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>Basil Featherstone's Back Story

Background: Dreamer
Role:: Hufflepuff student (1st year in 1939)

Canon Back Story

Relationships

Outbound:

Relationship:: Son of Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.)
Relationship:: Son of Annabelle Featherstone (dec.)

Inbound
Related to: Their relationship to this person Their role
Annabelle Featherstone (dec.) Mother of Basil Featherstone Deceased Mother of Basil Featherstone
Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) Father of Basil Featherstone Basil's Father

Character Events

Session Interactions
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone After the war, Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) sought to conceal his magic and live a 'normal' life. He married Annabelle, and had a child: Basil. Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) hoped that Basil would be spared magicality.
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone Basil's mother, Annabelle was a star and a socialite. Her life of partying meant that Basil was raised largely by his father, Rudolph and always without magic
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone Aged about 7-8 years, Basil first began to see spirits. It was during this time that he took Ruffles the Teddy as his companion and comforter. The spirits would often visit him at night, often causing Basil night terrors
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone One night, whilst half drunk, Annabelle Featherstone (dec.) sought to tuck Basil in - a fairly uncharacteristic act - Basil awoke from a night terror to see her looming over him. There was a flash of light and Annabelle lay dead. Ruffles the Teddy was badly singed on the bed beside Basil
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone After the unexpected incident that killed his mother, Basil's father - Rudolph - sought to teach Basil control of magic. Annabelle Featherstone (dec.) remains as a spirit haunting the grounds of Mallory Court
Session -00 - The Death of Annabelle Featherstone In part to avoid contact with the ghost of his mother, Basil then went away to boarding school for long stretches.
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts After being sorted into Hufflepuff House, Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone are led to the house table by Aoife O'Malley, a red-haired seventh year student
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet Finnian (Finn) O'Malley (lots of siblings), Lily Buttercup (space cadet) & Liam Flaherty (food-lover) at the welcome feast.
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone observe Cassian Black, the Alpha Slytherin from afar (Lily Buttercup warns the party that he is 'a nasty piece of work')
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Peeves the Poltergeist delivers a note to Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone on behalf of Jackdaw Finch. He delivers it by way of a dead taxidermy owl.
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone visit the School Kitchens in search of clues and Jackdaw Finch. They learn the way to access the kitchen at will.
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet several of the Social Elves, the 'customer facing' contingent of the kitchen staff. They meet Flick (Finch's 'friend'), Hokey & Fizzy
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone help the House Elves with some NPD in the School Kitchens, exposing Cassie Weasley to Chocmint for this first time
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone are each given a weird pocket biscuit by Flick in the School Kitchens"A tingling sensation spreads through your chest, and you feel an undeniable pull as if a string has been connected to your belly button.". This leads you towards Professor Finch
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Reginald (Reggie) Cattermole finds the Bernard-stolen anklet in a plant pot where Peeves the Poltergeist reports Basil Featherstone & Cassie Weasley were sick
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Vi Thorne cleans up the vomit of Basil Featherstone & Cassie Weasley, leaving Reginald (Reggie) Cattermole to conclude that Peeves the Poltergeist stole the bracelet from A 4th year Hufflepuff girl. In reality, Bernard did it.
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone take cover in a disused room in the Hufflepuff Tower/School Kitchens basement. The room is filled with inert plants and a freezing aura that harms Cassie Weasley. Hereafter known as the Cold Plant Room
Session 07 - Falling Down Basil spends autumn half term 1939 at Hogwarts, receiving dispatches from his father suggesting (incorrectly, as it happened) that it would be safer than returning to Mallory Court. Maj. Featherstone informed Basil that he would be returning to the war office 'to do his part'
Session 07 - Falling Down Vi borrows Puffin (Thorne Family Owl) to send a message to Cassie & Basil at Hogwarts. She recounts the entire experience with Percival Graves, Dept of Secrets visiting Thorne's Remedies
Session 07 - Falling Down Cassie is repelled when her Alohomora spell on the School Library (restricted section) gate is met with a powerful protective charm. Basil, tipping the nearest stack of books onto the floor seek to distract Madame (Irma) Pince
Session 07 - Falling Down As Irma (Madam) Pince questions Basil's dubious literary choices (the stack of books he tipped over as a distraction was all about love potions and charms) Peeves the Poltergeist rocks up to bask in Cassie getting told off. In an attempt to avoid being taken to Headmaster Dippet, Cassie fakes Peeves the Poltergeist throwing a book at her.
Session 07 - Falling Down Despite their best efforts Cassie and Basil are brought before Headmaster Dippet for causing a disturbance in the School Library (open section). The headmaster, seemingly more amused than annoyed, lets them off with a warning on the promise it will not happen again and that they report themselves to Mirabel Garlick. They do no such thing.
Session 07 - Falling Down Basil seeks out The Fat Friar (with some difficulty) to finally ask about his memories of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.). Basil shares an extraordinary vision of The Fat Friar's death, executed after a long imprisonment by his fellow monks. The Friar explains that ghosts can touch Basil and share what they saw in life. But if touched by a Diviner, there is a risk of seeing their visions. This is what caused Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) to fall into madness and is why The Fat Friar fears for Basil
Session 07 - Falling Down Receiving Vi's letter via Puffin (Thorne Family Owl), Cassie & Basil use the Messaging Scrap to inform Jackdaw Finch that Percival Graves, Dept of Secrets visited Vi at Thorne's Remedies seeking incriminating information on him
Session 07 - Falling Down Cassie, Vi & Basil set out in search of the Room of Requirement and this time find it with relative ease - almost as if it was ready to be found. Entering into a seeming Broom Cupboard not too far into the disused section beyond the School Kitchens Cassie thinks hard about 'requiring' a London Cheescake as evience this is the Room of Requirement, thus making one appear.
Session 07 - Falling Down Cassie, Vi & Basil seek to test the Room of Requirement's limitations. Aside from evidence that this is the right place they struggle and fail to make anything of their own choosing manifest. With the exception of a staircase - perhaps to 8.5.03 Eleonora Humblewood's Crypt - which the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement does permit them to conjure. Though possibly for reasons other than those the party intended.
