The NPCs I would've really loved to see as PCs were the Archer kids.
Aloysius Archer was an Order affiliate who committed suicide in order to avoid interrogation (using a poisoned ring that later inspired the ones Sally-Anne and Hermione made for the ISS kids.)
Aloysius left behind a son, Gareth, who was a Gryffindor. We suggested a few times that he had committed himself firmly to the Protectorate, trying to avoid the taint of his father's suspect death.
He had been estranged from Gareth, but quite close to his niece, Aurelia, a Slytherin from a mostly-Gryffindor family. Aurelia was Susan's girlfriend for a while, and a Galleon holder. She was solidly in the Order-leaning, subversive camp.
And Aloysius was betrayed by his own brother, who was trying desperately to get his children out of a muggleborn camp. Igraine Archer was one of those children, and had a fascinating tragic backstory -- her awful secret, which she revealed to Seamus under Imperius, was that she would sometimes steal food from her brother, justifying it because if he'd never been born she wouldn't have lost her halfblood status and been condemned to the camps. She felt tremendously guilty about this, and willingly followed Seamus's orders to protect her secret.
There was a lot of interesting angst there, but we never hit the point of thinking they needed to be played characters. The whole family was really damn interesting, though, from Aloysius outward.
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Aloysius Archer was an Order affiliate who committed suicide in order to avoid interrogation (using a poisoned ring that later inspired the ones Sally-Anne and Hermione made for the ISS kids.)
Aloysius left behind a son, Gareth, who was a Gryffindor. We suggested a few times that he had committed himself firmly to the Protectorate, trying to avoid the taint of his father's suspect death.
He had been estranged from Gareth, but quite close to his niece, Aurelia, a Slytherin from a mostly-Gryffindor family. Aurelia was Susan's girlfriend for a while, and a Galleon holder. She was solidly in the Order-leaning, subversive camp.
And Aloysius was betrayed by his own brother, who was trying desperately to get his children out of a muggleborn camp. Igraine Archer was one of those children, and had a fascinating tragic backstory -- her awful secret, which she revealed to Seamus under Imperius, was that she would sometimes steal food from her brother, justifying it because if he'd never been born she wouldn't have lost her halfblood status and been condemned to the camps. She felt tremendously guilty about this, and willingly followed Seamus's orders to protect her secret.
There was a lot of interesting angst there, but we never hit the point of thinking they needed to be played characters. The whole family was really damn interesting, though, from Aloysius outward.