<![CDATA[Children of Merlin - Harry Potter 1980s RPG - START HERE]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:22:28 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[BASICS & PLOT]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=124 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:22:17 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=124 BASICS

Children of Merlin was foundd on July 18th 2015 under the name Nevermore, and is run by Kieran. In November 2021 I made up a whole new plot. Our player base has been mostly between 25-40 years old, and our minimum age for joining is 18. Content rating here is 3-3-3 or free-for-all. Our primary method of contact is Discord, but feel free to use the cbox or to send me a private message.

PLAYABLE CHARACTERS

Canons and original characters are accepted, as are a lot of canon species.
We have board-canon lore on many species so check this out before applying for a magical creature. We don't accept mixed creatures like veela-vampires or such.


BASE

We base on the seven Harry Potter books and the two companion books Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, adapted with our own site-lore. We do not accept lore from Pottermore or the Fantastic Beasts movies, nor from the Harry Potter films or video games. And the Cursed Child never happens. Exceptions may be made upon a request but such must be first approved by the admin. Please use the information found on site first and foremost. If you have any questions or suggestions, contact Kieran.


TIMELINE

1985-1992

You don't have to make use of the full timeline. Time is fluid here, so you can make use of any month and year at any time without any hurry. You can also set game events outside the timeline, according to your character development needs - but the focus of this RPG is supposed to be on the timeline years. There's a calendar link in the floating main menu above and on the Plotting & Planning forum.


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THE PLOT

After Voldemort disappeared and Harry Potter was taken somewhere to live in peace away from his fame, after the Longbottoms' cruel fate and the Crouch family scandal, the wizarding society had difficulties recovering. Many struggled to find peace of mind and happiness after so much terror and loss during the war and living with the uncertainty of what really happened to Voldemort. The Ministry of Magic on its behalf struggles to regain people's trust.

People lost a lot of trust and faith in the wizarding government because the Ministry let known Death Eaters walk free, even judge Crouch's son was a Death Eater and tortured the Longbottoms to insanity and Crouch sent his own son to Azkaban for life after publicly disowning him. He sent a lot of people there without a proper trial if gave them any at all, whilst used controversial methods in fighting Voldemort. Most notably allowing Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses even on suspects. And then it was a toddler who seemingly defeated Voldemort and not the Ministry's people.

For a few years Daily Prophet's Readers' Column section reflected all this, people kept sharing and discussing their fears and views keeping the Ministry under pressure to prove it cares about morals and family values and that it can be trusted to do better next time if Voldemort should ever resurface or another one like him rise. Many also criticised the decision to hide Harry Potter away, the one person who obviously had the power to defeat dark wizards as powerful as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In an effort to prove themselves the Ministry couldn't forbid Daily Prophet to publish them but some letters sent in were heavily censored which frustrated and outraged people even more.

Until in January 1985 letters start appearing with a very concerning or very hopeful message, depending on your point of view and personal beliefs. They are so anti-establishment, in parts so truthful, and thus potentially dangerous that the Ministry controlled Daily Prophet won't publish them or any talk about them on the Readers' Column. Those letters were published every month in some other newspapers - one on the first day of each month - and people started cutting them out and sharing them on Diagon Alley and other all-wizarding areas so the word spread fast.

The Letters

The letters lay out a vision of future where the Ministry no longer exists and most wizardkind have lost their magical powers, leaving only a select few to rule and carry on the magical bloodlines. A world where muggle-borns and squibs are all treated the same as half-bloods and purebloods, and where werewolves and vampires are understood and not shunned. A world where magic is kept secret from muggles but is not thought of as something that makes one superior, and where people like Grindelwald and Voldemort can never rise again.

The authors call themselves the Children of Merlin; wizards, witches and squibs who favour squibs, muggle-borns and their relatives over half-bloods and purebloods. That is, those who understand what it is to be looked down on, shunned and bullied just because of one's heritage or lack of magical power.

They claim that their founder and leader actually is a descendent of Merlin and that he has access to an ancient potion recipe that once brewn can strip anyone of their magical powers if drinking it or anything if submerged in it. The recipe however is incomplete and some of the ingredients that are known are extremely difficult to get so the potion isn't fully effective yet. They are recruiting members who share in their view and want to help them research and complete the potion for use.

They point out that the Ministry's Trace that tracks underage magic use has been made to function so vaguely and inefficiently that it really only targets muggle-borns and anyone who lives in a muggle family, bullying and punishing them for not having all magical families whilst giving all-wizarding families total advantage in magical education and self-defence. And how Hogwarts won't admit and teach squibs despite of most of its subjects not requiring the ability to cast spells.

They also point out that the most powerful of wizardkind tend to either go dark and seek world domination through war and murder, or choose not to use their influential power to better the wizarding government. They say it's especially inexcusable because the wizarding society is integrated into the muggle society and thus everyone should be perfectly aware of how muggle-borns and squibs are just as valuable, as are muggles, and how some muggle inventions are far more useful than magic. That magic and magical power isn't automatically superior.

As months pass it becomes increasingly clear that the letters are truly from a secret society that seeks to change the world and not just some lone radical with no significant powers. Below is more details about what happens during our timeline because of them. And for those who may want their character to be or become a member or an ally here is more info about them.


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Reception & the First Scare

Because the Children of Merlin don't seek to reveal magic's existence to muggles nor to start a war, some people are drawn to them regardless of their own blood status. Some genuinely agreeing with them and wanting the same thing, and some just hoping to get in to keep their magic in case they succeed in bringing their vision forth. Whereas others feel they're too radical to support.

The Ministry doesn't take the letters seriously until after the September 1985 letter makes a threat against Hogwarts and then in October there is no letter but a significant number of students and professors at Hogwarts begin to show unusually consistent and severe decrease in their spell casting skills and powers, as are many residents of Hogsmeade. It is suspected that the Children of Merlin has members inside Hogwarts and that they've put something in the water or are tricking people into drinking the unfinished potion. These cases are nothing more than the placebo effect, but no one can know for sure. A booming business of antidotes, amulets and other protective charms spreads all over Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley whilst anyone trying to start up a new potioneer business in general struggles to do so due to lack of trust.

Now seemingly qualifying as a terrorist group in addition to anti-government group, the Ministry of Magic finally directs some of its resources into serious efforts to discover and disband the Children of Merlin and to destroy the weapon they claim to have access to. Anyone suspected of being a member can be brought in for questioning and put under surveillance, and spreading the letters is made illegal. Punishment for doing so is a very large fine. Meanwhile many parents pull their children out of Hogwarts to be home schooled instead, some by themselves and some hiring tutors from the Ministry. No more mass cases like the Hogwarts one happen, but occasionally an individual case here and another there. All placebo, the threatened potion is not yet in use.


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Fantastic beasts help both sides

In January 1986 Children of Merlin start using fired house-elves to help in achieving their goals of research and ingredient hunting. They do this in secret and for the most part treat them well. Those who own house-elves may suspect something's going on and some order their house-elves to investigate. At the same time, the Ministry attempts to break it up by secretly hiring werewolves and vampires, to utilise their heightened senses and animal forms in spying and their social status to perhaps even infiltrate into the Children of Merlin for the Ministry. With little success, because most do not trust the Ministry or other wizardkind enough to step forward and reveal themselves as such. But some do, with the understanding that if the magical population was to drop, their chances of ever getting a cure would drop to virtually none.

Nothing major happens this year and there has been no letters since December '85, and the Ministry keeps reporting small successes in their attempts, making the public think maybe the Ministry is winning but in fact the Ministry is not much closer to finding the headquarters of the secret society nor to knowing who its leader is.


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Rising Crime

April 1st 1987 Ollivander's wand shop is broken into and burned down. Ollivander continues working and selling his wands from his home until the shop is rebuilt. After this and other similar cases of somehow vandalised certain type of businesses*, being proven a Child of Merlin or their ally may lead to a prison sentence of some length, depending on what and how much is proven or if the Ministry decides to make an example of someone. These crimes may or may not have been committed by the secret society as it has outsider supporters and some people may be just trying to get away with vandalism.

Meanwhile Children of Merlin are no longer recruiting only on the streets and pubs, but people who openly advicate for muggle-born, muggle and/or squib rights or downright have any of those in their families may get letters encouraging them to join despite of it been made illegal but at least to continue their good work outside of the group. They understand that the more right-minded wizardkind there is once the potion is ready the better it is for the magical gene pool of the future.


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The Ministry's Victory

May 1st 1988 the potion has successfully rendered a working magic wand useless so it's believed ready for testing on something living. One of their house-elf allies volunteers to test it. The potion puts her in deep magical coma. Though it doesn't work quite as intended, it is considered good progress. They arrange professional care for the brave, comatose house-elf and start working on an antidote whilst also continuing to improve the weapon.

The Ministry has managed to get in a couple of Aurors as spies, at least a year or two earlier. By this time those two have gained enough knowledge about the members, and the way the society functions, and gained the leader's trust. On May 7th 1988 they are able to trick the leader into drinking the potion himself. He is moved to the St. Mungos' to be looked after until the antidote is ready and he can be brought back to stand trial. Further arrests of members and ellies are made in the following weeks. The Daily Prophet reports all this that.

May 8th 1988. The Ministry assures the public that everyone is safe now, the whole secret society has been disbanded and the potion and its recipe will be destroyed as soon as the antidote has been brewn to wake the leader. Until then they'll be kept In a secure location. (But really it won't be destroyed. It'll secretly remain in the Ministry's hands and they try to perfect it so they could use it against Voldemort should he return. And likely would use its threat in order to get confessions and things like that. But they will not succeed to perfect it for such use.)


