mentions of "off-screen" friends

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I've been reading back through recent posts to catch up on comment threads I might have missed by reading the post too soon. (How do you manage this aspect of the game?)

I thought we might do well to begin a list of references to those characters we've not yet seen:

* in an early exchange w/ Remus alt_sirius strikesout the start of a mention of Hagrid
     (who, perhaps, has Sirius' original, enchanted motorbike in his care in game as he does in canon)

* alt_arthur mentions to Sirius that he's had an owl from Kingsley Shacklebolt
     (who is undercover somewhere & thinks his cover has been compromised)

* during the Order Only thread re. the Quibbler fine, alt_mcgonagall mentions Mundungus Fletcher
     (who seems to be a fence/money-launderer as in canon)

* there's the heartbreaking thread in which Neville "meets" his Mum and she mentions Frank
     (who seems from other mentions to be working separately from Alice? is that right?)

Who am I overlooking? Of course, we've heard about Umbridge and Scrimgeour and the Lovegoods and some students (Oliver Wood, most recently) who aren't [yet?] being played actively. Have we had a reference to Tonks yet? Others?


I'll close by saying that I'm thrilled to see that Poppy Pomfrey has made her entrance into play, moving from the ranks of the "mentioned" to active status!

Comments

[longstrider.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Tonks has been mentioned but I can't find it at the moment.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Tonks has a journal (alt_nymphadora), and I think you are right that there's been some mention of her. Has there been discussion of her mother, too, somewhere in Lucius' posts or his exchanges-in-comments with Bellatrix?

This is why I'm keen to get a list of these off-stage character mentions started -- my memory gets very fuzzy and the game is getting more vast by the minute.

[zorb]

I'm pretty sure Andromeda was referenced in a conversation between Narcissa and Bellatrix. It didn't specify her current status, but I don't think there's any reason that it would have changed from canon to the game.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Except that Andromeda married a Muggle. Or am I misremembering Ted Tonks' status?

[zorb]

Yes, he's a Muggle, but that was established well before Voldemort took control. I'd bet that they had ample time to go into hiding.

[eibbil-libbie.livejournal.com]

Ted Tonks was a Muggleborn, not a Muggle ;)

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Ted Tonks was a Muggleborn

And as such, it would be good if someone remembered where in game Andromeda was discussed. (Or, of course, it would be obsessive. Feel free to say so!)

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Here (http://alt-narcissa.livejournal.com/1012.html?thread=4852#t4852).
At the time, my interpretation was that they may have meant "dead" as in "dead to me because I have disowned her." I think it's pretty ambiguous so far.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

You're brilliant! (Thanks for tracking that down.)

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I thought I noticed that she was referred to as being dead.

[eliah.livejournal.com]

If you go turn this setting (http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?c=NCTalkLinks) on, links to comment threads will (probably) show in a different color if there aren't any new comments since the last time you clicked on them. Very handy for situations like this.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That seems like a good LJ-setting to know about. (And I didn't know about it.)

[longstrider.livejournal.com]

Barty Crouch Jr has made an appearance, bottom of Theo's post (http://alt-theodore.livejournal.com/1299.html?thread=33555#t33555). Theo's very long very interesting post.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Noted!

It *is* an interesting post -- and a striking moment for Barty Crouch, Jr. to make his entrance.