The 8th Floor Mods (ministry_mod) wrote in thbreakroom, @ 2012-01-01 13:13:00 |
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► Mod Notes ► Happy New Year! Welcome to 2006. Let's make this year a memorable one! ► Please do us a favour and go here here and here to make sure all your information is correct and up-to-date. ► Witch Weekly will be back next Sunday, so please update us will all your juicy, mockable gossip! If you'd like to donate pictures of what your character wore to holiday parties to the fashion page, that would be very appreciated. Whether the clothes are on your PB or separate doesn't matter to us. If you've got any first-issue-of-the-new-year article ideas, we'd love to hear them. ► Every Monday this schedule will be updated with the Quidditch scores for the week. Yes, we frequently forget. If that happens, just make up whatever you want and do us a favour by leaving a comment in the post. After that, it's all on you to talk about your games, what happened in them, etc. The team bios page has a list of both in-game and OC players on the teams. If you want to make up names for the other players on your team, just drop box the names and pbs to us, and we'll get them on the list. ► You're still more than welcome to do our OTAs. If you've taken one and not posted, please do so promptly. ► Any plot ideas or events? We're not requiring you to come up with one, but if you have any, we'd love to hear them! ► Character Gains/Losses We've lost Harry Potter and Andromeda Tonks. Seamus Finnigan and Alicia Spinnet were removed for inactivity. In December, Becky joined us with Luna Lovegood and Mel has just brought us Adrian Pucey. Welcome to you both! Please type your username into the box below, then press "Friends Button." Remember to do it for each of your characters. You have to be logged into a journal to use it for that particular journal. A note about requirements. If you have an 'X' next to your name at the end-of-the-month check, you MUST meet monthly requirements at the next end-of-the-month check, or your character will be removed from the game. ► Ongoing Events Christmas is over for us, but your characters can still send presents or drop by the Ministry party. ► Behind the Scenes If your characters have been frequent visitors to the muggle world since the travel restrictions ended, they may have recently run into people talking about magic and Quidditch out in public where anyone can hear them. Are they indiscreet witches and wizards? No, they're actually muggles! All will be explained in an upcoming issue of Witch Weekly, so keep an eye out for the 18th. ► Upcoming Events On Monday morning, 2 January, Amos Diggory's body will be found on the front steps of Gringotts. It will look like he died a natural death from a sudden heart attack, but the fact that murder victims have been found in that exact spot multiple times (Rodolphus Lestrange in 2004, Wilton Themot on New Year's Day 2005 and Griphook the Goblin in April) combined with the fact that his name is on the still-mysterious list - just like last year's victim, Themot - will cause widespread doubt about how he died. The DoMLE, however, will quickly rule out murder and close the case. Some people will agree with their finding and put it behind them. Others, however, won't take it so well and will accuse the DoMLE of incompetence, laziness or worse. Protests will take place inside the Ministry for the rest of the week until the case is reopened on Friday. A Nundu will wreak havoc in Kenya on 11 January. Among its victims were the Kenyan Quidditch team and a large number of witches and wizards who were out working on the World Cup pitch for this year. Kenya immediately pulled out of hosting the event as a result. (This is probably the best place to point out that, if it comes up in conversation, the 1998 World Cup match was not cancelled.) WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK, PART TWO! And now, to explain why that was in incredibly bad taste: A couple of weeks ago, an unassuming muggle schoolteacher was out late on the night of the full moon. As he was walking to his car, he was attacked and bitten by some sort of strange wild dog but he was able to drive away before it injured him too badly. He bandaged up his arm, forgot about the incident, and went back to his normal life. One month later, on 14 January, he'll take his 10-year-old students on an overnight field trip to London. The next morning, he'll wake up surrounded by the bloody remains of 15 children and more than a dozen other hotel guests, plus the very-much-alive and none-too-pleased muggle police. He didn't resist arrest but a few hours later he escaped from police custody - with the help of the Ministry of Magic, who couldn't risk leaving a werewolf in a muggle prison. The incident sparks a firestorm of debate: Should the Ministry use spells to track the movements of all werewolves? Are there other laws that should be put into place? Should the Ministry try to enforce more laws regarding muggle werewolves, who outnumber witch/wizard werewolves 2-to-1 simply because muggles don't know werewolves exist but who don't consider the Ministry of Magic to have any power over them? Is it ethical to keep muggles in the dark about the existence of werewolves and other dangerous creatures so they can't take measures to protect themselves? There are approximately 3000 muggle werewolves in Britain, meaning about 40 people are turned every year - is that an acceptable compromise to make in order to keep werewolves a secret? And so on and so forth. You get the picture. Violence against known werewolves will increase for the remainder of the month, but nothing serious enough to make the calender. England will step up to the plate on 20 January and finalise their offer to host this year's Quidditch World Cup in place of Kenya, since they're the only country to host in recent history that has the pitch and the resources to manage on such short notice. This means the Ministry of Magic will be an absolute madhouse for the next few months. Everyone in the Department of Magical Games and Sports will be working overtime, people will be reassigned to the Department to help with the workload, and then people will be reassigned to cover for the people reassigned to the DoMGaS. Even if you don't work at the Ministry, you might still be hired to help if you need the extra money. On 26 January, an eight-year-old wizard attending a Church of England school in Scotland will have an accidental magical outbreak, levitating out of his chair. In response, his teacher will beat him severely enough to require a trip to St. Mungo's. Afterwards, the boy's parents will attack the teacher and will both be arrested by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement as a result. Before the end of the month, Minister Smethwyk and the Wizengamot will pass a law forbidding witches and wizards from sending their children to muggle schools unless they've reached the age of eleven and haven't received their Hogwarts letter. |