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| House Point Totals | |
|---|---|
| Hufflepuff | 5883 |
| Slytherin | 4596 |
| Gryffindor | 3694 |
| Ravenclaw | 3397 |
Trouble for Hogwarts began brewing in Diagon Alley before the 2080-2081 school year even started. Over the summer, a thief slipped by Gringotts’ security goblins and emptied Hogwarts vault 713 of the school’s funds and charter in what appeared to be the perfect crime.
Upon learning about the thievery, Hogwarts’ Headmistress Anastasia Truebridge blamed the Board of Governors Treasurer, Hops Lagerty, while Lagerty blamed the Gringotts goblins and the Gringotts goblins blamed Hogwarts in a vicious circle of irresponsibility. The Headmistress was unable to fill two vacant positions due to the lack of funds, so Governors Ivy Knox and Erik Vinteren volunteered to teach Charms and History of Magic, respectively.
When the year officially started, students and staff alike were stunned by the ‘broke Hogwarts’ changes. Hogwarts’ silverware and plates had been sold to keep the school running, and the school’s elves (save Toddles the baby elf) had mysteriously disappeared. Toddles was no expert cook, so students were forced to eat sub-par and bland food off their assigned paper plates and with their plastic silverware.
The school was also very dirty, as a castle is really too much for one elf to clean, and new turnstile barriers had popped up at the entrances to key parts of the castle. Entry was barred to the Quidditch stands, the library, the astro lab, the Great Hall, and all four common rooms, to name a few, until the person wishing to enter paid the fee (up to ten galleons in some places). If they did not pay and tried to pass, a giant, invisible force field would repel their progress.
ICE CREAM ICE CREAM! A brand-new ice cream machine popped up in the kitchen to supplement the student diet. Not only was the ice cream at least delicious, but it also left the eater feeling extremely bubbly, happy, and bursting to share their love of the dairy treat.
While students and ice cream eating staff were feeling so happy despite the school’s poverty, Gringott’s goblins were moving in to exact their revenge. Hogwarts had apparently been making regular payments on a loan from the bank, but when their vault was emptied, the school defaulted on their loan and the goblins came in to take repossession of the school’s most valuable items as payment. The colorful House gems, furniture from the Hospital wing, man-eating plants, all the telescopes and crystal balls, and various other pieces of furniture and portraits were confiscated in the middle of the night by the goblins. Headmistress Truebridge and Governors were OUTRAGED when they tried to stop the goblins, but they could do little except raise as many funds as possible to save their school.
Students and staff alike rallied together to raise funds. Professor Bentley’s Herbology classes sold flowers in Hogsmeade one weekend to raise money, and the staff and governors threw a Winter Ball Fundraiser to drum up some funds. Just as things were starting to look up, a cold front was moving in.
Everywhere the happy ice cream eaters seemed to go, dementors seemed to follow, from interrupting classes to attacking on the Quidditch pitch, from drawing students to their hideout in the Forbidden Forest to ruining their study time beside the lake. The creepy, cold-bringing creatures were likely drawn to the school by all the ice cream happiness. The ice cream and dementor feeding frenzy came to a peak in a party in the Great Hall one afternoon as part of a potions practical. Potions Mistress Lafay had noticed the growing ice cream addiction and had decided to retaliate with what she called the “Glee Ice Cream Antidote.” The antidote to the happy ice cream was disguised as fudge, caramel, butterscotch, and marshmallow syrup, and once the eater ate a bowl of ice cream with one of those toppings, their happy mood would deflate dramatically.
The potion’s depressing after-effects weren’t helped by the horde of dementors suddenly appearing in the Great Hall. This was their umpteenth attack, but the first the Headmistress actually witnessed. Fortunately, Erik Vinteren was there to save the day with his magical, numerous patronuses… but for Groundskeeper Firth, Vinteren was not fast enough. Firth had jumped in front of Ivy Knox to keep the dementors from performing their deadly kiss but instead, he was kissed himself. As the groundskeeper fell to the ground soul-less, the patronuses did their job and encircled all the staff, including the redheaded target of the Headmistress.
After this final showdown, no more dementors (or ice cream!) was seen around the castle. Hogwarts’ students were still eating off paper plates come the somber end-of-term feast, but at least they all had their souls.