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.
With a member driven story line, monthly games and events, and a friendly and drama-free community focused on quality over quantity, the only thing you can be sure of is fun!
"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.
How are you, dear? How is life outside Hogwarts? I am so jealous of you, Callie! You can attend balls and celebrations whenever you like, while I am stuck here, around books and homework! Has anything interesting happened to you, dear? As for me, nothing ever happens in this castle. Just homework. Callie, I have a feeling that my sisters start to have a better social life than me! I really can't wait until graduation.
Have you read the Daily Prophet lately? I really do not understand what is happening with these upper class men. When did it become so fashionable to marry a prostitute? And then they say the do not want to marry a middle class girl. I wish I could understand what these whores do in order to bewitch them. Maybe they have invented some new kind of amortentia.
Please, write me soon, Callie! It is so boring here.
Juliet, Juliet... how much I miss you! I'm quite well as ever, of course, and I suppose you have good reason for your envy; I certainly can't say I miss Hogwarts at all. Yes, the freedom to do exactly as I like pleases me... and yet, still I am nagged to 'go do something productive' or run a useful errand or two, which puts a damper on anything. And, all truth be told, it's not all balls and celebrations. They are rather rare, and even with ordinary ladies' meetings, it always seems a struggle to get an invite to any upper class houses, as if they are some impossible elite! Still, I haven't yet given up, and I daresay that by the time you've Come Out to society I'll be rather more established.
But anyway, darling, life seems rather lacking in excitement for the both of us.
Therefore, yes, I've had to resort to reading the Prophet upon more than one occasion, and I too am disgusted by the whole marrying-a-whore idea. What could they possibly see in them? Apparently chastity and demurity aren't such valuable traits these days... don't be fooled by what they teach in etiquette lessons, then, Juliet! How am I supposed to find myself a husband when all the respectable gentlemen have taken leave of their senses and picked up prostitutes? Amortentia, you say, thus reminding me there is always a way...
I do hope you are well, Julie, and I expect to hear from you soon!
I hope that my parents will not force me to work in our shop once I graduate. Desmond seems to be obsessed over it, so I hope that he won't approve to see me working with him. If I really have to work, then I want an interesting job.
It really annoys me, Callie, that girls worth marrying end up being old maids when prostitutes and whores are married up in society. It is really not fair. I guess men care more about sleeping with women than who they are going to sleep with. Being a virgin starts to become unfashionable, apparently. I do not claim to be the most proper girl around, but at least I am more chaste than these harlots!
Amortentia is a really powerful potion, if used wisely. I believe that a woman should be really clever when using it. It is hard to make others not suspect you. Besides, I doubt that some girls even know how to prepare the amortensia.
Oh, dear! Working in the shop... for your sake, I too hope you do not have to! That would be such a pity, wouldn't it? I have nothing against working in a shop, for it might, despite having to serve the clients, provide ample opportunity to be shrewdly sociable and mingle with decent people... but Dervish and Banges wouldn't be the place I'd choose, either. Where would you work, given the choice? At least in a seamstress's, one could be surrounded by pretty dresses, I suppose. Luckily for me, father has our step-brother, Sampson to help take care of the shop, and so far, I have been graciously excused having to do such a miserable thing as work.
Your irritation is utterly valid, darling, I completely understand. Everyone knows that a man can sleep with whores all he wants as long as he is rich and his wife is dissatisfying or simply insufferable... but marrying them... it's unheard of. And despicable!
You hold on to your chastity, Julie... for all we know, the good fortune for those harlots is simply a phase; a phase that will be over all too soon, and chastity even more valuable as a result!
And certainly, amortentia is a difficult method to use personally, but if done so discreetly... well, it surely would be effective - though dastardly to maintain if one wanted to keep it up after, say, a marriage. I won't deny love potions haven't crossed my - or any girl's - mind before; and dear Juliet, if you find you are at your wits' end and decide upon a last resort (I wouldn't think any worse of you) I would always be there to help you follow through.
On the other hand, I don't think such a measure will be necessary in my case. I didnt like to mention it in case I was utterly misled or nothing came of it at all, but I may as well drop a hint and tell you that I was mistaken before in thinking nothing exciting was occurring. For there is a man, Juliet - really, truly! - and as of yet, the portents have been nothing if not hopeful. I shall tell you more in time, I promise. Now, tell me more about how you are faring, Julie. What improper things have you been getting up to at Hogwarts?
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