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Name: Lucia Fox
Encyclopedia Link: see signature
Rumor: Lucia, her sisters, and her mother are part-Veela or have some sort of Veela ancestry.
Date Rumor started: Essentially ever since Lucia's mother attended Hogwarts
Date when Rumor became mainstream: It isn't currently, but it will do during the summer (will give you a date then) when Lucia's family will become more well-known in the wizarding community.
Character reaction: if it's mentioned or she's asked about it, Lucia either ignores it or changes the subject as fast as possible. However, if someone presses her for an answer they'll recieve something like 'of course not!' or 'no, why?' accompanied by a slightly nervous or strained laugh. Luckily, she isn't questioned about it much.

Name: Aurora Ranvier
Encyclopedia Link:
Rumor: Aurora put some extract of the blood of the enemy to her chocolates and eats them every single day, that's why she radiates the terrible presence
Date Rumor started: Probably since the quidditch scrimmage when a lot of ICs dropped the quaffle because of her TP but she is more of an odd one than terrifying HAHA, i'm not sure the date, but maybe around april
Date when Rumor became mainstream: Not really sure ( maybe mid second year?
Character reaction: She don't know about the rumour, yet. But will definitely confirm that it is true even though it isn't

Name: Opeila Winters
Encyclopedia Link: Opeila's Encyclopedia
Rumor: Opeila has a crush on Vladimir Athanatos and works with him
Date Rumor started: Last year blossom ball as she went there with him, so sometime in April 2020?
Date when Rumor became mainstream: The fightclub in summercamp 2020, where Victor Moore just told half of Slytherin about Opeila's accidental part in the spider attack in February 2020. Since Opeila was also in a relationship with Percival Rainwood at that point, she got herself a reputation as heartbreaker. That rumor was likely refreshed when Vladimir let himself get beaten to the point of almost bleeding out in an attempt to defend Opeila during the train heist in January 2021, when she was taken hostage by one of the intruders.
Character reaction: LIES! ALL LIES! @ALAN VANES, LOOKING AT YOU!

Name: Selim Faust
Encyclopedia Link: Here
Rumor:

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[I have gotten OOC content from Victor Moore's creator to apply this rumor]

I will be having different exaggerations of this rumor listed in this section. All will be examples of how an NPC could word the rumor.

No exaggeration: "I heard that Selim Faust got in a fight with Victor Moore, and killed him in self-defence last year."

Mild Exaggeration: '"I heard that last year Selim Faust killed Victor Moore."

Strong Exaggeration: "I heard that last year, Selim Faust killed Victor Moore for no reason!"

Extreme Exaggeration: "I heard that last year, Selim Faust suddenly went completely insane and killed Victor Moore in cold blood!"

(Variations of these exaggerations can be used at one's leisure, the core message is just that Selim killed Victor. One can add that it happened at the fight club if they want. The names of the two of them can be switched out for more vagueness like 'I heard last year that some student killed another student *insert exaggerations here* if one wants)

Date Rumor started: Around June 3 2020
Date when Rumor will fade away: Approximatly around May 2022
Character Reaction: If one can even find the elusive Selim Faust and confront him about the rumour, he'll remain silent and staring through his creepy rabbit mask until that person leaves. If they don't leave he'll speak these words if you're lucky; "Perhaps I did, but far worse tragedies have gone unnoticed in this school. Maybe, for once, you should step back and see this place for what it truly is, what it truly holds, instead of blindly continuing your useless life ignorant of the word around you."

If luck is not on one's side though, his voice will be curt and tired as he responds. "If that is the only tragedy you've focused on in this school, you are truly a fool." If one continues to bother him about it, he will most definitely threaten bodily harm against them, and he has the skills to back it up.

Either way, he cleverly distracts the confronter to avoid giving a solid answer.

After these words he'd leave, disappearing back into the depths of the school.

(One can choose either of these answers, in the end though, Selim would retreat both physically, and verbally from the question.)

