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Some of this post is pastede on yey from chat log with husband, plus bonus font markup.

For some reason I have got the idea in my head that writing an interactive fiction (aka text adventure) not-quite-perfect-play game transcript as a form of fanfic would be amusing to anyone other than myself (and possibly bethos, who I beta-tested a Potterverse IF game for a few years ago). I've been chuckling over random lines here and there for the past two hours.

Let's never mind what a long hard slog it would be to write even a transcript, never mind a game. I tried IF authoring once, with Adventure Game Toolkit, which is, um, looked on with some horror and is very much Not Inform and Not TADS. I digress, I'm sure, from the understanding of most people reading this. So anyway, all that is only explanation (well...) for this:

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man
this is taking over my brain
WHY IS THIS FORMAT SO FUN

>xyzzy

[if player is not holding a wand]
In this universe, wizards usually need wands.

Dunderhead.

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FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT
Have you tried...

...ASK SNAPE ABOUT DUNDERHEADS?
...taking Polyjuice while someone else is present?
...INSULTing various characters, such as your professors, Severus, James, Sirius, Hagrid, Peeves...?
...INSULTing James or Sirius while Severus is present?
...INSULTing Lily while Severus is present? (You may wish to SAVE your state first.)

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(I'm amused, but not really surprised, that I had an extant tag for "sarcasm" and didn't have to create it to apply it to this post.)