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The Aftermath

For the next few months newspapers report about the trials and sentences of the members and known allies. Some are sent to Azkaban for a time, some are not but sentenced to community service instead. Depending on what their part in the operation was. In November the antidote is figured out and the leader stands trial. He is charged with terrorism and treason. The trial lasts a full year because the man is wealthy and can afford some of the best lawyers the British wizarding society has, but in November 1989 he is convicted and sentenced to Azkaban for 15 to 20 years.

Chidren of Merlin were not a complete failure. Their cause was never completely overshadowed by their methods, especially with some supporters driving it in legal ways. So the Ministry agrees to look into and make some reforms to laws and policies regarding muggle-borns, squibs and other minority groups. But, just as in the muggle government and politics, non-emergency changes are slow. Changes to the Trace or Hogwarts admittance policy for example, do not happen any time soon but the Ministry starts enforcing the Trace a little less harshly for a time.


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1989 and beyond

Newspapers report about the leader's trial, but the wizarding society's life is blessedly peaceful in that no major threats occur and trust in the government has increased more or less. Harry's first school year 1991-1992 goes as it does in canon. In the summer of 1992 the wizarding society is buzzing again, with the rumours of You-Know-Who having resurfaced.]]> BASICS

Children of Merlin was foundd on July 18th 2015 under the name Nevermore, and is run by Kieran. In November 2021 I made up a whole new plot. Our player base has been mostly between 25-40 years old, and our minimum age for joining is 18. Content rating here is 3-3-3 or free-for-all. Our primary method of contact is Discord, but feel free to use the cbox or to send me a private message.

PLAYABLE CHARACTERS

Canons and original characters are accepted, as are a lot of canon species.
We have board-canon lore on many species so check this out before applying for a magical creature. We don't accept mixed creatures like veela-vampires or such.


BASE

We base on the seven Harry Potter books and the two companion books Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, adapted with our own site-lore. We do not accept lore from Pottermore or the Fantastic Beasts movies, nor from the Harry Potter films or video games. And the Cursed Child never happens. Exceptions may be made upon a request but such must be first approved by the admin. Please use the information found on site first and foremost. If you have any questions or suggestions, contact Kieran.


TIMELINE

1985-1992

You don't have to make use of the full timeline. Time is fluid here, so you can make use of any month and year at any time without any hurry. You can also set game events outside the timeline, according to your character development needs - but the focus of this RPG is supposed to be on the timeline years. There's a calendar link in the floating main menu above and on the Plotting & Planning forum.


[Image: 108c8daa611d6425865366bedcd2b606.jpg]


THE PLOT

After Voldemort disappeared and Harry Potter was taken somewhere to live in peace away from his fame, after the Longbottoms' cruel fate and the Crouch family scandal, the wizarding society had difficulties recovering. Many struggled to find peace of mind and happiness after so much terror and loss during the war and living with the uncertainty of what really happened to Voldemort. The Ministry of Magic on its behalf struggles to regain people's trust.

People lost a lot of trust and faith in the wizarding government because the Ministry let known Death Eaters walk free, even judge Crouch's son was a Death Eater and tortured the Longbottoms to insanity and Crouch sent his own son to Azkaban for life after publicly disowning him. He sent a lot of people there without a proper trial if gave them any at all, whilst used controversial methods in fighting Voldemort. Most notably allowing Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses even on suspects. And then it was a toddler who seemingly defeated Voldemort and not the Ministry's people.

For a few years Daily Prophet's Readers' Column section reflected all this, people kept sharing and discussing their fears and views keeping the Ministry under pressure to prove it cares about morals and family values and that it can be trusted to do better next time if Voldemort should ever resurface or another one like him rise. Many also criticised the decision to hide Harry Potter away, the one person who obviously had the power to defeat dark wizards as powerful as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In an effort to prove themselves the Ministry couldn't forbid Daily Prophet to publish them but some letters sent in were heavily censored which frustrated and outraged people even more.

Until in January 1985 letters start appearing with a very concerning or very hopeful message, depending on your point of view and personal beliefs. They are so anti-establishment, in parts so truthful, and thus potentially dangerous that the Ministry controlled Daily Prophet won't publish them or any talk about them on the Readers' Column. Those letters were published every month in some other newspapers - one on the first day of each month - and people started cutting them out and sharing them on Diagon Alley and other all-wizarding areas so the word spread fast.

The Letters

The letters lay out a vision of future where the Ministry no longer exists and most wizardkind have lost their magical powers, leaving only a select few to rule and carry on the magical bloodlines. A world where muggle-borns and squibs are all treated the same as half-bloods and purebloods, and where werewolves and vampires are understood and not shunned. A world where magic is kept secret from muggles but is not thought of as something that makes one superior, and where people like Grindelwald and Voldemort can never rise again.

The authors call themselves the Children of Merlin; wizards, witches and squibs who favour squibs, muggle-borns and their relatives over half-bloods and purebloods. That is, those who understand what it is to be looked down on, shunned and bullied just because of one's heritage or lack of magical power.

They claim that their founder and leader actually is a descendent of Merlin and that he has access to an ancient potion recipe that once brewn can strip anyone of their magical powers if drinking it or anything if submerged in it. The recipe however is incomplete and some of the ingredients that are known are extremely difficult to get so the potion isn't fully effective yet. They are recruiting members who share in their view and want to help them research and complete the potion for use.

They point out that the Ministry's Trace that tracks underage magic use has been made to function so vaguely and inefficiently that it really only targets muggle-borns and anyone who lives in a muggle family, bullying and punishing them for not having all magical families whilst giving all-wizarding families total advantage in magical education and self-defence. And how Hogwarts won't admit and teach squibs despite of most of its subjects not requiring the ability to cast spells.

They also point out that the most powerful of wizardkind tend to either go dark and seek world domination through war and murder, or choose not to use their influential power to better the wizarding government. They say it's especially inexcusable because the wizarding society is integrated into the muggle society and thus everyone should be perfectly aware of how muggle-borns and squibs are just as valuable, as are muggles, and how some muggle inventions are far more useful than magic. That magic and magical power isn't automatically superior.

As months pass it becomes increasingly clear that the letters are truly from a secret society that seeks to change the world and not just some lone radical with no significant powers. Below is more details about what happens during our timeline because of them. And for those who may want their character to be or become a member or an ally here is more info about them.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Reception & the First Scare

Because the Children of Merlin don't seek to reveal magic's existence to muggles nor to start a war, some people are drawn to them regardless of their own blood status. Some genuinely agreeing with them and wanting the same thing, and some just hoping to get in to keep their magic in case they succeed in bringing their vision forth. Whereas others feel they're too radical to support.

The Ministry doesn't take the letters seriously until after the September 1985 letter makes a threat against Hogwarts and then in October there is no letter but a significant number of students and professors at Hogwarts begin to show unusually consistent and severe decrease in their spell casting skills and powers, as are many residents of Hogsmeade. It is suspected that the Children of Merlin has members inside Hogwarts and that they've put something in the water or are tricking people into drinking the unfinished potion. These cases are nothing more than the placebo effect, but no one can know for sure. A booming business of antidotes, amulets and other protective charms spreads all over Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley whilst anyone trying to start up a new potioneer business in general struggles to do so due to lack of trust.

Now seemingly qualifying as a terrorist group in addition to anti-government group, the Ministry of Magic finally directs some of its resources into serious efforts to discover and disband the Children of Merlin and to destroy the weapon they claim to have access to. Anyone suspected of being a member can be brought in for questioning and put under surveillance, and spreading the letters is made illegal. Punishment for doing so is a very large fine. Meanwhile many parents pull their children out of Hogwarts to be home schooled instead, some by themselves and some hiring tutors from the Ministry. No more mass cases like the Hogwarts one happen, but occasionally an individual case here and another there. All placebo, the threatened potion is not yet in use.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Fantastic beasts help both sides

In January 1986 Children of Merlin start using fired house-elves to help in achieving their goals of research and ingredient hunting. They do this in secret and for the most part treat them well. Those who own house-elves may suspect something's going on and some order their house-elves to investigate. At the same time, the Ministry attempts to break it up by secretly hiring werewolves and vampires, to utilise their heightened senses and animal forms in spying and their social status to perhaps even infiltrate into the Children of Merlin for the Ministry. With little success, because most do not trust the Ministry or other wizardkind enough to step forward and reveal themselves as such. But some do, with the understanding that if the magical population was to drop, their chances of ever getting a cure would drop to virtually none.

Nothing major happens this year and there has been no letters since December '85, and the Ministry keeps reporting small successes in their attempts, making the public think maybe the Ministry is winning but in fact the Ministry is not much closer to finding the headquarters of the secret society nor to knowing who its leader is.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Rising Crime

April 1st 1987 Ollivander's wand shop is broken into and burned down. Ollivander continues working and selling his wands from his home until the shop is rebuilt. After this and other similar cases of somehow vandalised certain type of businesses*, being proven a Child of Merlin or their ally may lead to a prison sentence of some length, depending on what and how much is proven or if the Ministry decides to make an example of someone. These crimes may or may not have been committed by the secret society as it has outsider supporters and some people may be just trying to get away with vandalism.

