Character Name (First and last name): Fang Hui-Ming
Schooling Year:2nd
Link to Encyclopedia: here
Reason for Reapplication: Want to add a younger sister. Fang Hui-Ying .

Changes, base:
- Ming still had a lonely childhood -- it was just him and his mother for a while
- He has a sister, who had been away with their father for much of his childhood
- Met her at the age of 9

Index questions, round 1:
- Where was his father and why did he take Ming's sister with him: Hui-Ming's sister was born with a medical condition, which their parents wanted treated with specialized Chinese medication. Combined with work that the father had had in China, this meant that the family had to move to
- Why were the kids separated: A matter of practicality. Their mother, having landed a coveted position at the university wanted to continue her career, reasoning that the asthma issue would be resolved in time. This led to a temporary separation of the parents, and Hui-Ming was given the choice of staying with either parent. having only known his life in London until then, he elected to stay with his mother in London.

STATUS: Pending, Opeila 02/03

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 11/03

STATUS: Pending, Opeila 05/03
The way you word your Fiom, it sounds not accidental at all. She wanted to play inside with her brother so she made it snow inside- that is intentional.

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 05/03

STATUS: Pending, Opeila, 05/03
Our rule of thumb is that nothing that has been roleplayed out can be changed. While Ava has never directly said that she has no sister, she was directly asked if she had siblings and only mentioned her brothers. I need an explanation as to why Ava would pretend not to have a twin at Hogwarts, because that would be the result in this case.

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 05/03

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 05/03
This is a one time change. Charlie Moonglade will be your final name.

Short summarized reason:

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I mean, they get divorced and he gets custody of Clark since he is his actual son. Clark has an argument with Carter and for the time being decides that he hates him for divorcing Octavius (or whatever the hell his name was). He asks Clark if he would like to keep his name the way it is or change it and Clark wants to have it changed instead.

Octavius, Ben, Simon, and Clark are staying at Logan's family house as well as they don't live far ngl.

The starter I wrote up- intended for using it to thread with Logan Baird when going to her house over spring break.

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Clark muttered. He felt like he was starting to go crazy, the first day back at his house and his dads were fighting once again. Great. He couldn't get ONE day of a way to relaxing- at all. He went to his room, sobbing his heart out- when Clark's sobbing slowed, he realized that it was... quieter all of a sudden- then the front door slammed.

Octavius left. But Joseph was still here. The part goblin relative of his- that wasn't actually biologically related to him- was nothing other than the one that holds most everything on the deed. He pays for about 70 percent of the house, the car, the electricity, etc. Bills were usually his forte.

But because of that, Joseph could choose to possess the house and kick everyone else out if he so wished. And it made clark very unhappy to see such a thing happening- and decided to approach Joseph.

"What the hell dad?" He stated, his tears bubbled up in his eyes.

"Don't cuss. Anyways, we made the agreement that upon bringing you back home for Spring Break- we will legally get a divorce. And, now, I want to grant you three options. One, do you want to live with Octavius and take on the Baird-Carter name, live with Octavius- and remove the Carter in your name.... OR, do you want to live with me- here- and remove the Baird in your name." He said, calmly.

Clark found that this was probably the hardest thing he could hear, and wished he was in detention back at Hogwarts right now, but what could he do about it? He was home right now. And now, he was given a choice. But- he wanted to stay with his biological father- and remove the Carter in his name.

Perhaps it's best to break the connection with those who don't actually want to care.

Running out to the car, to join Octavius- Simon and Ben tagged along- deciding that they wanted to change their last names- legally. And Octavius was likely aware of what was happening, as he waited for everyone to get into the car.

"We are going to go over to a relative's house- they're letting me- and you all- stay until things smooth over- oh and hey Clark! Did you meet your cousin? She went to Hogwarts this year! Did you know she's a hufflepuff- like you?"

Clark's jaw dropped, he felt like it hit the floor. Please don't be tuna girl, please don't be tuna girl.

Octavius continued- "They also have two boys in Gryffindor- but none of you are in Gryffindor so I don't know if any of you know them. The boys are; Rorik and Alex Baird. The Hufflepuff is Logan Baird.- Hannah, your aunt, granted me the permission to stay with them- and I have no doubt they will allow you all to too." That was quite a bit of talking for simply just driving- maybe 10 minutes - as it seemed they lived in the same city! Perth Scotland!

When they got out of the car- Clark went to the door, and knocked. "Hello? Anyone home?"

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 11/03

Character Name (First and last name): Enrico Gathorne
Schooling Year: Second Year (2)
House: Hufflepuff
Link to Encyclopedia: Ency Here
Reason for Reapplication: Inactive due to lots and lots of university work and burn out.

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 11/03

STATUS: Pending, Opeila 11/03
Please explain what memories have been taken- this is extremely vague.

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 11/03

Character Name: Colin McCoire
Schooling Year: 2
House: Slytherin
Link to Encyclopedia: Voila!
Reason for Reapplication: Need to be reindexed to participate in racing and moderated activities; need to document Colin's background as regards the revenge plot against his family.

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COLIN

Almost everyone in Hogwarts either knows Colin or at least knows of Colin. He seems to be everywhere and seems to get into everything. It’s rumoured that he’s had crushes on half the school’s female population and has been or is being crushed on by the other half. It’s been said that he’ll snog anyone who cares to play spin the bottle (or any other game that will lead to a sweet kiss)! He has a reputation as a bit of a prankster and a troublemaker and a rule breaker. He’s also got a reputation for getting himself into some pretty dark things as well. Illegal potions and murder plots.

He is known for being madly in love with a girl he calls Eyes of Sky --- Clair Fernandez!

He’s not quite as well known for having saved a girl’s life. He’s not known for being focused. He’s not known for being studious.

He is not known for being a Werewolf, but he is one. A few friends know; probably a dozen people suspect with good reason. For anyone who cares to know, here is a little bit of background on Colin. How he came to be a Werewolf, who has been trying to kill him, what actually happened to Liam, how this part of Colin’s story progresses and comes to an end.

