Here's a couple of ideas for the 'Blackmail pictures' questline, female MC. ATM, it looks like there's two main options, if you're courageous enough you can tell him to go to hell, or you can just give in.
First idea I'd like to see - pretend to go along with it or deflect for more time to decide, then go inform one of the more sympathetic professors. Tonks seems the best idea, along with McGonagall or Flitwick, maybe Hooch. Tell the right professor and Colin gets busted, while you likely suffer a reputation hit for telling.
Second, more involved idea - turn the tables on him. Plan would probably require higher Int or Slytherin House to come up with the idea, Courage to be willing to do it, money to get the ingredients, and DADA, Charms or Transfiguration to actually pull it off. You'd need to get a 'Male to Female' potion from the twins, a reversal potion, and a camera. Plan is, when you meet him in the courtyard, you stun him, feed him the transformation potion, strip and pose 'Coleen', then take pictures. When she wakes up, or you wake her up, use the pictures of Coleen as mutual destruction - 'she' sells your pictures, you sell hers. Use the reversal potion in order to get whatever you really want, I'd personally want Colin to go legit with his picture taking - becoming a 'professional' photographer, only selling pictures that the model agrees to sell, and giving her a fair share of the profits.
Either idea sound good?