Meanwhile Children of Merlin are no longer recruiting only on the streets and pubs, but people who openly advicate for muggle-born, muggle and/or squib rights or downright have any of those in their families may get letters encouraging them to join despite of it been made illegal but at least to continue their good work outside of the group. They understand that the more right-minded wizardkind there is once the potion is ready the better it is for the magical gene pool of the future.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


The Ministry's Victory

May 1st 1988 the potion has successfully rendered a working magic wand useless so it's believed ready for testing on something living. One of their house-elf allies volunteers to test it. The potion puts her in deep magical coma. Though it doesn't work quite as intended, it is considered good progress. They arrange professional care for the brave, comatose house-elf and start working on an antidote whilst also continuing to improve the weapon.

The Ministry has managed to get in a couple of Aurors as spies, at least a year or two earlier. By this time those two have gained enough knowledge about the members, and the way the society functions, and gained the leader's trust. On May 7th 1988 they are able to trick the leader into drinking the potion himself. He is moved to the St. Mungos' to be looked after until the antidote is ready and he can be brought back to stand trial. Further arrests of members and ellies are made in the following weeks. The Daily Prophet reports all this that.

May 8th 1988. The Ministry assures the public that everyone is safe now, the whole secret society has been disbanded and the potion and its recipe will be destroyed as soon as the antidote has been brewn to wake the leader. Until then they'll be kept In a secure location. (But really it won't be destroyed. It'll secretly remain in the Ministry's hands and they try to perfect it so they could use it against Voldemort should he return. And likely would use its threat in order to get confessions and things like that. But they will not succeed to perfect it for such use.)


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The Aftermath

For the next few months newspapers report about the trials and sentences of the members and known allies. Some are sent to Azkaban for a time, some are not but sentenced to community service instead. Depending on what their part in the operation was. In November the antidote is figured out and the leader stands trial. He is charged with terrorism and treason. The trial lasts a full year because the man is wealthy and can afford some of the best lawyers the British wizarding society has, but in November 1989 he is convicted and sentenced to Azkaban for 15 to 20 years.

Chidren of Merlin were not a complete failure. Their cause was never completely overshadowed by their methods, especially with some supporters driving it in legal ways. So the Ministry agrees to look into and make some reforms to laws and policies regarding muggle-borns, squibs and other minority groups. But, just as in the muggle government and politics, non-emergency changes are slow. Changes to the Trace or Hogwarts admittance policy for example, do not happen any time soon but the Ministry starts enforcing the Trace a little less harshly for a time.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


1989 and beyond

Newspapers report about the leader's trial, but the wizarding society's life is blessedly peaceful in that no major threats occur and trust in the government has increased more or less. Harry's first school year 1991-1992 goes as it does in canon. In the summer of 1992 the wizarding society is buzzing again, with the rumours of You-Know-Who having resurfaced.]]> <![CDATA[CHILDREN OF MERLIN]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=122 Tue, 09 Nov 2021 04:10:14 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=122 CHILDREN OF MERLIN
The founder and leader is my OC and I'm writing him.

They are not evil. They do not wish to kill anyone or start a war. They desire to create a new, better world and opt to use radical, questionable and sometimes criminal means to achieve their goal. They understand that the more worthy people there are when the final stage of their plan is ready to be executed, the better it will be for the future. So whilst they work towards that they're genuinely--and anonymously--trying to get people to stand by their cause whether members or not.

Each member is to choose a code name for themselves and by default everyone knows each other only by that name. But they are not allowed to hide their faces from other members, as the leader's policy of sincerety and having everyone on the same line when it comes to the risk factor. However, they are allowed to change their appearance slightly for a group meeting so that they don't necessarely appear exactly the same they do in everyday life. It is up to each individual member how much personal info they want to reveal about themselves to other members. Of course, the leader himself knows more than most about each member but even his knowledge varies. Only the leader knows all members and allies, so that no one can betray every single one. 

The founder and leader is a charismatic and powerful muggle-born wizard in his 60s who grew up in United States during the Grindelwald Era as in had to live his formative years in a world torn by the Global Wizarding War and the Second World War. After Grindelwald and Hitler fell, he moved to England to escape the backwards laws the USA had about wizard-muggle relations. Only to discover that the British Ministry of Magic is horribly selfish and corrupted even if not thoroughly rotten. Then he witnessed the rise and fall of Voldemort, and finally had enough of the wizardkind's general lack of responsible use of their power and their unwarranted superiority complex.

Between 1982 and 1984 he secretly gathered like-minded people to join him in his cause. As a muggle-born he of course isn't really a descendent of Merlin and he has told that to the most trusted members but not to all. Some of them believe he is at least half-blood and truly related to Merlin. Mainly he intents that claim to gain their cause more credibility and a positive sounding name.

He owns a part of an ancient parchment dating back to the 15th century and the earliest Witch Trials in Britain, that documents one of those trials. The woman accused of witchcraft confessed to being a witch in order to avoid execution. She offered to brew a potion that can kill magic in anyone and anything, in hopes to not be imprisoned for life and to save lives because then the authorities wouldn't have to kill people but could just take away their magic before they do something bad. The parchment includes a recipe but part of it is missing, making it incomplete. The ingredients which can be read are genuinely those used by the wizardkind in potions, making it likely the accused woman really was a witch or a relative of a muggle-born. Whether she lied or just wasn't allowed to brew it remains unknown, and therefore what the potion actually does remains a mystery. But he wants to believe it's what it says it is.

All members know about it, but not everyone has seen the recipe part of the document. Not everyone has access to it. Only the most trusted members are allowed to know its contents and even them only in need-to-know basis as in if their role in the group requires that knowledge. There's only two copies of the recipe, both always in the leader's possession by default. Also, only the most trusted inner-circle members know that the leader is an Animagus.

The founder & leader: Zachary James


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Their Focus and Morals

The Children of Merlin mostly work towards figuring out the missing ingredients, gathering all of it, and brewing the potion successfully. Both individually and together at the headquarters where they also meet once a month to discuss matters and plans, and the leader assigns further missions and tasks. Non-potion related missions and tasks can be spying on the Ministry to gather intel on what the government is up to when it comes to opposing them, or recruiting new members and allies, and doing something in preparation for a statement. Members are tasked differently based on their strengths and/or position in the wizarding society, and based on how well they've proven their trustworthiness. Their blood status doesn't matter at all.

Occasionally they make statements such as burning down the most popular wand maker's shop (after ensuring that no one was inside it or any of the neighbouring shops.) Players are free to suggest things like that for me to add to the timeline. They never intentionally harm children even if their families oppose their cause, but on the contrary they attempt to take advantage of young and developing minds and world views to get them on their side and against the established government. Though they wish to influence children's minds, no one under the age of 18 is allowed to join them.

This is all Stage 1 of their operaation. The second Stage would have been systematically targetting government officials and other important people with the perfected potion, and then eventually any wizardkind person not yet proven themselves sincerely supportive of their cause. This has been shared with some of the inner circle but only to that extent. The leader never got around to sharing those plans In more detail or even have time to finish them.


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The Headquarters

An old and large abandoned farm house in the rural area of North England. Its outter doors are always locked and magically protected against lockpicking. They can be opened by simply using the Alohamora spell. No passwords are needed, because it has been hidden with the Fidelius Charm and the leader made himself the Secret Keeper. Because of that only official members can see and find it after they've been told about it and its location, but even they can't bring with them anyone but another official member. No one other than the founder/leader is allowed to use the headquarters outside of a group meeting.

There's no common way to get there. Everyone arrives in whichever way they can and like to. However, apparation and disapparation is not possible inside the house or anywhere on the farmland. Portkeys don't work either. And the house is not connected to the Floo Network or to any private fireplace either. Of course, one can always use those magical travel methods to a location near the farm.

Group meetings are not regularly held. They are called for only by the leader and he does so whenever he feels such is needed and sends a message about it to each member personallyy via owl post. Not all members are requested to every single meeting, so that no one can ever learn exactly how many members there are. If one's absence isn't because of something they've been assigned by the leader they should let him know in advance or through another member why they won't be there. The leader doesn't ask for details unless the member behaves suspiciously or is absent often.



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Communication

The leader and members communicate through innocent seeming, coded messages published in the Daily Prophet's Readers' Column whenever there needs to be a message everyone must know. To ensure that the messages get published and remain unedited, the leader himself is one of the editors of the Daily Prophet tasked with, among other sections, with that Column. He worked in that position long before any of this started and never argued against the Ministry's demands of not publishing anything related to the initial letters. So he has never been a suspect in the Ministry's eyes. One-on-one communication happens in coded letters through owl post.


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Secrecy

The leader made himself the Secret Keeper so that no one he lets in can totally betray him; no one can reveal his identity, or that he's an Animagus, or where the secret society gathers together, nor any specific details about their secret weapon. Those less loyal may leak some information and betray other members but nothing that could immediately destroy the operation. There are certain trusted members tasked with recruitment, but due to the charm they can't make a membership official nor lead anyone to the headquarters. Only the leader can do that. He will meet with potential new members in person, but always in disguises using Polyjuice Potion and changing his appearance every now and then to throw off any Aurors who may be trying to catch him in the process. The only people who know for sure what he genuinely looks like are those who have been approved as official members. The leaders' real name is known only by members and allies who are his personal and old friends. Most members also don't know very much about the leader's private life or past, they learn things about him on need-to-know basis.


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Joining & Leaving

If you didn't make your character a member or an ally already in their application for this site, you may still have them become such later. It depends on what kind of character you created, so you'll need to contact me first to discuss it and what your plans are for them. Not all characters can be made a member or a trusted ally, but I will always try to work out something and am open to suggestions. Characters joining the cause as a member or an ally always must meet with my leader OC before it can be official. We don't necessarily have to write them out as threads.

