The Red Flag Rebellion

> *"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause."*
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*-H.L. Mencken*

The Red Flag's flag.

## The Red Flag Rebellion

### Intentions

Shine a light on the abuse of power in the Ministry

### Enemies

Ministry of Magic, Michael Dowell, Viktor Blackthorn (dead), [Redacted]

## History

The group was founded as a nonviolent Anarchist Coalition in 2007 by Trace Mosely a few years after they graduated from Hogwarts. Originally, it consisted of Trace, Mordecai Lewis, Vyra Mosely and Mallory Davide. While they continued to add new members, the group has always been small, making it easy for them to largely on causing chaos for the Ministry while exposing the Ministry for what it is: an abusive, purist authoritarian.

### **Time line:**

1. Group Founded in 2007
	* Original members:
		+ Trace, Mordecai, Vyra and Mallory

1. **Communication Shutdown** - 2008 - EVENT
	* Mordecai and Vyra with the help of Trace and Mallory, managed to shut down communication between Hogwarts and the Ministry for 2 weeks.
2. Violet and Asher Join - 2009
3. **Weather in a Bottle Incident** - 2009 - EVENT
	1. Threw dozens of Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes ‘Weather in a Bottle’s’ into the Ministry building, all jinxed to break open at the same time.
4. **The Daily Prophet** - 2009 - EVENT
	* Trace and Violet break into the Daily Prophet  and alter the front page to read ‘Everything Comes to an End’ with a picture of the red flag with a circle-A. They listed known instances where the Ministry has abused its citizens and hidden the truth from the wizarding world.
		+ Trace arrested for 72 hours.

1. Solomon joins - 2010
2. **The Red Flag Incident** - 2010 - EVENT
	* Members of Red Flag came together to completely cover the Ministry in a giant Circle-A flag, blocking all entrances and cutting the Ministry off from the rest of the world for 24 hours.
3. **The Caterwauler Incident** - 2012 - EVENT
	* Members of Red Flag sat outside the Ministry and set off an altered Caterwauler charm every time a known Auror or Unspeakable walked in the building.
		+ Ilya Novik was one of those who were affected by this event.
4. Emile killed by an Auror - 2013
5. Kristina arrested and all traces of her vanish - 2013
6. **The Bombarda Incident** - very early 2014
	* Blew up a bar predominantly patroned by Aurors and Unspeakables. Several injuries, no known deaths.
		+ Orchestrated purely by Mordecai and Vyra
		+ The only openly violent act committed by members of Red Flag
		+ Not condoned by Trace or other members. Lead to Mordecai and Vyra almost being kicked out of the Red Flag.
		+ Mordecai invented ‘YEET’ - NONCANON
7. Vyra killed by an Auror - 2015
	* Viktor Blackthorn
8. **The Gemino Incident** - 2016 - EVENT
	1. Mordecai arrested and thrown in Azkaban for 3 months
9. Mordecai leaves the group to take over his uncle’s shop (Eyelops Owl Emporium)
10. The group is disbanded by the end of 2016
11. Trace reinstates Red Flag at the end of 2019
12. Emile returns and explains what lead to his death - 2019
13. Virva returns to Red Flag -2020
14. Kit returns to Red Flag - 2020
15. Milo joins the Red Flag - 2020
16. Kristina returns to Red Flag - 2020

## Affiliates

The Red Flag is heavily allied with The Uprising and are slowly gaining allies within the Ministry (Sebastian "Bast" Proteir) to help them gather the information they need to take the Ministry down

Caoimhe Foley and Astoria Starling are also known allies to the Red Flag

## Members

### Past Members:

 Mallory Davide
 Solomon Vaughn

## Extra Information:

* Every member of Red Flag has a tag they use to let other members know who was involved in a situation/event
	+ Most members use a flower the symbolizes something important to them

* Most members speak French to extent, though a large percentage of them speak it fluently.