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!
head of the regulation and control of magical creatures
MINISTRY OF MAGIC
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OFFICIAL
HALF-BLOOD
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus | But he talks like a gentleman
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Post by IVAN KAREV on Jul 18, 2019 16:10:57 GMT
Ivan Karev
SPECIES: Human
BLOOD STATUS: Half-blood
JOB:
Head of Department of Magical Creatures
HOUSE:N\A
FACE CLAIM: ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD
BIRTHDAY: 7th June, 1974
PERSONALITY
Positive Traits: Hard-working; A loving and caring father; Diplomatic, hates to use violence; Organized and tidy.
Negative Traits: Desire for stability that can lead to nervous breakdowns; Prone to anxiety; Has a hard time accepting his daughters are grown up, can be overbearing; Becomes controlling when too stressed out.
Quirks and Habits:
On days when he needs the most encouragement, he wears a silk tie that his daughters painted when they were little. It has poorly drawn owls on it, but he loves and cherishes it like none other piece of clothing. If his dress code for the day doesn’t allow to wear it, he puts it in an inner pocket, right above his heart.
He loves to cook. He’s not the best at it, but after spending almost 20 years caring for 3 daughters, he’s found a love for making simple, yet hearty foods. His favorite time of the year is New Years’, when his daughters are home and they’re all making pastries and potato salad.
He always keeps his work space color coded and organized, a habit he developed in his diplomat days.
The first sub-conscious warning sign that Ivan is under too much stress than he can handle is the twitching of his eyelids and eyebrows. This is rather hard to spot for anyone else, but he finds it rather tiresome and annoying.
He also has hay fever, so every spring he sneezes all day long and it makes for a rather pathetic view.
Likes: Cooking; His daughters; Dairy products (kefir, milk, cottage cheese); Old Soviet movies; Tudor architecture;
Dislikes:Any real or perceived threat to his family; Initially - anyone his daughters decide to date; the summer heat; spring.
Boggart: His daughters, hurt.
Mirror of Erised: His family, including the mother of his children, all one happy family.
Patronus: European otter.
HISTORY
Ivan Viktorovich Karev was born on the 7th of June, 1974, in Moscow, to a pair of completely ordinary, Soviet Russian citizens. His father worked as a mechanic in a train factory, and his mother -- a secretary at the local kolhoz. He had a childhood like any other boy of the time, and so did his younger brother Nikolai. They spent their days running through the countryside, playing Cossacks-Robbers, watching cartoons in the mornings and so on and so forth. Until he received a letter that he had to go to a place called Koldovstoretz.
His mother had decided to keep silent about this small, insignificant detail of being a pureblood witch away from everyone, including her husband, not to mention the kids. Ivan’s father wasn’t too thrilled by this, and the marriage eventually fell apart, and the boys were left to live with their mother. At first, Ivan was as furious as a child can be and didn’t even want to have to do anything with magic, it seemed foreign and wrong to him, but as soon as he went to school, he changed his mind. It was wonderful, a whole world beyond what he knew.
He grew up to be a responsible young man. He was good at Charms and History of Magic, and even started his own debate club at the age of 15. This put him in the good graces of his teachers, and not too long after finishing his studies, he found himself working as the assistant to a Wizard diplomat. His job was to accompany him to meetings with goblins, giants, and, eventually, in the hot summer of 1997, to a group of veelas.
It would change his life forever.
He fell in love with one of them, Alice, and over the span of 7 years she bore him three daughters. Ivan was happy as can be, his dream of a happy family had fulfilled! But merely a month after the birth of his third daughter, Lyuba, Alice vanished. She never came home for New Years’, leaving Ivan and his children alone in the frigid winter. He was devastated. Scared. Confused. And yet, he didn’t have time to sulk -- he had an infant on his hands, and two other children who kept asking where their mum had went. From that day forth, the needs of his daughters’ would come before his.
Having children with non-humans was and still is highly frowned upon in Russian wizard circles, so the Ministry officials weren’t too happy with this turn of events, yet there was no law they could accuse him of breaking. Instead, they declared, that Ivan had lost his neutrality towards non-humans by having offspring with one such individual, and appointed him as one of the secretaries of their ambassador in Britain.
Less than a year had passed, but Ivan had accepted England as his new home. He left his job at the Russian Ministry and applied for a new one at the British Ministry, starting the climb up the social ladder anew. 13 years have passed since then, and now he’s worked all the way to the top -- Ivan Karev is the Head of Department for the regulation and control of magical creatures. Now werewolves make the bulk of his daily troubles, and he works without rest to make sure that Britain is safe for his daughters. The recent attacks at Hogwarts have only made matters worse, and he overworks himself, sometimes even forgetting to answer his daughter’s letters.
When he opened the door to go inside, one of the girls called out to him... In Russian? He hadn't quite heard what she had said, but there was no denying that it was his own language. His chest swelled up with a kind of joy that only a homesick heart knew. It put a spring in his step and a few minutes later he'd already changed his whole outfit, exchanging his stained clothes for a knitted gray sweater, a pair of padded blue jeans so his bottom wouldn't freeze, leather boots and a mink fur ushanka with its ears tied up. And, as he hurried out the room, he grabbed a pair of blue, knitted mittens.
Askold wasn't known for his fashion choices.
He went back outside and immediately noticed Kiernan, who had taken off his jacket -- it was December -- and was moving snowed-in rocks with his bare hands -- it was December -- causing Askold to audibly snort and mutter 'Showoff' in Russian. The girls were lingering by the pastry booth, both holding steaming plastic cups and chatting quietly. After a brief moment of indecisiveness, Askold decided to approach the girls. Kiernan can show off for a bit longer if he wished to freeze his hands.
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