1982-83 Academic Year

#### **September 1982**

The start of term feast began with the sorting ceremony for the new student's who joined in the 1982-89 batch. The headmaster then welcomed everyone and gave out the usual school notices as planned. The lessons began while searching for an small assignment in the library, Phoenix finds a book on mysterious vaults which contain the objects of power that shall change the balance of power forever. Before she can read more, she is interrupted by Madam Prince and is shunted out of the library. It is unknown to the librarian that the contents where already copied. Phoenix meets up with Lexi and shows her the book. Lexi tells her that she may have read something about it in her own mother’s book. However the book is in the restricted section so they can’t get access to it. Lexi and Phoenix decide that they will steal resources form the private cupboard of the potion's teacher and make a polyjuice potion to get access to the Restricted Section. However, they are caught by the caretaker and therefore unable to brew the potion. Meanwhile, a mysterious smoke appears in a classroom on the 5th floor, which ended in a ear-piercing screech. The scream marked the beginning of evil things happening in the castle.

#### **October 1982**

As October sets in, weird things begin to happen. The castle's magical system seems have malfunctioned, which led freak accidents like magic misfiring or the school torches entirely blowing out at random times. This continued as Lexi and Phoenix proceeded to realise what was happening was related to the book she found. Daniel, who was a shy muggle boy, had joined the school year and seemed to be the lonely guy. Barry and him soon become friends. One night, while everyone is asleep, there is a bang and the whole castle is shook. One of the mysterious off-limits doorways to the 3rd Floor has mysteriously opened. Lexi and Phoenix go investigate but are interrupted by Daniel and Barry, who threaten to expose the girls if they do not tell them why they are here. Lexi confesses everything, but they are caught by the professors who are on patrol. Before anything can happen, a whisper is heard, which is reverberating from the great hall which seems to be saying the term, "The door is open, the darkness shall come.” This too ends in a huge scream which sounds like a ominous omen. On Halloween, The whole castle is on edge as the house competition was supposed to happen. On the night of Halloween, the house competition is to carve an pumpkin, which led to an tie between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Just as the feast begins, the lights of the whole castle go off and the whole castle starts to shake. While the teachers starts to investigate, the students are kept under lock and key. The teachers investigate and the school is attacked by an Band of Inferi; Undead creatures controlled by Dark Magic. The attack is repelled quickly by the smart thinking of the student and teachers alike.

#### **November 1982**

The arrival of November meant Quidditch season and attention was diverted away from the Vaults to Quidditch as the two rival teams - Gryffindoor and Slytherin - met. The Match was an tense one but Slytherin managed to pull out a victory against Gryffindoor 170-50. While the 1st Quidditch match is over, Lexi starts some secret research on the Vaults and realise that the Vaults are not an ordinary Vaults, and that the Vaults hold great power. Now, in an attempted to find the 1st vault, Lexi walks off to the forbidden forest, where she is caught in the redcap holes. Barry, who followed her, was caught by venomous vines but they where rescued just in time and reprimanded for their actions. Also Professor Albright, who was the Charms teacher, was out under a death curse, which forced him to eat his own soul. He was rescued, thanks to the headmaster and his pet snake.

#### **December 1982**

The month of December was mainly a calm one with everyone waiting for Christmas break to come around. Hufflepuff flattened Ravenclaw in an totally one sided match, 210-30. This meant that Hufflepuff now lead the Quidditch cup. The rest of the month was mainly silent, as all the students continued to fight their own issues. Lexi received an anonymous letter, which made her very scared. On the the other hand, Daniel began courting Katelyn Snow, who seemed to have an liking for him. As the winter ball approached, everyone began looking for partners and choosing what they were going to wear. The ball began with lots of festivities and with an Inter-house carolling competition, which ended up making a lot of people upset, especially Daniel who storms out and decides to leave the school. Mariah tries to console him, but to no avail. Just as the ball comes to an end tragedy strikes, and the vaults strikes again, with Daniel being turned into stone. Meanwhile all students leave the school, unaware of the tragedy which has struck.

## **Easter Term (January-March)**

#### **January 1983**

The school has reopened after the Winter break. As all students return, everyone is aware that Daniel is now in the hospital wing and was petrified. Lexi and Barry are mostly concerned about their friend, as they were the last ones to see Daniel. Lexi is shocked but is determined that she will get to the bottom of the things. While this was going on, Lexi was being stalked by a woman who she seemed to have seen between classes, trailing her. As this grew, the headmaster was making his own moves on his long lime high school sweetheart, Mariah Rose Faith, who has joined the school as caretaker. In the meantime, Lexi visits the now petrified Daniel, wishing she could help but she notices a page clenched in his hand. She unravels the paper and notices its in his handwriting. It was a warning on the vaults. Before she could do anything, she heard odd whispers and soon she was petrified. A petrified Lexi was discovered by Barry and a hush fell over the castle. Phoenix and Barry now are determined to figure out why Lexi was so close to the Vaults. All of this was suddenly shaken when the board of directors decide to fire Headmaster Smith from his job as a result of the two children being petrified. The staff meet to decide who will be acting headmaster or headmistress until Professor Aluna returns from her break. It was decided that Mariah would be acting headmistress, but soon Aluna returns to assume charge. But again, this all was changed by Snape, who was appointed by the board of directors to be the new headmaster, and assumed control of the school. This unleashed the same horror as while he was headmaster in the Potterverse.