Session 07 - Falling Down Cassie, Vi & Basil start descending a seemingly endless staircase that appeared within the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement. Requiring a faster way down, they lose Basil down a slide that appeared. Catching him, they manifest a landing and Vi tends Basil's wounds as Cassie investigates a door that has appeared
Session 07 - Falling Down Cassie, Vi & Basil open a door partway down the 'endless' staircase in the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement to find just a plain brick wall beyond. A small blue mote of light, (similar in colour to the wraith-like figure that swept towards Basil from the depths beneath the Cold Plant Room) hovers through the wall and towards Basil. As Cassie casts Impervius on Basil the mote, becoming aggressive, fails to find any purchase on Basil's mind
Session 07 - Falling Down Repelled by either or both the mental fortitude of Basil and the Impervius charm of Cassie, a strange mote of blue light in the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement retreats back into the wall from whence it came. The DIADEMs interpret this to be some manifestation of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) attempting to contact or somehow harm or aid them.
Session 07 - Falling Down Late into the night now, with lessons due to start in a few short hours, Cassie, Vi & Basil give up on reaching the bottom of the staircase and turn back towards the occupied floors of the castle. Cassie wills the stairs to become shorter, which they do, however the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement seems to refuse to permit them to leave yet
Session 07 - Falling Down Whilst underground, and protected by the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement, Cassie, Vi & Basil experience extreme ground tremors as some kind of earthquake or localised seismic event shakes the entire foundations of the School. Held in the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement the DIADEMs suffer no ill effects or injuries from the quake and the room seems to allow them once again to access the broom closet (and exit door) above
Session 07 - Falling Down Returning to ground level after descending into the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement in search of 8.5.03 Eleonora Humblewood's Crypt, Cassie, Vi & Basil force their way out and back into the castle proper. They are greeted by a scene of extraordinary destruction, as an entire collonaded section of the castle has crumbled in the quake. Screams of terror - perhaps even of pain - can be heard coming from the occupied sections of the castle beyond
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past After the tremors of November 1939, the DIADEMs are put on something of an accelerated learning program. Cassie, Vi & Basil all learn Expelliarmus and Engorgio/Reducio.
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Basil, inspired by his part in events with the Pixies in the School Kitchens, writes to Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) to ask him to send his old cricket bat. Instead he receives a spanking new top of the line one, signed by none other than Wally Hammond himself
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Basil is informed by The Fat Friar that the strange blue mote, presumed to be some essence of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.), has been sighted hovering in the corner of Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington)'s Festive Deathday Party
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Cassie, Vi & Basil locate Bernard in a hallway (using Cassie's self-made Objectum Revelio spell), where he is making off with a large shiny bow-tied package. On inspection this appears to be a gift for Bernard from the Hogwarts Kitchen Elves who have given him a box of his own shiny baubles, perhaps in the hope he will stop nicking theirs
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Vi & Basil attempt Proficiency Training to learn Objectum Revelio from Cassie. Neither progresses on first attempt, but the process has begun
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Vi begins to press Basil on his mother, Annabelle Featherstone (dec.), which Basil seems reticent to open up about. Cassie, far more bluntly, asks outright if Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) killed Annabelle Featherstone (dec.). Fearing for the effect it may have on his friend's opinion of him, Basil finally admits that it was he who killed his mother.
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Distressed by the admission of his past, Basil runs from Vi & Cassie but is thwarted in his escape. Cassie catches up with him and after he reflexively (but unsuccessfully) casts Stupefy on her, she makes peace with a gift of a cricket bat shaped dark chocolate (as well as gifting Vi a mint truffle)
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Cassie, Vi & Basil head to Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington)'s Deathday Party in the undercroft, hoping to investigate the strange Humblewood mote that The Fat Friar reported
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Cassie shares a vision with the mote of a young Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) whilst Basil sees her, slightly older, writing at length in an old grimoire - something he has seen her doing in previous shared visions
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past The Yule Ghoul manifests before Cassie, Vi & Basil at the Deathday Party; a featureless Silver soldier, identifiable from its silhouette as a Tommy. The DIADEMs learn that a silver ghostly warrior appearing in Yuletide season has been a legend in the wizarding world for years, but not actually seen for centuries.
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Basil is connected to by some spectral force at the Deathday party. Perhaps Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) or perhaps the Yule Ghoul itself. But he is gifted a small rubber duck, identical to one seen in a vision where Eleonora's Grimoires were transfigured by a 14th century charms professor into this (or at least a) dick as well as a strange orb of some unknown type and purpose - if any.
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Cassie, Vi & Basil question The Fat Friar about the visions and peculiarities they witnessed at the ghostly Deathday Party. They learn that the Professor of Charms during Eleonora Humblewood (dec.)'s schooling was one Felix Bourne (dec.), an ancestor of today's Charms Professor, Prof. Elara Bourne. No portraits of former Prof. Bourne hang in the castle, but the Hogwarts House Elves are responsible for portrait storage
Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past Cassie, Vi & Basil leave Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington)'s Deathday Party some time after it dissolves in fear and chaos. More perturbed than enlightened by the reappearance after centuries of the Yule Ghoul and their strange visitations from the mote of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) they depart back into the deserted corridors
Session 00 - The Wand Chooses the Wizard Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone each purchase a wand from Gideon Ollivander at Ollivanders Wands in Diagon Alley
Session 00 - The Wand Chooses the Wizard Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone learn that they are selected by the Ministry of Magic to join the D.I.A.D.E.M.s
Session 00 - The Wand Chooses the Wizard Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone sorted into Hufflepuff House
