#the wizarding world

If you read even A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration, you will surely come across the story of Calopa Bolingbrooke. The classic tale of an Animagus gone wrong, Calopa attempted the hideously complex spell during her second year at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. It is unclear exactly what went wrong- rumor has it that she said anthoswhere she should have said athos-but she was quickly transferred to the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, where she had a long and successful career as a counselor to those unfortunate witches and wizards whose accidental magic wasn’t entirely reversible. 

Of course, the textbooks don’t mention this- they leave you with a single shocking photo, and a dire warning. Calopa’s public story begins and ends with her sitting on that bench in a garden. No one thinks to ask who took the picture.

(Their wedding cake was lovely, according to all reports- beautifully floral).

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There are names that every child in the Wizarding World knows.

Remus Lupin

Nymphadora Tonks

Fred Weasley

Colin Creevey

Alastor Moody

Names made famous by the survivors, by the ones who lived and triumphed and made their names known.

But there are names lost to that time of terror, names which vanished into the ether with their bearer’s last breath.

The Hampton family, who were crossing the Brockdale Bridge at the exact wrong time.

The kindly witch in Kent who took in Muggle-born orphans and died trying to protect them from a Death Eater raid.

The 34 orphans living with her at the time.

Their parents, dragged into the Ministry and disappeared, while they ran and ran and ran.

The bodies that burned behind Malfoy manor, unknown and uncared for.

The unknown fighters who fell at the Battle of Hogwarts, disfigured beyond recognition and without family to miss them

So many others, lost to hunger and fear, to torture and prejudice.

Don’t forget the unknown names, the ones without a voice to speak for them.  They tried to erase them from this world, sure that they were inconsequential.

Prove them wrong.  

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