Ask Us Anything!

[alt_moderator]

The cast thread is filling up rapidly, and while we don't have to fuss about comment collapse, it is getting difficult to navigate...

So here's a new post, where we're asking YOU to ask US: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

Comments

[reenie]

I always thought it would be interesting to see what Nanella (Narcissa and Bella's mother) would add to the game. I was always really intrigued by Sarah Yaxley, too, mostly based on Deb's creation of her as reflected in Lana's posts. I'm really curious about Maureen, too.

A lot of the NPCs felt really real to me, despite not having journals. Remy Jugson, for example; Astoria Greengrass; Teddy Nott (who started as a PC, yes, and gave us something to work from); Mrs Professor Carrow; Lizzie Stevens and Samantha Montgomery. Many more besides.

[naomikritzer]

I would add Honoria to that list, and Gwendolyn Acton.

[reenie]

Some NPCs were just useful for being NPCs, is the thing. You know? Like, if we needed someone to be horrible, Teddy was always waiting in the wings. If we needed someone to do something kind of bone-headed, there was Remy! If we needed someone to annoy Daphne, cue Astoria! I really think those people all worked best as NPCs.

[lucky_guess]

I do like how Jeremy started off that way -- someone doing something boneheaded/opportunistic/causing Sally-Anne frustration who existed largely in the background, and then he evolved wonderfully into someone entirely his own. So that was one case where it went really well!

[lucky_guess]

I'm glad we got a glimpse of Sarah Fawcett when Draco was on bedrest, but I would've liked to have seen more of her, too! Padma might've been interesting, as would've Cho Chang.

Due to the mechanics of not having the journal be accessible to Muggle people, that also limited our voices, too.

(Oh, Remy.)

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

I always thought it would have been interesting to have a Cho too, but the story just didn't evolve that way. Ditto Parvati!

[synecdochic]

Deb did ask me if I wanted to pick up Sarah Yaxley, and I REALLY wish I could have, but that was at one of the points where my hands were dying and my brain was getting eaten by meds and I didn't want to commit to something I didn't think I could do, not when I had other plot-critical characters. :(

[naomikritzer]

Dang, that would've been cool.

I semi-ghosted Sarah during the "Who Wants to Be a Death Eater" sequence (I picked out her candidates, wrote the letters they received, etc.) She is one fucked up woman. (She was actually not exactly a fan of Voldemort, and her candidate picks were designed to maximize disruption, in fact. But. She wasn't exactly Order material, either.)

[synecdochic]

I loved the thing where Rachel told her "you're just an artist, you're not involved in this, you can confess and get amnesty". Because yeah, not so much. :P

[naomikritzer]

I'm pretty sure Rachel knew that, but was making an (unsuccessful) attempt to manipulate Sarah. (But a somewhat half-hearted attempt, since the real purpose of that ENTIRE set of posts was to see if she could recruit Jason. Well, and also taunt Tosha, because she finally could.)

[synecdochic]

I LOVED that chance for her to taunt Tosha. And the payoff for that tiny detail that we put in way back when! (The 'awfully big adventure'.)

(Speaking of Rachel: "If you want to win any hearts and minds among the wizards of Milton Keynes, you might want to go do something about that.")