#### .**February 1983**

Hogwarts have changed over the few days as Professor Snape took Over as Headmaster. The school has become an strict autocracy under the command of Professor Snape. The rules where changed drastically and the student body was given the rare chance to give and take points which have had a very dramatic effect on the school and the student's and the teacher's alike. The teacher's are forced to give out harsher punishments, and prefects are at war to ensure that their houses are able to remain at top of the house cup. Amidst all this, the vaults are going out of control and more weird black magic things happen throughout the castle. Lexi wakes up, unaware that she has been petrified for about 15 days. She is filled up by Barry on what has happened and she is appalled to know what is going on. Lexi and Barry leave, but not without praying that Daniel wakes up soon, to figure our what he knew. Soon Daniel wakes up but not before being attacked by an mysterious figure. Lexi and Barry Come in to fight the evil off on time, and they fill in what Daniel has missed over the month and a half. He is also equally shocked on Snape's take over. While returning back form the hospital wing, they bump into Mariah, who is happy and delighted to see the two kids alive. They go into her room, where she gets a cryptic message from the former headmaster. They figure out that the cryptic location was the astronomy tower, and they head to meet him there. Reginald arrives, revealing that the vaults opening was an inside job, and someone within the school was trying to unleash this darker magic. However, before he could elaborate, they where interrupted and Reginald had to leave, Professor Snape comes to the scene and sees Mariah with the kids and assumes she caught the kids out of bounds, proceeding to expel them on the spot, disgusting Mariah. She goes to Snape asking him to be considerate, so Snape reverses his decision, but he fires Mariah for trying to defy him. This further infuriates the kids and thy plan how to take revenge on Snape. Daniel suggests a unique idea. If they can overpower the headmaster, they could wipe his memory. It is a risky move but the kids, with the help of Mariah, are able to pull it off and makes Snape forget his appointment. Mariah takes over again, but soon, Reginald is reinstated and the school goes back to normal.

#### **March 1983**

As winter turned to spring, the school returned to normalcy. All students where now looking forward to finishing their year in peace after the shenanigans which struck the kids. Though soon there here is a new issue which arose on the issue of blood supremacy. Some students began bullying and humiliating fellow peers who were not of Pure-Blood Status. On the other hand, Lexi comes to know that her mother, Cassandra ,is not a good person and has ties to the Death Eaters as well as the new "Skull Warriors". Lexi is disgusted by the same and is very afraid to share what she has learnt. Phoenix’s new friend Samirah, who was a childhood friend of Lexi, reveals to her the truth about Lexi’s parents. As all continue to find more clues, they figure that the vault in question has a three keys which are needed to open the vaults. In the meantime, Barry, who is in search of Daniel, ends up in the astronomy tower where he see's a mysterious man on the roof. However, before he could say anything the man stuns him and uses the dark mark on the top of the castle. Barry is later found by Professor Mcgonall, who accuses him of creating the mark, but he is cleared by Reginald.

