I N F O R M A T I O N The world has become a smaller place.
Entering a meeting of the Wizengamot to urge that the wizarding world go public, Harry Potter is assassinated in June of 2007, ten years to the day after Dumbledore died. His killer, a Muggleborn witch, tells authorities that she was not willing to accept a world in which Muggles would have been enslaved to wizards.
In the ensuing anti-Muggleborn riots, eventually called the Summer of Rage, persons unknown set off a charm bomb widely assumed to be more powerful than they’d intended. The thought that they knew how powerful it would be and set it off anyway does not bear considering.
The United Kingdom is cut off from the outside world. The islands are about to be encircled by the ghosts of soldiers – who watch, and who wait, and who sometimes kill.
No one has left Albion’s islands since the charm bomb dropped. No one has come in, either.