Wizarding Games: What if

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What if...


Details: What if one slight decision at any point in the Harry Potter books had been different? What if Dean Thomas' father had told Dean's mother why he left the family to protect them? What if Ariana was standing one foot to the right had never been killed? What if Ariana had decided to stay indoors instead of going outside and meeting those Muggles in the first place? What if Kreacher had gone crazy and killed the baby Regulus meaning Sirius was the only child of the Blacks?

Have a think and a debate/disscussion about how small/big a change could have changed something ridic big/not at all. Uh. Be creative! try to find something different or interesting to change, you can use the ones above if you must.

Steps:
1. Pick a thing from HP to change
2. Explain how you think this would have changed the way the story unfolded, and if it'd change the outcome at all. Maybe the differences in the world once the story was over? (min 100 words)
3. Discuss/debate with other people about yours and theirs. Do you think it wouldn't have made the changes they think it would? Explain why. Do you agree and see some other changes that would have occurred, let them know :) (min 30 words and you can't just wholeheartedlyagree and gush at them)


Rules:

1. Don't pick the same one as someone else. If someone has already picked something then reply to their comment discussing/debating
2. Don't cause drama. Prove you can all civilly debate and discuss stuff.
3. Take heed of the word limits (100 words for first comment, 30 words for additional replies with a point that add to the discussion/debate)
4. Try not to make it a silly thing e.g. Harry ate some toast one morning instead of cereal and therefore the world ended.

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<b>Thing you're changing:</b> <b>How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books?</b> min 100words for this section



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[caitieness.livejournal.com]

Thing you're changing: Helena never tells Tom Riddle about her diadem
How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? I've always thought this was interesting. But try as he might, Tom Riddle can't get The Grey Lady to reveal her secret hiding place for the diadem and he has to choose a different object for his horcrux. I imagine he'd be upset, now only having items belonging to 2 of the 4 Hogwarts founders. But the real change would come when it was time for Harry to find and destroy all the horcruxes. Sure, Voldemort may have found another object that he wanted to hide inside Hogwarts, inside the Room of Requirement's lost things room but it wouldn't be as readily recognizable. Would Harry and company be able to find the object at all? If we're going for a happy ending, the answer is yes. But either way, it'd probably take him much, much longer. And since the retrieval of the diadem was already a pretty dangerous task, I think maybe more than just Crabbe wouldn't have made it out alive.

caitie//hufflepuff

[naushika.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting thing to change. I think if he had needed one more object for a horcrux, because he couldn't get the diadem, he would have gone for something else important to Hogwarts. Perhaps even something he would steal from Hogwarts, and then after making it a horcrux, return it to its rightful place so it would be taunting Dumbledore by being under his nose the whole time in the halls of Hogwarts.

Noelle // Slytherin // 1

[astrophelind.livejournal.com]

I think the outcome would also rely heavily on whether Dumbledore had managed to collect a memory pertaining to that alternative Horcrux. If not, well. More than one Crabbe indeed. But like Noelle said, Voldemort would've probably still picked something from Hogwarts just to spite Dumbledore. He may even have picked something to do with Ravenclaw just to taunt Helena.

Ria//Slytherin//2

[capeofstorm.livejournal.com]

I think that would have made him angry enough to go after something belonging to Gryffindor, just to make sure he had a tie to Hogwarts yet again. Or, in a rather devious move, he'd turn one of the library books into a Horcrux. Maybe it would be a book that he enjoyed reading in the library; he'd definitely let it stay there, however I think he would have placed strong wards on it so that no-one besides him would be able to find it. Now that would have thrown the Trio for a loop.

Lena/Gryffindor/2

[everythingshiny.livejournal.com]

Wow that would really kinda screw Harry LOL. I always wondered what would have happened if the horcruxes weren't so easy to decipher, you know? Plus the final battle might be very very different.

Tash//Slytherin

[defined.livejournal.com]

I agree with naushika that Voldemort probably would have gotten another object important to Hogwarts instead. What, exactly, I'm not so sure, but I'm sure there's many things in the castle we don't know about. It would have been harder for Harry to find it, probably, but maybe Dumbledore would have been able to figure it out or checked up on things in the castle that Voldemort might want to take.

Chelsea//Ravenclaw