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Background: Troublemaker
Role:: Hufflepuff student (1st year in 1939)
Character Events
| Session | Interactions |
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| 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 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 | Bernard (Cassie's Niffler) steals an anklet from A 4th year Hufflepuff girl, bringing it back to Cassie |
| 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 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 | Cassie Weasley deceives Penelope (Penny) Perkins into completing the first night homework set by Jackdaw Finch. Penelope (Penny) Perkins ultimately ropes her study buddy (Vi Thorne in to helping too, eventually completing the homework and learning that it was not necessary for her) |
| 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 docked 5 house points by Mirabel Garlick for being rude about a teacher (Jackdaw Finch) |
| 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 | Vi Thorne & Cassie Weasley (Karima) meet Agnes Finch, a fellow Hufflepuff 1st year who revealed herself as the niece of Jackdaw Finch and the missing Septimus Finch |
| 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 | 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 | Cassie Weasley seeks some familiarity in Quidditch, but instead finds the arena mothballed because Professor Cirrus Vane, a former Bow Hammers U21, has not joined the faculty for the start of term. She has "extended her summer break for personal reasons". There will be no flying lessons or Quidditch tryouts until after the October Half Term. |
| 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 | 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 02 - First Lessons | Cassie Weasley invited to meet Prof. Myrddin Blishwick in the Divination Tower. There she learns the first hints of Tasseomancy & Cleromancy and feels able to unload her concerns about the upcoming conflict on an understanding authority figure. Prof. Blishwick shares that he too has had similar visions. |
| Session 02 - First Lessons | Prof. Myrddin Blishwick extends an open invitation to Cassie Weasley of Diviner's Kit proficiency training. And offers to be there for guidance and training even before she has a chance to take Divination as an elective subject from year two. |
| Session 03 - Foray Into the Forbidden Forest | Cassie Weasley begins Proficiency Training in Diviner's Kit with Prof. Blishwick |
| 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 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 | 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 observes Beatrice (Madam) Willow adding some foul black concoction to her potions. The party later learns that this is to make her medicines taste bad ("if they enjoy the medicine, there's no incentive to get better") |
| 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 | Cassie Weasley antagonises Marcus Muldoon during the joint (Forbidden Forest) Potions/Herbology class with Slytherin House, tripping him so that he falls into Horace Slughorn |
| 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 | Vi & Cassie encounter unprecedentedly aggressive(!) Flobberworms |
| 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 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | At breakfast one morning in The Great Hall, Cassie closely observes the Hogwarts Faculty as Armando Dippet espouses non-intervention with Muggles yet again. She strongly senses that both Mirabel Garlick and Silvanus Kettleburn are interventionist-inclined |
| Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | After Cassie Weasley empties Bernard's pouch she finds not just the galleon stolen during Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts but also two silver sickles. |
| Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | Cassie reveals to her friends that her family is moving to Ottery St Catchpole. She gives little more detail than that. |
| Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | Needing guidance on Bernard's stolen galleon, Cassie writes a letter to Newt Scamander (Magizoologist). "My name is Cassie Weasley. I know you know nifflers and the ministry gave me one. Can I stop my niffler stealing things?". She encloses the galleon in question and sends it with the BMF Owl - one of Hogwart's hardiest. |
| Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | Her interest in him piqued, Cassie seeks out a Newt Scamander (Portrait). Finding a relatively new and lowly mounted frame with his name in it, he himself was not present. However a Highland Cow with an extremely prominent coiffeuse was munching joyfully in his frame |
| Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere | Vi continues to practice her Potion making. Using the ingredients obtained in the forest (plus quills from Prof. Kettleburn) she makes a standard Blemish Blitzer and using Horace Slughorn's blatant favouritisim for Vi as a distraction, Cassie is able to whip up a Fungiface Potion on the sly. Vi tests her creations on the ever-willing Plop (Vi's toad) |
| 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 | During Arania Exumai training, Cassie falls unconscious, experiencing a Seeing Eye event of unusual potency. Floating above the Hogwarts Valley she sees the world as if it is a map made of the most fragile glass. Something ancient and powerful swells beneath the surface threatening to fracture the scene at multiple points: deep beneath Hogwarts, the road into Hogsmeade and Locharbor. Using some power from within her wand, Cassie seals the ruptures at the muggle village and the scene explodes from the other two points. An ominous portent for some as-yet-unsparked future event. |
| 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 successfully completed her proficiency training in Diviner's Kit with Myrddin Blishwick. After a very intensive first half term, she was left with the impression that perhaps she had imposed upon him enough for now, but he emphasised he remains there to consult on visions or anything else she needs guidance on |
