The Ultimate Quiz: Prologue
For the Next Generation, as the papers called them, it was supposed to be a charmed life. Their parents had helped defeat the biggest threat to magical life since the Cursed Cow Infestestation of 1233 and were international heroes, enabling them to live lives free from war and dark lords. Their time would be so much easier than running for their lives and fearing that their next breath could be their last.
Well, it was easier. But easier didn't always mean fulfilling. Expectations, coddling, condescension...always being treated as a child, being told that they 'just didn't understand' seemed to make a generation of new adults that just never felt like they were adults, that they would never be taken seriously. So, in the spirit of the season they decided that if they lacked direction then maybe, just maybe, they should heed prophecy.
Ok, it wasn't exactly a prophecy. They knew better than to say that word. But when the Wiznet (the magical version of the internet created by some wizard in San Francisco who knew that they could disrupt the current magical paradigm for profits and crazy charmed scooters that everyone thought were so sweet), when the Wiznet published The Ultimate Quiz they made a decision. Wiznet quizzes were dumb, that was a given, and the results they gave were often nonsensical at best, but it was better than nothing. So it was that at Harry Potter's annual Christmas Party that they all snuck away from the 'Olds' and after a few drinks hatched their plan.
Everyone would take the quiz, write down their result and put it in a box, telling no one. Once the results were in the box it would not open until the next Christmas party. Everyone had to follow their quiz results, doing what it told you to do to the best of your understanding and/or abilities; that meant that if your quiz said to go to Peru and become a goblin nanny, congrats; you're a Peruvian goblin nanny. If your result said you'd have 38 kids with someone whose name starts with X, get cracking. Why yes, alcohol was involved. Nobody can contemplate taking those quizzes seriously without booze.
It was quite the year, let me tell you.
A/N: So what exactly is this, you're asking? This will be an anthology of stories about the Next Generation characters, their quizzes and how those quizzes were turned into the next year of their lives. Joining me on this endeavor will be the members of the Teachers' Lounge forum. If you're wondering how we're going to keep all the continuity straight, there's a very simple answer; we aren't. Each story will be the author's particular story, so if Tonks is alive in one story and dead in the other just roll with it. All authors will be credited if they so choose but I'll be collecting all the stories here in one place for easy reading. How soon will the chapters be up? Uh, the Teachers' Lounge is a place for 'the olds' who write Harry Potter fanfic, so don't expect anything on a regular basis. If we could just write without worrying about those pesky jobs and such it would be much easier. Let's just say "Coming Soon" and leave it at that.
Based on the works of the writers, though, I think everyone is in for a treat.