Added a few more characters, and some of my existing characters have also gone through some character development so I thought I'd update the playlists. Nigel “Rewrite” by Asian Kung-Fu Generation Nigel has access to Time Turners, so he's one of the few (if not the only) character with the power to ...

Jae's Active Threads Diether Metz Silencing the Siren Song – with Erynhil Zaheer and Mera Zaheer Evelyn Darke Goldman Quidditch Boot Camp – with Aubrey Morris and Quidditch players The Griffin and the Serpent – with Laguna Lestrange and Zeke Smith Nobody Puts Baby in a Dungeon – with Camellia Fah a...

Groups and Organisations The Salisbury Fools Intention: An unofficial group of officials from the Ministry of Magic who pledged themselves to changing the Ministry for the better in the aftermath the Global Wizarding War. They saw the Ministry as ineffective and weak, and hoped to change the Minist...

Randomly remembered that some Harry Potter games have basic attack spells, such as the Basic Cast from Hogwarts Legacy, and the Combat Bolt from Wizards Unite. I'm not sure what colour the spell should be... so I shall leave the choice up to the individual wizards. Also added a spell modifier for fu...

Having Cabhan as a supplier of wolfsbane for Nigel would be great. I'm thinking what we could do with that... maybe Nigel needed an extra dose of it urgently for some reason? Or we could have a thread about how they first settled on this agreement, or perhaps a situation where Nigel was forced to re...

Right off the bat, I'd like to ask a quick question: does Cabhan hide the scars on his forearms? I'm asking mainly because Nigel has scars on his arms and back, but he conceals them to avoid having to answer any questions about them. Apart from that, Nigel is always looking to buy wolfsbane to brew ...

WILDFIRE, BOGGART RAVAGE HOGWARTS GROUNDS, HOGSMEADE By Jamie Straiton HOGSMEADE, Scotland, November 5, 2005 — Fear and fire swept across the castle grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the nearby village of Hogsmeade early this morning. According to eyewitness accounts, a mass...

Mal and Louis were in their Fourth Year when Zahir started attending Hogwarts. I'm not sure if they would have known each other then, but it could be more likely that they met Zahir after their graduation. Mal might have known Zahir either as a customer at his café/bar, or a client for his informati...

Ely wouldn’t be the only one addressing Integra as “Professor Sigma” :P I feel Nigel, the Transfiguration professor, would do so too. (Though in his case, it’s partially out of respect and partially because he’s still secretly a bit afraid of her.) Hmm… Integra was planning to retire from the Minist...

Integra was the Arithmancy professor at Hogwarts from 1968 till the late 1980s, after which she headed the Department of Magical Education until 1999 before returning to Hogwarts as a professor. In light of this, I presume Ely and Integra would be quite familiar with each other. As for their relatio...

KYLE Before I go into the writing exercise proper, I’d like to start off with how this character came to be. I felt it might be interesting to create a character who subverts stereotypes: he’s a Slytherin but also a Muggle-born, and while he’s a jock but he’s neither a jerk nor the popular and char...

Quite a while back I went on a short sabbatical in Edinburgh to reacquaint myself with screenwriting, and one of the major takeaways I got was how to flesh out characters. We had a couple of writing exercises about characters; I’m condensing them all into a single template that I hope would be usefu...

Magical Artefacts and Substances: Name: Broomstick flight instruments array Type of object: Broomstick accessory Description: A two-inch wide golden disc comprising several dials stacked upon one another, topped off with a small button engraved with a pair of wings. On the reverse side, two slim cu...

This is quite a huge wall of text... do let me know if I should summarise it, or move parts of it onto Mal's profile instead. :) Businesses & Public Establishments: Name: The Curious Chimaera Location: Knockturn Alley Type of establishment: Hybrid café/bar and base of operations for Malachi’s in...

Nigel teaches Transfiguration, and I presume most, if not all, students will be taking the subject during the first five years at Hogwarts. Would Cassander be interested in learning about other areas of Transfiguration such as becoming an Animagus? If so, Nigel could mentor and guide him along. By a...

Just adding on a few random and more interesting words and phrases that I know to the list. I'm not from the UK, so do correct me if there are any errors. Expletives and Insults and Negative Words Chuffing (Northern England) – Used for emphasis (similar to 'bleeding', or as a mild expletive. You can...

Aye. I'll see what I can come up with for Darcy and Nigel too, but feel free to start a thread whenever you're ready :D

I’ve got a couple of ideas for some of my characters: Nigel is a fellow Hufflepuff alumnus and a professor at Hogwarts. He’s quite familiar with Muggle culture and technology; in particular he has a soft spot for older tech and timepieces due to his keen interest in mechanical systems, and he even o...

Mal does have dealings with some Aurors and Hit Wizards. He might not always be on the Ministry’s side, but he has his reasons for doing what he does. Ultimately he wants to make the world a better place for everyone, and he’s more than willing to help the Ministry if the Ministry’s goals happen to ...

I have a couple of ideas for some of my other characters. Many of them like to colour outside the lines, and I'm guessing that’s something that Vera doesn’t really like. If Vera fancies a good drink, would there be a chance that she has visited the Curious Chimaera before? It’s a hybrid café/bar own...

I can see Vera being someone whom Integra is more comfortable with as well. As fellow colleagues at the Wizengamot, Integra wouldn't have terrorised her like some of her former students (Nigel is still somewhat afraid of her, for instance). Considering how they've worked together in the past, Integr...

Vera and Integra would definitely have met each other. Integra is a Wizengamot member, so perhaps they might have worked together in the past too? Apart from the Wizengamot, Integra and Vera would probably have be in different departments within the Ministry of Magic (Integra was heading the Departm...

I belatedly realised that in my excitement to post I forgot to set the context for the boggart event. Not too long ago we were thinking about creating a site-wide event with a few threads linked to the event. For each of these threads, we would randomly pick a few characters and a location; this wou...

Music inspires me a lot and helps me get into the right mood, especially for writing. As such I’m usually listening to music, or I have a song stuck in my head (right now it's “Impossible” by Nothing but Thieves). Along the way I came up with some songs that I’ve come to associate with my characters...

Nigel would be able to mentor Martin. As the transfiguration professor and a former Unspeakable who was trained in Occlumency, he would be able to help Martin become an Animagus and Occlumens. Nigel would also be quite familiar with the rigorous and scientific approach that Martin favours, since tra...