Harry Potter Simulated Hogwarts

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

The plot is simple: Hermione started a little project in year three when she had the time turner. An independent project because she was a bit crazed after time looping so much and it seems like the perfect idea when you're exhausted, a genius and time travelling. The project was simple: Create a computer simulation of Hogwarts using magic.

Essentially getting a time turner required a temporary Spell Research license with the Ministry, which exempts the bearer from the penalties associated with, say, merging Muggle technology and magic because of the nature of time turner use (I imagine it's mostly utilized to maximize research time so it doesn't seem like a huge leap). In any event, Hermione made this simulation. She entered in basic data on her classmates, friends and teachers as well as other items, basically recreating the Hogwarts area (and Hogsmeade) in digital form. The Marauder's Map helped her finish some additional data input at the end of the year to make it more realistic. In a way, it kept her sane as she time traveled to tinker and manipulate a little game of her school and the wizarding world.

However... Due to the exhaustion she suffered at the end of the year due to the Time Turner and assorted junk, she left the project at Hogwarts and... Forgot about it. Two years later, during Year Five, she realizes the Room of Requirement could be used to find her missing project so she decides to find out what happened to it.

And it turns out... Quite a lot has happened, actually. As the programs of her friends, classmates, teachers and enemies are now aware of their nature. And the consequences of this are... Well... Staggering.

 

[ArchfiendRai]

Oh man, this sounds awesome actually. Its definitely got potential. It wouldn't be up to date though would it? Or would it update and acquire their natures on its own?

Did she somehow make it a self-evolving program by accident in her exhaustion?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Oh man, this sounds awesome actually. Its definitely got potential. It wouldn't be up to date though would it? Or would it update and acquire their natures on its own?

Did she somehow make it a self-evolving program by accident in her exhaustion?

In her exhaustion, and with the magical influence of the castle (and Room of Requirement), it became a self-evolving simulation. The impressions and knowledge of the inhabitants of Hogwarts became part of the programs. But the programs didn't just stay like themselves. When they learned what they were, they began to act differently.

I think the program itself is rather like Minecraft: Procedurally generated, so it continues to expand. With magic, you can gain more memory and ram without more physical input because... Well, it's magic.

Point is, the simulation has grown beyond its original parameters. And the inhabitants have made a few changes.

One crucial one is a change in the system admin: Dumbledore's sim had admin privileges, basically... But he was hung. Literally. As a painting in his office. Now there's only one program with Admin privileges...

 

[nixofcyzerra]

How would it work? Would the Digital Hogwarts Inhabitants develop a way to cross over into the real world? Is there conflict, or...?

Would there be a big "And then John was a Zombie" reveal where it turns out we'd been following the DHI's perspective the whole time?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

How would it work? Would the Digital Hogwarts Inhabitants develop a way to cross over into the real world? Is there conflict, or...?

Would there be a big "And then John was a Zombie" reveal where it turns out we'd been following the DHI's perspective the whole time?

When Hermione stumbles across the old computer, her simulated counterpart opens up a dialogue with her... And subsequently tricks her into switching places with a spell they devise.

Sim!Hermione takes over her life... But soon gives herself away with the fact that while she is just as smart as the original Hermione, she's made different decisions... And she's lived in a Hogwarts that has turned into a hedonistic digital wonderland.

 

[da_fox2279]

How would it work? Would the Digital Hogwarts Inhabitants develop a way to cross over into the real world? Is there conflict, or...?

Would there be a big "And then John was a Zombie" reveal where it turns out we'd been following the DHI's perspective the whole time?

When Hermione stumbles across the old computer, her simulated counterpart opens up a dialogue with her... And subsequently tricks her into switching places with a spell they devise.

Sim!Hermione takes over her life... But soon gives herself away with the fact that while she is just as smart as the original Hermione, she's made different decisions... And she's lived in a Hogwarts that has turned into a hedonistic digital wonderland.

Makes me wonder who took over the admin privileges then, if Sim!Hogwarts became a 'hedonistic digital wonderland'. Somehow, I can see the blame going to sim!Flitwick... just 'cause.

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

How would it work? Would the Digital Hogwarts Inhabitants develop a way to cross over into the real world? Is there conflict, or...?

Would there be a big "And then John was a Zombie" reveal where it turns out we'd been following the DHI's perspective the whole time?

When Hermione stumbles across the old computer, her simulated counterpart opens up a dialogue with her... And subsequently tricks her into switching places with a spell they devise.

Sim!Hermione takes over her life... But soon gives herself away with the fact that while she is just as smart as the original Hermione, she's made different decisions... And she's lived in a Hogwarts that has turned into a hedonistic digital wonderland.

Makes me wonder who took over the admin privileges then, if Sim!Hogwarts became a 'hedonistic digital wonderland'. Somehow, I can see the blame going to sim!Flitwick... just 'cause.

Actually, civil war broke out between various factions of mixed houses over the admin privileges. In the end, there are a few "mods" who have some of that power but not all of it. One sim program did indeed discover the means of becoming Admin... But it got out and now she's on the run.

And she just so happens to have found the perfect way to escape...

 

[Schema]

I kind of imagine Luna in the simulator world either spontaneously becoming one with the simulation, or have become an ethereal goddess able to modify the simulation to suit her needs not bound by admin... But in the end just making the forbidden forest infinitely more awesome.