Did you miss me?

Congratulations to all three of you, making the end is no easy feat. You’ve all clearly done something right to be here, so don’t let anyone take that away from you. Now, I’ll level with the three of you: I think Mira played the best game. You do, however, have the chance to sway my vote with your answers to my questions for each of you here, so don’t throw it away. It’s not set in stone, the jury hasn’t locked it in. My questions aren’t going to be softballs either - I like all three of you as people, but there’s things I need to know from each of you. Also, please please PLEASE don’t lie. FTC is where you gotta be honest, and if the jury sniffs out any lies, you’ll probably lose.

Let’s start with the fish. Mira, you’re wonderful. I’m shocked that you’re here, and I said I would vote for you at FTC back at F12. Make them come true. My question for you is, you were extremely reliant on items all game. Do you think that needing multiple items weakens your game in any way, shape, or form?

Draco, I have to see, I’m surprised to see you here. It’s a happy surprise, but it feels like you consistently were left out and had a harder path to the end than most. You never seemed to give up, and seemingly tried your hardest, which is good - but this isn’t about who tried the hardest. Why should I vote for you, when Mira and Ron both seemingly played better? What do you have that they don’t?

Ronald, my son. I’m so proud to see you here. I predicted you as the winner after I left, and you’re halfway there. All you need to do is seal up the game...which I don’t think you will do. Multiple jurors have criticized your social game in the jury, because you consistently reassured people and made promises to them, only to cut them out. You also let Mira, the single biggest threat, make it to FTC. That screams negligent to me, and you have a massive uphill battle to get this win. You had an amazing golden ticket in the Lockhart boot as your key resume piece, but you’ve seemingly done nothing else all game besides burn bridges. My two questions are why did you let Mira make the end and why did you (seemingly) do nothing else after I left?

Now, for all three of you. To me, the game looked BORING after Angelina’s boot. Multiple jurors have said the game was boring after Angelina left. I want to know, from the three of you: did you think the game got boring after Angelina left? If you do believe it got boring, what did you do to try and make it more interesting?

Best of luck to all of you, I’m excited to see your answers to both my question and the questions of the other jurors.

Thanks Ronnie BB, I appreciate the thoughtful response

Update: don’t forget part 2 💖

Draco, I have to say, I’m surprised to see you here. It’s a happy surprise, but it feels like you consistently were left out and had a harder path to the end than most. You never seemed to give up, and seemingly tried your hardest, which is good - but this isn’t about who tried the hardest. Why should I vote for you, when Mira and Ron both seemingly played better? What do you have that they don’t?

I feel like you said it right there, seemingly. I think my game is unique, I think it started off strong and then I was able to become almost under the radar, almost because I was still voted for multiple times.

What I have that they don't is "lack of worry" I'm not saying I wasn't ever worried, but they voted and played as if they were nervous. I was able to vote, be honest, sure I was mislead and lied to.( Other than Snape, I don't think I ever really lied? And Dudley.) I'm not saying that's a reason that I didn't worry, but what do I have to lose if I'm honest? Even if I did make a bigger impression when I was lying to them, I think it set a tone for a more honest game... which is maybe why I was mislead and lied to?

I think my game is somewhat of a missed opportunity but I'm still here at the end which goes to say something. I could have been used as a vote to get Amos tied with Newt, if everyone had just been honest like I was to them. I think even though I was voted for many times, I wasn't ever worried of actually leaving, I had allies that I knew wouldn't vote for me, and unless it was like a crazy vote where the majority of votes were like 4, I knew not to look over my shoulder.

Mirabella, Ron and I were actually in an alliance for awhile, where we exchanged information about polyjuice potion and exchanged items, Mirabella said that she didn't didn't get it and messed up, a moment later Ron told me that she was still waiting for an answer from Cedric and then was followed by Angelina telling me that the idol was found, while I agreed with Angelina that it was probably Mirabella, I never brought it up to Mirabella just cause I didn't think it was appropriate to pressure bringing it up, she told me that she didn't have it even though I knew otherwise, small things like that aren't the keys to winning, but small things like that get you to the end, knowledge is power, and even then brief things you and I discussed, I kept between you and I, that information was for me to use at my will and I didn't think exposing anything about our relationship, even a little.

