# Harry Potter Mafia **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 25, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429 "2010-06-25T01:13:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/641 "2010-07-29T14:04:39Z")
I am here. I have a vote on my person of interest ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/642 "2010-07-29T14:05:35Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > I am here. I have a vote on my person of interest How do you feel about the fact that you are right now the leading candidate for a lynch? If I voted for Guiri right now, would you switch your vote to Guiri as well? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/643 "2010-07-29T14:06:51Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > > [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > > > I am here. I have a vote on my person of interest > > How do you feel about the fact that you are right now the leading candidate for a lynch? > > If I voted for Guiri right now, would you switch your vote to Guiri as well? I feel that as we could be at Lylo it is a very bad thing, as I know I am town. So yes I would, because my lynch will defo end the game if we are at Lylo, Guiri’s only maybe will ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/644 "2010-07-29T14:31:27Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Two hours. Is anyone even reading? I’m here too, hoping **OaOW** flips scum and we still have a fighting chance at winning the game. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/645 "2010-07-29T14:33:27Z")
ain’t gonna happen (the me flipping scum bit) ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/646 "2010-07-29T15:00:19Z")
I don’t, as it happens, much like the Wanderers lynch. I can’t articulate exactly why. But here’s the problem: If I vote for Guiri, and Wanderers switches, we have a tie, to be resolved in an unspecified fashion (unless Chipa or Stickler change their votes, but I’m not exactly holding my breath). If I vote for anyone other than Guiri (it’d be for Chipa; I have Jimmy and Stickler both firmly in the probable Town category and am willing to lose the game on that belief, if I must), it’s tantamount to a Wanderers vote. Struggling with this. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/647 "2010-07-29T15:01:57Z")
I have to go pick up my wife from work in 40 mins, so that is your timeline. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/648 "2010-07-29T15:02:24Z")
Why not switch just in case? ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/649 "2010-07-29T15:04:12Z")
By which I mean, if you are really concerned that your lynch, which seems imminent, will end the game for Town, why not make a defensive vote here? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/650 "2010-07-29T15:05:05Z")
OK **unvote** **Vote Guiri** ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/651 "2010-07-29T15:06:26Z")
Yeah, looks like my internet is limited. Bad timing so late in the game, guys, but that’s how it is. Color of no color, the Day will end and so forth. Much appreciation out to Red Skeezix for helping out. Mahaloth ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/652 "2010-07-29T15:36:37Z")
\*\*Vote Count: Guiri(2): Jimmy Chitwood, One And Only Wanderer OneAndOnly(3): Chipacabra, GuiriEnEspaña, Inner Stickler \*\* less than 30 minutes to go. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/653 "2010-07-29T16:00:58Z")
Okay the day is over. Dusk color coming up shorty! ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/654 "2010-07-29T16:03:15Z")
> [@Red\_Skeezix](#): > > Okay the day is over. Dusk color coming up shorty! who you callin’ shorty? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/655 "2010-07-29T16:04:19Z")
god just say it ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/656 "2010-07-29T16:09:53Z")
Everyone was exhausted, it had been a long day. With the disappearance of Sirius Black earlier in the day the Order of the Phoenix was at wits end. A consensus was reached: The one claiming to be Hermione Granger would have to go. Once again the wizards assembled around the chosen suspect. Avada Kedavara was the cry and 5 jets of green light erupted from the wands. Followed by the thump of Herminone’s lifeless corpse. Then all of a sudden two other wizards slumped to the ground. Betrayal! Tonks and Fred Weasley were dead at the fringes of the circle. A cold high pitched laugh pierced the stillness as Minerva McGonagal and Neville Longbottom morphed into Draco Malfoy and Bellatrix LeStrange. **Scum Wins!** I can’t Unlock the spoilers so we have to wait for mahaloth to do that. \*\*Town: Jimmy Chit. Hagrid Chipacabra Tonks Plastic Ninja Slughorn Tilatawhirl Mad-eye Moody Zeriel Lupin Meeko Fleur Delacour OneAndOnly Hermione Granger ShadowFacts Aberforth Dumbledore Rysto Albus Dumbledore(power role) Drain Bead Harry Potter(power role) Pedescribe George Weasley(power role) Storyteller Fred Weasley(power role) Freudian Sirius Black(power role) Scum Ominokami - Dolohov Inner Stickler - Malfoy Guiri - Belatrix Lestrange Red Skeezix- Voldemort Undecided 3rd Party: Normal Phase - Severus Snape\*\* The snitch was the tiebreaking mechanism. In the event of a tie, if a player possesed the snitch, the side they supported would win the lynch. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/657 "2010-07-29T16:12:55Z")
Out of curiosity, who had the snitch at the end? ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/658 "2010-07-29T16:13:37Z")
Whew! GO SCUM!!! Thanks to the Mods for a great game. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/659 "2010-07-29T16:13:40Z")
Me. Motherfuck. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/660 "2010-07-29T16:25:07Z")
SON OF A BITCH. Our work network server went out at around 11:15 and just came back on. I entirely intended to vote for Guiri; I was entirely sure Guiri was Scum, and was mostly trying to tease out whether his partner was Wanderers or Chipa (turns out I’d have been wrong either way, so I guess it doesn’t matter _that_ much, but oh, how that makes me angry). This game was just frustrating beyond all measure. That last modkill just basically completely killed it for me enthusiasm-wise. I guess I theoretically understand the decision to enforce the rules, but the way in which it was done, basically handing the game to one side, was very discouraging. And I’ll just say it right now, because I decided not to say it in the actual game because I didn’t want to be that guy. **Wanderers** , you should have edited a post at 11:55 or so. You’d have been modkilled, but Guiri would have been lynched. Game would have continued toMorrow with Jimmy, Stickler, and Chipa, and who knows how it would have played out. It would have been meta-, but if the modkill-for-editing rules were going to be strictly enforced, it would have worked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429.md?page=34)