The rumour might've become mainstream when school started this year (2020) but it would've drop out of mainstream gossip after the Fall Ball, which likely took the spotlight on the grapevine

Name: Scarlett Aden
Encyclopedia Link:
Rumor: Scarlett started a cult with the mermaids of the Great Lake worshipping the Giant Squid. This rumour may or may not have been started by Scarlett herself.
Date Rumor started: Around the beginning of second year, when she started spending more time at the lake and may or may not have decided to start a rumour about herself.
Date when Rumor will fade away: Unsure, but probably not for a long time, like in fourth year summer.
Character reaction: Smirking, "you'll never know", all that jazz.

Name: Henry Knight
Encyclopedia Link:
Rumor: Henry is always sneaking away to do something that he shouldn't be doing.... oddly days before a full moon it gets harder to find the boy. Some believe he's planning a prank or sneaking out of the castle somewhere or teaching himself advanced spells to use in his next duel... but one thing is clear the closer it comes to a full moon the less Henry Knight is seen which is suspicious
Date Rumor started: October 31st, 2020 - the night of the lockdown by whispers when Henry Knight appeared to turn up missing in his common room that night but no one really knew if he was missing....
Date when Rumor will fade away: Summer of 2022 or before fourth year when another rumor comes out about him...
Character reaction: Henry wouldn't put a lot of thought into it if he hears whispers about it, he would just ignored it and give them a smile but if he's asked then he'll probably pass it off as nothing and smile and act friendly as usual

Name: Andrew Vance (ft. Jack Warren)
Encyclopedia Link: Stupid ║ ← I'm with stupid
Rumor: Andrew and Jack got into a fight. Names connecting the two are largely forgotten, as they've seemed to avoid each other ever since. A ghost of a rumor, barely clinging to relevance by the occasional inquiry into Jack's scar. Only a few eyewitnesses, little birds and confidantes would know that it is Andrew's handiwork on Jack's face. How the two managed to evade punishment in a classroom full of witnesses, how their fight went unreported, are the real mysteries.
Date Rumor started: 25 Oct 2019 (when le fight happened)
Date when Rumor will fade away: TBD / the day Jack's scar fades away . In other words:

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Character reaction: O_O;

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no witnesses

He might keep his cool. He might freak out. Depends on partner request.

Name: Andrew Vance (ft. Dan Palmer)
Encyclopedia Link: Roses are red ║ Violets are blue . . . [X]
Rumor:

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Andrew is gay. He and Dan are lovers.

Paparazzi evidence:

• "Best friends". Thick as thieves, pretty much a constant pair since the first night of their first year at Hogwarts.
• They were each other's dates for the 2020 Fall Ball.
• The most incriminating of all: 8 Feb 2020, the two could be spotted holding hands, walking barefoot together around the Castle and grounds, having a romantic dinner in the Hall. Obvious PDA (no snogging tho). Since then, their friendship has continued on as normal as if nothing had ever happened. Still, their bromance does not help quell those rumors in the slightest.
  *Those who could tell the signs would know that Andy was under the influence of a Love Potion.

Date Rumor started: 1 Sep 2018. "Officialized" on 8 Feb 2020.
Date when Rumor will fade away: TBD

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Our love will be forevah!

Character reaction: *playful smirk* *shrug* "So what?" *kisses Dan on cheek*

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Andrew will lightly shrug it off and even hype the bromance in public to keep up the mystery. Those who want to have a serious conversation with Andy will know that it's just an act. But why?

Name: Autumn Ivy
Encyclopedia Link: viewtopic.php?f=169&t=11227
Rumor: Autumn's pale skin, avoidance of sunlight and the uneasy feeling people get when around her has lead to the rumour that she is a dhampir.
Date Rumor started: It will begin sometime near the end of her first year. The threads backdating to the creation and sharing of the rumour will be made in the near future.
Date when Rumor will fade away: TBD
Character reaction: Autumn thinks it's funny, remains neutral in her external reactions and refuses to give much information about the topic.