I feel like my game was similar to Sandra and Fabio, I was open and ready for bigger moves. And moves that I had hoped would happen earlier, but I managed to survive and made it to the end rather than control every situation. And that's a matter to you, what kind of winner do you want to have? When Cormac left I had talked to Ron and Pomfrey about pulling the trigger on either Fred OR Mirabella and when push came to shove, I was the only one willing to make the move with Cormac, (even if it wasn't eliminating the greater target of Mira) Pomfrey and Ron should've been comfortable with it, there was nothing to lose with the choice of Fred or Mira and I knew I wasn't in jeopardy of leaving if I voted in the minority, I hadn't been worried before.

I was incredibly happy with the performance that I gave in the pre-merge and think I was cast aside during the merge some votes, targeted often and although I tried hard, I don't think I ultimately was "trying." I wasn't scraping or doing the bare minimum either, this game I was setting my own pace and I fell behind at times (in the grand scheme of the pact,) but I always caught back up. I'm proud of the immunity win I won, despite how random it was.

I don't have flashy items and threat notoriety, I'm not a social threat that is going to promise you unwarranted promises, I'm going to be honest with you as you. And if you're going to vote for me as the elimination vote, then I'm off the hook because you're not going to explain it to me and I don't have to explain it to you, but I'm staying and you're not.

Gilderoy Lockhart, the reason that you should vote for me, is my honesty, my pizazz, what you see is what you get. Here's a bowl of ice cream, either you like it or you don't. I think I was able to have a fine relationship with everyone, maybe not the most social but I think I was always a friendly face (after premerge.) I think you can get caught up in flashyness of game play but ultimately, what kind of winner do you want?

Now, for all three of you. To me, the game looked BORING after Angelina’s boot. Multiple jurors have said the game was boring after either Angelina left. I want to know, from the three of you: did you think the game got boring after Angelina left? If you do believe it got boring, what did you do to try and make it more interesting?

Well I won Immunity, which was boring but in an exciting way.

I'll tell you, I do think it got a little boring, but for the right reasons, Draco needed a way to make it to the end, with Lily and Amos following- there wasn't an issue. But I knew it could be more boring and I wanted to make it even more boring for myself to prevail. By that I mean, I tried voting Mirabella out at 6 with Pomfrey/Ron or Fred out at 6 with Cormac/Pomfrey/Fred. Mirabella had been telling people about some item?? Where she could like vote swap? I don't even know what that means, but everyone was really paranoid about it, I did my best to sway that vote. I was mobile and on a roadtrip, decided to become the passenger cause I couldn't handle Astoria texting for me so I had her pull over so I could try and talk it out with them. I also tried being blunt that round, it was our first opportunity to perform in front of the jury, so when Cedric asked, "Who is the greatest threat?" I was honest.... Draco was making it to FTC no matter what, and then the second person (depending on that Immunity Necklace)... was Mirabella.

IDK, I've been drinking a little while I've been answering this so I hope its not too wacky and here and there but I really think you can respect this vote and my answers because they've been honest. I am really excited to answer more and see how everyone perceived the rest of the game, if I was the least deserving finalists in your eyes, I hope these answers and the answers to follow can shine a little light and prove to you why I deserve the win and can contradict your preceding thoughts! Thanks so much GL!

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Did you miss me?

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Let’s start with the fish. Mira, you’re wonderful. I’m shocked that you’re here, and I said I would vote for you at FTC back at F12. Make them come true. My question for you is, you were extremely reliant on items all game. Do you think that needing multiple items weakens your game in any way, shape, or form?

That's a good question for me, it's definitely something I need to address at this final tribal.

