(-for losers like me who need ten pin bumper rails for planning plot)
Because I'm trying desperately to map out my boy's story, now you too can descend into hell with me! Here's a list of all the main story quests in game + all companion quests (color coded!) + when spells are learned, AS WELL as the seasonal swaps that are triggered ONLY with the progression of MSQ! (If i forgot anything, HOLLER)
Note: I took the definition of the seasons from Scotland.org itself. YMMV.
FUCKING. ENJOY.
September
The Path to Hogwarts
Welcome to Hogwarts
Charms Class
Defense Against the Dark Arts Class
Weasley After Class
Professor Ronen's Assignment - reparo
Welcome to Hogsmeade
The Locket's Secret
Professor Hecat's Assignment 1 - incendio
Secrets of the Restricted Section
Tomes and Tribulations
Professor Hecat's Assignment 2 - expelliarimus
The Girl from Uagadou
Herbology Class
Potions Class
Trials of Merlin
House-specific quest
Jackdaw's Rest
Professor Sharp's Assignment 1 - depulso
Professor Sharp's Assignment 2 - diffindo
Flying Class
The Room of Requirement
Professor Garlick's Assignment 1 - wingardium leviosa
In the Shadow of the Undercroft
The Map Chamber
Professor Garlick's Assignment 2 - flipendo
Madam Kogawa's Assignment 1 - glacius
Madam Kogawa's Assignment 2 - arresto momentum
Percival Rackham's Trial
Professor Onai's Assignment - descendo
Autumn: (Sept/Oct/Nov)
Rackham's Trial triggers a rollover, but we've already BEEN IN SEPTEMBER, so I consider this October-November.
If you'd like to go by game data, a Halloween dance was planned that would have run from 7:00 to 9:30pm.
Beasts Class
The Caretaker's Lunar Lament - alohomora
The Helm of Urtkot
In the Shadow of the Estate
The Elf, the Nab-Sack, and the Loom
In the Shadow of the Bloodline [SEBINIS 1]
The High Keep
The Lost Child [NATSAI 1]
Mum's the Word [NATSAI 2]
Astronomy Class
In the Shadow of the Study [SEBINIS 2]
In the Shadow of Discovery [SEBINIS 3]
In the Shadow of Time [SEBINIS 4]
In the Shadow of Distance [SEBINIS 5]
Back on the Path
Charles Rookwood's Trial
Professor Howin's Assignment - bombarda
Winter: (Dec/Jan/Feb)
Christmas break begins roughly a week before Christmas and ends early in January.
Christmas: December 25th, Thursday
Fire and Vice
Professor Weasley's Assignment - transformation
Minding Your Own Business [PENNY]
A Dragon Debrief [POPPY 1]
Poached Egg [POPPY 2]
The Poachers' House Call [POPPY 3]
In the Shadow of the Mine
It's All Gobbledegook
A Basis for Blackmail [NATSAI 3]
Grief and Vengeance [NATSAI 4]
Surprise Meeting [POPPY 4]
The Headmistress Speaks
The Polyjuice Plot
Niamh Fitzgerald's Trial
In the Shadow of Hope [SEBINIS 6]
In the Shadow of the Mountain
Finding Focus [NATSAI 5]
The Centaur and the Stone [POPPY 5]
Lodgok's Loyalty
In the Shadow of the Relic [SEBINIS 7]
In the Shadow of Fate [SEBINIS 8]
San Bakar's Trial
It's in the Stars [POPPY 6]
A Bird in the Hand [POPPY 7]
Poppy Blooms [POPPY 8]
Wand Mastery
Harlow's Last Stand [NATSAI 6]
Acting on Instinct [NATSAI 7]
The Final Repository
In the Shadow of Friendship [SEBINIS 9]
Spring: (March/Apr/May)
Easter break: I have seen this listed both as a 1 and 2 week vacation, though most err toward 2 weeks. The break itself shuffles, so choose with your heart and your dick.
Easter: March 29th, Sunday
So, we have chunks of time unaccounted for all over the place between all forms of HP media.
We know classes begin at 9am and that a break exists between the first and second class. We know after lunch, classes begin at 1pm and last until 4pm.
In Legacy's data, which does contract itself in places (god, looking at blood status makes me want to pull my hair out because it doesn't reflect the finalized versions of character's stories), DOES give us some interesting tidbit: TEACHER OFFICE HOURS.
These are almost completely uniform before breakfast and after dinner. Two more shorter breaks (listed as OfficeTimeBreak1 and 2 in the ActivityDefinition table) exist, but appear staggered (Earliest starts around 10am and latest starts at 1pm). These are all 30 minutes chunks. Knowing a 30 minute class break exists, you can just lump them together. Knowing when lunch is, you can divide the remaining time to get class length.
