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August 2nd, 2030

"Ladies and gentlemen," Andromeda said, speaking into the microphone that the WizTech department had set up. "Thank you for coming today. I know you all have questions and concerns, and rest assured I will do my best to answer them at the end of the conference." She looked out at the crowd, doing her best to project a serenity and confidence she didn't feel. The Department of Mysteries had been researching possible causes, but found nothing. The most she could do was reassure the public that the Ministry was doing everything in its power to find a cure for whatever was happening.

She leaned in to speak again, when the microphone let out a series of loud pops, and went silent. Andromeda blinked in shock, and then shook her head. Wizards had been giving speeches long before microphones were around. She pointed her wand at her throat, smiled at the crowd, and said, "Sonorous."

At first, she didn't know what had happened. People were screaming, but they seemed so far away. She looked down, saw her wand covered in blood, and then there was nothing but darkness.

For almost thirty years, the Wizarding World has existed in peace and prosperity. Technological advances have made it possible for wizards to experience novelties previously availble only to Muggles: computers, movies, television, the Internet. MagiTech, as it is affectionately known, is largely popular among witches and wizards, especially the younger set.

However, there are those that oppose it, members of the WWAT and their associates. Fed up with MagiTech and what they see as the destruction of the Wizarding World through so-called "progress", a small, secret group within the WWAT has created a spell that will put an end to MagiTech for good, allowing the world to revert back to the Golden Days and unleashed it in the Ministry of Magic on July 1st, 2030.

However, the spell malfunctions with unintended consequences that reach far beyond the initial goal. MagiTech is undisturbed, but wizards and witches across the country start to have problems with their magic. At first it seems innocent enough: Pepper-Up that makes you vomit, an Alohamora that just shoots sparks, a Wingardium Levoisa that fizzles out prematurely. But as time goes by, the effects worsen, spreading out in a seemingly random pattern from the Ministry of Magic.

Rather funny at first, the magical mishaps turn deadly. At a press conference designed to reassure the public that the Ministry was investigating the magic failure, Andromeda Tonks, Minister of Magic, performs a simple Sonorus spell, and slits her throat. This is just the beginning, though, and soon people are falling into an unexplainable coma. As people search for a cure, will it be too late?