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Post by mdf2711 on Dec 31, 2014 4:05:32 GMT
It sounds interesting enough. So I guess I'm just a bit confused here, are we just going with OCs then? Or are canon characters free to use too? I know I like using OCs a lot (I think we all do on here) but I'd be up for doing a bit with existing characters too, with a preference for post-BoH~
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 8:34:54 GMT
re: Harry Potter RPs Post-Potter would be next-gen, so in the generation of the Golden Trio's children (pretty close to the setting for nitwit oddment, actually). Post-BoH would deal with the emotional and magical fallout from Voldemort's takeover of the school and the Battle of Hogwarts, focusing on the students who were forced to attend Hogwarts during that year. (I.e. all the stuff that Rowling glossed over....) There's a wonderful tumblr post that talks about how students would deal with the trauma from BoH (both immediately and for the rest of their lives) - I can dig it up if you want more ideas. THIS SOUNDS FANTASTIC. Actually I think this is really important to the fans of the Wizarding World because everyone is so focused on Harry's place in it that the world itself is downplayed. We barely get a glimpse at how the rest of the world reacts to the defeat of Voldemort, and there will obviously be adversity for Harry's children, who face the shadow of their father, just as Harry faced his father's shadow. If this happens, please let me know!
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Post by dracoon on Jan 1, 2015 10:15:33 GMT
re: Harry Potter RPs Post-Potter would be next-gen, so in the generation of the Golden Trio's children (pretty close to the setting for nitwit oddment, actually). Post-BoH would deal with the emotional and magical fallout from Voldemort's takeover of the school and the Battle of Hogwarts, focusing on the students who were forced to attend Hogwarts during that year. (I.e. all the stuff that Rowling glossed over....) There's a wonderful tumblr post that talks about how students would deal with the trauma from BoH (both immediately and for the rest of their lives) - I can dig it up if you want more ideas. THIS SOUNDS FANTASTIC. Actually I think this is really important to the fans of the Wizarding World because everyone is so focused on Harry's place in it that the world itself is downplayed. We barely get a glimpse at how the rest of the world reacts to the defeat of Voldemort, and there will obviously be adversity for Harry's children, who face the shadow of their father, just as Harry faced his father's shadow. If this happens, please let me know! However, in 2015 (since '19 years later' states 2017, which is 2 years from now), some of the canon kids aren't Hogwarts-ready yet?
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Post by mdf2711 on Jan 1, 2015 10:32:49 GMT
Eh, I still put my vote on a post-BoH era. I've seen too many second-gen, it always tends to get really messy with all the Weasley kids trying to be figured out. But I can be done. I'm not sure if present day is a necessity either though? Certainly not all will be there at the same time but we can go a bit further and make Hugo and Lily available, as well as some of the other younger kids if did wind up doing post-Potter~
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 16:29:17 GMT
THIS SOUNDS FANTASTIC. Actually I think this is really important to the fans of the Wizarding World because everyone is so focused on Harry's place in it that the world itself is downplayed. We barely get a glimpse at how the rest of the world reacts to the defeat of Voldemort, and there will obviously be adversity for Harry's children, who face the shadow of their father, just as Harry faced his father's shadow. If this happens, please let me know! However, in 2015 (since '19 years later' states 2017, which is 2 years from now), some of the canon kids aren't Hogwarts-ready yet? Yeah but who says that we have to take place in the here and now? Why can't it be two years in the future? (That's a legitimate question. Can you do that?)