In-universe, to become a member one must show genuine enthusiasm to actively work for the cause. One can also offer to be simply an ally rather than a full time, inner-circle member. No one is forced to commit crimes in the process of helping, but anyone wanting to associate must be okay with other allies or members choosing to do so.

The most trusted inner-circle members are the ones acting as spies or preparing and participating in criminal statements or getting access to the recipe. They are some of the oldest members and/or ones that have somehow proven themselves as fiercely loyal and genuinely brave. No random newbie would ever be tasked with those. Less trusted inner circle and outter circle members do have important tasks and missions but nothing that risky.

A member or an ally is free to leave at any point but if they don't provide a valid reason for it and proof of that reason they won't be allowed to come back, and in some cases may be subjected to have memories of the secret society obliviated. The same if they just disappear for months and suddenly reappear without giving a good reason and proof of what happened.

Because even though he has cast the ultimate protection to secure the secrecy, he does not want to take unnecessary risks of someone somehow finding a way around it. If a member betrays another member to the Ministry they will be marked down as one of the first to go once the potion is ready for use whilst the one betrayed and possibly their family gets to live at the headquarters if they have reason to fear Azkaban or torture. Everyone knows that as long as they're inside the headquarters only the leader has the ability to lead the Ministry to them and naturally he would never do that.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


How to Play A Member or An Ally

I hope to give you relatively free hands to write about such characters. You don't have to ask me in advance or write a thread with me and my leader OC every time you want your character to have a mission or do something--as long as what you vision is within the framework I've provided in this thread and in the plot details and takes into account the leader's personality. But you can ask/discuss it with me in advance if you'd like or are unsure about something. In any case, I do need you to let me know about the mission or task you vision, so I can log it.

But some things need to be discussed in advance:
- Any face-to-face meetings with my leader character.
- In general if you want your character to do something that greatly impacts the whole group or another player's character.

Our Discord server has a dedicated channel for these kind of discussions. Should go without saying but I'll say it anyway; if you want to play a character who is a member or an ally of Children of Merlin in a deeply involved position, you must be interested enough and able to stay reasonably active on Discord for related discussion and possible announcements. Even at times when you can't do any RPing. You don't have to be extremely active in the actual discussion just as long as you keep an eye on it and take part when you're needed.

Or, at least be considerate enough to give a notice if you need to totally go away for a while. Depending on how long that while is we may need to work out what to do with your character in relation to the group. There are many ways to write a character out without completely removing them, so you can do what you need to do IRL and then pick up where you left off if that's what you want to do when you return.]]> CHILDREN OF MERLIN
The founder and leader is my OC and I'm writing him.

They are not evil. They do not wish to kill anyone or start a war. They desire to create a new, better world and opt to use radical, questionable and sometimes criminal means to achieve their goal. They understand that the more worthy people there are when the final stage of their plan is ready to be executed, the better it will be for the future. So whilst they work towards that they're genuinely--and anonymously--trying to get people to stand by their cause whether members or not.

Each member is to choose a code name for themselves and by default everyone knows each other only by that name. But they are not allowed to hide their faces from other members, as the leader's policy of sincerety and having everyone on the same line when it comes to the risk factor. However, they are allowed to change their appearance slightly for a group meeting so that they don't necessarely appear exactly the same they do in everyday life. It is up to each individual member how much personal info they want to reveal about themselves to other members. Of course, the leader himself knows more than most about each member but even his knowledge varies. Only the leader knows all members and allies, so that no one can betray every single one. 

The founder and leader is a charismatic and powerful muggle-born wizard in his 60s who grew up in United States during the Grindelwald Era as in had to live his formative years in a world torn by the Global Wizarding War and the Second World War. After Grindelwald and Hitler fell, he moved to England to escape the backwards laws the USA had about wizard-muggle relations. Only to discover that the British Ministry of Magic is horribly selfish and corrupted even if not thoroughly rotten. Then he witnessed the rise and fall of Voldemort, and finally had enough of the wizardkind's general lack of responsible use of their power and their unwarranted superiority complex.

Between 1982 and 1984 he secretly gathered like-minded people to join him in his cause. As a muggle-born he of course isn't really a descendent of Merlin and he has told that to the most trusted members but not to all. Some of them believe he is at least half-blood and truly related to Merlin. Mainly he intents that claim to gain their cause more credibility and a positive sounding name.

He owns a part of an ancient parchment dating back to the 15th century and the earliest Witch Trials in Britain, that documents one of those trials. The woman accused of witchcraft confessed to being a witch in order to avoid execution. She offered to brew a potion that can kill magic in anyone and anything, in hopes to not be imprisoned for life and to save lives because then the authorities wouldn't have to kill people but could just take away their magic before they do something bad. The parchment includes a recipe but part of it is missing, making it incomplete. The ingredients which can be read are genuinely those used by the wizardkind in potions, making it likely the accused woman really was a witch or a relative of a muggle-born. Whether she lied or just wasn't allowed to brew it remains unknown, and therefore what the potion actually does remains a mystery. But he wants to believe it's what it says it is.

All members know about it, but not everyone has seen the recipe part of the document. Not everyone has access to it. Only the most trusted members are allowed to know its contents and even them only in need-to-know basis as in if their role in the group requires that knowledge. There's only two copies of the recipe, both always in the leader's possession by default. Also, only the most trusted inner-circle members know that the leader is an Animagus.

The founder & leader: Zachary James


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Their Focus and Morals

The Children of Merlin mostly work towards figuring out the missing ingredients, gathering all of it, and brewing the potion successfully. Both individually and together at the headquarters where they also meet once a month to discuss matters and plans, and the leader assigns further missions and tasks. Non-potion related missions and tasks can be spying on the Ministry to gather intel on what the government is up to when it comes to opposing them, or recruiting new members and allies, and doing something in preparation for a statement. Members are tasked differently based on their strengths and/or position in the wizarding society, and based on how well they've proven their trustworthiness. Their blood status doesn't matter at all.

Occasionally they make statements such as burning down the most popular wand maker's shop (after ensuring that no one was inside it or any of the neighbouring shops.) Players are free to suggest things like that for me to add to the timeline. They never intentionally harm children even if their families oppose their cause, but on the contrary they attempt to take advantage of young and developing minds and world views to get them on their side and against the established government. Though they wish to influence children's minds, no one under the age of 18 is allowed to join them.

This is all Stage 1 of their operaation. The second Stage would have been systematically targetting government officials and other important people with the perfected potion, and then eventually any wizardkind person not yet proven themselves sincerely supportive of their cause. This has been shared with some of the inner circle but only to that extent. The leader never got around to sharing those plans In more detail or even have time to finish them.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


The Headquarters

An old and large abandoned farm house in the rural area of North England. Its outter doors are always locked and magically protected against lockpicking. They can be opened by simply using the Alohamora spell. No passwords are needed, because it has been hidden with the Fidelius Charm and the leader made himself the Secret Keeper. Because of that only official members can see and find it after they've been told about it and its location, but even they can't bring with them anyone but another official member. No one other than the founder/leader is allowed to use the headquarters outside of a group meeting.

There's no common way to get there. Everyone arrives in whichever way they can and like to. However, apparation and disapparation is not possible inside the house or anywhere on the farmland. Portkeys don't work either. And the house is not connected to the Floo Network or to any private fireplace either. Of course, one can always use those magical travel methods to a location near the farm.

Group meetings are not regularly held. They are called for only by the leader and he does so whenever he feels such is needed and sends a message about it to each member personallyy via owl post. Not all members are requested to every single meeting, so that no one can ever learn exactly how many members there are. If one's absence isn't because of something they've been assigned by the leader they should let him know in advance or through another member why they won't be there. The leader doesn't ask for details unless the member behaves suspiciously or is absent often.



~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Communication

The leader and members communicate through innocent seeming, coded messages published in the Daily Prophet's Readers' Column whenever there needs to be a message everyone must know. To ensure that the messages get published and remain unedited, the leader himself is one of the editors of the Daily Prophet tasked with, among other sections, with that Column. He worked in that position long before any of this started and never argued against the Ministry's demands of not publishing anything related to the initial letters. So he has never been a suspect in the Ministry's eyes. One-on-one communication happens in coded letters through owl post.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Secrecy

The leader made himself the Secret Keeper so that no one he lets in can totally betray him; no one can reveal his identity, or that he's an Animagus, or where the secret society gathers together, nor any specific details about their secret weapon. Those less loyal may leak some information and betray other members but nothing that could immediately destroy the operation. There are certain trusted members tasked with recruitment, but due to the charm they can't make a membership official nor lead anyone to the headquarters. Only the leader can do that. He will meet with potential new members in person, but always in disguises using Polyjuice Potion and changing his appearance every now and then to throw off any Aurors who may be trying to catch him in the process. The only people who know for sure what he genuinely looks like are those who have been approved as official members. The leaders' real name is known only by members and allies who are his personal and old friends. Most members also don't know very much about the leader's private life or past, they learn things about him on need-to-know basis.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


Joining & Leaving

If you didn't make your character a member or an ally already in their application for this site, you may still have them become such later. It depends on what kind of character you created, so you'll need to contact me first to discuss it and what your plans are for them. Not all characters can be made a member or a trusted ally, but I will always try to work out something and am open to suggestions. Characters joining the cause as a member or an ally always must meet with my leader OC before it can be official. We don't necessarily have to write them out as threads.

