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 LYDIA LLEWELLYN on Dec 24, 2019 11:46:31 GMT
I just want you to know that I really fucking loved you, but you can go screw yourself with a broomstick. A big, splintery one. Maybe you can borrow it from your dad.
You can't just take people's virginity in a library and then never speak to them again. I'm being persecuted by everyone, they all think I'm a grand home wrecking slag and maybe I am, but it's not fair that you get to sit there holding her hand and pretending like nothing happened.
- Lydia
(Intended for Thomas Wood, but Lydia's owl is a dummy and flew onto ARTHUR LONGBOTTOM 's bed instead)
Post by ARTHUR LONGBOTTOM on Dec 24, 2019 13:01:01 GMT
Hey Lydia,
I’m pretty sure this letter wasn’t meant for me but I read too much of it not to reply. At first I was surprised to hear someone other than my sister, family and friends loved me so you’ll have to forgive me that I continued reading.
I’m sorry that you’re hurting, no one deserves to be treated like you have been... especially by someone that you love. Do you have anyone that you can talk to about what is happening? That won’t judge you like the rest of the school? If you need to talk - or write, if that’s easier - I am here for you.
I know that my little sister was hurt by a boy that she liked and I would fair like to smack him from here to kingdom come but she’s asked me not to and her hurt seems to have passed now .... but I can totally smack Thomas around a bit if you like? Or put bulbadox powder in his undies or swap his shampoo out for hair removal cream I think I can borrow from some girl ... maybe you have some I can use?
With love and a pretty rose to make you smile,
A. Longbottom
P.S. I think that Mr. Wood’s broomsticks are all very well kept so I don’t think it’d hurt as much as you might like.
Post by LYDIA LLEWELLYN on Dec 24, 2019 22:34:11 GMT
Merlin's left boob. Can nothing ever go right in my life? Stupid blooming owl. Always delivering letters to the wrong person.
I'm a triplet but... they shouldn't have to hear about my ill-fated one time sexcapade in the library. They're getting shit for it too and people went mental in History of Magic the other day. Thanks for the ear but are you going to judge me?
I hope that it passes sooner rather than later. I don't want you to smack Thomas, that's okay, and whilst he does deserve an itchy arse and less hair, I think I'll pass on that too.
Are you in the habit of giving random girls roses? Because thank you. It's really pretty. It's on my bedside table as we speak write.
- Lydia
P.S. Not that I want you to shove a broomstick up your arse(roses do wonders apparently), but I didn't specify which end of the broomstick. Perhaps the side with the bristles instead. Maybe it'd get stuck.
Post by ARTHUR LONGBOTTOM on Dec 25, 2019 3:05:26 GMT
Hey Lydia,
Ma always said that bad luck comes in threes. Don’t worry, there’s a cure for it though - you stand on your left foot only and put your right pointer finger to the sky and then try to touch your butt to your ankle three times without falling. I’ve only managed to do it once but I guarantee it worked that time. Though I would suggest not doing it with your parents or little sister watching because they’ll laugh up a storm and then you’ll laugh and then you’ll fall on your bottom. Not that that happened to me... at all...
Yeah I get that. I don’t think I’d be able to listen to Gracie’s sexcapade stories without smacking the other person about because ... she’s my baby sister and always will be. So you lost your virginity in the library? I would have thought the smell of old books would have been a turn off. I thought girls wanted candle light dinners and silk sheets and all that jazz for their first time? ... I ... was it at least a nice experience for you? I know all the things that happened afterwards have probably made you regret it in the long run but ... was it everything you wanted?
I would be lying if I said I had no opinion on what happened and I don’t want to start lying so early on in our conversation. Obviously what happened wasn’t great and people have gotten hurt, but I’m not about kicking a dead horse even if some people in the castle seem to enjoy adding to the drama. At the end of the day, it is Thomas that holds most of the responsibility, in my opinion, because he’s the one who should have been faithful to his girlfriend. I’ve known him all his life and never would’ve thought he’d do this to Lexie... or to some poor girl in a library no less.
Anyway - I have to say I’m very disappointed you’ve passed on my offers to sort him out. What if I come up with some other options? Like spiking his morning coffee with pupperup potion? Come on that’s mostly harmless and it would be hilarious to see his ears smoke in the morning. Ok. It’s happening whether or not you OK it. Look over to the Gryffindor tables tomorrow morning.
Are you asking if I am this nice to all the girls? Because if so, then yes. My parents raised me to be a good boy. But also I was working on transfiguration homework and turned my sock into a rose like out of my dad’s garden and then your owl plopped on my bed and the rest is history.
With love and a matching vase for the rose it’s the other sock I found this afternoon,
A. Longbottom
P.S. Merlin’s right boob feels left out. P.P.S. I think the bristles would tickle more than anything.
Post by LYDIA LLEWELLYN on Dec 25, 2019 4:43:38 GMT
Hey Arthur,
Oh, right. So two more things of bad luck to go? Maybe I'll try that in my dorm. Alone. Although if I fall and knock my head and die and cats come to eat my body before my roomies find me, I'll ghost haunt your butt.
I share a house with Grace and I honestly don't think she'd be sharing those stories with you any time soon. I don't think she's ever even sworn in front of me, so I can't imagine her regaling her sexcapades. It'd be a bit awkward.
I did lose it in the library. I don't think people know that's the first time I've ever - since people found out about the whole... thing, most people seem to think I have more experience than that, if you know what I mean? Maybe candlelight and silk sheets and jazz would be nice for some girls, but I was just happy to be with him. It was in the poetry section though so that's kind of romantic, right? Although the books that kept smacking us on the head which isn't so romantic, or the nasty bruise I got on my back from the shelf. What was your first time like?
