With the capture of Verandi Farley and several high-ranking Trossach members, the British wizarding world has finally caught a break. The rate of rogue werewolf attacks have started dropping at a steady rate and, hopefully, things will stay that way. The Ministry is starting to loosen some restrictions, like not arresting werewolves standing on the street for loitering, however there’s still an obvious power imbalance between wizardfolk and werewolves.
The Cotswolds pack are continuing to advocate for the rights of werewolves and petitioning to change the legislation that has been set in motion by the current Minister for Magic, whilst the remaining Trossachs members are trying to stay out of the spotlight and keep a low profile… for now.
Whilst the British wizarding world seems to have calmed down, the same cannot be said for over in Northern Europe where a rebellion of magical creatures has risen. The state of things has gotten so bad that the European Ministry has enacted protocols to protect those under eighteen whilst their adult witches and wizards fight to keep control of their countries.
Students from Durmstrang have been sent to Hogwarts to keep them safe and those not old enough to attend school have been sent to live with relatives or designated British Ministry officials outside of Europe for the time being.
Will the low rates of werewolf attacks in Britain continue? How long will Durmstrang students stay at Hogwarts? Will the creatures usurp the wizardfolk in Northern Europe? Only time will tell.
SEPTEMBER 2019 It's been a very long, eventful summer in the wizarding world. A baby was stolen, several high ranking Trossach members were imprisoned, and werewolf attacks have drastically dropped as a result. What will happen now school has returned?
MAY 2019 An attempt to capture the beta of the Trossachs has been launched. Were the Aurors successful in their mission? Go read more here!
Post by JACK O'CONNOR on Oct 12, 2019 12:45:58 GMT
With his fingers wrapped around his mug of coffee, Jack watched as each student filed into the classroom, barely concealing a yawn. It had been a long night, a very long one in fact, because he had spent a considerable about of time marking the sixth and seventh year's latest assignments. He wanted to give them best feedback he could so they could hopefully take it on constructively and use it as they approached their NEWTs.
When finally, it appeared most students had arrived into the classroom, Jack stood up with his mug still in hand. "Good morning everyone," he began, posture more relaxed than it was when he was teaching the older students. The first and second years were, in his experience, easier to control. They were too fearful of getting detention at this age... well, most of them were. There were certainly still a few in front of him who had spent a few hours in the trophy room, polishing the trophies the good old fashioned muggle way.
"Today, we're going to be talking about dark creatures, but before we start delving into the specifics of particular creatures, I want to know who can list a dark creature and tell me why they may be labelled as 'dark' compared to other magical creatures?" Jack asked, leaning against the edge of his desk and sipping at the hot beverage in his hands as he waited for the students to begin speaking up.
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Defense against the dark arts was one of the few classes Scorpius actually enjoyed. The class was very interesting and somehow always packed with action from what he heard from older students. With a small smile the boy was ready to get going in this class, maybe practice defensive spells that you didn't learn in charms. Scorpius loved his mother but as a professor she was not as good as professor O'Connor. Scorpius sat down beside a hufflepuff girl and gave her a small smile.
"Hello, hope you don't mind me sitting here." he had been told to talk more to people and though girls were tough to talk to still, this one seemed nice enough to start befriending. Scorpius had this goal not to let his name speak for him so maybe he should start with it now since his first years was mainly terrifying and quite a blur.
The professor started the class and asked what they knew about dark creatures and Scorpius rose his hand. "Dementors are considered dark creatures sir." he said and ignored his red flushed cheeks. "They're known to be dangerous as they can suck your soul out of your body."
Defense against the dark arts was quite the subject. Ever since his first year Edmund was quite intrigued by it. They explained so much yet so little. It was actually quite like how science felt to him but less fun. The blonde boy was seated beside his twin brother and tossed his books on the table, grabbed his notebook and was ready to take notes as the class started. As the professor started about the subject of today's lessons, dark creatures.
The boy was quite interested in this and eyed his brother. "Do you think werewolves count?" he whispered to him before raising his hand after Scorpius said things about dementors. "Banshees professor.." he said and remembered those stories from his books at home. "Banshees are dark creatures assuming the appearance of a skeletal woman with green skin and black hair. Their high pitch screams are fatal to the ears." he said and sat back. "They're considered dark creatures because of their nature and are in general malevolent spirits."