First of all, while I had two real items in the game (both idols), I basically threw one away at F8 on a vote I was pretty certain would result in Angelina going home regardless. I was confident enough in my game without items that I felt I had a comfortable path to f6 without it and didn't want the extra threat status that another public idol would give to me. I needed my group of 4 to trust me and dumping the Slytherin idol helped make them comfortable enough to stick with me in the medium term. So I didn't really need that item, although I don't regret putting all the effort I did into getting it since it helped me make my case for why people should work with me to vote out Angelina at F9.

The Gryffindor Idol was linked to me for the first 8 rounds of the season however, and there's no doubt that me having it affected a lot of voting outcomes in the game. But I don't think the way I used it hurts my resume. Anyone could have tried to have that idol, but 15 out of 18 players declined because they didn't want the target that a public idol puts on you (or, in the case of Albus, they presumably forgot the url for the board). I took a risk by grabbing it, and it came with advantages and disadvantages, but it was a tactical decision and the results showed that I demonstrated strategic prowess in my handling of it.

How often do you see someone manage to openly hold a public idol for 8 consecutive rounds in an ORG?

I knew that I wanted to play a pretty bold game and would draw a target sooner or later, so I deliberately went for the public idol with plans to use it to make it as uncomfortable as possible for anyone to target me in a vote. It was a similar strategy to Yul Kwon's decision to make his idol public in Cook Islands, and while the special idol he had was more powerful than mine here, the premise of the gambit is to make others worried that they could go home if they try to rally votes against you. It worked against you when you wasted the idol nullifier on me in the Snape round, it worked against the big alliance that voted for Newt instead of me at merge, and it worked again when Draco got more votes than me in Angelina's boot round because of further idol worries. I used the threat of an idol more than I used actual idols to protect myself, and I could have used my various item bluffing schemes to create a similar threat without actually possessing items if I needed to (as I did at F6/F5).

I don't think having had items or not had items is by itself a positive or a negative factor when it comes to deserving a jury vote, I think it's more important to look at whether a player uses them intelligently to advance their game or not. I wasn't the only person in this game to hold two items (You had an idol and an idol nullifier and I believe Amos had an idol and a cloak, Maxime had an idol and a challenge advantage and Lily had a double vote and a cloak), but I was the only person who was able to effectively use my items to advance myself into a seat at FTC.

And finally, I would like to point out that both Ron and Draco had access to all of the potion ingredients for the Slytherin idol at exactly the same time as me and neither of them even bothered to attempt the recipe to collect the idol. They both had every opportunity I had to get both of the items I held in this game, and the fact that I got the Slytherin idol when they did not doesn't make me luckier than them. It just shows that I was willing to put in the extra effort to complete that strenuous list of potion steps when they were not.

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Now, for all three of you. To me, the game looked BORING after Angelina’s boot. Multiple jurors have said the game was boring after either Angelina left. I want to know, from the three of you: did you think the game got boring after Angelina left? If you do believe it got boring, what did you do to try and make it more interesting?

OMG I was so certain you would ask this question and I love you for it <3

I absolutely felt that this game got boring after Angelina left. Absolutely.

I think it's incredibly clear that there were four players in this game that were determined to liven things up, take risks, take initiative and do their best to entertain the viewers.

You, Snape, Angelina and Me.

All four of us put an incredible amount of time and energy into this game and were willing to accept the risks that come with being high-visibility in order to do some creative and ambitious things that would be remembered. And I have a ton of respect for that type of approach. I wrote a rather flowery eulogy for you specifically in my confessional because I feel like you played with the type of creative boldness that I am constantly striving to achieve. The biggest difference, perhaps, was that you were brave enough to shake things up in plain sight while my craziest antics were often things that couldn't be traced back to me, like the fake instagram account and the fake Ravenclaw Idol. I can't imagine how fun it would have been to watch twelve players desperately confessing random guesses about an instagram account that has nothing to do with the game, but I got a barrage of slack messages from people speculating about it and I was laughing for two days straight.

It was tragic that I didn't get to spend much time on the same side as the other three of you, but I can guarantee you that Mirabella vs. Snape will go down as one of the biggest and most entertaining arcs of the pre-merge and the Mirabella vs. Angelina arc would be right up there for rivalry of the season. Lockhart vs. Lockhart might be the best of all.

