Nice and early, this is the tentative plot for August (the first playable month of the game). Contributions and feedback are welcome. As applications are in progress for many people and the game hasn't officially started as yet, this post will remain public, but in the future it and all others will be locked.
August
As summer draws to a halt, work on the school building is completed and booklists sent out, along with prefects’ and quidditch captains’ badges for some students. The staff list is also released, and more information is forthcoming on just what recent graduates are doing at Hogwarts. However before students can return to life as they knew it, the Inquisitorial Squad members are subjected to hearings and possible community service mandates.
For more information on how the hearings will work, please look at July 19th in the plot post.
1st: Preliminary hearings for IS members commence. By the end of the day several more students are ruled to have had insufficient involvement with the group for further steps to be taken. They will however be called in to give testimony against their peers when necessary. Reprieved Students: Sean Ackerley, Marcus Belby, Parker Bole, Katherine Bundy, Stephen Cornfoot, Allegra Flint, Roland Harper, Callisto Sinistra and Tristan Spinnet.
2nd: First day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Gregory Goyle, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Samara Roper, and Blaise Zabini. Samara is judged only to have committed minor infringements and is let off with a warning. The rest are put into Ministry holding cells to await further questioning.
3rd: Second day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Quentin Baddock, Amrita Chopra, Alexander Derrick, and Lucretia Yaxley. Quentin and Alexander are judged to be more serious infringers and are put into holding cells to wait further questioning. Lucy is judged only to have committed minor infringements and is let off with a warning. If you are in charge of Amrita, please contact a modly one to discuss what the verdict against her may be, and whether additional questioning is necessary.
4th: Third day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Hugo Beery, Bernice Dunstan, Pippa Merrythought, Devon Murphy, William Pucey and Evan Vaisey As all of these characters are minors, none will be placed in the Ministry holding cells if additional inquiries are deemed necessary. However, they will be placed under house arrest, have a Ministry tracking device charmed to them, and along with their families will be instructed not to leave the country. If you are in charge of any of these characters, please contact a moderator to discuss what the verdict against your character may be, and whether additional questioning is necessary.
5th: Fourth day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Cecilia Barbary, Astoria Greengress, Cordelia Ogden, and Cressida Ogden. Cordelia and Cressida are judged only to have committed minor infringements and are let off with a warning. If you are in charge of the other two, please contact a moderator to discuss what the verdict against your character may be, and whether additional questioning is necessary. As all of these characters are minors, none will be placed in the Ministry holding cells if additional inquiries are deemed necessary. However, they will be placed under house arrest, have a Ministry tracking device charmed to them, and along with their families will be instructed not to leave the country.
6th: The Hogwarts staff list is formally released and printed in the Daily Prophet. Along new staff members are alumni Oliver Wood (Flight Instructor) and Penelope Clearwater (School Counsellor).
Advertisements are also placed in the Leaky Cauldron and Three Broomsticks asking for applicants for a residential assistant position. The residential assistant must be at least two years out of Hogwarts, have a minimum of four NEWTs, and present a Ministry statement verifying their lack of criminal activity with their application. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by Headmistress McGonagall by August 12.
8th: Fifth day of IS hearings. These are more like a trial in atmosphere than the first round, with witnesses called forward to speak in person instead of through a written testimonial. Non-IS students will be present at these hearings, along with a viewing public, and will give evidence against IS members. Headmistress McGonagall, or her deputy Professor Flitwick, will be present at all trials. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Quentin Baddock, Alexander Derrick and Blaise Zabini. Blaise is released from custody with 200 hours of community service, but no formal reprimand. He is instructed not to leave the country until his community service is complete, or at any time within the next six months. Quentin and Alexander are both retained in Ministry holding cells for further questioning.
9th: Sixth day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Theodore Nott and Pansy Parkinson. Theodore is released from custody with 400 hours of community service and a formal reprimand. He is instructed not to leave the country for the next year, and told that the trace will be recast upon him so that his magical activity can be monitored, and all transactions from his Gringotts vault tracked. Pansy is retained in a Ministry holding cell for further questioning.
10th: Seventh day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Devon Murphy, William Pucey, Evan Vaisey + [Sixth Years] All will be assigned community service hours, and scheduled counselling sessions with Penelope Clearwater.
11th: Eighth day of IS hearings. The following students will have their cases reviewed: Cecilia Barbary, Hugo Beery, Bernice Dunstan + [Sixth Years] All will be assigned community service hours, and scheduled counselling sessions with Penelope Clearwater.
By now, all of the mild to moderate cases will be dealt with and formal reprimands and community service mandates given out where seen necessary. Students who remain will be of age and will face possible criminal convictions with trials taking place at a later date. Still in Custody: Quentin Baddock, Alexander Derrick, Gregory Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson.
12th: Invitations for the first Slug Club meeting are sent out, including those delivered to several students who were not members last year. Several others who were members previously find that their invites have been mysteriously lost in the mail *cough*. This causes all sorts of rumours about people who may find themselves in new positions of responsibility, and contrarily those who will miss out. New Invites: Seamus Finnigan, Ian Urquhart, Chloe Zeller + [Names] Lost in the Mail: Cecilia Barbary, Abigail Runcorn, Lucretia Yaxley + [Names]
Short-listed applicants for the residential assistant position are also contacted, and interview times with Headmistress McGonagall set up.
