899402
Usually waifu options are a hotspot for fraudulent votes, too, but everyone seems to absolutely love Arty so there's really no competition there.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:48:46 No.5899415 Report

Quoted By: >>5899424 >>5899597 >>5899599

>>5899406
Hahaha. HeadQM managed to create the perfect waifu, a task though once impossible by modern man. Like, if I recall the route lock was unanimous and even starting to pursue her was so one sided that it was funny.

Turns out we all have a weakness for tiny, slightly broken but cheerful girls with tragic back stories. Who would have thought?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:52:58 No.5899424 Report

Quoted By: >>5899444

>>5899406
>>5899415
there was some initial competiton, but it didn't last long

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 22 Jan 2024 02:57:14 No.5899431 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899169
Count me in with
>Pretend nothing is happening.
Because my vote has that already, just with obliviate at the end too.
It simplifies things greatly if you combine similar-enough votes together, just go with whichever 'variant' has the bulk of votes. Which in this case would be pretending without obliviating.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 22 Jan 2024 03:03:35 No.5899444 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899424
If Arty wasn't there, I would have pushed for our mind ghost, or maybe Amalia because I have a thing for librarian looking girls. When I was in college for the first time, I was an actual librarian at the university's medical school.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 05:35:00 No.5899597 Report

Quoted By: >>5899599 >>5901275

>>5899388
I miss those days of questing on /tg/. Never fully understood why some people had such a raging hatred for quests there.

>>5899415
My original plan was for you to either go for Lily (the buff and flirty gryffindor) or Faith (the kind mind-lady who could literally look however you wanted her to), but I needed someone small to be bullied to make Brighton look like an asshole, and you fucks fell in love with her. Literally made me have to replan half of the campaign.

I basically sealed my fate during the first victory party, when I made her be small, cute AND have a tragic backstory while still being unabashedly happy. But it was for the best, I think. She's a blast to write.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 22 Jan 2024 05:39:51 No.5899599 Report

Quoted By:

>>5899597
Sorry not sorry, Arty is the best

>>5899415
>Turns out we all have a weakness for tiny, slightly broken but cheerful girls with tragic back stories. Who would have thought?
I have a think for chubby, busty, randy chicks, so I actually would have gone the Faith/Helga route, but Arty and Elliot are just too damn cute together.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 22 Jan 2024 07:32:10 No.5899673 Report

Quoted By:

Test.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 22 Jan 2024 18:21:24 No.5899988 Report

Quoted By: >>5900034

>>5899338
Damn it why did I have to run RPGs over the weekend and miss the vote. I would have gone 'pretend nothing is happening'.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 22 Jan 2024 19:20:07 No.5900034 Report

Quoted By: >>5900106

>>5899988
wouldn't have made a difference, someone already gave a tiebreaking vote for it after anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 22 Jan 2024 20:22:51 No.5900106 Report

Quoted By:

>>5900034
Well. I'm glad work didn't interrupt the game.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 21:10:37 No.5900162 Report

Quoted By: >>5900163

Your mind whirls with choices. Should you confront him? Should you tell Scorpius? How much does Scorpius even know about Salazar? Certainly he doesn’t know what Salazar did to Lily, right? From what you remember, Scorpius wasn’t evil. But, then again, neither was Lily. Depending on the lie Salazar told him, it is very possible he could think you are the one who is evil, and he is doing whatever he can to stop you.

And if there is one thing history shows to anyone who bothers to read it, is that anyone imbued with righteousness can commit atrocities beyond any ever seen. You don’t need to give a measured response when dealing with the devil, after all.

So, you need to avoid confirming you are who Scorpius thinks you might be.

“And make an enemy of the Malfoys?” You say, laughing and breaking eye contact. “No, thank you very much.”

You continue your conversation with your friends, avoiding locking eyes with Scorpius again. A few minutes later, you see Apollo enter through the doors. He looks around, sees you, Scorpius, and you can see his fists clench before Arty skates by him and gives him a hug. He sits alone on a table by the window, brooding deeply.

“So, any suggestions for the battles, Scorpius?” Amalia says. “Surely you have some ideas, seeing it from outside.”

“Wouldn’t be fair if I gave you counsel and none to the other armies, would it?”

“There is nothing stopping them from finding their own adviser.”

“Tempting, but I find it more interesting when people play with their own ideas. After all, I already know my ideas would work, but Elliot’s? The other generals? Why, their implementation is much more fun to see.”

An idea strikes you.

“Legilimency,” you say, looking around conspiratorially. “I heard Brighton is planning on using it to figure out what everyone else is doing.”

“No!” Talon says, shocked. “That’s illegal!”

“I’m not sure Potter would care too much, as long as you did it during the battle. Petrificus Totalus someone and look to see what their commander told them. That’s why me and Linda are taking Occlumency lessons. Apollo and Arty are too.”

Would Scorpius risk peeking into their heads now that he knew he might be detected? You’re not sure.

“Honestly, it should be a part of the curriculum,” Amalia says.

“Do you want a teacher snooping around your head?” Talon asks. “‘Cause that’s what it takes to train it.”

“It’s not a pleasant experience,” Elend says. “My parents hired me a tutor a few years ago when they found out something like that existed. Too many family secrets to leave unprotected.”

“Should we begin looking for tutors too?” Amalia asks.

“I don’t think so. I’ll probably speak with Potter before the classes start once again, to make sure it is banned. I’m taking them as a precaution, and Linda because she’s paranoid.”

“Mildly paranoid,” she says, looking at you and understanding the point you’re making.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 21:11:38 No.5900163 Report

Quoted By: >>5900166

>>5900162

“With ‘mildly’ doing a lot of heavy lifting,” you say, standing up. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go be a good brother-in-law and brood with Apollo.”

You leave the table behind, taking your butterbeer with you and sitting with the Hufflepuff in a position where you can see the entrance while he sees the rest of the tavern.

“Why are you here?”

“Arty asked someone to send me a patronus,” he says. “I came.”

“What’s the name of the game you played in my house?”

“Minecraft.”

“Ok, it’s really you. Always good to check. Drink something and… stay sharp.”

--

You stay with Apollo for the rest of the night, keeping watch, Elend’s sneakoscope out of your pouch and in your pocket just in case it catches something. When Scorpius finally leaves you breathe a little lighter, but there is still a constant pressure. Linda eventually joins you, and you three have a nervous chat.

Linda doesn’t know, but she might as well be the one Salazar threatened. “The girl” is an ambiguous term, after all. People come in, people go, and you keep on asking yourself if you made the right choice. You don’t risk telling them what happened, not in the middle of this bar where everyone can hear, though they know something is off.

The hours pass, and eventually, Arty’s shift ends.

“Hey, thanks for waiting for me,” Arty says, hesitant. “Shall… shall we go?”

You nod, then nod to Apollo so he exits first, then Linda, then Arty and finally you. You go tense, wand in hand as you walk the path back to the school. You are halfway there, far from both the school and the town on the empty road, when you hear a sound.

Woop-woop-woop-woop! The sneakoscope jitters as it tries spinning in your pocket.

All of you rush to form a circle, wands raised and pointing outwards. “Lumos!” You scan the night, searching for any sign of movement, but there is none, your fingers gripping the wand, tense. Never before have you ever wanted more to know how to apparate, so you could just grab Arty and disappear out of here to safety. But you don’t know how to apparate, and won’t know for several more weeks.

Woop-woop-woop-woop!

“Who’s there?” Linda shouts. “Revelio!”

The spell courses through the air, but all of you know its range is limited. You cast anti-disillusionment charms, but there is more than one way to stay invisible. Nothing shows up.

Woop-woop-woop-woop!

You hear whispers, coming from every direction, like voices just on the edge of hearing. You turn around searching for the source, but they always seem to be where you’re not looking. Shuffling of leaves, steps where you can’t see.

Woop-woop-woop-woop!

You feel the sweat drip down your forehead.

Woop-woop-woop-woop!

And then you hear, distant, somewhere on your left, three disapparition pops, and the sneakoscope falls silent.

You stay with your wands out for several minutes more.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 21:12:40 No.5900166 Report

Quoted By: >>5900168

>>5900163

“He threatened you,” you say as you collapse on a chair in the Room of Requirement, the only place you're sure it's safe. “When Scorpius looked me in the eye, I heard Salazar’s voice. He said ‘I’m tired of games. Either you stop pretending she’s not in your head, or I’ll make him kill the girl the moment she sets foot outside this bar.’ I was a fool to think he’d do it himself. Of course a Malfoy would hire someone to do it for him.”

“I don’t get it. What does he want?” Arty says, still looking spooked.

“He wants the Resurrection Stone. I don’t know why, but he’s been hunting for it ever since he arrived. It’s in a safe place, best if only I know at least until everyone is better at Occlumency.”

“So, what do we do now?” Linda asks. “Go tell Potter?”

“And say what? My sneakoscope went off and we heard spooky sounds in the forest? Scorpius threatened to kill someone through a mind-link only I can hear?”

“You could drink veritaserum. He’d believe you then.”

“And then he’d ask more and I’d be forced to answer, and who knows what I’d reveal. No, that’s asking for me to say too much.”

“Can Salazar leave Scorpius while he’s still alive?” Apollo asks, a killer look in his eyes.

“I don’t believe so, or at least it would take a great deal of effort,” Helga answers through you.

“Then we kidnap him and crucio him until he goes insane.”

You all look at him, shocked.

“Apollo!” Arty says, looking angrily at him

“It solves the problem. Cut off his arms, tongue. Keep him alive so Salazar is still in him. Buys us time.”

“We won’t do that. Scorpius is still in there, and he didn’t attack us, in the end. But…”

But leaving Hogwarts is becoming more and more dangerous, and Arty comes and goes there in the middle of the night. All it would take is one slip-up for her to be vulnerable, one slip up for her to be dead. No, you refuse to accept it. The obvious answer is for her to stop working there but… You know she’d hate it with every fiber of her being. It might be worth it if it keeps her safe, but you can’t force her to do it.

You’re not sure you should even mention it.

“We could talk to Draco,” Arty says. “Say that his kid is going crazy.”

“Who do you think he’d believe? Me, who he thinks might’ve killed Taylor, or his own son? No. We lose that battle, I think.”

“We can’t do nothing,” Linda says. “Even if we come back with her every day, he can just send more men. Or someone polyjuiced inside the Three Broomsticks.”

“If he did that, he’d attract attention. More attention. If someone randomly kills a student in plain sight, the whole world will be looking at us. We’d have armies of aurors here and he wouldn’t be able to do as he wants. I don’t think he’d go that far. But then again… I don’t know.”

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 22 Jan 2024 21:13:41 No.5900168 Report

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>>5900166

“We could try spying on him, listening in on him and Draco,” Arty says. “If we knew more of their plan, maybe we could do something about it.”

“They’re bound to have protections. It would be dangerous.”

“What part of this isn’t dangerous?”

“Fair point. But it isn’t something we can do right now.”

“Yeah. And I still have work tomorrow. So, what are we going to do about it?”

> Tell Potter there is a creature controlling Scorpius, and that he threatened Arty
> Ask Arty to stop working at the Three Broomsticks, to stay safe within Hogwarts
> Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:RWOb4Zfd Mon 22 Jan 2024 21:53:48 No.5900211 Report

Quoted By: >>5900269 >>5900445 >>5900718

>>5900168
> Other (Write in)
>Maybe… Apollo’s plan isn’t the worst.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 22 Jan 2024 22:37:02 No.5900253 Report

Quoted By: >>5900651 >>5900656

>>5900168
>Ask Potter if he would be willing to give you the best advice he can if you revealed the situation to him, but only on the promise that he be wandless and restrained when we tell him and that we can obliviate him afterwards.
If nobody wants to do this OR if potter refuses the offer, then I actually have what could be a clever backup planned.
>Get in contact with Hogwart's House-Elves and ask them if they've seen or heard anything strange or suspicious from Scorpius or Draco. Maybe see if you can convince some of them to spy for you in exchange for some potions that could make their duties easier!

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Mon 22 Jan 2024 22:49:59 No.5900269 Report

Quoted By: >>5900303 >>5900443 >>5900445 >>5900656

>>5900211
+1, sort of

>>5900168
The solution might be to kidnap and petrify or otherwise immobilize Scorpius, and then explain the situation to him, what Salazar has done and is capable of. Can we get a Veritaserum to verify our story?

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Mon 22 Jan 2024 22:54:12 No.5900272 Report

Quoted By: >>5900287 >>5900443 >>5900656

>>5900168
fucking hell....this might be one of the hardest choices so far...
i mean...Apollo´s plan is probably the best suggestion so far, Salazar needs a body in order to do anything, crippling the body is the best way top stop him in his tracks, buy time and make him waste energy if he tries to leave.
But if we dont want to be straight up ELIMINATED because we casted an unforgivable curse, our next option could the The Portrait Curse, main problem is, we dont know the incantation for that, but its probably the best spell for this, it traps him in a painting, while also cutting him from the real world, its NOT an unforgivable curse and i would weaken Salazar inmensely trying to not only get out of Scorpius but also the painting itself
all we have to do is find the incantation for the curse
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Portrait_curse

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:09:06 No.5900287 Report

Quoted By: >>5900303

>>5900272
there's also the issue of draco

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:15:07 No.5900291 Report

Quoted By: >>5900310 >>5900443 >>5900656

>>5900168
> Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day
Here's an equally terrifying thought: those weren't random thugs hired to kill us, they were aurors who've been watching us since we met Hermione and Ron at the cafe and we only now noticed them because of the sneakoscope. I feel like we keep forgetting the magic feds want to black bag us and force veritaserum down Elliot's throat.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:31:52 No.5900303 Report

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>>5900287
That's why I figure >>5900269 may be safer, with de-limbing or (preferably) the painting thing or something else less grisly and irreversible as a back-up.

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Anonymous ID:dTl+a65R Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:40:52 No.5900310 Report

Quoted By: >>5900314

>>5900291
That… makes a lot of sense, scarily. My only question would be why they didn’t bag us when we were on holidays.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:44:54 No.5900314 Report

Quoted By: >>5900328

>>5900310
>why they didn’t bag us when we were on holidays
We had Harry "The Motherfucking Chosen One" Potter on our side. See >>5878829

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 22 Jan 2024 23:55:33 No.5900328 Report

Quoted By: >>5900443

>>5900314
Yeah, we're really lucky Potter's got our back despite us actively trying to hinder his own investigation. If it weren't for him the feds would've dragged us off ages ago. Hell, they almost did after we got sucked dry by that dementor.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:02:26 No.5900443 Report

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>>5900328
Indeed we are. Dumble's phoenix showing up to help fix us up and yeeting the dementor probably bought us a load of goodwill, since phoenixs wont appear before people with evil intent in their heart. Granted the flame chicken only shows up when it is absolutely dire, that Hogwarts itself in in danger, so Potter probably freaked the fuck out because of that.

>>5900291
Magic feds are a lot scarier than random goons working on Scorpius' dime. However part of me thinks that even if he did hire them, they wouldn't actually kill us and our friends. It was an intimidation tactic. Something to make us panic and slip up. Hogwarts students being found dead are like a red alert for the UK wizarding world. Like even if we were just abducted, I think Potter is checking our friends' location several times a day, since Elliot is unplottable and it is an easy way to keep track of us. If one of us died or disappeared, it would be like defcon 1 since Taylor already died/disappeared.

Potter is smart. He knows something is up with the Malfoy's and Elliot. If shit went down he would go after them 1st, especially since Scorpius planted a dark magic tracking device in our bed which Potter found.

>>5900272
>all we have to do is find the incantation for the curse

Spells can only be learned living mind to living mind bro. I really doubt a random student who we are not already close friends will teach us a powerful dark curse like that if we just ask. That is assuming there is even a student in the school who knows it in the first place. Trying to dismember or fucking stick Scorpius in a portrait is dumb. His dad is right here. Probably gonna get concerned if his kid, who he loves very much, doesn't show up for a day or two.

Remember this was a suggestion from Apollo. The guy who, while being a Chad, is also very autistic and retardedly protective of our wifelette, Arty. Might not be the best guy to give advice right now.

I like the dude a lot now, don't get me wrong, but this is the same person who, when he couldn't find Arty for a few hours, chimped out, tossed her boyfriend against a wall by his neck, and stuck a wand in their face instead of just asking a teacher if they knew where she was at or if something happened.

>>5900269
If it comes down to it, trying to convince Scorpius that the dude in his head is closer to a demon than a human is an option. We haven't figured out exactly what Salazar threatened Scorpy with or promised him yet, so unless our back is against the wall, we should probably try to make him distrust the voice in his head more before confronting him.

Veritaserum seems very regulated, takes a month to brew from scratch, and if the Ministry finds out you used it in a way they don't like, you get a nice long vacation to scenic Azkaban.

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Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:05:36 No.5900445 Report

Quoted By: >>5900656

>>5900211
>>5900269
>support.
>>5900168

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:25:52 No.5900469 Report

Quoted By: >>5900471 >>5900481

I implore you niggas not to go with the actual autistic kid's plan that could very easily go wrong and make enemies of one of the wealthiest families in the wizarding world.
We could at least TRY something else before we resort to...that.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:29:12 No.5900471 Report

Quoted By: >>5900480 >>5900481

>>5900469
was hard enough to win the vote of not just blasting him

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:30:06 No.5900472 Report

Quoted By: >>5900656

>>5900168
> Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day

Do not give up the game. Do not panic, let fear control you. Take all precautions you reasonably can. Set up a system with Apollo and Linda. Travel in groups when possible. See if we can't brew or buy some useful potions with what we have left from Christmas. Potter keeps a couple of Slowfall in his pockect at all times, because he is smart and paranoid.

When we take Arty to Hogsmead tomorrow, maybe make a quick stop by the Forbidden Forest. We made a deal with a giant spider once. See if he might be willing to keep an eye on Arty for us if we can pay the right price. Take advantage of the fact our cute Hufflepuff is like the dangerous magical animal whisperer.

Once we are relatively safe after the weekend, we need to start grinding. Making extra potions, training with our friends to help with battle magic. Go 1 v. 2 with Linda and Arty, go 1 v. 1 with Apollo, use Helga's help as often as we safely can to strengthen our link. I think Salazar is feeling the time crunch, Scorpius can't stay here investigating forever.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:36:11 No.5900480 Report

Quoted By: >>5900527

>>5900471
I really think that
one anon's ( >>5898913 ) idea has some merit to it. I don't think we really need to use an Unbreakable Oath to ensure that he gets obliviated once we get his advice, since making sure his wand is locked away and he's physically restrained in some way would go a long way towards making him incapable of going back on the deal once he learns the truth - especially if we have all of us in the room when we tell him.
But putting that aside, my backup plan of house-elf shenanigans is something I think would hit both Scorpius and Salazar's blindspots, given the fact that they both no doubt had house elves around for their entire lives and almost never paid heed to them outside of needing them to do something. And hey, house elves are surprisingly versatile niggas, they can still apparate within hogwarts. Getting some contacts in their numbers sooner than later will pay off.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:37:07 No.5900481 Report

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>>5900469
>I implore you niggas not to go with the actual autistic kid's plan

Thank you for making me no longer think I am nuts, since someone else gets that maybe a dude who has Apollo's issues might not be the best person to take advice from on this issue.

>>5900471
I guess what happens happens. I made my case for why some of these suggestions are not very smart so I did what I could.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 23 Jan 2024 02:38:07 No.5900484 Report

Quoted By: >>5900656

>>5900168
>> Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 23 Jan 2024 03:26:29 No.5900527 Report

Quoted By: >>5900573 >>5900591 >>5900607 >>5900656

>>5900480
Trying to befriend the house elves is a decent idea. One of them ended up saving the original trio and was buried like a war hero. Elf magic is kinda broken in some regards and if you win their friendship the ugly little fucks are loyal to the end. Linda mentioned way back when her mom pestering her to buy on for the explicit purpose of giving them clothing and freeing it.

Now for some forbidden knowledge.

On Akun, the is a Harry Potter based quest I read briefly since it seemed original, taking place after the MC graduated Hogwarts and became an auror. His little sister was clingy to the point she was a brocon, but he never did anything with her so just some angst; he and his sister were kind of abused and their mother had even turned to wizard drugs to deal with the stuff that had happened and her muggle mental issues. At one point MC basically inherits a female house elf. She is kinda wierd but her prior owner was a monster who had poisoned a few muggles or muggleborn with shit that literally melted them. So okay, fair enough. House elves are odd by default.

Then there is a scene with the elf masturbating to her new master, the MC. I am somewhat sure, by now, the player base of that quest has voted to fuck the damn house elf. I stopped reading when shit got weird and never looked back.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 23 Jan 2024 04:16:46 No.5900573 Report

Quoted By: >>5900725

>>5900527
What is a female Harry Potter house-elf but a goblin maid by a different name, I guess? Weird segue, though.

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Anonymous ID:Al0y5IfY Tue 23 Jan 2024 04:16:52 No.5900574 Report

Quoted By: >>5901258

Can we purposely botch an obliviate enough to turn this man into a Lockhart case?

If a poser like Lockhart can give himself permanent brain damage with the spell, I'm sure we, or Apollo, can purposefully fuck up an obliviate enough to turn this man into a St. Mungo's case. I'm guessing not being experienced in casting obliviate might actually help us in this case.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Tue 23 Jan 2024 04:38:15 No.5900591 Report

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>>5900527
The more I hear about akun the more I'm glad I never checked it out. It just sounds like it attracts all of the biggest coomers and weirdos.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 23 Jan 2024 05:15:26 No.5900607 Report

Quoted By: >>5900612

>>5900527
I wouldn't be surprised if Harry redacted the full extent of Dobby's aid in order to not implicate House Elves in any crimes against wizardkind.
I don't know about you, but I like to think that Dobby snapped his fingers and pulled a thanos on a death eater or two.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 23 Jan 2024 05:22:57 No.5900612 Report

Quoted By: >>5900614

>>5900607
Imagine if they were allowed to practice wandlore.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Tue 23 Jan 2024 05:26:27 No.5900614 Report

Quoted By:

>>5900612
Would they even benefit from it? They seem more than capable of precise and decently powerful magic without it.
Although I suppose the implication is that they could use specific wizard-developed spells with the aid of a wand. After all, there was that whole plot hook with Winky being accused of casting the spell that summons the dark mark. A house-elf with a wand that can cast Avada Kedavara would be an absolute nightmare, considering anti-apparition defenses don't work against them...and they seem to be naturally talented at apparating without losing parts.

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Anonymous ID:Gh369p4Y Tue 23 Jan 2024 06:33:05 No.5900651 Report

Quoted By: >>5900656

You fuckers are not gonna make me watch Elliot enact one of the worst plans imaginable in this situation.
>>5900168
>Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day
Also supporting the secondary plan of >>5900253 as long as we word it as a trade. Potions for info, and them not ratting us out if they’re caught

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 23 Jan 2024 06:45:03 No.5900656 Report

Quoted By:

>>5900269 is me, but I consider doing nothing to be a dangerous game when up against a well-funded, determined, and ruthless enemy like we're facing. Also, kinda' boring.

It looks like we're pretty much deadlocked between some for of direct confrontation/capture (>5900211, >>5900269, >>5900272, >>5900445) and defensive posture (>>5900291, >>5900472, >>5900484, >>5900651). However, >>5900651, >>5900527 and >>5900253 all show interest in this house elf plan and, if comes down to it, I'll back it as well, as long as we don't do literally noting.)

>>5900168
Please note the above, QM, when it comes time to tally. But whatever happens, happens.

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Anonymous ID:XNbd+naK Tue 23 Jan 2024 08:59:34 No.5900718 Report

Quoted By:

>>5900168
Yeah, I’m gonna switch from my vote >>5900211 (because holy fuck that’s a bad idea now I think of it) to
> Do nothing, keep on escorting Arty back from her job every day
And also support contacting some house elves.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 23 Jan 2024 09:19:15 No.5900725 Report

Quoted By: >>5901493

>>5900573
>Weird segue, though.

The house elf suggestion brought up memories of that fucking coom-quest I thought I had fully repressed. If I had to recall it, I am going to make yall have to think about it. And man I have never gotten the female goblin thing. Only good goblin is a dead goblin.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 23 Jan 2024 19:06:09 No.5901258 Report

Quoted By: >>5901291

>>5900574
that likely only happened because of it being cast from a broken wand

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Tue 23 Jan 2024 19:21:33 No.5901275 Report

Quoted By: >>5901291 >>5901321

>>5899597
>Literally made me have to replan half of the campaign.
out of curiosity, what was the original plan?

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Tue 23 Jan 2024 19:30:58 No.5901286 Report

Quoted By: >>5901291

i think i said it before, but i cant stop imagining Arty as pre-emo Bea

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 23 Jan 2024 19:41:02 No.5901291 Report

Quoted By: >>5901296

Closing the votes so I can write the update!

>>5901258
From a broken wand, by a wizard extremely proficient with the spell, who wanted to erase everything from someone's mind, and cast on himself.

>>5901275
Ask me again once the quest is over. Hard to say those sorts of things without spoiling too much.

>>5901286
I have no idea who that is and a google search gives me nothing under that name. Who are you talking about?

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Tue 23 Jan 2024 19:45:15 No.5901296 Report

Quoted By: >>5901356

>>5901291
ooh, meant to upload an image along side my post, but it seems i forgot to do that
i know its not a one to one image, but thats just how i see her
her name is Beatrice "Bea" Haywood

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 23 Jan 2024 20:19:27 No.5901321 Report

Quoted By: >>5901355

>>5901275
doubt Lily dying and the time fuckery were part of the original storyline

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Anonymous ID:aCPpIx1b Tue 23 Jan 2024 20:46:50 No.5901355 Report

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>>5901321
Yeah we sadly fucked up opening the door. I didn't realize how evil Salazar was. Didn't plan on us getting obleviated.

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>>5901296
Reminds of this image of Roderika.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 23 Jan 2024 20:56:08 No.5901362 Report

Quoted By: >>5901367 >>5901369 >>5901376 >>5901407 >>5901414 >>5901493 >>5902745

“We keep on going as we are, right now. We’ll go with you to the Three Broomsticks and come back with you. I’ll talk to Potter, see if I can get any ideas for protection from him. Arty, do you think we could make friends with one of the House Elves? It’d be incredibly useful if we could put one of them to follow the Malfoys.”

“Maybe. But I doubt they’d be loyal to us. If anyone asked them what they’re doing, they’d be compelled to answer. Even though they’re getting paid now ever since the House Elves Rights Improvement Act from 2020, they’re still fiercely loyal to their master, which in this case is the Headmistress. If she, or Potter, ask, they’ll have to tell the truth.”

“Right. If you can talk to one during the week and only see if it is a possibility, without mentioning any names, that’d be grand. If you can think of ways we can use magical creatures, too, that can help. I’ll start brewing potions that can help us fight if we have to. I can also start brewing some other potions that take longer, maybe. Polyjuice can be helpful in a pinch, and it can last for six months. I’d love to get my hands on some Felix Felicis too, but that takes six months to brew.”

“What about me and Apollo?” Linda asks.

“You keep on practicing Occlumency. We might need to deal with Veritaserum, and while a normal Occlumens can manage to shut up and not say a thing, a Perfect Occlumens can simply drink it and keep lying. If it comes to that, we need someone who can tell a fake story to get people off our backs, and you’re the one who has the potential to do it. Apollo, you keep on training Battle Magic. When it all comes to a close, I’m pretty sure we’ll still need to hex a whole bunch of people.”

--

It’s early on the next day when you knock on Potter’s door.

“Elliot? Not usual for someone to be knocking on my door at this time. But it saves me the trouble of going to talk to you. Come in, sit.”

“You were going to call me, sir?”