Unfortunately, all those arcs resolved themselves by the time F8 arrived, there weren't really many explosive rivalries left and to be perfectly honest I found myself in a powerful but precarious position that would have become a lot more precarious if the status quo got overturned too early. With the huge threat tattoo I was wearing, openly shit disturbing and shaking things up would have gotten me targeted pretty quickly. But that doesn't mean there wasn't things I could do to try and add some spice, and I still tried to be active doing things like:

- As I mentioned, I pretended I got a vote switcher from the Instagram account and I bluffed that I was going to use it at F6, then again at F5. This made a lot of people uncomfortable and the F6 round was by far the most interesting post-Angelina round because for a couple of hours before deadline, Cormac did a great job trying to scramble to protect himself and the vote switcher idea freaked a lot of people out. Pomfrey tried to take him up on the offer and attempted to get the vote on Fred and very briefly even on me. It ended up at the same result as expected, but it was a fairly wild round.

- I spread a couple of rumours of various teams being hatched, most notably trying to convince pomfrey that there was a Ron/Draco/Cormac F3 deal that I just made up out of thin air. This sort of thing made people a lot more anxious and uncomfortable I think, but even as I was able to make people suspicious of each other, most of the people still in the game were pretty reluctant to take the initiative to propose new vote targets, so things tended to stay the course.

- I spread rumors that me and you had had a big fight when you were voted out and had fun inventing taunts that we supposedly said to each other in the heat of the moment. I think my favourite was telling people you called me "the world's first and worst water-breathing rat." I even mentioned it in my public rites of passage because the other f4 players could see those. Yes, that served the purpose of trying to convince people I had an extra enemy on the jury and was less of a threat, but it was also a running joke I shared with the viewers and used to pass the time.

- Most importantly, I tried my best to confess like crazy and think of new ways to do funny things in there, like bringing back my drunk tarot readings and trying to get other players to say catchphrases that the PWs suggested. No one else was really scrambling much, and some people were even offline a lot during those rounds, so I couldn't always do a lot to liven up slack, but at the very least I tried to always find ways to make things interesting for the viewers, even if it had to be in my confessional.


There was some stuff happening in-game that you wouldn't necessarily have seen from Ponderosa, but it wasn't close to the same level of drama as the early merge rounds and I want you to know that I noticed it and tried to do what I could to at least make it fun for the audience as much as I could without putting my own position in the game at risk.

Ron Weasley @ 16/3/2018 0:03

You had an amazing golden ticket in the Lockhart boot as your key resume piece, but you’ve seemingly done nothing else all game besides burn bridges. My two questions are why did you let Mira make the end and why did you (seemingly) do nothing else after I left? I agree that that moment was a huge “showey” play. The only real one that I could potentially take 100% credit for.

Unless I missed you convincing Lockhart to give up an immunity necklace and pass his idol to Maxime, I'm gonna contest that Lockhart deserves a lot of credit for this :)
And so does Maxime for getting his idol.

But I would also like to point out that I was pushing for the vote to be on pomfrey or lockhart in the actual chatlog you just posted (which came at the end of a long discussion over where I was pushing for both of them before you brought up the draco/lockhart/you chat). Lockhart had just come off of two rounds of openly campaigning to vote me out and I had every reason in the world to be working on getting that vote on him. The only reason I wasn't actively waving pitchforks against him in that group chat was because Maxime was repeatedly telling me privately that she thought Lockhart wanted to work with her long-term so I was worried she might be more reluctant to vote for Lockhart than Pomfrey. My priority was saving Fred from that vote so I was willing to settle for a pomfrey vote if necessary, but I was going after Lockhart that round.

(side note: you told me about that lockhart/draco/ron group in a side chat before you shared it in the group chat, and I'm pretty sure you actually asked me whether you should raise with maxime in the group to shake things up, to which I encouraged you. It's funny reading this back and seeing me pretending to be surprised about the group chat information in this conversation while also pretending that Maxime hadn't already told me about getting the idol from lockhart hours earlier.)

