Privvy Plot Ideas

We need a new plot.

Shock horror!

So, i'd appreciate it if everyone here posted their own idea for a plot, and then we can play around with ideas, mix and match, and generally come up with things.

This is why i made this, so you could come up with suggestions for things like this, it's all your time to shine, because there's more than a great chance that someone here will have that golden, jaw dropping, blood racing idea for a plot.

So, here's your criteria.

• A plot that involves EVERYONE
  Whether this means doing a hogwarts one, then a grad one, that are remotely related, or one big one that invovles grads interfering in hogwarts, i don't mind, but i don't want to see anyone posting something like 'The grads will blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah THE END 0.0
  So just try and involve everyone please
  
• The plot can't tell what will happen in specifics, it just gives circumstances, and leaves it open for the people. An older example is 'The world is falling into a darker place, the order and the DEs are feuding over possession of hogwarts. With lessons interrupted, families disrupted and destroyed, what will happen'
  But do finish it, say that one force will win, and the students would be affected by whichever force won, if it were Des, maybe make it creative and say that it was a good change, if it were order maybe there would be inner conflict. But don't have it as 'The order conquers the DEs and good is prevailing, but once again voldemort is returning to whoops everyone's asses

So yeah, everyone get in and post your ideas, i'll do mine tomorrow, it's early morning here, and i'm ready for bed, so anything i submit would be...

Anyway, you get the point.
So, if you don't understand what i mean, sorry, use some initiative and give what YOU think is right, and we'll see how it goes.

Hope that made sense, jess

Here's an idea: The Muggles are being given the technology to attack any and all wizards. This would force the Order and DEs to team up in order to defeat the anti-magic forces before they attempt to wipe all magic. Something along those lines- you said "no specifics."

We CAN start with a Massacre at King's cross Station. This would disrupt students, teachers and parents, as all three groups interact during the train boarding. Graduates may be there to wish their future compatriots off. It would also provide many roleplayers with the chance to kill off any characters they find to be extraneous.

This can also be heavily affected by politics- the Ministry, according to the books, prefers minimal magical interference with the Muggles. If one attack were to be completely demolished by Wizards, then the anti-magic sentiment would greatly increase. The massacre would occur because the Ministry could specifically state do not attack or retaliate with Magic. Doing so would confirm the Muggles' growing fear of magic in all its forms.

Grads can also be hired or kidnapped to be guinea pigs, or consultants by the Anti-magical forces (imagine: Blackwater with anti-magic bullets [shudders]). Students who turn out to be glory-seekers may become inadvertent heroes as the Muggles begin to Zero in on Hogwart's position (you can only confuse them so many times).

I can understand if nobody likes the idea. It seems a bit too sci-fi to be Harry Potter.

I had this cool idea with Sandra opening her "little black box", basically a tiny magical box not unlike Hermione's bad in HP7, except this one is filled with horrible, nightmarish creatures not only from the HP series but also from myths and folklore. That could really fit in with any plot though.

A agree with james that a massacre could be useful. It affects everyone, we could have a memorial service at Hogwarts, etc. It also gives us a chance to kill off inactive characters, which is great.

I really like both of you guys' plot ideas! I honestly have none, because I haven't been thinking about it much right now because my life has been VERY stressful at the moment!

But I agree, we need to have an epic battle. I think this is a great idea, but my only problem with it, is that whenever I try to post in mass threads, I usually get lost in them in a couple of days. I'm not saying that this irritates me, but I get kind of sad because I like to post with everyone! So I know that if we had a mass battle, we would of course have to make big threads for everyone to duel in. I'm just wondering if there's some sort of way that no one would get lost in the threads and we could all post and enjoy it.

Also, we need a more interesting villain than Voldemort. I'm sorry, but the "I'm a bad guy" schtick isn't working anymore. It would also help if new members had a place which summarized previous events for them. Kind of like a weekly summary, with bullet points and stuff. Heck, at least do an annual summary. I've been on this board for nearly a year, and i still don't know how Harry Potter died!

Hehe, that is true, i'm writing up something now. I don't quite get what you mean keith, nor do i see how it'd affect most of the site, care to explain?

Oh, and James. We've tried this before, however i'd be willing, and eager to give it another shot, if we were clear that the muggle population would be military ONLY

We really don't need to create a whole other world for the Muggles, like we did for grads, and we don't want to stray from the HP theme too much.

So if we did something like a Muggle military HQ, and let them post in places like london, and do some various attacks, that could work quite well, i'll definitely include a bit of that into my bit, if you don't mind, like i said, we can mix and match ideas.