“Yes. Malfoy came to me yesterday. They found a tunnel under the lake, which the merfolk report being recent. They can’t give me an exact date of when it showed up, but somewhere in the past two or three months. The tunnel leads to a great underground room, which leads to a cave, which leads to a… sanctuary of sorts. I’m not sure what exactly it once held, but all that remains there are darkened chunks of goblin silver. Does that sound, in any way, familiar?”

> No, sir. Doesn't ring a bell.
> Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared. That’s as much as I can tell you.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:02:54 No.5901367 Report

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>>5901362
>> No, sir. Doesn't ring a bell.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:06:43 No.5901369 Report

Quoted By: >>5902899

>>5901362
really man? from polarizing vote to another? thats what you gonna pull? aight, i see you
>Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared. That’s as much as I can tell you.
Potter is already hot in our trail, i get that trying to hide stuff from him is meant to slow him down, but at this point even if we lie he will know we are lying, maybe we could pull a uno reverse card and manage to slow him down by convincing him that this is getting out of hand for everyone and if he wants to help, the best he can do is to protect us from the Malfoys...or something along those lines, if anyone has a better plan i would like to hear it, im still sleepy here

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:13:21 No.5901376 Report

Quoted By:

>>5901362
> Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared. That’s as much as I can tell you.
As if Potter wouldn't instantly assume we're lying and somehow deduce that Taylor died down there anyways. Fuck it, just give him this one for free.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:18:18 No.5901382 Report

Quoted By:

actually, now that we are here, we´ve always talked to Potter, but i wonder if there is something that Helga would like to tell him? maybe she could say something that manges to disorient him?

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Anonymous ID:9R6uE4Vb Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:47:14 No.5901407 Report

Quoted By: >>5901414

>>5901362
> Other (Write in)
>Still can’t tell you anything, but that’s all I’ll say about that. (Move on to what we want to talk about)
Seems like a no-win situation. But I think our best bet is to stonewall and change the subject before we give him an inch.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Tue 23 Jan 2024 21:57:39 No.5901414 Report

Quoted By:

>>5901362
>>5901407
+1

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Tue 23 Jan 2024 23:55:26 No.5901493 Report

Quoted By:

>>5900725
If you get the appeal of a short girl like Arty, and the appeal of bratty/snarky/kind of crude girls, you get goblin girls.

>>5901362
> Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared. That’s as much as I can tell you.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Wed 24 Jan 2024 07:16:47 No.5901961 Report

Quoted By: >>5901962 >>5902105

As a random thought, why do you think so many critters are resistant to magic? Dragons, trolls, giants, there's dozens of things out there that so casually shrug off direct spells. Is it just rowling being a copout to make threats to wizards, or is there an actual reason to it?

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 24 Jan 2024 07:21:49 No.5901962 Report

Quoted By: >>5901969

>>5901961
If evolution is real in-universe (dinosaurs still exist, after all) and magic is a heritable trait (which is seems to partly be), then resistance to magic would have a distinct evolutionary advantage in a world that even before it had wizards, had goblins and elves. Even if evolution isn't real in-universe, dragons at least are inherently magical themselves and there's no more reason for their resistance to be considered an asspull than their firebreath or defiance of conventional physics.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Wed 24 Jan 2024 07:30:59 No.5901969 Report

Quoted By: >>5902550

>>5901962
Evolution theory would make sense if Wizards started developing greater magic resistance themselves.
Unless they went the opposite route and became more receptive to magic in order to wield it better and see greater effects from things like healing charms and protective wards, I suppose. Shit man, maybe that's the evolutionary route that things like house elves took, sacrificing defense for control and raw magic potential. Makes sense to me too that you have to have one or the other, because hagrid was a lousy wizard but had the benefit of more magic resistance than most thanks to his giant blood.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 24 Jan 2024 11:59:28 No.5902105 Report

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>>5901961
Could be that your resistance to magic is linked to your ability to interact with it. As long as you can interact with it, you either are able use it or the magic you are around goes through your physical form and collects, basically. Like we know parts of magical beasts hold magic power which can be brought out through potion creation, which is why you don't have to invest much or any of your own power into them. Magical beasts are "collectors". Wands all have bits of magical beasts in them as well which does something to help you cast spells, catalyze or focuses it or something. However, despite how wizardkind can toss out magical effects, I don't recall any potion that use witch blood or powdered wizard bones. The magic can flow through them but doesn't build up like in beasts.

Witches and wizards are more hearty than muggles, but that may just be because you have to be in order for interactions with magic in the way they do to not kill you. Over time, the people who could channel magic through them but were too weak to survive died early and rarely reproduced, leading to a tough modern wizard. Every once in a while you get someone who is right on the edge and can use magic but it takes a toll.

In theory this could help explain Arty. The whole magical twin thing caused developmental abnormalities such that she is far more frail than a normal witch should be, causing her body/soul to naturally limit her magical throughput, however, what she can channel, what passes through her is still detrimental to her health. Basically, being a witch, vs a squib or muggle, is killing her, slowly. That is why she is going to die in her 30s.

According to this, you don't get magically exhausted because YOU ran out of magic, like your tank is empty, but the part of you that directs magic gets tired and cramps up like a muscle and needs time to rest.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Wed 24 Jan 2024 18:27:57 No.5902433 Report

Quoted By: >>5902467

>>5902105
>I don't recall any potion that use witch blood or powdered wizard bones
It may be that this sort of research is simply not done because it's ghoulish and Dark.

>In theory this could help explain Arty
So we need to strengthen her body or... Maybe suggest she stop using magic? Or maybe find her a better method channeling/containing it?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 24 Jan 2024 19:32:37 No.5902467 Report

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>>5902433
My thing is basically a crackpot theory. The concept underlying magic is never really explained; why people can and cant use it. Why people who have never had a person who could use it can give birth to someone who can. Why wizards who have been wizards back to their great-great-great grandparents can birth squibs or someone who can't utilizes it.

Despite having taken a lot od Bio classes, I an no wizard geneticist. So all of these ideas are pretty baseless..

I would encourage Arty to stay fit. She doesn't have to be a tiny mucle girl but some cardio and light weight lifting is not going to hurt.

Also, I am an idiot. She has her condition, but has she ever been to a real doctor? Like a bunch of stuff can be fixed by spells or potions, but that is only if you know about them. Some modern medical testing might show an issue which wizardkind doesn't understand. Like, they are pretty dumb in some regards. It might be that her lifespan could be extended if she just took a couple of pills a day. Fuck, I am pretty healthy but I still take a couple of meds in the morning and several supplements a day.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Wed 24 Jan 2024 19:35:30 No.5902468 Report

Quoted By: >>5902899

>>5902467
>taking Arty to a muggle doc
i support this, maybe we could take a weekend to book an appointment and give her a full check up

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Wed 24 Jan 2024 21:30:42 No.5902550 Report

Quoted By: >>5902712

>>5901969
we've already seen how powerful pre-Merlin magic is, modern magic would likely be much stronger if the Interdict never happened

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 25 Jan 2024 00:30:32 No.5902712 Report

Quoted By: >>5902745

>>5902550
Lol, it's retarded but now I'm imagining that Merlin did it because he went full antispiral and panicked about magic becoming too strong so he nuked magic into oblivion to stave off 'the inevitable' as long as possible.
Row row fight the power, my niggas.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 25 Jan 2024 01:19:22 No.5902745 Report

Quoted By: >>5902774

>>5902712
> a fellow gurren lagann enjoyer

Seeing the movies in a theater was great.

I think he probably did, for similar reasons. Like he and the other founders knew what the Atlanteans were capable of. Shit like the Cup of Sorrow and the Mirror of Impossibility. The fact an entire civilization erased themselves from time. The shit they themselves could do with Ancient Magic.

>>5901362
> Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared. That’s as much as I can tell you.

Potter knows about the repository. He knows we were involved in the adventure that lead to Taylor "disappearing". Man can put 2 and 2 together. Hiding it from him at this point serves no purpose. He can get there and snoop around if he wants, and lying to his face makes him more likely to investigate the Keeper's sanctuary enough to find the library.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 01:59:16 No.5902774 Report

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>>5902745
he doesn't know about the repository, nobody knows about it other than us and Salazar and it would be impossible for him to learn it exists

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 25 Jan 2024 02:08:00 No.5902779 Report

Quoted By: >>5902802 >>5902832

You know, I keep finding myself wondering about Taylor. He was killed by someone that, by all means, doesn't exist. The only trace of that killer's existence is the memories in two people's heads, four if you count nothing-entities like Helga and Salazar.
It's such a unique scenario, being Dead by No Means as far as the timeline is concerned. His body gone and lost potentially forever. I find myself wondering if he'll end up in someone's head like the other nothing-entities. I also find myself wondering if he'll end up as something else, something new and unique. Wizarding magic works in peculiar ways, especially when ancient magic and other nonsense gets involved.
I can only hope that wherever he is, he's watching out for us like a guardian angel.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 02:37:48 No.5902802 Report

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>>5902779
don't think it'd work that way since as far as we know Helga and Salazar were alive during the entire thing of turning into mind-people, unlike Taylor who died before the timeline shift actually happned

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>>5902774
By the Repository, I meant the place, not the object. He just told us he knows about the location and has, with out a doubt, given it once over by now.

I should have been more clear.

Yeah, no way in hell he knows that it held, until recently, an untapped chunk of Ancient magic.

He probably suspects it was important, valuable, powerful, given that their a huge chunks of goblin silver just sitting right there. Goblin silver doesn't come cheap, even at the best of times. Hell Godric Gryffindor's sword was made of it and could work to shatter extremely strong pieces of magic artifacts like Horcruxes. This is along with the sword being infused with basilisk venom, which can fuck up most things.

>>5902779
I like to think he is watching above with a smile, living among the stars he loved so dearly. That he weeps for Linda and what she had to do, and that is why we had a more rainy season than normal. That on the day it is truly needed, on that day, a very specific Patronus will rip its way out of out wand, unbidden. That even from his house among the stars, he is still looking out for Elliot and Linda as best as he can.

The Atlanteans believed that souls became stars. If we can't bring him back, Taylor's star will be a very, very bright one to Elliot. When we live forever, it will always shine on him, and Linda.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 25 Jan 2024 03:57:23 No.5902899 Report

Quoted By: >>5902901 >>5902925 >>5902948

>>5902468
That would be problematic to do right now, as neither of you can apparate to a muggle city. Also, I'd need to find out how the British healthcare system functions, because I have no idea of how any of that shit works.

>>5901369
>from polarizing vote to another?
Here, have a third one.

--

“Yes, sir. That’s where I went the night before Taylor disappeared, and that’s as much as I can tell you.”

“Elliot, the Malfoys suspect you killed Taylor. They asked me to suspend you from Hogwarts, beginning immediately.”

“What!?”

“Yes, quite. I don’t know what is happening between you and them, or why they’re interested in you and you in them, but if they decide to use the Daily Prophet to spread lies, things are going to get complicated. They have no evidence on you, so I told them no. I did not tell them you and Ms. Cobris were out of bed that day as I wanted to see to which conclusion they’d arrive without my interference, but it seems they have decided upon your guilt all the same.”

“What is their argument for expelling me, exactly?”

“None whatsoever, other than you being his close friend and, as such, the person with the most chances to harm him. They also say that since you started taking Occlumency classes, Veritaserum cannot be reliably used, and as such that it is indicative of your guilt, as you’re trying to hide something.”

“That’s ridiculous!”

“Only if you don’t have enough votes on the Wizengamot,” he says. “And, besides, you did start learning Occlumency to hide something, which does include what happened on that day, so their assumption is correct. Your actions were responsible for Taylor’s disappearance, after all. They also suspect you have a next victim planned.”

“Arty?”

“Got it in one.”

“Scorpius threatened her. On the way back from Hogsmead, my sneakoscope went off. We heard steps, whispers. There were people following us, invisible. They didn’t attack, we were all ready to fight back, but… I was sure they were there for her.”

“Did he? He’s willing to go that far to get the Resurrection Stone? Curious.”

“Professor, I’m going to be honest with you. I’m fucking terrified. I can fight, but against goons hired by Malfoy? People who can cast forbidden spells and do dark arts? If they decide to attack, I can’t fight against that. And… I can’t lose Arty. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost her.”

“I believe you. But you need to understand it’s difficult for me to help you when I don’t know what you’re fighting.”

“Could I… Could I obliviate you? Take away your wand, tie you up so you can’t fight it, tell you everything, then erase your memories? If you’d allow me, sir, I’d-”

“No. And you should know better than to ask.”

“I’m at the end of my rope here, Professor!” You say, and there is an edge of desperation in your voice. “I feel lost, I feel like if I take the wrong step people will die!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 25 Jan 2024 03:58:25 No.5902901 Report

Quoted By: >>5902904

>>5902899

“People will die if you take the wrong step, Elliot. Trust me, I understand you, more than anyone. But you overestimate the power of Obliviate. If I were to Crucio you into insanity, then erase the memory of the torture, you’d still be broken. You can erase the memory of the event, but not its consequences. A victim of abuse who’s had their memory wiped will still feel unease towards their abuser, for example.” He sighs, looking out the window. “If we were to do what you are suggesting, I’d make connections. I’d learn, and figure things out. You’d be able to erase the memory of me learning those things, but the path to discovery would be there. How hard do you think it would be for me to make those logic leaps once more?”

And the terrifying thing is… you know he’d do it. He’s already said he thought Lily could have been real, before dismissing the possibility of the whole world forgetting about her. If anything changed that, if anything could elevate that thought to the realm of possibility, if he were to chase that lead… How long until he unraveled the whole plot? How long until he found the truth by himself?

You’re sure it wouldn’t be long.

“So no, I cannot help you like that. I also cannot banish the Malfoys from the school until they do some provable misdeed. But that doesn’t mean I can’t help you in other ways.”

He goes to a sturdy-looking and extremely enchanted closet with heavy-looking locks and opens it. Inside, you see a trove of artifacts of all kinds, potions, elixirs and even wands. He opens a drawer and takes a long, thin box which he places in front of you. Inside, there are ten rings of odd size.

“Toe-rings,” he says, picking up four of them and handing them to you. “With small, breakable tabs in the lower parts, which will activate a portkey to a private safehouse once broken. Won’t help you inside Hogwarts or anywhere with anti-portkey enchantments, but those take a while to put up, so if you or your friends happen to be ambushed on the street, well, you can always port to safety. That you should not use them with sandals goes without saying.”

You carefully pick them up.

“Won’t they break accidentally?”

“I have decades of being an auror and it only happened once. You’ll be fine.”

You nod. “Thank you, professor.”

“You’re welcome. I also must remind you that portkeys are strictly regulated by the Ministry, and, as such, these do not exist.”

“Yes, sir.”

“We’ll be extending Hogwarts protection enchantments to the room with the destroyed paintings and seal the path to the cave for the safety of the students. The schools enchantments have been quite malleable as of late, so that won’t be too much of a hassle. Hopefully the darkened silver can tell us something about what happened there.”

“Just… be careful, sir.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 25 Jan 2024 03:59:31 No.5902904 Report

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>>5902901

“Wouldn’t have reached adulthood if I wasn’t. But there is also something else I may do for you. You once asked me if I’d be willing to tutor you. Well, I have found someone who’s willing to do it for free for you and your friends, on the condition they’re allowed to grind you into a pulp and beat your head in and leave you bruised and aching and that you don’t dare complain for even a second. Oh, you also may not mention their existence to no one else.”

You raise your eyebrows.

“Uh… Riiiight.”

“They’re good, but they’re demanding.”

“Can I know who it is?”

“If you could, I would have already told you. Also… you’d probably have to give up your post as General, I’m afraid.”

“What? Why?”

“Because you’ll be too exhausted to think about anything other than your bed, and that would be unfair to your soldiers. In fact, I suspect your grades will drop substantially if you choose to undertake their training. If your friends also choose to do so, they’ll have to do the same. I wouldn’t recommend Ms. Pertinger to participate in it, as I believe it… might be too much for someone in her condition, though I will not stop her if she decides to try. I’d also recommend her to stop working on weekends, too. Merlin knows that girl is already working hard enough.”

“I… I see. May I think about it?”

“You have until this Friday. Trainings will be Monday to Thursday, eight o’clock sharp.”

“Every day of the week?” You ask, surprised.

“Yes, I had to bargain with them to allow you Friday so you could learn apparition, and they begrudgingly agreed it was a necessary survivability skill.”

--

“So we’re choosing between learning how to lead an army and how to fight better?” Linda asks as you sit on the Three Broomsticks, sipping your butterbeer.

It’s an empty afternoon, only a few more patrons hanging around, a hunchback you’ve seen a couple of times, an old which with a comically large wart on her nose and a finely dressed gentleman reading the Daily Prophet, whose headlines include things of extreme importance such as a group of muggles seeing a thestral, a couple vanishing from St. Mungus and the Chudley Cannons winning their first game in five years.

Still, it’s quiet enough that Arty can hang around your table, all four of you wearing your toe-rings.

“No, we’re choosing between learning well at all and learning how to fight better,” you correct her. “Potter said we’ll be utterly exhausted when we’re done.”

“But then I’d have to give up my army!” Arty says.

“Well, you wouldn’t have to. Potter said more in the tone of ‘it would be wise for you to do so if you don’t want to fail your army so hard they shoot you in the back’ more than anything.”

You all sit in silence, thinking. There wasn’t as much weight on Linda since she wasn’t a commander, but both you, Apollo and Arty were. Elend, Amalia, Talon and the rest of your soldiers relied on you, and they expected you to return and lead them into battle.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:00:48 No.5902906 Report

Quoted By: >>5902915 >>5902942 >>5902948 >>5902969 >>5902973 >>5903088 >>5903253 >>5903314 >>5903346 >>5903448 >>5903486 >>5903525

>>5902904

To your surprise, Apollo is the first to speak.

“I… I don’t want to give up my army.”

You’re surprised, but when you think about it, Apollo was the one whose life was changed the most by the armies. He used to be isolated, alone. Now? Now people looked up to him. People ate with him during lunch.

He didn’t want to see the tree empty again, after all.

“I’ll do it,” Arty says. “But I’ll keep my army and my job. I’m not giving them up.”

“Arty, that’ll eat up all your free time. You already barely have time to breathe!” You say, half laughing, half worried.

“I’ll find a way,” she says, firmly. “I always do. I have to at least try.”

“Elliot, you say that to her, but it’ll eat up all our time too,” Linda says. “Studying other subjects, researching… anything else, that’ll suffer too if you decide to start that training.”

“I know. I’m still thinking about it. And I love Battle Class just as much as all of you. But at the same time, I keep thinking about that fight… I keep thinking that maybe we could have won, if we were just better.”

“I… I also think about it a lot but…” She wrangles her hands, nervous. “I don’t think Potter is wrong about building an army. Some enemies we can’t beat alone, for some things we need an army. And this whole thing? It’s big. Too big. If bad comes to worse… We’ll need someone to lead us. We’ll need you to lead us.”

> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
> Try to keep both the new tutoring and the command of the army
> Refuse the tutoring, stay as a Commander
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:05:12 No.5902915 Report

Quoted By: >>5902925

>>5902906
>Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
But I don't want our grades to suffer TOO much. We might want to ramp up production on potions to recover our energy and heal the wounds of training. If our potions expertise is going to come in handy anywhere, it'll be here, god damn it. I refuse to let everything slip just because of a little exhaustion.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:14:02 No.5902925 Report

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>>5902899
>Here, have a third one.
nah, not this time, im 100% going with
> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
we´ve done well enough with our army, they can take care of themselves
we, on the other hand are getting constantly fucked by our rolls, we need all the bonuses we can get, if this tutoring is as good as Potter is making it to be, then i say its worth it.

Also, for the love of fucking god, we need to convince Arty to AT LEAST drop either the army or her job, preferably her job since that way we wont have to constantly escort her every time, i love our miniwitchfu, but as much as i want to give her everything, this one is TOO big of a chance to be that stubborn
also this >>5902915 lets start making Girding potions, we´ll sure need them

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:27:19 No.5902942 Report

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>>5902906
>> Try to keep both the new tutoring and the command of the army
fuck it we ball

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:33:58 No.5902948 Report

Quoted By: >>5902951

>>5902899
>Also, I'd need to find out how the British healthcare system functions, because I have no idea of how any of that shit works.
I have to imagine a lack of ANY documentation would raise eyebrows. Does Arty legally exist in the eyes of muggle governance? They might suspect her of being trafficked.

>>5902906
>Refuse the tutoring, stay as a Commander
We could have won if we were better at fighting, maybe. We also could have won if we'd just brought a fuckton of fairly-good fighters with us, or maybe even just Apollo. Harry Potter also didn't beat Voldemort by grinding XP solo; he led Dumbledore's Army.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 04:35:46 No.5902951 Report

Quoted By: >>5902976

kind of scared to learn what the fuck we just signed up for
>>5902948
we could just try to lie and say she's our sister or something

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Anonymous ID:SVHp17SC Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:09:27 No.5902969 Report

Quoted By: >>5903738

>>5902906
> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
Look, we won the first season, I think we can quit while we’re ahead. But qm, would this be a new kind of pillar of the quest like the quests were?

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Anonymous ID:SVHp17SC Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:12:09 No.5902970 Report

Quoted By: >>5903026

Also, I’m betting that the tutor is someone who supposedly died in the novels like Cedric or even Dobby. What do you guys think?

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:14:19 No.5902973 Report

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>>5902906
> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
Great gains demand great sacrifice. I wonder who the tutor is?

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:15:16 No.5902976 Report

Quoted By: >>5902982 >>5902985 >>5904408

>>5902951
Elliott exists in muggle databases. he has a National Insurance Number. He's a UK citizen. There are records on who his parents are and whether he has siblings. Arty is a non-person in the United Kingdom without passport or birth certificate, I'd presume, like most wizards who don't engage with muggle society routinely.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:19:27 No.5902982 Report

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>>5902976
too bad we can't just obliviate the doctor, would make it much easier

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:21:03 No.5902985 Report

Quoted By: >>5903017

>>5902976
actually considering their backstory it's likely that there's at least muggle records of her existing and being born, but no more than that

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:48:34 No.5903010 Report

Quoted By: >>5903026 >>5903428 >>5903486

place your bets for who the tutor is, im wputting on money on it being Mad eye Moody, something crazy is gonna happen
truly wishing is Merula but i highly doubt it

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 25 Jan 2024 05:58:09 No.5903017 Report

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>>5902985
That may be worse.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 25 Jan 2024 06:07:39 No.5903026 Report

Quoted By: >>5903030

>>5902970
If it's someone who died in the novels but could theoretically be alive? I'd have to go with Snape, since Harry is really emphasizing that the guy is a hardass with his training. Either that or like >>5903010 said and it's Moody.
I'll also accept Professor Flitwick, who is an absolute monster when it comes to dueling and could probably put Harry himself on his ass if he wanted to.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Thu 25 Jan 2024 06:10:46 No.5903030 Report

Quoted By: >>5903036

>>5903026
>Flitwick
that would be the best case scenario, but given how Potter said that he wants to absolutely destroy us with the training, i hardly think thats him,Flitwick isnt like that

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 25 Jan 2024 06:15:30 No.5903036 Report

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>>5903030
I wouldn't underestimate the fury of a small man, nor would I believe him incapable of crushing a student or two when specially instructed to.

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Anonymous ID:blZWay4Y Thu 25 Jan 2024 07:19:54 No.5903088 Report

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>>5902906
>Refuse the tutoring, stay as a Commander

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Anonymous ID:Gh369p4Y Thu 25 Jan 2024 14:42:30 No.5903253 Report

Quoted By: >>5903445

>>5902906
> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring
They won’t necessarily need Elliot to lead people. Others can do the role effectively, and it would likely be better to rotate commanders anyway if we’re trying to see who leads effectively during an actual war, in case the current commanders go down.
In fact, why not suggest Linda take over the role in our place? Assuming she’s not taking the training, of course.

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Anonymous ID:sfd2IduC Thu 25 Jan 2024 16:08:53 No.5903314 Report

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>>5902906
>Refuse the tutoring, stay as a Commander

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Anonymous ID:8tZ5ypxP Thu 25 Jan 2024 16:51:54 No.5903346 Report

Quoted By: >>5903448

>>5902906
>> Try to keep both the new tutoring and the command of the army

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 25 Jan 2024 18:17:16 No.5903428 Report

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>>5903010
i thought he was dead

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 25 Jan 2024 18:43:01 No.5903445 Report

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>>5903253
>In fact, why not suggest Linda take over the role in our place? Assuming she’s not taking the training, of course.
Sensible and I support. If not, maybe we can mentor and advise one of our other lieutenants? Amalia's smart, right?

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Anonymous ID:Guif0Wos Thu 25 Jan 2024 18:49:56 No.5903448 Report

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>>5903346
>>5902906
>Support

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 25 Jan 2024 20:03:28 No.5903486 Report

Quoted By: >>5904146

>>5903010
Moody supposedly died in '97. Having him as a tutor would be cool and I am not 100 percent he didn't fake his death. Merula would be fun but just because she is pretty hot.

Shacklebolt might be an option, given he was the best auror during Harry's time.

>>5902906
Linda, I am going to ask you to step up. I am sorry, you had to do what I couldn't during the fight against Salazar in the repository. I know it broke a part of you. But you are the person who won, who put him down, at least for a while. I am going to ask you to take up command of the Raiders. You were the one who's advice saved our army more than a few times. You are better than me at commanding people, at moving pieces on the board. Hell, consider what I gave you for Christmas. All that you taught me when we planned for our battles. But part of being a great commander is knowing how to motivate your troops. And part of it is to know when to step down, when you are needed elsewhere. I have an advantage over most, and I have always lead from the front. I have the spirit of one of the greatest witches to ever live in my head who can lend me her power. I personally trained with the monster now twisting Scopius' mind, because a part of Lily Potter may have still remained, I learned much from her. In the end, I think, it will be against him. One on one. I am going to help you as much as I can, maybe show you a few tricks I picked up leading our friends but
I need help to get there. And you are the smartest witch I know when it comes to tactics strategy. I am going to take your place as a lieutenant.

>>5902906
>> Give up your role as Commander, accept the new tutoring

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Anonymous ID:BahTK6uR Thu 25 Jan 2024 20:47:36 No.5903525 Report

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>>5902906
We're leaving on a high note of winning. We can even excuse it as wanting another to have a shot.

Also the idea we're not gonna stop practicing and will come back stronger should calm their tits about it.

Linda may be able to really flex her military strategy if that's the case. Otherwise, find our new lt

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 26 Jan 2024 02:10:13 No.5903738 Report

Quoted By: >>5903741 >>5903750 >>5903756 >>5903760 >>5903794 >>5903805 >>5903828

>>5902969
Maybe, that's going to depend entirely on my ability to come up with challenges, or how I feel about it. People were still pretty involved when it was just people doing christmas stuff and romancing the tiny Hufflepuff, so maybe I'll just turn into another event within the week, like apparition and occlumency classes.

So the answer is, as with far too many things in my life, I don't know.

--

Ok, so the winning vote is to give up your role as commander and accept the new tutoring. Who will you choose to replace you as a commander? If you pick Linda, she won't participate in the tutoring. If you don't pick her, she will accompany you in the tutoring.

