Alternative Perspectives, Sign-Up and Discussion Options

[moonbeam3243]

I have been staring at this section of the forum for a while, wondering when we'd be able to get a proper Order of the Ferret started. Then, around 3am, I jumped out of bed with this idea that--in my humble opinion--rocks [You know you're a HPaholic when you jump out of bed at 3am with fanfic ideas]

Your mission, if you choose to accept it...

1) Pick a character, any character (but not Harry or a character someone else signed up for)
2) Retell key points from the first HP book from the perspective of that character


To keep this in guidelines with the "order" rules (as opposed to first come, first serve in Ferret Wheel), we can all each sign up for a character and stick with that character for each scene. For example, I'm going to sign up for Ron, and for each of the scenes in this series, I will write from Ron's point of view. If you'd like to do more than one, that's cool.

I suggest that we do three scenes, one per week, at least to start.

*Tentative schedule: Sign-ups till this Saturday, then one story per week by each following Saturday. Good?

I think any length or format would be fine.

It may help people decide what three scenes we should do, so here's what I'm thinking. Again, I'm flexible on this.

1) The first day (Hogwarts Express, sorting)
2) Halloween (remember the troll?)
3) Sometime during the trio's forray into the bowels of Hogwarts (depending on character, this could change. I.e. Ron would start from his adventure, but if someone picks Draco, this could be told as an aftermath tale)



I'll edit this post as people sign up so that this will be the official list of who's who.


List of Characters
Moony will write for Ron
Pinkpanther will write for the troll and/or Hermione
Ron's My Man will write for Quirrel
Quant will write for Crabbe/Goyle and Draco on a modified schedule
Bakbam will write for Professor Snape and Neville
SiriuslyIrish will write for Dumbledore
Zymurgy will write for Hedwig (tentative)
McGonagal's Cat will write for Hagrid, the big oaf

Yay! OK, post below who you'd like to sign up for!

[pinkpanther]

If we do Halloween, can I be the troll?
If not, I would be content to settle for Hermione, I suppose.

[ronsmyman]

Oooh Oooh Ooh, ((waves hand wildly in the air)) Cna I be professor Quirrell??? It would be fun to write from his perspective, I can be evil, after all I am the Plague dragon. Or if we want to keep it to good characters I'll do Dumbledore.

[moonbeam3243]

Yay! I was REALLY hoping that someone would do Quirrel... that would be awesome!

I hadn't thought of the troll... but I guess you could totally do it. The first one could be how Quirrel got it, then Halloween, then the bonking of the last troll during the adventure...? Or you could do a "special" for the Halloween on and leave off the others. I'll put you down for both, just in case :-)

I'm so glad people are joining!

[bakbam]

I want to write for Professor Snape

[moonbeam3243]

Bakbam-- Quantamus pm'd me just forty minutes before your post asking that I reserve Snape for her. Would you mind terribly picking another character? Sorry!

To avoid confusion in the future, everyone post here which character you'd like to be instead of pm-ing; that way people will know who's doing what.

[Quantamus]

I'm so sorry - bakbam, you can go ahead and be Snape. I'll just be Crabbe/Goyle instead. :flower:

[ronsmyman]

I'm a little slow on the uptake , so I need some things clarified, what I understand of this fanfic sounds fun, but I don't get how it's all coming together, are we all writing the scene from different characters perspectives and putting it all together into one big compilation? That's what we're doing right? I just don't want to do anything wrong, I can't stand people yelling at me, I don't want to screw anything up.

[moonbeam3243]

*yells* I WOULD NEVER YELL AT YOU!!!!

Haha, just kidding. No worries, RMM, I've gotten a lot of pm'd questions about it. Evlpez came up with a great idea that I am going to blatently steal. I'm going to make a board for each week. Then each of you will write one story per week for your selected character.

So...

Week One, everyone writes one story from their character's perspective about the first day of Hogwarts (roughly from the train to the sorting) This will go in Week One forum. Now, since we're all coming at this out of the blue, these stories are all going to be completely independent. If there's a situation in the book where the characters meet, such as Ron, Hermione, and Harry on the train, then it should follow the book, but since most of these are characters without such explicit meetings, it's pretty free.

For Week Two, you continue on with your character. However, since you now have perspectives from Week One, you may want to refer to these past events. I.e. if Bakbam mentions in Week One that Snape has assigned a major project for all the Slytherins, then Quant may consider mentioning it (whether it got done or not, the results) in her week two from Crabbe/Goyle's perspective. Not mandatory, but it would make the stories kind of mesh together and intermingle, ne?

Then Week Three is the wrap up, same format as before.

Does that make sense? Basically three stories with a consistent character but that can mingle with elements from the other stories.

Let me know if I should clarify more! Sometimes things make such perfect sense in my head, but I just can't seem to make them clear!

[ronsmyman]

clear as scratched glass. I think I get the general idea, I see the end, but I'm still a bit confused, I'm not even sure what I'm confused about. Oh well, it's my normal demeanor, I'll just go cower from the wrath of Moony now.

[moonbeam3243]

Whee, I have wrath!

No, seriously, let me know if you can think of your question. I feel like I'm explaining it all wrong and I don't know what to clarify!

[bakbam]

Sorry Quantamus I didn't know. I think Dumbledore would be an interesting character to write as well.

I am excited about this project. I am interested to see where this goes.

[moonbeam3243]

To clear up confusion... I originally meant only ONE story per week, for a total of three stories after three weeks. NOT three stories per week... dear heavens, I could never do that much!

Clearly, I was never meant to be the person who writes instructions

[bakbam]

Should we write in past or present tense?

[Quantamus]

I'm not sure what the third scene is asking for Moony - please explain? *cowers from Moony's wrath*