| 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 | Myrddin Blishwick identifies the village in Cassie's 'affected vision' as being Locharbor, 3 miles from the castle grounds here in the Hogwarts Valley. |
| 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 | Cassie sneaks away and meets Shonky, a gruff worker-elf. Shonky advises that one way to access The Humblewood Crypt might be to find the Room of Requirement in just the right place to require a staircase down. |
| 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 | Cassie pretends to be a distressed child, seeking to either draw Jackdaw Finch out of the cave or to distract the British soldiers. She inadvertantly moves through the illusory dome and glimpses the mining equipment beyond before returning to the successful subterfuge. |
| Session 05 - Trouble at the Mine | Cassie witness the arrival of Jackdaw Finch and Kiko into the fray with the muggle soldiers. Jackdaw Finch Obliviates them as Cassie Wingardium Leviosas the leader's weapon when gunfire breaks out. Kiko then does some kind of Finger-of-Death bullshit on the Lieutenant who dies immediately. Jackdaw Finch is not pleased. |
| 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! | 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 ponder Vi's ability to sense Ancient Magic, associating it with the strange windows in the Cold Plant Room. Vi questions how the ministry knew of her ability even before she did, and resolves to ask her mother about this at some stage |
| Session 06 - Arania Exumai! | Vi & Cassie hit the library in the final week of the first half term. Cassie seeks information on the whereabouts of the Room of Requirement, whilst Vi researches ancient magic. Both also seek any information about Eleonora Humblewood (dec.) or The Humblewood Crypt but find nothing more. |
| Session 06 - Arania Exumai! | Cassie learns that the Room of Requirement last manifest (as a lavatory) some 80 years ago and has not been seen since |
| 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! | Vi touches the mysterious crystal and is fired backwards directly into the Freezer Field, whereupon she is electrocuted back again by a solitary conjured spider that remains in the room, presumably since the last lesson. In a brief moment where they were both connected to the stone, Cassie shares a memory of Vi as a child with a grazed knee being administered Star Grass Salve by her mother, Morwenna (Moira) Thorne. Vi Episkeys herself back to health, with obvious cause to further ponder the nature of ancient magic |
| 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! | Cassie busts into the professors' desk in the Cold Plant Room and finds a paper Book - On The Properties of Star Grass, co-written by Septimus Finch and Morwenna (Moira) Thorne. She also finds a large stack of seemingly coded papers, taking a random sample of 12 for future use or investigation. Drawing this to Vi's attention, Vi gathers up 10 further papers from the collection of Septimus Finch on various herbological and alchemical subjects. |
| 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 07 - Falling Down | Cassie spends autumn half term 1939 at Hogwarts, in part as petulent refusal to consider The Burrow (plot) her home rather than The Weasley Tentement in London |
| 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 | During half term, Cassie seeks to research the ancient crystal she took from Cold Plant Room. FInding nothing in School Library (open section) she seeks to bust into School Library (restricted section) |
| 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 | Cassie asks Headmaster Dippet about the crystal she took from Cold Plant Room (pretending she found it in the Forbidden Forest Test Pit). Dippet says that they are inert unless imbued with some sort of power and he seems unrecognising and unaware of any special significance to this particular crystal. Cassie does not share where she truly found it or the effect it seemed o have on them (and on Vi expecially) |
| 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 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 | Vi helps a group of Hogwarts Kitchen Elves extinguish a fire caused presumably by the earthquake or perhaps (as becomes apparent) by the evident misfiring of the House Elves natural magic. In helping them, Vi realises that her own magic, whilst still casting from her wand, is augmented by random additional effects - conjuring coins, a temporary Veela Charm, giving Cassie a Periculum-red glow for about 13 minutes. |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Cassie frees Liam Flaherty from beneath a butchers block in the seismically ruined School Kitchens. With a crafty use of Vera Verto she transmutes the weight holding him. |
| 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 | Shonky, in a genuine attempt to be helpful, casts a spell that misfires, instead creating a swarm of Cornish Pixies that immediately set upon Cassie |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Cassie takes a heavy blow from the Pixie Swarm and is rendered unconscious amidst the chaos of the misfiring Kitchen Elves magic and quake-ruined School Kitchens |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Vi bravely throws herself upon the prone form of Cassie, sustaining a Protego shield around them as she casts Episkey to restore Cassie to consciousness. As both spells once again trigger a random magical side effect for Vi nothing too awful befalls them. |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Cassie removes all but one of the pesky Pixies, using Digitus Wibbly which affected their wings as much as their fingers |
