Charming is a Victorian Era Harry Potter roleplay set primarily in the village of Hogsmeade, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the non-canon village of Irvingly. Characters of all classes, both magical and muggle — and even non-human! — are welcome.
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"Are you always this forward?" He asked teasingly since it would be a very short thread if he just ignored her entirely. — Tobin Cartwright in Take A Peek
Did you know? Churchgoers and worshippers had to endure a foul stench during prayers due to the amount of bodies often stored within the vaults of churches and chapels.
My brother, Somersby, showed me yesterday’s paper.
I would have written then, but I did not feel as though I could convey what it was I wanted—needed—to say. After sleeping on the matter, I want for you to know that, first and foremost, your friendship has long been one that I have valued deeply, and that will not change. I mourn deeply that I will not get to exchange whispers with you in the middle of the night, nor come to you with a difficult homework problem, nor see your lovely face each day at breakfast, but in the ways that truly matter, in the depths of my heart, our friendship will not change at all.
I cannot begin to imagine how you must be feeling, and I shall not begrudge you if you decline to respond to me at all. Know only that I remain most ardently your friend, whatever shape that bond might take in the months to come.
Thank you so much for writing. I hope you can keep doing so when you go back to Hogwarts. I don't know much yet about what is going to happen but I will let you know once I do. I think I would have ended up telling you anyway, even if it hadn't been in the newspaper, because I can't imagine
I think Papa has a plan. I think we will be alright. I hope so.
It pleases me to know that you are alright, or at least that you will be. If you like, I will forward you copies of all of my assignments and notes from school so that you shan’t miss out on an education just because you’re a werewolf of the misfortunes you’ve experienced and our troll of a headmaster.
I waited to write this because today is the day we went to the Ministry to talk about... well, everything, and I wanted to be able to tell you about it, but now I'm not sure
Well, of course I was going to tell you anyway, but I don't know whether this will be a very cheerful letter, so I'm sorry that I didn't respond to yours earlier with something better. I would love for you to send me assignments from school. Ruby keeps trying to say that not being able to go back to Hogwarts is a positive thing which is just--I don't know whether she even knows me at all, when she says things like that. I'm hardly the sort of person who can be content just wandering around Hogsmeade buying hair ribbons like she does, and that's hardly a way to have any kind of life. Other people have been trying to point out the 'bright side' about not having to go through exams and it's so hard to smile at them when they talk like that, and be polite. I know they're just trying to be nice because they feel sorry for me but it's so difficult to pretend that any of this is helping. That boy at school who's a year above us, Mr. Pine, wrote me and he started talking about how great it is not to go back to school like other people have done, and then said something about how 'the werewolf problem' is the Ministry's fault--I suppose he thinks this will make me feel better but I hardly know how to respond to something like that! One of my father's acquaintances wrote and told me that werewolves are more acceptable in Japan (where she is from) because they have more space to let them 'roam free'--as if the idea of the thing that attacked me loping peacefully through some hills somewhere was supposed to be comforting. How on earth am I meant to respond to that? I've just been trying to be polite and trying to remember that everyone means so well, but
But this letter is getting very far off track, and I'm sorry. Yes, I would like it if you would send me some of your schoolwork. I would like that very much. I think perhaps you're one of only a few people in the entire world who really understand me and I don't know what I would do without you.
Papa took me to the Ministry today and we met with a man who works in the Werewolf Capture Unit, Mr. Fisk. They have places there, in the Ministry, though he said usually they only use them for people they have captured and need to keep secure until they can be charged and go to trial--because of course running around on full moons and attacking and maybe killing people is illegal. That's the only place where... well it's the only approved place to be during a full moon, so that's where I'll be going when
From this point forward, Topaz's handwriting is shaky and at some places the ink is smeared so as to barely be legible.
Oh, Holliday, I was trying to be very brave and mature about all of this but they're awful. They really do look like the kind of places that you would lock up a criminal before they go to Azkaban, they're all just stone with no windows and so many bars on the doors you can barely see inside, and there are all these chains to keep you from being able to move around the room too much. Mr. Fisk let us look and the chains are so big I don't know whether I could even lift one and I don't know how they're going to put those things on me without my just being crushed beneath them. I don't have to stay there except for about an hour before the moon comes up and I'll get to go home in the morning but they use those cells for criminals and I'll have to walk in and out of there every day past whoever they have caught. What if the thing that attacked me is found and then they put me in the cell right next to him? Do you think I would know who he was? Oh, Holliday, I can't bear it!
I tried to be so brave when we were at the Ministry because I didn't want Papa to think that I was scared but Holliday, I'm so scared. I don't know how I'm going to face that every month for the rest of my life, but there's nothing else that I can do. Everyone knows about me now, and even if they didn't it's not as though there's any real alternative, unless I wanted to turn into the beast that the Prophet seems to think I am and go running through the woods and maybe hurt someone else or maybe even kill someone and I
I'm sorry, I shouldn't be writing all of this to you. You shouldn't have to deal with all of this. I just had to tell someone and I'm afraid that if I tell Ruby how awful it was she'll say something to Papa--not maliciously, of course, but she would want to try and help and she might ask Papa if there's anything else we can do, and I already know there isn't. I wish anything could be different, anything at all, but this is how things are now and I
I wish someone had a cure for this. I don't want to turn into a monster every month.
Thank you for still being my friend, Holliday. I really need a friend, right now.
I wish it too, all that and more. And of course, I wish there was something I could do for you! Even if I cannot cure you, I feel so utterly rubbish as your friend to not be able to do anything to bring you comfort. I know that there is nothing that I could possibly say to make this better for you, but please know, again, that I love you dearly and am proud indeed to call someone so brave my friend.
Staring at your empty bed breaks my heart, so I have abandoned the dormitory for the common room instead. Yours is not the only face missing from Ravenclaw tower this year, but is the one I miss most. Who else shall I spend my nights gossiping with? Who else shall I come to in a panic when I realize I’ve not finished an essay? How am I supposed to survive this year, and the three after it, without you as my companion?
Oh Topaz, I hate so much to be selfish, especially when keenly aware of what you must be undergoing as I write this. I hope that my words bring you some comfort tomorrow when you read them, and that this chocolate frog will help to ease the heartache.
Thank you for the chocolate frog. I wish I could be at Hogwarts, too. I wanted to write and say you could still do all those things but I know letters aren't the same. I'm sorry.
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