Colin's Story

Colin’s overarching story is that of the part his family has played in wizarding history during the last century or so — essentially from the pre-Grindelwald era, through that crisis and on into the First & Second Wizarding Wars and now into the period of war’s aftermath. Colin now finds himself in the midst of an act of revenge. His father, Lewis Liam, and uncle, also named Colin (after whom our Colin is named) fought in the second Wizarding War, doing their bit to make sure Mr Potter would be successful in putting an end to Riddle. During the Battle of Hogwarts they and their friends distinguished themselves by killing or neutralising several dark wizards. Coming forward in time, at least one of these families has gone far enough to seek revenge by means of attacking the warrior’s children.

This gang of friends includes the elder Colin and Liam along with Colin’s girlfriend Indigo Cearrbhach, whom he married on the eve of the battle, and several friends, most notably Aidan MacMillan all of whom were seventh years; for the dark, we have three dark wizards involved, Gareth Gormbe, Lilith Gargoule and Albert Auchincloss.

Of these three, Gareth and Lilith were killed, but we’re most interested in Albert Auchincloss. His curse was blocked from hitting Potter by the elder Colin who took that curse for him and died. Auchincloss was disarmed and his wand splintered by Indigo. Enraged by this indignity, he didn't realise that he was being attacked by the boys and he was thrown down the stairs into the entry hall by them. From there he eventually made his way outside and ordered a girl to go fetch his wand. This may have been his daughter Agatha, known to the gang as Haggy Aggy. She got the wand from Indigo, along with numerous threats and curses and returned it. The wand never worked thereafter, and Albert fell into a deep despair, roundly accusing Indigo of casting a dark curse on him.

After the war and subsequent investigations, trials and judicial punishments Albert and his colleagues received, his daughter Aggy had to endure not only her family’s misfortune, but also the hatred and disdain of the student body, as she would have been a fourth or fifth year at the time. After her father died, from his own bitterness and the shame of having failed to kill Potter, Agatha came to bear an infernal grudge against the McCoires. The elder Colin having died, and Indigo being far too terrifying, she focused on the elder Liam — our Colin and Liam’s father for her vengeance.

Tales of these deeds have, of course, come down to the early 21st century through written accounts of family histories and also through several lines of oral history. Like many high or noble families, the McCoires keep records and histories. Not only genealogical records, but also narrative histories that record events that took place and the deeds and actions of family members. The names and deeds of most, if not all, of Colin’s ancestors’ foes and how messily or entertainingly they died are readily available. Colin and his siblings have read those histories in the books his family maintains, and they have also heard plenty of stories as well!

Agatha Auchincloss

Agatha’s part in the story thus far is largely that of the plotter. She plans and conceives schemes in the darkness. She lets other do her bidding whenever possible.

One might reasonably ask why would a dark wizard, or his kin, want to attack and kill our Colin, an eleven or twelve year old boy. Her philosophy is essentially that revenge is truly a dish best served cold. Corpse cold. And that the corpse in question ought to be someone close to the elder Liam. Therefore, let us plumb the abyssal depths of human depravity! The answer is made by considering this question: which revenge is sweeter, the one that snuffs your enemy in an instant, or the one that causes your enemy pain and suffering every day for the rest of his life? Essentially, it comes down to hurting the father by killing the son.

It might be noted that she shares certain personality traits and deformations with a certain Tom Riddle. They both tormented other children and both gravitated towards the wickeder aspects of dark magic. We must also note that she does not share in his magical prowess. Unlike his aptitude for wanton and widespread killing and mayhem through extremely powerful magic, Agatha’s capacities for effecting evil are small and mean. Unlike a wild creature or a so-called monster that can not control its behaviour rationally; Agatha is the true monster, for she chooses to inflict pain & suffering, and revels in doing so in the most cruel and bizarre ways possible.

Her line of thought would be something like you want to make a statement to someone you hate? The best way to do that is to kill someone they love! And even better, have someone else do it so your own hands remain clean. Essentially: "you killed my father; now I am killing your son." Cold revenge — corpse cold revenge.

Revenge: A Dish Best Served Corpse Cold

The desire for revenge does weird things to people. Sometimes they fold in on themselves, like a collapsing water bottle when you suck everything out of it. The person disappears and all that’s left is the revenge. That is the story of Agatha Auchincloss, the young girl who grew up to inherit her father’s penchant for the dark side of magic and also the vendetta against the McCoires.

Agatha Auchincloss, is a rather distant relative of the McCoires. Her family are not utter strangers to McCoire House, as that place has played host to many families’ weddings, holidays, and other celebrations over the centuries. People come and go, sometimes to visit, sometimes to live for a time. She is not what we would term anything like normal, however. She’s the sort of child who would practice her spells on insects, birds, and other small animals. Possibly even a classmate’s pet. She was the sort of child who would smile to see a small animal squirm. She relished the power of magic and enjoyed the process of observing as something wrothe and suffered at the wrong end of her wand. As she grew older, her experiments quite naturally evolved to the higher form of animal life known as the first year student.

Agatha goes well beyond the merely dark, however. She is very likely psychopathic and is certainly narcissistic and harbours an excessive amount of hatred for those she perceives as having caused her family’s downfall. Much of her early training in dark philosophy and the encouragement of evil came from the mind and hands of her father, Albert. Unable to effect his own revenge upon the McCoire family, this goal fell to the daughter.

Over the course of the last ten or fifteen years, she has sought always for ways to hurt the elder Liam, Colin’s father. Mostly very petty things in the beginning. Back then, she’d try her hand at broom hexing, rumour mongering in the press, attempts to agitate disgruntled parties against his position as clan chief or even make his wife Isobel’s work with the Ministry difficult.

As time passed, her need for vengeance grew; and as the McCoires’ ability to protect themselves evolved and grew stronger, she came to realise that her plans to attack the elder Liam personally were most likely doomed to failure. He was simply the better wizard by nature and aptitude and training. It would have been around 2018 or 2019 that she determined to go after the eldest son, Colin. Her plan was simple: kill Colin. Her choice of means: an agonising death being mauled by a werewolf. Her chosen date: full Moon of August 2021, shortly before “the brat”, as she terms Colin, was due to leave to school.