15th: With the IS hearings over with and the school nearing completion, spirits are running high and many students are in a quite lively mood. A group of volunteers, whilst working on the Slytherin common room, decide to leave future inhabitants a present in the form of a prank. Unfortunately for them, they are caught in the act by new caretaker Natalia Spada, who takes the well-being of her school very seriously. Spada then forces the students to scrub all of the stone floors in Slytherin by non-magical means. Pranking Students: Nigel Winstanley + [Names]
17th: OWL and NEWT results are sent out, along with booklists and badges for the Head Boy and Girl, prefects, and Quidditch Captains. The Head Boy and Girl will receive lists of all the prefects and captains, while the prefects and captains will only know of each other’s identities by word-of-mouth. It’s a mystery... Head Boy and Girl: Declan McLaggen (G) and Emily Hopkins (G) Prefects: Quidditch Captains: Demelza Robins (G), Sarah Quick (H), Nathan Boot (R) and Ian Urquhart (S).
The Quidditch Captains will also receive a second list, that of students from their house who will be banned from tryouts this year due to naughty times with the Inquisitorial Squad or general unsavoury behaviour the previous year.
18th: Emily Hopkins and Declan McLaggen are announced as Head Girl and Boy. The Daily Prophet questions McGonagall’s choice of two head students from her own house, but goes on to list Emily’s and Declan’s various qualifications and contributions to Hogwarts in a predominantly positive manner.
19th: Quentin Baddock and Alexander Derrick are both released from custody, but with official reprimands and 2,000 hours of community service each, to be completed within the next four years. Both have the trace recast on them so that their magical activity can be monitored, and are forbidden from leaving the country for that period of time.
Gregory Goyle and Pansy Parkinson are moved to house arrest, but their trials are ongoing.
21st: A former prefect writes into the Daily Prophet, crying foul because his/her badge has been removed. Within the next few days, owls arrive from students this prefect has antagonised, plus one from deputy headmaster Filius Flitwick. All letters are printed in the paper. Former Prefect: Hugo Beery Letter Writers: Molly Carmichael, Declan McLaggen, Nigel Winstanley + [Names]
22nd: A new student support club is announced at Hogwarts, featuring tutorial services, and a buddy system for younger students and Muggleborns. Interested applicants are asked to submit an expression of interest to Penelope Clearwater, along with letters of recommendation from either two members of staff, or your house head and an adult outside of your family (ie. Luna could submit recommendations from Filius Flitwick, and Arthur Weasley). Applicants: Katherine Bundy (Mrs Finnigan + Sprout), Roland Harper (Slughorn + Trelawney), Declan McLaggen (McGonagall + Slughorn), Yue Sung (McGonagall + Harry Kim), Nigel Winstanley (Sprout + Hagrid), Lucretia Yaxley (Sprout + Pince), Chloe Zeller (McGonagall + Flitwick) + [Names]
23rd: “Eighth” years receive a welcome letter from their new residential assistant, introducing his/herself and explaining how the schooling system will work for them. (If you would like to pick up this residential assistant, they are considered to be one of Hogwarts’ staff and will be playable as a NPC!) Unlike regular students, they can move in up to a week before school commences.
24th: A group of Snatchers enter the Hogsmeade branch of Quality Quidditch Supplies, desperate to steal some brooms and make an escape that cannot be tracked by the Ministry as other modes of transportation are. The shop attendant is rescued by a group of students visiting the store, including several DA members. Hexes are exchanged with injuries caused on both sides. One Snatcher is apprehended by the group, while the rest flee without the brooms. Students: Justin Finch-Fletchley, Megan Jones, Yue Sung, Ginny Weasley + [DA] + [other]
25th: Even though the castle has only recently been completed, wee beasties have already taken refuge within its stony walls. Poor Penelope Clearwater overhears what she believes to be a Boggart in a broom closet and decides to take care of it herself, which (due to her time in Azkaban as an incarcerated Muggleborn) takes on the form of a Dementor. Several student volunteers come to her rescue, and two manage to successfully cast corporeal patronuses at it before they realise it’s a Boggart. The Boggart is soon taken care of, while Penelope is led away and given a slab of chocolate and a stiff drink by a fellow staff member. Good Samaritan Students: Roland Harper, Lucretia Yaxley + [Names], Patronus Casters: Nathan Boot (grizzly bear) + Tracey Davis (panther) and Staff Member: Oliver Wood
26th: Following the Quality Quidditch Supplies incident, one young bravado attempts to woo unsuspecting damsels by claiming that he was one of the parties responsible for the capture of the Snatcher. His Lothario ways are thwarted when one of the students who was actually there arrives and sets him straight. Would-Be Romeo: Evan Vaisey, Unsuspecting Damsels: Naomi Mundy + [Names] and Actual Bad-Arse [Name]
27th: All the finishing touches on the castle and its interior (though Madam Pince still grumbles that the library isn’t categorised correctly) are complete, and the staff reward student volunteers with an outdoor banquet and bonfire. Outside of the term setting, some teachers are more relaxed than normal, and Flitwick challenges one of his students to an arm wrestling match.
30th: The DA throw a farewell party for members returning to Hogwarts. Three members volunteer to prepare a cake which, due to some poor decision making, ends up looking like Dobby’s head. This rather misguided tribute outrages Hermione, who attempts to correct the charm, but due to her own lack of culinary expertise only ends up melting the cake. Failed Bakers: Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones and Dennis Creevey, plus Hermione Granger