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!
Rafael hadn't been looking forward to his next set of students, because it involved some of his family members. And he didn't want people thinking that he had played favorites, even if his nieces and nephews were smart for their age, but he didn't like favorites. And he also felt this was a group of students who didn't care much and had just been trying to pass their OWLS and weren't as interested as the first and second years. But it did not bother him as he loved teaching, and looked forward to seeing their cheery faces when they walked into his classroom. The man had wanted to talk about the Solar System. Even if it sounded like something that they would learn in their first couple years of Hogwarts, but Rafael wanted to hear just how much his students knew about the Solar System. Rafael felt the Solar System had been something that had so much to discover and how it went on farther than the nine planets.
He had plans for his students to use the charts that he had set up to look at and see what they knew from the charts. All he hoped that his students weren't too in the Christmas mood, and were ready to get back to work as he wanted to make this lesson fun. When he heard the footsteps coming up the stairs into the Astronomy Tower, Rafael let out a smirk. When they started coming into the classroom, "Take a seat everyone. I hope your holidays were good and that you are all ready to get back to work." he said with a chuckle, even though he knew not many of them were ready to get back into learning about Astronomy. Rafael knew that none of them wanted to be there and that many would rather be catching up on the sleep for the Holidays, because of how everything screwed with your schedule. But Rafael was going to do his best to try and make talking about the Solar System very fun.
When the students had been pilled into the classroom, and all ready for the lesson. Rafael got up from his desk, and he said. "Today I thought we would start off talking about something very interesting." he said with enthusiasm, "I am sure all you are wondering what this interesting subject, and it's something many of you may have learned in grade school or whatever form of education you received before coming to Hogwarts, and this subject is the Solar System." he said with a chuckle hoping that this would refresh in their mind. "Now before go any further who can tell what the Solar System is?"he asked his students hoping to receive an logical answer and was curious just how well their teachers and tutors taught these students.
Mark arrived to the Astronomy Class a bit too early. He had made sure to exit the Slytherin Common Room in good time, because he knew how long it took him to walk all those many stairs towards the classroom – and the boy was in a very bad shape. Upon his arrival, he gave the professor a polite nod, and found his seat in the back of the class. This was where he usually sat.
As more students arrived, Mark did not look up as he found his telescope and started fumbling with it before picking out the astronomy book from his bag and turned to the chapter, he assumed they would be covering today. Right on schedule, the class started, and the professor asked about the solar system. Mark raised his hand – a rare sight in the class.
“It is the planetary system of our sun.” He replied with a quiet voice. “Consisting of planets that orbit directly around the sun, and the moons that orbit around it indirectly, since they orbit around the planets.”
Liam had something very important that he had to ask the astronomy teacher. He'd been struggling with increasingly scary dreams since the rather 'light hearted' conversation months ago and for the life of him... he couldn't hold onto the question any longer. As the Hufflepuff took the steps up to the Astronomy Tower by twos, he quickly passed many of the other students that trudged along. See, it suited Liam to take this class late at night - he was often plagued with nightmares and this was a welcome distraction.
Once in the classroom, Liam swung his satchel over his head and took a seat. His leg was jigging underneath the desk as he rather patiently waited for the teacher to finish his introduction of the topic... the solar system? Liam looked around at his fellow students as if to ask if they were all stupid because like... this was elementary stuff right? Liam found an opening when Mark answered the teacher's question though. "'Ey Prof, like... the Death Star isn't a part of the solar system is it? Cuz I've been lookin' for it in the astronomy books and like I can't find it and ... so does that mean it's part of like... a galaxy system? That's bigger than the solar system yeah?" Liam needed to find out where this Death Star was and if it exploding because if this muggle Skywalker was blowing it up he needed to know when to see an explosion in the night sky.
Willow entered the classroom with a new record. Damn, he had taking those staircases quickly. He had even passed by some of his classmates on the way. With a satisfied grin on his face, he walked over to Liam (a housemate of his) and placed his bag on the floor before finding his telescope and beginning to unfold it. He looked at their professor for a moment, wondering what they would be talking about today. And as the class begun, Willow quickly found the astronomy book and the chapter about their solar system.
Standing next to Liam was hilarious, and as a halfblood (being raised by his muggle mother), he knew what the Death Star was. For some reason, he was sure that his housemate made a joke, and Willow therefore let out a loud laughter before quickly putting his hands in front of his mouth. He continued chuckling despite the lack of sound.
“It’s in a galaxy far far away!” Willow replied to Liam between his chuckles.
James loved Astronomy. Ever since he was young, he'd always been interested in the solar system and the planets and stars that made it up. It was fascinating stuff, so of course he'd assume this to be the most important class Hogwarts had to offer. Not to mention, he had to do really well in this class if he was going to become an Astronomer when he was finished with school. In most classes, James purposely tried to be late, but this was different. He'd arrived early, walking up the steps quickly, and going right over to his telescope. He fiddled with it for a moment before taking out his textbook and flipping through it.