In-universe, to become a member one must show genuine enthusiasm to actively work for the cause. One can also offer to be simply an ally rather than a full time, inner-circle member. No one is forced to commit crimes in the process of helping, but anyone wanting to associate must be okay with other allies or members choosing to do so.

The most trusted inner-circle members are the ones acting as spies or preparing and participating in criminal statements or getting access to the recipe. They are some of the oldest members and/or ones that have somehow proven themselves as fiercely loyal and genuinely brave. No random newbie would ever be tasked with those. Less trusted inner circle and outter circle members do have important tasks and missions but nothing that risky.

A member or an ally is free to leave at any point but if they don't provide a valid reason for it and proof of that reason they won't be allowed to come back, and in some cases may be subjected to have memories of the secret society obliviated. The same if they just disappear for months and suddenly reappear without giving a good reason and proof of what happened.

Because even though he has cast the ultimate protection to secure the secrecy, he does not want to take unnecessary risks of someone somehow finding a way around it. If a member betrays another member to the Ministry they will be marked down as one of the first to go once the potion is ready for use whilst the one betrayed and possibly their family gets to live at the headquarters if they have reason to fear Azkaban or torture. Everyone knows that as long as they're inside the headquarters only the leader has the ability to lead the Ministry to them and naturally he would never do that.


~ * ~ * ~ * ~


How to Play A Member or An Ally

I hope to give you relatively free hands to write about such characters. You don't have to ask me in advance or write a thread with me and my leader OC every time you want your character to have a mission or do something--as long as what you vision is within the framework I've provided in this thread and in the plot details and takes into account the leader's personality. But you can ask/discuss it with me in advance if you'd like or are unsure about something. In any case, I do need you to let me know about the mission or task you vision, so I can log it.

But some things need to be discussed in advance:
- Any face-to-face meetings with my leader character.
- In general if you want your character to do something that greatly impacts the whole group or another player's character.

Our Discord server has a dedicated channel for these kind of discussions. Should go without saying but I'll say it anyway; if you want to play a character who is a member or an ally of Children of Merlin in a deeply involved position, you must be interested enough and able to stay reasonably active on Discord for related discussion and possible announcements. Even at times when you can't do any RPing. You don't have to be extremely active in the actual discussion just as long as you keep an eye on it and take part when you're needed.

Or, at least be considerate enough to give a notice if you need to totally go away for a while. Depending on how long that while is we may need to work out what to do with your character in relation to the group. There are many ways to write a character out without completely removing them, so you can do what you need to do IRL and then pick up where you left off if that's what you want to do when you return.]]> <![CDATA[CANON LIST]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=112 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:08:18 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=112 CANON LIST

~ TAKEN CANON CHARACTERS ~

All are available.




AVAILABLE CANON CHARACTERS
(not all can be listed but may be available)


GENERAL

ADULTS

Black, Sirius
Fledger, Mundungus
Greyback, Fenrir
Lockhart, Gilderoy
Longbottom, Alice
Longbottom, Frank
Lovegood, Xenophilius
Lupin, Remus
Malfoy, Narcissa
Quirrel, Quirinus
Potter, James
Potter, Lily
Scamander, Newt
Scamander, Theseus
Shacklebolt, Kingsley
Skeeter, Rita
Slughnorn, Horace
Thicknesse, Pius
Tonks, Nymfadora
Umbridge, Dolores
Voldemort
Weasley, Arthur
Weasley, Molly

CHILDREN

Bell, Katie
Chang, Cho
Crabbe, Vincent
Diggory, Cedric
Granger, Hermione
Goyle, Gregory
Jordan, Le
Longbottom, Neville
Lovegood, Luna
Malfoy, Draco
Nott Jr., Theodore
Parkinson, Pansy
Patil, Padma
Patil, Parvati
Potter, Harry
Weasley, William
Weasley, Charlie
Weasley, Fred & George
Weasley, Percy
Weasley, Ronald
Wood, Oliver


HOGWARTS STAFF

These are only a part of Hogwarts' staff.
See here for the full staff description - there's a lot of room for original characters!

Babbling, Bathsheba (Head of Study of Ancient Runes)
Binns, Cuthbert (Head of History of Magic)
Burbage, Charity (Head of Muggle Studies)
Dumbledore, Albus (the Headmaster)
Filch, Argus (Caretaker)
Flitwick, Filius (Charms Master, Ravenclaw Head of House)
Hagrid, Rubeus (Grounds Keeper)
Hooch, Madam (Head of Flying)
Kettleburn, Silvanus (Head of Care of Magical Creatures)
McGonigall, Minerva (Head of Transfigurations, Deputy Headmaster, Gryffindor Head of House)
Pince, Irma (the librarian)
Pomfrey, Poppy (Head Healer)
Sinistra, Aurora (Head of Astronomy)
Snape, Severus (Potions Master, Slythetin Head of House)
Sprout, Pomona ((Head of Herbology, Hufflepuff Head of House)
Trelawney, Sibylia (Divination)
Vector, Septima (Head of Numerology, a woman)


MINISTRY OF MAGIC

Bagnodd, Millicent (Minister for Magic, 1980-1990, then retired)
Bones, Amelia (Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, 1982-1996)
Bagman, Ludo
Diggory, Amos
Fudge, Cornelius(Minisyer for Magic 1990-1996)
Jorkins, Bertha
Moody, Alastor ([ex]-Auror)
Scrimgeour, Rufus
Thickness, Pius


DEATH EATERS

Avery
Black, Regulus
Carrow, Alekto
Carrow, Amikus
Crabbe
Crouch, Bartemius Jr.
Dolohov, Antonin
Goyle
Karkaroff, Igor
Lestrange, Bellatrix
Lestrange, Rabastan
Lestrange, Rodolphus
Macnair, Walden
Malfoy, Lucious
Mulciber
Nott
Pettigrew, Peter
Rookwood, Augustus
Yaxley]]> CANON LIST

~ TAKEN CANON CHARACTERS ~

All are available.




AVAILABLE CANON CHARACTERS
(not all can be listed but may be available)


GENERAL

ADULTS

Black, Sirius
Fledger, Mundungus
Greyback, Fenrir
Lockhart, Gilderoy
Longbottom, Alice
Longbottom, Frank
Lovegood, Xenophilius
Lupin, Remus
Malfoy, Narcissa
Quirrel, Quirinus
Potter, James
Potter, Lily
Scamander, Newt
Scamander, Theseus
Shacklebolt, Kingsley
Skeeter, Rita
Slughnorn, Horace
Thicknesse, Pius
Tonks, Nymfadora
Umbridge, Dolores
Voldemort
Weasley, Arthur
Weasley, Molly

CHILDREN

Bell, Katie
Chang, Cho
Crabbe, Vincent
Diggory, Cedric
Granger, Hermione
Goyle, Gregory
Jordan, Le
Longbottom, Neville
Lovegood, Luna
Malfoy, Draco
Nott Jr., Theodore
Parkinson, Pansy
Patil, Padma
Patil, Parvati
Potter, Harry
Weasley, William
Weasley, Charlie
Weasley, Fred & George
Weasley, Percy
Weasley, Ronald
Wood, Oliver


HOGWARTS STAFF

These are only a part of Hogwarts' staff.
See here for the full staff description - there's a lot of room for original characters!

Babbling, Bathsheba (Head of Study of Ancient Runes)
Binns, Cuthbert (Head of History of Magic)
Burbage, Charity (Head of Muggle Studies)
Dumbledore, Albus (the Headmaster)
Filch, Argus (Caretaker)
Flitwick, Filius (Charms Master, Ravenclaw Head of House)
Hagrid, Rubeus (Grounds Keeper)
Hooch, Madam (Head of Flying)
Kettleburn, Silvanus (Head of Care of Magical Creatures)
McGonigall, Minerva (Head of Transfigurations, Deputy Headmaster, Gryffindor Head of House)
Pince, Irma (the librarian)
Pomfrey, Poppy (Head Healer)
Sinistra, Aurora (Head of Astronomy)
Snape, Severus (Potions Master, Slythetin Head of House)
Sprout, Pomona ((Head of Herbology, Hufflepuff Head of House)
Trelawney, Sibylia (Divination)
Vector, Septima (Head of Numerology, a woman)


MINISTRY OF MAGIC

Bagnodd, Millicent (Minister for Magic, 1980-1990, then retired)
Bones, Amelia (Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, 1982-1996)
Bagman, Ludo
Diggory, Amos
Fudge, Cornelius(Minisyer for Magic 1990-1996)
Jorkins, Bertha
Moody, Alastor ([ex]-Auror)
Scrimgeour, Rufus
Thickness, Pius


DEATH EATERS

Avery
Black, Regulus
Carrow, Alekto
Carrow, Amikus
Crabbe
Crouch, Bartemius Jr.
Dolohov, Antonin
Goyle
Karkaroff, Igor
Lestrange, Bellatrix
Lestrange, Rabastan
Lestrange, Rodolphus
Macnair, Walden
Malfoy, Lucious
Mulciber
Nott
Pettigrew, Peter
Rookwood, Augustus
Yaxley]]> <![CDATA[CHARACTERS]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=109 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:07:20 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=109 Characters

- The link takes you to the full bio of the character.
- See the Play-bys, if you intent to use a celebrity as a play-by for your character.
- If you apply for a Hogwarts staff member, please read here the information about werewolves at Hogwarts as well as here about the school as I've provided more details than the books and added some fun stuff myself.