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Post by Wyndi on Jan 1, 2015 21:15:18 GMT
It sounds interesting enough. So I guess I'm just a bit confused here, are we just going with OCs then? Or are canon characters free to use too? I know I like using OCs a lot (I think we all do on here) but I'd be up for doing a bit with existing characters too, with a preference for post-BoH~ I guess that is ultimately up to whoever creates the RP, but mini and I were thinking of focusing more on the existing student body in the school year immediately following the BoH. That eliminates most of the more well known canons (i.e. everyone in Harry's year). It's always been my hope that we will have room to interpret the younger, lesser known canon students, though.re: Harry Potter RPs Post-Potter would be next-gen, so in the generation of the Golden Trio's children (pretty close to the setting for nitwit oddment, actually). Post-BoH would deal with the emotional and magical fallout from Voldemort's takeover of the school and the Battle of Hogwarts, focusing on the students who were forced to attend Hogwarts during that year. (I.e. all the stuff that Rowling glossed over....) There's a wonderful tumblr post that talks about how students would deal with the trauma from BoH (both immediately and for the rest of their lives) - I can dig it up if you want more ideas. THIS SOUNDS FANTASTIC. Actually I think this is really important to the fans of the Wizarding World because everyone is so focused on Harry's place in it that the world itself is downplayed. We barely get a glimpse at how the rest of the world reacts to the defeat of Voldemort, and there will obviously be adversity for Harry's children, who face the shadow of their father, just as Harry faced his father's shadow. If this happens, please let me know! Actually, the whole Voldemort deal has never even really been a Wizarding world situation so much as a Wizarding Britain situation. Where was the rest of the world while Voldemort was killing off Muggles and Muggle-borns? Why did no other country step in to prevent what was effectively a genocide? What exactly is Britain's place in the Wizarding world? There's a whole lot of questions we can tackle - I can imagine a lot of wizards just leaving Britain during Voldemort's time in power and being absolutely shocked at seeing him be only a sidenote in the Wizarding news of other countries.However, in 2015 (since '19 years later' states 2017, which is 2 years from now), some of the canon kids aren't Hogwarts-ready yet? Yeah but who says that we have to take place in the here and now? Why can't it be two years in the future? (That's a legitimate question. Can you do that?) Yeah, I don't think we ever brought up saying the RP had to be in the present. After all, post-BoH would be 1998. And honestly, if we're not focused on playing canons, the exact year doesn't really matter anyway.
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 21:24:18 GMT
Or we could do past, while they were just setting up Hogwarts. That completely avoids the second-gen problem of exactly when in the second-gen it is, and it's still an interesting topic.
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Post by Wyndi on Jan 1, 2015 22:00:57 GMT
You mean like Founders era? I was worried that the historical nature and the lack of information we have on the period wouldn't appeal to people. Plus, if we were covering the building of Hogwarts, that would really only leave us with four roles to fill: those of the founders.
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 22:03:02 GMT
Or the first generation to go to Hogwarts. I feel like as long as we use what we know of the era it's okay for us to make up our own history. It is RP after all, and not canon. We have so much free reign. Although I see where that could be the problem.
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Post by Wyndi on Jan 1, 2015 22:10:00 GMT
Oh, gotcha. Yeah, first generation to go to Hogwarts would definitely be fun if we could handle it.
Did we ever get a year/period for when Hogwarts was built, by the way? I ask this as if I knew anything about British history....
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 22:21:28 GMT
True. Well I guess the answer is to just read every book again and watch the movies and check out the news on Pottermore. Darn. I will take up the challenge if needed, though. Don't worry.
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Post by Wyndi on Jan 1, 2015 22:44:54 GMT
lol well, if you insist....
It looks like the HP wiki agrees that Hogwarts was founded sometime during the ninth or tenth centuries, though. 990 A.D., though I'm not sure where they're pulling that from.
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 22:50:15 GMT
Hmm... Well I suppose we could go off that and just put it in a spoiler or something. And then we can look up important events during that time and before that that we can connect to magic just for fun.
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Post by Wyndi on Jan 1, 2015 23:28:24 GMT
I suspect most things probably had a magical connection, considering international laws regarding the control and secrecy of magic didn't come until a few centuries later. Thanks, magical world....
I would say for convenience (which was our original aim), though, I'd still prefer a post-BoH roleplay. Most of the culture and other societal infrastructure would be in place, whereas something like Founders era or even Marauders era would require a bit more worldbuilding.
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Post by fishstyx on Jan 1, 2015 23:31:26 GMT
Yeah agreed. While interesting, it really does seem too hard now. I was just trying to figure out something that wasn't your standard second-gen.
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