To this end she hired a veritable slug of a man, Seamus Macsen McCoire, as hit man. Universally known by his middle name, and called such by everyone except Agatha, Macsen was every bit as petty as Agatha, but nowhere near as evil or corrupt, Macsen was a small time criminal and con man. Rumour has it that his criminal activities crossed the border into Muggledom. In and out of muggle jails and Azkaban a couple times, Mac knew the system and had become somewhat adept at beating it. His associates include some dubious characters including Felix and Frances Falsgrove with circus connexions; and also some ‘friends’ within the werewolf community, notably Arthur Argyle and the brothers Marcus and Matthias Manksbridge.

That first attack, in August 2021, was the toothwork of Matthias Manksbridge. Neither Manksbridge brother attended school that anyone is aware of. One might imagine that they were “homeschooled”. Can’t imagine they learned much. They certainly didn’t learn that killing young boys is a Bad Thing. Eating them is even worse! Matthias at the time was probably sixteen or seventeen. Although Agatha did not provide much of a detailed plan, Macsen McCoire tried to fill in the blanks as best he could.

His plan was to entice young Matthias to “do a quick job”. Once engaged, he easily overpowered the younger wizard, secured his wand, stripped him and put him in a smallish cage. Having observed the kids and scoped out likely places where Colin would go to play or hang out, he determined that the most likely spot would be the old stone cottage, which stood a reasonable distance away from the castle grounds. Close enough that he would likely go there; far enough that no meddlesome parents or other household members would be loitering nearby.

His plan went perfectly: the Moon rose full; Matthias transformed; the kids came up to play around the cottage and to watch the Sun set. All Macsen had to do was position the cage, get away to a safe distance, unmuffle the poor wolf and open the door. Matthias simply had to follow his nose to find the delectable young Colin McCoire. And that is sort of where the perfection of the plan fell to bits. What neither Macsen nor Matthias planned on, however, was the fighting spirit of the young McCoire! Nor that there were three present. Poor Matthias got the rotten luck that August night, for Colin stood in between the wolf and his siblings. He fought the wolf, and paid for it by being bitten and scratched, not just small wounds, but deep punctures, rending of skin and flesh. Yet he fought on and his siblings did too.

Sticks and stones certainly broke that wolf’s bones! Or at least his maxilla! They whacked him with a fairly hefty rock which sufficiently cracked his upper jaw that they knocked out one of his fangs, the upper right, which Colin wears proudly to this day on a cord around his neck. They didn’t kill the wolf, but they did find a piece of evidence nearby — the letter --- which we’ll examine in detail later. This Macsen had planted near the site of the attack, presuming that his plan would be successful and it would be found near Colin's mauled, and more importantly dead, body.

Revenge Part Deux: When All Else Fails, Try the Same Plan All Over Again

Colin, however, did not play along with Agatha’s game! He did not in fact die in August of 2021 as she had desired. Revenge delayed.

And this brings us to the summer of 2022. Colin had stayed home over the summer; his older sister got married; there was a brief run-in with a werewolf in July, though no one was hurt; but there was a rather larger and more concerted effort in August. Agatha’s plans for the August attack grew out of her frustration of the year before. A mere eleven year old had thwarted her! Her henchman had bungled it! Remember that narcissists never ever blame themselves. She couldn’t dispense with him, but she did decide that werewolves were still the way to go. To that end, she got herself all gussied up for a wedding!

Yes, Agatha Auchincloss went to the McCoire wedding. They were family, after all! For his part, Macsen McCoire was also there, and so was Matthias Manksbridge, odd manner, slightly sunken face an all! Agatha was there to scheme; Macsen was there to spy. Matthias, most likely, was there for some hey nonny noe. With extra nonny. With so many relations, friends, assorted purebloods and Ministry folks in attendance, their scheming went by quite unnoticed. Though their presence was not unnoticed by a young seer as we shall see presently.

The full Moon of August 2022 was the date for the revised plan; Colin was still in the plan; werewolves were still in the plan. However, Agatha’s plan grew with her ire and frustration! Not only would Colin be her target, but so would Liam. She smiled wickedly, for she had concocted, laid and hatched an even more vile plan: what’s better revenge than killing one boy, but turning the twins, leaving the McCoires to grieve two werewolf sons in the family! O McCoire! Agatha shall, from hell’s heart, stab at thee!

The Skirmish at the Stone Cottage

On the night of the full Moon in August of 2022, Colin was in the old stone cottage a little way away from McCoire House. This is the place where Colin stayed during the full Moon, while at home. Colin doesn't know this yet, but the cottage had been used for the purpose of --- containing --- family werewolves over the years, before the invention of wolfsbane potion. On that particular night, Liam desperately wanted to go out and with him, wanting to be close to or with Colin during his transformation. His plan was simple. He thought "Wicked! My brother's gonna turn into a werewolf tonight! I'm sooooo going out to watch!" Naturally, he was cooped up in the boys’ bedroom with his younger brothers Argus and Angus and they were whinging about his plan to get out. Reckless, some might say, but there is no denying that the McCoire twins are fearless boys. Whether it's swimming in the lake, strolling through Hogsmeade, racing each other, trying to outdo each other in any number of sporting or academic activities, they can be described positively as fearless or negatively as reckless. And on this night, we find Liam wearing his kilt sorting out the window lock.

And then his plan is changed by a call from below!

In August, Macsen assembled his crew. This time, he brought along his two associates, Felix and Frances Falsgrove, who as has been mentioned have circus connexions and are quite used to handling dangerous magical creatures. It was from them that he had borrowed the cage last year. This year, they did one better and brought a proper cart with a larger cage. Reason being, they were bringing two wolves along! Arthur Argyle, Marcus Manksbridge, and Arthur’s mate Larry Lackshanks. Arthur was big and powerful, but not too bright as a wizard. His friends at school were fond of saying that Arthur could easily cast lumos if you held his wand for him and said the incation. In reality, he does have a pretty mean arsenal of stout fighting hexes at his command. Larry, contrary to his name, is quite tall, and he has a rather large wand. It’s got a knob on the end to remind him which way to point it. He too has a strong command of heavy handed fighting spells and useful burgling charms. Neither one are particularly quick on the uptake. Marcus, as we know, is Matthias’s older brother and he was probably nineteen or twenty at the time of the recent attack.