Members: 3 | Characters: 12

| [Image: gryffindor.jpg] Gryffindor | [Image: hufflepuff.jpg] Hufflepuff | [Image: slytherin.jpg] Slytherin | [Image: ravenclaw.jpg] Ravenclaw |
| [Image: nohogwarts.jpg] Does/did not attend Hogwarts | [Image: sivuhahmo.jpg] Side character |

W = witch/wizard
S = squib
M = muggle
DE = Dearh Eater
FB = Fantastic Beast
WW = werewolf
A = animagus
HV = half-vampire


+ Wanted Ads!

+ Ideas for muggle characters!

CANON LIST


~ ORIGINAL CHARACTERS ~

[Image: jacobking.png]
KING
Jacob Aaron
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W
age 33-41
POLICE OFFICER
~
Kieran

[Image: hunterking.png]
KING
Stephen Hunter
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W FB WW
age 4-12
SCHOOL BOY
~
Kieran

[Image: carriecooper.png]
COOPER
Carrie Isabelle
[Image: sivuhahmo.jpg] [Image: nohogwarts.jpg] W
age 33-41
INTERIOR DESIGNER
~
Kieran

[Image: phoenixscamander.jpg]
SCAMANDER
Phoenix Levon
+ parents
[Image: ravenclaw.jpg] W
age 6-14
SCHOOL BOY
~
Kieran

[Image: samuelrees.jpg]
REES
Samuel Connor
W
age 4-12
SCHOOL BOY
~
Amaru

[Image: avatar_37.jpg?dateline=1527982512]
JAMES
Zachary Adrian
[Image: nohogwarts.jpg] W A
age 62-69
EDITOR OF DAILY PROPHET
FORMER PROF. AT HOGWARTS
FORMER FBI AGENT
~
Kieran

[Image: effie_thornheart.jpg]
THORNHEART
Euphemia Raine
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W
age 18-25
NURSE AT HOGWARTS
~
candlewhisperer
]]> Characters

- The link takes you to the full bio of the character.
- See the Play-bys, if you intent to use a celebrity as a play-by for your character.
- If you apply for a Hogwarts staff member, please read here the information about werewolves at Hogwarts as well as here about the school as I've provided more details than the books and added some fun stuff myself.



Members: 3 | Characters: 12

| [Image: gryffindor.jpg] Gryffindor | [Image: hufflepuff.jpg] Hufflepuff | [Image: slytherin.jpg] Slytherin | [Image: ravenclaw.jpg] Ravenclaw |
| [Image: nohogwarts.jpg] Does/did not attend Hogwarts | [Image: sivuhahmo.jpg] Side character |

W = witch/wizard
S = squib
M = muggle
DE = Dearh Eater
FB = Fantastic Beast
WW = werewolf
A = animagus
HV = half-vampire


+ Wanted Ads!

+ Ideas for muggle characters!

CANON LIST


~ ORIGINAL CHARACTERS ~

[Image: jacobking.png]
KING
Jacob Aaron
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W
age 33-41
POLICE OFFICER
~
Kieran

[Image: hunterking.png]
KING
Stephen Hunter
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W FB WW
age 4-12
SCHOOL BOY
~
Kieran

[Image: carriecooper.png]
COOPER
Carrie Isabelle
[Image: sivuhahmo.jpg] [Image: nohogwarts.jpg] W
age 33-41
INTERIOR DESIGNER
~
Kieran

[Image: phoenixscamander.jpg]
SCAMANDER
Phoenix Levon
+ parents
[Image: ravenclaw.jpg] W
age 6-14
SCHOOL BOY
~
Kieran

[Image: samuelrees.jpg]
REES
Samuel Connor
W
age 4-12
SCHOOL BOY
~
Amaru

[Image: avatar_37.jpg?dateline=1527982512]
JAMES
Zachary Adrian
[Image: nohogwarts.jpg] W A
age 62-69
EDITOR OF DAILY PROPHET
FORMER PROF. AT HOGWARTS
FORMER FBI AGENT
~
Kieran

[Image: effie_thornheart.jpg]
THORNHEART
Euphemia Raine
[Image: hufflepuff.jpg] W
age 18-25
NURSE AT HOGWARTS
~
candlewhisperer
]]> <![CDATA[PLAY-BYS LIST]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=108 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:21:39 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=108 ~*~ BOYS & MEN ~*~

Anthony Head - Zachary James
Chris Pratt - Theodore Scamander
Declan Galbraith - Stephen Hunter King
Henry Ian Cusick - Jacob King
Matáš Valenta - Samuel Rees
Oakes Fegley - Phoenix Levon Scamander


~*~ GIRLS & WOMEN ~*~

Hattie Gotobed - Freya Emilia King
Saffron Burrows - Saphira Scamander
Sonya Walger - Carrie Cooper]]> ~*~ BOYS & MEN ~*~

Anthony Head - Zachary James
Chris Pratt - Theodore Scamander
Declan Galbraith - Stephen Hunter King
Henry Ian Cusick - Jacob King
Matáš Valenta - Samuel Rees
Oakes Fegley - Phoenix Levon Scamander


~*~ GIRLS & WOMEN ~*~

Hattie Gotobed - Freya Emilia King
Saffron Burrows - Saphira Scamander
Sonya Walger - Carrie Cooper]]> <![CDATA[STARTING GUIDE]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=107 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:16:46 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=107 STARTING GUIDE

Welcome to the board.  Smile Heart 
Feel free to join our Discord server at any point,
or use the cbox in the bottom right corner on all pages.
You'll get in contact faster though Discord.
It's linked on all pages in the floating menu above.
STEP 1 ~ Read the Plot, the world info and Rules in whichever order works for you. The world info thread has only board-canon info that you need to know. Some of it can be skipped initially if the particular world detail won't affect your character but there are parts that do apply to any character.

STEP 2 ~ Take a look at what kind of characters we already have here.

STEP 3 ~ Register on the board with your character's name. You can also register your username as a player account but it's not necessary. Use the same e-mail address for all your account so you can attach them to each other.

STEP 4 ~ Fill in the application form provided below, if you haven't already.
You can include a roleplay/writing sample if you want to, but it's not required at all. If you use a play-by, check from the Play-bys list if it's available. When you're done, post it on the Appplications forum.

STEP 5 ~ Wait for the approval. I usually read apps within 3 days. If I've replied to it but it's still in the Applications section there's something in it that needs to be fixed. When I approve the app I will move it over to the Characters forum.

Then just enjoy plotting and writing!

Code:
[align=center][b]~ ABOUT ME ~[/b][/align]
[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b] (you must be [b]at least[/b] 18 years old)

[align=center][b]~ CHARACTER ~[/b][/align]

[b]Play-by:[/b] Can be dropped if you don't use photos.
[b]STATUS:[/b] Main character or side character.

[b]NAME:[/b]
[b]BIRTH DATE & AGE:[/b] Age during the timeline of 1985-1992.
[b]SPECIES:[/b] Can be dropped if it's a human. Vampires and werewolves count as human.
[b]BLOOD STATUS:[/b] Half-blood / muggle-born / muggle / pure-blood / squib / vampire / werewolf / other part-creature. Can be dropped if it's a pure magical creature.

[b]OCCUPATION:[/b] Can be dropped if it's a ghost or a kelpie. Unless you vision it actually has a job.
[b]CURRENT RESIDENCE:[/b] The town/city & the country. If in London, where in London?
[b]FAMILY:[/b] At least names and birth dates of parents. And of siblings and children if has any.

[b]APPEARANCE:[/b] At least height, weight, eyes, and hair. If you don't use picture there should also be some more detailed description.

[b]PERSONALITY:[/b] A fleshed-out description, and remember a character needs to have at least a few significant weaknesses.

[b]HISTORY:[/b] A fleshed-out history, at least any major events that shaped them into the person they are.
]]> STARTING GUIDE

Welcome to the board.  Smile Heart 
Feel free to join our Discord server at any point,
or use the cbox in the bottom right corner on all pages.
You'll get in contact faster though Discord.
It's linked on all pages in the floating menu above.
STEP 1 ~ Read the Plot, the world info and Rules in whichever order works for you. The world info thread has only board-canon info that you need to know. Some of it can be skipped initially if the particular world detail won't affect your character but there are parts that do apply to any character.

STEP 2 ~ Take a look at what kind of characters we already have here.

STEP 3 ~ Register on the board with your character's name. You can also register your username as a player account but it's not necessary. Use the same e-mail address for all your account so you can attach them to each other.

STEP 4 ~ Fill in the application form provided below, if you haven't already.
You can include a roleplay/writing sample if you want to, but it's not required at all. If you use a play-by, check from the Play-bys list if it's available. When you're done, post it on the Appplications forum.

STEP 5 ~ Wait for the approval. I usually read apps within 3 days. If I've replied to it but it's still in the Applications section there's something in it that needs to be fixed. When I approve the app I will move it over to the Characters forum.

Then just enjoy plotting and writing!

Code:
[align=center][b]~ ABOUT ME ~[/b][/align]
[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b] (you must be [b]at least[/b] 18 years old)

[align=center][b]~ CHARACTER ~[/b][/align]

[b]Play-by:[/b] Can be dropped if you don't use photos.
[b]STATUS:[/b] Main character or side character.

[b]NAME:[/b]
[b]BIRTH DATE & AGE:[/b] Age during the timeline of 1985-1992.
[b]SPECIES:[/b] Can be dropped if it's a human. Vampires and werewolves count as human.
[b]BLOOD STATUS:[/b] Half-blood / muggle-born / muggle / pure-blood / squib / vampire / werewolf / other part-creature. Can be dropped if it's a pure magical creature.

