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 1895. It’s time to join us and immerse yourself in scandal and drama interlaced with magic both light and dark.
Complete a thread started and set every month for twelve consecutive months. Each thread must have at least ten posts, and at least three must be your own.
Did You Know?
Did you know? Jewelry of jet was the haute jewelry of the Victorian era. — Fallin
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Ronan looked over to her daughter. "Ye first month ye focus on ye studies, I want to know ye can handle the work load, then we'll look into clubs. Remember Alina ye goin to Hogwarts to make somethin of yeself. Quidditch players get put out wet and hung by their own injuries. If they don' have an inheritance or connections with ah nice pedigree to match then it's the workhouse."
She had worked her whole life to keep out of that fresh kind of hell. The Catholic version was quite enough of that nonsense as far as she was concerned, and it may very well kill her if she ever found her daughter in one. "Don' let ye youth sweep ye up in silly dreams. Let it carry ye to bigger and better things." Her left hand, the one with the missing forefinger caressed her daughter's cheek. "And we can' afford the hospital wing. Ye understand lass? Ye get it? Me needs ye to be smart about bein successful and that means bein cautious."
It felt like her mother had no faith in her. Handle the work load? How could she not? Unlike her mother, she was not illiterate. "I don't want it to be my career. Just a hobby. Rich people have hobbies ma. If I want to fit in, I have to have hobbies." It seemed like a logical reasoning to her.
Never in her life did she want to end up stuck in a work house. She knew not to get herself stuck in that type of situations. But even if she did get injured, even a desk job at the Ministry would be better pay and a better life for her. While she wanted to protest, she waited and listened to her mother. Logical as she was, the woman was only seeing one part of the picture. Alina was a determined young lady. And one who knew how to get what she wanted, at least she felt she did.
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Ronan closed her eyes for a moment and released an irritated breathe. How did she explain to this small child that she still had so much growing up to do!? She slung the expanded bag with all their supplies over her shoulder and looked to the lass. "One month for you to adjust to ah new home, with new rules, and new everythin, is not much to ask before ye join ah damn club lass. Is it? Bloody hell, ye don' know everythin, I know ye think ye do, me thoughts I did too when I was ye age."
She sighed and looked around shaking her head, "In fact ye so much like me it be damn scary sometimes." Her gaze then went to her daughter, "One month to get ye barins....It's not like tutorin, it's not like he slums either, Hogwarts is ah world all it's own." Nevermind she was home by Christmas, never to return, but well she still recalled the place fairly well. "Promise? One month before ye join any clubs?" She gave the girl a slight pinch, "Promise!?" She insisted.
It was hard not to buff right back. To not grumble and stomp and make a scene of it. But she had something to prove, and she was damn sure gonna prove it. She didn't say a word as her mother went on and on. It was damn near impossible not to yell at her about how pessimistic she was. About how frustrating it was to Alina that the woman who had raised her had such a lack of confidence in her. She scrunched her nose at the pinch. "I promise to wait a month to join the quidditch club."
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Ronan gave a nod, feeling she won that debate, though she didn't understand her daughter felt a lack of confidence from her. If she had, maybe something could have been done with it, as it were however, the wound would be left to fester. She relaxed and gave a nod, "Good." An arm slung around the girl to briefly pull her into a side hug before she relinquished the moodiest of brats and headed towards the market. "Love ye lass." She didn't recall Ella being this difficult at this age.
At least it seemed like her mother had failed to catch on to the fact that Alina had specified that she'd only wait on the quidditch club. There were other clubs. And it wasn't exactly rebelling if she only promised to wait for a certain club, now was it? Flying club didn't need guardian permission, after all.
