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Name: Juniper "June" Kelly
Encyclopedia Link: did you know the person who invented the door knock won the No-bell prize. see what I did there?
Rumor: Juniper is a VERY bad kid. She's always breaking the rules, and she gets in fights too. and that she's in love with squidward.
Date Rumor started: I would say... maybe, like, November first?
Date when Rumor will fade away: undecided
Character reaction: She smirks about it, but get's a little annoying if you keep asking her about it. Or if people avoid her because of it, she'll get so annoyed. If someone kept asking her over and over, she would slap them.

Name: Wyatt Starkey
Encyclopedia Link: link time!!
Rumor: Wyatt practices/is learning dark magic.
Date Rumor started: Mid-to-late first-year.
Date when Rumor will fade away: TBD
Date when Rumor became mainstream: Mid second-year, as he began to make more bad impressions.
Character reaction: If someone were to bring it up, he’d likely say nothing and show no expression, allowing the person to believe whatever they’d like, though he knows the rumor is false. He sometimes enjoys the way it gives him peace, as people don’t usually want to talk to “trouble,” but it can get lonely at times and gives people a reason to be rude to him (if he hasn’t given them one already).

Name: Jacob Harman
Encyclopedia Link: Here
Rumor: SCARAB is in truth a new Pure-Blood Supremacist movement, which framed Harry Potter and lied about their true motives.
Date Rumor started: It was all started by Jacob Harman when he returned to Hogwarts after the train compartment attack at the hands of SCARAB and was spread to the rest of the Magical Community by his mother and her friends at the Ministry.
Date Rumor became mainstream: It will become mainstream by the time the Hexwizard Tournament truly begins.
Date when Rumor will fade away: It will fade away as soon as the true agenda of SCARAB is fully known.
Character reaction: Jacob wouldn't be surprised if it is what he thinks it is since he started the rumor, to begin with. For now, however, Jacob is wary of SCARAB and has been that way since the attack in the compartment of the Hogwarts Express

Name: Regina Miller
Encyclopedia Link: here
Rumor: Regina's father, Alfred Miller, is convicted as a prime suspect in Beatrice Barett's (his brother-in-law's spouse and Regina's aunt) sudden and mysterious death last year. Regina and her siblings were requested to return to London in the middle of their school year to undergo questioning and attended their Father's trials. The Miller patriarch was ultimately declared innocent, but only because the Auror investigators could not find any evidence linked to him. He is still considered suspicious, and the conspiracies traveled in whispers throughout the Pureblood high society of Britain--putting a stain on the House of Miller's reputation. This prompts the students at Hogwarts, mostly those also within the Pureblood community, to question whether or not Regina could be a potential criminal like her Father as well, or if she supported his actions, because of how loyal she is to her family.
Date Rumor started: 1st September 2022, the same day of Regina's return to Hogwarts for her second year
Date when Rumor will fade away: Sometime after the upcoming Hexwizard Tournament
Character reaction: Regina would pointedly ignore the cautious glances shot her way, and if somebody approaches her about the subject, she would send them away with a cold sneer and a snarky comment of how foolish the person is for believing baseless rumours and sticking their nose into other people's private matters.

Name: Hunter Argentum
Encyclopedia Link: Forbidden Knowledge
Rumor: Hakeem Argentum, Hunter's father, has been making a greater name for himself lately. Due to his pureblood nature, more talk about the Argentum bloodline has been spoken about and looked into. Some have taken notice that the Argentum family line has been known to help treat those with Lycanthropy or kill those afflicted with it. Word of this has reached pureblood students, but somewhere a miscommunication on information has occurred. As such, a rumor has begun to spread that Hunter and his family are actually Werewolf killers and that Hunter himself has come to Hogwarts to pinpoint who is afflicted with the illness.
Date Rumor started: After Spring Break of 2022
Date when Rumor will fade away: Start of Summer of 2022
Character reaction: He will either ignore your comment or try and ask your opinion on Lycanthropes and why you care. He will begin to take note of what your character will say.

Name: Piérre Marchonné
Encyclopedia Link: Boop!
Rumor(s): I feel that most rumors following Piérre would concern his origins and his life before hogwarts because he hasn't mentioned it at all (I don't think I've mentioned it ic to anyone who is still active)...
1. Piérre is part of The Family
The accent, nationality, the dressing habits, and the unsettling ability to almost be anywhere at once (and also be a catalyst for more than a few dramas), how could he not be!? He even has a bouncer brother!
2. Piérre is a circus runaway/his family is circus folk.
He's just... He's too colorful and obviously too theatrical and swirly not to be one of those travelling folk. Why else would he disappear and reappear so randomly?
3. Piérre has no confirmed house/he's a clone.
There's not just one Piérre. There are four, and there's one in each house. How else could you explain the same looking person in all of the house colors at any given moment?
4. Piérre doesn't exist/is a bad omen
Apparently there's this eccentric kid that you don't want to run into. Why? I dunno. They say bad things happen when he's around. I don't think he's real.
Date Rumor started: Any of them could have started at any time, but #4 likely started at the start of his 3rd year when he disappeared the first semester, and #3 is probably only a deception among younger year students (as his own class and older would probably know his little trick of switching up his uniforms)
Date when Rumor will fade away: Likely until Piérre denies them, or he shares the truth (perhaps never)
Character reaction: Piérre loves letting people think what they want about him. It gives him more of a fantastical, "I am whatever you want to make of me."sort of persona. He is the fool and the Jester, after all.