Dementors Dementing
Britain is plagued with a rise in dementor numbers. Who, what or why this is, is unknown- but the Ministry are out to discover the cause.
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Who?
- Criminals
- Ministry
- Other Bystanders
Plotting Resources
- Plot Development Topics: Dementors Dementing
- Tags: Dementors Dementing
- Primary Contact: Sarah
Characters
The Investigation
- Adon Eleor
- Janus Carrow
- Andromeda Gamp
- Mortimer Gamp
- Edwin Glass
- Knox Greyfriar
- Alberic Grimm
- Niamh Hayes
- Adelebert Hughes
- Neville Longbottom
- Gabrielle Murray
- Ainsley O'Neal
- Edward Pratt
- Zora Roh
- Quill Som
- Jonas Trevelyan
- Omari Warrington
- Zeke Wingate
- Amaryllis Woolfolk
- Adrianna Xin
- Persepolis Zephyr
No results
The Demented
- Margo Amherst
- Kurby Bagnold
- Elliot Blair
- Ligeia Canterbury
- Gwennifer Darke
- Camille Duerr
- Emilio Diaz
- Herman Diaz
- Shona Donovan
- Andromeda Gamp
- Joshua Harcroft
- Niamh Hayes
- Arcturus Hollingbury
- Ruth van Houten
- Nightingale Kesali
- Gabrielle Murray
- Francis Pepper
- Monty Pepper
- Gareth Prewett
- Gawain Prewett
- Quentin Quill
- Ignan Storm
- Branwen Strangely
- Alicia Sylvester-Banes
- Zel Trumble
- Omari Warrington
- Theo Whitman
- Felinus Woodward
No results
The Dementing
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Also Involved
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The Events Unfold
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- Quoting:
- Niobe Thursby
Dementors have been largely unknown in Great Britain and Ireland since 1996 when they were banished from Azkaban. It is believed that without the constant source of misery to feed on, their numbers dwindled. This is the second recorded Dementor attack in more than 10 years.Niobe Thursby
"... the campaign raises awareness of the importance of being vigilant and keeping your composure. Studies show that panic and a sourpuss can attract Dementors. We must keep a stiff upper lip and be ready to defend ourselves if need be..."Niobe Thursby
- Quoting:
- Edward Forrester
The squib network has been examining local news reports, and accessing Muggle health statistics to try and note if there have been clusters, increases in reports of depression, loss of life, the sort that dementors can induce on a Muggle population when close by. No notable trend differing from the usual Muggle poverty and strife had so far been identified.
Glass explains another theory is that the colder weather over winter provided perfect conditions for their multiplication, in that they do not breed but grow in number like mould. Without enough food, without a continuation of the poor weather, their numbers will decline. Another possibility is that the dementors are not acting of their own free will.- With:
- Tamis Raynor
- Zora Roh
"I understand that the Department of Mysteries has, in the past, employed another sort of volunteer. Those with skills and inclinations we'd normally find reprehensible. I wouldn't say yet that we are desperate and so I judge this notion, if enacted prior to desperation, to be something to seriously consider. In fact, I insist we begin to pursue this experiment immediately. And quietly."Persepolis Zephyr
- With:
- Mortimer Gamp
- Edwin Glass
- Quoting:
- Quill Som
- With:
- Mortimer Gamp
- Wizarding victims will be asked to provide a sample for the Pensieve.
