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.
Since you did me the courtesy of informing me that you were no longer, in fact, a hedgehog, I suppose it is common courtesy to inform you that I am, in fact, no longer dead. Or rather I was never dead to begin with, just missing, and living a different life. It's a long story, but as former cookie comrades, I thought you might like to know? Honestly it's all very weird and I need something to do with my time that is not get looked at like I am a ghost.
Hope life has turned itself around for you in my absence.
I’m very glad you aren’t dead. It was sad that you had died so young, when you were so nice and all. I suppose I know the feeling – of being missing. Living a different life. Not many people understand it, that that time was real too, just because I was a hedgehog. Just because you were not you.
But you have also lost out on things, and time, too, that you can’t get back. I hope you find nice things to do with the time you have now.
I am working in a house in London, for Mrs. Diana Selwyn. Perhaps one day we will meet again. Please let me know if you see any odd cats about.
Yours sincerely,
A. Davis
P.S. I have sent some biscuits from the cook for you. Ghosts don’t eat, so if you eat them in front of people this might help them adjust to you being alive.
Well, now that you put it that way, I didn't expect to have such a thing in common. It was real, even if I was gone to everyone else, I still have these memories that exist and there's time that happened, even if it is different for everyone else. It's nice to know that someone else understands how I'm feeling because as of right now my time is filled with hiding from the looks everyone keeps giving me, but I hope that eases as things move into the past. I can't reconcile their experiences with my own and I know it's hard, but I can't change that for them.
Thank you for the cookies and I will keep an eye out for any "odd cats," Splash does tend to make critter friends easily enough.
Cats that don't act like cats much? I may be afraid to ask, but yes, I can keep an eye out.
I am glad to be back, I think. It's hard. It's not the same. I miss aspects of my in-between life, but after everything that's happened, it's nice to be home. I'm struggling to put it all together though, who I was before and then who I became. They're both me, somehow. There are people from both worlds that want to be included and it's a bit of a mess.
Did it take you long to get back into your previous life? Any advice?
See, they’re not cats. They’re – someones. Or, they could be someones. I’d need to see.
A bit of a mess sounds about right, though I’m sorry for it. I hope it falls into place for you soon enough. I don’t know that I ever got back to before: it’s not the same life, now.
But it’s not all different: I’m in service again, and know how to dress myself and hold a wand and all. So that’s good. The problem’s all in my head, really. Only advice I have is to find the people who don’t look at you too oddly. The people who’ll – understand, and get on with things.
Oh I see, how peculiar, but I will keep a watchful eye regardless.
That is what I have been doing, I suppose I will stay the course then. It's nice that you were able to find yourself a place and reassimilated well enough. It sounds as though I will just have to give it more time and do my best to meet the expectations placed upon me to the best of my ability. I appreciate your straightforwardness, it has certainly helped. It's nice to have somebody who understands the strange situation.
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