There was a lot of stuff he was waiting to learn about and was hoping this lesson would be about one of those. He was a little disappointed to hear they were talking about the solar system. That was first year stuff, even before that. He, at least, had known about it since he was young. It was one of the first things he learned about when he first became interested in Astronomy. James wondered if the professor had gotten his first year lesson mixed up with this class. He didn't comment on that, though.
Despite this pretty much being a review, he kept the interested look on his face, hoping something would come of it. Although he doubted it, he wanted to believe this would be about something they hadn't learned about before.
Post by ALEXANDER GREENAWAY on Aug 9, 2019 11:29:36 GMT
Treading up the steps of the Astronomy tower, Alex did so with heavy footsteps and a yawn wide enough to crack his jaw because... in all honesty, he was exhausted, but then again... when wasn't he? But this felt worst than usual, and as Alex moved to stand beside Mark, he reached up to rub his eyes with his too short robe sleeve.
But then suddenly as the talking about the solar system commenced, a familiar voice spoke up and Alex brought his eyes to meet Liam's face with a look of abject horror because the Hufflepuff boy was talking about the Death Star. To Professor Narro of all people. "I told him to ask Professor Savage," he muttered to Mark, though the boy wouldn't have the foggiest of what he was talking about. "Ask the Muggle Studies teacher, I said. Ask the Australian, I said. Not ask the Astronomy professor and author."
At this point, Alex was shaking his head as he kept on muttering but then another boy spoke up. He probably should have known his name, he was pretty sure the kid was in his year, but... he was shit with names, especially given he had tried his best to avoid his classmates for the last four years. But the boy was referencing 'a galaxy far, far away,' and before Alex could hold his tongue, he blurted out, "Are you a muggleborn too?" More importantly though... was he a muggleborn who liked Star Wars?
Post by AGNES CLEARWATER on Aug 18, 2019 8:52:29 GMT
"... the next thing you know, Professor Author will be asking us to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Bloody Star," Aggy said in the tail-end of her rant to Evan, breath heavy and exasperated as she climbed the stairs into the Astronomy Tower because 1) she didn't like Astronomy, something she'd made abundantly clear in her last few years at Hogwarts, and 2) she was not in shape. Catch her running outside in approximately never.
Moving into the classroom itself, Aggy overheard Liam asking about the Death Star of all thing and immediately, a great big snort escaped her because... well... "No, yeah. Who did you learn that off? Professor Savage? Merlin's beard, she should have told you... the Death Star is just another name for the earth. You know how everyone says we're going to die one day? It's because we live on earth. Rest in peace us, right?"
Post by EVAN OLIVER WOOD on Aug 29, 2019 6:17:38 GMT
The only redeeming quality of astronomy, at least for the usually quite studious Evan Wood, was that the stars were pretty and the ancient people who decided on naming different constellations usually picked animals. He could remember constellations like that... like Delphinus and Aries, Ursa minor and major. But what various planets were made out of? what they did and the importance of studying something that none of them could ever hope to control? Evan joined his red-headed friend in her general dislike of the subject that he'd drop next year.
"I'd give two galleon to hear you do that," he laughed easily, attempting to be as slow as the walking-chimney that was Aggy. As he took a seat, there seemed to be a discussion about a star that he really didn't take much notice of because... he wasn't interested until he heard that the Earth was also known as the Death Star. "... but Aggy, Earth isn't a star. It's a planet. I mean I know I'm not the greatest at astronomy but I know that at least." Evan shook his head and turned back towards Liam who seemed quite worried. "Don't worry, Liam, nothing's going to happen to Earth on an astronomic level for more than a million years. You'll get to RIP for a while before the sun gobbles us up."
Evan turned back to Agnes and nudged her elbow. "You're a mean one, Ms Grinch," Evan said with the hint of a chuckle before turning his attention back to the teacher. "Proff Narro, from memory we have... the sun, mars, venus, earth, Mercury... wait no did I get that ... I get the M ones mixed up..."
TAG: AGNES CLEARWATER , LIAM JORDAN NB: The Emporer Penguin is Evan’s carporeal patronus, when he learns it.
Astronomy was alright. He didn’t hate it as much as some other classes but it wasn’t his favorite either. If he wanted to check the stars he’d do so on a hill far away from buildings and lights. Dio had skipped a lot of the first classes of the new year. He hadn’t been in the mood because of everything that happened during the winter break. The Slytherin refused to go to the hospital wing and have his injuries fixed. They’d heal naturally, he said. Most bruises were in late stages now and the cuts had been closed for the most part. He’d be fine, he was no weakling.
The blonde boy entered the tower with his usually grumpy and annoyed expression. After not going to classes for a few days, he’d forgotten how much he hated people. He cocked an eyebrow at the teacher. Whenever teachers considered something ‘interesting’ it usually was boring as hell. He didn’t bother to answer the question. Leave it up to little nerd Grimstone to gather their house points. When chicken pants Liam started talking, Dio groaned.
Why had he decided to come to this class again?
