So, this is sort of a cross between "adoptable plots" and the "did you know?" thread, because sometimes when I'm researching things in the HPverse I come across little tidbits that are fascinating. I super don't need more characters, of course, and I'm not suggesting that you all do, but... well, maybe when you have that next omg-I-can't-resist idea, you can combine it with one of these and have it be even more awesome.

The Buchanan family, consisting of parents + 11 offspring, are Scottish witches and wizards of exceptionally large builds. One of them is a squib with a pretty extensive Pottermore backstory who is currently a Scottish rugby player and will go on to make the sport popular among wizards, as unlikely as that sounds, by 1902.

Also even if no one plays any Buchanans ever, the Angus Buchanan Sorting ordeal happened sometime in the 1850s-60s (depending on how old he was when the Rugby Cup happened in 1871) which means your characters can reference it IC. Some of them might have even witnessed it. You're welcome.

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One of them is a squib with a pretty extensive Pottermore backstory who is currently a Scottish rugby player and will go on to make the sport popular among wizards, as unlikely as that sounds, by 1902.

I think someone was angling for them once before but Declan Wood wasn't super comfy having a real person played?

  

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If I could marry Bee I would but I can't so I ship our characters instead.

I totally get that (and I don't think there would be much/any threadding opportunities for a squib who lives in the non-Irvingly part of Scotland anyway) but the rest of the fam would be pretty fun.

Also this thread is just generally here to collect all the things I find, not just the one about Scottish Rugby xD

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One of the ideas I kick around every six months is: veela who lives in the woods and lures men to their death
...not a whole lot of threading opportunities but man

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I was reading through the Wizard of the Month page on the HP Wiki and stumbled across this gem:

September 2006 - Hambledon Quince (1936 - present): Author of controversial theory that wizards originate from Mars, Muggles from mushrooms

Someone should totally make a magical theorist who publishes the wackiest theories related to magic that the Daily Prophet or Witch Weekly can have a field day with every now and then. Better if he/she gathers followers for the belief!

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I was scrolling through various web pages and stumbled across one of those high school projects for "Build A Country" and it got me thinking about all the things in the real world that they'd likely have in the magical world, albeit slightly different because obviously times, technology, and the entire existence of magic make it different.

However, I did stumble across some things on the HP Wiki that would awesome to have:

• A wizard who runs a company like GalloLoans, which has ridiculous interest rates. For collateral, they could force their loaners to offer things like their homes, pets, or maybe even risk having a certain spell take effect if they don't pay their loans back on time! Maybe a character got transfigured into a talking cat permanently because he couldn't pay back the loan he took out :P
  
• We also have regulatory agencies in the real world that act somewhat independent from the government to tell us what sort of levels of chemicals we can have in our food and whatnot. The wizarding world also has mentions of things like The Ministry of Herbology and The Ministry of Divine Health, and it would be cool to have those sorts of things on-site.
  
• Characters who run political PAC-like organizations that have certain goals in mind? Goblin welfare? Less broomstick regulation? Things of that nature? Seems like a fun idea to me, especially if certain Ministry officials are caught supporting or doing business with less-than-popular ones!
  

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This idea bounces around in my head periodically but I can't really combine it with anything to make a functional character: someone who works in the Spirit Division of the DRCMC whose primary job is issuing restraining orders against ghosts, and/or conducting wizarding exorcisms to force hostile spirits out of a certain house/area/whatever.

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I stumbled across this gem:

‘I will give the years in which [these strange names] have been met with,  and I find, to make a start, a girl registered in 1847, ‘Is it Maria’; 1853, ‘Napoleon the Great’;  1857, ‘Robert Alma Balaclava Inkerman Sebastopol Delhi’; 1860, ‘Arthur  Wellesley Wellington Waterloo’; 1861, ‘Not Wanted James’;  1863, ‘Jerome Napoleon Edward Henry John’ (this an illegitimate  child born in a workhouse); 1865, ‘Edward Byng  Tallyho Forward’,  1870, ‘One Too Many’; 1877, ‘Peter the  Great’, and ‘William the Conqueror’, twins ; 1883, ‘Richard  Coeur de Lion Tyler Walter; 1886, ‘That’s it who’d have thought it’, 1887, ‘Laughing Waters’.

Someone should make a character who 1. had parents were either illiterate and didn't know how to spell names, 2. had a doctor or whatever who was stupid when filling out the birth certificate so their official name is "It Is Maria", or 3. parents who gave them names that totally didn't fit their status.

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"Demimondes" were a sort of prostitute that lived the high life instead of in shady brothels and on the streets. They lived on the fringes of the upper class and were not considered respectable by any means, but they did live luxurious lives—much in part due to their wealthy lovers who showered them with gifts and experiences.

They were often famed for their beauty and charm, though not all had charm. Many times, these ladies would end up penniless and on the streets once their beauty faded and they found they were incapable of securing new lovers or a husband to take her in. They were typically depicted as women who lived hedonistic lifestyles by partaking in gambling, drugs, drinking, and sexual promiscuity.

On Charming, all the ladies who seem to fit this description tend to be socialites that do this in secret, but there should totally be ones that started from the bottom and made their way to the top and are openly like this.

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A fifteen/sixteen year old WC girl who wants very badly to not live her life in poverty, and has decided the best way to do that is to marry out. How is she going to attract a gent of the middle class? Snag a professor. Cue hilarious threads of her stalking/trying to seduce said professor.

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An older widower who has a lot of those wizarding portraits in his home and spends a lot of time talking to/arguing with deceased relations. At some point he decides he wants to remarry, but his potential bride has to "meet" his parents first... and all her predecessors as Mrs. Whomever.

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A character who accidentally murdered a family member, and a second one who helped them cover it up in the heat of the moment, both now tortured by guilt and bound by secrets.

/reading too much true crime

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One of the ideas I kick around every six months is: veela who lives in the woods and lures men to their death
...not a whole lot of threading opportunities but man

My twisted brain turned this into a female serial killer who lives in Hogsmeade and murders men in he woods and blames it on 'Veela in the woods' - like spingheel Jack or something.

  

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A disgraced former portkey office employee who's new form of income is decidedly under the table: illegal portkeys.

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A disgraced former portkey office employee who's new form of income is decidedly under the table: illegal portkeys.

Ben could be responsible for like 40% of this guy's income with his love of travel and his being on the portkey no-fly list. BUT ANYWAY.

A 10 year old who has only arrived in England to establish residency for Hogwarts next year, after having been raised abroad by their ex-pat parent who is notorious for committing a heinous crime, but fled to a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with magical England and is just out there living their best Roman Polanski life.

In my head there is some sort of concerted effort by the auror department to use the kid as bait to lure the parent back into the country and their reputation starts off at like, two.

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A character whose occupation is "cleansing" people from curses. Most of their customers are just paranoid and they do some faith-healing style guesswork and some hand-waving and collect their fee. Occasionally someone comes in who is actually cursed and they're like "awh shit now I have to research what to do about this, I hate reading..."

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