Session 14 - Spring 1940 Cassie, Vi & Basil meet Prof. Dumbledore to assess the Enchanted Rubber Duck and the Orb. Revelio revealed nothing.
Session 14 - Spring 1940 Cassie, Vi & Basil see Prof. Dumbledore cast Homenum Revelio, on the orb and grimoire showing Eleonora's spirit to be present even when not visible as a mote
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Vision: The Healer's Burden (c.1325): Cassie, Vi & Basil manifest as blue motes of light and witness a younger Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) serving as a gifted healer in a makeshift plague hospital located within the Hogwarts Boathouse (1325). During this vision, Eleonora is seen pioneering cures using Ancient Magic crystals and Star Grass; the use of this raw power causes spirits to swarm her, marking the onset of her madness as the dead realize she can "feel" them.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Vision: The Great Fire & The Forbidden Cure (September 1666): Cassie, Vi & Basil observe Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.)’s Apothecarium in Pudding Lane, London, surrounded by the flames of the Great Fire.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Cassie, Vi & Basil actively affect a vision by aiding Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.)’s escape, helping him and his large "latrine-like" treasure chest—the same chest the party discovered in the Cold Plant Room in Session 06—through a basement window and into the crowds.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Cassie, Vi & Basil witness Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.) locking his chest and concealing the key inside the hollowed-out base of a common Hufflepuff Cup; the trio now has reason to suspect this specific cup remains somewhere within Hogwarts.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Cassie, Vi & Basil in a vision learn that the Great Fire of London was intentionally ignited by an unknown power who unleashed a Giant Fire Crab upon the city to harness natural magicks.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Vision: The Industrial Blight (c.1851): Cassie, Vi & Basil observe the Ministry’s previous DIADEM. program operating near the Crystal Palace, utilizing a massive machine to capture vestiges of Ancient Magic. The "Industrial Blight" surrounding the event is understood as a metaphor for the creeping spread of Muggledom and industrialization during Victorian England.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Cassie, Vi & Basil learn that Petunia Arbuthnot (dec.)'s death was the primary reason the original DIADEM program was shelved for nearly a century before being "dusted off" by the current Minister in 1939.
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb Before being released back into the material world, Cassie, Vi & Basil experience a harrowing "taste" of Eleonora Humblewood’s madness, feeling the overwhelming weight of her haunted existence and the burden of her Inner Eye.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Whilst attempting to learn Inanimatus Conjurus, Basil conjured a singed and scorched version of Ruffles the Teddy. He flees Prof. Dumbledore's class, failing to learn the spell in the process
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil meet to discuss the death of Annabelle Featherstone (dec.). Seeking somewhere discrete, they head for the Room of Requirement
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Arriving three abreast, Cassie, Vi & Basil find the Room of Requirement this time accessed via a revolving door of blue, green and grey aura-d panes. Basil steps through and manifests one of the sitting rooms at Mallory Court. The room creates tea and biscuits.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Basil recounts to Cassie & Vi elements of his back story regarding the death of his mother: See The death of Annabelle Featherstone
Session 11 - First Year Flyby During Basil's recounting of The death of Annabelle Featherstone, Cassie reads his tea leaves. Following the threads of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.)'s tragic tale showed positive results in the short term and mixed results over the longer term
Session 11 - First Year Flyby The Room of Requirement manifests a copy of today's Daily Prophet, which Basil reads to Cassie and Vi: "Ministry Thwarted at Hogsmeade Skinkhole by Strange Blue Mote"
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil learn a raft or new potions, and are equipped with various quantities and qualities of: Herbicide Potion, Regerminating Potion, Confusing Concoction & Forgetfulness Potion
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil head on brooms to the Hogsmeade Sinkhole. On approach, Vi is buffetted badly by some sort of magical energy emanating from deep under the ground out from the sinkhole
Session 11 - First Year Flyby As Cassie, Vi & Basil arrive at the sinkhole they find a squad of Ministry of Magic witches and wizards firing spells ineffectually into the void, watched over by Alastair Thorpe-Wick, Head of eth Dept of Magical Mysteries.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Creeping towards the blue mote of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.), Basil is pulled from the ground and hangs briefly over the void before being pulled down into the Earth with the blue mote orbiting him slowly, reassuringly almost.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie & Vi dive into the sinkhole on broomback in pursuit of the plummeting Basil. Vi sees a number of Acromantula wandering towards the surface and, still affected by the unexplained energy pulsing from beneath, is unable to keep pace with Cassie. Vi's magic begins to misfire once again.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Whilst falling down the Hogsmeade Skinkhole, Basil communes with the spirit of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.). When he asks if his friends, Cassie and Vi can accompany them wherever they are going, Eleonora informs Basil that "We will meet them. At the end. We go to where it all began and where it will all end"
Session 11 - First Year Flyby At the very bottom of the Hogsmeade Sinkhole, Cassie, Vi & Basil find a curious metal box, explosed in places to reveal complex clockwork mechanisms. Cassie, using her Elder Wand's Specialis Revelio discerns that the box is emitting the very Ancient Magic that is affecting Vi
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil discover at the bottom of the sinkhole an ancient passageway, now exposed the the air way above. At a depth of over -300ft, tunnels head off in two directions. One leading west is visible to all, but one leading East is hidden behind similar illusory shields as used at the Forbidden Forest Test Pit. Vi sees right through it.
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil follow the mote of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) along the passage leading East
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, carrying the strange metal box, uses the Messaging Scrap to contact Jackdaw Finch. He informs her that she, Vi and Basil are in danger. The Ancient Magical IED seems to be a hugely powerful weapon or disruptor. On Jackdw's advice, Cassie abandons the device at the back of a large chamber
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Eleonora Humblewood (dec.)'s mote leads Cassie, Vi & Basil to a large circular chamber. In the centre stands a pedestal surrounded by marble columns. The mote enters a glass orb on the pedestal and glows within