> Ask Linda to remain in the Raiders as its new Commander
> Ask Elend to be the new Commander
> Ask Amalia to be the new Commander
> Ask Talon to be the new Commander

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Fri 26 Jan 2024 02:14:25 No.5903741 Report

Quoted By: >>5903828

>>5903738
>Linda if she wants to
>Otherwise, Amalia

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 26 Jan 2024 02:19:57 No.5903750 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
>> Ask Linda to remain in the Raiders as its new Commander

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Al0y5IfY Fri 26 Jan 2024 02:26:44 No.5903756 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
>Ask Linda to remain in the Raiders as its new Commander
She's got the tactics know-how

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Fri 26 Jan 2024 02:28:21 No.5903760 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
>> Ask Amalia to be the new Commander

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 26 Jan 2024 03:22:31 No.5903794 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
> Ask Linda to remain in the Raiders as its new Commander
It's her strength. Tactics is absolutely her jam.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Fri 26 Jan 2024 03:36:31 No.5903805 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
> Ask Linda to remain in the Raiders as its new Commander
cant see anyone else but linda being stepping up
maybe Amalia if she refuses

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NPW3NT/t Fri 26 Jan 2024 04:06:15 No.5903828 Report

Quoted By:

>>5903738
>>5903741
+1

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 26 Jan 2024 15:14:47 No.5904146 Report

Quoted By: >>5904244

>>5903486
Alright, looking back at the movie at least I am kinda sure it is Mad-Eye. The audience didn't see him die. His body wasn't found. And unless there is a warm body, you just know the character is still alive.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 26 Jan 2024 18:13:10 No.5904244 Report

Quoted By: >>5904289 >>5904316 >>5904321

>>5904146
his body was found, how else would umbridge have been using his eye to spy through a door

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xHbOviyv Fri 26 Jan 2024 19:43:03 No.5904289 Report

Quoted By: >>5904294 >>5904329

>>5904244
wasn't necessarily a killing curse. Could have been written to give him an alibi. Man was paranoid as all shit and still got caught.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 26 Jan 2024 19:54:13 No.5904294 Report

Quoted By: >>5904300 >>5904316

>>5904289
as it says, even if that didn't kill, you can't survive a fall from that far

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:01:29 No.5904300 Report

Quoted By: >>5904302 >>5904329

>>5904294
no way he wasnt prepared for that, he 100% has a way to survive that, there are potions and charms specifically for high falls, there is still a chance he of all wizards managed to clutch that

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:02:49 No.5904302 Report

Quoted By: >>5904329

>>5904300
he had no wand and wasn't expected to be abandoned

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:14:42 No.5904316 Report

Quoted By: >>5904323

>>5904244
>>5904294
But Harry Potter's memoirs (largely aligned with the books as we know them) were redacted and partly fictionalized. He never fought the basilisk, for instance, and we don't know how he got into Gringotts.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NiVwobCv Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:19:04 No.5904321 Report

Quoted By: >>5904323

>>5904244
Harry could just lie about the whole thing. For all we know, Moody might never have been there.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:21:17 No.5904323 Report

Quoted By: >>5904326

>>5904321
>>5904316
you can't really cover up the death of a famous Auror, and why include the bit about his eye being in the Ministry if the whole thing with him was fake?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:22:54 No.5904326 Report

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>>5904323
man, you sure would make a fun DM
do you know about a little something called "the rule of cool"?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 26 Jan 2024 20:25:08 No.5904329 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904300
Yeah. Harry always carries a couple of slowfalls, apparently. If the most paranoid guy in the series didn't, I would be suspicious.

>>5904302
Like >>5904289
said, might be that this, like half of the crap known about Harry's story, it is BS. IDK, I don't really have a much better guess to who our tutor would be, unless it is an OC. I am not super invested in it, aside from the fact Moody was a personal inspiration to me when I was younger.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 26 Jan 2024 22:14:56 No.5904408 Report

Quoted By: >>5904560

>>5902976
We don't know 100 percent what the status of Arty's and Apollo's parents were. If they are half-bloods, pure-bloods, ect. From what we know, they lived with an adult male, who may have been their dad or maybe a relative of one parent or another, and the never met their mom. It is possible mom died in childbirth with Arty. It is also possible she just ran off, or like I proposed before, was a criminal and is now rotting in jail. The wizard government, being the fuckfaces they are, might have chosen to not ever tell the twins about that because they believed it was more kind. IDK, there is not enough info to deduce it with certainty.

How ever we can probably count on their caretaker being dad or at worst a close relative of their parents. There is no way in fuck a modern western society is giving a couple of young kids to a random male with no wife and a poor economic situation unless he was related to them. Honestly, it is hard enough to get custody of your child in a divorce if you are a guy.

I think the "caretaker" must have had to take the kids to the doctor at least once, had to get them in the system. I think if who ever took care of them had been a wizard, they wouldn't have been starving. The Weasley's were depicted as comically poor for wizards and I don't think we ever heard about Ron going hungry.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 27 Jan 2024 02:35:42 No.5904560 Report

Quoted By: >>5904666

>>5904408
>There is no way in fuck a modern western society is giving a couple of young kids to a random male with no wife and a poor economic situation unless he was related to them.
The Wizard Britain is not exactly a 'modern western society' by most metrics, though.

>The Weasley's were depicted as comically poor for wizards and I don't think we ever heard about Ron going hungry.
They were still one of the Sacred 28, though. I think they may have just been poor by the standards of their fellow wizard-nobility. Voldemort's mom was a witch, but he was implied to have a real shit house and upbringing, right?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:02:37 No.5904611 Report

Quoted By: >>5904613

Heads up that I won't be able to post tomorrow, so y'all will need to go without an update for a bit.

--

“It doesn’t have to be me,” you say, shaking your head. “It shouldn’t be me. It’s like Potter said. There are people who are better at leading, and there are people who are better elsewhere. And if this thing really ends up with an army fighting another… Then I should be using my voice to cast spells, not give orders. Potter didn’t choose me because I was the best suited in class. He chose me, he chose all four of us, because he thought we were holding ourselves back, because it would give us the chance to grow or fail. And you need to have that chance, too.”

“Me?” She scoffs. “I don’t know how to lead people. I don’t know how to give your speeches.”

“Then learn, commander. Because that’s what leaders do. And if Linda can’t do it… Then maybe Raven can. After all, maybe she can find a ritual to summon a demon on one of those many Lost Worlds she’ll raid.”

Linda is still shuffling in her seat when the night falls and the tavern fills up. Doesn’t take long for you to see the faces you’re looking for, arriving with different groups. You signal them, and soon you have all four of your lieutenants sitting with you.

“Talon, Elend, Amalia. I have something to tell you.” You hesitate. It’s harder than you thought it would be. You’re proud of what you built with your army, and giving it up, even if it is to Linda, is still difficult. “When the battles return in three weeks… I won’t be your commander anymore.”

“What!?” The three say, in varying degrees of exasperation.

“I got an offer to do… something different, that I can’t give the details of. You all know how I love the Raiders, and I wouldn’t do this if there wasn’t a good reason. But it’s going to take a lot of my time, and it wouldn’t be fair to you or the other soldiers if I were to keep on trying to do both things together, because I’d just be doing both of them half-assed, and that’s not something you deserve. I’ll see if I can manage to stay as a soldier, at least initially so I can give tips, but if things get too heavy I’ll give that up too.”

“Damn, commander,” Talon says. “Must be one hell of an opportunity.”

“I certainly hope it is. It might also be a complete fluke and I’ll regret ever mentioning it to you, but we’ll see.” You sigh. “You three were great lieutenants, and I couldn’t have asked for anyone better. My only regret is that you couldn’t be in the Mirror room with me. You all deserved that prize just as much as me, and I couldn’t have done it without you.”

“I can’t say I’m happy to see you step down, commander,” Elend says, with a nod and a smile. “But I’m happy to know it’s because you found something even better to do.”

[Cont]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:03:38 No.5904613 Report

Quoted By: >>5904614

>>5904611

“I’m leaving Linda in my place. I hope you will treat her as well as you treated her, at least while she’s learning the ropes,” you give them a wink. “If she’s still bad after a month, you have my permission to shoot her in the back and take over.”

“You are aware,” Amalia says, smirking. “That now if you want to go back to being the commander you will have to beat all of us in combat, and that we will all join forces to stomp you, right?”

“I expect nothing less, lieutenant,” you say.

“Very well, Elliot,” Then turning to Linda, “So, commander, when do we start training for our new battles?”

Linda looks a bit lost at first, as if she doesn't know what to do. She opens her mouth, then closes it, then… There is a change. Something in her eyes, in the way she holds herself, as if suddenly she had more energy, more fire inside her.

You look away, because seeing a lost friend again hurts more than you thought it would.

“This Thursday, lieutenant,” Raven says, voice precise and sharp. “And don’t you think of being late. There are still far too many lost secrets we haven’t explored, and I don’t want a single soldier slacking while the Necronomicon still hides in some forgotten ruin out there.”

--

Once the trio leaves, Linda deflates a bit.

“That was harder than I remember,” she says. “It’s easier when it’s just in my head.”

“Everyone has different faces. Some take more effort to put on than others. And if you don’t like that one, you can always change it.”

“No, I do like it, but… I’m not that person anymore. I don’t know if I ever was or if I just desperately wanted to be.”

“Linda, we’ve been friends for long enough that I can call you on your bullshit. And that’s bullshit. You were Raven, and now that part is… somewhere else. But still inside of you, still a part of you, just not in control all the time. Doesn’t mean it can’t come up for air every now and then. Doesn’t mean you can forbid it from showing up, if it hurts for it to do so.” You sigh. “I’m sorry, I feel like I sprung that on you. No, I did spring that on you, no two ways about it.”

“No,” she shakes her head. “You were right. Raven’s still there. She’s still fun to… be. Just not all the time. But if I keep hiding from her, if I keep hiding from me just because it hurts to remember some things… I don’t see how that takes me to a good place.”

“So you’ll be the new commander? There’s still time to take it back, I think I can obliviate the three of them from here if you ask me to.”

She laughs. “No, I don’t think that’ll be necessary.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:04:40 No.5904614 Report

Quoted By: >>5904633 >>5904641 >>5904661 >>5904666 >>5904720 >>5904747 >>5904825 >>5905490

>>5904613

It’s during Monday’s lunch that the announcement comes.

“It is with great regret that I must announce our search for Taylor Cycad has not led us to a guilty party,” Draco says to the Great Hall, Scorpius by his side. “We have found much, but it will take time for us to fully comprehend our discoveries and investigate the clues we have found in our search. As to no longer bother the students now that classes have resumed, the Board of Governors has decided to pull back the investigation forces so aurors from the Ministry can continue the investigation of the available evidence without hampering your studies, while House Malfoy can return to its philanthropic endeavors. In the name of the Board and of House Malfoy, I would like to thank you all for the help and hospitality.”

“Well,” you say once the hush-hush is over. “At least one less problem.”

“No,” Linda says. “All we got is that we don’t know where Scorpius is now.”

“As long as he’s far away from Arty… That’s more than I could ask for.”

So a new week starts. What will you do with your free time? (Pick two)

> Research the Fifth Founder
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:18:44 No.5904633 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904614
>> Research the Fifth Founder
>> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:27:35 No.5904641 Report

Quoted By: >>5904661 >>5904679 >>5905490

>>5904614
>Research the Fifth Founder
>Other (Write in): Start brewing stamina potions
we might need those in bulks if the training is as tough as it seems is gonna be

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 27 Jan 2024 04:01:59 No.5904661 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904641
+1

>>5904614

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 27 Jan 2024 04:07:21 No.5904666 Report

Quoted By: >>5904673 >>5904679

>>5904614
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
>Transfiguration

> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)

That was kind of sweet QM. I have been in bad spots in the past and people had helped me. Asked me to step up, be the person that once helped me become friends with them, that had made them want to be part of my life. And Raven motherfucking Everdark is the baddest bitch and the darkest witch in Britain. She is going to sweep the next season of battles.

>>5904560
They had a nice house that was probably inherited for several generations but Molly was a stay at home mom with a Quiddich team worth of kids. Her husband worked for the Ministry in a department that a lot of people thought was kind of a joke. The Weasley kids either wore secondhand clothes or handmade ones. Ron had to work with a broken wand for a good while and when he first met Harry, he didn't have enough wizard cash to buy stuff from the cart on the Hogwarts express.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 27 Jan 2024 04:12:29 No.5904673 Report

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>>5904666
Fair, fair. I'm sure we'll learn more about their history and origins when Arty feels more comfortable opening up to us about her own desire to learn more.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 27 Jan 2024 04:14:52 No.5904679 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904641
>Other (Write in): Start brewing stamina potions

That is pretty fucking smart. We need to be stock piling potions anyway.

>>5904666
I will switch studying potions to making some.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 27 Jan 2024 05:00:59 No.5904720 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904614
> Research the Fifth Founder
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xvKrpw4t Sat 27 Jan 2024 06:00:04 No.5904747 Report

Quoted By: >>5905490

>>5904614
> Research the Fifth Founder
> Other (Create stamina potions)

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 27 Jan 2024 07:25:10 No.5904825 Report

Quoted By: >>5905505

>>5904614
Wait so are they leaving? Please tell me they’re leaving, I can’t take any more of Salazar’s bullshit right now.
>Research the Fifth Founder
Start brewing stamina potions

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Anonymous ID:Guif0Wos Sat 27 Jan 2024 21:43:27 No.5905490 Report

Quoted By:

>>5904747
>>5904641
>>5904614
>support

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 27 Jan 2024 21:46:58 No.5905494 Report

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I am going to go ahead and also recommend something from the anime Goblin Slayer since it seems like beginning to stock up on potions for the future. Start wrapping the bottles we put them with twine or thin rope in distinctive patterns on the necks of them or specific knots so we can identify them by feel when pulling them from our pack. Maybe differently shaped vials.

We don't want to have to try and search around for a Slowfall among our other stuff if we get tossed from a Hogwarts tower or accidentally drink an Erumpent instead of a Girding potion in a fight.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 27 Jan 2024 22:03:46 No.5905505 Report

Quoted By: >>5905740

>>5904825
You know what would be really fucked? Scorpius polyjuicing into some rando to stick around after we think he is gone. I think Potter would probably notice him pretty quick with the Marauder's Map, so unlikely but you just know the fact Scorpius is a potion's guy is gonna come up.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Sun 28 Jan 2024 01:17:45 No.5905740 Report

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>>5905505
actually, now that you mention it, it may not be a bad idea to ask potter to double check if they are actually gonne with the map and also double check our room for more tracking stuff

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 28 Jan 2024 06:16:33 No.5906183 Report

Quoted By: >>5906186 >>5906700

I was reading through a bit of the 1st thread and saw this:

>“And,” he says, with a grin. “The student with the best grades in each year will be allowed, if they so wish, to have a no-holds-barred, one-on-one fight against the boy-who-lived, to truly test your skill. Thank you.”

Should we cash in that offer? Elliot's army won had the most points and he himself mad it to the final door with the Mirror in it. We should have the highest grade. Knowing how far behind we are would be useful. Granted he might not have made that offer in our current timeline. Still something kinda interesting to do, since we won't be planning for battles.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sun 28 Jan 2024 06:19:27 No.5906186 Report

Quoted By:

>>5906183
I can back that.

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Anonymous ID:Guif0Wos Sun 28 Jan 2024 18:44:09 No.5906700 Report

Quoted By:

>>5906183
Smart
>support

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 29 Jan 2024 06:22:48 No.5907414 Report

Quoted By: >>5907418 >>5907663

You, Apollo, Arty and Linda make your way down the secret passage to the secret library, but stop short when you hear voices coming from within the room with the ruined portraits. A very precise scottish accent, who seems disappointed.

“-is frightening. To think a headmistress would hide such a thing below the school. It’s irresponsible!”

“Albus stored the Philosopher’s Stone in the school with the express purpose of attracting a Dark Lord to it, Minerva,” Potter’s voice says. "I don't think that could be exactly considered 'safe'."

“And I gave him several earfuls about it! It was irresponsible then, too!”

“Well, whatever the cage contained, it was eliminated harmlessly.”

“Harmlessly making one of the students disappear, apparently!”

“For that amount of goblin silver to be that corrupted… Yes. That it was undone by a sixth-year with only another sixth-year losing their life is astounding. I’ve never seen anything like that in all my time as auror. I’m sending some of it to Bill, see if he can use his contacts on Gringotts to learn more about it.”

“Unlikely. Goblins have never been too keen on helping humans.”

“They’ve been pretty friendly to me ever since I fixed that quirk in their waterfall. I mean, friendlier. I don’t think they’ll ever really forgive me for having outsmarted them. But I’m hoping me and Bill together can convince them to talk.”

“Are you sure… Are you sure there was no dark deed committed here? Are you sure there was no… Dark sacrifice, or dark art to use whatever power was in that cage?”

“I’m sure of nothing. But Fawkes helped him. That’s enough for me to give him the benefit of the doubt.”

“Phoenixes are not infallible,” McGonagall says, sharp.

“No, but they’re pretty damn good. In any case, the Unspeakables say the prophecy will be done soon. Once that happens we may have more clues to what is really going on.”

“Or we may not have anything at all. You know how unhelpful and ambiguous prophecies can be.”

“We’ll wait and see. I’m finished over here, are you done with that part?”

“Just a couple seconds more.”

You pull back, dashing down the corridor to an empty room and waiting until you hear a pair of footsteps pass by.

“Well, that was something.”

“What do you think they were doing?” Linda asks.

“Extending the protections of the castle. As for what was that talk of prophecies… Helga, any ideas?”

“Time is too compressed for prophecies, and it will be for a great while.” You listen and pass on the information to the others. “I’m… unsure what he means.”

“Well, we’ll figure it out when we figure it out. Right now, we need to find out where Avalon is.” You make your way down to the room and, as you expected, you can feel the full extent of Hogwarts’ protections within it. Most notably, the door to the repository cave has been replaced with a solid wall. You spend the time required to open the library, and it’s thankfully still there.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 29 Jan 2024 06:23:50 No.5907418 Report

Quoted By: >>5907422 >>5907426 >>5907427 >>5907493

>>5907414

The thing that you notice is… The protections haven’t been extended to its insides, only up to the door.

“I can apparate here,” you realize.

“What?”

“The anti-apparitions enchantments. I hadn’t even thought about apparition before because I couldn’t do it, but the enchantments don’t extend to this place. In this room… we can apparate outside, or from outside to this room. That’s probably how the owner of this place got in and out without having to go through the whole process of opening it up every time.”

“Think it’ll be useful?”

“I think that once we solve this whole problem I should tell Potter because it’s a hole in security, but… maybe. Once we learn apparition, we don’t have to walk here every time and risk being followed. We can just pretend we’re going to Hogsmeade and vanish from there. ”

“Still plenty of time until we can do that,” Linda says. “I don’t know you, but I couldn’t make apparate an inch off the ground.”

“Same. But we’ll get there. But, for now, we research!”

> Roll a d100+15. Bo3

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 29 Jan 2024 06:27:30 No.5907422 Report

Quoted By: >>5907449 >>5907493

Rolled 62 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5907418

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 29 Jan 2024 06:36:34 No.5907426 Report

Quoted By: >>5907493

Rolled 13 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5907418

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Mon 29 Jan 2024 06:38:24 No.5907427 Report

Quoted By: >>5907493

Rolled 10 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5907418

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cNSzIGZf Mon 29 Jan 2024 07:21:40 No.5907449 Report

Quoted By:

>>5907422
Could be worse.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Mon 29 Jan 2024 09:38:07 No.5907493 Report

Quoted By: >>5907504

>>5907418
>random roll with no info about it
a DnD player's worst nightmare...
>>5907422
>>5907426
>>5907427
>these rolls
fucking hell...

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Mon 29 Jan 2024 10:08:08 No.5907504 Report

Quoted By: >>5907510

>>5907493
>”no info”
>”But, for now, we research!”
>literally the line before asking us to roll

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Mon 29 Jan 2024 10:19:00 No.5907510 Report

Quoted By:

>>5907504
i´ll be honest, i did NOT see that one, thats on me, damn

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 29 Jan 2024 15:07:33 No.5907663 Report

Quoted By:

>>5907414
>In any case, the Unspeakables say the prophecy will be done soon.

Thank is very fucking concerning. We know shit that relies on knowing the future is not working. Helga can't glimpse into it any longer. Felix Felicitus no longer works. The Divination teacher was probably having a breakdown, though if it was Telewrany, she might not have noticed anything was going on. Demiguise's are now retards that you can just walk up to and stun. Potter himself said that the Waterfall of Time in the ministry had stopped flowing.

Granted the last one was before Last Light and we know Potter is willing to half lie if needed.

Might be that a trickle has returned but it is very hard to get anything from. The Unspeakables together might just be better than Helga at this if they work together.

Are these guys crafting a fake prophesy to either scare us into giving something away so Potter has no choice but to let them take us. Or worse, they are lying and just want to frame us?

We have a lot of examples that no, you can't cheat by peering into the future anymore.

We might ask Amalia, since Divination is her thing it she could try to give us a reading.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 29 Jan 2024 21:34:21 No.5907947 Report

Quoted By: >>5907950

You and the others spread out, now without an obvious way forward. Checking Ravenclaw’s book was a likely way to find more about the Fifth Founder (and it was also incredibly enthralling to read her comments about the atlanteans) but even by her own admission she didn’t know where Merlin’s healing lands were.

So you look for other books and comments on Merlin’s life. This library, with its rare books and what not, was probably your best shot at it, but it still proves to be almost impossible to find anything definitive about it. Yes, it is either an island or in an island. Yes, Merlin knew about it. Yes, Arthur was buried in it. Those were pretty much the only facts everyone agreed on. On everything else, it was a debate.

You knew muggles historians believed Glastonbury Tor, or by its ancient name Ynys-witrin, “The Island of Glass”, a great hill near the town of Glastonbury, to be a possible site of Avalon. It had supposedly been in the center of a lake some two thousand years ago, but that connection hadn’t escaped wizards, who had often scoured the area in search of its entrance without success.

So you fruitlessly scour the books and scroll in search of another hint or clue. Almost every island surrounding Britain had someone saying it was Avalon, including one Irish wizard who vehemently claimed that the entirety of Ireland was Avalon, and some who argued that, Merlin being a wizard, there was no need for Avalon to be anywhere close to Britain, and so that Avalon was actually in Fiji.

“This is hopeless.”

“Oh, come on, Elliot. You didn’t expect finding Arthur’s Grave would just take a couple of afternoons, did you?” Linda asks.

The sad thing is, you sort of did. It just seemed natural that, yes, once you decided to actually go after the ancient and lost places of Earth, they would just sort of reveal themselves to you through a mix of coincidence and odd hunches, followed by running around, frantically searching for an ancient tome in your great library while your assistant repeatedly asked what you were doing while you ignored them, only for you to open the book at exactly the right page and read a random passage that showed that, yes, the Holy Grail was actually that one old sippy-cup your grandma had lying around in her cupboard.

Unfortunately, reality wasn’t an Indiana Jones movie, of which there were only three as you refused to acknowledge the existence of the new ones.

So time passes as your research takes you nowhere, and you have to leave the library frustrated.

“It’s fine,” Arty says, sliding under your arm. “We’ll find it. Just have to work hard on it.”

“I know. I know. It’s just that Slytherin isn’t about hard work and actually putting in the effort. Slytherin is about clever tricks and sly solutions. But I don’t think there will be a clever trick that won’t also require loads of hard work.”

“Lucky for you that your girlfriend is a Hufflepuff, then.”

“Lucky indeed.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 29 Jan 2024 21:35:23 No.5907950 Report

Quoted By: >>5907951 >>5908433

>>5907947

While Arty and Apollo have their own homework to do, Linda accompanies you in the dungeons as you brew two cauldrons of smelly liquids.

“What are you even doing?” She asks, looking up from her book on goblin rebellions.

“Girding Potions for endurance in this one,” you say, adding a serving of toasted dragonfly thoraxes, making it turn a deep purple. “Developing Solution in that one.”

“I get the Girding potion, but why the other one?”

“Because I have to take a semi-nude picture of myself for Arty” is exactly the answer you don’t give her. Instead, you simply say, “I figure that if we do find Avalon, we’ll want some damn pictures.”

“Do you even own a camera?”

“Planning to buy one next time we head to Hogsmead.”

“Are you sure you’re not just going to use it to owl Arty a picture of your junk?”

“I don’t think that’s quite acceptable in wizard culture,” you say, with a carefully measured tone of voice.

“It isn’t acceptable in muggle culture and people do it all the time. Also, that wasn’t a no.”

“No, I’m not planning on sending a picture of my privates to Arty.”

“You sure? She sounds kinky, maybe she’d enjoy it.”

“You really need to pick a side of the argument and stick with it.”

“But playing both sides is so much more fun!”

“Anyway, these potions should last us a month or two. Keeping them in my pouch if we need to rush somewhere like in Last Light.”

“Figured you’d go with something with a little more bang.”

“Erumpent is less stable, I’d need to spend some time tweaking it if I was to store it for months instead of days, otherwise I’d have a ticking time bomb in my pocket. This is for emergencies, not planned excursions.”

“Should we just… Buy C4?”

“What?”

“I mean… It’s a good explosive. Stable, too. If we find a rock that’s too big, we can’t just transfigure it away,” she says. And it is true, you can only transfigure a whole thing, not part of it, so if something was too big for you to have completely enveloped by your magic, you simply couldn’t transfigure it. That was why you couldn’t transfigure a hole in Hogwarts’ walls without transfiguring the whole castle. “Having some plastic explosives could be useful.”

“First, that’s what Reducto is for. Second, yeah, stable to physical shock! I have no idea if it’s stable against magic and if it isn’t just going to explode the moment we come close to Hogwarts!”

“We can always just try transfiguring a little bit of it.”

“And violate every rule of transfiguration in the process. The headmistress would expel you on the spot if she heard you saying that.”

“Well,” she says, grinning. “A girl can dream.”

--

It’s Friday, and after a frustrating apparition class, you enter Potter’s office.

“Professor? Me and Arty… We’ll take the tutoring.”

“Figured as much when I heard the Raiders were under new management. But the Sunshine Army is still under Ms. Pertinger’s command, no?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 29 Jan 2024 21:36:25 No.5907951 Report

Quoted By: >>5908009 >>5908019 >>5908030 >>5908059 >>5908069

>>5907950

“She… She’s going to try to juggle all of it. All of it.”

“Have you tried talking her out of it?”

“Trust me," you say, sighing. "I have. Still, she says she doesn’t want to give anything up.”

“Well, good luck to her. In any case I’ll let your tutor know. Meet me here monday after dinner so I can take you to them.”

“Thanks, I will.”

And an idea comes to mind. Potter did say the student with the best grades Battle Class in each year would be allowed to fight against him. He probably meant at the end of the year, but… Maybe you could take your chances, ask to see just how much better you still had to become if you were to ever dream to be as good as an auror who had survived long enough to become good instead of lucky.

> Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting
> Some things are better left unknown, your ego better left unhurt and your body better left unstomped by his auror training

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 29 Jan 2024 22:37:37 No.5908009 Report

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>>5907951
>Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Mon 29 Jan 2024 22:45:51 No.5908019 Report

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>>5907951
>Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting
if wegonna get fucked up, best to do it in a safe(ish) environment, nobody said that research can come without pain

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Mon 29 Jan 2024 22:52:58 No.5908030 Report

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>>5907951
> Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting
No pain no gain.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 29 Jan 2024 23:16:57 No.5908059 Report

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>>5907951
> Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting

Lily had a fucking +45 before even using Salazar's power at the end. I would like to know what her dad can pull. Helga said way back when if he ever learned too much, we would probably have to kill him, so might as well see how close we are to being able to do that.

I mean he is going to mop the floor with us unless we get like triple 100s on our opposed rolls, but we know that.