| 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 | Cassie shares the detail of her vision of the glass-map Hogwarts Valley with Jackdaw Finch but is unable to get him away from Armando Dippet as she does so and presumes he overheard at least some of it. |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Cassie reveals to both Jackdaw Finch and Armando Dippet that she knows Specialis Revelio. She did not explain specifically that this is somehow attributable to her Elder Wand. |
| Session 08 - Aftermath | Jackdaw Finch reassures Cassie that "if you truly can exert some influence over events consider that a blessing. You did not condemn two places, but saved one. And a noble one at that." (in reference to Locharbor). Cassie remains troubled by the undeniably troubling events however. |
| 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 receives a reply from Newt Scamander (by way of his his portrait) regarding Bernard's kleptomania. "Nifflers do as nifflers will. Return everything with someone's name on and keep the rest!" |
| 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 casts her Grindylow Bones to help Vi divine a way to access the Herbology Greenhouses and find Prof. Garlick |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 observes the landscape and identifies ancient magical disturbances (if that is what they are) in: The Forbidden Forest (where sparks and lights flare upwards and downwards seemingly at random), the Herbology Greenhouses which are running rampant, the disused wing around the Room of Requirement and towards the School Kitchens and also the 8.4.09 Black Lake which is roiling and rolling as if shaken from below |
| 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 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 | Cassie receives an entreaty from her mother to help the poor folk of Locharbor. In support of Santa Claus they are to deliver gifts and cheering surprises for the muggle children in the village. This flies in the face of the International Statute of Secrecy, but typifies Lavender's care for 'the less well off' (muggles, however 'wealthy' in muggle terms) |
| Session 09 - Ghosts of Christmas Past | Bernard repeatedly escapes Cassie's pocket and keeps returning with extremely shiny baubles and Christmas decorations. Concerned for his safety when he takes longer than usual one time, Cassie begins developing Objectum Revelio, a spell of her own devising that she manages to master by seeking Bernard's favourite galleon, now made distinctive with shiny foil wrapping |
| 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 | During the course of events, Cassie learns through Eleonora's Mote that in her life, Eleonora had also encountered the Yule Ghoul. In fact that would likely have been the last time it was manifest. Cassie sees in a vision shared by the mote that the Yule Ghoul that looks like a 1930s British soldier now, also looked like that in Eleonora's era too - somehow it transcends time. Cassie got an uneasy sense that the Yule Ghoul knew this place and knew it well. As if it were a student of this place in this time. |
| 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 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 | Over the break, Vi and Cassie question their matriarchs, Morwenna (Moira) Thorne and Lavender Weasley, regarding the seismic magical events and political shifts that occurred during their first term at Hogwarts. |
| Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet | Vi and Cassie perform clandestine research into the death of Annabelle Victoria Featherstone, discovering she was a Muggle socialite and stage star whose untimely demise around 1928 involved a visit from the Ministry Accidental Magical Reversal Squad. |
| Session 10 - The Keys to the Broom Closet | Granny Nell (Cornelia Weasley) reacts with unnerving urgency to Cassie's report of recent school events; after unlocking a private bureau and retrieving a sheaf of papers, she disapparates to an unknown destination. |
| 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 11 - First Year Flyby | Cassie & Vi learn Inanimatus Conjurus. During the course of which Vi summons an ornate perfume bottle and Cassie a one-handed wall clock - the start of another project and a reminder of one her father gave to her mother. |
| 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 | Vi notices Penelope (Penny) Perkins acting strangely. Upon investigation, Penny is wired on a cocktail of Baruffio's Brain Elixir & Wide-Eye Potion. As Cassie stashes Penny's supply (in Agnes Finch's side table!), Vi takes Penny to sleep (ot whatever!) it off in the Hospital Wing |
| Session 11 - First Year Flyby | Intending to try and bypass the Ministry of Magic squad at the Hogsmeade sinkhole, Cassie obtains from Jackdaw Finch a sample of Percival Graves' signature. She uses it to forge a permission slip to enter the skinkhole. |
| 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 | 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 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 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 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 casts Specialis Revelio on the Enchanted Rubber Duck, and despite a dose of exhaustion for Cassie, Prof. Dumbledore is then able to untransfigure the duck, revealing Eleonora Humblewood's Grimoire of Low-Level Obscure Spells |
| 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 14 - Spring 1940 | Cassie heads to the Hogwarts Trophy Room in search of Barty Finch's Hufflepuff Cup. Avoiding Reginald (Reggie) Cattermole, Cassie discovers a papier mache replica of a cup awarded years earlier to Morwenna (Moira) Thorne for potioneering achievements |
Cassie's Wand
Wand Summary
Background:: Troublemaker
Length: 13.5 inches
Wood: Elder
Core: Phoenix feather
Flexibility: Flexible
From player back story
Her most prized possession, and her biggest secret, was her wand. Made of rare elder wood, it hummed with a quiet power that felt almost too grand for an eleven-year-old. When she first went to Ollivanders, the shop had practically glowed as the wand flew into her hand. Ollivander himself, pale and shaken, had immediately recognised the rare wood and its implications.
