[MOD] Jailbreaking Azkaban (reference post)

[prime-veridian.livejournal.com]

Hi guys, I'm done with my orals, back from Dragon*Con, and now it's time to kickstart the Jailbreaking Azkaban post!



Here's what's going down:
- First, please post up to your character arriving at the Burrow (with the exception of Alison, who will be there already and answering the door.)
- Then I will take over again, as Molly and Arthur Weasley, who are spearheading this operation, explain to us what we need to know of the plan:

Once the prisoners are broken out of Azkaban, they will be ushered in groups of ~10 to various portkey waystations, with the ultimate destination unknown to us. We, along with several of the other younger participants (like the Twins) will be responsible for guarding three portkeys, as part of the waystation jumps. We will not know where our portkeys are going or where the groups have come from previously. Unlike regular portkeys which are touch or time activated, a clever member of the Resistance has created a variant of the Portus spell which allows a portkey to be passphrase or spell activated. There will be 2 Order members sheparding the escapees.

Depending on whether heartswill is playing, we'll either have two groups or just one group of girls guarding the portkeys.

The girls don't get to know the details of the plan (only the Order members are privy to that!), but they do get to see every Order member who will be part of the raiding party:

Kingsley Shacklebolt
Minerva McGonagall
Dedalus Diggle
Remus Lupin
Charlie Weasley
Bill Weasley
Arthur Weasley
Fleur Delacour
plus
3 animagi (Pryde, Toynbee, McCoy)
4 Order red shirts (Tsukahara, Kerrigor, Svoboda, Reid) (totally making up names here...)

The waystations will be in out of the way places across Britain, such as abandoned warehouses, middle-of-nowhere moors, for sale muggle residences in quiet suburbs, and the like. Once all 3 groups have been through, we're to Apparate back to the Burrow, and report.

..and that's it! :D I think...

DISCUSS.

Comments

Re: Seth

[oraxia.livejournal.com]

Hmn, that is certainly a thought. And you're right, there probably is a lot of discontentment within the Wizarding world. I mean, why should they have to hide from Muggles? And what's all this crazy technology stuff? That would be a pretty serious clash with Kahvi, who's grown up amongst the Muggles in a considerably more tolerant environment.

I'll have to mull that over and see if I can come up with a reasonable reason for him to have gone along with the whole Death Eater thing. But if he is, in fact, a Death Eater, I'm probably not going to bring him up here, since it would make more sense to actually build some sort of rapport between him and Kahvi before introducing trouble... although I still don't know how they'll end up running into each other again.

Re: Seth

[doctorskuld.livejournal.com]

There is huge discontentment with the Wizarding world, I am sure. I'm sure that a good load of Wizards at least question why it is that they're the ones who have to hide, and why they can't do the same thing to the Muggles that Muggles did to them during the witch hunts. I'm sure there is still bitterness lingering from that, and that's certainly something that I am under the impression Voldemort's followers have capitalized on in order to maintain control of the Ministry and the general citizenry.

Kahvi is really in an interesting position as a pureblood who's grown up well integrated with both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, and I really think this ought to be explored at least a little bit because she is in such an interesting position. :D If Seth really is going to be a Death Eater, I'm not entirely sure how often Kahvi can run into him, but I was under the impression that there might have been Death Eaters doing patrols at Hogwarts (along with the Dementors), and there's always the opportunity during Hogsmeade trips.

You can also retcon some instances earlier during the winter holidays when she runs into him in London?

Re: Seth

[firespice.livejournal.com]

Hmn, yeah, after thinking and talking it out a little, I think this might be too early to be including Seth, so he probably won't appear. Or if he does, he'll be hooded, and Kahvi won't recognize him (briefly thought about letting him know she's on the other side, but I still likely won't). I just need to start figuring out where I can have him run into her, since I didn't leave many likely gaps for her to be meeting people outside of school. Hopefully there will be some opportunities in the future ^^;;

But hey, why not, it'll probably be good for me to beat my head over how to make him a convincing Death Eater without making him an evil jerk...

I warn that I'm not very good at writing people falling in love, though, so I tips, pointers, suggestions appreciated etc. -_- Bwuh.

Re: Seth

[prime-veridian.livejournal.com]

There's a question of whether you want to make him a fully-fledged Death Eater, or simply a sympathizer or accomplice. I get the impression that there may be a lot of people who are sympathetic to the Voldemort administration, but are not fully committed to the cause. (The parents of Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Daphne Greengrass, and Millicent Bulstrode are never mentioned in Rowling canon as Death Eaters, so my impression is that they may share some of the same ideals, but are not actually Death Eaters. I get the impression that during every major political upheaval, there are just people who want to be left alone and live their lives the best they can, which I think applies to them.) Rowling also mentions that those recruited to be Snatchers are not full Death Eaters (maybe they're just trying to contribute or work their way up the ranks), so if you want to tread lightly, you can also go the Snatcher route. This would probably make it more likely for Kahvi to run into him during Hogsmeade trips or something like that. :D

The Snatcher route will solve a lot of your "but what if he's an evil jerk" sort of problems. I can imagine that a lot of people might have initially joined the Snatchers just so they, in turn, wouldn't be bothered by them in the future. :3 Going that route will also allow for a more sympathetic portrayal of the character.

...and if you've read anything I've done with Ora and Draco, you'll realize that I SUCK at writing people falling in love too, so... ¬_¬ I'm really not the best person to ask. XD I think there may in fact be "no good way" and that we should just go with what we've got, and if it sucks, it sucks, who cares, nobody else is ever going to read it. :D

Re: Seth

[firespice.livejournal.com]

Well, after fighting with him for a few days/nights now, I get the feeling he is a Death Eater, but something on the lower ranks (ie not one of the important circle). One of the "eyes and ears" so to speak, because it's something he's good at, it's a job, and those freaking Muggles have never done anything for him anyway and they're probably getting what's coming to them :/ Curse you, Seth! >:[ I think he likes being mysterious on purpose, the bastard... And I'm a sucker for punishment, since I'm going to try the hard route >_< Bah.

Ahaha, I thought you were doing pretty well with Ora and Draco, actually. You capture the inexplicable nature of falling in love fairly well--neither of them particularly wants to be in love with the other, because it just causes them trouble, but they're continually drawn together in this spiral. Like being strangled by Devil's Ivy, I suppose, since it just gets a better hold on them the more they struggle XD

Re: Seth

[prime-veridian.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. XD Lower rank Death Eater it is, I suppose. Don't you hate it when muses just sort of run off and do their own thing like that? :D (But I guess that's what makes it fun.) Well, you have my support for all the difficulty up ahead! ~<3

Aw, thanks. D: I really thought it was kind of MADE OF FAIL, but then again I realize there's not a love story I've ever read that didn't seem hokey in some sort of way. ~<3 Good luck with your stuff, and hopefully I'll get my next Snogs post up tonight. :D