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Basil, recognising the orb as like the one seen in the vision with Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) and Felix Bourne (dec.), moves to grab it. Cassie observes that as the orb is moved, the room around them subtly changes, manifesting a single door depending on the height (not the lateral position) of the orb in the space. Whenever Basil holds it though, a perfectly circular hole in the ceiling remains open
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie, Vi & Basil enter the hole in the ceiling of the round chamber and arrive in another long passage. They follow it for a long time before Cassie thinks to contemplate an exit. With the same instant gratification of the Room of Requirement, a door appears
Session 11 - First Year Flyby Cassie opens the door that appeared in the tunnels beneath Hogwarts. She, Vi & Basil find themselves looking at another stone wall immediately behind the door (as they have seen once before when Eleonora's mote flew through one). The mote disappears through it like a ghist would, leaving the party perplexed in the tunnel.
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Despite Liam Flaherty's warning, Basil encounters Peeves the Poltergeist in a hallway. Before antics could ensure Basil, somewhat experimentally, casts Stupefy. And it works!
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone learn a little of the Wizarding World's divisions during the last War: A rebel group known as the Wizarding Interventionist Unit was founded (or formed organically?) repeatedly defying the International Statute of Secrecy (for the first time since The Ilfracombe Incident in 1932). Meanwhile, the Ministry of Magic was divided; Whilst Hector Fawley, Minister of Magic espoused non-intervention, scheming elements of his Privy Council sought to bribe, threaten or otherwise influence muggle events.
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Basil Featherstone experiences a vision of suited, bowler-hatted grey drone people walking endlessly into a red telephone box on a grey London street. As they walk in one side, elaborately dressed - and far from incognito - witches and wizards are being ejected from the opposite side
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Basil recounts to Vi & Cassie how his father, Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) was awarded his Military Cross despite being known by his commanding General to have used magic in extremis during the conflict, firing Devicto instead of his muggle rifle. Having taught the spell to Basil, this is why Basil's Devicto makes the sound of a rifle when he casts.
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Cassie recounts to Vi & Basil how in her past she was visited by two non-descript ministry officials: one a fat, plainly-dressed Ministry official, Alastair Thorpe-Wick and the other a tall gaunt wizard named Percival Graves, Dept of Secrets. Their interest in her seemed to centre around her wand, however she did also share with them her divine foresights regarding the impending war and destruction of London. It was these men who gave her Bernard
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Seeking further insights into the disappearance of Septimus Finch, Cassie leads Basil& Vi in search of a portrait of a wise herbologist who may have known something of Professor Finch Sr's experiments. They find their way to the Wall of Heroes.
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest At the Wall of Heroes, Basil casts Wingardium Leviosa on Cassie to lift her up to view the higher portraits. All went well, until...
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Peeves the Poltergeist seeks revenge on Basil and throws a Vial of billywig stings at him. As Basil begins to levitate uncontrollably, Cassie casts an imaginative variant of Protego to soften the ground and save herself from fall damage. Basil begins to fall, grabbing on to pictures on the Wall of Heroes
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Dangling from the Wall of Heroes, Basil first sees Elladora (Ella) Ketteridge (Portrait). He falls. requiring an urgent trip to the Hospital Wing, despite Vi's capable ministrations
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Whilst receiving treatment for a broken ankle (Brackium Emendo, as observed closely by Vi) Cassie, Vi & Basil meet Madam Willow (School Nurse)
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Cassie, Vi & Basil learn that Madam Willow once served three days in Azkaban for being a member of the Wizarding Interventionist Unit. Something she is unabashed about even to this day.
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone attend a joint Potions & Herbology class (also attended by the Slytherin House 1st years) with Horace Slughorn & Mirabel Garlick (albeit with Prof. Garlick doing most of the heavy lifting). During this class they foray into the Forbidden Forest
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Seeking ingredients for Blemish Blitzer, Cassie, Vi & Basil are sorted into their own (supposedly 'elite') group and head out into the Forbidden Forest. Vi and Cassie slide down a hillside, following Plop in a successful search for Flobberworms as Basil is beset by Gnomes back on the higher ground
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest Basil fends off peculiarly hostile Gnomes for a time, before Cassie and especially Vi come to his aid. Vi absolutely unleashes with Aguamenti, as Cassie deploys a muggleball kick to send gnomes tens of feet into the canopies beyond
Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest As Cassie, Vi & Basil conclude that there is something uneasy - wrong almost - with the Forbidden Forest, Jackdaw Finch untransfigures from his moth form and approaches the group looking stern
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil learn a handful of new spells courtesy of Prof. Blishwick and Jackdaw Finch, clearly chums of old it would now appear. You learn:
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil returned to the caverns beneath the Hogsmeade Sinkhole, this time with Jackdaw Finch, Myrddin Blishwick and a little more time. Navigating an intentionally created (track-covering) rockfall, you entered through an already magically-opened door, as opened by Cassie in Vi's vision in Session 08 - Aftermath
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil discover a goblin workshop beneath the Hogsmeade Sinkhole, utterly destroyed - intentionally it would seem - by fire. The occupant, presumably the same Ancient Goblin Artificer that Vi saw in her vision had destroyed much of the contents. However you did find:
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil take Jackdaw Finch to Eleonora's Rest though find no sign of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) this time
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil fly with Jackdaw Finch along the tunnels beneath the Hogsmeade Sinkhole and surrounding valley, eventually finding the underside of Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.)'s Strange Latrine-like chest. Using Partis Temporus to break through the magical barrier you all returned to the Cold Plant Room
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions Cassie, Vi & Basil finally confess to Jackdaw Finch that they removed an Ancient Magic crystal from the Cold Plant Room. Realising now what the machinery in there was missing, Jackdaw Finch completes the restoration as best as he could and continued his excitable experiments into Septimus Finch's work. 'Perhaps by a man's work shall ye know him'