Anyway, my plot is underway as we speak, and it should be ready for posting very soon, if not this evening, then tomorrow morning.

I think the box is meant to be something like Pandora's box, Jess. Correct me if I am wrong Sandra but that's the way I interoperated it. I agree with James on the villain part. We can have a villain that's on the scale of going out on weekly killing sprees for fun and then a couple of posts later the only evil thing they could manage is kicking puppies or stealing a baby's sweets. That doesn't inspire much confidence in the leader of the dark faction.

I don't really think including the Muggles is the right way to go to be honest but I'm willing to give it a try as and when. I don't know how we could work in the Muggles suddenly finding a world that they haven't known about since possibly the false witch burnings in the medieval times. The Wizarding world is incredibly well protected, the only way I could ever think of the Muggles stumbling across it would be a Squib or a Muggleborn unaware of their heritage, finding their way into Diagon Alley or the Leaky Cauldron.

As per my bit of plot. I've been thinking a few up and mincing around with a few ideas. The one I really like is something Khaat and I are currently refining. After waking up for probably the third time this morning I figured it prudent to actually look over the ideas with a fine tooth comb and I realised that it does leave a lot of plot holes as far as the other characters go. That decreases enjoyment so I'll seek to fill those with something as well.

What I had so far was basically a spin off of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. If any of you have read the book then you'll know what I'm talking about but I'll just give you the gist of what I was thinking about now because it does take quite a bit from the book but it can be refined, changed etcetera.

The Hunger Games is a reality TV show with only one rule -- stay alive. North America has been split into thirteen districts (it's either twelve or thirteen but at this moment I can't remember) and there is one Capital ruling over them. The people live in fear of the Capital and so as to force back any rebellion ideas that wiped out a whole district, each year they hold the Hunger Games. Picking one girl and one boy from each district, the Capital transport them to an arena where they fight to the death.

Basically I figured we could do something like that. My plot summary was crap I must say but I think it could work well. Say for instance that there is a big massacre (like everyone was saying above) and the Death Eater's begin to take the upper hand and force back some of the light's forces. Then, a final battle to seal the fate of the wizarding world.

EDITED IN: Basically from there the Death Eaters would have total control and a lot of opposition from the wizarding public so they'd want to at the very least instil some sort of fear of them into the public. I figured we could either have it that they pluck Muggleborns out of the masses and put the into the arena (the landscape could change from forest to mountains to whatever) and fight, reminding the world that they are in control of lives but then they could also take kids from half-blood and pureblood families if they so wished.

Like I said, this has a LOT of plot holes in the way of the grads but the bulk of them would probably be running the games or at least trying to sabotage them. In the book, the rich from the capital would bet on who would win and the people in the arena would have sponsors that send them gifts of food, medicine etc. so perhaps that's something that the grads could do.

Khaat and I did say that it would probably be mass mayhem, especially from the families whose children have been picked. Because of that there would probably have to be a branch of the Dark Army, not necessarily fully fledged Death Eaters, trying to keep the 'peace', or the fear rather, in Britain. This would probably create a lot of duels and opportunities there.

Many of the grad jobs would be in and around the games, perhaps even sorting out some other events around the time the games go on. So probably from secretaries to a board of people keeping the games interesting i.e creating fires in a forest, poisoning the water in a sea landscape.

I will stress now I really need to refine this but I think the concept can be grasped more or less. If not then tough. xD But I will refine it as soon as, quote, 'I get my head out of the alphabet'. Mostly it's just getting jobs sorted and such. I did wonder whether we could bring in Quidditch Teams for the grads, that'll create jobs too but I doubt, in the event this one is chosen, it would be needed because there would be loads going on. Perhaps when the games are on hiatus then maybe but not during. I'm wittering... I'll refine -- promise! : END EDIT

I think, if we could get that far in the plot then the Hunger Games (or whatever the Harry Potter version of it would be called) would probably be an interesting plot twist. As I said before there won't be much action outside of the games which is what I am actually working on. I don't know if the plot could work but I have this one and I'm working on another in a word document somewhere. I'll put a few more ideas up later, maybe, once it's all concrete, and Khaat and I will probably fill the plot holes

How about an underground Villain- a villain that is deeply entrenched within the Ministry, and is not a shallow, one-minded monster? Someone that people can actually relate to? That is possible, I'm sure.