Macsen’s plan was essentially the same: hire a couple werewolves for a “job”, bring them to the appointed place on the day of the full Moon and bind them. Secure their wands and tuck the lads into the cage. When the time came, they would transform and be released in the vicinity of the stone cottage. As before, the henchmen would get well clear before opening the gate that would release the hounds. Safety first on every job site in Britain, right?

The only problem for Macsen to solve, reasoning that Liam’s parents would keep him safe inside on a wolfy night, would be how to get Liam away from the castle and out into the open where he too could be killed. This would be a little trickier to coordinate! Macsen, having had a chance to observe the McCoire kids, noticed a particularly strong reckless streak in the boys and decided to play on that.

He decided to use Felix and Frances’s particular talents — costumery, mimicry, metamorphmagery — to pose as imposters! Their role was to wait under the windows of the boys’ bedroom for the signal, the howling of wolves!, to entice Liam to leave his room and see to Colin, as there was clearly an attack underway! Little did they know that Liam already had plans of his own! He was nearly out of the window, sneaking out to go see and be with Colin in his wolf shape! It didn’t take much convincing at all to get him climbing out the window, over the protestations and whinging of his younger brothers, Angus and Argus.

Liam didn’t put much thought into where his “parents” had come from or where they had gone to, reckoning that they would most likely head towards the source of the howling. For Liam’s part, he simply took off towards the stone cottage where his brother was. Probably made eager and anxious by all the howling outside! By this time, other members of the household had heard the howls and the ruckus below the bedroom window. The family’s Elves would also have been on the alert. Colin’s dad, being clan chief, had as his first duty to head out, wands in hand, to assess and face the threat. Colin’s mom checked first on little Ciarán, and finding her safe would have headed towards the boys’ room. Upon finding an open window and only two boys in their beds, she secured the window and rushed off to find Liam.

While Felix and Frances were working their magic, Macsen undid the locks on the door to the old stone cottage. Timing was important as he needed to wait for Liam to come into view, but had to open the gates for his own werewolves to be set free and still get away to the rendezvous point to meet with Felix and Frances from which they could observe, and if necessary perform any clean-up operations.

What Macsen did not plan on was the waywardness of werewolves. Arthur, pissed at being caged up with little pay for this barmy “job” decided that the original target wasn’t juicy enough, so he headed in search of Macsen! Marcus followed along hesitantly, but as soon as he heard Liam calling for Colin and caught scent of the young werewolf bolting from the cottage, he yelped to get Arthur’s attention. Though still small, Colin was full of fight and Liam came with his wand blazing!

One other thing that Macsen seriously underestimated was the response of the McCoires themselves! Hoping for a relatively quiet operation, what he got was Liam Sr, his eldest daughter Moira, and about two dozen members of the family and household rushing in their direction! Macsen’s plan was now crumbling! The werewolves had turned back towards the boys, but were now far to close to the portkey that was supposed to transport himself and his associates (minus their werewolf pawns) back to Agatha Alstein’s house. Liam made straight for the closer wolf, Marcus, and Colin charged in to join the attack and defend his brother.

During their fight, Liam was injured by Marcus, bitten and scratched. Marcus rolled over Liam and headed for Colin, the one who had defanged his little brother! Arthur charged Macsen first, then, upon hearing the commotion of battle, turned to counter the massed wizards. In the middle of all this were Liam and the portkey! Macsen and his cronies had no choice but to fight their way out! And this they did! Three against twelve or so are not good odds, even for scrappy and street smart wizards like Macsen, Felix and Frances! And in all the confusion, an injured Liam began limping the wrong way!

In the end, Moira, Colin’s older sister, killed Marcus; his dad killed Arthur. Two werewolves dead. A householder killed Frances. It was all Macsen and Felix could do to fight their way to the portkey, and in the darkness, no one at all knew that Liam stumbled upon it at the exact same moment that Macsen and Felix grabbed it!

And in an instant, the Skirmish at the Stone Cottage was done. Colin sniffed around for Liam and found where the portkey had sat, where the trail abruptly ended, but he couldn’t say anything! He found only Liam’s wand. As Colin’s mother got to the battle site, having looked everywhere for Liam, at last found Colin out of the cottage. Still in his wolf shape, he had no choice but wait all the hours of his transformation until the Moon waned sufficiently to allow him to turn back into his boy shape.

Alone, and in the old stone cottage. Alone with his twin’s wand.

The McCoires learned soon enough of the heart wrenching news! Liam was missing! He was presumed to be somewhere nearby, but their first search turned up neither Liam nor his wand near the battle site. They naturally searched the castle and questioned the younger children. Ciarán of course knew nothing. Argus and Angus were terribly eager to snitch on their older brother and his cunning plan to go out and be with Colin. A more thorough search would have to wait until the next day or thereafter so that Colin could be questioned as well.

The Best Laid Plans of Snakes and Men

Having arrived back at the ruin that was once Auchincloss Manor, Macsen had quite the tale to tell his employer! And quite the spin job to fabricate to try and deflect as much blame as possible from himself. Fortunately, Macsen had two aces of wands up his sleeve! Both werewolves were dead. And while it was a shame they could be identified, at least they couldn’t be connected to either Macsen or Agatha. And he had a certain brat in his possession — one Liam McCoire!

Agatha was quite displeased with how badly the attack plan was bungled. It was supposed to be two werewolves against two 12 year old boys! How difficult could that possibly be she railed! Well, at least one of them was turned, though falling ill from his injuries.

Agatha brooded. Like an enraged spider deprived of her prey.

Why Macsen brought the brat here, she thought, was beyond comprehension! That one of his henchmen died only proved his incompetence! There werewolves were expendable and certainly couldn’t be traced to herself. The only problem was the henchman that died. Agatha never bothered to discover her name. The only thing that was important was preventing the corpse from being identified. That would mean uncomfortable Ministerial attention to McCoire lands. Her only hope was to rely on The McCoire being sufficiently parochial and proud to try and keep it hush hush. At least until she could devise a plan to cover her bumbling hit man’s tracks!