It's really confusing, the way I feel about it. Because I feel a lot of responsibility too and it sounds so blooming stupid but I forgot about Lexie until I saw her the next day.
They're going to totally know it's me, and then I'll end up with a spiked coffee. The only way to save me from facing a pepper-up potion from now on is if you drink all my coffees and teas for me instead.
You definitely seem like a good boy. A strapping lad, as my mum and dad would call you. You gave me a rose sock and vase? I'm impressed. An affordable and clever gift.
- Lydia
P.S. Maybe Merlin is a cycloboob. In that case, we should say Merlin's middle boob too. P.P.S. Maybe you can try it out bristle-side up and tell me how it goes.
No not two other bad things. By my count, there's been two bad luck things happen to you recently ... (like erm the library thing and then this owl thing) so the good news is you're only waiting for one more thing! Yay! ... right? Well, I guess that depends on if you're a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of girl?
Hey - if you're clumsy enough to worry about falling and dying, can you at least burn my letter suggesting it? I don't think my family could survive the humiliation of me going to Azkaban for a bad luck cure. I think I'd prefer to be eaten by the cats than any pet rat. Evil, gnawing little teeth. Ew. If you do die and decide to haunt me, be prepared for as many Dad jokes as exists under the sun because I quite like the idea of having my own tag-a-long friend that doesn't eat anything. I'll even rope you into scaring some of the firsties and... oh why couldn't you have haunted me at the beginning of this year? All the firsties are pretty desensitised now because of the other castle ghosts.
Yeah... yeah I guess poetry section is about as romantic as a library tryst can get. Do you need some balm for the bruise... or .. I guess it's probably not so bad now huh? You're probably lucky you didn't get a black eye or an egg on your head from the books. I don't know if anyone has like... asked but... how did the whole thing come about? Like... did you both just find putting away a book super sexy or something? I'm trying to put it all together in my mind (not that I'm picturing you guys... like... that. Sorry. That makes me sound super creeper doesn't it?) and I was just wondering.. why? how? Of course you don't have to tell me.
Ok, I will let you in on a secret. Please don't.. be telling anyone, ok? I'll never live it down.
I haven't had a first time. I'm not like saving myself for The One or anything, but I'm not the kind of boy to get intimate willy-nilly either.
If I'm going to drink your coffees and teas from now on - are you gonna come sit over next to me at meal times or am I gonna have to get comfy on the Hufflepuff bench? It could totally be incognito... I can pretend it's just having a meal with my little sister. We are sneaky geniuses. Except she gets up at Stupid O'Clock for breakfast.
Waste not want not, my mama always said! Here - have a conceptual drawing of Merlin the CycloBoob because roses are so last week. As you can see he's extremely happy with his ginormous boob - but who wouldn't be happy with a big ol' boob? They're so squishy. I think.
Keep smiling, Lyds! You never know whose day you'll brighten it may even be your own.
- A. Longbottom
P.S. Merlin doesn't like people talking about his third boob. P.P.S. Do you have a broom to sacrifice for this experiment??
Well, there was a whole class debacle about me and my 'easy' ways, so I guess that makes three bad luck things to happen. What do I win now that I've gotten 3/3? I'm definitely a half-empty kind of girl most of the time... I think people see Hufflepuffs as overly happy, positive people but that's not me.
No can do. Dani and Josh need someone to blame if I fall and die. I'd rather cats eat me than rats any day, although apparently pigs eat literally anything so maybe they'd be a better choice? Not that I think we can get pigs into Hogwarts in order to eat me, I'm just saying. I like how you assume me haunting your arse = tag-along friend, but I suppose you must be one of those half-full kind of boys. Are you saying you wished I'd died at the start of the year? That's nice.
No, I think I'm alright balm-wise. It's turned into this gross yellow-brown colour, so it's probably almost healed. Maybe if I got an egg on my head, I could have feigned amnesia and just pretended I didn't remember this whole thing in the first place but... too late now. Are you asking me if I get turned on by people handling books? I like books but I'm not a bibliophile, to my knowledge, and that's not how it happened. Basically I was helping him with Gamp's Law of Transfiguration, then he played with my hair and we kissed... and then things just escalated. If it were anyone else, I don't think I would have flung my knickers off so readily but I've liked him for such a long time that it just happened. Pathetic, right? (You don't sound like a super creeper. You would if you asked me to go come and find a pensieve with you, but just asking does not make one a creeper.)
I guess I'm the kind of girl to get intimidate willy-nilly That's cool that you're a virgin. I think it's nice you're waiting for the right moment. Romantic, even.
Uh, do you want Lexie to set me on fire with her eyes? She's been trying an awful lot lately. You best come sit with me, if you can handle the public humiliation that comes with sitting with a Llewellyn. No offense, but your sister does get up at Stupid O'Clock. I've ran into her in the bathrooms at 6 o'clock in the morning before, all up and at them. I like my sleep too much to get up that early.
I've pinned Merlin the CycloBoob up on the wall near my bed. Dani thinks it's funny, so you've brought smiles to 2/5 of the Hufflepuff girls in the fifth year dorms. Boobs are very squishy, but I think having one ginormous boob would be sad and very impractical because you'd have to special order in one-boobed bras.
- Lydia
P.S. Believe it or not, I don't have a broomstick you can use but I admire the fact that you'd be willing to give it a shot if I did.
5'5". WELSH. TRIPLET. HONEST. WICKED SENSE OF HUMOUR. BI-CURIOUS. SINGLE.