Because we know double-length classes exist, list any of those after lunch. If you manage to score two singles, god fucking help you, because that's there's no transit time built in to get from point A to point B (but i imagine teachers are lenient because their school built its schedule like ass). I'd say it's a 5 minutes transit allowance tops. Just pray your professor lets you out with some wiggle room. (3rd would let out a few minutes before 2:30pm, 4th would expect you before 2:35pm)
A second Office-Hour-specific break is listed (again, half an hour long, staggered all to hell between 1 and 4pm), but I imagine you can just slide that around on the factors of-
are they teaching a double/two singles/one single?
how quickly they'd prefer to get to lunch
Because, really, you can stick most of those anywhere between 4-5pm.
Late breakfasts also likely exist for the poor bastards with astronomy the night before, or students without a 1st period class who want to drag their heels.
In conclusion, YIPPEE. THIS WORKS FOR ME. IF YOU WANT TO USE IT, GO NUTS. FEEL FREE.
Anyway I feel bad as hell for these imaginary teachers and how goddamn available they have to be for all these goddamn kids. If y'all know any teachers who are living in our real capitalism-induced hellscapes, give them some love. At least our kids don't have magic, but we also have the internet and social media, so really, our teachers are suffering more. Give them some love, and if you can, get those poor fuckers some more supplies.
As I am writing the prelude to the duel of 1945, I have noticed a...creepy conspiciousness.
All magical portraits we've met in the books can speak. The Fat Lady, Sir Cadogan, the headmasters...
Just one did not speak.
Ariana Dumbledore's.
Oo Was she not able to speak in life and her portrait reflects that? Or is her portrait defective? (uhh...) Or, worse...was she painted WITHOUT the ability to speak?! That's be hella creepy, especially given what she was in life...
(And we know she was able to understand spoken words, Aberforth adressed her portrait with a request and she fulfilled it.)
I see Remus as a bit of a paradox, and here's why. So, as we know, he is deeply, deeply traumatised by his condition and his identity and self-worth is basically non-existent outside of being a werewolf. But then, I have always found it bizarre that, for someone so painfully aware of his lycanthropy, he forgot to take his Wolfsbane Potion in Prison of Azkaban, absolutely jeopardising the lives of three students, a teacher, and his best friend. Because he, for whom his identity as a werewolf is permanently at the forefront of his mind and affects every aspect of his life, just 'forgot'.
He knew it was the full moon. There was no way he didn't. He'd been preparing for it all week, taking his daily doses of Wolfsbane, and would be getting the physical and mental symptoms of an impending transformation. He even makes the effort to explain the entire process to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, about how his condition impacts him and how the very potion he takes to mitigate the effects works. He goes through the whole thing! I just can't understand why, given all of this, he would a) forget the dose in the first place, or at the very least, b) twig that he'd forgotten it and go 'oh fuck' and immediately rectify the problem.
The book and movie scenes are different mainly concerning Snape, but essentially, had Sirius not been able to draw him away from Harry, Ron, and Hermione, they'd all be grievously injured werewolves at best, and slaughtered at worst. Because in the movie, yes Snape protects them, but he has no wand! There is nothing he can do to actually stop Remus from attacking other than shield the kids with his body and wait to get mauled.
I also think it's worth mentioning that Snape went to find Remus to give him his Wolfsbane, but when he couldn't find him, he just... left the potion there and went to find him, Sirius, and the kids, aware of the fact that no potion = mindless werewolf, and mindless werewolf = certain death. Snape nearly got Wolf-Creeked by Remus as a teenager! Snape would be very, very conscious of the risks!
Aside from plot purposes that required Remus to be revealed as a werewolf at the end of the book to fulfill the theme of DADA teachers facing unfortunate circumstances, this makes zero fucking sense!
Hence why I agree with Snape's decision in the books to spill the secret (it's left ambiguous as to who lets it slip in the movies but it's also hinted to be Snape) because holy shit, the entire situation could've gone much, much worse than it did.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what religion looks like in the wizarding world. I believe that wizards are religious, but how they go about practicing religion and what religion means to them is something that interest me. So, I’m going to build on that fact and do my own world building/lore for it, and wizards theology.
We know that the Statue of Secrecy was implemented in 1692 and prior to the statue, wizards integrated with muggles more freely and openly, in a time period where it was much more religious, so naturally it rubbed off on them and it’s something they still believe in and continue to practice today. But this begs the question, what does religion mean to a group of people that can turn water into wine with a flick of their wands?
For most people, the purpose of practicing religion is to explain the meaning of life and a way to help guide you through it, and even with magic, wizards can still fall under that category of wanting to give their life meaning. Religion for wizards originally functioned as to explain why magic existed, a restraint on its use, and a warning against over indulgence of it. The main core parts of religion was that magic was a burden placed on some humans, to show restraint and compassion for those without, and a sense of responsibility for those without. This sympathetic lens towards muggles makes sense considering they lived together and inhabited places at one point in time. God is above magic, he does not perform spells, miracles are not spells, and magic does not coincide with the divine.