Her mind churned until the wee hours. And then she had it! A plan that would surely snatch the snitch of vengeful victory for her own sweet self! Agatha determined that the McCoire brat could be useful. Perhaps as a pawn to be haggled over? Perhaps as part of a much more heinous plan to wound the McCoire family? There was time to consider the brat’s fate later. In any event, he was easy enough to heal and to contain. Wandless, he posed no threat. He just had to be hidden. And that left only the foolish associate of Macsen’s who went and got herself killed that had to be dealt with. And she knew exactly what to do.

Letters needed to be written and the services of certain — contacts — of her own needed to be engaged. Owls flew. Fire calls were made. Macsen and Felix were sent to London, to find a street urchin of about 12 years of age with pale blond hair and bring him back to be transformed into a reasonable looking Liam McCoire corpse. Agatha’s lips twitched as they set off. This was going to hurt the McCoires so badly! Imagine! One brat probably turned into a werewolf and the other brat dead! Delicious. Not quite to her original plan, she reminded herself. Yes, that was irksome! But plans had to change, and there wasn’t much time to spend decades doing it!

A fire call was made to a staff healer that owed Agatha favours. Soon, she said, you will find a pale blond haired boy in the doorway of St. Mungos. He will be dead by the time you find him. His clothing will identify him. Simply keep him on ice until his parents come to collect him. They have been notified. If anyone asks questions, you know what to do. Agatha steepled her fingers. This plan was becoming more delicious in her mind! She was going to send the McCoires down to London to get their lost boy! Her derisive sneer broadened at the thought of what they would really be getting!

An owl flew to McCoire House, bearing, most curiously, a letter from St. Mungos Hospital! Agatha had cackled madly as she wrote it! It was brilliant in its simplicity and in what it implied. The joke is on you, Liam McCoire! It told of how a boy whose name was Liam McCoire, identified by the tag in his kilt, was found in the doorway. They were instructed to come to London — to retrieve him. Magnificient!

Meanwhile, Macsen and Felix were sent back to London, with a dead English street urchin who looked remarkably like a dead Liam McCoire. Once they dropped him off, their instructions were to observe Ollivanders, should any of the McCoires pay a visit in the next few days to have a certain unknown wand identified.

The McCoires did indeed go down to London. Colin had already been scheduled to fly in the broom races at the London Quidditch Stadium, so he would go with his seanmamó and stay in her place in wizarding London. Assuming that Liam had somehow gotten tangled up with the attackers, the McCoires expected to find him in a hospital bed and perhaps get him out in time to go and watch the broom race!

They were met in the hospital by a most gracious staffer, eager to help them in their time of grief and woe. They were directed down to the morgue, which was cleared, and there they discovered that Liam would not be going to watch the race after all. Records, falsified but two days previous, were produced showing what the poor lad had suffered and died from. Horrible injuries were described. Werewolf attacks. Injuries consistent with splinching. How the lad ended up in London was a mystery, but we’ve done our best to make him presentable for your trip back to Scotland!

And that is what the grieving parents did. They took their son back to Scotland and buried him in the soil near the chapel beyond the old stone cottage. Colin raced his broom and had some adventures in muggle London with a friend, knowing that his brother was in the hospital. And he went home to find grief beyond measure.

The Letter

We have seen reference made to a mysterious letter, in connexion with the original attack on Colin. It is reproduced and transcribed below. This letter was part of Agatha’s initial plan, back in 2021. It is essentially a nasty tease. Its content is an order for a hit on the elder McCoire twin, Colin. It references the place, time and manner that the kill is to take place. It references the victim by the colour of his hair — black. We’ve seen how the attack was planned and orchestrated and carried out.

The detail of Colin’s hair colour might seem odd since both Colin and Liam have pale blond hair. At that point in time, Agatha had only heard bits and scraps of information coming through the grape vine. Liam had long since manifested his magic, but the family, and indeed the clan, waited on word to declare whether the elder twin would be a wizard or a squib. Word finally came to Agatha! A somewhat garbled account of the boy’s hair being turned jet black. Odd, people said, just like his sainted uncle. Just like the man who in all the world Agatha hated the most. Black haired Colin McCoire, who dared fight against her father and whose intimidating bitch of a girlfriend had cursed him to death.

The letter was intended to torture the elder McCoire, and also provide him a private clue as who his tormentor was! Agatha instructed Macsen to leave it in the vicinity of the attack, so that it might be found near Colin’s dead body.

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McCoire Castle ---

That's the place. Find the black haired boy & kill him. Eat him if you desire. He is marked and must not survive.

S______ make sure those idiotic Wolves of yours get the right brat. Even they should be able to smell the difference between black hair and blond hair.

And don't forget. They must do it before he gets to Hogwarts. No point in even trying once he's there.

A.A.

The main problem with Agatha’s plan was that Colin didn’t die and it was Colin himself and his brother Liam and sister Ciarán who found it! Perhaps it was an expression of the McCoire condition — a certain disregard for rules and a certain penchant for recklessness or even foolishness — fuelled by an adrenaline rush, the trio decided that it would a spanking brilliant idea to figure out who “S______” and “A. A.” were. And to that end, they kept the letter secret. Colin took possession, and would try to decipher it with Liam at school. Ciarán’s part was to try and find out anything she could in the library at home.

Bloody brilliant!

Colin still has the letter in his possession and Colin has not yet given it to his parents. For quite a while, though, Colin had, in a sense, quite forgotten about it. It might be better to say that the letter had been put on a back burner what with more important considerations taking up his focus. Hogwarts was a safe place for him, so the feeling of any impending reprisal or doom falling on his head quickly disappeared. He was making friends and getting into mischief at school. He had classes and eventually his first crush! The letter nagged at the back of his mind from time to time, but didn’t really become important until the summer after his first year.

It really surfaced to his consciousness after Liam died, Colin felt even more that it was his fraternal duty to solve the mystery and perhaps connect his own attack with the one that took Liam from him. As the year passed from Michaelmas to All Souls turned and onwards into Christmas and Candlemas, thoughts of how to solve the mystery came to the fore again.

There are enough pieces of the puzzle that Colin and his friends can make sense of much of it:

- he has discovered several names in an old journal that fit the “A. A.” pattern.
- Ciarán has found a couple of curious anecdotes that narrow the names down and involve a locket or a cameo pendant wearing witch
- a seer friend of Colin’s, AngelFyre, will discover the line that links the letter, the anecdote, the locket, and the very witch that she saw wearing the locket during the family wedding in 2022

Oh! And then there's Clair!