While Arty remains undefeated as best girl, Linda/Raven is still great. I love a girl who is more than happy to use explosives to fix her problems. If the issue can't be solved with them, the issue is just not having enough RDX. She is going kill it in the army battle.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 29 Jan 2024 23:29:52 No.5908069 Report

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>>5907951
> Ask Potter to battle him. If things ever go downhill and you need to face him, you should know what you’re fighting
Maybe we can ask him for another duel once our tutoring is over to see just how much better Elliot has gotten.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:14:26 No.5908348 Report

Quoted By: >>5908351 >>5908361 >>5908364

“Uh, professor, before I go… Since we are going to train so much with someone that is apparently so good… Would it be possible for me to test my current skills? Against you, sir?”

He raises an eyebrow.

“I mean, you said the person with the highest grade in the year could do it, and I know you meant at the end of the year, but if I’m no longer the commander…”

He grins.

“Elliot, I assure you that testing my skill will absolutely render your life quite surreal.”

“I’m aware, professor. But I’d like to know how far someone can push themselves.”

“Very well, then. As long as you’re aware of how this is going to end.”

“Oh, I have no illusions that I’ll win. I’m just hoping to get at least a hit in before you end me.”

“Heh. Sure,” he says. “Then let us go to the Room of Requirement. Only place in the school we’re guaranteed to not have an audience.”

You turn to leave and-

You’re on the floor. When did you get on the floor?

“You just challenged someone to a fight and then turned your back to them,” he says, a grin in his voice. “Surely you had to expect a shot in the back?”

“Sorry,” you say, standing up and dusting off. “I forgot who I was dealing with.”

“I suppose you want a second duel?”

“Yes, please.”

A few minutes later, you’re in the great battle amphitheater the Room has turned itself into. There are great pieces of debris and old furniture thrown around, making for good cover. You each stand several paces away from each other.

“Please, Elliot,” Potter says, the 11-inch holly wand still in its holster on his hip. “Feel free to begin at your leisure.”

> Roll a d100+28. Beat 2 out of 3

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:15:31 No.5908351 Report

Quoted By: >>5908378

Rolled 67 + 28 (1d100 + 28)

>>5908348

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:20:38 No.5908361 Report

Quoted By: >>5908378

Rolled 36 + 28 (1d100 + 28)

>>5908348
fucking smug bastard...

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:22:20 No.5908364 Report

Quoted By: >>5908378

Rolled 15 + 28 (1d100 + 28)

>>5908348
He's going to have a +90 or something isn't he.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:30:24 No.5908378 Report

Quoted By: >>5908390 >>5908393 >>5908425

Rolled 61, 47, 75, 24 + 80 = 287 (4d100 + 80)

>>5908351
>>5908361
>>5908364

95 68 43

Not a fantastic start, I'm afraid.

>>5908364
Not quite.

Harry Potter's Power - Chosen By Fate:
In any Battle Roll, Potter may roll 4 dice, swap the order of 2 of them, and then use the first 3 dice as his roll.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:40:01 No.5908390 Report

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>>5908378
Oh shit. Hopefully we never have to fight him for real.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Tue 30 Jan 2024 03:41:14 No.5908393 Report

Quoted By: >>5908433

>>5908378
>+80
>Harry Potter's Power - Chosen By Fate:
In any Battle Roll, Potter may roll 4 dice, swap the order of 2 of them, and then use the first 3 dice as his roll.
he wasnt even that good when he was young, what the actual shit?!

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 30 Jan 2024 04:04:12 No.5908425 Report

Quoted By: >>5908435

>>5908378
About what I expected as far as Harry was concerned. We have quite a bit to go. I hope as our skill grows and connection to Helga strengthens, we might get an upgrade which lets us rearrage our rolls. Hell it would be an amazing power up even if it was limited to the first 2 results. I know being able to juice our bonus up by 25 is still baller, especially since Helga has the capacity to use it on stuff not strictly related to fighting but still. A boy can dream.

And I will go ahead and call it. Salazar isn't going to be the final boss. We are going to end up having to throw down with Potter.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 30 Jan 2024 04:12:26 No.5908433 Report

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>>5907950
Aww, snarky lewd banter Linda/Raven is back!

>>5908393
Not in the 'official' version of the story, but it also edited out some of his apparently MOST remarkable feats (sneaking into Gringotts by as-yet-undisclosed means that made the entire race of goblins simultaneously loathe and respect him) and added in feats of grand heroism that apparently actually NEVER DID happen, like fighting the Basilisk (he found it dead, killed by Voldemort).

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 30 Jan 2024 04:13:46 No.5908435 Report

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>>5908425
Forgot my image.

QM, do we know enough about our friends to know what their bonuses are by this point? I know we are going to be better than Arty but I am curious about Linda and our brother-in-law.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:30:27 No.5909580 Report

Quoted By: >>5909591

Wonder what boss is cooking for this update.

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:34:09 No.5909591 Report

Quoted By: >>5909597 >>5909682

>>5909580
most likely just the legendary tier ass whooping we are about to receive

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:40:57 No.5909597 Report

Quoted By: >>5909682

>>5909591
at least we don't have to worry about his power of fucking with the dice until he gets a shit roll

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 31 Jan 2024 04:35:09 No.5909682 Report

Quoted By: >>5909695 >>5909707

>>5909591
Watch the fight ends in like 2 lines because we didn't even see how we lost.

Or maybe he Expeliarmus' our wand out of Elliot's hand and just keeps juggling it with more, like a party trick, before depulso-ing us across the room. Bastard Potter.

>>5909597
Don't think we have to worry about anything this time since we just go bodied.

I would laugh if he turned out to be our tutor and he just wanted to fuck with Elliot.

I have been keeping an eye out of what I kinda think Arty looks like, and I feel like picrel is close, for the body type at least. Hair is somewhat similar, aside from color and the strands on the side. Character is also a poor and a dork about what she loves.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 31 Jan 2024 04:48:49 No.5909695 Report

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>>5909682
>not a shortstack
Unacceptable headcanon.

Also, just for the record, one out of every five posts (or slightly more) in this thread is yours, and slightly more than one out of every 8 images. I'm not sure whether to be afraid or impressed.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Wed 31 Jan 2024 04:59:18 No.5909707 Report

Quoted By: >>5909831

>>5909682
>not a shortstack
Unacceptable headcanon.
Also, just for the record, one 1 of every 5 posts (or slightly more) in this thread is yours, and slightly more than 8 out of every 10 images. I'm not sure whether to be afraid or impressed.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 31 Jan 2024 07:21:35 No.5909831 Report

Quoted By: >>5909934 >>5913655

>>5909707
I am extremely board after quitting my job, I like to respond to people and try to build some engagement, and, for reasons, I might have to go away for a decent time in the near future. Besides, QM is only posting once a day-ish now.

I really only like this quest and 2 others so gotta make the most of it.

Shortstacks are wack. Demi-loli is the new hotness.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Wed 31 Jan 2024 08:18:06 No.5909873 Report

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https://youtu.be/p2uZ4WeU1_4

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Anonymous ID:2IEDKekS Wed 31 Jan 2024 09:44:00 No.5909934 Report

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>>5909831
>spoiler

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Anonymous ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 31 Jan 2024 23:22:04 No.5910903 Report

Quoted By: >>5910904 >>5911120

“Stupefy!” You say, firing a red bolt at him, which he simply side-steps.

“Really?” He says, sounding almost insulted. “Starting with the most basic of spells? Come on, you can do better than that!”

“Bombarda!” You shout, aiming not at him, but the stone behind him, hoping to throw him forward. But he sees it coming, and by the time the spell hits he’s already taken cover behind another piece of debris. You aim at the one you saw him duck behind, “Reducto!” But he’s not there anymore.

“Very exciting!” He shouts from somewhere. “Got anything I haven’t seen a thousand times?”

“Sorry, I’m not carrying a stack of potions with me at the time,” you shout back, searching for him. “Didn’t really plan this fight, the idea just came to me at the moment.”

“Good. Then can I start fighting?” He asks, smugly.

You take a deep breath.

“Go ahead.”

Potter appears from behind a rock not two meters away from you, a rock which he should have had no way of getting to, and starts casting spells. You have seen a bloodthirsty, Salazar-enhanced Lily fight against three wizards at once, and it was nothing compared to what Potter does. It doesn’t feel like fighting like a person, it feels like fighting a fundamental force of nature. There are no gaps, no openings. The moment he fires the first spell, it falls on another, and another. He spins and dances, reducing you to a mess of parries and blocks and dodges with no time to breathe.

And, still, you feel like he’s playing with you. You know for certain that, if he wanted to, he could have already crushed you.

He uses no clever tricks, no advanced techniques. There are no control spells, nothing to restrict your movement or block your escape, it’s just one offensive spell after the other, again and again and again. He isn’t even trying to be subtle.

“I can barrel through you,” it says. “Through sheer brute force alone.”

“Reneo!” Purple flames jump from his wand and you jump to the side, not knowing the spell or if your shields can block it. You fall on your chest, painfully. “Ifullia Lumina!” The tip of his wand glows intensely for an instant before a thin beam of white opens a deep, millimeter-wide hole in the place your hand was an instant before. You roll out of the way, no time to stand up, your back slamming against a wall. “Crataza Etera!”

You look in horror as a meter wide glowing net springs from Potter’s wand. There’s no time to speak, as you just think with every piece of your mind “Carpe Retractum!” And the spell pulls you along the floor. The edge of the spell catches your right foot, however, and you feel as the pain shoots up from your foot and explodes in your head, your every muscle contracting as you slide across the floor and crash against a stack of boxes, pushing the air out of your lungs.

When the Expelliarmus hits you, you don’t have the strength to dodge it.

[Cont.]

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Anonymous ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 31 Jan 2024 23:23:06 No.5910904 Report

Quoted By: >>5910906 >>5910957

>>5910903

“Fucking… Merlin… Mother… fucker…” you manage to spit out, gasping for air.

“Language. I’m still your teacher.”

“I don’t think teachers are supposed to beat up their students like that,” you say, slowly getting up clutching your stomach. “What on earth were those last spells?”

“If you don’t like getting beat up, you’ll hate your new teacher. As for those spells, they’re three potentially lethal little tricks, if you hadn’t done the right thing and dodged them, or if I had actually aimed them at where you were. Never try to block unknown spells if you can dodge them. For every shield out there, there’s a spell that goes right through it. And, of course, there’s a particular green one that goes through every shield.”

“Don’t worry, if someone casts the killing curse at me, I’ll just summon you in front of it. I hear you’re pretty good at stopping them.” You pick up your wand from the floor. “I think I broke a rib. Again.”

“Madam Pomfrey can fix you right up. So, how do you think your skills fare against mine?”

“Like crap, that’s how.”

“For a sixth year without auror training, you did well. Don’t worry, you’ll get beaten into shape in no time. And by no time I mean several months.”

--

Another weekend, another trip to Hogsmeade, another Occlumency class.

“Very well, Elliot. Took me a while to find a path through your defenses this time,” Constance says, putting her wand away. “Sometimes it takes a while of not working on something to return to it being renovated. I don’t remember our other sessions, but from what I saw in your memories Christmas has done that for you.”

“Thanks,” you say. Then you see her squirming, and you sigh. “Go ahead, you’ve asked me before.”

“Is… Is it really Helga?” Asks the woman, who had been sorted into Hufflepuff when she’d been at Hogwarts.

“As far as I can tell, yes.”

“Well, it’s a pleasure to meet you again, milady,” she says, bowing her head slightly. “If you ever do regain your body, it would be an honor to meet you and remember it.”

You leave the room and after a man obliviates Constance, Linda goes in, Arty and Apollo having already gone as Arty needs to get to work earlier. You take the time to go to a nearby store and buy a camera. You buy the least expensive one, along with an “Ultra-compressed 1000 pictures film” to slot into it. There are ones which have a slot for you to fill with Developing Solution, but they cost ten times as much and use the brand’s proprietary Developing Solution, so you stick with the regular one. Takes longer to get the picture developed, but at least you still have money for the rest of the year.

[Cont.]

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Anonymous ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 31 Jan 2024 23:24:07 No.5910906 Report

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>>5910904

Once that’s done, you head to the Three Broomsticks, where Apollo has saved you a table by the window where you can use the time to catch up with homework in peace. Linda arrives soon, and the three of you work on Flitwick’s latest assignment while Arty skates around the place serving people. You honestly have no idea how she manages to work and take care of her school duties and be a commander in the armies. And now she’s going to have even more to deal with.

You know something will have to give eventually, but you don’t know what.

Still, the day passes and you make your way back to Hogwarts once her shift is over. You’re halfway back to Hogwarts when your Sneakoscope goes off. Immediately, you form a circle pointing your wands outwards. The road is empty, no one close to you four.

“Revelio!”

Nothing shows up. The temperature drops sharply, and the sounds of critters all around you stop.

“Ah ah ah… Do you really think your three little friends can help you, Little Elliot?” You don’t recognize the voice, but the message is certainly from Scorpius. It could even be him with a spell to modify his tone, for all you know. The voice seems to come from right behind you, no matter where you’re looking at, and you scan the area around, searching for any sign of movement. “Do you know how many times I had the chance to kill you, just this day?”

“Yeah? Why didn’t you?” You ask, turning, trying to find any hint of movement.

“Because I want the Stone, Little Elliot. And you’re going to bring it to me.”

> Portkey out of here before he can say another word
> “Really? What makes you so sure?”
> “Killing a Hogwarts student? You’ll bring the whole ministry down on you.”
> “I thought the Malfoys had honor, Scorpius. Nothing honorable about hiding in the dark and threatening children,”
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Wed 31 Jan 2024 23:36:50 No.5910923 Report

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>>5910906
sonovabitch...
> Portkey out of here before he can say another word
if he wont kil us, he is definitely going for Arty, lets get the fuck out of here NOW!

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Anonymous ID:mdpbIJQl Wed 31 Jan 2024 23:54:39 No.5910944 Report

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>>5910906
> “I thought the Malfoys had honor, Scorpius. Nothing honorable about hiding in the dark and threatening children,”
Double meaning, we keep playing at the charade, and appeal to Scorpius' better nature.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 00:00:35 No.5910957 Report

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>>5910904
>There are ones which have a slot for you to fill with Developing Solution, but they cost ten times as much and use the brand’s proprietary Developing Solution
kek

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 00:01:52 No.5910959 Report

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>>5910906
>> Portkey out of here before he can say another word
we need to GTFO

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 01 Feb 2024 00:16:21 No.5910987 Report

Quoted By: >>5911058 >>5911123

>>5910906
>"And if I don't give you the answer, what? You're going to kill more children? Scorpius, you're really okay with this?!"
Drive a wedge.

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Thu 01 Feb 2024 01:36:04 No.5911058 Report

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>>5910906
>>5910987
+1

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 01 Feb 2024 01:49:51 No.5911072 Report

Quoted By: >>5911120 >>5911123 >>5911294 >>5911301

>>5910906
>"I don't know who you are or why you want a bloody stone, but if you keep this up, I'll find the damned thing you want and smash it right in front of you! Leave me and my friends alone, and stop threatening children, you freak!"
Keep up. The act.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 01 Feb 2024 02:47:25 No.5911120 Report

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>>5910906
>The voice seems to come from right behind you

First things first, see if he hasn't planted the wizard equivalent of a wireless speaker on us. Or rather one of his goons. That way he has an alibi, one where her is nowhere near Hogsmead and can't be involved. We have already seen how good enough wizards like Hermione's secret service goon, can hide completely from us. No way in fuck he is actually here. To easy for Potter to connect it directly to him. I think it is either that or a goon with a voice changer.

>>5911072
Support.

Along with Apollo sending a patronus directly to Potter. I think he can apirate out of his office to us due to him being able to modify the Hogwarts enchantments. Send up a Lumos Solem ourselves. Someone will see it in Hogsmead at the least. Possibly channel Helga before hand with our friends blocking as many lines of sight into the forest as possible, in case an observer sees and reports it to Malfoy.

If there is a universal color for wizard sparks that means "dark wizards, need help", like a SOS, we could use that instead.

>>5910903
Not sure if we have the juice, but I want those spells. Potter showed them to us for a reason.

I think the Portkeys need to be for a situation where someone is literally about to die. They are a single time get out of jail free card.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 01 Feb 2024 02:52:22 No.5911123 Report

Quoted By: >>5911145

>>5911072
Fair, modifying >>5910987 to support this and the patronus plan from >>5911120

>>5910906
I DON'T want to send a public 'dark wizard SOS' though, since that will be sued by our highly-placed enemies and well-meaning antagonists-of-circumsatnce alike to monitor everything around here FAR more closely. Potter is enough. He had to be.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 01 Feb 2024 03:14:54 No.5911145 Report

Quoted By: >>5911149

>>5911123
True enough about SOS. And even Potter can't make it here himself, I feel like there has to be one dude in Hogsmead who he know and has been told if you notice anything like giant balls of sunlight popping up on the road to Hogwarts, maybe check it out. Lumos Solem also gives them the location to pop into. Someone like our Battle Teacher who is supposed to be there on Monday.

I am a little worried it getting cold might mean there is a pet dementor around but the patronus should help when cast and when it returns. Having Apollo maintain it after it returns might be smart, but we lose out on him being able to pull his cool transfiguration shit like the giant stone pillars and coffin from Battle 3.

If this shit is going to happen every damn weekend, Arty is honestly being kinda self centered by wanting to keep working. She is putting herself, her brother, the boy she loves, and her friend in danger for wagie pay.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 01 Feb 2024 03:24:16 No.5911149 Report

Quoted By: >>5911270

>>5911145
>second spoiler
She has a short and cursed life, and is already risking shortening it still further by being with us. She deserves to be able to do the stuff she cares about If we can avoid taking her pleasures in life from her, including a sense of capability and self-sufficiency which she gets from work, we should.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:08:02 No.5911270 Report

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>>5911149
Don't get me wrong, I voted to have her keep working, though I didn't expect this to a monster of the week kinda deal. And I do think the harder path is more fun and has better benefits. Like I don't know if we would have got the Portkeys if we choose differently. Besides, anything Arty wants, she gets. It might end up, however, her stubborn pride gets her and us in trouble.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:27:31 No.5911294 Report

Quoted By: >>5911295

>>5911072
we're trying to be less suspicious, not MORE suspicious, we got the portkeys for exactly this kind of situation

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:29:03 No.5911295 Report

Quoted By: >>5911297

>>5911294
What about my write-in makes you think it's in any way more suspicious? It's keeping up the act of ignorance to reduce suspicion. It's acting like a normal kid would when confronted in such a manner. A normal kid wouldn't have a portkey toering. I think that's best reserved for when we really need to use it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:31:08 No.5911297 Report

Quoted By: >>5911298

>>5911295
that's the least convincing possible way of keeping it up, it makes it extremely obvious we know

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:32:03 No.5911298 Report

Quoted By: >>5911300

>>5911297
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, because I really don't think you're right about that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:33:31 No.5911300 Report

Quoted By:

>>5911298
it literally sounds like we're trying to hide something

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 01 Feb 2024 05:34:32 No.5911301 Report

Quoted By:

>>5911072
I support this. Not because I think he'll believe us but because I'm pretty sure us stubbornly pretending we don't know shit pisses him the fuck off and I'm all for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 01 Feb 2024 06:00:47 No.5911324 Report

Quoted By: >>5911880

I will say, if portkey wins, just have everyone hold hands and only break one. Unless these are different that canon, multiple people only need one portkey to travel if they are in contact.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 01 Feb 2024 20:10:45 No.5911880 Report

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>>5911324
doubt it will, seeing him makes people just go full retard in decisionmaking

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 01 Feb 2024 23:46:52 No.5912093 Report

Quoted By: >>5912095

“Apollo,” you whisper to the only person of the group who can cast the spell properly. “Patronus Potter, now!”

“Expecto-”

Four bolts of red come from different places around, one coming for each of you, forcing Apollo to turn his wand movement from a patronus to a protego before the spell blasts against him. And the spell comes hard, the boy being the only one who stands his ground as both you and Linda stumble backwards from the impact, and Arty’s shield shatters, sending her to the floor. You fire a stunner back at where the one aimed at you came from, but it hits nothing but air as you help her up.

“Ah ah ah, no calling for help, little Elliot. I just want to talk. While we’re just talking, you and your friends are safe. Try running, try calling for help… and things can get messy.”

"I don't know who you are or why you want a bloody stone,” you shout, wand still pointing around, “But if you keep this up, I'll find the damned thing you want and smash it right in front of you! Leave me and my friends alone, and stop threatening children, you freak!"

“Threatening children? Less bad than killing them, like you did with your friend, Mr. Taylor. Took him out of school grounds so you could make him disappear, did you?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“Still pretending to not remember? Do you think this is Scorpius?” The voice asks, amused. “There’s no Scorpius here, little Elliot. After all, Scorpius doesn’t know about what is happening to the prophecies.”

A chill runs through your spine. Could Salazar know what was happening with the prophecies? No, if he did, if he had Helga’s power, he’d have known fate was being manipulated, that he was being set up. So this means that either the Malfoys have found out something only the Unspeakables, Potter and few others know, or… You don’t know what. You don’t know what the other possibility is, and that terrifies you.

“Why… why do you need the Stone?”

“To get an Artifact of Power away from the hands of someone who killed his best friend and is still on the loose. I don’t know how you managed to trick Potter into helping you, nor do I know what Dark Magic you’re using the Stone for, but I have no doubt it involves more death. You are not the first well-spoken Slytherin who seeks the dark. Not the first Slytherin who killed a student when they were sixteen. The last one… Well, you know the story.”

You try to piece things together, try to see what lies these people have been told by Scorpius. That you are using Dark Magic? That you are the next Voldemort?

[Cont.]

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 01 Feb 2024 23:48:07 No.5912095 Report

Quoted By: >>5912096 >>5912120

>>5912093

“By all accounts, I should kill you,” the voice says. “Nip the problem in the bud. But killing children is distasteful, even if a murderer and potential dark lord. So I give you a chance, little Elliot. A chance to turn away from this path. Bring me the Stone, bury it in this patch of road before next weekend. Better, send it to the Ministry as an anonymous donation if you don’t trust the voice in the dark. Get rid of it, stay away from the darkness. And I won’t have to resort to less pleasant methods to take it from you.”

“Trust me,” the voice says, with a tone of finality. “No amount of occlumency can stop a crucio from making you speak.”

Four apparition pops echo in the field around you, and the cold goes away.

--

“That wasn’t student levels of strength,” you say once you’re back inside Hogwarts’ safety. “Those were adults, and powerful adults. If Scorpius was responsible, then he wasn’t there.”

“He could have used a boost from Salazar, like you can do with Helga,” Linda suggests.

“Maybe, but it didn’t feel like him. In the beginning I thought it could be him, but maybe that was Salazar’s touch I was feeling. The only thing is that I don’t know how it could possibly be Salazar but not Scorpius.”

“He can talk to you in your head,” Apollo says. “Maybe he can do that to anyone he likes.”

“That’s… not impossible. I managed to overhear him speaking with Lily inside her head because of my connection with Helga but… maybe he can speak with others, if he wants to. And if that’s the case,” Your stomach sinks, “Then the moment I pretended I hadn’t heard him threaten Arty in the Three Broomsticks he knew I was lying about not remembering anything.”

“But Scorpius doesn’t know. If that’s the case, he’s going behind Scorpius' back.”

“If that’s the case.”

“Shouldn’t… Shouldn’t we tell Potter?” Arty asks meekly, rubbing her arms as if she was still cold.

“I’m not sure. First, if we tell him what happened, he might put a tracker or some other sort of watch to make sure we’re safe, and moving around without him knowing gets more difficult. Second, if that reasoning is right, if Potter captures them he’ll question them. If he questions them, I doubt they’re the sort of people who talk when questioned, but if they do talk he might learn about the voice in Scorpius’ head. He discovers about the voice in his head-”

“Then it’s just a hop until he discovers too much?”

“Yeah. If that reasoning is right. If it isn’t, then I doubt Scorpius was careless enough to make it be traced back to him, even if they used Veritaserum to make them talk. And if these people get captured… The next ones he sends might not be as squeamish about torturing children.”

“But he can’t kill you,” Linda says. “You die, the Beast gets free, right? He needed the power of the repository to take the gate from your head. That’s what he said, at least.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 01 Feb 2024 23:49:09 No.5912096 Report

Quoted By: >>5912098 >>5912116 >>5912120 >>5913415 >>5913505 >>5913537

>>5912095

“We don’t know how much he’s shared with these people. Maybe they don’t know. Maybe he didn’t put enough emphasis on the fact that I shouldn’t die. Or maybe there’s something else at play. But even if he can’t kill me, he can still crucio me until I go insane. I’m… I’m not sure which one is preferable. They both feel like death. Except one of them lets me not destroy the world.”

Brigthon’s grandmother had said her son and his wife had been tortured into insanity. They were probably there, in the Janus Thickey Ward, one of the many who looked lost and aimless. And you don’t want that. You don’t want to live there. To have your self shattered in so many pieces that there was nothing left of it… wasn’t that also a type of death? In a way, it was even worse. Not even a thousand horcruxes could have saved Voldemort if Potter had captured him and tortured him into insanity.

And it terrifies you beyond what your mind can even process, so it simply refuses to keep on thinking about it.

“I… I should just stop working,” Arty says, in a voice so quiet you almost miss it, almost as if she was ashamed. “If I didn’t have to go to work, we wouldn’t have to come back this late.”

“No.”

It’s Apollo who says it first.

“But if I do I-”

“No. I’m not going to let him say how we live.” His voice has steel in it. “I’m not letting anyone control us. You don’t like the job, you leave. But not because of him. Not because of us.”

She hugs her legs, looking smaller than you’ve ever seen her, and nods.

“In any case,” you say. “Between telling this to Potter or not…”

> “We tell Potter what happened. This is getting too dangerous to deal with alone.”
> “We keep it secret. We can’t risk Potter interrogating them and discovering too much.”
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Thu 01 Feb 2024 23:55:08 No.5912098 Report

Quoted By: >>5912992 >>5913655

>>5912096
>“We tell Potter what happened. This is getting too dangerous to deal with alone.”
fuck it, end of the world by OUR hand is still better than letting that fucker do it
i say its easier to tell Potter and calm him down later than not having a broken +80 on our side
also, what is Helga´s opinion on our current predicament?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:16:43 No.5912114 Report

Quoted By: >>5912116 >>5912117

what made you retards think the plan of keeping the act up would work better here than just getting the fuck out?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:19:41 No.5912116 Report

Quoted By: >>5912123 >>5913655

>>5912114
What makes you think portkeying out of here was better? We wouldn't know how much he knows, or that he has adults working for him, or be able to guess the full telepathic capability. Every engagement with the enemy provides extra information. Also, don't be a prick, dude.

>>5912096
"We tell Potter what happened. This is getting too dangerous to deal with alone."
We're scared kids. It's in-character. And maybe if we limit what we tell him, he won't pry? He's been reasonable so far, surprisingly reasonable.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:20:48 No.5912117 Report

Quoted By:

>>5912114
i dont know man, it was so obviously not gonna work, i voted to get the fuck out

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:23:05 No.5912120 Report

Quoted By: >>5913655

>>5912095
>“Then the moment I pretended I hadn’t heard him threaten Arty in the Three Broomsticks he knew I was lying about not remembering anything.”
This should've been apparent, don't know why people thought we were deceiving him by ignoring it.

>>5912096
> “We keep it secret. We can’t risk Potter interrogating them and discovering too much.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:25:30 No.5912123 Report

Quoted By: >>5912131

>>5912116
did you forget we already found out about his goons a while ago? it was also obvious he wasn't buying the act of us having forgotten the original timeline, and the portkeys were given to us for EXACTLY this kind of situation

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:28:09 No.5912126 Report

Quoted By: >>5912131

if we do end up telling Potter about this, we should probably leave out the part about them working for "Scorpius"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:38:24 No.5912131 Report

Quoted By: >>5912134

>>5912126
But he already knows Scorpius and Draco Malfoy are involved, so he'll puzzle that out pretty darn quick, I think.