[b]OCCUPATION:[/b] Can be dropped if it's a ghost or a kelpie. Unless you vision it actually has a job.
[b]CURRENT RESIDENCE:[/b] The town/city & the country. If in London, where in London?
[b]FAMILY:[/b] At least names and birth dates of parents. And of siblings and children if has any.

[b]APPEARANCE:[/b] At least height, weight, eyes, and hair. If you don't use picture there should also be some more detailed description.

[b]PERSONALITY:[/b] A fleshed-out description, and remember a character needs to have at least a few significant weaknesses.

[b]HISTORY:[/b] A fleshed-out history, at least any major events that shaped them into the person they are.
]]> <![CDATA[RULES]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=106 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:12:57 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=106 Rules

  1. All kinds of activity is valuable. Chatting isn't mandatory. Try to be reasonably active in IC posting and plotting/planning. Post a leave of absence notice if you know you're going to be gone for a long time, (eg. 1-2 month or longer.) If you disappear for 2 months, as in you haven't even logged in with any of your accounts whilst haven't posted a leave of absence notice, I will archive all your characters and threads and move your accounts into the Inactive Members/Characters group. You'll still be able to log in at any point. If you do return later, just send me a private message.

  2. There's no specific word count for IC post length, just that don't do one-liners or two-liners very often. It's quality over quantity here.

  3. If you make major changes or additions to your character after they were approved, let me know about it and what it is in a private message to my OOC account. This doesn't mean development through game threads.

  4. Real life play-bys are allowed. You may use photos of only actors, models and singers. And only official photos, not paparazzi photos or any other private ones.

  5. No moving or flashing graphics. Maximum size for an avatar is 150x250 pixels. A signature image can't be more than 600 px wide. A signature altogether should not be more than 280 pixels high. Character account graphics must be of the character(s) in question. OOC account graphics can be anything. Graphics can't have extreme nudity/violence or be otherwise inappropriate.

  6. God-modding is somewhat allowed here in order to have situations flow smoothly. Don't write about other people's characters as if they were yours, but all physical contact/act between characters is allowed without asking permission first except killing or causing permanent injury. A character's owner has the right and obligation to immediately let their writing partner know if the current god-modding isn't okay for whatever reason and ask it to be canceled.

  7. Game threads can be set at any point of your character's life but the focus should be on the official timeline years. Always mark at the top of the first post the in-game location and date. (Day, month and year.) Don't use post templates. And don't use colours too much. Character dialogue must be written between quotation marks. Always write in-game posts in third person. Trigger warnings must be included at the top of the first post if such apply.[/lst]

    • Respect other members and keep up good civiized communication.
]]> Rules

  1. All kinds of activity is valuable. Chatting isn't mandatory. Try to be reasonably active in IC posting and plotting/planning. Post a leave of absence notice if you know you're going to be gone for a long time, (eg. 1-2 month or longer.) If you disappear for 2 months, as in you haven't even logged in with any of your accounts whilst haven't posted a leave of absence notice, I will archive all your characters and threads and move your accounts into the Inactive Members/Characters group. You'll still be able to log in at any point. If you do return later, just send me a private message.

  2. There's no specific word count for IC post length, just that don't do one-liners or two-liners very often. It's quality over quantity here.

  3. If you make major changes or additions to your character after they were approved, let me know about it and what it is in a private message to my OOC account. This doesn't mean development through game threads.

  4. Real life play-bys are allowed. You may use photos of only actors, models and singers. And only official photos, not paparazzi photos or any other private ones.

  5. No moving or flashing graphics. Maximum size for an avatar is 150x250 pixels. A signature image can't be more than 600 px wide. A signature altogether should not be more than 280 pixels high. Character account graphics must be of the character(s) in question. OOC account graphics can be anything. Graphics can't have extreme nudity/violence or be otherwise inappropriate.

  6. God-modding is somewhat allowed here in order to have situations flow smoothly. Don't write about other people's characters as if they were yours, but all physical contact/act between characters is allowed without asking permission first except killing or causing permanent injury. A character's owner has the right and obligation to immediately let their writing partner know if the current god-modding isn't okay for whatever reason and ask it to be canceled.

  7. Game threads can be set at any point of your character's life but the focus should be on the official timeline years. Always mark at the top of the first post the in-game location and date. (Day, month and year.) Don't use post templates. And don't use colours too much. Character dialogue must be written between quotation marks. Always write in-game posts in third person. Trigger warnings must be included at the top of the first post if such apply.[/lst]

    • Respect other members and keep up good civiized communication.
]]> <![CDATA[THE WORLD]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=105 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:21:58 +0000 Kieran]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=105 NOTE!
The info here is not purely canon, but fan visions I made up or adapted
for this RPG's universe.
Please don't copy or use anything without my permission.
Thank you!


* * * * *

TO GET STARTED

Essential lore in order to get started is titled in green.
Everything else can be read after joining whenever needed.

GENERAL - MINISTRY & CRIMES - MAGIC
WIZARDKIND VS. MUGGLE CUSTOMS/INVENTIONS


MORE FOR LATER

TIME TRAVEL - OWL POST

MODERN BRITAIN  - MAGICAL CREATURES

* * * * *


GENERAL


1. THE TRACE
It's put on the moment a child is sorted into a House at Hogwarts, and breaks the day the child turns seventeen. It traces magic used nearby the child but only spells cast, not the use of any other magical object. It knows only what the spell was and where and when, it does not know who cast it or even if it was cast by a human or not.

As it is unnecessarily so dysfunctional and vague, it exists mainly to bully muggle-borns.

For the most part, the Ministry requires and trusts that parents discipline their children if they misuse magic. The Ministry officials react to the alarms only if the spell was:

1. Dark Arts
2. Cast in the presence of a muggle – in order for the alarm to say that, the muggle must have been within 50 ft./15 meters of the caster. It doesn't necessarily mean they have seen it, though.
3. Likely cast by a child who has been expelled from Hogwarts for dangerous abuse of magic and had their wand been destroyed - as in by a person who is not allowed to practice magic anymore.

In the first and third type of case they will arrive to investigate. In the second type of case they'll just send the child a warning letter – except not for alarms near the homes of pure-blood and half-blood children because of the higher possibility that it was an adult living with the child, or a house-elf. Thus if the first or third reason isn't involved they are unlikely to do anything about it.
Muggle-borns and children living with muggles will automatically get the blame and the warning letter no matter what spell they used. So, half-blood and pure-blood children get away with using magic on school breaks whereas muggle-borns and those living with muggles do not.


2. HOGWARTS SUBJECTS

In this RPG, in addition to the magical subjects and astronomy students at Hogwarts also study the extremely important muggle core subjects; english, maths and science. (Science including biology, physics, chemistry and geology.) The school days won't be any longer than in canon, some magic subjects just have lesser number of lessons per week.

--> Here is everything essential and useful about Hogwarts; How Hogwarts is kept secret from muggles, information on the Hogwarts Choir and other social events, and also basic stuff and details.
You don't need to read that extensive Hogwarts info before joining.
But do read it before you start writing IC posts about your character in Hogwarts.

Spell/Potion List has loads of charms, curses and potions you can use, and info on how you can create your own.


3. MUGGLES, CHILDREN AND POTIONS

Muggles, squibs and very young witches/wizards can't brew working magical potions, as it always requires spell-casting power and proper control of magic. It does not require use of a wand but incantations and intent nontheless.


4. PSYCHOLOGY & CHILD PROTECTION

~ PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY

In the tiny wizarding society, children in need of downright hospitalisation due to psychiatric problems are very rare. In St. Mungo's hospital children are placed at the same ward as adults but they have their own wing there which is kept secure as in the adult patients can't access it without authorisation nor the children leave it unsupervised.

In the 1980s/90s the vast muggle society had way too few child psychiatrists and child psychologists seeing to how many would have been needed, and in the tiny wizarding society it's the same situation. There is no difference between a wizarding and muggle child's psychology and its needs, but because the wizarding community is so tiny there just isn't enough individuals studying to become a psychologist or psychiatrist much less specialising on children for the matter. This is why wizarding kind and especially their children suffering from psychological issues caused by magical events have difficulties finding professional help, especially near home or long-term.

There were school psychologists and special class groups in some muggle state schools, but not in all of them. Hogwarts doesn't have any of those, although it tries to provide for special needs students in general. Hogwarts won't take in children who are so psychologically troubled that they pose a danger to other people.

Understanding of psychology back then was far less than it is today whilst child psychology is very different from that of an adult, and the wizarding government is behind the muggles' development in those terms too. But basic understanding of psychology did exist – that it is very different from and far more complex than treatment of physical conditions. And therefore wizarding psychologists and psychiatrists are not allowed to use magical methods or magical medicine to treat their patients in any case. It is prohibited by a wizarding law.

In order to become a psychologist – be it for muggles or wizardkind - a person must drop out of Hogwarts (if attending at all) after the fifth year at the latest and go on studying in a muggles' secondary school and then further in a muggles' university (3 or 4 years) majoring in psychology. Four years if wanting to specialise in child psychology. A person under the age of 22 can't be a child psychologist and even then they're only starting out.

To become a (child) psychiatrist, in addition to the four university years a person must complete seven years of a muggles' medical school with high enough marks. After that they can start working but only under an employee in some sort of organisation. After two years of this they may receive a license to practice psychiatry and start a private practice.