Clair has a curious power over Colin. She is only dimly aware of this and what it might portend for the future, but for now, it is her keen sense of logic and common sense, coupled with AngelFyre’s wisdom welded together by their love for Colin that will get him to give up on trying to do this foolhardy thing all by himself.

The Ministry

One might wonder where the Ministry is in all of this. Although their part is relatively tangential as of yet, the very fact that Colin’s mother is involved at every stage means that the Ministry is, in some way, involved. She is a liaison official for the Highlands Region. She has an office in London, which she rarely visits. Mostly she works from an office in McCoire House. As a liaison official, her job is technically hear the concerns of local residents and councils and interface with the Ministry at London.

Realistically, her job largely involves listening to one bunch of wizards whine that the Ministry aren’t doing anything to help folks out here in the North, while the next bunch complain that Ministry have their fingers in everything but granny’s cookie tin, and it’s just a matter of time until the Minister himself discovers that granny has a cookie tin to stick his fingers in.

Colin has heard a number of complaints about werewolves over the course of his pre-Hogwarts days. Sometimes he would settle himself in the library with a good book and pretend to read while Aimish MacAimish complained that werewolves had eaten his goats and all the gnomes in Mrs MacAimish’s garden. Colin could barely contain his sniggering as Mr MacAimish confided that he really didn't give a fiddler's fart for the gnomes, but Mrs McAimish insisted that he make mention. After a while, Colin came to recognise the pattern: werewolves were a kind of wizard that most wizarding folk felt they could do without. At worst, they were monsters stalking the night, seeking to snatch children from their cradles and devour them in the finest Grimmish fashion; while at best they were a nuisance, howling and yowling at all hours.

Almost everyone seemed to agree on two things: first, that the Ministry ought to mind its own business; and two, that the Ministry’s own business ought to be properly dealing with werewolves. If mention of Hogwarts taking in werewolves was ever made, you could be sure that was met with howls of indignation from wizards of every class and locale! Such talk was almost always responded to by his mother with a sympathetic ear and some strong rhetoric that boiled down to yes the Minister needs to take these monsters more seriously, pack them off to Azkaban, slay the lot, whatever it takes to clear the Highlands of the menace. This of course didn’t bother 9 or 10 year old Colin a bit. He knew only that his mother was trying to make the country safe. He wasn’t a wolf at that point and had never met one. In fact, he often fantasised about fighting against the Liche King and his hordes of Werewolfian minions!

But the Ministry became involved shortly after Colin was turned. Colin came to fear his mother greatly after he was turned. All those memories of her talks with Mr MacAimish came flooding into his mind so strongly that he chose to remain at Hogwarts for Christmas and Easter of his first year. What didn’t know for some while was that his mother had to talk like that to constituents who took a hard line on werewolves but that the very instant she learned Colin was turned, she became his strongest advocate.

His mother knew well enough that Colin’s father wasn’t keen on the Ministry in general and that as clan chief he had other voices seeking to be heard regarding werewolves and the Ministry. And many of the voices he had to listen to were coming from wizards who were not afraid to slice a werewolf in half as soon as throw a stick at one. They didn’t care about wolfsbane potion or the Ministry’s position on werewolves in society; they knew only that for a thousand years werewolves had reft and riven leaving woe and grief in their wake.

She had to protect her son at any cost. If that meant moving to Canada or London, that’s what she would do; if that meant keeping him secret from the Ministry and the press, then she would do that. She chose the middle way. She had plenty of contacts in the Ministry, a number of them good friends. She asked around and invited a couple up to the house for a nice weekend. Nothing unusual. They would go for walks, and perhaps visit the grounds around the old stone cottage. Unfortunately, they could find no evidence of the attack. Whoever the werewolf was, he was gone. Keep an eye out. He probably won’t go far. And the matter lay. If she had the letter, she could have solved the mystery.

In the summer of 2022, the matter was taken up again. This time there were two dead wolves and a dead woman. Ministry friends were called. How about a lovely holiday in the Highlands? The werewolves were a mess, not identifiable. Powerful curses really rip into a body. The dead woman’s hand still held a wand. She had various personal effects in her pockets. There was a curious looking waggon with an animal cage on it and a horse patiently grazing. How odd! The evidence mounted.

Ministry friends took the woman’s wand to Ollivander’s. Right under Macsen’s nose. He wasn’t expecting Ministry back channels to be on the case. Ollivander knows every wand he’s ever made. This one was made in 1977 and in 1983 it chose young metamorphmagus Frances Falsgrove. School records note that after she sat her OWLs, she left and disappeared. Joined a circus with her brother was one rumour they heard. Left for the States with some foppish American said another.

The waggon was discovered to be a circus waggon. It was eventually claimed by a small circus that was travelling in the North and came up missing in 2020 or so. Assumed stolen by Gypsies or a rival band of travellers. The horse wasn’t theirs, but the circus took it in anyway. No one had ever heard of either Frances or Felix Falsgrove.

Out of an abundance of caution, Colin’s mother wrote to him to say that he should stay at school and would not be allowed to go gallivanting off to Cumbria to visit Clair’s family. Too many things were still unknown and she deemed it unsafe for him to travel. If she had the letter, she could have solved the mystery.

A Note on Evidence

The letter is the key to the whole mystery. As intended, as a sort of taunting calling card left by the assassin, if Colin’s father had gotten it, he would have known who the message came from. Or pretty close, anyway. He likely would have assumed it came from Albert Auchincloss. He probably would have taken it on himself to go and visit the old bastard personally. This, yet another example of the McCoire condition, would have played into Agatha’s hand. Not knowing that old Mr Auchincloss was dead and not knowing that Agatha was the real mastermind behind the plot, he would have walked right into her trap.

Vengeance complete, the highly narcissistic Agatha Auchincloss might at last have been satisfied, having exercised her power and control over the victim of her madness. The evidence she left behind was all part of the plan.

And that evidence shall yet come back to bite her on the ankle! Something that heinous can not long rest. Colin and AngelFyre both came in contact with Agatha briefly at the wedding last summer. AngelFyre, when she at last touches the damning letter, will be able to put the correct name to the mysterious clue: A. A. She and Clair will team up to convince Colin to send the letter home.