>>5912123
We didn't know that they were adults or that Salazar was potentially directing them and feeding them info independent of Scorpius.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 02 Feb 2024 00:44:05 No.5912134 Report

Quoted By:

>>5912131
pretty obvious they're adults given their abilities and them apparating in, and telling him that they were working for him would cause a bunch more problems

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 02 Feb 2024 04:56:14 No.5912372 Report

Quoted By: >>5912886 >>5913112

Fuck if I know man. I think the guy talking was Draco, just from some of the things he said. Scorpius might have got his dad to use our nickname to throw us off. Guess I will try and think about it some.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Fri 02 Feb 2024 16:34:56 No.5912886 Report

Quoted By: >>5912992

>>5912372
Could Salazar be in both Draco and Scorpius? Or transfer from one to the other?

Helga, can we give you to Apollo?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 02 Feb 2024 18:16:08 No.5912992 Report

Quoted By:

>>5912098
> what is Helga´s opinion on our current predicament?

“I don’t know what abilities Salazar has or not, so I could not tell you if he can or can’t speak with others. But you know my opinion on telling Potter anything. He’s far too clever and dangerous to rope into this.”

>>5912886
> Helga, can we give you to Apollo?

“You couldn’t ‘give me’ to him, but in theory, given enough time and effort, I’d be able to extricate myself from you and find someone else. No, I don’t know how long it would take, or even how I’d even ‘find someone else’. When I latched on to you, I was just struggling to stay whole. But I wouldn’t be able to take the Beast’s gate with me. And without me to protect you… Things don’t end well for anyone.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 02 Feb 2024 19:45:43 No.5913112 Report

Quoted By: >>5913449

>>5912372
extremely doubt Draco's involved with Salazar

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 03 Feb 2024 00:21:01 No.5913415 Report

Quoted By: >>5913420 >>5913422 >>5913449

>>5912096
Do you guys think we can just lie and say we gave it to the Ministry? Or better yet, say a half truth and say that it’s no longer in our hands, and give it to Potter instead? At least with Potter I’d wager we might have a chance of getting it back at some point. And we don’t even have to tell him what prompted us to do it either.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 03 Feb 2024 00:25:35 No.5913420 Report

Quoted By: >>5913425

>>5913415
he'd know something's up, he already knows we hid it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Sat 03 Feb 2024 00:26:13 No.5913422 Report

Quoted By:

>>5913415
I do like this idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 03 Feb 2024 00:27:46 No.5913425 Report

Quoted By:

>>5913420
(i mean Potter, not Salazar)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 03 Feb 2024 00:57:33 No.5913449 Report

Quoted By: >>5913458 >>5913502

>>5913112
So just from what he said, it seems like the mystery man does want the resurrection stone just to get it out of our hands, because he thinks we are using it for some dark magic. Draco was shown to be pretty big on not letting Scorpius use any of the dark artifacts they have in their vault. He had a lot of experience back in the war with how the dark can ruin your life and seems mostly reformed. He was also crucio'd at one point I believe. He talked about just throwing money at the ministry to get what he wants. Scorpius may be the next heir of the Malfoys but I doubt dad is letting him use their fortune to bribe the gov't.

My though is Scorpy let his dad know we have it or that he strongly thinks so and then Draco took over the job for his son, since he has more contacts, resources, experience, is willing to use more fucked up means to get it. Keeps his son out of danger as well. The guys diction also seems more like Draco than his son.

>>5913415
If we tell him that, he has no reason not to mess with us and our friends harder. He doesn't want to abduct and torture us or fuck up our friends but if we no longer have the ability to give him the Stone, it really cuts down his reasons to not escalate to make sure that is the case.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 03 Feb 2024 01:11:54 No.5913458 Report

Quoted By:

>>5913449
My bad, he did not mention making a donation to the ministry to get them involved more, I might have just dreamed that. But Draco is well connected enough if we sent it in like it was suggested, 100% it ends up in their hands. He also knew about the prophesies, something only someone with very powerful connections could know.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 03 Feb 2024 02:18:10 No.5913502 Report

Quoted By:

>>5913449
Draco also wouldn't send out a bunch of people to fucking attack us for it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 03 Feb 2024 02:23:33 No.5913505 Report

Quoted By:

>>5912096
I wonder, the whole reason we are having this issue is because we can't just Apperate Arty to and from work. Could we pay a 7th year like Falere to do that for us, at least this week? Or possibly a teacher, and give them an excuse? I doubt it would work for more than 1 weekend, but it might buy us time. I don't think anyone is going to try and hurt here while she is at work, given how public it is and the fact there are adult wizards right there. Set up a codeword with her ride and her, have her wait inside till they come and it seems pretty safe.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 03 Feb 2024 03:08:22 No.5913537 Report

Quoted By: >>5913655

>>5912096
>> “We keep it secret. We can’t risk Potter interrogating them and discovering too much.”

I guess I will finally vote.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 03 Feb 2024 06:01:29 No.5913655 Report

Quoted By: >>5913658 >>5913959

> “We tell Potter what happened. This is getting too dangerous to deal with alone.”
>>5912098
>>5912116

> “We keep it secret. We can’t risk Potter interrogating them and discovering too much.”
>>5912120
>>5913537

There was a lot of discussion, but few actual votes! I'll go to sleep for today and check in 8 hours or so and hope that when I wake up I don't have to rewrite what I already wrote

--

>>5908435
I don't have a fixed number for them (except Apollo and Army Rolls, because they were used before), but I always treat them as a +20-ish on their specialties, which is close to what you have in potions. For Battle Rolls, I still have to decide how I'll balance Arty against everyone else, as the rolls are made assuming a 6th year of average competency, and she's not only a fifth year, but has her other problems too.

>>5909831
> I might have to go away for a decent time in the near future
Hope it is for a good and fulfilling reason, anon! Your contributions are always appreciated! (even when you force me to reveal who Faith is before I planned to, or when you tie a vote after I started writing)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 03 Feb 2024 06:06:14 No.5913658 Report

Quoted By:

>>5913655
If you already wrote a bunch, I will change my vote. I will keep it if you hadn't started.

I thought I might needed to go to the hospital for a few days due to some bad labs but we are just going to keep an eye on it unless something happens.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 03 Feb 2024 17:20:50 No.5913959 Report

Quoted By: >>5913975 >>5914483

>>5913655
However the vote goes, thanks for running, QM! I got this for you.

(Art by Indonesian Gentleman of Jail Quest.)

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 03 Feb 2024 17:54:00 No.5913975 Report

Quoted By: >>5913978

>>5913959
Thank you, anon! This is the first fan-art of the quest, I think! (unless I missed something, in which case I'll feel really bad for not acknowledging it)
It reminds me of the old Philosopher Stone/Chamber of Secrets cover art style!

--

It’s still the same night when you knock on Potter’s door. A few seconds later a whooping sound comes from behind you, and you turn to see a house-elf, well dressed (for a house-elf, anyway) in several pieces of unmatching and garish clothes. She has droopy ears so long they reach past her elbows, and a shy look on her huge eyes.

“I apologize for startling you, young master,” she says as you slowly point your wand down. “I only meant to inform you that master Potter was asleep, but that he’ll be with you shortly.”

“Thank you, Winky,” Arty says, kindly. “I’m sorry we woke you up.”

“It’s no problem at all, young mistress.” She snaps her fingers and disappears.

“Winky?” You ask.

“You said to start talking to the house elves, I started learning their names,” she says. “Winky’s been working here for some twenty years now.”

“How old do they even get? I heard of house-elves serving houses for generations.”

“Two hundred or so years. They could probably outnumber wizards if they wanted but… They can only reproduce if given an explicit order.”

You raise both eyebrows at that.

“You mean-”

“Yes, it is as bad as it sounds. Hogwarts’ house-elves have been given permission to breed with whichever other elf they want and consents but… they just don’t do it. There is this whole moral debate on whether we should keep telling them to do it or not, but if we don’t order them to do it, they don’t, and then they’d go extinct, which may be… worse, in a way?” She sighs, rubbing her eyes. “It’s one of the reasons the debate on their rights hasn’t moved much past ‘give them proper clothes and don’t torture them’.”

“I see…” It seemed likely to you that house-elves had been, for a lack of a better word, manufactured. They were too useful to not be the creation of some deranged mind. And whoever had created them, however many centuries or millennia ago, clearly had made sure their creation could never overthrow and overpower them.

“The front door to my office is a particularly strange place to discuss the mating habits of house-elves,” Potter says, opening the door looking like he’s just come out of bed. “I hope it wasn’t the reason you woke me up.”

“No,” you say. “We woke you up because we just got threatened with crucio by four invisible people outside Hogwarts.”

“Ah. Yes, that does sound like a reasonable reason. Come on in.”

--

“So they want the Stone? And they claim to not be related to Scorpius?”

“Yes. They think I’m the next Dark Lord, or something.”

“Can you blame them?”

“Professor!” Arty says, shocked.

[Cont]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 03 Feb 2024 17:55:02 No.5913978 Report

Quoted By: >>5913981

>>5913975

“What? Look at it from my perspective. He’s a student that disappeared from all records and from my memory, who has a completely scarred arm, a Slytherin who somehow put his hands in an Ancient artifact that should have been in my vault, whose friend disappeared under mysterious circumstances and whose other friend called herself Raven Everdark and claimed she was going to be the greatest dark witch who ever lived.” Linda looks particularly guilty and Arty opens her mouth to answer, but no words come out, so Potter continues. “Mr. Hallaster has given very little reason for anyone to trust him, as he insists on being stingy with information for what he says are world-saving reasons.”

“When you put it like that…”

“There is no way to put it where he looks good, Ms. Pertinger. In any case, the four thugs mentioned prophecies, yet they don’t necessarily know exactly what is happening. The ministry has been remarkably tightlipped about it. But it isn’t unthinkable that the Malfoys could have heard something is happening with prophecies. If it wasn’t him, it would need to be someone with a lot of power.”

“Which means?” You ask.

“Me, the Headmistress, Draco, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. Or any of the Unspeakables, I’d guess. Draco and Scorpius had a meeting with the Minister about Mr. Cycad’s disappearance a while ago, so it isn’t impossible something happened then.”

“You’re saying the Ministry is after us!?” Arty asks, still shocked.

“Oh, the Ministry is definitely after Elliot. The only reason they haven’t taken him in the middle of the night is because I told Hermione he was under my personal protection. But I think Mione wouldn’t go against my wishes, at least not this directly. Ron wouldn’t either. Minerva trusts me. This either leaves Malfoy or one of the Unspeakables going rogue. Both would know if something as important as the Stone was delivered to the Ministry and neither is good news.”

“So, what do you suggest we do?” You ask.

“I have three ideas. First, we do nothing. They told you to bury it in that part of the road before the next weekend. This implies that if you don’t, they’ll act again, probably on the weekend. So option one is, we do nothing and allow them to come to attack you. I’ll be watching, invisible, and will attack them in return. There will be a battle, and you will be close and can be hit. I may even have to cast anti-apparition and anti-portkey spells to ensure they won't escape, but that means you won't be able to do it either. I can't guarantee you won’t get hurt. This comes with danger to you four, but is the most certain option.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 03 Feb 2024 17:56:12 No.5913981 Report

Quoted By: >>5914047 >>5914119 >>5914167 >>5914188 >>5914483 >>5915982

>>5913978

“Option two is we bury the stone where they asked you to, and wait until they come to pick it up. A pickup like that, an efficient group could do it in minutes, maybe seconds, and I can’t spend a week staring at a patch of dirt. I’d need to cast alarm spells to let me know when they go to dig it up, spells that a competent caster could undo. If they have someone good with them, they could bypass it and run away with the Stone, and we’ll never know who they are.”

“Option three is we send it to the Ministry. We never discover who they are, but if they aren’t lying they’ll leave you be. In the Ministry I’ll have some control over where it is, and I have contacts there to keep me updated if things change. It’s the safest bet, assuming they are truthful.”

“Couldn’t I just give it to you and tell them that, sir?” You ask.

“I was the only person who could have possibly possessed the Stone before you. If you had it, it is the logical conclusion that I gave it to you, and that I’d do it again if you asked. No, I’m afraid that’s not an option.”

“And what do you think is best, sir?”

“Me? Oh no, Elliot. You’re the one who has all the information. You’re the one who knows how important the Stone is, and why they want it. You're the one to who it appeared after vanishing from my vault. You’re the one who is, I have no doubts, hiding plenty of things from me. If anyone needs to make that call, if anyone can make that call… It’s you.”

> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)
> Bury the stone and wait for them to come dig it up (Medium chance of capturing them, medium chance of losing the Stone completely)
> Send it to the Ministry (No chance of capturing them, Stone goes to unreachable but known place)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 03 Feb 2024 19:02:25 No.5914047 Report

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>>5913981
>> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sat 03 Feb 2024 20:06:50 No.5914119 Report

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>>5913981
> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Sat 03 Feb 2024 20:58:21 No.5914167 Report

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>>5913981
>> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)
this one, BUT ONLY if Arty ISNT with us and in a safe place
i think with all the context, info and threats she has now, she can see that we are doing this for her own safety

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 03 Feb 2024 21:19:25 No.5914188 Report

Quoted By: >>5914310 >>5914351 >>5914483

>>5913981
>Ask if Potter has any polyjuice potion. He and some adults he trusts to be able to hold their own could substitute for your group instead, and have a completely one-sided answer to the ambush.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 03 Feb 2024 23:09:02 No.5914310 Report

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>>5914188

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 03 Feb 2024 23:10:29 No.5914312 Report

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>>5914310
What does this image mean

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Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Sat 03 Feb 2024 23:36:30 No.5914351 Report

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>>5914188
This is... pretty damn hilarious. But would require an adult to work at the store for a while.

Potter is the only one with the marauders map, so they wouldn't be able to tell shit about it. And they definitely don't think we have that many people involved.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 04 Feb 2024 00:57:20 No.5914464 Report

Quoted By: >>5914483

On a completely unrelated subject, Helga and Salazar are from a vastly different time period. It's entirely possible they don't view us as children at all - society's standards for what qualifies as a child has changed significantly since their time. Back in their day, people as young as 7 years old were considered capable of reason enough to be culpable for any sins they commit. They were immature, inexperienced, short adults essentially.
Conversely, children were sent to work as early as 10, but more often around 13 years old. Soldiers as young as 13 were a thing, as well, sent to fight and kill and be killed in wars.
It's entirely plausible that Salazar doesn't consider us a child at all. As far as he's concerned, he's threatening a relatively young group of adults.
Then again, Rome also had a strange policy that you had the legal rights of an adult at 11, but were NOT considered a fully mature adult until 25.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 04 Feb 2024 01:20:10 No.5914483 Report

Quoted By: >>5914497 >>5914804

>>5913981
>> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)

I hadn't considered the possibility of rogue Unspeakables.

>>5914188
Having someone who already knows, vaguely what is going on subbing in for like Linda might work, but I don't want a lot of adults there if Potter can make the assailants blab. Helga said the more people involved, especially adults, the worse things get. And Arty at the least is still going to have to go so she can work. Apollo will insist on being there and he is likely the only one who can 1v1 one of these guys. We don't know if it will be Sat or Sun they come for us.

>>5914464
So that implies the guy calling us children was not being puppet-ed by him, no?

>>5913959
Amazing. Elliot is fucking adorkable and they even got the glove! Picrel.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sun 04 Feb 2024 01:29:33 No.5914497 Report

Quoted By: >>5914507

>>5914483
>So that implies the guy calling us children was not being puppet-ed by him, no?
I would think so, yeah.
On that subject, it'd be hilarious to call him a pedophile and have him get offended. "Absolutely not, what kind of freak do you think I am? I waited until she was in puberty."

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sun 04 Feb 2024 01:37:53 No.5914507 Report

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>>5914497
>I waited until she was in puberty.

Well, if she bleeds, she breeds. Pedophilia does specifically refer to pre-pubecent individuals.

"I am a hebephile, thank you very much!"

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Anonymous ID:Xlc/hJJc Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:14:28 No.5914804 Report

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>>5914483
The guy was calling us Little Eliot. That at minimum reduces the possibilities of the situation. He didn't call us that before Salazar

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:41:21 No.5914845 Report

Quoted By: >>5916134

Smut anon, are you done yet?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 04 Feb 2024 22:23:02 No.5915758 Report

Quoted By: >>5915760

“I feel it would be best to be sure we catch them,” you say. “If you’re there with us, we can defend ourselves when they attack. But… Don’t you have some polyjuice we could use? Put some more aurors disguised as us?”

“Potentially, yes. But there are two problems with that. First, I’d need to get more people involved. As far as you told me, the less people know about everything, the better, so adding more people is always a risk. I could convince some other professors to do it, however. Most of them wouldn’t hesitate to do it to protect a student, as they’ve done before. Second, polyjuice hampers fighting. Trying to use magic on another form is far less effective than on your own, and fighting in someone else’s body… takes practice. You don’t know the body’s limits or strengths, you don’t know how fast it can move. It’s not easy.”

“And, of course, not a problem with doing the plan itself but, as adults it’s… Not exactly comfortable to be put into the body of children, there are moral and ethical problems, one of which is the loss of privacy of your body for the duration of the potion’s effects. Some of it can be avoided, some can’t. Having been on both sides of it, it is not what I’d describe as a comfortable experience.”

“Professor, I thank you for the warning,” you nod. “But that’s the least of my worries right now.”

“Is it? Two of your friends are blushing quite a lot at the idea.”

You turn to look and, indeed, Arty and Linda are both red, which is an almost unseen look for Linda.

“I will try to ensure the ones who replace you will be women, if that makes it easier.”

“Thank you,” Linda says.

“I’ll be under the Cloak, but you, Elliot, should be there as yourself. You’re the one who knows what I don’t. You’re the one who can guide the conversation if needed, stall while I ensure they can’t run away, while I scout how many enemies there are, while I’m get in a good position to fight. Can you do that?”

You nod. “I can.”

“Then I’ll find some Polyjuice before the end of the week.”

--

Monday passes by with classes and soon you and Arty are at Potter’s door, waiting for your first day of tutoring.

“Now, as I said, this person’s existence should not be mentioned to anyone. That is an essential condition for them to teach you, is that understood?”

“Yes, professor.” You two agree.

“Good. Follow me.” He looks at what appears to be a small shard of glass on his hand, then nods. He takes a pinch of green powder and throws it into the fireplace. “The Empty Volley!”

Green flames engulf him and he disappears. You two do the same, and soon find yourself at a small empty shack looking over a cliff.

“This is where we’re going to learn?”

“No, this is just one of my options for when I need to leave Hogwarts without no one knowing, then apparate somewhere else. Here, give me your hands.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sun 04 Feb 2024 22:24:12 No.5915760 Report

Quoted By: >>5915773 >>5915833 >>5915845 >>5915900 >>5915984 >>5916095 >>5916512

>>5915758

You feel your world shrink, as if your whole body is being forcefully squeezed through a very thin and long rubber hose. The place you apparate to is stormy, cold and ugly, looking like it can just barely hold itself together. There is an old iron oven, some pots strewn about, and what could be considered a bed if you squinted hard enough.

Of course, you don’t immediately see any of it, as you’re too busy throwing up.

“Oh, so this is what he brings to us? White and cold and frail,” says a cold, masculine voice with a hint of madness. No, a lot of madness. “So beautiful. So precious. So delicious to break. I wonder what it would sound like, my hands around their neck. I wonder how they would squeal. I wonder…”

You slowly stand up to see a man who looks to have been broken by time. His once straw-blond hair is now strewn with whites, which go everywhere without any sense of cohesion. Utterly disheveled would be a severe understatement. His dark robes are torn and filthy, his nails are broken and chipped, and his eyes are wide and crazy, looking at you from where he’s perched on a small wooden stool a few meters away.

“Elliot, Artemis, meet Bartemius Crouch Junior, my old Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and one of the people responsible for torturing Alice and Frank Longbottom into insanity.” He pulls a wand from his pocket and tosses it to him. “Crouch, you’re not allowed to kill them. See you in an hour.”

He vanishes with a pop, and the man smiles a smile that sends shivers down your spine, licking his lips.

“Hello, children,” he says, pointing the wand at you. “Let’s play.”

> Roll a d100+28. Bo3.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sun 04 Feb 2024 22:32:45 No.5915773 Report

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>>5915760
what the fuck i thought he got killed by dementors

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Sun 04 Feb 2024 23:08:22 No.5915833 Report

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>>5915760
>"Crouch, you’re not allowed to kill them. See you in an hour."
>He vanishes with a pop
THATS IT?! he is leaving us with this schyzo just like that?!
fuck, i really hope we made a decent enough and big batch of stamina potions...

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Sun 04 Feb 2024 23:14:27 No.5915845 Report

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Rolled 43 + 28 (1d100 + 28)

>>5915760

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 00:05:11 No.5915900 Report

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>>5915760
Okay, did not fucking see that coming.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 00:07:57 No.5915906 Report

Quoted By: >>5915916

And glad to see our rolls are still utter shit.

Potter is also a nut job, holy shit.

We are getting crucio'd, aren't we?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 00:12:58 No.5915916 Report

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>>5915906
100% its the punishment for failing any impossible exercise he throws at us

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 00:44:46 No.5915959 Report

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>>5915916
Yeah... Arty can not tell Apollo anything about this. Pretty sure he would strangle Potter.

On the plus side, seeing Arty getting tortured here, in a "safe" environment will better prepare us for when one of our enemies gets to her. Plus good motivation to kick the shit out of B.C.J.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 05 Feb 2024 00:59:46 No.5915982 Report

Quoted By: >>5915984

>>5913981
> Don’t deliver them the stone, allow them to attack you and Potter to ambush them (High chance of capturing them, no chance of losing the stone, unknown possibility of injury)
The safest hands are still our own.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Mon 05 Feb 2024 01:04:26 No.5915984 Report

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>>5915982
Oop, I'm behind.

>>5915760
>Barty Crouch
Holy shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZevdFQ2Q Mon 05 Feb 2024 02:17:52 No.5916095 Report

Quoted By: >>5916102 >>5916720

>>5915760
I knew it, fuck i wish i had said it. The fucking revolver ocelot of jk rowling.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 02:23:34 No.5916102 Report

Quoted By: >>5916109 >>5916164

>>5916095
What gave it away that it was going to be him?

It would be fucking hilarious if this was actually Moody, another character thought dead, pretending to be a guy everyone thinks is dead, just to get Elliot and Arty to fight harder. Surely Potter wouldn't leave us with the real B.C.J.

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Anonymous ID:ZevdFQ2Q Mon 05 Feb 2024 02:31:57 No.5916109 Report

Quoted By: >>5916132 >>5916134

>>5916102
Purely meta reasons, him being such a stupid character but also kinda cool makes him good fodder for a fanfic. He's the whole reason why people like Moody y'know. He's had some serious plot armor too, his plan was totally retarded but we already know jaykay sucks

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Mon 05 Feb 2024 02:48:12 No.5916132 Report

Quoted By: >>5916164

>>5916109
his plan was good, but he did it horribly

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 02:50:59 No.5916134 Report

Quoted By: >>5916151 >>5916164

>>5916109
Those are really well thought out reasons, especially the fact that the Moody most people associate with the character was this bug fuck patricidal torturer.

>>5914845
I think I am done. I might add like 1 more bit for the conclusion if I feel like it. Then I just have to spell and grammar check +12,000 words.

I kinda let this thing get away from me. I feel for HeadQM when he intended Christmas to be like 1 update and it turned into 4.

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 03:02:58 No.5916151 Report

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>>5916134
>spoiler
ooh man, we eating good soon!
or rather, Arty is "eating" good soon

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Anonymous ID:ZevdFQ2Q Mon 05 Feb 2024 03:16:14 No.5916164 Report

Quoted By: >>5916306 >>5916705

>>5916102
Spoiler, that'd be hilariously petty of him
>>5916132
His plan was buttfucking moronic and succeeded thanks to wizardkind being composed of pantshitting goatfuckers but i'm not starting a debate, i don't have the writing skills to make a 4chan rant worthy of screencap
>>5916134
Thanks. God I'm mad. I dropped out during thread 2 cuz i'm a fucking coward. Then I started skimming and lurking but not voting cuz I wanted to fully catch up first but I kept putting it off. I could have made the read of a lifetime and Head would have punched the air and stomp very hard and curse my name but the moment is gone, the window has closed and I'm left only with yearning and regret. Fucking kill me.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 06:32:58 No.5916306 Report

Quoted By: >>5916720 >>5917075

>>5916164
>Head would have punched the air and stomp very hard and curse my name

It is a good feeling. My OCD and ADD figuring out Faith was Helga, it was very satisfying, even if QM might hate me a bit. So keep sticking around. We will have plenty more chances to make him pull his hair out.

The way to Avalon lies beyond the Archway in the ministry. It requires using the Resurrection Stone with Ancient magic to temporarily undo the Veil of Death in front of it to get in, plus a big chunk of Ancient magic to actually make it to the Garden of Flowers, the Isle of Apple Trees. That or the gateway is in St. Mungo's. Gilderoy said the hospital was once located in the middle of a lake, which Avalon is depicted as sometimes, and it is already a "land of healing". The way Merlin tried to heal the 5th was basically Time Lord Regeneration but the 5th couldn't handle it. I should write for the Quibbler.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 05 Feb 2024 07:55:39 No.5916364 Report

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You know, I wonder if this'll end up being another one of potter's little tests, albiet one that simultaneously accomplishes what we want. By pitting us against a madman death eater, he's seeing how we react to extreme threats, seeing if the pressure forces any dark acts out of us. It also tests our conviction, our willingness to stay the course even under such extreme conditions. I think he's STILL earnestly trying to suss out if we're the next dark lord or not.

As an aside, we should look into getting a Vanishing Cabinet installed at our house. Yes, our muggle house. I don't trust Salazar not to go after family, and Vanishing Cabinets were effective defensive tools in the first wizarding war and offensive tools in the second wizarding war. Besides that, you can trap things going through them in limbo if you fuck the cabinet up closing it...that, I think, would be quite useful for a NONLETHAL way to trap Salazar so we can deal with him down the line. In complete stasis until we opt to repair the cabinet.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 08:21:44 No.5916384 Report

Quoted By: >>5916386 >>5916389 >>5916402

Here is the Arty fic, in all its shitty glory.

So pastebin will not let me upload due to the content, so lets try something else.

https://file.io/NgGc6AIdMDHD

I tried to spell check as well as I could. There will be errors. If anyone has a different web based place to put it up vs a DL, let me know.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 08:27:27 No.5916386 Report

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>>5916384
Forgot pic

I nearly threw a clot when I had to go through and reformate it for pateb1n and they wouldn't let me post it

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 08:32:00 No.5916389 Report

Quoted By: >>5916402

>>5916384
>>5916386
based, but...

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 05 Feb 2024 08:44:46 No.5916402 Report

Quoted By: >>5916421 >>5916448 >>5916498 >>5916705

>>5916389
God nigger fucking damn it.

>>5916384
One more try.
I am joking, I will do what I have to do to get this up.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJd4RvZaSnElyH9TnejL_SIN7ootUifM9X6JoTkNMeQ/edit?usp=sharing

Lets try this.

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 09:01:13 No.5916421 Report

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>>5916402
alright, i can see it now, i download it as a PDF just in case
im gonna go read this now

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Mon 05 Feb 2024 10:12:36 No.5916448 Report

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>>5916402
shit's in request access mode for some reason

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 11:47:48 No.5916498 Report

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>>5916402
alrighty, just read all of it
that was...something, it was good, but not the direction i expected it would go
a small rollescoaster of emotions, nicely done.
i would have dialed down the angst just a bit tho

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Mon 05 Feb 2024 12:16:25 No.5916512 Report

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>>5915760
Harry Potter, the absolute fucking BASTARD.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 05 Feb 2024 17:03:46 No.5916705 Report

Quoted By: >>5916708 >>5916878

>>5916164
I’m… not quite sure how I feel about being called just “Head”. It feels mildly dirty, and not in a pleasant way.