- This procedure may not contradict existing protocols concerning protecting the Statue of Secrecy in regards to obliviation on muggles witness to magic. - Statements will be filed in triplicate: (1) Department of Magical Accidents & Catastrophes; (2) St. Mungo's Hospital; (3) Department of Mysteries
- Funds have been requisitioned for the purpose of assigning off-hours and on-call staff to administer these interviews.Persepolis Zephyr
"The dementor attack on Sunday. We had witnesses come forward. They said that they saw someone controlling the dementors. I don't mean defending, I mean they saw someone sending the dementors at innocent victims." She put her hands on her hips and flipped a piece of hair out of her eyes. "We collected statements today. One witness thinks they recognise the suspect." Andromeda took a step forward and looked directly at her boss. "Lawrence Musgrave."Andromeda Gamp
"Then you will take him a message: that I do not believe him. He cannot control dementors, he never will." Shufflebottom gaped wordlessly like a fish at Edwin's statement. He'd kept it simple in the hope Shufflebottom would remember it.Edwin Glass
“We going to be alright, aren’t we, Mr Musgrave?”William Shufflebottom
- With:
- Quill Som
- Andromeda Gamp
- Quoting:
- Solomon Carstairs
Our department confirms Musgrave's culpability and every effort is being taken to locate him.Temperance Cartwright
Eyewitnesses estimate the number of Dementors to be anywhere from thirteen to thirty-six. ”Dozens upon dozens!” exclaimed a hairdresser from the local salon, who prefers to go unnamed. ”It was like an army," the wizard insisted.Temperance Cartwright
“You need to promise me three things.” Ignan spoke again, looking up, less forceful in his stare this time, but still with enough gravitas to indicate how he really meant this, “Firstly, you keep that healer’s badge with you at all times, because half an hour’s delay is better than no help at all, and secondly, that you do not let anyone over the house boundary without confirming they are who they say they are- and then never ever Lawrence Musgrave.”
He paused, and perhaps that felt like three things already, but his gaze dropped a moment to Miranda’s hands and her parcel of fish and chips.
“And that you never ask me to kill anyone again.”Ignan Storm
“And if you think you’re already having nightmares about this house, about your dear old dad and what you did, Sandy, I can make them waking nightmares. I can bring them right here, right into your house.” There was an intense gaze between the two old classmates now. Lawrence reached out to the dementors, hoping to merlin it was going to work. He turned his head in their general direction, and steadily the temperature in the room began to drop. “We can hold you hostage in your own home.”Lawrence Musgrave
- Quoting:
- Di Mehnta
But it is not only the warmer, drier and sunnier than normal weather weather which is bringing out the honking daffodils, the warmer temperatures are driving dementors North. Flocks are reportedly heading away from the South East, leaving the countries of Cornwall and Devon relatively dementor free.Di Mehnta
Visiting hours begin at 11 tonightLawrence Musgrave
Brown paper splayed open like a flower, a miniature red telephone box stood on his desk between the Minister and Kuester. Edwin’s face spoke plainly of his dread as he reached for the note.Edwin Glass
- With:
- Lawrence Musgrave
“Lawrence Musgrave, I am arresting you..."Edward Pratt
- Quoting:
- Solomon Carstairs
“We are gratified that, as a former Auror, Musgrave eventually understood the futile nature of his efforts to evade capture by us.”Tabitha Trickstone
- Quoting:
- Solomon Carstairs
“We are gratified that, as a former Auror, Musgrave eventually understood the futile nature of his efforts to evade capture by us.”Tabitha Trickstone
“And is there hope for you? Of redemption?” Piercing green eyes stared at the bloodied wizard.
Lawrence was still, the edge of the pasty paper wrapping tickling the tips of his fingers. He hadn’t anticipated Pratt would ask so directly, nor quite so soon.
“I don’t know, is there?” He asked, slowly looking back up. It was a genuine question, returned more as if to ask Pratt if he would even entertain that his new prisoner were capable of such a thing. “I wouldn’t have come to you if I didn’t want to try.”
- With:
- Ignan Storm
- Miranda Storm
“We should celebrate.” Ignan declared, ever more animated now that Miranda was home to talk to. His shoulder protested but he ignored it. Any moment now Miranda’s timetable would start shrieking in the kitchen and Gerda would be there to attempt to force-feed him potions. “With a drink.”
Eyebrows rose. “On your potions?”
“It’s a celebration.” Ignan affirmed, nudging the cat off his lap as best he could with one good hand. “I’m going to the pub.”
“I promised you that I’d cheer on anyone dragging you to Azkaban,” Eva frowned. “But I wouldn’t wish those dementors on anyone. Glass wants to send them back. I might very well encourage him to do so.”Evangeline Kuester
“Sometimes I dream about people I don’t know,” Lawrence added in a thoughtful tone, looking past Sandy as he recalled memories, “sometimes I see them again, recurring.” He shuffled his shoulder-blades against the rough wall.