Characters and Timeline

Colin’s dad is Lewis Liam and his twin brother is Colin. Obviously, our Colin and Liam are named after this pair. Of note, Uncle Colin’s widow, Aunt Indigo, played an integral role in the historical events described and is not immune from the mad revenge of the plotter.

The Plotter — Agatha Auchincloss — this person is the child of dark wizards who fought as allies of Tom Riddle during the Second Wizarding War. Known to be a Slytherin of unsound mind, this person, embittered by stories of her parents’ discomfiture, downfall, and dissolution of wealth and property, has undertaken a mad Plan of Revenge. It is likely that other families once allied to Riddle are either associated or involved. Agatha is, however, the principle. It is known that she desires to victimise several of the persons who were involved in cursing her father.

The Hit Man — Macsen McCoire — this person is a largely unknown character. His sole role is to orchestrate the hit against Colin, to ensure that Agatha’s plan unfolds as it should. His role is to gather his associates and werewolves, to lead and direct their activities, and to participate as needed. He’s in it for the money.

The Henchmen — Felix and Frances Falsgrove — these persons are also largely unknown characters. Very likely they are dark wizards in it for the money. Their role is to carry out any planned attacks and to get the job done, whatever the job is.

The Werewolves — Arthur Argyle and the brothers Marcus and Matthias Manksbridge — these persons, bar one, are unknown characters. For the most part, these are poor sods who live along the very fringes of wizarding society. Reviled, distrusted, discriminated against, they eke out a hard scrabble life in the hinterlands. It is unclear if they take wolfsbane regularly, though for these jobs, it is important that they do. They prefer to hide out far away from society. They have their uses, and Macsen puts them to use. Offer them some money for an ‘odd job’ and they’d likely be hooked.

The Werewolf — Matthias Manksbridge — he is the Wolf that attacked Colin before first year and is a known quantity. He is a young man, perhaps late teens and thus a recent graduate of some wizarding school (if he went to school at all). He is in fact a member of clan McCoire and was in fact present at Moira’s wedding last summer. Colin has a gut feeling about the young man, which he will discuss with his friends. He is not ripe for it yet, but Colin will confront him in the future.

1998: Colin & Liam's dad, their uncle, their aunt and several associates participate in the Battle of Hogwarts. Apart from doing their bit for queen and country, they injure, incapacitate, curse and kill several dark wizards, among whom is Albert Auchincloss. Colin & Liam's uncle dies in battle.

1999-ca 2001: at least one child of at least one of these dark wizards, Agatha Auchincloss, finishes at Hogwarts; knowing that the fighters who cursed & killed her father, barring C&L's uncle who is already dead, are still alive, thriving, and enjoying life, Agatha comes to harbour deep resentment. This child’s life is turned upside down due to her parents’ association with Riddle and the resulting accusations, trials, and punishments they endure.

2001-2021: two decades have passed, but the resentment and hatred have not diminished; on the contrary, evil has taken root in the heart and a wicked desire to extract vengeance on C&L's dad, the principle target of her hatred. She considers and hatches various plots and schemes to get even. Since it is the dad's brother (C&L's uncle) who actually prevented her father from earning glory by slaying Potter, she chooses the next of kin --- C&L's dad — to be her victim.

2005-2015: Over the course of time, Agatha has undertaken various schemes to make life difficult for C&L's dad. Some of these schemes may in fact have been successful; others, perhaps, have failed. I shan't go into details here as they are not germane to Colin's story. These schemes and plots have increased in wickedness over time.

2020 - 2021: Agatha now raises the bar on her path of vengeance. She has decided to shift from hurting C&L's dad directly to hurting him through his children. The first werewolf attack. Here, Agatha introduces her hit man, leaving the details of the operation up to him. The hit man, possibly in an attempt to distance himself from the crime, while maximally benefitting from the payment, chooses to employ a werewolf. This scheme fails to accomplish the goal of killing Colin. Wizard or not, Colin's dad would have been extremely hurt had his son been killed that night. Had Colin died and had the letter been discovered, he would have understood the message clearly: you (and your sainted brother) killed my dad --- I killed your son. Deal with it.

2022: Agatha, discomfited by last year's failure, has decided to pivot. Her depravity deepens and her heart grows ever blacker. Her plans have grown to include Liam, to turn the brothers into werewolves and use that to constantly stab at the McCoires. But of course, Evil is dumb, and the scheme did not work out, so they ended up being routed.

Seeing an opportunity to strike at dad's heart even more cruelly once she has Liam in her possession quite accidentally, Agatha evolves her plan yet again. With Liam in her possession, she contrives to convince the McCoires that he is in fact dead. A muggle boy is charmed to look like Liam sufficiently to convince the family to bury him.

2023: Colin and his friends will figure out the true identity of the plotter. This information, along with the letter, will go to Colin’s dad. Armed with the knowledge that it is Agatha and not Albert who is behind the plot, he will form a posse from among his household and set forth on a grand adventure! They are more than competent to magically hamstring some second rate third rate dark wizard who can't even kill an eleven or twelve year old boy. They will corner the poor wretch in her lair, discover the whereabouts of Liam, get him back home and turn Agatha over to the Ministry.

2023 or 2024: Having been betrayed by Agatha, Macsen and Felix will be on the lam. Felix will be nabbed on the continent, working as a circus hand. Macsen will be found by Colin’s dad and handed over to the Ministry for justice. Most likely after his bollocks have been flipendoed right up into his nose.

STATUS: Under review, Opeila 11/03
Lear review 12/03

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Pending - March 18 (Lear) - I preface this with the fact that your Index Re-application has been a subject of debate among the staff, including myself. I am going to list all of the perceived issues as well as the end call.

1.) Colin sneaks out during a full moon conveniently in the nights the attacks are planned- twice. This is a rather improbable event.

The end call is that while it is improbable, we are not going to micromanage narrative story telling to this extent. You are not required to edit this. However, I am going to suggest that perhaps this gets explained in some way. Sneaking out conveniently on the same night as any attack when they are the target is uncommon and unusual. If they are the intended target, it might be an improvement to your story to say that they were being watched, that the attack was planned and that they were somehow lured. This might also be more enjoyable to write about and elaborate on.

