The Heir of Slytherin

[Scarlet Lioness]

Mervanai will study up on Slytherin, and find out by himself about the Heir of Slytherin...

Sometimes crossing paths with Riddle, Artus and Arsenio?

Like seeing some of them with text books from the library that he wants and seeing them lurking around places?

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Meanwhile more attacks occur, and eventually of course the climactic death of Myrtle and the arrest of Hagrid.

[choki]

So will the story end there? Or we continue it to the eventual rise of Dark Lord outside of Hogwart... like say... 10 years down the road?

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

We have a couple of options:

a) we can do a mini time-lapse thing and in the same RPG scenario continue it a couple of years after Hogwarts etc... all the way through his life.

or

b) do every stage of his story in different scenarios.

I prefer a). When we're done with Tom Riddle at school, or at the end of the whole "Chamber of Secrets" thing, we can do this:
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to show a time lapse, and continue.

The only problem with it would be (if we wanted) to start new characters...

I'm happy with Arsenio but I think it might be a nice idea sometime to change.

Wait - there's a third option:

c) create another topic, labelling it - The Heir of Slytherin: Part Two (or something to similar effect, maybe "Part Two" can be called something to the effect of "The Rise of the Dark Lord" - therefore the full scenario could be called "The Heir of Slytherin: The Rise of the Dark Lord").

It would allow us to change or keep characters if we want.

I now prefer c).

[choki]

That's an brilliant idea, PITA!

Can't wait to see how things would develop from now on.
Artus is slowly discovering things but still, eventually, he won't have the ability to prove Hagrid's innocence. However... he would be wary of Tom Riddle.

Artus would graduate from Hogwarts one year ahead of the rest of the characters and perhaps under the instruction of Dumbledore, he would find the expelled Hagrid and becomes his magic 'tutor'

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Oh by the way, although on the character profiles it says Arsenio and Mervanai are 4th years, it seems fairly clear that they're the same year as Tom Riddle - so that's just an error...

Mm, that's a pretty good idea for Artus! I actually still wonder how Dumbledore stopped Hagrid from being sent to Azkaban for life - they can't have been too convinced of his guilt, because a girl died, and if they had been, he'd have been locked away for life.

I think they just wanted to get somebody, and Hagrid was an easy target.

[Scarlet Lioness]

I thought Mervanai was 5th Year...oh well. Oops.

He is now! (I think- is Tom Riddle 5th Year?)

Yeah I agree...Great idea Phoenix! and that's a good idea for Artus aswell.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Mm, Tom Riddle is 5th, and both our profiles say our characters are 4th. So yeah.

[Scarlet Lioness]

Oh right.

Our mistakes then.

So all our paths are going to cross int he library then?

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

It seems so.

Arsenio's going to be trying to have a conversation with Professor Slughorn at some point too.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Look at the lexicon timeline it appears that the whole Chamber of Secrets storyline was before all the stuff we're doing now... so this is going to become more about the quest that (obviously failed) to bring down Tom Riddle in his early days, by the few people that realise he's a threat.

And then we can move on the The Heir of Slytherin Part Two, or whatever you want to call it. We can rename this, "The Heir of Slytherin: The Early Days", or another suggested name. Or whatever.

We could just ignore the lexicon timeline, but then I'd have to delete a pargraph from my last post! Which is do-able, I suppose. Ideas?

[choki]

Well, I'm not so sure about the lexicon timeline but all along I thought there were a few victims before Myrtle. Susie happened to be the first victim.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I got the impression that Myrtle was actually the only death, because it was when that happened that they sort of decided to shut down the school because it was too dangerous.

Parents wouldn't want their children in a school where'd there'd been one murder, let alone 3 or 4...

Okay more specific details on the timeline in lexicon:
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circa May 1943: Tom Riddle learns to open the Chamber of Secrets and releases the Basilisk.
Myrtle, a Hogwarts student, dies in a second floor bathroom after seeing the Basilisk.

June 13: Hagrid is falsely accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets.
Aragog the Acromantula is released into the Forbidden Forest .

circa July: Tom Riddle commits his first murders: his father and grandparents in their Little Hangleton mansion.

circa September: Tom Riddle meets with Professor Slughorn and asks him about Horcruxes.
Tom Marvolo Riddle creates his first Horcrux: the diary.
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So IF we want to be by the book we have to be in mid-September, perhaps between Riddle's conversation with Slughorn and the creation of the horcrux.

[choki]

Susie was the first victim in a sense that she was petrified. Akin to the situation in Harry's 2nd year where there were petrified victims.

Myrtle's death was sort of an accidental one when she overheard a conversation (Tom and Basilisk) and spotted the Basilisk.

It would be a rather sudden thing to rush to the ending part where Tom created his first horcux at this moment of time. I mean the story is slowly moving towards the centre and suddenly we are at the end, without the background storyline of Dumbledore's suspicious and another side characters' intervention. Surely we have to explain why Hagrid became the scapegoat.

Just my point.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Okay, so Myrtle hasn't been killed yet and Hagrid not expelled?