>>5916402
Can’t read it, anon. It’s asking me for permission.

--

You are not prepared, at all. You barely have time to process what Potter said, and your brain is still in the middle of thinking “death eate-” when he shouts “Expelliarmus!” and the glowing bolt hits you right in the chest. Your arm convulses, but… you manage to hold on to your wand.

Crouch looks at his wand in almost disgust.

Right, so Potter wasn’t completely insane. The crazy Death Eater’s wand is gimped, at least. Good to know, so you aren’t tempted to use it to kill Potter instead of your own wand just for the sake of irony. Still the man who had managed to take down one of the greatest aurors of his time and impersonate him, including his level of magic, while polyjuiced takes but a moment to stop scowling at his wand and go back to firing at you.

Between trying to figure out what to do and cursing Potter’s entire family tree, your brain finds a couple of moments to notice where you are. The excuse of a shack in which you find yourself in, and “shack” is a great compliment since it only has two-and-a-half walls, is located in what basically amounts to a rock in the middle of the ocean. Maybe twenty by twenty meters of black, slippery stone with freezing water all around, surrounded by sharp rocks.

Because the homicidal patricide in front of you wasn’t enough of a problem.

You try blocking his spells, but he’s fast. A stunner gets past your shields and hits your brain like a punch to the head. Arty fires bolts of red magic, but he simply weaves around her spells. If he can’t even stun you properly, any protego of his will shatter on your spells, so he simply doesn’t use them. Instead, he moves too fast for you to follow, and you instantly know that if Potter hadn’t told him to not kill you, he'd be hearing how the cracking of your neck sounds in moments.

It doesn’t take long before his fist meets with your nose with a sickening crack and you fall on the floor.

“Elliot!” Arty shouts in horror. “Diffindo!”

The spell clips him on the shoulder, and he simply grins at it before lunging in her direction. He dodges three of Arty’s spells and casts a prismatis the size of your head in front of a fourth, wand moving so fast it’s almost a blur. The shield spell shatters, but stops Arty’s bolt, and then he’s too close to her and his foot meets the side of her face, sending her tumbling sideways. It’s your turn to scream in horror.

“Flamare Perpetua!” You shout and a line of flames appears between him and her. He turns his attention back to you.

“Ohh, that spell takes a lot of energy, doesn’t it? You really should be saving your power. After all… You still have fifty five more minutes of this.”

And he rushes towards you once more.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 05 Feb 2024 17:05:53 No.5916708 Report

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>>5916705

The hour that follows is agony. It doesn’t take long for him to beat your wands out of your hands and take them for himself. He never uses them, and on the rare occasion you manage to take it back, he retributes by no longer punching you in the face and instead focusing on punching you in the throat, reducing you to silent magic. He uses his fists to beat you, but he also uses his wand with what little power it has to cast diffindo over and over again. One underpowered cut is bearable. A hundred of them will topple any man.

But that’s not the most difficult part.

The most difficult part is seeing him do the same to Arty. You almost thank Merlin when she collapses from exhaustion.

He doesn’t focus on her once she’s down, giving you his full attention. She lasts ten minutes of the fight. You fall at around fifteen, when your brain simply shuts down from exhaustion and pain.

You wake up under comfortable bed-sheets some unknown time later. It’s warm and your injuries are healed, but you feel every single muscle in your body scream at you when you try to move.

“That was not good fighting,” Potter says from a chair on your bedside in the infirmary. “But if I didn’t expect you to learn from it, I assure you I wouldn't put you through it.”

“He’s insane.”

“Yes, that is sort of the point.”

“He… didn't even need his wand. He nearly killed us,” you say, voice hoarse.

“I would have intervened if he had tried.”

“You were watching?”

“Of course I was watching, as closely as I could bear. Enough to make sure he didn’t do anything he shouldn’t. Despite appearances, I’m not completely irresponsible.”

“If you were watching… you could be teaching us.” Your brain is still groggy from the sleep and whatever potion Madam Pomfrey gave you to heal you, but you just don’t understand.

“No. Not the kind of teaching you need. You need to learn how to fight for your life, and that’s not something I’ll ever be able to teach. You need to learn how to let go of any other preconceptions of how to fight and be able to focus just on one, single thing: how to survive. And you need to get something I can’t give you, and that hopefully you will never have to use. You need to find your intent to kill. And I can’t teach you that without honestly trying to kill you.”

You stay in silence for a long, long time. Arty is in the bed beside yours, sleeping soundly, wounds perfectly healed.

“One day,” you say. “You’ll sit down and tell me exactly what happened during your years in Hogwarts.”

“Ha! You and the rest of the world wants to know that.”

“Did the fight in the cemetery really happen? In your fourth year?”

“Yep. And I know what you’re going to ask next. Dumbledore had to reduce the school’s defenses to allow so many strangers and magical creatures past the wards. The defenses were so low that an extremely powerful portkey could breach it. Problem is, when you create a portkey that powerful… It can create a link both ways.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 05 Feb 2024 17:08:15 No.5916714 Report

Quoted By: >>5916716 >>5917161

>>5916708

“Ah, so that’s how you made it back.”

“Yep. Crouch’s plan was insane, but it was more solid than people give it credit for.”

“How did you convince him to work for you?”

“Well, it was either ask him or ask Bellatrix.”

You sit in stupefied silence for a moment before-

“You’re just fucking with me, right?”

“Yep. That one is dead and buried,” he says, stifling a laugh.

“Oh thank Merlin. I don’t know if I could have taken that shock.”

“If you still want to train tomorrow, well,” he looks at the clock on the wall, showing it was close to one in the morning. “Technically already today, all you need to do is appear in my office.”

--

When you and Arty leave the infirmary the next morning, she has a determined look in her eyes.

“You want to keep going, don’t you?” You ask. You understand why Potter told you to give up the post of Commander. It’s only been a day, and it’s already taking a toll.

“Yeah. I want us to keep going until I can stun that dickhead in the face!” She shouts with a fury you haven’t seen before.

“Hey, easy. We don’t need to do this. We can just tell Potter to fuck off.”

“You can tell Potter to fuck off. I’m going back until I can at least hit him!”

You sigh, knowing you’re resigning yourself to the same fate.

“Just… don’t tell Apollo what happens in the training, maybe?”

“I’d like to keep my brother out of Nurmengard, thank you very much.”

> +5 to Battle Magic! New total: +33

And so, your week goes on. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, you go get stomped on by a Death Eater who barely says a word before attacking you, every day being worse, your muscles tired and aching. You zombie through the classes until Friday mercifully arrives with just a normal, boring Apparition class.

You don’t even have energy to freak out when your left hand appears by itself on the circle in front of you and the teachers need to rush to fix it.

But, as your head hits the pillow on Friday, for the first time on the week with you not having collapsed of exhaustion and finally laying in your own bed, for some reason you just can’t sleep. Maybe it’s the tiredness stripping away the layers of stuff you can think about and allowing you to focus on a single thing, maybe it is divine inspiration, but something keeps on holding you awake, just at the edge of your perception.

Once it is clear you’re not sleeping, you go down to the common room. The Slytherins don’t have an enormous library, but there are two things that are there in abundance: Books about snakes, books about noble houses and newspapers with the current events.

You pass your finger over the spines of the books until you find one that is relevant. You pass the finger through the index, searching for the name, until you find it.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 05 Feb 2024 17:09:46 No.5916716 Report

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>>5916714

“The blue krait is one of the most dangerous species of snake in the world, bla, bla, bla, extremely venomous, you can die even after getting the antidote, bla, bla, eats other snakes,” you skim the page, searching for something. "Here! For all its extremely vicious and dangerous behaviors, the blue krait is often called one of the most Slytherin creatures in existance, and was famously chosen to be engraved into the cane of-”

Your blood runs cold.

“Oh no,” you whisper to the empty, dark common room.

You jump up from the chair, dashing to the shelves with newspapers, searching, frantically searching for-

“Today start the renovations of St. Mungus’s ground floor and basement,” you read, slamming a copy of the Daily Prophet on the table, voice shaking. “Which will provide the hospital with some much needed expansion and improvements, as centuries of use have left the very stones marred by the coming and going of so many patients. The much needed repairs will be funded by the Silver Krait foundation, created by… Draco Malfoy ten years ago and just yesterday passed over to his son, Scorpius Malfoy.”

St. Mungus, a place of healing and peace.

St. Mungus, which was once in the middle of a lake, before it was drained.

St. Mungus, which the Malfoys had recently spent several weeks working on, with free and full access to its subterranean.

St. Mungus, which, if you had to guess… was where Avalon’s entrance was located.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 05 Feb 2024 17:16:15 No.5916720 Report

Quoted By: >>5916878 >>5917334

>>5916306
>I should write for the Quibbler
Yes, you should. That's two for two. Right, I need to work on making my twists even more convoluted, got it.

>>5916095
To be fair, I was very much between him, Moody and even Bellatrix. I ended up picking him because I felt it was a nice middle ground between Moody's and Bellatrix's kind of crazy, but also someone who wouldn't be as extraordinarily useful as Moody would be.

I mean, the guy is at least sane enough to pretend to be Moody for a whole year and have no one, including people who fought with him in the war, notice it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:adQ0GFpN Mon 05 Feb 2024 19:27:27 No.5916878 Report

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>>5916705
>It feels mildly dirty, and not in a pleasant way
I know
>>5916720
Fucker was a better moody than moody. Well, you did what i would have done, thats good enough for me

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 05 Feb 2024 21:35:39 No.5917075 Report

Quoted By: >>5917094

>>5916306
Wait how. God damnit anon, how?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Mon 05 Feb 2024 21:50:16 No.5917094 Report

Quoted By: >>5917132

>>5917075
Anon's just too good at this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 05 Feb 2024 22:29:02 No.5917132 Report

Quoted By: >>5917334

>>5917094
He needs to make sure he doesn't use his powers for evil.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Mon 05 Feb 2024 22:45:11 No.5917161 Report

Quoted By: >>5917243

>>5916714
>+5 to Battle Magic! New total: +33
alright, at least we are still getting battle magic bonuses, thats great
just a reminder to drink (and share with arty) some of our stamina potion´s before we go to the next trainings

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Anonymous ID:hTYT/t2d Mon 05 Feb 2024 23:40:43 No.5917243 Report

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>>5917161
I-indirect kiss?!

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 06 Feb 2024 00:55:22 No.5917334 Report

Quoted By: >>5917492

>>5916720
Hahahaha

I might have shit rolls and be hack writer but damn if I can't make wild guesses! Sorry QM, I was really debating putting this one out there.

And I will try to find another place to post my crappy writing. Google flagged the burner Account I used as a robot.

>>5917132
Making QM turn to the bottle might be technically evil.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 06 Feb 2024 01:25:15 No.5917369 Report

Quoted By: >>5917492 >>5918917

I guess I will just post it like this.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:26:57 No.5917492 Report

Quoted By: >>5917495

>>5917334
Well, Elliot was relatively close to finding out, so it wasn't THAT big of an antecipated reveal this time.

>>5917369
Cool! I'll give it a read soon!

--

You wake up on the following day with Linda gently shaking your shoulder. You pull your face away from the hard wooden table filled with newspapers and books over which you had collapsed.

“Wha-huh?”

“You good?” She asks, looking slightly worried.

“St. Mungus!” You say, your brain still booting up. “It’s St. Mungus!”

“Elliot, what are you even talking about?” She asks, taking her wand and flicking it so that no one can hear you.

“Avalon! The Malfoys have been working on it for months, starting on the week before I went there. Not long after Last Light! I should have realized!”

“What? Are you sure?”

“As Potter says, I’m sure of nothing, but yes, I’m pretty damn sure! When I was there, I heard digging and hammering. The entrance to Avalon is buried somewhere below it, and the Malfoys are after it! Salazar is after it! They’re using this renovation bullshit as an excuse to dig it up!”

“Right… So what do we do? Shoot you with a dark curse so you can get sent there?”

“I… I don’t know. I’m certain that if we ask Potter if he can go there he’ll suddenly say, ‘ah, yes, I’m impressed it took you this long to figure out that’s where Avalon is hidden. The question is, why does the disembodied spirit of Salazar Slytherin wants access to it?’ or some other ridiculous jump of reasoning. Maybe we could… Apparate there?”

“Elliot, we ‘ve had three classes on Apparition, Arty had none, and you’re the only one of us who has ever gone there, so you’d need to take us along which is even more difficult than apparating alone. Unless you want to go and get treated there for the horrible splinching we’ll suffer, that’s a no-go.”

“Then… Floo powder?” You suggest. “I saw fireplaces there to receive patients who couldn’t apparate.”

“That could work, but we’d need to break into one of the teacher’s office’s. As far as I know, only Potter’s and the Headmistress have an active connection to the network. Either that or we’d need to go through a private one, unless you want everybody to see you using the Three Broomsticks’. And that’s not even mentioning the way back.”

“Right. Well, we’ll come up with something. But whatever it is we do, I want to do it soon, at least go there to take a look at what they have found. The Malfoys have had far too long with it, we can’t give them any more time.”

“Well, it’s the weekend,” she says. “If there’s ever a time…”

“I can’t. This weekend is when Potter, me and who knows who else is going to bait those invisible bastards in the road. And the tutoring is utterly exhausting, I don’t think it’s a good idea to go when I’m this tired. I’ll probably need to ask a few days off when we decide to go.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:27:59 No.5917495 Report

Quoted By: >>5917497

>>5917492

“Yeah, you looked like crap the whole week. Who did he even find to teach you, anyway?”

“I can’t tell you.”

“Really?”

“Linda, I would honestly love to bitch about it, believe me, nothing would make me happier. But I gave Potter my word. You can ask him if you want to know.”

“Is it worth the hassle, at least?”

The sad thing is that, yes, it had been. Your whole body is aching with that pain from when you go to the gym and pull too much weight, a pain of overexertion throughout every muscle you have, but… You are learning. When you have a demented Death Eater lunging at you, your body and mind just… find ways of staying alive. Even if your conscious mind knows that Potter is somewhere out there watching over you, your lizard brain doesn’t, and that’s what does most of the instant-to-instant fighting. That part of your brain who doesn’t see a teacher, but a predator ready to kill you.

And the lizard brain is getting better at not having his ass whooped.

“Yeah. I mean, I still want to stab Potter with a shard of broken glass for putting me and Arty through it but… Yeah. Potter was right about it.”

--

It’s late in the afternoon and you, Apollo and Linda are at the Three Broomsticks while Arty is working. She has dark circles under her eyes and you can see she’s as tired as you are. You’re trying to study, but your eyes keep on closing and you drool on the book you’re reading more than once.

When Arty's shift is almost over, you pull out a Girding Potion and chug it, allowing its temporary energy to fill you and wake you up.

“I don’t condone the usage of artificial boosters to one’s power, but I’ll allow an exception for today,” Potter’s disembodied voice says, making you jump, hand stopping halfway to your wand. “Hello, you three.”

“Hey,” you whisper. “We’re doing this?”

“We’re trying to do it. Whether we’re doing it or not depends on your attackers. Linda, Apollo, go to the bathroom. Someone will be waiting there to take your place.”

They nod, and Linda turns to you.

“Be careful.”

“I always try to.”

She leaves and as soon as she returns, Apollo goes.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:29:01 No.5917497 Report

Quoted By: >>5917498 >>5917521 >>5917619 >>5917755

>>5917495

“Why did he have to be quite this tall?” Apollo says as he sits back down, frowning, with a tone that isn’t quite his. His robes are the same as they were before, but only slightly less crumpled, as if they had been recently put on instead of worn the whole day.

“You’re only having to deal with height,” Linda says, again slightly off. “I’m having to deal with all this hair. I used to at least tie it up when I was fighting but apparently she just goes with it all loose all the time.”

“Quit complaining, you two,” Arty says in a precise, severe Scottish accent, her mouth pursing disapprovingly. “Let us move. We don’t want to waste polyjuice time.”

Arty gives a forced smile at you as you four leave, though for only a single instant her face turns into a familiar, headmistress-ish frown that makes it very clear to you that you are not to attempt any foolishness.

“Yes, ma’am.”

In one pocket, you have your wand firm in your grasp. In your pouch, two potions you prepared during the week just for this moment (Pick two):

> Edurus Potion, (rocky skin)
> Shrinking Solution
> Erumpent Potion (explosion)
> Garroting Gas (choking)
> Alchemist’s Flashbang (blinding explosion)
> Other (Write in. Non-cannon, made up potions with reasonable effects are allowed)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:30:47 No.5917498 Report

Quoted By: >>5917511 >>5917521 >>5917619 >>5917755

>>5917497
>> Alchemist’s Flashbang (blinding explosion)
> Edurus Potion, (rocky skin)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:39:16 No.5917511 Report

Quoted By: >>5917515

>>5917498
supporting this
rocky skin should be great for defence and the flashbang is probably our most used and reliable creation, better stick with what we know that works

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:41:24 No.5917515 Report

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>>5917511
also no risk of harm to potential bystanders

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Tue 06 Feb 2024 03:46:42 No.5917521 Report

Quoted By:

>>5917498
+1

>>5917497

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>>5917497
>>5917498

Support.

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Tue 06 Feb 2024 08:48:15 No.5917755 Report

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>>5917497
>>5917498
I’ll support that.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 07 Feb 2024 07:50:55 No.5918907 Report

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Whats head QM cooking and how bad is it going to be for out boy?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 07 Feb 2024 08:34:50 No.5918917 Report

Quoted By: >>5918919 >>5918927

>>5917369
It was good, but I think you went too hard on the trauma in the end. For a moment I even thought you were going to reveal there was a Salazar-like creature in her, which would have definitely been an unexpected end. Arty has her problems, but she's not broken in quite that way, I think. Yet knowing someone spent time to write a fic about my quest makes me giddy beyond words, and it's definitely going on the list of things I'm proud of and can never show anyone.

--

You walk down the road to Hogwarts, “Linda”, “Apollo” and “Arty” right behind you. Potter is somewhere under an Ancient and priceless artifact which he uses with as much care as one would use a particularly well worn pair of jeans, and which makes you wince just thinking about it sliding over the grass and mud. But then again, you can’t complain much as the one Ancient artifact you have access to is currently inside a random rock in a pumpkin patch.

You have to stop yourself from putting your arm around Arty more than once, as you don’t want to be turned into a glass vase and dropped once this is all done, so you all go chit-chatting about the most harmless things you can think of. It is sort of funny trying to see the Headmistress try to not sound Scottish and fail miserably, so she remains mostly quiet. Whoever is playing Apollo is quite jumpy and excited, while Linda is swaying her hips just a little too much as she walks.

You notice these discrepancies, but you know them well. The people attacking you… they wouldn’t notice those details, would them? And if they did, would they attribute it to an ambush or to nervousness?

You don’t need to wait long to discover, as the temperature drops suddenly and your sneakoscope begins to sound off.

“I hope you have the Stone with you, little Elliot,” says a voice, always sounding like it’s coming from behind you. “For your own sake, I really, really hope you do.”

You spin in place, back to back to back to back. It’s strange to see the difference in technique between your friends and their impersonators. Apollo, who’s tallest and has the biggest range, is turned just slightly, with his arm just high enough that he can swoop it over Arty’s head immediately if necessary. Linda is slightly crouched, like a coiled spring, ready to pounce at the first signal of a threat. Arty is scanning the environment, her eyes assessing each possible cover, each possible place they could be hiding.

“Revelio!” She shouts, but it has no effect. If the headmistress’ revelio didn’t work to show where they are…

“Why? What will you do if I don’t have it? Kill me? Kill us?”

“Oh no, nothing that crude. There are many ways of making someone talk, though I can guarantee you none of them are pleasant.”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 07 Feb 2024 08:35:52 No.5918919 Report

Quoted By: >>5918921 >>5919400

>>5918917

“So you’re going to torture us,” you say. Potter had asked you to stall, and you’re going to do it for as long as you can. “Big talk for someone who claims to be fighting dark lords. Because that’s what Voldemort and his goons did!”

“And if someone had yanked him from that path when he was a child, if Albus Dumbledore had put an end to the threat he saw in Hogwarts, Britain wouldn’t have seen the horrors of the wizarding war! If Tom Riddle had been ended then, there would have been no need for the Boy-who-lived! No need for the Order of the Phoenix, or the Battle of Hogwarts! Other fools might not be willing to get their hands dirty to ensure no other dark lord rises, but I am!”

“Oh, sure,” Arty spits, disgusted, not quite hiding the Scottish accent. “So you are doing this for the greater good, then.”

Before Voldemort, there had been Grindewald, who had taken the world into a wizarding war, promising wizards they could take the world from the muggles, for their own good. He’d brought war upon the world and tore through Europe like a wounded animal, as his slogan said, “For the Greater Good”.

The voice hesitates.

“Grindelwald also enjoyed drinking wine and breathing, little girl. Are you going to say those are wrong too, just because he also did those things?”

“I don’t think there’s anyone on earth that would say the good people are the ones threatening kids because they think they’re doing dark magic!” You shout.

“Think? Oh no, I have plenty of evidence. More than enough to get you taken away if you hadn’t worked your magic on Potter. How your friend ‘mysteriously’ disappeared in a cave under Hogwarts filled with corrupted goblin silver. How the records of the school have no knowledge of you. How when you appeared, the prophecies stopped. And how you’re trying to hide it from us with Occlumency.”

Your mind races, trying to figure out who these people could be. Potter had said very few people knew of you being missing from the school records. Was this someone from Hogwarts? A group of rogue teachers? How did they know all of this?

“Now, little boy who wants to be a dark lord… The Stone, please. This is the last time I’ll ask nicely.”

“Yes,” says another disembodied voice, one you trust. “It will be the last time. Fragorus Involvunt!”

There’s a loud, crashing sound, and for a moment it looks as if reality itself has cracked, starting at the floating tip of a wand a few meters to your left and ending on a suddenly-visible and screaming man on your right, his arm neatly separated from his body. Immediately, the little road to Hogsmeade lights up with spells as the fake Arty, Apollo and Linda fire their own volley of curses.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Wed 07 Feb 2024 08:36:53 No.5918921 Report

Quoted By: >>5918923 >>5918929 >>5918953

>>5918919

In an instant, Apollo is dueling two people at a time, clashes of colors and flashes of bright light between him and them. Linda is running, faster than you've ever seen her run, sending bolts across the field with terrifying precision, while Potter is bringing down unknown spell after unknown spell. Arty is by you, dozens of shards of reflective, glass-like barrier coming out of her wand and jumping at any spell that approaches you two.

Why, yes, you think that’s a good time to drink your Edurus potion. It is an uncomfortable sensation as you feel yourself sweat stone, forming a protective barrier over your skin, but you suppose it is more comfortable than losing an arm, like that other guy. In fact, having lost an arm once, you are certain it is.

There are six of them, all using black masks, and Potter and the others are not winning easily, your attackers clearly being incredibly competent and dishing out powerful spells of their own.

Now, "Arty" is too busy protecting you, but perhaps you can do some damage of your own.

> Roll a d100+23 ( +33 from Battle Magic, -30 from exhaustion from the tutoring, +15 from the Girding Potion, +5 from the Edurus potion). Bo3, DC 75

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 07 Feb 2024 08:45:42 No.5918923 Report

Quoted By: >>5918927 >>5918953

Rolled 52 + 23 (1d100 + 23)

>>5918921

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Wed 07 Feb 2024 09:02:58 No.5918927 Report

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>>5918917
Thanks Qm. I'm glad you have something you can never show someone but made you happy. I did go a bit hard on the trauma and angst at the end but I figured Apollo shouldn't be the only one to enjoy a slight mental breakdown for the holidays and if he is that fucked up, Arty probably isn't that far behind; just better at hiding it, most of the time. Also comes from the fact I have had a couple of girls get pretty weird on me post sex. One literally asked me to burn her with a cigarette and later give her some cutting scars on her thigh. I declined.

I might write something up later on when IG time has progressed more and if I do, it will be way less angst filled and hopefully shorter. I was Aiming for like 10-12 pages when I started.

>>5918923
Also yeah, just good enough. That -30 is fucking rough.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Wed 07 Feb 2024 09:09:24 No.5918929 Report

Quoted By: >>5918953 >>5919577

Rolled 6 + 23 (1d100 + 23)

>>5918921
>They're wearing evil henchman outfits and threatening to torture children
>"We're the good guys!"
Sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Wed 07 Feb 2024 10:14:29 No.5918953 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 25 + 23 (1d100 + 23)

>>5918921

>>5918923
holy shit! literally JUST enough, i´ll roll too just in case

>>5918929
fuck, this one hurts

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Wed 07 Feb 2024 20:59:20 No.5919400 Report

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>>5918919
wasn't expecting to reveal someone by fucking slicing his arm off

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Wed 07 Feb 2024 23:38:05 No.5919577 Report

Quoted By: >>5919606

>>5918929
To be fair, we ARE the good guys, and our MC is under suspicion precisely because he gets off on being unnecessarily sinister (and, admittedly, because he has a bunch of dark secrets he can't share... "for the greater good"). We have a fair amount in common with Malfoy, or whoever this is.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 08 Feb 2024 00:01:55 No.5919606 Report

Quoted By: >>5919614

>>5919577
Being unnecessarily sinister was more Linda's thing. Elliot just really liked Indiana Jones and the Disney Atlantis movie.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 08 Feb 2024 00:05:29 No.5919614 Report

Quoted By: >>5919642

>>5919606
I mean, "Dark Lord Hallister" is probably the wizarding world equivalent of going around calling yourself "Fuhrer Hallister".

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 00:31:01 No.5919642 Report

Quoted By: >>5919659

>>5919614
All hail Führer Hallaster.
Post this for big dick rolls.

To be fair it was us saying that in his head. The best he ever did was just Lord Hallaster.

The fact one of the things Potter said was kinda suspicious is that we have scars from a childhood injury is funny.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p1LvaAYU Thu 08 Feb 2024 00:51:50 No.5919659 Report

Quoted By: >>5919682

>>5919642
Harry's scar contained a fragment of a Dark Lord's soul, sooo...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 01:21:35 No.5919682 Report

Quoted By: >>5919689

>>5919659
I guess that is fair. Maybe he was just jealous our scars are much more manly and badass than a gay little lightning bolt no one can see because he needs a hair cut?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Thu 08 Feb 2024 01:30:07 No.5919689 Report

Quoted By: >>5919710

>>5919682
The fact that reality itself had to rewrite itself to explain Elliot's fucked up arm and that the cover story that replaced the truth was something like "Elliot was a particularly retarded child and groped the innards of a breaker box" is really funny to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 01:50:32 No.5919710 Report

Quoted By: >>5919725

>>5919689
Not even a breaker box, a damn substation. He had to work to be that retarded.

It is probably one of the better covers, just because there are surely pictures and hospital records from when it happened and we still have them because we didn't know we were a wizard and they healed. Still funny.

I stuck my finger in a C4 sized Christmas light socket when I was like 3 and had my heart stop briefly, I have no room to talk about being retarded around electricity.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 08 Feb 2024 02:09:35 No.5919725 Report

Quoted By: >>5919853

>>5919710
stuck tweezers in an outlet once and somehow nothing happened outside of my parents getting mad and the bathroom losing power

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 04:09:04 No.5919853 Report

Quoted By:

>>5919725
Lol, sounds like you got pretty lucky. Knew a guy who had been struck by lightning fucking twice. Granted storm chasing was one of his hobbies, soooo.