Session 08 - Aftermath Cassie, Vi & Basil return to the destruction above ground after the (first?) magical seismic event. Navigating the rubble they arrive at the corridor outside the School Kitchens. Cacophonous noise comes from behind the wall as the DIADEMs Wingardium Leviosa the ticklish pear back into place and restore the only painting of one now very happy portrait wizard
Session 08 - Aftermath The Doughnut Plant hastily conceived by the Hogwarts Kitchen Elves for Basil goes wild after the earthquake of Oct 1939. Expanding constantly it begins to fill the Hogwarts Kitchen Pantry forcing the under elves to flee to the surface kitchen. Basil partially deflates it with Devicto before a quick thinking Cassie (and a quick Accio-ing Vi) use salt to arrest the expansion. Vi's magic misfires again.
Session 08 - Aftermath Basil demonstrates commendable cricket skills as he chopping-board-paddles a dozen Pixies
Session 08 - Aftermath Vi, still covering the recently-recovered Cassie, is attacked by the last remaining Pixie (Cornish). Using Aguamenti, Vi fires the Pixie off her neck (and directly into Basil's veg)
Session 08 - Aftermath Armando Dippet requests the help of Cassie, Vi & Basil in locating and retrieving Mirabel Garlick who rushed to the Herbology Greenhouses to check on her plantlife charges
Session 08 - Aftermath Cassie, Vi & Basil head to the Herbology Greenhouses in the aftermath of the seismic events of October 1939 in search of Prof. Garlick. They find all of the plants to be growing wildly and exhibiting strange behaviour
Session 08 - Aftermath In one of the ancillary (upper year) Herbology Greenhouses, Cassie, Vi & Basil encounter a strange hybrid of Venomous Tentacula and Devil's Snare. Using Lumos to evade the tendrils, they move away before the Tentacula flowers become an issue.
Session 08 - Aftermath Cassie, Vi & Basil hear Prof. Garlick from afar, saying she is caught in a large and dangerous plant. The project of Sean Perton, a Slytherin NEWT student of hers.
Session 08 - Aftermath Basil fires Devicto into the strange Thaumatagoria-like plant in the Herbology Greenhouses after it reaches to unpot a Mandrake root. Seemingly angered, the plant reacts by targeting Basil with the Mandrake.
Session 08 - Aftermath Cassie, Vi & Basil deduce a probable connection between Ancient Magic, the natural magic of the Forbidden Forest, the power of the Hogwarts Kitchen Elves, the plants in the Herbology Greenhouses and Viola Thorne herself. That the area around the Room of Requirement seemed so affected by the seismic event raises the question of whether that may utilise the same ancient magic too
Session 08 - Aftermath Vi touches the crystal Cassie stole from Septimus Finch's Strange Latrine-like chestchest in the Cold Plant Room. Her body is outwardly calm and peaceful but Cassie and Basil are unable to rouse her. Cassie nudges the inert Vi with a foot before casting a 'safe' spell on the crystal (Alohomora)
Session 08 - Aftermath Willing herself 'into' the scene in the mirror, Vi's consciousness enters into a long, dank tunnel deep underground somewhere loamy. Travelling along it she finds the same Strange & Ornate Vanity Unit. This time the mirror shows a vision of her own inert body back at the school with Cassie and Basil. As Cassie nudges Vi with her foot, the entire tunnel swings and snakes wildly, throwing Vi off her feet.
Session 08 - Aftermath Recognising the connection between body and mind, Basil cleverly uses Flagrate to communicate with Vi. Vi used Lumos & Nox to respond, as spells cast (wandlessly) within the 'vision'/'dream'/whatever-this-was seemed to have no effect there, but did affect her body in the 'real' world
Session 08 - Aftermath With rudimentary communication established, Cassie, Vi & Basil collectively get the mirror in Vi's mind to spin, revealing a reverse image of a door, which Cassie Alohomoras from the real world as Vi strobes brightly on and off in yes/no communication.
Session 08 - Aftermath The Ancient Goblin Artificer senses Vi's consciousness intruding and as it turns and throws something at her - a potion or liquid of some kind. As it splashes over the crystal - now somehow in the hands of her unconscious self here Vi is transported in the blink of an eye to a dark field or meadow. All senses return, as if she is back in the real world until she is again torn away a split second later, this time by Basil
Session 08 - Aftermath Basil wrestles the crystal from Vi's grip, weakened by Cassie's familiar use of Digitus Wibbly (causing it to 'appear' in the other realm where Vi's consciousness resided, for her to hold out before the Ancient Goblin Artificer)
Session 08 - Aftermath Vi awakens, obviously disturbed, but seemingly whole. Concerned, Basil & Cassie escort her back to the castle, but the pull of adventure is strong and they instead climb the 8.9.02 Clock Tower and the Divination Tower to look upon Locharbor and the road to Hogsmeade Village in particular
Session 08 - Aftermath Cassie, Vi & Basil see for themselves the ENORMOUS sinkhole that has swallowed the road from Hogwarts School to Hogsmeade Village. Easily 100ft in diameter it sinks to a depth unseeable from the castle. Determining to get some sleep, Cassie & Vi manage it, but Basil gains 1 level of exhaustion
Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet Basil Featherstone spends the Christmas holidays staying with the Thorne family at Thorne's Remedies in Castle Coombe, while Cassie returns to The Burrow (plot) in Ottery St Catchpole—at this time a chaotic tentment situated atop a pigsty.
Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet Cassie, Vi & Basil exchange several homebrewed gifts, including a Cauldron - Self-stirring for Vi, a Girding Potion and a pocket watch for Basil, and an old cricket bat from Cassie, alongside a collection of Chocolate Frog cards and spare vials for Vi.
Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet Upon their return to school, the DIADEMs (the "Finchypuffs") share their holiday findings, though Vi and Cassie deliberately withhold their research into Basil’s mother to spare his feelings.
Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet Cassie, Vi & Basil attend Flying Lessons with Cirrus Vane, who teaches the Hover, Vertical Dash, and Flyborne Fluster while brazenly defying a Ministry official sent to observe the class.
Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet As a reward for their DIADEM status, Cassie, Vi & Basil earn official access to the broom closet, granting them permission to explore the Hogwarts Valley in its entirety.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil expresses his desire to know more about Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) and to find the strange crypt that he saw in his visions: Eleonora's Rest
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Cassie witnesses Basil fiddling with a small carved wooden horse statue as if it holds some sort of power or special significance to him. She elected not to press the matter at the time.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Cassie, Vi & Basil receive their allowances. Basil = 5G, Vi = 14S, Cassie = 0
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Cassie recounts her most recent vision to Myrddin Blishwick. He tells her that it is quite rare to see yourself from outside (as she and Basil both do), even rarer to see the world from above - usually it is from eye-level as if by another observer in the place. Most rare of all is any sense that one can affect the vision. He tells Cassie to take heart that any degree of control is probably a good thing.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil visits the School Library (open section), where he seeks maps and plans of the castle from Irma (Madam) Pince. She tells him that the entirety of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry is anti-cartographical. Only the main areas of the school are plottable and even some of them seem resistant to being pinned down.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil finds and old map of Hogwarts that at first glance seems to offer little more than he already knew. On closer inspection there seem to be a series of splodges and marks that fall within the drawn walls, but seem to have some... indiscernible... quality about them