"Do you know one.. brother?" he asked and smirked a bit.
Rushing into the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just in the nick of time, Sally sank into her chair and threw a couple of finger guns in Professor O'Connor's direction. She totally made it before the bell rang a second time which meant no detention for her today and no house points docked. She was doing well!
Suddenly, there was a voice coming from beside her and after glancing up, Sally broke out into a grin. Scorpius Malfoy, the one, the only! She'd never really had much to do with him before but he was cool in her books. He wasn't one of those Buttface McGee Slytherins who looked like they smelt a really bad fart. Like the one's Liam ripped sometimes - they'd nearly put her on her death bed once or twice. Rank.
"Yeah, totally! But you can't make me a flower crown, okay? 'Cause that's not my vibe at all. If you make me a crown, it's gotta be made of some bad arse material like... oh, those rose flowers. But not the flower part, the really sick thorn part of the stem so I can stab my enemies when they try to rip the crown off my head," Sally told Scorpius before jostling his shoulder with her own because it was the best idea ever, wasn't it?
Prof O'Connor down the front started talking about how they were studying creatures today and... boring. Sally couldn't give two flying hippogriff's about creatures. She wanted to practice spells instead. Maybe if they went through the creatures really fast then O'Connor would have some exciting spell they could do. Shooting her hand up in the air, waiting to be called on, Sally said, "Those big ar - butt spiders. Acromantulas. They love to eat human flesh and they eat each other when they keel over! It's weird as hell, isn't it? Imagine if we ate each other when we died."
Sally was kind of nice, she spoke her mind which was fine with him. She then said he couldn't make her flower crowns and he did feel a bit sad because he was wearing one right there and then himself. With spring coming around little flowers were everywhere but she then spoke about thorns in a crown and he thought for a moment. "Wouldn't it hurt making one though? I could try." he was intrigued by the idea.
"Maybe we can make it together? Go to the greenhouses?" he asked and had a smile on his face now because making crowns with friends is the best thing ever! Sally also answered the question and Scorpius shivered. "A-are they still there? I never go to the forest... I don't want to be eaten."
did i beat you at your own game?/typical of me to put us all to shame
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Post by KATRIN TYRELL on Oct 20, 2019 2:15:50 GMT
Katrin wrinkled her nose visibly at the mention of giant spiders, resisting the urge to shudder. Anything that creepy was better off dead, in her opinion. She hoped all the Acromantulas ate each other until they were wiped off the earth. Pursing her lips, she sat up straighter in her chair and crossed her legs, pretending she hadn't been shaken.
To tell the truth, she wasn't particularly interested in the study of Dark creatures, liking classes where they learned about jinxes and hexes and curses much better, but she wasn't about to be a slacker like most of her idiotic classmates. Especially the Hufflepuffs. When was she going to get to practice spells on them? Sending them to fight spiders didn't seem nearly as satisfying, nor did it seem like something Professor O'Connor would do, because he was the head of Gryffindor and would care way more about "doing the right thing" than doing anything useful.
But Katrin? She could get the topic on something useful. Not like Dementors who weren't even used at Azkaban anymore or Acromantulas who were just disgusting. Raising her hand, she spoke with a loud and clear voice. "Vampires and werewolves are both Dark creatures. Even if they used to be human, they're creatures now."
Post by ROSE GRANGER-WEASLEY on Oct 20, 2019 9:01:40 GMT
Dark creatures was one of those touchy subjects that if you say the wrong thing, the class will blow up. Rose wasn't sensitive to that stuff, she didn't care about werewolves and whether they were bad guys or not. It was simply not her business and not something she found time for to care about. Therefor the redhead wasn't surprised at all when Katrin mentioned them both.
"Is there a scale of which creature is worse than the other?" she asked curiously to the professor and waited for his answer. She wondered if there was a difference between the amount of dangers.
At the sign of a raised hand from Scorpius Malfoy, Jack nodded in the boy's direction and waited for him to share a dark creature that he knew of. "Yes, exactly right. Dementors are one of the most lethal creatures out there, Scorpius. A Dementor's Kiss... it often leaves the recipient with a fate worse than death and results in them being in a permanent vegetative state. That's five points to Slytherin. Well done."
