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.
How are you? I hope your new husband is treating you well. I do hate to interrupt your thrilling busy life, but I write to you with news of a similar effect. It seems you are not the only Browne sister to remarry! It comes a little later than intended (what with my tribulations this summer in Mongolia!) but he has asked my hand and I have duly accepted, so I am now officially engaged to become Mrs. Cosmo Zabini. I imagine you might not know him well - his social circles do eclipse your own, I suppose - but he is an outstanding gentleman, as I am sure you will think when you meet him.
We have not yet set a date for the wedding, but those details shall follow in due course.
Calliope
21st August, 1889
Loretta,
How are you? I had wondered which sister this announcement might next come from, but with Odira's current husband in good health, Prudence being Prudence, and your prospects utterly unchanged, I suppose it was always destined to be my turn. I am to be married again. It comes a little later than intended (what with my tribulations this summer in Mongolia!) but he has asked my hand and I have duly accepted, so I am now officially engaged to become Mrs. Cosmo Zabini. I imagine you might not know him well - his social circles do eclipse your own, I suppose - but he is an outstanding gentleman, as I am sure you will think when you meet him.
We have not yet set a date for the wedding, but those details shall follow in due course.
Calliope
(Calliope actually bothered to tell her close friends the news in person.)
You are, of course, correct that I do not know Mr. Zabini will (in fact, I do not believe that I have made his acquaintance at all) but I am sure that I will come to know him better in the weeks to come. No doubt Mother is beside herself with excitement at the news—she does so love a wedding.
I hope most ardently that Mr. Zabini will make you as happy as my own husband does me.
All the best from Mr. Keene and myself,
Odira
If I could marry Bee I would but I can't so I ship our characters instead.