Dio pretended to mind his own business but he couldn’t help himself and scoop in on some conversation going on around him. Even Clearwater made fun of Jordan. But Dio didn’t take any pity on the Hufflepuff. Dumb people didn’t deserve to get far into this world. In fact it made him grin, knowing the redheaded Gryffindor wasn’t too dirty to poke fun of morons. Then hero Wood had to calm the chicken boy. “Leave it up to Wood to pamper babies,” he scoffed from behind the Gryffindor duo.
Post by AGNES CLEARWATER on Sept 7, 2019 6:52:18 GMT
"The day I sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is the day I turn into a giant and grow six feet bloody tall. Never going to happen," Aggy grumbled straight back at Evan with a roll of her eyes. In fact, there was a long list of things that were never going to happen in her life. It was part and parcel of being a verified Negative Nelly, right?
The next thing she knew, she was being corrected and immediately, Aggy turned to face Evan with raised eyebrows because she wasn't a first year. She knew that Earth wasn't a star, all she'd said was that's what some referred to it as. "Yeah, no, sorry. Total idiot here. Turns out I didn't learn about the solar system in first year, just like you've never learned what sarcasm is," she bit back before she had a chance to even contemplate holding her tongue... and this is was the exact reason why Greyson Avery was mouthing 'bitch' at her in the corner right now.
Then the sound of Dio Greyback opened his mouth came from behind them and yes, okay, was she happy at Evan in this moment? No, she wasn't, but she wasn't about to let his sly comment slide. "At least he doesn't eat babies, Greyback," she said, the words 'like you do' left unsaid, as she whirled back around to the front of the room, arms crossing over her chest as she listened to Evan start listing the different planets in the solar system. He obviously didn't pay that much attention to Astronomy because as it turns out, he was getting his 'm' ones mixed up. "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune."
Post by DIO GREYBACK on Sept 11, 2019 21:02:15 GMT
Dio was setting up his equipment when he heard Clearwater's voice into his direction. So now he had her attention. This put a smile on his face. He looked up from what he was doing and arched his eyebrow. "What else are babies good for? Have you ever tried them with Hollandaise sauce? Simply amazing. Ahh, babies. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew," he kissed his finger tips and blew it into her direction. After which he laughed and turned back to the class.
"Oi, teach. Is this going to be the class where you tell us aliens are real? Because that would be a plot twist." Astronomy was alright but still boring because it was school. He much rather watch the stars when camping at the forest sides.
Frankie had been sore ever since her little trip down the stairs in the Gryffindor Tower, but she was refusing to head to the hospital wing. Last thing she needed was to tell the embarrassing story on how she fell down the stairs when she was in the middle of yawning. The female was dragging her feet, her hand had gripped onto the strap of her bag before she followed the other students into the classroom, and she had taken a seat near the back. Good riddance. The girl did not want to deal with idiots today, but yet there she was, listening to her housemates nearby but bit her tongue.
Nope, she wasn’t even going to say a word to them. Mind her own business, and get through with this class. Why didn’t she skip again?
Charlie had been sitting near the corner of the classroom, her eyes on the professor as he talked about what they were going to talk about that evening, and she had crossed her arms over her chest as she heard the other students talk about the subject, but the major thing that had caught her ear was her housemate and classmate pretty much talk about finding the Death Star on the chart. The thought made her chuckle, and she shook her head as she glanced at the others.
The Death Star is not real.” she stated, she snickered a bit. ”The Death Star is something from Star Wars. Star Wars is a space-opera, and there's many books in the genre. I can lend you the books.”
Truth be told, she didn’t read the books but she knew damn well her brother David had a bunch of books based off the series.
Nothing can ruin Parker’s mood as she walked into the tower with her head held high, and a huge smile on her face. This was a subject that she had some knowledge in, and she wasn’t going to let her grades slip again. There was no way in hell her father would let her throw her life away because she had a missing twin brother. Newsflash, he was alive. And it improved her mood over the past couple of weeks. Even though she couldn’t see him.
At least he was safe.
There was a huge smile when she had started to take the items she needed out of her bag as she listened to the other students.
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Casey had been dreading Astronomy class ever since the evening she came up here to try to deal with her own troubles. It brought terrible memories for the Ravenclaw Seeker, but she needed to get this class over and done with so she can go back to her dorms to get some much needed sleep. All she wanted was to crawl into bed, and not leave it until the winter was done and over with. She hated how cold it can get.
So she had stayed quiet as she walked into the classroom and almost tripped over someone’s foot. ”Sorry.” she had grumbled out before taking a seat.
Mark arrived to the Astronomy Class a bit too early. He had made sure to exit the Slytherin Common Room in good time, because he knew how long it took him to walk all those many stairs towards the classroom – and the boy was in a very bad shape. Upon his arrival, he gave the professor a polite nod, and found his seat in the back of the class. This was where he usually sat.
Willow entered the classroom with a new record. Damn, he had taking those staircases quickly. He had even passed by some of his classmates on the way. With a satisfied grin on his face, he walked over to Liam (a housemate of his) and placed his bag on the floor before finding his telescope and beginning to unfold it. He looked at their professor for a moment, wondering what they would be talking about today. And as the class begun, Willow quickly found the astronomy book and the chapter about their solar system.