A person under the age of 29 can't be a child psychiatrist and a person under the age of 31 can't be in private practice.

~ CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES

If a wizard or a witch reports a wizarding family case to child protection services they should do so directly to the Ministry of Magic's social services department.

Because muggles report them too, there are also wizardkind child protection social workers inside the muggles' system and social work offices, taking care of both muggle family cases and suspected wizarding family cases. With muggle cases the director does his/her best to give them all cases where it's probable that magic is involved (or if the office doesn't have wizardkind employees they send it to the Ministry.) Muggle-born children are rare while most have proper home lives, so muggle families' child protection cases involving magic are rare.

No matter by who and to where a case was first reported, if it requires law enforcement to get involved at any point for any reason also the muggle police force is always involved – because the wizardkind are registered as muggles their authorities can't be ignored in situations where they are supposed to be called upon. In these cases the wizardkind social workers arrange police officers who are either wizardkind or muggles who are known to be aware and accepting of them already.

There are also a few all-wizarding orphanages and Family Houses in all four of Great-Britain's nations, one in the capital city and others in other towns. The Family Houses are official locations run by the wizardkind social services, where children are temporarily placed after taken into custody if they don't have a safe relative to live with instead of their parents.

The wizarding orphanages and Family Houses are known to the muggle government, too, but protected with charms that prevent muggles from trying to place their children in them. They are known to the muggle government so that possible adoption processes can go smoothly, though a wizardkind child needing new parents is never placed with a muggle family unless they are the child's only living relatives and genuinely want the child.

In the wizarding society these services are funded by the Ministry of Magic and partially by charity. All orphanages and Family Houses have room for approximately 200 children at a time but are almost never full. They usually have enough staff members and if under-staffed, students aiming at a career in working with children are used to temporarily fill in.

The wizarding society's child protection services while blending into the muggle social services to some degree, are also partnered with: St. Mungo's, all wizarding orphanages and Family Houses, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry, and with the rare wizardkind individuals employeed by muggles' health care and other emergency services.

In order to get a job as a social worker of any field or in an orphanage or in a Family House, a person must drop out of Hogwarts (if attending it at all) after the fifth year at the latest, and go on studying in muggle secondary school and then further in a muggle university (3 or 4 years) studying proper subjects towards the desired occupation and especially majoring in one of them. A person under the age of 22 can't be a social worker and even then they're only starting out.]]> NOTE!
The info here is not purely canon, but fan visions I made up or adapted
for this RPG's universe.
Please don't copy or use anything without my permission.
Thank you!


* * * * *

TO GET STARTED

Essential lore in order to get started is titled in green.
Everything else can be read after joining whenever needed.

GENERAL - MINISTRY & CRIMES - MAGIC
WIZARDKIND VS. MUGGLE CUSTOMS/INVENTIONS


MORE FOR LATER

TIME TRAVEL - OWL POST

MODERN BRITAIN  - MAGICAL CREATURES

* * * * *


GENERAL


1. THE TRACE
It's put on the moment a child is sorted into a House at Hogwarts, and breaks the day the child turns seventeen. It traces magic used nearby the child but only spells cast, not the use of any other magical object. It knows only what the spell was and where and when, it does not know who cast it or even if it was cast by a human or not.

As it is unnecessarily so dysfunctional and vague, it exists mainly to bully muggle-borns.

For the most part, the Ministry requires and trusts that parents discipline their children if they misuse magic. The Ministry officials react to the alarms only if the spell was:

1. Dark Arts
2. Cast in the presence of a muggle – in order for the alarm to say that, the muggle must have been within 50 ft./15 meters of the caster. It doesn't necessarily mean they have seen it, though.
3. Likely cast by a child who has been expelled from Hogwarts for dangerous abuse of magic and had their wand been destroyed - as in by a person who is not allowed to practice magic anymore.

In the first and third type of case they will arrive to investigate. In the second type of case they'll just send the child a warning letter – except not for alarms near the homes of pure-blood and half-blood children because of the higher possibility that it was an adult living with the child, or a house-elf. Thus if the first or third reason isn't involved they are unlikely to do anything about it.
Muggle-borns and children living with muggles will automatically get the blame and the warning letter no matter what spell they used. So, half-blood and pure-blood children get away with using magic on school breaks whereas muggle-borns and those living with muggles do not.


2. HOGWARTS SUBJECTS

In this RPG, in addition to the magical subjects and astronomy students at Hogwarts also study the extremely important muggle core subjects; english, maths and science. (Science including biology, physics, chemistry and geology.) The school days won't be any longer than in canon, some magic subjects just have lesser number of lessons per week.

--> Here is everything essential and useful about Hogwarts; How Hogwarts is kept secret from muggles, information on the Hogwarts Choir and other social events, and also basic stuff and details.
You don't need to read that extensive Hogwarts info before joining.
But do read it before you start writing IC posts about your character in Hogwarts.

Spell/Potion List has loads of charms, curses and potions you can use, and info on how you can create your own.


3. MUGGLES, CHILDREN AND POTIONS

Muggles, squibs and very young witches/wizards can't brew working magical potions, as it always requires spell-casting power and proper control of magic. It does not require use of a wand but incantations and intent nontheless.


4. PSYCHOLOGY & CHILD PROTECTION

~ PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY

In the tiny wizarding society, children in need of downright hospitalisation due to psychiatric problems are very rare. In St. Mungo's hospital children are placed at the same ward as adults but they have their own wing there which is kept secure as in the adult patients can't access it without authorisation nor the children leave it unsupervised.

In the 1980s/90s the vast muggle society had way too few child psychiatrists and child psychologists seeing to how many would have been needed, and in the tiny wizarding society it's the same situation. There is no difference between a wizarding and muggle child's psychology and its needs, but because the wizarding community is so tiny there just isn't enough individuals studying to become a psychologist or psychiatrist much less specialising on children for the matter. This is why wizarding kind and especially their children suffering from psychological issues caused by magical events have difficulties finding professional help, especially near home or long-term.

There were school psychologists and special class groups in some muggle state schools, but not in all of them. Hogwarts doesn't have any of those, although it tries to provide for special needs students in general. Hogwarts won't take in children who are so psychologically troubled that they pose a danger to other people.

Understanding of psychology back then was far less than it is today whilst child psychology is very different from that of an adult, and the wizarding government is behind the muggles' development in those terms too. But basic understanding of psychology did exist – that it is very different from and far more complex than treatment of physical conditions. And therefore wizarding psychologists and psychiatrists are not allowed to use magical methods or magical medicine to treat their patients in any case. It is prohibited by a wizarding law.

In order to become a psychologist – be it for muggles or wizardkind - a person must drop out of Hogwarts (if attending at all) after the fifth year at the latest and go on studying in a muggles' secondary school and then further in a muggles' university (3 or 4 years) majoring in psychology. Four years if wanting to specialise in child psychology. A person under the age of 22 can't be a child psychologist and even then they're only starting out.

To become a (child) psychiatrist, in addition to the four university years a person must complete seven years of a muggles' medical school with high enough marks. After that they can start working but only under an employee in some sort of organisation. After two years of this they may receive a license to practice psychiatry and start a private practice.

A person under the age of 29 can't be a child psychiatrist and a person under the age of 31 can't be in private practice.

~ CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES

If a wizard or a witch reports a wizarding family case to child protection services they should do so directly to the Ministry of Magic's social services department.

Because muggles report them too, there are also wizardkind child protection social workers inside the muggles' system and social work offices, taking care of both muggle family cases and suspected wizarding family cases. With muggle cases the director does his/her best to give them all cases where it's probable that magic is involved (or if the office doesn't have wizardkind employees they send it to the Ministry.) Muggle-born children are rare while most have proper home lives, so muggle families' child protection cases involving magic are rare.

No matter by who and to where a case was first reported, if it requires law enforcement to get involved at any point for any reason also the muggle police force is always involved – because the wizardkind are registered as muggles their authorities can't be ignored in situations where they are supposed to be called upon. In these cases the wizardkind social workers arrange police officers who are either wizardkind or muggles who are known to be aware and accepting of them already.

There are also a few all-wizarding orphanages and Family Houses in all four of Great-Britain's nations, one in the capital city and others in other towns. The Family Houses are official locations run by the wizardkind social services, where children are temporarily placed after taken into custody if they don't have a safe relative to live with instead of their parents.

The wizarding orphanages and Family Houses are known to the muggle government, too, but protected with charms that prevent muggles from trying to place their children in them. They are known to the muggle government so that possible adoption processes can go smoothly, though a wizardkind child needing new parents is never placed with a muggle family unless they are the child's only living relatives and genuinely want the child.

In the wizarding society these services are funded by the Ministry of Magic and partially by charity. All orphanages and Family Houses have room for approximately 200 children at a time but are almost never full. They usually have enough staff members and if under-staffed, students aiming at a career in working with children are used to temporarily fill in.

The wizarding society's child protection services while blending into the muggle social services to some degree, are also partnered with: St. Mungo's, all wizarding orphanages and Family Houses, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry, and with the rare wizardkind individuals employeed by muggles' health care and other emergency services.

In order to get a job as a social worker of any field or in an orphanage or in a Family House, a person must drop out of Hogwarts (if attending it at all) after the fifth year at the latest, and go on studying in muggle secondary school and then further in a muggle university (3 or 4 years) studying proper subjects towards the desired occupation and especially majoring in one of them. A person under the age of 22 can't be a social worker and even then they're only starting out.]]>