Wand length (Bonds): 13.5"
See 01.06.1.10 Background - Troublemaker#d6 Length (Bond)
13.5": No one else is going to have to endure the hardships I've been through.
Wand wood (Traits): Elder (very rare)
01.06.1.10 Background - Troublemaker#d4 Wood (Personality Traits)
The rarest wand wood of all, and reputed to be unlucky (a baseless superstition), elder wands are trickiest to master. They contain powerful magic, but scorn any owner who is not a superior caster; it takes a remarkable wizard to keep an elder wand. The truth is that only a highly unusual person will find their perfect match in elder, but that witch or wizard in question is certainly marked out for a special destiny.
Wand core (Ideals): Phoenix Feather
01.06.1.10 Background - Troublemaker#d6 Core (Ideal)
Phoenix Feather: Freedom. When people follow rules blindly, they imprison themselves.
Wand flexibility (Flaws): Flexible
01.06.1.10 Background - Troublemaker#d6 Flexibility (Flaw)
Flexible: I'll say anything to avoid having to do extra work.
Relationships
Outbound:
Relationship:: Younger sister of Septimus Weasley
Relationship:: Older sister of Fabian Weasley, Gideon Weasley, Bilius Weasley, Fern Weasley & Arthur Weasley
Relationship: Daughter of Perseus (Percy) Weasley & Lavender Weasley
Relationship:: Granddaughter of Cornelia (Nell) Weasley (Granny Nell)
Inbound
Cassie's Openly-Shared Back Story
Her most prized possession, and her biggest secret, was her wand. Made of rare elder wood, it hummed with a quiet power that felt almost too grand for an eleven-year-old. When she first went to Ollivanders, the shop had practically glowed as the wand flew into her hand. Ollivander himself, pale and shaken, had immediately recognised the rare wood and its implications. He was required to notify Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic of such a significant, almost fated, wand choice. This revelation made Cassie an anomaly, marking her as someone touched by unusual magic. Cassie, however, found the attention unsettling and always hid her wand with her Gran Nell's knitted "wandom", a practical way to ensure her powerful secret stayed just that: a secret.
This formal notification to the Ministry, in August 1939, brought an immediate and somewhat unwelcome response. Just days after Cassie's visit to Ollivanders, two stern-faced Ministry officials arrived at the tentament in Mile End, their robes looking comically out of place against the backdrop of gritty East London. Their interest was clear: a gifted young witch, chosen by an exceptionally rare wand, and exhibiting an innate talent for Divination. With Grindelwald's influence growing across Europe and the shadows of a Muggle war looming, the Ministry was intensely focused on preventing any particularly powerful British students from being lured to darker institutions like Durmstrang Institute, known for its more dubious magical leanings and less-than-stringent policies on Dark Arts.
As part of their ongoing "discussions" and perhaps as a subtle attempt to curry favour and ensure Cassie's loyalty, the Ministry officials presented her with an unexpected gift: a tiny, baby Niffler. It was no bigger than her hand, with soft black fur and an impossibly long snout, already sniffing eagerly at the buckles on the officials' briefcases. Cassie, utterly enchanted, immediately named him "Bernard," a rather dignified name for such a mischievous little creature. The Niffler, notorious for its love of all things glittery, became Cassie's constant, if sometimes troublesome, companion, a living, breathing symbol of the Ministry's unusual interest in her.