~ Barty sits in his father's study - the last time he'd been here he'd been concealing a scorpion in every drawer - so being forced to obediently remain seated (and still) is quite a jarring change in tone. His muscles twitch in anguished boredom, being immobile an excruciating torture. Yet under Crouch Sr.'s shark-like surveillance it is ( Read more... )

*Andromeda swallows back her discomfort as she sets the morning's paper down onto the kitchen table. It isn't as though the Death Eaters hadn't slaughtered before... but rather than become easier to read as time goes on, whenever Andromeda sees such stories in the Prophet, she feels worse and worse and worse ( Read more... )

~It seems everyone else is asleep, though Samantha, also known as Sam, knows that there could still be some students up. They aren't in the Common Room though. She is sitting in one of the chairs, yet turned the wrong way with her knees over one of the arm rests, her legs danging as her back leans against the other arm rest. She has a book in ( Read more... )

~ Most girls Lily knows, by nineteen, have done some things marking their passage into early adulthood. Things like traveling to another country, riding on the back of a motorbike, finding a boyfriend and fallen in love, maybe gotten a tattoo or found their own place to live or possibly even had the luck of having that boyfriend of theirs pop the ( Read more... )

~ Since he can remember, probably since the day he was born, the world has seemed a frightening place to Regulus. One could argue that he is a Black, financially cushioned for the entirety of his life, a silver platter child - what could be so worrying to someone like him? But coming from the privileged family he does comes with it's consequences. ( Read more... )

~ Barty arrives in Brighton not a few hours after stepping into the Ministry car - it had been a particularly fancy model, the sort with tiny flags on its hood - but the nature of his visit home sucks any tiny-flag-derived joy from his being ( Read more... )

( Hand delivered to Lily Evans for her birthday... )

( ~ On Monday morning copies of the Prophet are delivered to students and Professors all around the Hall, bearing their bad news - and on Tuesday a letter with the Ministry's seal lands ominously in front of Barty's place setting. ~ )

~The way Maire tends to deal with unfamiliar situations is to make games of it all.  In this particular case, she is masking her nervousness with shady behavior, lurking in the shadows of the Entrance Hall, holding her fingers in a gun shape and peering suspiciously around corners and all the while humming suspenseful theme music.

She hears a ( Read more... )

The Daily Prophet

Death Eater’s Swarm Auror Academy
Shocking attack leaves several Aurors dead, untold injured


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