“Like the other night it was a chap in a dragonhide apron. He kept going on about a potion he was brewing. I’d tell him to stop bothering me or show me, and next thing he’d go up in flames. Explode his cauldron, screaming. His face was… melting.” Lawrence winced as he used the word, a snippet of the scene in his mind’s eye. “Ruddy horrific, graphic dream. I’ve no idea who he is but-.”
By the door, the bald hitwizard was staring at the floor as if he’d realised he’d left the gas on. Lawrence’s hazel eyes snapped to the expression, and his lips parted.Lawrence Musgrave
“This is a safeguarding measure,” a Ministry spokesperson told The Prophet, “Muggles cannot conjure cheering charms or patroni, so their only other remedy is chocolate.”Evan Irallis
“The Prime Minister is unconvinced. Last we met, as you know I explained at length about dementors. Well, she has had some time to think, and the Health Secretary, awful man with an unfortunate surname from how she described, is fighting off accusations of a mental health crisis in Britain. More people are going to their doctor - healer, with the symptoms of dementor exposure. Considering Muggle following of scientific theory, telling them to go home, have a sweet cup of tea and a bar of chocolate is, according to the Prime Minister, making the government a laughing stock.”Edwin Glass
At a monthly press conference last evening, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was happy to disclose that Dementor levels across the United Kingdom have sunk to an annual low. The announcement follows on reports of seasonal hot weather and fewer incidents of exposure to the dark creatures. It has been theorised that widespread escalation of positive moods and chocolate sales have contributed to this recent development.Di Mehnta
Late yesterday afternoon, dementors descended on the English countryside, scattering themselves from Cumbria and trickling in as far south as London. The Ministry received a timely warning and employed I.D.R.E.A.D immediately. I.D.R.E.A.D. was less prepared for a strange, shrieking mist which appeared to be drawing these dementors south.Margaret Groust
Clues emerge regarding the strange 'mist' that attacked the populace on Wednesday evening. I.D.R.E.A.D. has discovered that the mist is the product of dark magic, having been traced back to a pair of siblings known by the names of Lori and Lee Lilly. The Lilly pair reportedly used their manor in Keswick as a base for criminal operations. They are at large and presently being hunted by Aurors.Margaret Groust
“Minister Zephyr asked me to do what I could, asked us as a hospital to find something to help these people; to give the country hope that the dementors aren’t going to destroy their lives. Lawrence Musgrave…what is in his mind, in his soul could help us.”Miranda Storm
I kindly request a meeting with you both and whomever involved in the case of Mr Lawrence Musgrave to discuss the possibility of him being passed into the care and charge of St Mungo’s. It is my strong belief that my team and I can find a way to heal him of his symptoms and ties to the dementors, and in turn, heal and save countless affected individuals.Miranda Storm
- With:
- Miranda Storm
- Ignan Storm
“I’m going to make that scum useful.”Miranda Storm
"Should this research of yours come to involve Musgrave, there will be conditions. Non-negotiable conditions," he took the first step towards their common goal and paused for a sip of tea. "And it would, of course, be done in collaboration with the Ministry."Solomon Carstairs
“Minister Glass has ordered the obliviation,” he told Harper the previous day, “There are memories we must copy and you must keep safe. They can be used at the right time. He has let me keep them longer than I expected, because by coming here, I protected myself.” She knew that for everything he had told her and Pratt, and the line of other aurors who had talked to him, he had still held back. “Insurance,” he had told her with sober sincerity, “If anything happens to me, to you...”Lawrence Musgrave
“You know what he wants you to obliviate, do you? Has he told you?” Lawrence asked, wanting to give her a good shake, “He wants you to remove memories about what he asked me to do to the dementors.”Lawrence Musgrave
“But isn’t taking that risk, if I can help, better than being a sitting duck in Azkaban?” He asked, “these dementors won’t leave me alone.”Lawrence Musgrave
“Your mind has clearly adapted to having such exposure to the dementors. I want to know how.”Miranda Storm
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Britain is plagued with a rise in dementor numbers. Who, what or why this is, is unknown- but the Ministry are out to discover the cause.
How to Get Involved
Who?
