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 TERESA NOTTINGHAM on Jan 2, 2020 13:38:19 GMT
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teresa nottingham
you're never gonna break me down
Teresa May was born to two successful, workaholic purebloods named Warwick and Juliet Nottingham. Originally, Warwick and Juliet weren't interested in having children because they wanted to do the very best for themselves that they could possibly do and leave their mark on the wizarding world. However, the pressure from their family to carry on the Nottingham family name was strong, as was the pressure from inner pureblood circles who were adamant that Warwick and Juliet bear children so their bloodline didn't die out prematurely. Behind both groups of people, there was an underlying threat: do this or become social pariahs. So, they caved and vowed to one another that their children would be the best they could be because all their hard work along the years couldn't be ruined.
Juliet spent a week at home with Teresa before she decided that work was more important and that this mothering thing? It wasn't for her, and so relatively quickly with the help of Warwick, Teresa was palmed off into the hands of her very first nanny, Eloise. The expectations for Eloise to push Teresa to do her very best and outshine other children since she was being paid handsomely were outlined to her upon hiring... however it was soon apparent that those high expectations were unreasonable ones and after toughing it out for six months, she quit.
At age two, a second Nottingham child was brought into this world, Teresa's younger brother Theodore. By this stage, Teresa's family had gone through four more nannies and the expectations only grew stronger, and so the cycle of hiring/firing help only continued. The constant change of caregivers made Teresa unruly, defiant, and an utter nightmare to deal with. As he grew older, Theo followed in his big sister's footsteps which only made it more difficult for nannies to stay on board until at age five, Kateryna came into the picture.
Kateryna was a young witch from the Ukraine, and the way she managed to gain control of Teresa and Theodore upon her first week of working with them managed to impress Warwick and Juliet. Her approach was different, calm yet stern, and Teresa and her brother responded well to that. The woman practically raised Teresa and her brother until they were both at Hogwarts, talking to them in English, Ukrainian and Russian all the while. Both Teresa and her brother grew up to be trilingual, and Teresa speaks all three languages fluently to this day.
At age eleven, Teresa went off to Hogwarts where she'd wanted to go for years because the idea of studying magic and becoming strong? It was incredible to Teresa, and even though there was some parental pressure there to succeed, Teresa wanted to do well for herself more than anyone else. Whilst the hat debated between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin for a little while, ultimately it declared, 'SLYTHERIN!' due to Teresa's ambitious nature. Teresa was happy with this outcome, as were her parents.
Teresa's reputation in her first few years of Hogwarts wasn't the best. Whilst, yes, she did well in classes, it was to the extent where she was viewed as a suck-up to the professors... and then there was the matter that she had little patience for her stupid, unappreciative peers who mucked around in class instead of recognising that they had a golden opportunity set out in front of them. Teresa didn't hesitate to put them in their place, and they didn't like that.
In Teresa's third year of Hogwarts, one of her roommates who she'd had a disagreement with the night before spread a nasty rumour saying that Teresa was a dirty slag who'd kissed all the Hufflepuff boys and girls. It got to the point where everyone believed it until Teresa grabbed the girl after Transfiguration, pinned her against the wall with her arm against her neck, and held her at wand point until she confessed that she was lying. Nobody crossed her after that
In Teresa's fourth year at Hogwarts, she had bad encounter after encounter with other students, and eventually a prefect by the name of Teddy Lupin noticed. They formed a friendship, and Teresa was actually able to unwind in his company. She trusted him explicitly and it developed into a 'thing' until one day, her parents found out via another student. They were horrified that their daughter would strike up a friendship with a werewolf and they made her end it. Teresa obeyed, but she was furious and upset nevertheless.
2016 was the worst year of Teresa's life. Teresa was one of the students bitten in the rampage at Hogwarts during her fifth year. She was apart of a school club that had gotten way too caught up in what they were doing to keep track of the time, and on their way out of an empty classroom on the first floor, a rogue werewolf got into the school and attacked them. Teresa screamed at the top of her lungs as she watched three students get brutally murdered, and then her classmate Christophe get bitten. When the werewolf turned on Teresa, she ran as fast as she could but managed to get pinned down, scratched all up her back and bitten on her thigh. Professor O'Connor only just managed to wrangle the werewolf off her with the help of another professor, whilst she was transported immediately to St. Mungo's with the other bitten student.
Teresa spent the following months in St. Mungo's, recovering both physically and mentally from the attack while waiting to hear whether she would be allowed back in the school. There were only vague answers in reply, and come OWL exam time... she came to learn that she wasn't allowed to even take them. She hadn't spent enough time in school, and there was legislation implemented in July that announced she wasn't allowed to go back the following year anyway.
Teresa was upset, angry, that this had happened. She heard rumours that it was because a pack had infiltrated Hogwarts, but nobody was arrested and shouldn't Hogwarts have prevented this in the first place? It was all their fault. To add salt to the wound, when she was released from St. Mungo's, she came home to doors charmed to forbid her from entering. Her mother screamed on the other side that she was a disgusting abomination, and her father told her that she needed to find her own way through life - they weren't housing a werewolf under their roof. Teresa wound on the streets where she had to try her damnedest to survive. Since she was only sixteen, the trace was in full effect and she found herself without being able to use magic.
Not even a month into living on the streets, Teresa ran into Teddy Lupin who, upon realising what happened, offered her a place in his pack - the one that Teresa was certain had attacked Hogwarts. Teresa didn't want a bar of it, she didn't want to live around other wolves after watching them tear apart her peers and ruin her life, and she especially didn't want to live among a pack that was rumoured to be the reason she was a werewolf. Teresa turned the offer down, and told Teddy she didn't want to be his 'charity case.'
For the next two years, Teresa learned how to survive - she fell into using her body to make money. Sometimes people would offer her money for certain things, and she would agree. Other times, she would take them home and rob them blind while they were asleep or in another room. Usually Teresa preferred the latter because sometimes she got a place to crash for the night, but she couldn't really prefer to be picky. Basically, she did whatever she needed to do to make it.
In September 2018, Teresa has an encounter with Verandi Farley in a bar which results in being asked to come home with her, to maybe live with Verandi's pack - at this point, Teresa is somewhat desperate to just survive the upcoming winter, so she agrees. She becomes apart of the Trossachs, and all is well - they have her back, she has theirs... and they're not the Cotswolds, the ones she is still certain were responsible for her being a werewolf in the first place. All is good. Teresa continues going home with people and robbing them, but now she shares some of the money she gains with the pack in exchange for a full belly and a place to sleep.
In December 2018, there's an attack on Hogwarts and Teresa realises with a sinking feeling that her stupid brother played a heavy part in it. He winds up getting his arse shipped to St. Mungo's to be under the watchful eyes of healer as the Ministry is convinced she had managed to manipulate him into doing her dirty work and get revenge on her behalf. Teresa very much didn't have a thing to do with it, but she knows they'll never believe her. Under the leadership of Verandi, her and a group of other Trossachs embark on a rescue mission at St. Mungo's which is carried through in March. There's a lot of fall-out from this, including new Ministry legislation forbidding the treatment of werewolves at St. Mungo's.