another modly note regarding the curfew!
Okay, so, I probably should have been more clear when outlining the information about the extended curfew. That is my fault, and I apologize. So, here I am to clarify even further. And please, if you have any questions about how your characters / their jobs might be affected by the newly-extended curfew, don't hesitate to ask, either in comments here or via e-mail or IM.
Basically, the Special Licensing (which really is just an extension of the special licensing they had to get to stay open during the nights of the full moon) only applies to public businesses that are more geared towards customer service. Bars, pubs, clubs, restaurants, the theatre, stores, etc. The Ministry, St. Mungo's, Daily Prophet offices, and WWN offices are unaffected by this, as the Ministry & Hospital canonically have apparation and floo locations inside the lobby so that people can arrive and leave without having to leave the respective buildings, and we can probably assume that both the DP offices and the WWN offices have the same. And, y'know, the Ministry doesn't want to cut off their news sources! And, generally, the only people who frequent the WWN offices and the DP offices are those who work there. Probably, the hospital will start checking more thoroughly the IDs of those victims who are brought in (and those of visitors): vampires will be turned away (I don't think they'd naturally go to the hospital for being healed, anyway?), werewolves will only be treated overnight on non-full nights, and anyone without an ID at all will be brought to the attention of the Ministry and be arrested. And probably the Ministry will also be Very Strict Indeed about who, exactly, gets past the atrium.