- Criminals
- Ministry
- Other Bystanders
Plotting Resources
Plot Development Topics: Dementors Dementing
Tags: Dementors Dementing
Primary Contact: Sarah
Characters
The Investigation
The Demented
Dr. Gwennifer Darke
The Dementing
Also Involved
The Events Unfold
March 14, 2010
The Daily Prophet publishes a rallying call by Minister Persepolis Zephyr. It lists confirmed victims Gareth Prewett, Gawain Prewett, Quentin Quill, Alicia Sylvester-Banes, Ruth van Houten, Dr. Gwennifer Darke, Herman Diaz and his son young Emilio Diaz.
In response to the morning's Daily Prophet article, Wizengamot member, Knox Greyfriar summons aurors Jonas Trevelyan and Ainsley O'Neal to meet Gabrielle Murray, Zeke Wingate and Neville Longbottom.
March 20, 2010
Elder Edward Forrester makes his thoughts very clear in a Daily Prophet interview with Caloric Thermopyro
March 21, 2010
The Daily Prophet publishes a response to Forrester by Ignatius Prewett III
March 28, 2010
The Hogwarts staff meet and discuss possible approaches to repelling dementors.
March 29, 2010
Durmstrang Professor and visitor to Hogwarts Atash Hendurabi is surprised Hogwarts Professor Nightingale Kesali is out so late with all the dementor reports.
March 30, 2010
Aurors Ainsley O'Neal and Zeke Wingate investigate dementor sightings in Savernake Forest, England.
March 31, 2010
At 6:30pm Branwen Strangely leads a small group of Hogwarts students to use their herbology knowledge to protect the school from dementors. As they are adding sage and rowan to the walls, the dementors flock towards them, and others intervene to get everyone inside the boundary safely.
- Rowan for Raiding, Sage for a Seige with Branwen Strangely, Ligeia Canterbury, Joshua Harcroft, Zel Trumble, Felinus Woodward, Nightingale Kesali, Ignan Storm, Theo Whitman, Shona Donovan
At 8:15am Aurors interview the students and staff who experienced the dementors
At 9:34am Persepolis Zephyr and Edwin Glass meet regarding the attack on Hogwarts. The dementors are as far as Inverness, and Glass reports Aviemore is overrunning with them. In the Cairngorns locals have noticed they're drawn to the stone circle.
The squib network has been examining local news reports, and accessing Muggle health statistics to try and note if there have been clusters, increases in reports of depression, loss of life, the sort that dementors can induce on a Muggle population when close by. No notable trend differing from the usual Muggle poverty and strife had so far been identified.
Glass explains another theory is that the colder weather over winter provided perfect conditions for their multiplication, in that they do not breed but grow in number like mould. Without enough food, without a continuation of the poor weather, their numbers will decline. Another possibility is that the dementors are not acting of their own free will.
The Minister for Magic writes to Hogwarts regarding the dementor problem.
April 7, 2010
The public write in to the Daily Prophet regarding the recent dementor attack on Hogwarts.
April 8, 2010
At about 7pm, Figaro Sellaphix meets Nightingale Kesali for a quote for the school paper about the dementors.
April 22, 2010
Kurby Bagnold runs into Margo Amherst outside St Mungo's when dementors appear in the street.
April 23, 2010
The Daily Prophet reports that a net has been used to try and capture dementors at Hollywell Copse in Devon. 32 witches and wizards from Winkleigh town arrived and cast Patroni to assist an interdepartmental team. The locals included Deshaun Middlebrook, Christobol Haberdasher (20) whose Patronus is a bloodhound, and sisters Veronica (29) and Lisa Bennison (32) who had pony Patroni. The citizens ranged in age from 19 to 67, nearly all of them able to sustain corporal Patroni and Ty Garney-Vidler (45) who confirmed the local community had been practising the Patronus Charm.
Reporter Niobe Thursby and photographer Audrey Hughes were at the scene to witness it all for the article. This was the first public report of what is secretly known as Project Retiarius.
At 9pm that night, aurors Tamis and Zora go out drinking to forget about the bad day.
April 29, 2010
Department Heads, Mortimer Gamp and Edwin Glass confer about the dementor situation.
- Nine Behind Three with Mortimer Gamp and Edwin Glass
May 16, 2010
The Daily Prophet reports Roland Dylanis IX has made a wealthy donation to begin the construction of the Roland Dylanis Dementor Wing at St Mungo's Hospital.
