I think the box is meant to be something like Pandora's box, Jess. Correct me if I am wrong Sandra but that's the way I interoperated it. I agree with James on the villain part. We can have a villain that's on the scale of going out on weekly killing sprees for fun and then a couple of posts later the only evil thing they could manage is kicking puppies or stealing a baby's sweets. That doesn't inspire much confidence in the leader of the dark faction.
I don't really think including the Muggles is the right way to go to be honest but I'm willing to give it a try as and when. I don't know how we could work in the Muggles suddenly finding a world that they haven't known about since possibly the false witch burnings in the medieval times. The Wizarding world is incredibly well protected, the only way I could ever think of the Muggles stumbling across it would be a Squib or a Muggleborn unaware of their heritage, finding their way into Diagon Alley or the Leaky Cauldron.
As per my bit of plot. I've been thinking a few up and mincing around with a few ideas. The one I really like is something Khaat and I are currently refining. After waking up for probably the third time this morning I figured it prudent to actually look over the ideas with a fine tooth comb and I realised that it does leave a lot of plot holes as far as the other characters go. That decreases enjoyment so I'll seek to fill those with something as well.
What I had so far was basically a spin off of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. If any of you have read the book then you'll know what I'm talking about but I'll just give you the gist of what I was thinking about now because it does take quite a bit from the book but it can be refined, changed etcetera.
The Hunger Games is a reality TV show with only one rule -- stay alive. North America has been split into thirteen districts (it's either twelve or thirteen but at this moment I can't remember) and there is one Capital ruling over them. The people live in fear of the Capital and so as to force back any rebellion ideas that wiped out a whole district, each year they hold the Hunger Games. Picking one girl and one boy from each district, the Capital transport them to an arena where they fight to the death.
Basically I figured we could do something like that. My plot summary was crap I must say but I think it could work well. Say for instance that there is a big massacre (like everyone was saying above) and the Death Eater's begin to take the upper hand and force back some of the light's forces. Then, a
final battle to seal the fate of the wizarding world.
EDITED IN: Basically from there the Death Eaters would have total control and a lot of opposition from the wizarding public so they'd want to at the very least instil some sort of fear of them into the public. I figured we could either have it that they pluck Muggleborns out of the masses and put the into the arena (the landscape could change from forest to mountains to whatever) and fight, reminding the world that they are in control of lives but then they could also take kids from half-blood and pureblood families if they so wished.
Like I said, this has a LOT of plot holes in the way of the grads but the bulk of them would probably be running the games or at least trying to sabotage them. In the book, the rich from the capital would bet on who would win and the people in the arena would have sponsors that send them gifts of food, medicine etc. so perhaps that's something that the grads could do.
Khaat and I did say that it would probably be mass mayhem, especially from the families whose children have been picked. Because of that there would probably have to be a branch of the Dark Army, not necessarily fully fledged Death Eaters, trying to keep the 'peace', or the fear rather, in Britain. This would probably create a lot of duels and opportunities there.
Many of the grad jobs would be in and around the games, perhaps even sorting out some other events around the time the games go on. So probably from secretaries to a board of people keeping the games interesting i.e creating fires in a forest, poisoning the water in a sea landscape.
I will stress now I
really need to refine this but I think the concept can be grasped more or less. If not then tough. xD But I will refine it as soon as, quote, 'I get my head out of the alphabet'. Mostly it's just getting jobs sorted and such. I did wonder whether we could bring in Quidditch Teams for the grads, that'll create jobs too but I doubt, in the event this one is chosen, it would be needed because there would be loads going on. Perhaps when the games are on hiatus then maybe but not during. I'm wittering... I'll refine -- promise!
: END EDITI think, if we could get that far in the plot then the Hunger Games (or whatever the Harry Potter version of it would be called) would probably be an interesting plot twist. As I said before there won't be much action outside of the games which is what I am actually working on. I don't know if the plot could work but I have this one and I'm working on another in a word document somewhere. I'll put a few more ideas up later, maybe, once it's all concrete, and Khaat and I will probably fill the plot holes