TDT A History Part 4: January-June 1998
The Darker Truth
A History: January-November 1998 (’07)
Last Updated: December 2007
NB: Not all threads are linked to in this post. The events listed are those which effect the game significantly, or might be useful for new players trying to establish character relationships. Hint: If you are looking for backstory on a specific character, trying searching for them using CNTL+F.
1998
January
- The Hufflepuffs have a crazy drunken New Years party
- Harry finds the locket Horcrux
- School begins again
- Voldemort informs Draco that Harry was poisoned in July. If Draco brings Harry to Voldemort in three months, Voldemort will help Draco in his Dumbledore-killing duty.
- Zach gives Jon magical masks in the shape of Harry, Draco, Jon and Zach. Ooh, kinky.
- The poison begins to have a severe effect on Harry. Ron and Ginny are worried about him.
- Meanwhile, Zach and Jon use their masks.
- Hannah and Justin reconcile their differences and end up making out (and more) in an old classroom
February
- Ernie saves his journal from the first years and wonders what to get Megan for Valentine's
- Pansy is most certainly unavailable
- Harry has a prophetic nightmare and starts to wonder how he's going to survive much longer
- Millicent tries to decide between Pansy and Malcolm
- Ginny meets with Tonks
- Jon and Zach meet up to do unimaginable things
- Harry and Ginny break form in order to see each other on Valentine's
- Anthony and Aldrick have a bitch-fight
- Millicent and Daphne discreetly dungbomb the Great Hall
- Megan and Ernie go flying and have a picnic, squee!
- Aldrick gets drunk and puts on a highly disturbing (but amusing) scene for Daphne
- Ron vents about his problems to Harry
- Tonks is attacked, and then found by Remus
- Narcissa confronts Severus about her son's protection
March
- Harry gets ominously pushed around by Draco
- Ron and Draco have an unfortunate confrontation. The House Points system is thoroughly utilised
- Lisa and Wayne end up kissing by the lake
- Narcissa attempts to seduce Severus in protecting her son. Incomplete.
- The Patils' birthday party
- Tonks wakes up, and Remus is there to greet her.
- Padma and Aldrick have angst
April
- Ginny surprises Harry in a corridor. He loses control and attempts to force himself on her before coming to his senses and running off.
- Unfortunately he runs into Draco, who throttles him unconcious during his ramblings
- Meanwhile, Pansy beats up Ginny
- Harry wakes up with Ginny's body, and thinking that he was the culprit, drops her off at the hospital wing. Soon after he runs into Draco again, who promptly abducts Harry and takes him to meet Voldemort
- Ron is with Ginny when she wakes up, but unfortunately doesn't believe her theory.
- Dumbledore interrogates Ginny and Ron in his attempts to discover the truth
- Narcissa and Pansy band together to worry about Draco
- Susan chats with Aldrick and Padma
- Lisa helps Padma to open her acceptance letter
- Ginny visits Tonks
- Wayne comforts Padma about leaving
-Zach and Jon prepare an elaborate prank
- Ron and Hermione hatch a plan to save Harry, but they get distracted
- Draco cuts his mother off
- Voldemort gives Draco permission to play with the prisoner. The result is a nasty argument.
- Ron appeals to Ginny to attempt the memory spell
- NEWT timetable is published
- Hermione and Ron help Ginny to get her memory back
- Hannah and Justin confirm their love
- Voldemort sends a message to the former Slytherins, 'asking' them to join up
- The Slytherins discuss their alliances. They decide to appoint Pansy as leader and speaker for the group.
June
- Bellatrix collects some of Harry's blood.
- Pansy protests Draco's thoughts of betrayal
- Draco gets Harry back to the castle. Dumbledore agrees to Draco's terms, and suggests Draco go live in London with Harry.
- Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, and reunites with Ginny
- In the common room Harry meets Ron and Hermione
- Pansy offers herself up as Chief of ex-Slytherin students
- School ends. Draco goes to Grimmauld Place with Harry, everyone else goes to their respective homes.
- There's an Order Meeting. Draco confesses his father's murder to Harry. Harry talks to Tonks.
- Voldemort gives Pansy an assignment.
July
- Zach meets Jon's family
- Pansy leaves the coin in Hogwarts castle. Offscreen, she encounters and murders Padma.
- As a result, Hogwarts is destroyed. Dumbledore, McGonagall and Trelawny are killed.
- Harry tells Draco about the destruction of Hogwarts and asks for Draco's help in fighting Voldemort.
- Harry makes Ginny promise not to get involved in the fighting
- The students find Padma's body.
- Susan meets Theo at the Leaky Cauldron
August
- Harry gives Ginny Sirius' mirror for her birthday
- Draco and Harry go to meet Pansy at Diagon Alley, and very nearly get killed.
- Padma's Funeral
- Hermione finds a Horcrux and she and Ron bring it to Harry to confirm.
- Voldemort tortures Pansy for her failure but gives her one last chance
Harry and Draco alert the Order to Snape's betrayal. Grimmauld Place is abandoned and the boys are moved to a considerably smaller 'safe' house in Durnham. Harry is made Secret Keeper, and only Draco and Kingsley are given the secret. Remus and the others give Hermione the means to contact Harry through charmed parchment, and the communication charms are taken off their journals.
Hermione and Ron discover that Fiendfyre will destroy Horcruxes, and Harry wastes no time in getting rid of the cup and the locket.
September
- Harry and Draco visit Voldie, find a Horcrux, only just escape. Harry makes his first kill in order to save Draco from the Death Eaters.
- Susan agrees to heal Pansy's wounds in return for protection.
October
- Harry says goodbye to Ginny
- FINAL BATTLE THREADS:
- Central (Harry/Draco/Pansy/Snape/Voldemort)
- Hannah/Justin - Hannah confesses she is pregnant... but Justin is killed.
- Ron/Hermione/Parvati/Draco
- Lisa/Jon/Zach/Voldemort
- The FINAL final battle (Harry/Voldemort/Hermione/Ron/Draco)
November
- The Memorial Service