The Ten Commandments (Mixing both muggle Christianity and Wizard theology):
I am Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods above me
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
Thou shalt not over-indulge in magic
Thou shalt protect the non-magic
Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Thou shalt not covet
Before the statue of secrecy the world was separated into those who can do magic and those who can’t, but that changed when the statue was implemented. The whole blood status thing was made up post-statue of secrecy, as now that wizards are living solely amongst themselves, with nothing to divide themselves from one another, they needed a new tool to reroot the hierarchy once again. Wizards are humans after all and humans need a hierarchy to live in a society or else they’ll turn against each other. Which is why I don’t believe that pre-statue wizards and muggles were living in harmony or else there wouldn’t be a need to implement it.
Also given the fact that in 1697, the Blasphemy Act in England was implemented (just five years after the initial Statute of Secrecy was implemented and come on do you really think centuries living amongst muggles is going to change in a span of five years?) and anyone who had a different view that didn’t align with the Christian bible was crucified, and given that the statue was implemented to protect wizards from muggle harm, it’s safe to say they didn’t take that lightly. It also invites the question; was Jesus a wizard? How many muggles do you know that could walk on water? But I feel like the whole “Jesus is a wizard” is a new gen thing that started post statue of secrecy by the Wizarding Church.
After the statue was implemented, there was a whole new generation of young witches and wizards who have never seen or personally interacted with a Muggle, and therefore could not relate or see themselves in Muggle Jesus. Turning Jesus into a Wizard was done by the Church to not only drive up the numbers of attendances in the Church for monetary reasons, but also so young wizards and witches can relate and understand the teachings of Jesus and find representation in him. It wasn’t until decades later, that the whole “Wizard Jesus is proof that we are divine from the heavens and chosen by God” rhetoric was co-opted by extremists to make themselves feel superior and better than their Muggle counterparts.
But speaking of Jesus do wizards even believe in the holy trinity? Why believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit when you can be provided all three through one means— magic? Are wizards inclined to more nontrinitarian/ Jehovah witnesses beliefs? Rejecting Jesus, a human form of God, and believing the true God, is the Father, a man above the mortals that inhabit the planet, someone who is so godly, so untouchable, so above and beyond that even magic can’t touch God. If they are, it’s probably not spoken as much due to the Blasphemy Act and they never got around to seeing the Doctrine of Trinity Act of 1812 revoking it.
I keep bringing up extremist wizards because even though canon doesn’t specify the root cause of blood supremacy or blood purist, and for all intended purposes, most Death Eaters we see in canon are more aligned to eugenics and blood than religion reasoning. I still think it stands to note that religion and politics do go hand in hand at times, so while there aren’t wizards in canon that we see that do this, there could be a section of wizards who view themselves as divine and think themselves as superior to Muggles due to their closeness to God.
So, in a decision that can only lead to my own downfall, I've decided to make my behemoth HP rewrite fic very explicitly an aristocrat fic (but without Harry inheriting fourteen different lordships, because tbh those fics aren't my cup of tea). This means that I've dedicated hours of research to the class structures of 1700s Britain (yippee).
Anyways, just some quick observations in the text/ mainly headcanons I have for class in the WW.
I don't like the idea that the WW only has like...7000 wizards in all of Britain/Ireland. In GoF, the World Cup stadium is supposedly full of 'thousands of wizards'...you can't convince me that the ENTIRE COUNTRY came to watch Viktor Krum catch the car park frog. Also the average stadium can fit like 50,000-100,000 people. So therefore in my opinion > there are many other Wizard schools across Britain/Ireland, but most are state-run = Hogwarts is an elite school, and it's a status symbol to send your child there = hence why ALL the purebloods are at Hogwarts and it is the breeding ground for blood supremacist/class supremacist ideology and all of Voldy's DE friends.
Another headcanon: Wizard primary schools exist, but it's fashionable to educate your little pureblood child at home rather than have them attend PUBLIC SCHOOL with the PEASANTS.
The Malfoys have the prestige but were running out of money, and the Blacks had the money but not so much prestige. Hence = Lucius and Narcissa arranged marriage.
Blacks = rich, attractive social climbers. British East India Company money. Think the poor but titled British aristocrats of the 18th/19th Century + the wealthy but not titled American families. This is how they did such a great job marrying into every other pureblood family in the country.
The Potters are the 'wrong type' of money (new money), like 1900s patent money, and even though they hold a Wizengamot seat (at least in the past, e.g. Ralston Potter in the 1600s I believe) they don't have titles like how I believe the Malfoys would own half of Wiltshire. great potential as social climbers but alas they aren't blood supremacists, so especially in the 1960s~, they became an unattractive prospect for titled but poor families. prior to that they were somewhat accepted hence Dorea Black marrying Charlus Potter and living to tell the tale.
The Malfoys are at the top of the food chain. They probably have a dukedom hidden away somewhere and at least 50 peacocks.