## **Summer Term (April-June)**

#### **April 1983**

The month began with a blast when all of a sudden the castle was rumbled by an series of attempted attacks and the whole castle is set into panic mode as the protective barrier across the castle is continuously bombarded. The students are shepherded into the room of requirements, and put under lock and key, as the teachers are tasked with ensuring that the barrier holds against anything which attacks. In the ensuing confusion, Lexi’s mother possesses her and she slips out. Stuck in the room, Samirah discovers a secret door leading to the Ravenclaw Common Room and is followed by Phoenix. Though when the arrive at the other end, they are ambushed by Lexi, who takes the last key from Samirah’s necklace. On the other hand, Daniel and Barry are still confused on what is going on, they head to the library in the cover of the chaos and run into the restricted section, where they find a clue to the second key, pointing them towards the "Living Monsters of Eight Lairs". Barry figures out that it was the Lair of Aragog and his kin. The two of them head there to deal with Aragog and figure out a way to get the second key. Phoenix and Samirah follow Lexi, who has both the first and last key, to the grove where the tunnel to the vault is, and they are followed by Katelyn and Rosalie. The four enter the vault entrance to find Lexi’s mother Cassandra opening the door to the vault. On the other side, Barry and Daniel make their way to Aragog's Lair, where they ask if he has the second key. Aragog responds that he does, but they will have to kill him to get the key. Daniel is aware that two eleven year olds cannot fight a mighty spider and so he attempts to make a peace deal with Aragog. In the discussion, Aragog reveals that the key was already taken and it was not there. When Barry and Daniel try to leave they are ambushed by Spiders. They barely manage to escape, when they where ambused by another man, who told them that Vaults are more powerful than they think, before disappearing. This makes the two boys even more confused. As they head back to the castle, Barry falls into one of the holes and into the vault entrance. Daniel followe and both realise what was going on. The four girls meet the two boys and realize that they need to protect Lexi. They all charge over to protect her, but Cassandra cuts them down with ease. She then proceeds to open the vault and enter it to find the object. But the kids use their combined power to finally overpower her and Rosalie beats Cassandra down to a pulp before leaving her there. They also fight the Vault's guardian, a Ukranian Ironbelly names Larry, who also happens to be Lexi’s dad. They return back to the castle and promise never to discuss the event which occurred here again.

#### **May 1983**

As May descends into the grounds, its been a month since the attack and everyone is still on edge throughout the castle. The school's security has been upped and the students are now under severe restrictions in between classes. In the meantime, Barry one day storms into the headmasters office and blurts out the truth of what happened last month. All of the kids are brought into the office and are reprimanded, and put under house arrest. The faculty meet to decide the punishment of the students. All bar snape, everyone agreed that the punishment of house arrest was enough to punish the children. The Anti-Pureblood campaign starts to take the heat as Maddox attempts to bully Jesse, on her muggle-born status. On the other hand, Reginald proposes to Mariah and she accepts. They head to the Leaky Cauldron to celebrate, but are interrupted by Raife, who was the mysterious man Daniel had seen when he was in the Forbidden Forest. Raife reveals the truth that he is indeed, Daniel's maternal grandfather, and asks Daniel to come with him. When Daniel refuses and Reginald and Mariah stand to defend him, Raife hits Mariah with an crucious curse while attempting to choke Rosalie. A dejected Daniel pleads for mercy and ultimately gives in to his grandfather, going with him, and abandoning his family. The family returns in shock and Regiald contacts the order to get any location about Daniel. A few days Later, Katelyn finds out the truth and is worried about him but she soon finds a unconscious Daniel in the training grounds and she rushes him to the hospital wing. Daniel recovers and reveals that how evil the society of Skulls Warriors is and how his grandfather has pushed the societies in the wizarding world into a place for purebloods. He also reveals that there is something that he said on time.... A few days pass and the students are busy preparing for exams when suddenly the castle is attacked by a red-headed woman who calls Mariah by "Sister". The attacker reveals herself to be Allana Highmore, daughter of Raife Highmore, and the the birth of Daniel. It is also revealed that Mariah is actually Raife's adoptive daughter and thus is Daniel's aunt. Allana Makes an attempt to kidnap Daniel, but with the combined efforts of students and teachers, they beat her off. This encounter and truth about Allana mentally shakes up both Daniel and Mariah, who take their time to heal form it.

#### **June 1983**

June comes around with student’s end of term examinations. Most of the students are busy revising for class, and looking for partners for the upcoming Summer ball. Daniel defends Jesse from bullies like Maddox and tells her that she needs to tell this to a professor. Jesse relents. Samirah gets closer to Phoenix but Phoenix says she doesn’t like her in that way which causes their friendship to end. Daniel was planning not to go, as he didn't have a date. Jesse convinces him to go as her date. Daniel accepts, Jesse later meets Barry, who also proposes to like Jesse and asks her out on a date to the ball. But Jesse politely refuses, and this hurts Barry and makes Jesse also feel terrible about it. She goes back to her dorm and gets back into her habit of self-harm. Daniel hears her cry but after calling her multiple times and getting no response, he calls his Head of House and they take her to the hospital wing. During the ball, Barry notices that he notices some familiar faces who where accomplices to Cassandra in the ball. This raises his suspicion and Mariah notices that Allana is also here, which makes her suspicious too. Allana sneaks out to find Daniel and she finally finds him in the hospital wing as Mariah catches up with her. Allana's plan to secretly kidnap Daniel is busted, and this triggers the emergency evacuation protocol of the school, thus cutting the ball short and pushing all students to the station. In the meantime, Barry realises that Lexi is missing and goes to find her. He finds her in a tunnel, where she is seen escaping somewhere. Before he could furthur investigate, he is interrupted by Snape who takes him to the station and puts him on the Hogwarts Express as the train leaves, marking the end of the year.