I don't think the suggestion that you cooked up the idea and carried out this plan all by yourself and should get 100% credit is valid.

Draco Malfoy @ 16/3/2018 1:05

I think my game is somewhat of a missed opportunity

RT

Mirabella Plunkett @ 16/3/2018 1:03

Ron Weasley @ 16/3/2018 0:03 You had an amazing golden ticket in the Lockhart boot as your key resume piece, but you’ve seemingly done nothing else all game besides burn bridges. My two questions are why did you let Mira make the end and why did you (seemingly) do nothing else after I left? I agree that that moment was a huge “showey” play. The only real one that I could potentially take 100% credit for. Unless I missed you convincing Lockhart to give up an immunity necklace and pass his idol to Maxime, I'm gonna contest that Lockhart deserves a lot of credit for this :) And so does Maxime for getting his idol. But I would also like to point out that I was pushing for the vote to be on pomfrey or lockhart in the actual chatlog you just posted (which came at the end of a long discussion over where I was pushing for both of them before you brought up the draco/lockhart/you chat). Lockhart had just come off of two rounds of openly campaigning to vote me out and I had every reason in the world to be working on getting that vote on him. The only reason I wasn't actively waving pitchforks against him in that group chat was because Maxime was repeatedly telling me privately that she thought Lockhart wanted to work with her long-term so I was worried she might be more reluctant to vote for Lockhart than Pomfrey. My priority was saving Fred from that vote so I was willing to settle for a pomfrey vote if necessary, but I was going after Lockhart that round. (side note: you told me about that lockhart/draco/ron group in a side chat before you shared it in the group chat, and I'm pretty sure you actually asked me whether you should raise with maxime in the group to shake things up, to which I encouraged you. It's funny reading this back and seeing me pretending to be surprised about the group chat information in this conversation while also pretending that Maxime hadn't already told me about getting the idol from lockhart hours earlier.) I don't think the suggestion that you cooked up the idea and carried out this plan all by yourself and should get 100% credit is valid.

I don't see how Lockhart deserves credit in himself leaving the game?

Ultimately, Lockhart's plan was to have Pomfrey or Fred leave. Which would have had happened if I didn't step in with that information for the chat. You did not know about this information prior to me posting it into that chat. I am not sure why you are acting as though you did?

I never once told you about the threehonestbois chat, or anyone, until I posted it into that chat with Maxime/you.After posting this, I was talking to you on the side 1:1 about the importance of Maxime not "blasting this" because the vote would then turn on me--due to you both having idols to be played.

If you want to talk about risks. I was taking the biggest risk, about putting myself in danger as the one person without an idol out of that group of 3.

I was sick of waiting around for Pomfrey/Fred to make a move with me. I was ready to take control, and using Lockhart's chat and information to put Maxime on the spot about the hufflepuff idol she wasn't sharing, and explain the reason we needed to do Lockhart instead of the wishy washy Fred/Pomfrey/Lockhart discussion--ended the conversation, and cemented Lockhart leaving.

Therefore, I can say it was an accomplishment of mine. To save two allies, and to take out an enemy that I was trying to get out since Rita was ousted in Final 16.

Your ability to try and act like your the only one to have played a game out of this final 3 is making me heated.

Ron Weasley @ 16/3/2018 2:12

Hate to do this....but I will.... on a vote I was pretty certain would result in Angelina going home regardless. Final 9 was a round where you ideally wanted to "make a show". You specifically wanted majority votes on yourself. I had conversations with Fred and Pomfrey about hiding the fact the votes were being split on yourself and Draco for the simple fact that Mira may get upset and not use the idol if she didn't have to. You wanted majority on yourself to act like you needed the idol to survive, in reality--the items that you were giving me--I gave to Angelina, allowing her to find out you already had the idol--leading to them splitting the vote and not just putting them all on you and/or all on Draco.

