The year is 2024. The wizarding world, relatively peaceful for so many years following the end of the second war, is entering a period of unrest...
Minister Shacklebolt announces his retirement from politics on November 1st, leaving the way clear for new leadership of the wizarding world at the next election.
As it comes to light that a child was abandoned on the steps of St. Mungo's without any paperwork and the adoption records have since been lost, the Ministry is under pressure to regulate the system for the adoption of magical children, particularly those who end up in the Muggle system. No one wants another Tom Riddle on their hands.
A team of Aurors have been tasked with finding the child in question, now that this information has come forward (or rather, been printed in the newspaper), competing with the Death Eaters, the Order and the journalist who broke the story.