I like the idea of the kids being watched. It seems likely to me that a hit man would do some basic research on his intended target. I shall work that in once the miscreants are caught! (Clarified in application text.)

As an aside, they weren't "sneaking" out on the day of the first attack. The kids were simply out like they usually are. On the night of the second attack, Colin is already a werewolf and is secured in the stone cottage; Liam is indeed planning to sneak out, but is further enticed & lured by people he thinks are his parents.

2.) What is this curse that killed Agatha's dad over months? We cannot approve some made-up curse. Other concerns (see below).

This has been a source of debate due to the vagueness of the curse. The debate is that we have plenty of players that have killed a family member off with a random curse or potion that is not further described. The issue in your case is the fact that the curse is transmitted through an item, we are not able to approve of your access to an item that can transmit a curse that would murder someone. So we will need some explanation regarding how it is a non-issue. In the case where a spell was slung between backstory NPCs, there is no way for that to be used in the player's story and in the case of a potion gone wrong the potion would be a one and done, therefore also inaccessible. My personal suggestion is to cite that the wand was destroyed, given to the Ministry, that the curse was lifted with a curse breaker or that the curse wore off to close this loop.

This has been edited to remove reference to Albert being actually cursed. The nature of the curse was left vague, simply due to the lack of knowledge of background lore.

3.) There were concerns regarding how a bunch of pre-adolescents that had no magical training (pre-Hogwarts) not only surviving a ww attack, but being minimally harmed and defeating/running off the ww.

Unfortunately, a part of the suspension of disbelief in this setting is that children who would be unlikely survivors of attacks do survive them. Running them off is rather unlikely also, but this is not something that someone should be required to edit at this level. For clarity for those reading this in the future to cite this, no this does not mean you as a 4 year old can wrestle a ww into submission with your bare hands. A tooth knocked out and this barely got passed. They also want to know where the letter was found. It would not be found on the wolf with his lacking pockets and the fact that he was not killed, they just had some evidence. Because this is very relevant to your story we need to know where they fond the letter?

I guess thank God they do, because otherwise we'd have no werewolves at Hogwarts! I do note that the wolf who turned Colin was young, and thus not very big or strong. It may be a stretch, but just possibly a couple 11 year old boys can handle a teenage human in wolf skin! As for injuries, Colin was pretty mauled, and has loads of scars to show for it!

The letter itself was found by the kids nearby. That was planted by the hit man. His plan, surely, was for Colin to be killed and then to be found in the vicinity of the letter. This obviously didn't happen, and Colin got the letter. (Edited to clarify within application text.)

4.) There is a pattern of Colin withholding of vital information from the ones who could solve the scenario is being excused by claiming he has "forgotten."

While this is a criticism that readers have had, this is not something that we can/should/will require you to edit.

Understood. Just to clarify, "forgetting" is not an absolute state! It's like me "forgetting" to file taxes until April 13th.

5.) There is a claim that their mother is protecting their children by keeping the ministry out of it. The debate is that this is not true. In addendum, with all of the murders happening, the ministry would hear of it and if a ministry worker was known to have withheld information that resulted in someone's death, they would definitely lose their job for keeping this a secret and it is also rather possible that they might suffer legal repercussions.

While this is a criticism that readers have had, this is not something that we can/should/will require you to edit.

This has been altered as regards Ministry involvement. There's more than one way to skin a cat, and Colin's mom is simply using back channels to engage the Ministry.

6.) From the bio: a relative of yours took a curse intended for Potter and died as a result. "His curse was blocked from hitting Potter by the elder Colin who took that curse for him and died."

The question posed by readers is - does this violate the rule on no canon character relations? Colin’s uncle sacrificed himself to save Harry Potter in the battle of Hogwarts.

Indeed! The themes of sacrificial love and self sacrifice are pretty central to Colin's story, just as it is to Uncle Colin's story!

7.) Taken from the bio: "Her only hope was to rely on The McCoire being sufficiently parochial and proud to try and keep it hush hush. At least until she could devise a plan to cover her bumbling hit man’s tracks!"

So that you are aware, the elder McCoire would be actively covering up a crime scene/murder/breaking and entering/attempted murder, which in itself is a crime. This is for your awareness.

Understood! This could come into play in the future as regards the whole clan politics plot, which would culminate in the father's removal from office.

8.) Taken from the bio: "Clair has a curious power over Colin. She is only dimly aware of this and what it might portend for the future, but for now, it is her keen sense of logic and common sense, coupled with AngelFyre’s wisdom welded together by their love for Colin that will get him to give up on trying to do this foolhardy thing all by himself."

We need to clarify here, that this is just a turn of phrase and not an actual "power" over Colin.

Heheh. No, this is a totally real power! Anyone who is really and truly married or who has kids understands this power. It is called love.

No, Clair isn't casting some kind of spell or feeding Colin a weird potion. Colin is simply feeling the gravitational pull of her heart on his.

9.) Taken from the bio: "AngelFyre shall receive a letter from Colin’s seanmamó, herself a seer and a wise woman."

This is using a dNPC to get a benefit (seer abilities). Hard no. This is one that had a 100% consensus.

This has been excised.

TLDR: we need modification or removal of Agatha's curse (#2) and modification or removal on Colin’s seanmamó (#9). There are some concerns. There are some clarifications. There are some suggestions.

RE No.2:
This has been modified. Albert's wand has been broken and he has fallen into despair. He accuses Indigo of cursing him and the wand, but there is no evidence that she did.

RE No. 9:
This has been removed. We have a different solution in place, as it turns out AF won't need to receive this letter from Colin's seanmamó.

Edited 19 March / @Solomon Lear[/reducio]

Approved

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 11/03
Please note that this is a one time change. Teo Cyrus will be your final name.

Pending This would mean you are dead. That you no longer have access to your character. You are not able to make a new character (deactivate this one, be it because she is dead or otherwise) until this account is 6 months old. This account was made in Nov., so that means you would have no character and not be able to RP until May. If you are aware of this, then sure but that means you do not have a character.

STATUS: Approved, Opeila 16/03
This means that once played out, you will not be able to play your character anymore.
You will not be able to change your mind and bring her back later.