5.) November 09 – Current:

Graduation – it’s here, it’s now. You’ve waited for seven years, enduring the classes, studying for the exams, making your friends, examining your enemies, and dealing with everyone in between.

Graduation – it’s here again, but it still isn’t the one you’re looking for. You have another year to go, two years maybe, or even six yet. You’re feeling happy, you’re feeling envious.

Whatever year you’re in, everyone agrees that spirits are high. Summer is looming right around the corner calling to you with its sunshine and promise of adventure. You’ll be leaving Hogwarts soon, some of you forever…some for only a few months. The only thing that matters now is making sure you’re remembered somehow, leaving your memory roaming the halls.

What mark will you leave?

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4.) June 09 – November 09:

Summer. It’s only one, simple month away. Entering in to the final weeks of May, many students only wish it were that easy. For the younger years, the every day stress of just keeping up with last minute homework and studying for finals can be a major hardship. For the fifth years, one of the biggest tests yet is just around the corner: OWLs. Perhaps the seventh year’s worries are the largest of them all though, with NEWTs so dangerously close and cramming sessions becoming more frequent. Not only that, but with the close of another year, that means Hogwarts will be losing an entire year worth of students come graduation. It’s always a difficult time. But some…more so than others.

Word has begun to spread more rapidly throughout the school about the two mysterious deaths to take place this past school year, as well as an incident regarding one poor girl’s loss of memory. Could the three mishaps be linked? Or was it by sheer coincidence? And the more pressing question in everyone’s mind: can they finish out the year without having another ordeal? The teacher’s have been on higher alert, sending out Prefects more then usual, the professors themselves making more rounds at night. Even the ghosts have become something of another guard; watching out for the students and making sure curfews are enforced. While the security may be tight Hogwarts remains the place it always has and always will be: a home to its students, welcoming and inviting.

But when your home is being threatened…to what lengths will you go to protect it?

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3.) Dec. 08 – June 09:

As the fears continue to grow – three deaths and people are bound to talk – so do the suspicions. How could Dumbledore really be letting this happen? How is it happening? Who is behind it all? The answers to these questions and so many more can all be answered if you just take the time to do a little bit of digging…and know who to talk to, namely the small and secretive group of Slytherin’s that include: Regulus, Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, Rabastan and Rodolphus Lestrange, Aletco Carrow, and Aceline Perezz. With their acts becoming more pronounce and daring, the security over Hogwarts does too.

However, unknown to the rest of the school, there are other simpler things to worry about. For the Seventh Years, NEWTs are quickly approaching, graduation is coming even faster, and dates to find for the dance celebrating seven years worth of school and many more to come post-Hogwarts. For the younger years there are still hours of class time to endure and homework to complete. Is it possible to keep up with everything going on above and below Hogwarts?

Come and give it a shot.

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2.) 2008 – Dec. 08:

For the seventh years at Hogwarts, life feels as though it’s about to end: NEWTs are quickly approaching, graduation is coming even faster, and dates to find for the dance celebrating seven years worth of school and many more to come post-Hogwarts. For the younger years there is still hours of class time to endure, homework to complete and that all important Home Sweet Hogwarts to worry about and prepare for (commonly referred to as Family Fright Day amongst the students). It’s as though life just couldn’t get much worse –

But it has.

Rumors have steadily spread all year long about the rise of Lord Voldemort and his follows, but it was all taken in vain: who would dare trespass at Hogwarts, the safest place on earth? Turns out the “safest place” is no longer as safe as it used to be. No one can escape Lord Voldemort wrath, it seems: against all odd, a murder has taken place under Professor Dumbledore’s very nose.

Care of Magical Creatures’ professor, Debbie Hemlock was killed by none other then Regulus Black and his Slytherin housemates: Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, Rabastan Lestrange, Aletco Carrow, and Aceline Perezz. How, do you ask, could something like that have ever happened? Guess it isn’t very hard to poison your professor’s daily dose of coffee when it’s either their life – or yours. The hardships come after, when you begin to trace said plan back to those devious minds that created it.

All of Hogwarts occupants have been questioned and suspects have been searched including those at fault but to no avail. The murder remains a mystery to not only the staff, but to the students as well. The gruesome story has impacted all that have heard it, with parent ear’s being apart of the listening (and ever growing) audience: students have been taken out of school to return back home. Similarly other changes consist of enhanced security both during the day and night, professors are more tensed then ever with homework-giving acting as an antidote, and the remaining student body worried more then they’d like to admit when gossiping about the death of Hemlock.

And it’s all taking place here, “the safest place on earth.”

Which side are you on: those ready to discover who has committed this awful treachery and fight back against Lord Voldemort – or, were you part of the criminal act and loyal to your Dark Lord until the very end?

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1.) 2007 – 2008:

Dear Student,

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on 1st September. We await your owl by no later than 31st July.

Set in the Marauders’ seventh and final year, the term has only just begun and already the school is rife with unsettling whispers. Whispers, of discord beyond the castle walls; whispers, of the feared name of Lord Voldemort.

Deaths and torturings have already been reported, some parents too frightened to keep their children in school.

James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and their classmates, on the other hand, are already bogged down with the day-to-day of teenage life. Their NEWTs are approaching much faster than they can keep and eye on and the heartache of friends, foes and lovers is constantly getting them down.