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.Where will you fall?
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Wallace was injured in the attacks, he was burned and his leg - I have no words for how terrible his injuries are. Others thought he was dead, I stopped only because Mrs. Bixby couldn't have another empty grave - but he was alive, Calla. He was alive and I think it might've been better if he was not with how severe his injuries are. I don't know what came of him after I got him to the hospital. Will you let me know if you hear anything?
I'm not sure how much you wish to know. I don't know how to even put it all into words. London will never be the same after this. It was - it was absolutely horrific to witness.
I love you.
I'm so incredibly grateful you and everyone else weren't there for it.
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As for me, I don't know. Physically I'm fine. I have some cuts and scrapes, but those will all heal in the matter of days. I'm more stunned than anything right now I think. I was just finishing up for the day and suddenly we were being emergently summoned. Everything after that feels like a blur. One of the vipertooths nearly got me, too. I think it would have were it not for Lester and Cameron. One of them - I think it was Lester - shielded me from the attack.
I don't know if I'm alright. I don't even know if I know what alright feels like after this summer. I'm alive though, and that has to count for something right?
It was more than just his leg. His eye-
I'm sure something could be invented for him in time. I hope so anyway. It seems like such a cruel fate for so many of the Bixby's to end up with a future so far from the world of quidditch. I wish I could understand why these tragedies keep befalling their family.
Even if I was injured, you would need to stay at school. I don't care if you felt trapped or useless or anything else. Under no circumstances are you allowed to leave because of me. You're so close to the end - to having such a limitless future. I'd never forgive myself if you stopped so close to the finish line due to whatever chaos I happened to walk into. Promise me, please?
I did everything I was trained to do and then som
They're saying he probably isn't going to wake up.
He called me an angel, I don't understand how this is happe
Flowers would be lovely. The arrangements your mother makes are always beautiful and I'm sure they'd brighten Mrs. Bixby's day to some degree. Aside from that, there isn't much we can do, I don't think. This feels like Sloane all over again. The uncertainty, the disbelief. It isn't fair what's happening to their family and I wish there was a way to stop it.
I promise you I'm not hiding anything, and I'll do my best to not hide in the future. But I'm alright, Calla. I miraculously made it out unscathed and everything else is going alright. Somehow we all must keep going on even with all the tragedy of late. Hopefully that helps lessen your worries some. I'm sorry that there isn't more I can do to comfort you. I wish we could spend a few hours in the greenhouse together working on whatever random assignment - I miss your company.
How are your classes going?
If you wouldn't mind, I would greatly appreciate my name being included. If you tell me the cost of the flowers I'll cover half of the arrangement. I know you're going to tell me it isn't necessary and I'm going to insist now that it is. I'm not above reaching out to your mother and insisting the same.
I should be able to stop in Hogsmeade that day for a few hours. I have the night shift from the 14th to the 15th, so I'll need to head home to sleep at some point. Other than that I'm all yours though. The Greenhouse sounds great, and maybe a pop into Honeydukes for some chocolate as well?
Is it wrong that I'm selfishly grateful to have left school before having to face such a reality? Maddy, Sisse, Alycone and you are all living it on a daily basis. I don't know.
I think grief is selfish more often than we'd like it to be.
As for Dahlia - you spent more time with her unmarried than Ama or Senna. Of course her being married would be a stranger concept than them. Think about how weird it'll be when she has children. But I'll be happy to see her either way.
I'm not sure if her bed was still there or not - did Sisse or Maddy say as much? I would certainly hope that the school would have. I didn't even consider that her bed might not have been removed at all. I guess I just assumed the room would have magically shrunk or something. Merlin. I'm glad you didn't have to see it, either. That's something I pray you never have to face.
Edison and I haven't been involved at all in some time now. I will always care for him, of course, and I wish him all the best. We just no longer truly had the time for one another anymore, I suppose. We rarely saw one another on Hogsmeade visits last year and I only saw him at the funeral this summer. He's busy with training now too, I'd imagine. All this to say - Edison and I will not be getting married at any point in the near future.
I didn't mean to not tell you. It just never seemed like an appropriate time to bring it up, I'm sorry to have not said it sooner.
I never would have imagined the staff at school to be so thoughtless. I'm even sorrier now for the girls than I was before. What a horrible thing to face on what was meant to be a great first night.
There's no need to be sorry or worry. It was for the best, I think. Now he can focus on his training and I can learn how to navigate all my new circumstances without worrying how it might impact him. It's weird not having him involved in my day to day life anymore, but I suspect that'll fade in time. I'm okay, truly.