You may very well have had those conversations, but people still told me that the vote was being split between me and draco an I still knew there wouldn't be a majority of votes on me before the deadline hit, so yes, I was pretty certain the vote would result in Angelina going home regardless.

It might have been smart of you to hide the fact that votes were being split, but you didn't do that. So I don't know why you are taking issue with this.

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I think it's incredibly clear that there were four players in this game that were determined to liven things up, take risks, take initiative and do their best to entertain the viewers. You, Snape, Angelina and Me. This is barf worthy. The fact that you just discredit Pomfrey, Fred, and myself and any involvement we had in this game. The moves that we made, and the initiative that we took to make game moves. You would not be sitting where you are if it wasn’t for the three of us. We both would not be sitting here right now without Pomfrey/Fred’s information from the other side from the merge game. To label Pomfrey or myself boring is to spit on our shoes, and therefore I am spitting right back. You are here because of your final 5 and final 6 immunity challenge wins. Otherwise, you would be 5th placer. You were an active person in a sea of rather inactives, so a reliable vote to be used.

You, Pomfrey and Fred were smart players doing things that were strategic and in the your own best interests. I'm not intending to take away from the agency of the three of you. The question was about making the game more fun and the three of you were intentionally not trying to make big splashy waves every round with reckless and boisterous moves the way the people I listed did. Snape did a lot of things that caused drama and were fun but not smart. Lockhart giving away his immunity and getting voted out was fun but not smart.

I would have a very different answer if he was asking who made the best game moves, but that wasn't the question. Pomfrey's personality was enough to entertain everyone so maybe I should have included her here as well, but I interpreted lockhart's question to be purely in terms of people making the season fun by making a lot of moves to ensure the game didn't stay static and I think my original list is a pretty reasonable answer to that.

Mirabella Plunkett @ 16/3/2018 1:29

Ron Weasley @ 16/3/2018 2:12 Hate to do this....but I will.... on a vote I was pretty certain would result in Angelina going home regardless. Final 9 was a round where you ideally wanted to "make a show". You specifically wanted majority votes on yourself. I had conversations with Fred and Pomfrey about hiding the fact the votes were being split on yourself and Draco for the simple fact that Mira may get upset and not use the idol if she didn't have to. You wanted majority on yourself to act like you needed the idol to survive, in reality--the items that you were giving me--I gave to Angelina, allowing her to find out you already had the idol--leading to them splitting the vote and not just putting them all on you and/or all on Draco. You may very well have had those conversations, but people still told me that the vote was being split between me and draco an I still knew there wouldn't be a majority of votes on me before the deadline hit, so yes, I was pretty certain the vote would result in Angelina going home regardless. It might have been smart of you to hide the fact that votes were being split, but you didn't do that. So I don't know why you are taking issue with this.

I think the issue I have is the fact that in your initial statement you act like you needed to convince us in some way to vote out Angelina. Like Pomfrey/Fred/Myself weren't already wanting Angelina out. I guess it is from your perspective. I just viewed that entire situation as Pomfrey/Fred/Myself knowing Angelina had to go as well. The fact that you wanted her out was just an additive bonus to make shit easier.

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@Ron Hold up, I did not lie to you about Pomfrey floating your name for that vote. So those "chat logs" were either edited or misinterpreted because your name was floated and screw Slack for deleting chat history because I can't show it. I know this is a fact because I felt very iffy about even telling you that info knowing how much you talked to everyone and how much info you spilled to me I was leary of you just running and telling her I shared that with you.

Angelina @ 16/3/2018 2:51

@Ron Hold up, I did not lie to you about Pomfrey floating your name for that vote. So those "chat logs" were either edited or misinterpreted because your name was floated and screw Slack for deleting chat history because I can't show it. I know this is a fact because I felt very iffy about even telling you that info knowing how much you talked to everyone and how much info you spilled to me I was leary of you just running and telling her I shared that with you.

Morning!

Sorry, Not sure what this means? Pomfrey floating my name for the Lockhart vote?

I haven’t posted any other chat.....(Just part of the group chat with Maxime and Mira during the Lockhart round)