The next person to raise their hand was another Slytherin boy by the name of Edmund and after calling on him, the boy went into a much more elaborate explanation than his peers. "Ten points to Slytherin, Edmund. You summed it up well. Now, the Banshee can be combated by one particular potion. Who knows what this potion is called?"
Sally Jordan decided to give the class the most... over the top, excitable description of acromantulas he'd heard and Jack simply gave her a small nod. "Five points to Hufflepuff, Sally. Some of you may have heard the rumours about acromantula living in the forest and let me reassure you when I say that is fact, not fiction. This is why we urge people to stay out of the Forbidden Forest. There is a common enemy among acromantulas, another equally dangerous dark creature. Who can tell me what this creature is?"
Another Slytherin raised her hand, Katrin. She was Ariella's sister and one of the only students who almost always contributed in class. "That's correct, Katrin. Five points to Slytherin. It is, however, important to note that werewolves only transform during the rising of the full moon. They are human beings for the rest of the month, however they are deadly when they are werewolves if they are not under the influence of wolfsbane."
When Rose asked a question, Jack sent her a small nod because it was an interesting question to ask, one a lot of the younger students would be unsure of the answer to. "Good question, Rose. The Ministry has a classification that they have assigned to each known magical beast, being or spirit. It's a good indicator of how dangerous they are and the classification ranges from X to XXXXX. Who can tell me what the X's represent?" Jack asked, addressing the question to the class and waiting for somebody to raise their hand.
Waiting for somebody else to speak up and chime in, Jack gave the class an encouraging smile. "Don't forget, there's still several dark creatures yet to be listed and house points to be earned. Who can tell me another dark creature?"
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Edmund was proud yet not surprised to earn points. He knew his stuff and he was going to brag about this for a long time. The boy gave Ezra a grin of pride before turning back at the professor and rose his hand to finish the banshee subject. "A laughing potion, sir." he told him and watched others ask questions, give answers and Edmund fully believed that they needed to answer everything on their own terms, he wasn't going to help them.
Except for one thing. "The basilisk makes spiders quiver with fear and flee. Are there still any known to be alive? I read about the basilisk living in the school once." He saicd and curiously arched his brow. "The basilisk is dangerous because his mere eyes meeting yours can kill you and indirect looking at it petrifies you." he said and sighed.
"Yeah, of course they'd hurt. I mean, they're thorns but you wear gloves so they don't poke you in the first place, dummy," Sally said with a laugh, shaking her head. Merlin, this boy... he wasn't too brave, was he? Maybe he belonged in Hufflepuff with her - after all, they had a rep for being softies. It was an undeserving rep, if you asked her. "Yeah, dude. Let's go to the greenhouses later. Make some flower crowns, tear some shit up. Sounds kick arse to me!"
Sally's hand shot up in the air as Poopy Pants O'Connor asked if they knew any more creatures because hell yeah she did. "Americans have really weird dark creatures too. They have that, uh... what do you call... rougarou! They have the head of a dog and the body of a human. How weird is that? Then there's zombies which live in the US too. They like to eat human flesh too - is that a theme with these creatures? Seriously. What's so good about our skin? I mean, a lot people smell funky as hell especially the ones who bathe in perfume and deodorant. I wouldn't like to eat their flesh. Gross."
Defense against the dark arts was one of the few classes Scorpius actually enjoyed. The class was very interesting and somehow always packed with action from what he heard from older students. With a small smile the boy was ready to get going in this class, maybe practice defensive spells that you didn't learn in charms. Scorpius loved his mother but as a professor she was not as good as professor O'Connor. Scorpius sat down beside a hufflepuff girl and gave her a small smile. 
Defense against the dark arts was quite the subject. Ever since his first year Edmund was quite intrigued by it. They explained so much yet so little. It was actually quite like how science felt to him but less fun. The blonde boy was seated beside his twin brother and tossed his books on the table, grabbed his notebook and was ready to take notes as the class started. As the professor started about the subject of today's lessons, dark creatures. 
Dark creatures was one of those touchy subjects that if you say the wrong thing, the class will blow up. Rose wasn't sensitive to that stuff, she didn't care about werewolves and whether they were bad guys or not. It was simply not her business and not something she found time for to care about. Therefor the redhead wasn't surprised at all when Katrin mentioned them both. 
