Prompt #1
Daily Prophet Headline News: August 17th, 1977
"Attack on Diagon Alley"
Mary Popps here, speaking on the vicious scandal currently circulating around the Wizarding World. As you are likely aware of, dear readers, Diagon Alley, the main gathering point of Wizarding London, was brutally attacked yesterday afternoon. The shopping center was chalked full of young wizarding families, students of Hogwarts crowding in for the busiest shopping day of the year, trying to obtain all the items on their rather extensive Hogwarts letters.
What had started as a regular day in the hubbub of the shopping craze had taken a turn for the worst as the streets, ringing with the sound of children laughing and catching up with the friends they haven’t seen since summer, soon morphed into screams of terror. The attackers, Death Eaters as they introduce themselves, Apparated in, and began their assault, blowing in the display windows of the popular Wizarding robes store, Madam Malkin’s, then moving on to do the same to Florean-Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor, and the nearby Apothecary. Some of their spells reflected off the wares of Wiseacre’s Wizarding Equipment, and caused a rather violent reaction with some of the ingredients of the Apothecary. Even today, the area has been dubbed too contaminated for any to get within the general vicinity.
Several duels erupted as the parents, and a few of the older, more daring students of Hogwarts, who were crowded into Flourish and Blott’s retaliated, striking back at the attacking Death Eaters. Eventually the men were driven back, and Apparated from the scene before the Auror’s arrived. Auror Potter, Head of the Auror Department, commented that- (continued on page 3).
Prompt: You and your partner, if you are one of the groups, were in Diagon Alley when the attack began. Chaos and destruction ensued. Explosions wracked the buildings, and spells flew everywhere. Plot with one another on what you want to happen, but try to only include your character and your partner’s so as not to interfere with other characters’ plots.
Groups
James/Sirius
Dorcas/Peter
Remus/Lily
Soloists
Marlene
Mary