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| House Point Totals | |
|---|---|
| Slytherin | 898 |
| Hufflepuff | 612 |
| Ravenclaw | 506 |
| Gryffindor | 334 |
After what seemed to be a short summer, another year at Hogwarts came rolling around as September approached. The illustrious Headmaster Winterbottom introduced new members of staff; Apollonia Fergersnout teaching History of Magic, Roulan Liu taking the mantle for Charms and Amelia Adara pioneering potions. The term started off rather dramatically with temper tantrums galore, a misplaced spider from Fergersnout’s hat creating havoc amongst the Hufflepuffs, the abuse of the sacred Hogwarts Sorting Hat by an unhappy first year and the docking of points from Gryffindor before the feast had even ended. If the start-of-term feast was anything to go by, it was going to be an eventful few months at Hogwarts.
The first sign of anything going mysteriously, as always seemed to be the case in the castle, was the usually grumpy, work focused Algamus the House Elf handing out baked goods to the students in the entrance hall rather than instructing his fellow elves on their daily chores. With the Head Elf out of action it wasn’t long before the castle was in a state of disrepair. Dust filled the corridors, cobwebs lined the corners of every room and the windows coated in a layer of grime leaving students and staff alike sneezing.
Meanwhile the old mirror on the fourth floor caught the attention of students Mitsuki Rasting, Rowan Fairfax, Brandon Fox and Aurora Ackerly with its strange behaviour. Instead of a reflection being cast back, the mirror showed the image of an old ballroom and occasionally a brief flash of a shadow from the corner of the eye. All four students somehow touched the surface of the mirror which rippled and flashed a bright light upon its disturbance. Not long after this event did the students begin to act strangely themselves, appearing to behave the opposite of their usual selves. It wasn’t just the students that were affected however with Professors Khanna, Carton and Paton also portraying opposing personalities around the school and in lessons.
But what was truly going on? Throughout the year newspaper clippings, shrieking portraits and textbook scribblings all pointed towards the history of the Burke family, a member of which Macarius Burke had been missing since 1858. It appeared that amidst the young man’s arranged betrothal to a Black, Burke created a portal within the mirror in which he and his best friend Ewart Milliphut whom he had been banned from seeing could be themselves without the interference of their families, an alternative life. That same mirror could now be found at Hogwarts on the fourth floor and the number of shadows seen within the frame had increased.
It wasn’t until the end of term, in the midst of a school wide clean up party, that the affected students and staff returned to normal. It seemed that all that needed doing was for those who had previously touched the mirror to do so again, therefore reconnecting their alternative selves back into the mirror and their normal selves to return back to Hogwarts. Thankfully for those within the mirror, the events of the term had only felt like a day rather than the months it had been. Furthermore the memories of the alternative selves morphed with those of the originals and any knowledge gained from the term’s lessons were shared to the students meaning they hadn’t lost a year of education. Whilst in the mirror the students and staff were able to speak to Macarius and learn of his story. It was this knowledge that presented a self made spell, ‘Amacita’ meaning friendship, which when spoken broke Burke’s mirror confinement allowing his spirit to be released.
With the school seemingly back to normality, the term was able to close without a hitch.