SPOILER!!: Narrator and Scabior (and all of yous too)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
The Narrator 
As you turn the page, you notice that there isn't much about the previous text. Just a small chart. A small chart that seems to be missing something.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kaos.Doodles <snip>
As Vickers made his way to the articles, after talking to his housemate, Scabior gave him an approving nod. "Nice thinking Mr. Vanderbilt." Perhaps...just perhaps...there might be some relation in the articles. "Try looking for one of those papers around the same year." Or the years before or after. The really old papers of course. Scabior hopped off the table was sitting and even made his way over to help.
<snip>
Scabiors brows came together. Roll count missing? He reached over to another table grabbing one of the copies of Hogwarts, A History and turned to the chapter that Milton was talking about. "No doubt the Headmaster just didn't calculate the roll....or didn't want it written for some reason."
Vickers peered carefully at the next page of their History book, brows furrowing thoughtfully as the other Ravenclaw boy mentions about the missing roster for 1753.
"Could it be something as simple as an oversight?" he murmured doubtfully
"I mean it is usually school protocol to take the student roster... not something to simply forget about for a year..."
He was still perusing the pages of the chapter when he heard the word
orb again. He rarely spoke of it for the practical reason that he knew nothing of it, at least nothing significant. His Uncle had let slip accidentally about an o
rbject when the older man went to check on his nephew out of worry during his visit to the school. It never occurred to this Ravenclaw that the freezing trend and the crystalline ball were even connected. But now apparently that thing was broken and... he still didnt know how that connected to anything.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
The Narrator As a group of you are flipping through newspaper articles one particular tattered page floats onto the floor.
SPOILER!!: Old Daily Prophet Article
Silence From the Castle Finally Ends
21 June 1754
Perhaps we shall never know why the professors and students at Hogwarts School have refused contact with those outside the castle for the past school year, although speculation from parents and the Board of Governors abound. Mercurio Medfast, governor for four years and father of two Hogwarts students, commented for the Hogsmeade Harbinger, "It is of our opinion that Headmaster Blacio is hoping to make use of the affection we have for our families through this misguided and immature show of temper. My children would most certainly have returned for Christmas and Easter if under their own power. What he hopes to prove by exerting his authority is unknown."
Indeed, the Headmaster and his staff prove elusive for those seeking comment regarding the silence over the course of the term, which only seems to further the speculation that Dark Magic was performed upon the students in residence at the bequest of the Head. Head Boy and seventh year Slytherin Herald Escalante, class of 1753, agreed to speak to the Harbinger, although his untruths made any testimony implausible. Herald Escalante insisted that he was still the Head Boy, despite his supposed graduation a year ago. Ravenclaw Daniel Westbrooks, supposed sixth year, refused opportunity to comment, insisting he had OWLs for which to prepare, and Hufflepuff Amarantha de Talone, also class of 1753, would only say that they had been asked by the staff not to speak with journalists.
Lies? Refusal to speak? The Harbinger begs the indulgence of its readers in this story, as hard facts are impossible to find. What we know is that this is a mystery that may never be solved, especially with students sworn to secrecy and professors playing as willing pawns in Blacio's game.
Going back to his skimming of articles he was putting away parchments and parchments of unrelated topics when he saw a loose leaf float towards the floor. He listened to Louisa read passages aloud and caught her eye. He stared back clueless.
"Can I read that?" he uttered shifting over the table and so he can read the delicate parchment carefully.
"Article was published in June of 1754..." he murmured
"Interviews of student and staff-- wait did that Head Boy say he was still student leader when he should've graduated the previous term?... And this one kept insisting about OWLs when he should've been done with that a year ago too..."
He leans back onto his seat, brows furrowed, tapping his fingers unconciously against the pages of the book in front of him
"We have an entire school year's roster missing, and students that did manage to talk about it are seemingly missing a whole year of their lives...." Eyes falls back to Kurumi
"... as if they've all just blinked away a full year." He'd find that hard to believe if only they all didnt see first hand how their fellow students like Kurumi blinked away several weeks as if it was nothing...
But there was something else...
"Do you guys think there was some kind of Dark Magic involved, or was that simply opinion passed off as fact? We have no proof of Dark Magic other than what this article say... and really you cant take people's behavior towards journalist as proof." Otherwise they'd be on a never-ending witch hunt for journalists or the craft would simply be extinct
"The only proof we do have is the flooding, the mold infestation, a missing school roster and old interview quotes of people with gaped memories."