This thread title and your N.E.W.T. joke in Cormac's thread are fantastically pleasing to my pun loving brain.
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| Fish! I'm pretty sure I died at the merge vote because people assumed I was close with you. And while I did consider you one of the more fun people in the cast and someone I wanted to work with, I don't ever think we got to the point of being a tight pair. I'm very impressed to see you here, especially after the hell you went through just to get out of the pre-merge part of this game. You had an uphill battle and you fought it hard so props to you. My question to you is, how much of our alliance was built on actual bonding and how much was built out of necessity of surviving Snape's wrath? |
It was weird how universal that perception of us as a tight pair was. I spoiled my answer for this a bit in Cormac's thread, but no, I don't think our relationship had reached that level before your boot occurred, although it may have later if things had gone differently in that boot round. I just went back to my confessional to look at what I wrote for the two rounds on that pre-merge tribe and I'll try to give as close a description as I can about how I was thinking about you as that alliance was formed.
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After the swap
I really wasn't very excited for our new tribe (from my confessional: "I just want to make it to merge and forget this tribe ever existed."):
- Amos and Snape were the people I had connected with the least on our first tribe
- Draco and I were okay with each other but Maxime and Fred were my two closest allies in the game so he was the weakest connection I had on my second tribe
- I hadn't been on a tribe yet with Lockhart or Ron
- And I liked you but we hadn't talked strategy and I had no idea if you would pick to work with Snape and Amos over me if Snape targeted me (as he was promising to do).
I knew I was in a precarious spot if a tribal council were to happen, and I didn't have anyone I could 100% rely on so my top priorities were to reinforce my relationship with Draco (who had previously mentioned liking Snape during checkins and had me worried) and reconnect with you hoping that at least one of you would be able to help my figure out the dynamics of all these other people on the tribe I hadn't really had a chance to talk to much before. So I did instinctively want to work with you and I absolutely felt you were one of the people on that tribe that I felt closest with. But that was a pretty low bar to clear.
As soon as I started talking to Snape, the first thing he said was that he picked me for his tribe specifically so that he could vote me out before the merge. Which has to be one of the most terrifying things you can hear after a swap in an ORG. Here was someone that just been given the power to pick everyone who was on their tribe, presumably picked a bunch of people they felt they were closest with, and now was comfortable enough with the situation they were in to openly say they were targeting you. It makes you think there might already be a majority planning to vote you out and it makes you want to scramble like crazy to stop it.
So I was kicked into strategic high gear almost immediately after the swap and making sure you and Draco were willing to work with me felt like an absolute necessity. Lockhart and Ron were still openly fighting about the Rita vote and Lockhart was acting like Lockhart in the tribe chat so Ron looked like a potential outsider who might side with us as well. I basically needed that entire group of 4 to come together to have any chance at a majority in a vote. Regardless of how much I'd bonded with or trusted the three of you, I would have had to do my best to make that alliance work. At the time, I liked you and you were pretty convincing when you told me you were on board so I trusted you too and it made you the easiest person in that group to work with.
At Merge
Maxime and Fred were still my two closest friends and allies in the game, but you and Ron were the next two people I trusted most. When it became obvious we were not in the majority for the vote, I figured either you or Ron would probably go home and I was hoping to solidify things with whoever was left and work with them deep into the game. It turned out you were the target and Ron stayed, and the two of us went pretty far together. There's no way to tell if you and I would have gotten to the same place in an alternate universe, but I certainly would have been willing to work with you indefinitely.
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| My last question for all of you to sort the jurors into a Hogwarts house. I don't need an explanation because I don't want to turn this into a giant comparison question. So just a name and their house will suffice. (Unless you feel inclined to say more but I'm not giving bonus points for that!!) |
Yay a Hogwarts question! There's a good chance I would have been trying to ask this one if I was on the jury.
NEWT - RAVENCLAW
I'd forgotten Newt himself was a Huffelpuff until I just looked it up, but I have to buck this trend and agree with ron that you get Ravenclaw for your wit and smarts and also for your Ravenclaw-like enthusiasm for collecting knowledge on the Harry Potter series.
LOCKHART - SLYTHERIN
Lolling that Lockhart was a Ravenclaw in canon. But both this Lockhart and book Lockhart should be ambitious Slytherins
MAXIME - GRYFFINDOR
Maxime was definitely courageous and action-oriented, always preferring to take immediate action when confronted with a problem
ANGELINA - GRYFFINDOR
Angelina was a brave and daring leader, who didn't let obstacles get in her way.
AMOS - SLYTHERIN
Amos, snape and lockhart made a great team and I wouldn't want to separate them. All three have the cunning and resourcefulness to accomplish great things.
LILY - HUFFLEPUFF
Lily was loyal and empathetic. She preferred solving problems with kindness over confrontation and had plenty of love to share with everyone who needed it.
CORMAC - RAVENCLAW
Cormac was creative and clever. He made moves because they were smart and rational.
FRED - RAVENCLAW
Fred is intelligent and a wise strategist who thinks first. Also, I think I'm a ravenclaw and I would love to get up to mischief with him in the Ravenclaw common room.
POMFREY - GRYFFINDOR
I can see the argument for putting Pomfrey in any house. I went with Gryffindor because Gryffindor is the house that tends to have the most hogwarts students share the attributes of other houses. Harry has the ambition of a Slytherin and abilities like Parseltongue. Ron and Neville have the loyalty of Hufflepuffs. And Hermione has the thirst for knowledge of a Ravenclaw. But all of those characters are in Gryffindor because they are destined to become leaders.
While Pomfrey is hard-working, intelligent and ambitious, she is also a leader and that will trump the other attributes to land her in Gryffindor.
ALBUS - was found to be a squib at the sorting ceremony (
just like Angus Buchanan), got sent to Smeltings and was never heard from again