I'm going to be honest with you Elijah- I nearly loled when I read your post. The Hunger Games was definitely a great book, and its plot was very unique, but relatable at the same time. I loved it. But frankly, I think that we would be straying too far from the Harry Potter-esque setting we're trying to accomplish. New rpers join the site, believing that it would be similar in setting and plot to Harry Potter, the source material they will be familiar with. I'm sure that plenty of people have read the Hunger Games, but not enough that we could manage to make it seem familiar.

Hahaa. I dunno, I was just catering for those that hadn't read it.
I'm not saying it would have to be copied to a T but the concept is pretty interesting and it would give the Death Eaters a bit of an edge. Besides, we're not in the Harry Potter era which means times have changed. The Post Potter era forums aren't completely canon, Harry's death being the example here on this board, which means there is more room for creativity and quite a bit of change. I'm not saying we stray from Harry Potter but we need something that is completely different than the dry, washed up plots that everyone has seen before. Before any form of torture, etc. can be done though, I agree, we need a villain but I'm not sure who we could get to portray one that wouldn't turn him/her into a puppy kicking villain instead of a massacring one.

Elijah Krum wrote:I think the box is meant to be something like Pandora's box, Jess. Correct me if I am wrong Sandra but that's the way I interoperated it. I agree with James on the villain part. We can have a villain that's on the scale of going out on weekly killing sprees for fun and then a couple of posts later the only evil thing they could manage is kicking puppies or stealing a baby's sweets. That doesn't inspire much confidence in the leader of the dark faction.

Yes, the box would function like Pandora's box. Basically it would be a nice little plot device to have students face all the horrible things we can think up. It's not a plot, per se, but it could function as a nice epic battle.

Elijah Krum wrote:I don't really think including the Muggles is the right way to go to be honest but I'm willing to give it a try as and when. I don't know how we could work in the Muggles suddenly finding a world that they haven't known about since possibly the false witch burnings in the medieval times. The Wizarding world is incredibly well protected, the only way I could ever think of the Muggles stumbling across it would be a Squib or a Muggleborn unaware of their heritage, finding their way into Diagon Alley or the Leaky Cauldron.

This, basically. I like the muggle idea, but it wouldn't make much sense. The wizard world is incredibly paranoid, and it's only what, 2020 something on the forums. There's no way tech will have advanced that much by that time.

Elijah Krum wrote:The Hunger Games is a reality TV show with only one rule -- stay alive. North America has been split into thirteen districts (it's either twelve or thirteen but at this moment I can't remember) and there is one Capital ruling over them. The people live in fear of the Capital and so as to force back any rebellion ideas that wiped out a whole district, each year they hold the Hunger Games. Picking one girl and one boy from each district, the Capital transport them to an arena where they fight to the death.

It's 12. There were 13, but district 13 was nuked

Elijah Krum wrote:EDITED IN: Basically from there the Death Eaters would have total control and a lot of opposition from the wizarding public so they'd want to at the very least instil some sort of fear of them into the public. I figured we could either have it that they pluck Muggleborns out of the masses and put the into the arena (the landscape could change from forest to mountains to whatever) and fight, reminding the world that they are in control of lives but then they could also take kids from half-blood and pureblood families if they so wished.

I like this. What if we just chucked all the Hogwarts students into the arena and said "Survive. Last 20 standing get unimaginable riches."

Elijah Krum wrote:Khaat and I did say that it would probably be mass mayhem, especially from the families whose children have been picked. Because of that there would probably have to be a branch of the Dark Army, not necessarily fully fledged Death Eaters, trying to keep the 'peace', or the fear rather, in Britain. This would probably create a lot of duels and opportunities there.

Like the imperium squad, except done right.

Elijah Krum wrote:I think, if we could get that far in the plot then the Hunger Games (or whatever the Harry Potter version of it would be called) would probably be an interesting plot twist. As I said before there won't be much action outside of the games which is what I am actually working on. I don't know if the plot could work but I have this one and I'm working on another in a word document somewhere. I'll put a few more ideas up later, maybe, once it's all concrete, and Khaat and I will probably fill the plot holes

It would be interesting, I can tell you that.

About people's complaints with the villain:

I've been trying. There's only so much I can do when the Order is in control of the ministry. I can hardly have Sandra lead the DE's on massacres throughout the wizarding world. Majere and I were working on a plot to take over the Ministry, and we had Darren's backing. So...yeah.

Anyway, if a realistic villain is what you want I could provide that. Religious zealot? The problem is that the bad guys in HP are really, really evil. You can't have a just "Oh I'm misunderstood" baddy because what they're doing is horrible and by no means ever the right thing.