May 22, 2010
Dementors swarm in Peterborough and encounter Monty Pepper, Gabrielle Murray and Francis Pepper who escape with one of Monty's flying cars.
May 23, 2010
The Daily Prophet reports of a flying car spotted with dementors and patroni over Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Quill Som declines to comment when questioned. It is witnessed by Eliezer Acton (31) of Thorney and Bruno Piercy (56) of Whaplode Drove amongst others.
June 11, 2010
Dementors swarm at the site of a funeral in Nottinghamshire as the Hogwarts term comes to a close. The multi-department team rush to the site and get back with a few injuries. Quill Som leads the return home.
- Order from Chaos with Quill Som, Edwin Glass,
The Department of Mysteries captures one of the dementors and transports it to level nine to examine further.
July 12, 2010
A month after capturing the dementor, the Department of Mysteries invites Alberic Grimm to join their experimentation. Mortimer Gamp introduces them. Mortimer explains a position leading the experiments has become available. The unspeakable leading matters had his soul taken by the dementor in captivity, and his body, in the empty state, is being cared for within the Department rather than St Mungo's, with the intention to find a way to replace it.
July 18, 2010
Dementors swarm at Ilkley in Yorkshire, close to where there is a Quidditch pitch. Andromeda Gamp takes statements. Lawrence Musgrave is in the area attending Ex-Azzies Anonymous, their meeting is abandoned as the dementors arrive.
July 19, 2010
Auror Gamp asks Head Auror Edward Pratt for some advice about a witness claiming Lawrence Musgrave was at the scene of the dementor attack at Ilkley in Yorkshire.
July 20, 2010
Appearing for weekly parole registration, Lawrence Musgrave is pulled aside for questioning by Andromeda Gamp and Omari Warrington. Quill Som briefly puts in an appearance.
December 12, 2010
Deep in the belly of the Department of Mysteries Alberic Grimm continues to head up the research team with the starving dementor
- Go Fish with Alberic Grimm and Janus Carrow
December 29, 2010
I.D.R.E.A.D. are called out to Glasgow to deal with dementors. On arriving they find the five dementors are already dispersing. (It later is revealed to Mortimer Gamp that it was Lawrence Musgrave and William Shufflebottom attempting to control them, see Jan 2nd 2011)
January 2, 2011
At Edwin's house in Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, four wizards meet to discuss dementors off the record.
- Through Gray Mist Creeping with Lawrence Musgrave, William Shufflebottom, Mortimer Gamp and Edwin Glass
January 5, 2011
Controlling dementors near Norwich goes wrong. William apparates both away from the scene and back home to Godric's Hollow. The Ministry drive the dementors out to sea.
January 11, 2011
A single dementor has been plaguing a London borough, possibly feeding off the happiness of children at a local primary school. Edwin Glass asks Lawrence Musgrave and William Shufflebottom to move it on, but they don't account for Elliot Blair getting caught up accidentally in their work.
- And Fate Disposes with Elliot Blair, Lawrence Musgrave, William Shufflebottom, Andromeda Gamp and Amaryllis Woolfolk
January 12, 2011
Edwin Glass is unimpressed with the attempts to move on the dementor.
January 15, 2011
Dementors attack The Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade on a busy Saturday evening.
- A Denser Darkness with William Shufflebottom, Lawrence Musgrave, Omari Warrington, Niamh Hayes, Andromeda Gamp, Alberic Grimm, Camille Duerr, Amaryllis Woolfolk, Lexus Dale
January 24, 2011
Head Healer of St Mungo's, Miranda Storm returns home to Godric's Hollow to find Lawrence Musgrave has broken in. He appeals to her for help with mind magic, appearing to be suffering from exposure to dementors.
When the situation turns foul, Musgrave flees and Miranda awaits the arrival of aurors and her husband, Ignan to help.
- Follow my Guiding Hand with Miranda Storm, Gerda, Adelebert Hughes, Omari Warrington, Adrianna Xin & Ignan Storm
January 25, 2011
Following up the information from Miranda the previous evening, the aurors call at another address in Godric's Hollow.
- Suspicion Haunts the Guilty Mind with Gladys-May Shufflebottom, William Shufflebottom and Edward Pratt
February 22, 2011
Arcturus Hollingbury becomes the victim of Lawrence Musgrave's increased influence on dementors.
