INTRODUCING THE WIZARDING WORLD CUP

Hosted by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

DATE: November 9th, 2018 ATTIRE: Dress attire; school colours, if applicable.

The air on the night of November 9th, 2018, was thick with excitement. Spectators piled in to the quidditch stands, enchanted for the occasion to increase their capacity and decorated in the official colours of all seven participating schools. The pitch itself had been transformed. The field was now a sprawling map of the school's home countries - Scotland's rolling hills, the mountains of Japan, the rain forests of Brazil. All in miniature form, rising out of the very ground itself, spanning the length of the entire pitch. Birds and other creatures darted in and out of the miniaturized trees.

The Opening Ceremony began with a spectacular presentation of dancers, music and storytelling. The delegations from the international schools were introduced and formally welcomed to the tournament. Hogwarts Headmistress Cassandra Vimes provided the opening address, wishing all participants good luck in the tournament, though confessing (to some laughter) to a personal bias as to which school would emerge the victor. Following a special fireworks presentation - and a moving choral interlude by the Hogwarts choir - the ceremonies were concluded by the head of the Wizarding World Cup Organization, who stressed once again the deplorable affect accidental deaths had on the WWCO's insurance premiums, and advised against excessive violence, prank wars and illegal drug use.

Following the ceremony, students were welcomed into the Hogwarts Great Hall for an introductory soiree, to meet with their competitors and celebrate the beginning of the tournament. Attendance at the soiree was limited to students, professors, sponsors, WWCO officials, and a small group of press. The Great Hall was decorated with the crests of the schools and the WWCO. Food and refreshments were served to the attendees to the sound of a live jazz band, the Galumping Grindylows. Students were invited to mingle with their fellow competitors and celebrate this unification of wizarding cultures.

The Wizarding World Cup has now officially begun! Feel free to thread your characters in the situations of both the opening ceremony and the soiree, both of which will take place in the Wizarding World Cup event forum.

FLESH

Wizarding citizens, paranoid and distraught from the first and second wizarding wars, craved to recapture their sense of security. The years that followed Voldemort's defeat were calm, happy even, and the world was rebuilt and began to thrive once more. However, citizens felt that the Ministry was not efficiently rounding up his remaining followers. They demanded that the Ministry take further measures to ensure his Death Eaters were off the streets; to ensure that another war could never happen.

Nobody could foresee that the Ministry would take their newly found power, grasp it, twist it, and then use it against the very people that gave it to them.

It's now 2018, and world is left to face the aftermath of giving the government an excess of power. Long after the last of the Death Eaters were captured, Aurors and Hit Wizards continue to abuse the new laws. Brutality, home raids, unjustified force, and the arrest of innocents are the new standards for Magical Law Enforcement. Their abuse of power has resulted in numerous false accusations and innocent imprisonments, all out of fear. No longer are citizens punished for their actions, but for their beliefs.

BLOOD

The Wizard Appreciation Society helped rebuild the wizarding world following Voldemort's defeat, but they are actually the face of an underground purist Illuminati, who call themselves The Devoted. While the Ministry is weak, corrupted, and incompetent, The Devoted are fully taking advantage of it. They gleefully watch the government further unravel through the society’s discreet influence and premeditated chaos. Ultimately, they are ready to conquer the little political power that remains when the government shatters into pieces. Only time will tell how much of their influence has already infiltrated the government.

An unorganized group of revolutionaries seem to be the only hope, as they refuse to turn a blind eye to the corrupt Ministry. They demand change and proper justice, constantly putting their lives in danger by trying to open the people's eyes to see the truth of the corruption.

BONE

Meanwhile, citizens move their lives forward despite their world beginning to crumble. Hogwarts continues to thrive, and students are focused on Quidditch and school, despite politics and war slinking through the shadows of the castle, with influential student factions rising from within.

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