Looking at BCJs wiki page, I saw that the house elf from before, Winky, was the Crouch's old elf. I am now paranoid she is going to find out he is alive and rescue him, giving us another threat to deal with.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:16:15 No.5919953 Report

Quoted By: >>5919974

page 10 lads

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:33:55 No.5919957 Report

Quoted By: >>5919958

You start taking potshots at the hooded figures, if not to hurt them, then to at least cause interference. Between summoning more shields, Minerva is transfiguring statues from the floor and bringing them to life, and they jump at the attackers with stone axes and swords and hammers. You’ve never seen anything like this. Your battles from Battle Class have some semblance of order and cohesion, but this? This is utter chaos.

This is ten grown and well-trained adults at the height of their power fighting to kill each other, no-holds-barred.

It is utterly terrifying.

“Run away!” You hear one of the masked figures shout.

“We can’t! They blocked apparition!”

You hear the roar of fire, and turn to see what appears to be a great beast made of blood-red fire. Where it steps, it turns the grass to cinders and the ground into charred stone, droplets of crimson flames falling and spreading through where it passes.

“Fiendfyre!” Linda shouts, and you hear honest fear in her voice.

Arty immediately turns to the fire creature, all her statues stopping where they stand and charging at it. The masked figures use the distraction to try to turn and run as you look at the flaming creature with horror.

And, as if you were fighting Crouch, senses heightened, from just the corner of your eye you see a brief flash of light in your direction. Time seems to move in slow-motion as your brain sees it, recognizes the threat, sees there’s no way to avoid it entirely, and finds the way to not die.

It’s a millisecond between the blink of the Ifullia Lumina and it opening a millimeter-wide hole in your shoulder, and not in your heart, which had been in that spot an instant earlier.

“Gah!” You shout as you fall to the ground clutching the injury. The masked figures try to flee, taking advantage of the all consuming curse of fire and running away to reach the edge of Potter’s enchantment. Potter spares a glance at you, but you’re already casting again with blood pouring between your fingers, so he turns to the men fleeing, sending out ropes that try to envelop them and flames to block their way.

Linda and Arty are fighting the beast, Apollo has one of the figures collapsed on the floor by his feet with an enormous purple thing on their forehead bleeding copious amounts of blood, still dueling the other. The man’s distracted for just an instant as he notices his friends dashing away, then turns away to do the same, only to run directly into a Slow Blade of Unusually Specific Destruction that Apollo had cast moments before, at which point his entire body explodes violently into ash and a final scream of horror.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:34:57 No.5919958 Report

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>>5919957

Of the six who attacked you, three are dead and the other three manage to apparate away. Potter and the others spend several minutes containing and extinguishing the Fiendfyre, which does prove to be a struggle to do safely, while you try to contain the bleeding on your shoulder without much success. You’re almost passing out when someone comes to help you.

“That spell makes a wound too clean for most spells,” Linda says as she reaches into a pouch the real Linda didn’t own. She pulls a potion and hands it to you and you drink it eagerly. “Spells prefer torn and broken, with rough edges. Potions do better with holes as clean cut as these.”

“This is just plain Wiggenweld?” You ask, looking at the bottle, impressed.

“Recognized it by taste? Either you send too much time getting injured or you’re an impressive potion-maker.”

“Unfortunately, both.”

“Heh. Yeah. Ifullia Lumina doesn’t make a big injury. It doesn’t have to. You hit someone’s heart or brain with it, chances are they’re gone before they can get to a cauldron. It’s also hard as hell to aim properly. Whoever cast it at you was good, but, then again,” she says, waving at the utterly destroyed field around you. “That was a given.”

“Minerva, Fillius, come look at this!” Potter shouts, close to the body Apollo, or apparently Flitwick, had killed. The other one had been caught by Potter’s ropes, but fell into the fire and burned to death. You approach too, even though you haven’t been called.

“No!” Minerva says in Arty’s voice, shocked. “Surely not!”

“Wait,” you say, recognizing the face. You’ve only seen him once before but… “That’s… That guy! From the restaurant!”

“Auror Solomon Garrostill, also known as Garro, an animagus and part of the Minister’s personal guard,” Potter says, as if the words were foul. “Looks like I may need to go have a chat with my good friend.”

--

The Headmistress office is the single most interesting room you’ve ever been in.

There are tiny metal mechanisms that whir or tick or slowly change shape or emit little puffs of smoke.There are dozens of mysterious fluids in dozens of oddly shaped containers, all bubbling, boiling, oozing, changing color, or forming into interesting shapes that vanish half a second after you see them. There are things that look like clocks with many hands, inscribed with numbers or in unrecognizable languages. There is a bracelet bearing a lenticular crystal that sparkled with a thousand colors, and an empty bird-perching spot long empty, and a statue of a falcon encrusted in black enamel. The wall is all hung with pictures of people sleeping, and the Sorting Hat is casually poised on a hat rack that is also holding two umbrellas and three red slippers for left feet and, in a glass display to the side, is the Sword of Gryffindor.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:36:12 No.5919959 Report

Quoted By: >>5919963

>>5919958

There are also two recently-deceased bodies in a corner (one identifiable, the other a charred husk), the Headmistress sitting behind a black oaken desk, the Man-who-lived who is saying goodbye to his no-longer-transformed-in-Linda wife, and Flitwick, who has just been informed of the totality of the situation and is quite bothered by all of it.

Once Ginny leaves by Floo, it is time to discuss the new developments.

“We need to call Hermione here.”

“If she was the one who sent them,” Minerva says. “She won’t come.”

“Then that’s a good way of figuring out if I need to start plotting how to overthrow the government.”

There is a very deep and real silence at that.

“She’ll discover what happened sooner or later. She must be missing them already.”

Minerva sighs. “Very well. But I don’t believe that is a conversation a student should participate in, even if the student in question was… directly involved in the incident.”

“Indeed,” Potter nods. “I believe your part in this is done for now, Elliot.”

“Are you sure?” You ask, without the strength to fight about it.

“If you are here, there will be things that we won’t be able to say, and this conversation needs to be as open as possible. I’ll need to ask things she might not want a sixth-year student to know, such as what exactly was that cloaking spell they were using, because I’ve honestly never seen anything like it, and other such interesting things.”

“And besides,” McGonagall says, face serious. “We’re no longer at war. Teenagers should not be fighting with adults, nor watching them die. I’m sorry that you had to go through this, Elliot, but if there is to be more violence today… Well, I insist you have no part in it. Go now, please, and try to sleep. I’ll let Madam Pomfrey know that you are to be given Dreamless Sleep Potions, if you require them.”

--

You return to the Slytherin Common Room, your head still spinning from the events of the night, as if you were dizzy, walking through mist. Two familiar faces are waiting for you at the entrance.

“Elliot!” Arty says, running at you and crashing into your chest. “Are you ok?”

“I am…” You say in a tired voice. “Where’s Apollo?”

“He said he couldn’t help you either way, so he went to sleep.”

You give a half-hearted laugh. “Yeah, that sounds like him.”

“So, did you get them?” Linda asks, coming closer.

“Three of the six are dead. One lost his arm. And here’s the kicker… They were Hermione’s men.”

“What!?”

“Yep. They’re discussing if she knew about it or if they went behind her back. That’s how they knew so much. They were always close to her, knew what she knew.”

“Doesn’t explain how they knew you had the Stone.”

“The Unspeakables could have some form of knowing, maybe. But my bet is Scorpius. Or Salazar. They seemed pretty certain I was a dark lord in the making, and he was the only other person we’re sure knows about it.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:37:13 No.5919963 Report

Quoted By: >>5919969 >>5919975 >>5919979 >>5919993 >>5919999 >>5920001 >>5920466

>>5919959

“So… what now?”

“I…” You open your mouth to answer, but there are no words. It takes you a long while to admit it. “I don’t know. I need to… sleep. Think. And if the Ministry is still standing tomorrow morning… Figure out how we’re getting into St. Mungus. Figure out how to get to Avalon.”

In any other day, that last sentence would have filled you with joy. Now it fills you with dread.

--

The night is troubled, and you dream of the battle. You dream of being struck by a Slow Blade of Unusually Specific Destruction, of burning in Fiendfyre, of having a bolt of light strike through your heart. You dream of masked figures in the night. You dream of a creature of darkness, breaking your every bone. You dream of Lily Potter, standing over you with a smile that isn’t hers. Except this time, there is no Raven to save you, and her killing curse hits true.

And then arms wrap around you, as if they were pulling you from a pool of sorrow in which you were drowning.

Helga hugs you as the reality of what happened, of what could have happened, passes through you. In the moment, in the heat of the battle, you had fought. But now that you have time to think… Death washes over you in waves of terror, and she soothes and holds you until you stop shaking.

You still wake up covered in sweat, but at least not screaming.

A small note on your bedside table reads: “The Ministry stands, for now. Two of the three others were caught. The armless is on the run. - H. J. P.” It burns away harmlessly once you're done reading it.

So Granger had convinced Potter she didn’t know about her men. Whether that was true or not was something else entirely.

And, because Hogwarts keeps on moving… you have classes to attend.

> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+5 to Battle Magic, -30 to all rolls during the week)
> Skip tutoring this week

And with your free time… (Pick 2. If attending tutoring only the most voted will be selected. Otherwise, the top 2 will.)

> Prepare potions for a future journey
> Attempt to go to St. Mungus (How?)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:48:03 No.5919969 Report

Quoted By: >>5919979

>>5919963
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
Arty
> Attempt to go to St. Mungus (How?)
Thestrals, or something else, maybe? Something that can transport us quickly.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:52:50 No.5919974 Report

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>>5919953
Hopefully I can get to the endpoint I want before the thread drops off, but if I can't, I already archived it. Don't forget to vote!

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:53:09 No.5919975 Report

Quoted By: >>5920000

>>5919963
>Skip tutoring this week
>Prepare potions for a future journey
>Attempt to go to St. Mungus (How?)
The room of Requirement. Spawn it with "I need a quick and discrete way to go to St. Mungus".

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:58:17 No.5919979 Report

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>>5919963
Oh, right, and
> Skip tutoring this week
in addition to >>5919969

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Anonymous ID:2JTuK8zY Thu 08 Feb 2024 07:22:01 No.5919993 Report

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>>5919963
>Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+5 to Battle Magic, -30 to all rolls during the week)
much as i hate bad rolls, this one is for a more promising future, i say cash in as much as possible now that we have the possibility and security of doing so, we can skip them later, im also NOT letting Arty go fight that fucker alone, i know for a fact she aint stopping even if we dont go

>Other (Write in)
>learn about The Ministry and Death Eaters
if we figure out who is working there, we know who to avoid and maybe even how to avoid them, might be a stretch, but knowledge is half the battle here, might also give us a connection to Salazar
my only problem with this is...how do we learn about it...i know the Hogwarts library is big, but im not sure it contains such info even in the restricted section...maybe Potter?

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 07:53:29 No.5919999 Report

Quoted By: >>5920364 >>5920377

>>5919963
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+5 to Battle Magic, -30 to all rolls during the week)

> Prepare potions for a future journey

Well, I guess I was wrong about Draco, but really Hermione? You nose bitch whore cunt. Fucking hit wizards? I don't buy it for a fucking minute she didn't know, at the least.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 07:54:56 No.5920000 Report

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>>5919975
I bet it might be able to spawn a room with a floo-place, so that is a good idea for when we do go.

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Anonymous ID:GTXddyMw Thu 08 Feb 2024 07:57:13 No.5920001 Report

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>>5919963
>Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+5 to Battle Magic, -30 to all rolls during the week)
>Prep for St. Mungus (Potions, General Planning)

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 08 Feb 2024 16:52:10 No.5920364 Report

Quoted By: >>5920377

>>5919999
Could be a renegade cell. Like a 'Magnum Force' of aurors.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:rjVsGcUh Thu 08 Feb 2024 17:14:22 No.5920377 Report

Quoted By: >>5920391

>>5920364
>>5919999

They were calling us "Little Elliott"

At minimum, something's up there.

Also it's possible Salazar also awakened. He joined a family of MAJOR slytherins. much more likely to awaken vs Helga with us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 08 Feb 2024 17:35:34 No.5920391 Report

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>>5920377
I don't know, we're pretty 'Puff for a Snakeboi, and our waifu and her bro are Hufflepuffs.

But yeah, Salazar may well have figured out what's what with his true identity. I just have trouble buying that Hermione Granger-Weasley authorized a hit on a kid, let alone a kid who her best bud trusts.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 08 Feb 2024 18:35:59 No.5920466 Report

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>>5919963
>> Skip tutoring this week
think we already had enough near-death this week

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 21:17:03 No.5920628 Report

Quoted By: >>5920630

After classes on Monday, you and Arty go to Potter’s office, both for your tutoring but because you need to talk to him about, well, everything.

“She seemed as shocked as you’d expect if she was innocent,” Potter says. “But whether she was acting or not, I cannot say. But the two who escaped intact are now in Nurmengard, that much I can attest for myself. Ron also seemed to take it seriously that they had rogue aurors, most of all ones so high in the ladder. Only three of them were from her personal guard, two of the others were from other high-efficiency departments, but colleagues or friends with those in the Minister’s personal guard.”

“Did the two who were captured say anything?”

“No. Aurors at that level are Occluments, and trained to resist torture or coercion. They’ll die before saying anything. We’re not sure who the last one who escaped is, since all other aurors are accounted for, and with their arms, except for Eustace but he lost his arm a couple of years ago so he doesn't count. And yes, I checked on the Malfoys, they both had trustworthy alibis for the night and still have both arms.”

“So you think it was just… a rogue group?”

“I think nothing, I know nothing. But I have made it clear to the Minister that I will hold her personally responsible if something like this happens again. The Daily Prophet is reporting on strange lights on the road to Hogsmeade, and I’ve politely let her know it is her mess to clean up.”

“And them being invisible? No revelio got through that!”

“It’s a new spell, made to bypass the most common methods of scrying. Sneakoscopes still catch that they’re around but not their precise location. I had to find where they were by looking at boot imprints in the grass and mud.”

“It sounds… irresponsible to unleash that spell on the world without a proper counter to it!”

“It was supposed to be a secret. Only the Unspeakables, the Head Auror and the Minister were meant to know, and it was supposed to be used in covert, secret operations. Unfortunately, as with everything else, her guard heard when she was informed about it.”

“Don’t they have Unbreakable Vows!?”

“They do, in which they vow to not hurt, harm or kill the minister or hurt, harm or plot against Magical Britain. They are, however, allowed to choose between greater and lesser evils, if necessary to perform their jobs. It appears they viewed you as a greater evil to be eliminated.” He grins. “You should be proud, Elliot. You had seasoned aurors scared of you enough that they thought attacking you was more important than keeping watch over the Minister.”

You bury your face in your hands.

“You wouldn’t happen to have learned that hiding spell, would you?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 21:18:05 No.5920630 Report

Quoted By: >>5920634

>>5920628

“Unfortunately not. But I suspect they won’t try to attack you again, now that they know who you have by your side. And Flitwick has informed both me and the Headmistress that he severely disapproves of all this Gryfindoring you’ve been doing, and that if you were in his house, he’d have you transferred. So maybe don’t let Slughorn know, huh? Well, are you ready for your tutoring?”

You hang your head, as a man going to the guillotine, and head to the fireplace.

--

When you reach the ruined shack, you are surprised to not be immediately attacked.

“Ah, children, finally here,” he says, with a manic smile, licking his lips. “And with a haunted look, no less. Well, Potter wants me to be your teacher. Potter wants me to teach you to kill. But if I attack you… well, that just isn’t fun, isn’t it? We know how that ends. So let’s drop wands for now.”

He draws a circle in the rock with his wand, then carelessly tosses it away.

“I can’t move away from this circle. Try to hit me.”

You soon realize that when you’re not worried with your wand and with what spell you’ll cast next, it’s easier to pay attention to what he’s doing and react to it. You even manage to land a few blows, now and then. Arty too, but she lacks the weight and power necessary to make the punches and kicks really hit. Once the hour starts to come to a close, he makes you do a bunch of exercises, including pushups and pullups and situps, mocking you all the time and pressing his foot over you to make things harder. When Potter comes to pick you up, your arms and legs feel like they’re about to fall off.

You smell like sweat and grime and pain, and every day of the week you collapse in bed immediately after getting back.

> +5 to Battle Rolls! New total: +38!

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Thu 08 Feb 2024 21:19:07 No.5920634 Report

Quoted By: >>5920640 >>5920650 >>5920688 >>5920711 >>5920747 >>5920752 >>5920762 >>5920770 >>5921101

>>5920630

On the times you aren’t forcing yourself to stay awake in class - or in the case of Potions, just sleeping through it because you already know what’s being taught - you are planning on more potions to take with you in the future.

You start by making Wiggenweld Potions, you’ve seen how useful they can be. A lot of spells will simply take you out, but there are plenty of times and places where something to patch your injuries would have been helpful. Then, you move on to more utility potions, which is about the time Arty appears on friday, before your apparition classes. She has deep dark circles under her eyes, and she looks utterly exhausted.

“Heeey…” She says, kissing your cheek. “Could your girlfriend ask you to make something for her?”

“Always.”

“Could… could you make me one of those potions that give you energy? It’s… It’s been a long week, and I have work tomorrow.”

“It’s been a long week because you’ve been trying to train your troops, get private battling and occlumency classes, study and work at the same time,” you say, frowning.

“Yeah, but I can do it! I just… need to get used to it.”

“Arty, you’re falling asleep on my shoulder and it’s been only two weeks of tutoring.”

“I know, I just haven’t gotten the hang of all that yet. And you have comfortable shoulders. I mean, I could do it myself, but I figured I should ask my handsome boyfriend to make it for me. Pleeeease?”

> Brew a Girding Potion for her
> Refuse to brew it
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 08 Feb 2024 21:31:35 No.5920640 Report

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>>5920634
>> Refuse to brew it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 08 Feb 2024 21:40:46 No.5920650 Report

Quoted By: >>5920752

>>5920634
> Brew a Girding Potion for her
Least we can do, really.

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Anonymous ID:g7ihPiIS Thu 08 Feb 2024 22:06:50 No.5920688 Report

Quoted By:

>>5920634
>> Brew a Girding Potion for her

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Thu 08 Feb 2024 22:20:40 No.5920711 Report

Quoted By:

>>5920634
>Other (Write in)
>Brew a potion for her but only if she promises to drop something
we dropped the battles and even then we are still exhausted, its a miracle she is still standing

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 22:41:42 No.5920747 Report

Quoted By: >>5920752 >>5920762 >>5921101

>>5920634
> Brew a Girding Potion for her
>Talk to her

As cute as a meth-potion addict girlfriend is, we might want to talk to her about limits. Like, these can get addicting, and if she is this bad before the Team Battles have even started, she might need to change her expectations a bit.
When we eventually have to go to Avalon, if she wants to come which I am sure she will want, she is going to be a liability like this. As well, we are rocking a minus 30 due to BCJ's training, as a relatively healthy, magically normal 6th year with no extra job. Our grades are going to take a hit but she has OWLs this year. She might snap at as! Ohhh, first couples fight!

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Thu 08 Feb 2024 22:47:54 No.5920752 Report

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>>5920747
I can also support having a talk.

>>5920634
Adding that to >>5920650

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 22:55:45 No.5920762 Report

Quoted By: >>5920777

>>5920634
>>5920747

Just to expound, we are fighting so everyone has a future, Arty as well. Fucking up her grades or getting let go from her job because she is to tired to do the job is not what we want. We want her to be safe, ergo battle training and Occulemency, but we also want her to be happy. I don't think she is going to be happy failing her exams, fucking her army over by being too exhausted to lead, failing Hannah by not being as good of as an employee as she could be, not being able to pursue her hobbies, ect.

I do love that BCJ is actually trying to train us though. Guy is bug fuck but maybe there is a good reason Potter kept him around. He isn't just trying to torture us. He is getting results.

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Anonymous ID:DqaSTMRc Thu 08 Feb 2024 23:01:10 No.5920770 Report

Quoted By: >>5920799

>>5920634
>> Refuse to brew it
There might be such thing as too much hard work

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Thu 08 Feb 2024 23:03:19 No.5920777 Report

Quoted By: >>5920799

>>5920762
he's just sane enough to be a good battle teacher

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Thu 08 Feb 2024 23:26:22 No.5920799 Report

Quoted By: >>5920810

>>5920770
I think giving her this with a talk is a good idea. She can actually do it herself or even just buy one in Hogsmead if we don't help her some. I don't want her to get addicted to them or dependent but she is going to go to work tomorrow regardless.
When we get her a Valentine's gift, maybe we could see if Mom and Dad can somehow get a case of Bang energy drink sent to Hogwarts?

>>5920777
I actually am starting to like him more than I though I would. Like he is helping us get buff before we need to give Arty a shirtless selfie, for one thing. Maybe he just wants to get us good enough we can actually kill him? He is living in solitary confinement on a fucking rock. Maybe he actually feels bad, to what ever degree someone like him can, and like getting Elliot good enough to take him down is his redemption? I could see his final test being hurting Arty, hurting her bad, and putting her in a position Potter can't 100% save her and making us kill him. Potter did say we needed to find the will to kill.

We also now have a higher bonus than Lily had thread 1. Congrats.

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Anonymous ID:FB1PyFae Thu 08 Feb 2024 23:40:46 No.5920810 Report

Quoted By: >>5921180

>>5920799
>I could see his final test being hurting Arty, hurting her bad, and putting her in a position Potter can't 100% save her and making us kill him
im gonna be conflicted if this ever happens, im also starting to like him, despite him being an actual schyzo, he is doing more than almost our entire time in battle classes so far, so its gonna hurt if it ever happens

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Anonymous ID:H9kPp9uZ Fri 09 Feb 2024 05:06:42 No.5921101 Report

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>>5920634
>>5920747
+1

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:00:28 No.5921180 Report

Quoted By: >>5921188

>>5920810
>he is doing more than almost our entire time in battle classes so far

Honestly, it is a pretty good deal right now. A +5 per week, albeit with a -30 to shit we have to roll for is great. If we had rolled really well on our 1st session with him, I wonder if it would be even higher? If we can squeeze in 2 more weeks, we will have a higher bonus than "base" Lily had during Thread #2; a 7th year who had been pushed since she was a child by an evil ghost to be prepared to do what ever he needed.

We can also, as long as not too many people are around, probably ask Helga for some help with stuff. With her, we would only end up having a -5. If she can help us ice skate and try to beat McGonagall at chess, she can probably do more than just help in fights. Also strengthens our connection.

Hell, even 1 more week of training and we are only 2 points off from base Lily. With a +43 from training, +25 from Helga, +15 from a girding potion, and +5 from an Edurus and no malus from being tired, we actually beat Potter's "playing around" bonus with +88 total.

I think I will advise 1 more week, then take the next off to try and scout out St. Mungus maybe. Or get in some transfiguration training with Apollo if we aren't feeling the time crunch too much. Maybe start brewing our Polyjuice since we have had the stuff for like 3 months now.

Should we bring Most Potente and Stars in the Dark back to Potter so they can go back into the Restricted Section at some point?

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:13:54 No.5921186 Report

Quoted By: >>5921192

Jesus the polyjuice was really the right choice to make. Potter would have been up shit creek without a latter if it was just him AND he had to make sure three kids didn't get turbofucked.
Who do you reckon was in Linda and Apollo?

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Anonymous ID:5VbniiVi Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:16:17 No.5921188 Report

Quoted By: >>5921190 >>5921196 >>5921595

>>5921180
>Should we bring Most Potente and Stars in the Dark back to Potter so they can go back into the Restricted Section at some point?
honestly? i completely forgot we had those, i think we should, we´ve probably already learn as much as we can learn from it without under our current circumstances, we are not really gonna use it more than what we have
we can always get it back later if we need it...i think

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Anonymous ID:5VbniiVi Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:20:39 No.5921190 Report

Quoted By: >>5921196

>>5921188
>another ID
god dammit, this is like the 7th time i´ve changed ID´s, fuck this internet company or whatever is making this happen

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:25:46 No.5921192 Report

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>>5921186
Linda was Ginny and Apollo was Flitwick. I always loved that little half-goblin bastard. Taking on 2 super magic cops and killing 1 while in a body 3 feet taller than his own? Based. I was thinking Linda was going to be Irakey or who ever, the transfiguration teacher, but I should have known after QM described how fast she could move.

Yeah, the polyjuice helped a ton GJ on who suggested it, pulled its weight. I don't doubt Potter could have driven them off, probably taken a couple out but we probably would have needed to hold out for a full 3 rounds if it was just him.

Our biggest contribution to the fight was just not getting shot in the heart with a laser which is sad.

Once one of them pulled out Fiendfyre, I was like, well fuck. Pretty dark magic for the magic cops to be using.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:32:46 No.5921196 Report

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>>5921188
>>5921190

We have completely read and taken notes on Most Potente so that is good and without Taylor, we don't have anyone who could probably even understand SitD. Its not like we have to worry about Potter finding about Merlin's last light now, since they already found the repository's remains. Maybe we can convince him to let us check something else out, since it is apparent we have ways of getting the books regardless? Not sure if Linda still wants the Demon book now but IDK.

You might want to link back to your prior ID, in case it is a close vote and 1 or low ID votes get dismissed.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:59:55 No.5921212 Report

Quoted By: >>5921213 >>5921675 >>5922109

Your mom is friends with plenty of other lawyers, some who make much more money than her. As you were growing up, you’d hear how these people worked and worked, and as you got older, you heard about how they overworked and overworked, and how a lot of them used “alternative substances” to manage to keep up the freakish pace they had built for themselves. You also heard how they had died of heart attacks or overdoses.

While you don’t think Arty’s case is that severe, well… To hear your girlfriend ask for the overpowered wizard version of redbull to do something you know she’s going to keep on doing over and over again… it’s worrying.

“I’ll brew it for you… once.”

“Ok, you can teach me how to do it well and I’ll brew more later!”

“No, Arty, that’s not what I meant. I meant that there's a reason that when we went to talk to Potter the other day, he was asleep instead of chugging these potions every night. They’re good for a day when things go poorly and you need a pick-me-up, not for you to drink every day. That’s what sleep is for.”

“But it isn’t every day!” She says, sounding bothered. “It’s just until I get used to all this!”

“Right. How many hours did you sleep yesterday?”

“Well, I went to sleep at three because I had to do Binn’s paper for today, because I hadn’t even started, and then ten inches on powdered bicorn horn from Slughorn, then I woke up at seven to go talk to the house-elves while they’re making breakfast, then I had classes,” She says, counting on her fingers. “So I slept half and hour in History of Magic, then I got a nap at lunch, then I had training with my army, then a quick nap before dinner, then we had tutoring, but when I came back I still had to finish up Flitwick’s homework, so I didn’t manage to go to bed until after midnight. So that’s what, seven, almost eight?”

“That’s five, Arty. With me being generous with your naps.”

“It’s fine! I’m fine!”

“How? Are you going to create more time out of thin air? Unless you somehow have a time-turner, that isn’t happening! No amount of ‘getting used to it’ will fix five hours of sleep a day!”

“Your potion will!”

“That’s not what the potion is made for!” You say, exasperated.

“There are a lot of things that aren’t made to do certain things, but we still use them for it when we need to!”

“Like what?”

“I don’t know! The Room of Requirement wasn’t made to be used as a firing range!”

“What!? It was made to be anything you want! That’s stupid!”

“Don’t call me stupid!”

“I’m not! I’m saying that that comparison is stupid! There’s a difference!”

“If you don’t want to make the damn potion you can just say so!”

“The ‘damn potion’ will give you a heart attack before you’re thirty-five if you keep drinking it with that routine!”

