GOSSIP was spread around after the Return to School Rager, people still nursing their hangovers from what some have said was the best Rager of the century. Lily Evans and Glenda Chittock reinstated the Black Student Union, a group at school that has no official school funding but has not been shut down, so, it continues. Greta Catchlove was named a hero for starting a new drink called the Pumpkin Spike, or at least, thinking of a catchy name for the popular Pumpkin Juice-Firewhiskey combination.
Early morning on the 16th of September, Minerva McGonagall announced that instead of a Hogsmeade weekend in early October for the Upperclassmen, they were having an outing to the Quidditch World Cup that had been rescheduled to that date. They would be staying overnight, the whole school buzzing with excitement, Minerva beyond proud, hoping this could boost morale and faith in the administration. If they could do this trip right, it would give them some faith in her as a Headmaster, as well bring joy to the students. Everyone had been talking about it that day, classes having to be stopped several times to accommodate for all the chatter while the youngest students were not happy about being left out.
No one was prepared for what they were about to read in the Daily Prophet that morning – or rather – night. A special emergency issue sent out along with the students affected brought into Dumbledore – now McGonagall’s – office.
In the mid afternoon on September 16th, there were three simultaneous attacks on Ottery St. Catchpole, Tutshill & Godric’s Hallow. Over 100 people were injured, at least 10 dead, including several muggles in surrounding areas. A dark mark hung over Godric’s Hallow as well. The names of the dead related to Hogwarts students are as follows:
Alfred Chittock ( muggle )
Evangeline Meadowes ( muggle )
Naveem Shafiq
Richard Cattermole
Lyssa Trelawney
Jacob Abbott
Heracles Jones
While Sybill Trelawney had been taken in for questioning by Aurors before, the questioning happened again. Alice Shafiq, Capucine Delacour & Glenda Chittock all having been taken in for questioning earlier that day as well. After these deaths, the Auror department issues a statement that ALL Hogwarts students must go through a round of questioning as the Ministry is desperate to find anyone who is connected to his drug ring, hoping they’ll be able to find his location that way. Glenda was especially questioned, having a history with drugs and getting caught with them, her interrogation lasting upwards of 2 hours. As many other students have been caught for drugs and alcohol, much of the school wonders – why Glenda? Is it because she’s muggleborn? Black? The Hogsmeade trip that was supposed to happen this weekend was moved to next weekend and students are told will be heavily, heavily guarded.
Anita Abbott spoke out to the press after the death of her son, saying she “hopes that Dumbledore is caught and is grateful no one in her family was involved in Dumbledore’s Drug Ring”. Some people could’ve sworn Christopher Abbott had whispered, “that’s because there isn’t one” under his breath, but no one can confirm. The anti-Dumbledore media has had field day using the cries of a grieving mother to elicit a reaction from the press and the community.
What was even more shocking? Gringott’s bank was broken into for the second time that year. They thought after the previous break in that upping security and the like would help. But, once again, it didn’t. Cursebreakers Penelope Trelawney and Natalia Yaxley were deployed to the scene reporting that nothing was stolen – only Dumbledore’s half moon glasses were left atop of a Death Eater mask in the Minister’s vault.
Cygnus Black spoke out ardently, screaming at both the Minister, Chief Warlock, Head of the DMLE & Aurors, to finally put Dumbledore away. To find him. It’s obvious to him, with these signs, that it’s him who’s a Death Eater, it’s him who staged these attacks.
As the Ministry is desperate, they brought an elite group of Cursebreakers, Aurors and Hit Wix in the form of the Delacour family from France. The Ministry, the Wizarding World is starting to scramble – the effects of this event rippling throughout Europe. Paranoia is at an all time high; lack of faith in the Ministry at an all time low. Some are now saying they think Dumbledore is Voldemort’s right hand man, some are saying they think Dumbledore could very well be Voldemort himself. No one knows what to think and everyone is scared. A dangerous combination as the minds of the public are now much more easily malleable in this state, something the Death Eaters are sure to take advantage of.
Once again, this break in was the work of Death Eaters – Corban & Samuel Yaxley to be exact – thought that is certainly not known to the public. Cygnus knows, of course, but the further smearing of Dumbledore is needed and has succeeded – especially as Chief Warlock, Michael Greengrass, stays silent. The Death Eaters are happy as everything is going according to plan.
OOC INFORMATION:
We’re back! Interactions are now open again! The timestamp is now September 16th - 24th. I do expect for us to stay in this timestamp for quite a while as there’s a lot happening & a lot going to happen in the days that come.
You are free to continue any threads or drop them from previous timestamps! Whatever is best for you, just please try to focus on this plot drop at the moment. Ig anyone would like to have their characters specifically affected or even some family members killed, please let me know and I can add it to an update/plot drop within the next week or so! Please like this when you’re done reading.
You can still have your characters questioned by Aurors if you like! Just send me an IM and make sure to read the previous plot drop linked in this post. As long as you give me an idea of what happened, etc, it’ll be approved and possibly used in future plot drops!
The party didn’t get busted by any teachers, raging on until the early hours. Mistakes were made, fun times were had, all in all, it was definitely a rager.
If your character has done anything important that might be worth noting in a possible gossip section of a Newspaper, please make a post tagged with #vulneraooc and let me know either in the post or over PM whether you’re okay with that information being public knowledge.
We will be in an interim timestamp for a week ( or so, depending on what the group wants )! The time stamp is September 12-15th. This will be so you can still do party threads as well as wrap up past threads & such. Also, please only answer starters that need more notes -- I’ll make a post about them soon. Next Saturday will be a plot drop with a bunch of events going on, so, if you’re interested in having your character be affected -- please let me know! Please like this when you’re done reading.
