With all the fun werewolf controversy, Armiece and Sarah and I were talking about drumming up a new plot! Instead of a werewolf attack, we were thinking that the opposite could happen: a werewolf could be attacked by a human.

A big attack could open up the debate that werewolves need better protection, that fear of werewolves is getting out of hand, etc! People could get political, write articles about it, investigate the crime, and of course, it'd affect SAWS and Hogwarts too .

So what we're mainly looking for right now is:

-A werewolf who wants to be a target and get attacked/injured
-A criminal (or seemingly upstanding citizen!) looking to do some injuring

Post here if you are interested! Once we get this rolling, we can start playing out the attack and then discuss how other characters will be involved in the aftermath (I might start another plot thread for that). If there are no takers, we can work with non-player characters, but it would be much more fun with actual characters .

I'd love to engage either Knox (Wizengamot Elder & werewolf) or my Auror Zora Roh to investigate it.  I'm not interested in Knox being the one attacked though.  He needs some quiet time.  But he does love to get blustery and indignant!

If it could somehow happen in conjunction with or after Jack's involvement in the werewolf fighting ring, I could offer him... and perhaps Kia to help break up the fight as well

Hmm, I have Zel-- but I would rather not have him get attacked unless we absolutely need to in order to have this plot get going. I feel like I torment him enough. His sister, Emeline is an NPC werewolf, and I wouldn't mind if she got attacked as long as it doesn't kill her. A report was made to The Harcroft Aurors about Zel's mother and I assume by mid/late November she would be in Azkaban. Afterwards I see Emeline living in London trying to get on her feet and be self-sufficient.

I do not have any characters who would go out of their way to attack a werewolf, though, so I can't help out on that front. If it happens around muggles for some reason, then Mihai would probably be around to do some  memory modifications.

Edit: I would rather have Jack get attacked than Emeline at this point, so if it doesn't clash with the whole underground werewolf plot, that would be preferable on my end.

I'm up for playing this out on the Hogwarts front, Lexi's free to be pushed around or protected or to take the full force of anybody's feelings about werewolves.

I already have plans for Lexus getting involved with the werewolf fighting ring, otherwise I'd offer her up but I do have NPC Kevin Cavanaugh, former Auror turned werewolf that's always up for use (and can easily be turned into a secondary if need be)

Also not sure how it could tie in but if the attack happens on a Hogsmeade weekend, or perhaps during the upcoming christmas holidays I think it could be interesting to have Xavier questioned about the attack (though I wouldn't have him be the one doing it) given the fact that the Auror's (mainly Berkeley) already know that he killed a werewolf over the summer.

Yay all these replies! Here is what I am thinking:

Alisha, I love the idea of Jack being the main person attacked. I think we could definitely tie this in to the werewolf fighting ring, if we'd like - maybe the attack looks like a werewolf hate crime but it's really more layered than that, and some rival is trying to prevent Jack from participating, or some criminal is causing trouble to distract from something else going on, or any other reason we can think of. That would be fun to investigate. Definitely up for Kia helping to break up the fight, too!

Kelly, I'd love to involve Mihai with the memory modifications. Maybe Zel could be worried about his sis living in London, even if she's not attacked - maybe we could do something between him and Fauna, if he wants to ask her about Emeline's safety?

Nina, that would be cool! I could see Lexi being affected and caught in the middle of things even while she's at Hogwarts. It's so much fun when plots branch out like that .

Amberlee, I can't tell you how excited I am about the possibility of Xavier being questioned. Buahaha! Do you remember how much he and Fauna did not get along at Hogwarts? That would be hilarious if the Aurors investigated him. We could also tie in Lexus if you'd like, if it so happens that the Aurors end up looking into the werewolf fighting ring. I don't want to jump the gun and have the Aurors bust the ring before it gets off the ground, so we could build up to that gradually, or whenever people are ready, and see how things play out.

Sarah, as always, I'm totally up for Knox being blustery and indignant. Also badass Auror Roh! Would you be willing to have two trainees (Fauna and Dion) tag along? Fauna's going to have a tough time being objective, so it'll be dramarific.

If you're looking for an 'upstanding citizen' I don't mind offering up Jacqueline. I'd rather her not get into like major trouble or anything, because she's still trying for a promotion within the DoM, but she's for sure pro-hate with the werewolves, and it probably wouldn't take much, maybe a bad day at work or something, to set her on a rampage. If a werewolf was to happen across her path, I doubt she'd mind trying to take him/her down.

Sarah, as always, I'm totally up for Knox being blustery and indignant. Also badass Auror Roh! Would you be willing to have two trainees (Fauna and Dion) tag along? Fauna's going to have a tough time being objective, so it'll be dramarific.

Yes! A thousand times so.  Zora very secretly likes mentoring the little greenbeans. 
When Knox finds out he will find any and all soapboxes and raise a blustery stink.

I merely await the bloodshed!

Awesome, guys . Michael, I might take you up on involving Jacqueline! I talked to Alisha and once we establish the fighting ring, we can see about Jack getting attacked. I'll keep you all updated!

Ooo - it'll be interesting to see how this develops.  I don't know, yet, where this will fall for Sasha or what his response will be.  Between Zel and other things, he's (as always) confused.  But - I'm excited to see how this will kindle/promote the debate at Hogwarts.

So I was thinking about this today and I had a question.

How do we want to do this? I mean, how will the person who attacks Jack know what he is? I am thinking that he will get registered after the attack, so it can't be that.

My idea was that perhaps there is a protest going on. Either a anti-werewolf protest (Since we have a few weres in the ministry once the new guy is accepted) or a pro-werewolf one (SAWS or PAWS). And then somehow Jack reveals what he is and a fight starts that gets out of hand.

That is my thought on it. I just am trying to understand the plot

We could do some kind of protest, sure! My other thought is that it could be something as simple as... someone overhears Fauna and Jack talking (whenever they meet), so they find out Jack is a werewolf, and word gets around.

I like the protest idea better (especially the anti-were one because of werewolves getting hired at the Ministry), so maybe we can set something like that up. When would be a good time for that, Alisha? If he gets registered after the fight at the protest, hopefully we can work it out so it lines up with your plans for the fighting ring .

I'd love for Hannah to get involved when I get home in a couple of weeks. Perhaps she can be the healer that treats Jack after the attack? A werewolf hate crime would hit her hard even if she won't be mounting any soapboxes like Knoxiepie.

I second that! I was worried I'd have to have Kale do it and I would rather not play with myself...besides Jack needs someone to show him the ropes... like wolfsbane and whatnot