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine In trying to learn more about Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) and her death, Basil researches the history of the Humblewood family. A long-storied pureblood family, the Humblewoods have spawned Ministers of Magic, international quidditch players, decorated aurors and everything in between. Basil found 3 examples of high profile Humblewoods being removed from office for mental health reasons, most notably Priscilla Humblewood (dec.) who was the only Minister of Magic ever removed for 'conduct unbecoming', when she raised an army "to save wizardkind", which was widely believed to be ready to attack muggledom
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil deploys his Dreamweaver's Sight in contemplation of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.), suffering the distressing sensation of seeing nothing, hearing everything and being unable to escape. Haunted by taunting and bullying, ring-a-roses and namecalling he turned his thoughts first to the recent Arania Exumai training session and turned his tormentors into unsighted spiders. But switching his thoughts to his mother has was able to pull himself back to consciousness.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Liam Flaherty finds Basil unconscious on the floor of the School Library (open section) after his Dreamweaver encounter with Eleonora Humblewood (dec.)
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Cassie, Vi & Basil head to the School Kitchens to ask the Hogwarts Kitchen Elves if they know anything about Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) or 8.5.03 Eleonora Humblewood's Crypt. They find Fizzy, who seems more interested in feeding them and showing them around. He does explain that the only level he knows beneath this one is the 8.4.05.01 Pantry Realms
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil & Vi spend some time exploring the pantries and distracting Fizzy. They see Erumpents roaming African Savannah, miles of orderly veg beds and orchards and witness the House Elves NPD team try to create a Doughnut Plant, which Basil helps to steer the development of.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil, and especially Vi, meet Tinky - a young house elf who is growing up in the Pantry Vegetable Realm. Vi uses Star Grass Salve to reduce the swelling on Tinky's hands after he picks nettles with his protective gloves on his ears.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine After an urgent message from Jackdaw Finch, Cassie, Vi & Basil head to the HVMC test pit in the Forbidden Forest. There they find 5 British paratroopers, presumably on training manoeuvres, being puzzled by the 'Illusory Dome' that Kiko has erected to deter muggle curiosity
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine Basil uses his rifle-sounding Devicto, followed by a first use of Periculum, to distract 4 muggle soldiers and draw them into the treeline. Vi then unleashes a Moira's Reached blast of Aguamenti, pinning one to the ground and repelling two others.
Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine As Cassie, Vi & Basil aid Jackdaw Finch in preventing the escape of any of the muggle soldiers (whilst also stopping Kiko from doing anything else crazy), Jackdaw tweaks the memories of the survivors and sends them on their way. He then disapparates to report the incident to the Ministry of Magic, despite Cassie's attempts to persuade him to... tidy up... by other means.
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Basil speaks of an old - and by him, largely unexplored - cave beneath his home at Mallory Court. In grounds that included and abandoned well and old ice houses, beneath the East Wing there was a cave that cut through the bedrock. Comprising small branching tunnels, Basil never went further than sitting in the entrance
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Cassie, Vi & Basil successfully repel the Acromantula and Giant Spiders within the HVMC controlled Forbidden Forest Test Pit. Kiko behaves protectively towards them throughout, though allows the students to lead the assault. Whilst there they briefly observe some strange crystals, the effects of which later become apparent in the Cold Plant Room
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Cassie, Vi & Basil use the Messaging Scrap to contact Jackdaw Finch at the Ministry of Magic. Jackdaw explains that he is 'smoothing things over. Speak to no one on your way back to the castle'. With which, the party returns stealthily to the safety of the School grounds.
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Cassie, Vi & Basil return to the Cold Plant Room hoping to better understand some of its strangeness. They explore the freezer field, a Strange Latrine-like chest and the desk of Jackdaw Finch, and presumably his brother, Septimus Finch before him
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Cassie, Vi & Basil find, in a weird latrine-like chest, a crystal of the same kind as they saw in the Forbidden Forest Test Pit. It is suspended on an invisible platform a few inches above an illusory chest base which sits atop a vertical drop of several hundred feet into darkness
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Opening the second Strange Latrine-like chest chest in the Cold Plant Room, Vi observes a long vertical drop. Basil fires a Periculum into the void and it recedes beyond sight. Cassie & Vi give Basil a cautious and consensual 'swirly' to see what lies down there
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! As Basil dangles in the vertical void beneath the Cold Plant Room he sees a blue light streaking towards him. After retreating once he remains longer on his second swirly and sees a horrifying visage of a wailing ghost, mouth agape with jaw dropped to its waist in an unnatural and silent scream
Session 06 - Arania Exumai! Cassie reads some personal correspondence of Jackdaw Finch. 1. A letter from Alastair Thorpe-Wick, Head of the Department of Mysteries telling Jackdaw to "Give up on Septimus. Concentrate on your mission. The children must not fall into darkness". 2. A family newsletter from a family member Olivia Finch (addressed to Titus, apparently Jackdaw's real name) and 3. an apparent Messaging Scrap bearing the remaining messages "Now" and "Where are you?". Basil's investigation of the latter revealed that it was written by Jackdaw whilst on broomback
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone arrive at the Hufflepuff Tower and get their first experience of the Hufflepuff Common Room and go to sleep in their new Hufflepuff Dormitories. House password: "Helga's Children"
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet Helga Hufflepuff (Portrait). A round of Butterbeers grease the wheels of the first evening before Cassie turns Helga to harder drink with questions about avoiding homework.
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley approached Lily Buttercup to seek an autograph for Brenda (The Bruiser) Buttercup, Lily's professional Quidditch playing aunt. Lily says she is unable to get such a thing, though Basil Featherstone sensed there may be more to the story than that