“I’ll be dead by thirty-five, what do I care!?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:00:57 No.5921213 Report

Quoted By: >>5921214 >>5922109

>>5921212

There’s a silence in the room, a mix of anger and shame and… stuff that you can’t even tell. She's tired and exhausted, and so are you, and that's no position to have a level-headed conversation.

“Sorry.”

“Arty…” You say softly. “I know you think-”

“I don’t think.” She says, still angry, but at least not shouting anymore. “I know. They took me to every doctor St. Mungus had to offer. They all said the same thing.”

“That still doesn’t mean you should rush through life like that. Life isn’t about doing everything, but doing it well. Please don’t break yourself trying to do everything at once, because no one can do it. We’re fighting Salazar for our future, and it doesn’t make sense to fly by it without enjoying it.”

“But if I don’t go to the armies I’ll disappoint them, and if I stop working on the Three Broomsticks I’ll disappoint Hannah, and I can’t stop tutoring and you asked me to talk to the elves, and-”

“Artemis Pertinger,” you speak without wanting, and your voice is not quite yours. It is softer than you could ever make it, kinder than you could ever be. Your eyes shift from green to blue. “A thousand years ago I created the Hufflepuff house to gather those who are loyal, and those who are hardworking. And you have those qualities to a fault. But much like too much courage can become the imprudence that kills the Gryffindor, there can be such a thing as too much loyalty and too much willingness to work hard.”

“Those who are too loyal won’t question their leader, even when they are leading them into the abyss. And those who work too hard will waste their soul away with no time for themselves. You wouldn’t allow your friends to do that to themselves, you would not allow your boyfriend to do it to himself, because that would not be kind. You would tell them to stop. You would tell them to breathe. Why do you forget… to be that kind to yourself?”

Arty looks at you, shocked. Your eyes go back to their usual green and you regain control of your body.

“I apologize, Elliot,” Helga says in your head. “But I had to pull my student out of her path of self-destruction.”

“It’s fine,” you say as Arty bursts into tears against your chest. “I think I can forgive you for that.”

--

Arty sleeps in your arms, still standing up, so you sit down with her head on your lap. You pick up her bag, shuffle through a few things until you find her potions homework. Your copy of her handwriting is far from perfect, but if Slughorn complains you can always put the blame on some new Spell-checking Quill.

Once you finish her homework, you simply sit there, weaving your hand through her hair gently, until the time of your Apparition classes comes close. You pull yourself from under her, look around at the empty classroom and whisper.

“Winky?”

There’s a whooping sound and the house-elf appears in front of you.

“Yes, young master?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:01:59 No.5921214 Report

Quoted By: >>5921215

>>5921213

“Arty is very tired and needs to sleep for a while. Could make sure no one bothers her?”

“Winky can take her to her bed if you prefer, sir. That bench doesn’t look very comfortable.”

“Can you do it without waking her up?”

“Winky is very careful, sir.” She says, nodding.

“Then do it. And, ah,” you pull a Girding Potion out of your pouch and scribble If you really need it. “Place this on her bedside table, please.”

“Yes, young master.”

She touches Arty and they disappear.

--

Apparition goes better than usual, and by better than usual you mean that now over half of the class has managed to splinch themselves in different and horrifying ways. Once everyone is patched up and the teacher reminds you that the following classes will happen in Hogsmeade instead of the castle, you head to dinner, and once you are done, the Slytherin prefect approaches you.

“Elliot, the Headmistress asked you to go to her office. Your one-time use password is ossifilius third.” As he says so, you feel a blur of the sound around you two, as only you had been able to hear it. “I hope you are not causing trouble for your House.”

“I’d never think of it.”

You go to the old stone gargoyle, speak the password and enter. The room, interesting as always, no longer has all the people it had the last time you were there. Instead, only McGonagall awaits, sitting at the other side of her table.

“Headmistress, you called?”

“Yes, Elliot. Please, sit.” She says, pointing to a chair on the other side, and you do as told. “I called you here to discuss your Transfiguration homework.”

“Uh…” You say, confused. “Ok?”

“It is passable,” she says, plainly. “Though I’m afraid that if you intend to receive a N.E.W.T. on the subject, you will have to put more effort into it.”

You just look at her, not sure what she’s expecting you to say, or what is the point of the conversation.

“I’ll… keep that in mind?”

“Make sure that you do. Good to have this talk with you.”

Then she stands up and leaves through the door you entered.

What.

You sit there for a few seconds, but all you can think is-

What?

You get to the obvious realization of who is behind it a split second before Potter speaks from under his Invisibility Cloak and, finally, manage to stifle the jumpscare.

“You know,” he says, a tone louder than necessary. “Now the Headmistress can honestly say she brought you here to talk about your Transfiguration homework.”

“Indeed. I assume this is the single most secure place in Hogwarts, then?”

“Yes. More than the Room of Requirement, more than my office. And even that is not enough for what I’m about to say. For us to move forward with this conversation, I need to know if you can keep a secret. This one, potentially even from your friends.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:03:00 No.5921215 Report

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>>5921214

“Why?”

“I’m not sure. I will not know how much should be shared until later, but at least some of it must be kept from them. Do you promise to not reveal what happens to anyone, unless I give you permission?”

“I promise.”

“Remember that. So, to the final level of security.” He reaches into his pouch and pulls out a small golden chain with an hourglass at the end, and grins as he sees your shock.

“That’s a time-turner!” You finally manage to say.

“Is it!? I hadn’t noticed!”

“That’s how you made sure everyone was safe in Battle Class!”

“There’s more nuance and setup than that, but yes. Brighton figured it out because it was the only way I could make sure no one was hurt. Unfortunately, so did your friends on the road to Hogsmeade. They had set up anti-timelooping enchantments on themselves so I couldn’t meddle in a backwards manner.”

“So you can just go back to whenever you want?”

“No. A time-turner can only be used five times a day, not because of some limitation of the device itself, but because information can’t go back more than five hours, period. If I had two time-turners, which I don’t because as far as I know this is the last one in existence, I’d still wouldn’t be able to go back more than five hours. If you had a time turner, learned of something, went back three hours and told me that information, I wouldn’t be able to go back more than two hours. That, as far as I know, is a limitation of Magic itself.”

“But, still! You can do so much with it!”

“Less than you’d think. You… you can’t use it to change the past. What happened happened, and unless you were already there, you won’t have been there.”

You stop to think for a moment. You have read your fair share of sci-fi to know your time-loops. But one thing is to read about it, another is to see it done.

“And… what happens if you try to change it?”

“Something hilarious will happen which will end up with you going to St. Mungus’s Ward for Irrecuperable Nutcases and never leaving,” he says, sounding tired. “Please, trust me that you don’t need a time-turner and the world is better without them. Every time I start thinking about how I need to use it to ensure you’re all safe, I get a headache. Now, can we go?”

“One day… One day I’ll find out just how much you’re hiding from the world.”

“Yeah, yeah,” he says, wrapping the chain around both of your necks and flicking the hourglass. “Cry me a river.”

--

One hour before that, you appear in the empty Headmistress office.

“This. This is, as far as I know, as secure as one can possibly be. If anyone is hearing us, they might as well be gods, in which case we already lost, so I shall keep on talking as if we are safe.”

You nod, anxious.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:04:05 No.5921216 Report

Quoted By: >>5921218

>>5921215

“I told you the truth when I said that no more prophecies had been spoken ever since I forgot all about you. But there is something else in the Hall of Prophecies. One final… what did I tell you it was again? Ah, yes, a Waterfall of Time. The final few droplets, the very last of the stream of Fate. At first the Unspeakables thought it was just random time energy, but then… they noticed similarities.”

“For the past six months, they have been carefully, slowly, putting them together. Yesterday, they finished it. But they can’t hear it, Elliot. Only those who are mentioned in them can. And if I had to guess…”

“You think it’s about me?”

“You don’t?”

“Right… but how are we even getting there? Aren’t the prophecies stored super deep in the Ministry?”

“Fawkes… Some help, please.”

The bird appears in a burst of fire. It looks like it is falling to pieces, held together by nothing but willpower. Its feathers are like cinders, covered with ash. He caws, and it sounds more like a cough of a dying man.

“I know, my friend. I know,” Potter says, kindly stroking the feathers on the bird’s head. “I know. Just two more trips. Just two more trips and you can rest.”

“One more secret to the list of things I can tell no one?” You ask.

“Indeed. And here,” he says, pulling something from his pocket. “Is a blindfold. Because there are things you’re not ready to see.”

--

You feel yourself burning, and not in the metaphorical sense. You feel your flesh turn to cinders and your bones disappear under the scorching heat. But there is no pain. And when you appear on the other side of the phoenix’s travel, you feel yourself reborn from the flames.

“Stupefy,” Potter whispers by your side, you suspect at some unlucky guard. “Right. We’re here.”

The ground feels wet and sticky beneath your feet. There is a pungent, sweet, unknown smell around you and you feel like you’re somewhere forbidden, somewhere you are Not Meant To Be, as a simple property of the space which surrounds you.

“What is this?” You ask quietly, not out of fear of being heard, but of instinctive respect for whatever is out there.

“The reality of the Hall of Prophecies. Don’t think too hard about it. You don’t want to know.”

“Professor, what happens if… if I’m not on the prophecy?”

“Depends if they have set up the normal enchantments. If they haven’t, nothing. If they have, St. Mungus.”

“Good. Remember to use Hogwarts’ funds to pay for the expenses, will you?”

“Relax. They’re still studying the thing, they need it as clean as possible. I wouldn’t have brought you if there was danger I could not avoid. Now come, take a couple steps ahead.”

You do as you’re told.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:05:21 No.5921218 Report

Quoted By: >>5921222 >>5921254 >>5921269 >>5921408 >>5921595

>>5921216

“The prophecy is in front of you,” he says. “Reach out with both hands and twist it.”

You reach out and grab something that feels wooden, but also, strangely like rubber. And you feel it. You feel the prophecy. You feel the weight of Time Itself in that object.

You hesitate.

Then you twist it.

And a thousand voices speak, no, they scream at once, a cacophony of shouts, a thousand seers all echoing time’s last dying gasp of horror as uncountable threads of fate are cut, as destiny becomes dread, as terror becomes reality.

HE IS HERE. 

THE ONE WHO WILL TEAR APART THE VERY STARS IN HEAVEN. 

HE IS HERE. 

HE IS THE END OF THE WORLD.
- End of Act 2 -

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:10:12 No.5921222 Report

Quoted By: >>5921234 >>5921260 >>5921595

>>5921218
Fuck you, formatting!

I wanted to end with in reaching St Mungus, but it took a bit longer than expected and I didn't want to let the thread drop and then have a 4-post thread.

I'll be off for a couple of weeks, so no new thread until then. Y'all can have fun talking about it in the meantime and I'll answer things while this thread lasts. Hope you enjoyed it!

Here's the archive, don't forget to vote!

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts

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Anonymous ID:5VbniiVi Fri 09 Feb 2024 08:35:14 No.5921234 Report

Quoted By: >>5921260

>>5921222
>couple of weeks
AW FUCK! these are gonna be some looooong days ahead, at least i´ll have enough time to finally start the fanart i promised a while ago
doing god´s work HeadQM

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Fri 09 Feb 2024 09:28:19 No.5921254 Report

Quoted By: >>5921256 >>5921595

>>5921218
So I would like to get this one out of the way early: what are we all thinking in terms of telling Potter the prophecy?
On one hand, I’d say it would likely clear us of being the evil one here. On the other, unless we can convince Potter that we’re likely the one who will “end” the world, but in a way that means it’s merely reshaped instead of destroyer or something, he’ll immediately go into panic mode. Hell, I’M not even convinced it doesn’t mean Salazar isn’t gonna end the world as we know it, even if we ultimately kill him and the Beast.

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Anonymous ID:5VbniiVi Fri 09 Feb 2024 09:36:20 No.5921256 Report

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>>5921254
honestly? im 50/50
its either Potter is chill about it and backs us up or he deals with us right there and then...
i dont really see any other scenario playing out

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 09 Feb 2024 09:43:09 No.5921260 Report

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>>5921234
>time to finally start the fanart i promised a while ago

YOU are doing god's work my man. I might start another shitty fic in the mean time as well. Hell, I got a new sketch book and some inks as a stocking stuffer so I might try and do Artyhue.

>>5921222
Rest well, HeadQM. I will now begin to channel my inner Lovegood and try to ruin your twists, given how this ended. I really hope there are more than 3 Acts. You said this thing might go through our 7th year and if it does not I will be quite sad. However, no matter what I appreciate you making this quest. There have been a number of HP quests I recall but none of them finished so I hope you undo the curse. Even if it is shorter than I would like, yours has been the best I can recall. If we were still on tg, you would have a billion votes on suptg.

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Anonymous ID:Ylvc6YYu Fri 09 Feb 2024 10:03:00 No.5921269 Report

Quoted By: >>5921389 >>5921595 >>5921689 >>5922501

>>5921218
So uhh Potter can't hear all that, can he? Because that sounds pretty fucking damning.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Fri 09 Feb 2024 13:03:33 No.5921389 Report

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>>5921269
I don't think he can. Unless he is also a seer, maybe? But yeah another lie. No waterfall of time I guess? Its more like they... grow prophecies? Like plants? Which is kinda creepy. Watering them with Time itself until they bloom? And the thing is pretty correct, so far. We did tear apart a "star" in that we went to Merlin's Star and followed it down and destroyed the repository it lead to. So not a bad thing there. And if the Beast breaches the gate in our soul, yeah it would be the literal end of the world, so again, correct. I can understand why the Aurors/Untouchables were shitting themselves. At face value, we are a literal cataclysm in the making. But if we die, it will just make the thing come true, so...

Potter, of all people, probably understands that these things can be interpreted in different ways, even if he heard it.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 09 Feb 2024 13:36:08 No.5921408 Report

Quoted By: >>5921595 >>5921800

>>5921218
>He is here
>The one who will tear apart the very stars in heaven.
This could be us.
>He is here.
>He is the end of the world.
This could be Salazar. Because it's using vague language and isn't EXPLICITLY talking about one person, it could theoretically be talking about two males, separated by the He Is Here line.
Alternatively, it's talking about a Single Entity. It can't be Helga. It's unlikely to be us. Which means it's talking about the Nothing Beast inside us, I would assume.
It also could be a Flawed Prophecy due to Time Compression, and is talking about "The most likely outcome of hundreds of thousands of timelines". Because those things did indeed happen in the vast majority of timelines because of Potter learning too much.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 09 Feb 2024 18:09:35 No.5921595 Report

Quoted By: >>5921599 >>5922501

>>5921188
Supporting.

>>5921218
Pic related is Elliot Hallaster, I guess. Or they're talking about The Beast inside us, in which case he's a 'he' and not an 'it'. Interesting...

>>5921222
Thanks for running, QM! this ahs got to be one of the best quests on the board.

>>5921254
I'm against it. I trust Helga's magical intuition.

>>5921269
Only those mentioned in the prophecy can hear it, he told us. So... Depends if he's mentioned?

>>5921408
Also a a valid interpretation, depending how literal 'here' is. or... Oh shit, could HARRY POTTER be one of the two (?) people mentioned in the prophecy? One more good reason not to tell him details.

>>5921256
I have trouble imagine Harry potter killing a kid for expediency's sake. He's been where we are, or close enough: had an evil entity (or a fragment of one) dwelling inside him, sometimes making him appear evil or cursed.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Fri 09 Feb 2024 18:12:43 No.5921599 Report

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>>5921595
It can't be Harry, or he'd be able to hear the prophecy.

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 09 Feb 2024 19:17:20 No.5921675 Report

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>>5921212
gotten used to getting around that much sleep but it took years

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Fri 09 Feb 2024 19:27:22 No.5921689 Report

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>>5921269
if he could he wouldn't need us

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Fri 09 Feb 2024 21:49:55 No.5921800 Report

Quoted By: >>5921832 >>5921906

>>5921408
>second he is here
If it *is* Salazar, then we have a whole other problem. In that, HE IS HERE. Thread 3 might start with a fight.

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Anonymous ID:jcXnKJKS Fri 09 Feb 2024 22:48:45 No.5921832 Report

Quoted By: >>5921837

>>5921800
Thread 5, you mean?

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Anonymous ID:5fXbHjD4 Fri 09 Feb 2024 22:53:50 No.5921837 Report

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>>5921832
Oop, yeah.

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Anonymous ID:Z9Ciet40 Sat 10 Feb 2024 00:27:24 No.5921906 Report

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>>5921800
"Here" isn't necessarily The Department of Mysteries. Here could mean...well, Reality. As opposed to the unreality he was in before.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 03:41:27 No.5922102 Report

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So a possible interpretation.

The Atlanteans believed the dead became stars; the first part might refer to us finding away to bring back Taylor. We would, in a way, be "destroying" the stars by finding a way to revive people.

For the second part, "the world" might refer to the current world, i.e. the one under the Inderdict of Merlin. We might be fated to undo it, thus ending the modern world and ushering in a new one.

This is trying to be generous. Another interpretation would just have the thing referring to the Beast trapped behind the gate in our soul.We can hear the prophecy because it is a part of us and therefor refers to us as well.

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Anonymous ID:5VbniiVi Sat 10 Feb 2024 03:52:27 No.5922109 Report

Quoted By: >>5922115 >>5922501

>>5921212
>>5921213
i dont think people reacted enough to this little "fight" we had, masterfully done, the tonal whiplash after she said she didnt care about a future heart attack made me audibly say "oh fuck"
amazing job HeadQM

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 04:05:00 No.5922115 Report

Quoted By: >>5922162

>>5922109
It was a nice little look at Arty and part of what makes her tick. Like I am sure she is brave but she also has less to lose doing dangerous shit than most since she thinks she will be dead in 15-20 years no matter what she does. Why not ride a dangerous, vicious Graphorn at that point? Why not push yourself till you break? She isn't completely self-destructive yet, which is good. Like she has things she wants to do before then, for example finding out who her mom was as we saw during Christmas.

It was a good little fight.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 05:12:33 No.5922159 Report

Quoted By: >>5922162

I kept meaning to say this in some prior post but always forgot. Modern magic can't help Arty, apparently. We will, however, soon be going to a place of Ancient healing power used by Merlin himself and we have Helga who can help us manipulate that kind of power. Assuming we don't have to destroy Avalon and get a chance, we might see if the power there can fix her shortened lifespan. Maybe even her magic output problem?

Not sure of the chances we are going to get to hang around and experiment, its probably going to end up being a fight against Salazar pretty quick, but maybe after we win, we could see what Helga can do. Its probably our best chance to save her.

And she was taken to all the Wizard doctors St. Mungus could offer; I still think trying to get her in with a muggle doctor is smart, especially if Avalon doesn't work out.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 10 Feb 2024 05:14:56 No.5922162 Report

Quoted By: >>5922188 >>5922501

>>5922115
>>5922159
Arty is both a great waifu and a genuinely very good character. That's why she works: she isn't just a wish-fulfillment aperture, but a very genuine and nice person, written well. Tons of kudos to QM for that.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 05:52:01 No.5922188 Report

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>>5922162
He did say he has a ton of fun writing her, which probably helps. But yeah, I haven't been this invested in a waifu in years. She is a great person and adorable but also kinda damaged with her own quirks and problems. She feels real, basically.

I really wish one of the artists I like would open up comms so I could get an illustration of her.

It will never not be funny that he though we would go for Lily or "Faith" when we had Arty dangled in front of us and had to re-plan like a good portion of the campaign.

My official tier list goes:

#1. Arty
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#2. Helga
#3. Linda/Raven
#4. Milf Luna
#5. Amalia

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 10 Feb 2024 05:55:27 No.5922195 Report

Quoted By: >>5922197 >>5922210 >>5922501

>>5922188
I think every waifu option and even TAYLOR could have worked as a romantic lead. Every character is so likeable and their chemistry together so palpable that, with a bit of tweaking, any character in the same age bracket is a potential love interest. Except Salazar, obviously, who is brilliantly-written as the MOST decidable being.

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Anonymous ID:7HRpnPJ8 Sat 10 Feb 2024 06:01:09 No.5922197 Report

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>>5922195
*despicable being, rather

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 06:24:20 No.5922210 Report

Quoted By: >>5922501

>>5922195
The most delectable being rather lol. Now I have an image of fucking Salazar laid out on a table nude and covered in sushi, waiting for Elliot in my head. Hahaha.

I do like to think if we had made Elliot gay, he still would have gone for one of the Pertingers. Hell, there is probably a fujo in Ravenclaw who has written something like "Little Twink Snake gets Dommed by Big Blond Badger, vol. 1-3", given how closely we associate with the twins.

I am really fucking curious how a Lily romance would have worked out. Could we have saved her? Would she have ended up as a recurring foe, trying to fight against Salazar's control until we could give her the strength to overcome him in the last Act? Gonna be interesting when this ends and QM can spill stuff like that.

Slightly surprised we didn't have a younger female Professor as a possible love interest but maybe its because I am playing Persona 3: Reload and there is a teacher romance path.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Sat 10 Feb 2024 16:40:39 No.5922501 Report

Quoted By: >>5922542 >>5922564 >>5922586

>>5921269
He couldn't *reveal* it for himself, but now that you've done it for him... I still haven't quite decided.

>>5921595
>Only those mentioned in the prophecy can hear it, he told us. So... Depends if he's mentioned?
Only those mentioned in the prophecy can *touch* the Prophecy receptacle, there's a difference

>>5922188
> It will never not be funny that he though we would go for Lily or "Faith" when we had Arty dangled in front of us and had to re-plan like a good portion of the campaign.
I only realized my mistake when I made the post where she first talk about her problems during the first victory party, and by then it was too late

>>5922210
>Slightly surprised we didn't have a younger female Professor as a possible love interest

That would probably break several school rules. Also, one of the main points of the whole "don't tell Potter" part of the story was forcing you to not just do the sane thing and go talk to the adults and let them solve the problem. In the books, Harry goes to McGonagall in the first book and she just dismisses him because she's an idiot. As I didn't want to write incompetent characters, the best way of not allow a set of incredibly skilled and competent wizards to do the work for you was to have fate itself tell you not to do so.

>>5922210
>I am really fucking curious how a Lily romance would have worked out. Could we have saved her?

Possibly. If you had gone her route, Salazar wouldn't have killed her, so it was possible you could have "exorcised" him at Last Light with a burst of Ancient Magic to the cranium, though I never really decided if that was going to be possible or if she was doomed to die from the start.

>>5922109
>>5922162
>>5921595
>>5922195
Thank you for all the compliments. They really do motivate me to keep on writing!

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Anonymous ID:ZIjAq7TF Sat 10 Feb 2024 17:37:10 No.5922542 Report

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>>5922501
>it was possible you could have "exorcised" him at Last Light with a burst of Ancient Magic to the cranium
we technically did do that

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 10 Feb 2024 18:04:17 No.5922564 Report

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>>5922501
Oh so Potter heard that. The decision to tell him isn’t actually a thing.

Uh oh.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 18:40:29 No.5922586 Report

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>>5922501
>He couldn't *reveal* it for himself, but now that you've done it for him... I still haven't quite decided.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

Yeah that really does not help our case that we are not Super Voldemort/Grindlewald. Grindlemort.

>I never really decided if that was going to be possible or if she was doomed to die from the start.

While it would have been a kick in the teeth if we couldn't save here if we went for Lily, I think her being doomed is more thematically appropriate. "Doom" also means fate. Potter was doomed to be the one to undo Voldy.

She had to suffer for 14 years with Salazar in her head. Us just coming in and fixing everything might have felt cheap. Like there are things we just can't do but our boy is an optimist. One of those is undoing that much abuse and torture. We are not all powerful. We aren't even that amazing of a wizard.

Have another compliment; you are doing great. I have never written a shitty 24 page lewdfic for another quest.

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Anonymous ID:YKo90zuY Sat 10 Feb 2024 18:56:24 No.5922604 Report

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>>5922586
Yeah we might have to reveal Salazar here. Obviously strip out all identifying qualities, probably even the mind thing too. Just do something like “the other person in the prophecy is with the Ministry. They probably don’t know it though.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Sat 10 Feb 2024 19:27:20 No.5922622 Report

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>>5922604
We can see how QM is going to handle this when he makes the new thread. We have a true foe. If we have to, we can say that we will rip the very stars from heaven, if it means stopping them. Because a dark sky is better than what would happen if they win. It is not Scorpius, it is bigger than him. And, Harry can not raise his wand against it. That is the absolute limit.

Fawkes just used a bit of the last bit of his life to help us get down here. Phoenixes are not infallible but if he is using the last bit of magic he has to do this, maybe Potter can trust us a bit more.

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 12 Feb 2024 14:15:57 No.5924100 Report

Quoted By: >>5924171 >>5924300

So someone asked if we could get the story put into a PDF a while back. I will probably try that during the down time. I realize this is about to fall off but do people have a preference if I include the vote options and indicate which one had won or just do the actual updates? The write ins might be annoying to try and do but I van manage. And if you are still here HeadQM, is it okay if I do this? I don't want to step on toes.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:1g8T9+Ss Mon 12 Feb 2024 16:08:12 No.5924171 Report

Quoted By: >>5924300 >>5924532

>>5924100
Sure, no problems! Will all the problems with the narrative show up now that it is organized in a cohesive and straightforward manner? Probably, but oh well. I usually don't backlink to the winning votes, so you might have your work cut out for you when organizing that.

Also, yesterday I realized Elliot spent two whole weeks in muggle-land and not once thought to pull out the old dvd or even vcr player and dust off the criminally underrated Atlantis: The Lost Empire tape to watch with them (which would have come out a several years before he was even born, but I'm sure he would have found it out and watched it). Also, every time I remember this fucker was born in 2009 I feel old as fucking dirt. Fucking hell time fucking flies.

Well, there's always next time, I guess.

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Anonymous ID:3Ue5qD8T Mon 12 Feb 2024 19:11:00 No.5924300 Report

Quoted By: >>5924532 >>5924575

>>5924171
>born in 2009
i suddenly felt a small pain in my back...
>>5924100
i would appreciate if you also add the winning votes, mostly for context and discussion preservation, but if not possible then the updates alone should work

regarding Arty tho, after getting nagged by Helga and us, is it safe to assume she will finally drop something?
also, reminder to skip the survival class the week we go to St Mungos to get our proper rolls at max efficiency

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Mon 12 Feb 2024 23:47:33 No.5924532 Report

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>>5924171
Shouldn't be... too bad. And the narrative holds up pretty well considering it is written over like 5 months IRL. But yeah, during summer vacation, we are definitely breaking out Atlantis for the twins. It will be funny when Arty realizes like half of Elliot's personality and dreams are based on a cartoon and the 3 Indiana Jones movies.

>>5924300
I will do what I can. Won't be including every bit of discussion, that's what the archive is for but if something got enough traction to be included, I will try and put it in so anyone just reading this will get why Elliot is doing what he does in updates.

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Anonymous ID:KUpdICu6 Tue 13 Feb 2024 00:25:02 No.5924548 Report

Quoted By: >>5924570 >>5924575

>>5924532
>Won't be including every bit of discussion
no, yeah, thats good, i meant to add only voting related posts, otherwise that would just be the entire archive in PDF form
thank you for your work

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Anonymous ID:9LVL1D5e Tue 13 Feb 2024 01:24:29 No.5924570 Report

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>>5924548
Managed to get a good amount of the 1st thread done this afternoon. But yeah, realizing I am slightly closer to Potter's age vs. Elliot's is fucking something.

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Anonymous ID:KUpdICu6 Tue 13 Feb 2024 01:29:09 No.5924575 Report

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>>5924548
>changed IP twice in a couple of hours
i hate mexican internet so much...

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