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!
Hugo had had Astronomy lessons since his very first week at Hogwarts, just like everyone else, but he still didn't get it. Yeah, sure, the Northern Star could help him know where the North was if he ever got lost or something, though he still had no clue how to tell where was west or east without the sun, so the subject still felt a little useless, if you asked him.
And what annoyed him the most was the drawing of star charts. They had to be precise to the very last degree, otherwise the entire thing was wrong and useless, and he had pencils of four different thicknesses that all needed to be used for specific things, and---
In short, Hugo Belanger despised Astronomy class and would have much rather spent his nights sleeping in his very warm and soft dorm bed, rather than staring up in the sky at a thousand tiny glowing specks and then trying to draw them on a piece of parchment, while his lit up wand was stuck between his teeth.
So when the Astronomy teacher had assigned a project in pairs -- drawing yet another star chart -- and paired him up with some scrawny Ravenclaw, Hugo was very displeased. If he had been paired up with Sally, they would at least have fun while doing it. But this guy -- Stefan -- Hugo didn't know a single thing about him.
"I hope you're good at this charting stuff," Hugo said, setting his belongings down on Stefan's desk, "Because I'd rather be doing anything else. How many degrees west was Mercury again?"
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There were, in Stefan's mind, no words worse to hear than this will be a group project. Whoever he was going to get stuck with, it was going to be nothing short of torture. Especially in Astronomy--when people knew he was good at a subject, they usually wanted him to do the whole project himself, while they took all the credit. At this point, he was pretty sure the only reason any of his classmates even talked to him was for homework help.
Hugo Belanger was no exception. Hugo hung out with Quidditch players and cracked jokes and, well, wasn't horribly awkward--everything Stefan wasn't. It was obvious from the first moment Hugo set his parchment on the table that this was going to be a long hour or so. Stefan groaned inwardly, but pushed his glasses up on his nose as he looked up at the other boy.
"It's probably moved if you haven't looked at it recently." Mercury was such a difficult planet sometimes, easy to find when it was bright but nearly impossible when it was on the wrong side of the sun. Stefan really didn't want to do Hugo's work for him, but at least this was something he knew off the top of his head. "Tonight it should be just above the horizon. Easy to find." Setting down his quill, he reached for the portable telescope on the table, pulling it out to its full length.
"Huh," Hugo raised his eyebrows as Stefan answered without missing a beat, "You've got that memorized? I'm impressed, can't say I remember anything besides which end of the telescope I have to look into. Well, okay, I'm not nearly that hopeless, but, you get it."
He pushed away all the pencils of varying thicknesses aside, placing his textbook in front, leaning down and squinting at it, trying to read the words. His eyes were tired from all the graph drawing and reading of foot long tables full of numbers that all looked the same when you were trying to find something, but his reading glasses were safely tucked in the depths of his night table. He didn't want to carry them around and only used them when he really had no other choice -- but right now he could still make out the words as is. Plus, with the glasses he looked just as nerdy as Stefan did, and Sally would never let him live that down.
"What good is any of this charting stuff, anyway? What's it to me about a billion sparkly things in the sky besides knowing where the Northern Star is?"
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Post by STEFAN ARGENT on Jul 30, 2020 18:38:49 GMT
codes to the stars
"Well... yeah, I do." Stefan had been familiar with the movements of the planets for a long time. Of course, they always changed, but that just had to do with the math of orbits, which Stefan was pretty sure he could pick up on if he tried hard enough. He was doing Arithmancy now, which didn't exactly teach that sort of thing, but it was closer than any other class besides Astronomy. "I just kind of learned, I guess. After looking at them a lot. Needed to know where the telescope should go." Maybe it was weird. Most of his brothers said it was weird, and he was pretty sure his classmates did too--and here was confirmation from Hugo.
Stefan frowned, setting the telescope heavily on the table. He wanted to answer what was so interesting about space--he did, there were so many things that he would love to explain to Hugo, but his tongue was held by the feeling that he'd probably be laughed out of the room. Even when they were the only two in the room at the moment.
"I just like space, I guess." Why did he say I guess so often? That didn't sound very confident, and he frowned again. "There's a lot of different kinds of stars. Red giants, white dwarfs, that kind of stuff. That's why we have to know which ones are which."
"Dwarves, giants...Are there centaurs up there, too?" Hugo asked, half joking. He really didn't get it. What was it to him if there were balls of gas floating way up there, so far away that he'd never see them as anything more than sparkly dots in the sky? He glanced at the other boy and his glasses -- he was the paragon of a nerd. A very frowny nerd at that, which made Hugo feel a bit uneasy. He didn't care for Astronomy and he couldn't wait to be able to drop the subject, but Stefan seemed to like it very much, and if they were going to work together, he'd rather neither of them were upset the entire time.
"Tell me then, what is the difference between a red dwarf and a white giant, er--" he stopped abruptly, cheeks tinging just a little red, "It was the other way around, red giant and white dwarf. Either way, tell me about them, because I do not feel like doing... This," He gestured at the charts in front of them.
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