Session 02 - First Lessons Basil Featherstone zones out in the Hufflepuff Common Room, during which he experiences a vision of a busy War Room (demanding studiousness and attention to detail in coming days). This vision came via the face vortex of a medieval barber surgeon.
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet their Head of House Mirabel Garlick and learn she has been acting Herbology Professor for 8 years since the disappearance of Septimus Finch from the Forbidden Forest whilst gathering supplies
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone learn that Septimus Finch was researching more potent potions and was genetically modifying (amongst other things) Star Grass
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley plucks up the confidence to show her Elder Wand to Basil & Vi. Cassie & Basil each share their visions of the impending war (Cassie seeing barrage balloons over London and swastika-d tail fins on planes)
Session 02 - First Lessons Basil Featherstone shares that he once had a vision that his mother would fall ill, which transpired to be true very soon after. Reveled his father as Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.), a decorated WW1 hero who was born muggle but discovered his innate magic in convalescence in France.
Session 02 - First Lessons Basil Featherstone interacts with Liam Flaherty in the Hufflepuff Dormitory, declining to eat (and instead pocketing) a Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans. It was an attractive/ominous shade of caramel.
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone learn - with some kindly steering from Albus Dumbledore - Vera Verto (Vi Thorne being somewhat starstruck by the Frog Card face in person)
Session 02 - First Lessons Liam Flaherty warns Basil Featherstone that Peeves the Poltergeist is on the warpath. Peeves seeks the "pukey little first years". The "weedy skeleton boy and the two mean girls with him"
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone attend their early lessons. Defence Against the Dark Arts with Prof. Euphemia Blight, Herbology with Mirabel Garlick, History of Magic with Prof. Cuthbert Binns (Ghost) and a few other more eventful ones
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone attend their first Astronomy lessons with Prof. Satyavati Shah, with the tower offering commanding views across much of Hogwarts Valley. Everything appeared peaceful enough.
Session 02 - First Lessons Basil Featherstone writes a letter home to Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.). Largely just updates on his safe arrival and apparent settling-in. He sends this using Selene (Basil's owl) (who can make the journey to Leamington Spa and back in a a single day)
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone learn Wingardium Leviosa from Prof. Elara Bourne. Cassie demonstrates good Hufflepuff teamwork and earns 5pts for Hufflepuff
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley & Vi Thorne learn Lumos & Nox in Charms class with Prof. Elara Bourne. They see Basil's' charms prowess for the first time.
Session 02 - First Lessons Basil Featherstone learns Flagrate from Prof. Elara Bourne who offered advanced tuition since Basil already knew (and utterly nailed) Lumos & Nox. She extends an open invitation of further Charms mentorship on request. Perhaps even stretching to a few Jinxes, Hexes & Curses "when you're a little bit older"
Session 02 - First Lessons Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone attend their first Potions class with Prof. Horace Slughorn. Each learns the recipe for Antidote of Common Poisons. Over the first few lessons Basil & Cassie manage a couple of flawed versions and Vi impresses Slughorn with 3 standard quality ones, even from poor ingredients.
Session 02 - First Lessons Horace Slughorn hints at impending invites for Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone to his prestigious Slug Club, whose first meeting will be after the October half term
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Jackdaw Finch gives Basil a Messaging Scrap, which can carry short messages between it and one much like it in Jackdaw's possession
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Basil meditates on Bernard's stolen galleon. He experiences a strange vision that moves from a niffler stealing his father's (non-monogrammed) cufflink, to a niffler stealing a sapphire from a dragon, to a niffler stealing an entire chandelier from the ceiling of Gringotts. In every case, no one noticed or seemed to care.
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Cassie, Vi & Basil join Jackdaw Finch for their first formal DIADEMs lesson, learning Arania Exumai in the Cold Plant Room. Upon arriving, they find the scenes in the 'greenhouse' windows to have changed (at Jackdaw's behest) since they were last here
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Cassie, Vi & Basil have an opportunity to question Jackdaw Finch. He is suprisingly forthcoming, having perhaps realised he cannot carry all of the weight he does alone. They learn that he has had a difficult start at Hogwarts, with the faculty resenting his Ministry of Magic associations. He is an Investigator in the Department of Mysteries, tasked with - amongst other things - attending to the Hall of Prophecy. The ministry sought volunteers to embed themselves at Hogwarts to prevent strong young wizards 'going dark'. Given his desire to investigate Septimus Finch's disappearance, he took the role.
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Jackdaw Finch appears as startled as Cassie & Basil when Vi somehow manages to change the view outside the windows by sheer force of will. He had been experimenting with his older brother's 'settings', but had achieved nowhere near the level of control that Vi exhibits
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Basil experiences an extremely powerful vision, beginning with the familiar sight of London ablaze in the imminent future, but then merging into something else. Something older. The scene shifts to a smaller, olden more wooden London. A fire begins to spread from an ordinary Bakers Shop across the entire city towards the towering presence of St Paul's Cathedral. The scene shifts again, this time to red-coated soldiers armed with muskets and swords marching with powder on their faces and fear in their eyes. The vision then shifts into a more... intimate... portayal of whatever this is
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Basil sees a young girl standing in the halls at Hogwarts. This is Eleonora Humblewood (dec.), both blessed and cursed with gifts like Basil's. He sees her scrawling scenes like those he himself witnessed earlier in this vision and he witnesses a slow descent into isolation and some might say madness.
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Basil in his dreamlike state descends through the very bedrock beneath Hogwarts, arriving in a small, forgotten stone chamber deep beneath the castle foundations. It is a simple crypt, damp and silent. The name carved into the stone sarcophagus is Eleonora Humblewood. Beneath it, an epitaph reads: Cursed with Dreamsight, Haunted by all, Blessed with Truth. Her visions burned bright, though the world saw only shadow.
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere Basil encounters the spirit of Eleonora Humblewood (dec.). In a voice full of ancient sorrow she tells him: _"They did not listen... but it all came true. All of it. "Seek not to understand the future. In front lies madness. Use your gifts to discern the true past. Behind lies truth and understanding"

