Welcome to Charming, where swirling petticoats, the language of flowers, and old-fashioned duels are only the beginning of what is lying underneath…
After a magical attempt on her life in 1877, Queen Victoria launched a crusade against magic that, while tidied up by the Ministry of Magic, saw the Wizarding community exiled to Hogsmeade, previously little more than a crossroad near the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the years that have passed since, Hogsmeade has suffered plagues, fires, and Victorian hypocrisy but is still standing firm.
Thethe year is now 1894. It’s time to join us and immerse yourself in scandal and drama interlaced with magic both light and dark.
I am inquisitive, bold, and admittedly bored — and seeking companionship without an expectation of marriage. I would like to establish writings with you, in the hopes that we will be able to find some solace in one another.
To offer a preliminary area for opinion: I have been seeking excellent books from the past fifteen years. What do you recommend?
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Solace is precisely what I'm looking for — and someone bold and bored seems like a good match with whom to find it. I tend to spend most of my time traveling and staying with friends, so I don't have a standing library of my own, but between all of the places I visit I think I probably have access to more books than most people in England.
I don't always have time to finish the books I start before it's time to move on, though. I like to read every third chapter of biographies when I find them; it's like reading the whole thing, except faster and with some additional mystery. I make up whatever I think is most entertaining to fill in the blanks and then I tell people these stories about historical figures at dinner parties. I am seldom, if ever, called out for having made up two-thirds of someone's adventures. I don't think many people read biographies, despite how many people have them in their home libraries.
I have not gotten to travel much, unfortunately, although most of my brothers were able to spend a great deal of time on the continent and I have always been jealous of them. Do you have a favorite place you have visited?
That is a very interesting way to approach biographies. I shall have to try it sometime. I have not had as much time to delve into fiction as much as I'd like, but I recently finished The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a muggle novella from 1886. As I crack back into things, I am trying a little bit of everything — and a novel about a man with two personalities seemed to fit the bill well.
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