Basil's Wand

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Wand Summary

Background:: Dreamer
Length: 14 inches
Wood: Redwood
Core: Dragon Heartstring
Flexibility: Rigid

14" (haunted by dreams of future), Redwood (lucky), Dragon Heartstring (agent of change), Rigid

Wand length (Bonds): 14"

See 01.06.1.3 Background - Dreamer#d6 Length (Bond)

14": I suffer recurring dreams of a terrible event in the future and will do anything to prevent it.

Wand wood (Traits): Redwood

01.06.1.3 Background - Dreamer#d10 Wood (Personality Traits)

Wand-quality redwood is in short supply due to its reputation for bringing good fortune. As usual with wandlore, the populace has it backwards: redwood wands are not themselves lucky, but are strongly attracted to witches and wizards who already possess the admirable ability to fall on their feet, to make the right choice, to snatch advantage from catastrophe. One can expect to hear of exciting exploits when such a witch or wizard wields a redwood wand.

Wand core (Ideals): Dragon Heartstring

01.06.1.3 Background - Dreamer#d6 Core (Ideal)

Dragon Heartstring: Change. All good and bad things must come to an end. Change is the nature of existence.

Wand flexibility (Flaws): Flexible

01.06.1.3 Background - Dreamer#d6 Flexibility (Flaw)

Rigid: I can't keep a secret to save my life, or anyone else's.

Relationships

Outbound:

Relationship:: Son of X & Y

Inbound
Related to: Their relationship to this person Their role
Annabelle Featherstone (dec.) Mother of Basil Featherstone Deceased Mother of Basil Featherstone
Maj. Rudolph Augustus Featherstone DSO MC (Ret.) Father of Basil Featherstone Basil's Father

Basil's D.I.A.D.E.M. Abilities

From various player/DM WhatsApp chats:

A young man who is highly attuned to the spirit world. Now everyone sees ghosts in Wizarding World but this young man sees ALL ghosts, including many that others can't see.

Ghosts are attracted to him, and they like him.