Rob Harding
Well-Known Member
So I started reading Harry Potter for the first time recently (having only ever seen the films). Several decades later than most of my peers I got the urge to write Harry Potter fan fic. There are some key questions that, having finished the books, I still wanted answering. Clear mysteries that would have fun to explore. I wanted a story of a different kind though and thought a police thriller/buddy cop/murder mystery would be fun in that universe. But how do you set up a villain that’s a more dangerous threat than Voldemort? Well…there’s never been a serious Muggle adversary. And then it all clicked. I wrote up character descriptions which spiralled into a loose plot structure (sans clear ending). And I quickly realised I just didn’t have the time to write it. But it seemed a waste to fit on a fun concept so figured, what the hey, I may as well share my thoughts. For mr own benefit when visualising characters I chose to cast the roles. It’s set around the time of/shortly after The Cursed Child (but relatively free of overlap as it doesn’t really connect to main HP protagonists). Anyway, The Unspeakables:
The Unspeakables
The most secretive department within the Ministry of Magic, governed by seven unrevealed ministers, the department is dedicated to answering the Unspeakable Question, a question so obvious that no witch or wizard has dared think it. Unspeakables are bound to hunt down, through any means necessary, whatever clue will help them to uncovered the answer to the question: ‘What Is Magic?’ While the potential to perform magic is clearly a genetic trait, the existence of Obscurials and the very nature of horcruxes, suggest magic itself is not dependent on a body and in fact, may be a far more primordial force than any care to admit.
HEROES
Tyrna Ogmore -
Georgina Campbell
A by-the-book, middlingly successful, competent but not celebrated auror who is afraid of ‘unnatural’ human inventions, particularly cars. Tyrna has a happy, if not remarkable, life with her loving bookish wife. But deep down, she knows something is missing. Some truth. Some answer. A question she has suppressed for years. Tyrna doesn’t know what happened to her parents. She was being babysat when a terrorist attack in London killed them. As an adult, she found a report stating her witch mother was in the driver’s seat when their car blew up. Her mum didn’t drive, leaving it to her Muggle father, and was adamant about road safety at all times. It made no sense that she was driving. This question, never faced head on, transformed into a desire for all answers. This makes Tyrna a good auror, unable to let go of any clue, impossible to satisfy until a case is closed. It also makes her hard to live with. More than that, it means that when she crossed paths with a volatile Obscurial, only to see them taken away by an Unspeakable without so much as an explanation, Tyrna wasn’t going to let the matter lie. Not without answers. Not till she knows everything. Hufflepuff. Tortoiseshell patronus
Boadicea ‘Bo’ Stumpp
(nee Beldamy - nicknamed Bo Bells by husband Manny)
Gwendoline Christie
Former auror, and top Unspeakable, hard-drinking and always ready for a scrap, Bo Stumpp prefers to work alone. Unfortunately, the department demands all agents work with a partner. Bo hates hers. The work Bo does is covertly capturing and clinically studying Obscurials, due to their unknown capacity to externalise magic as a separate force and their potential connections to the origins of magic. She has taken up the hunt for mentor Primus’ ‘white whale’, a fugitive Oscurial. Bo tends to act suspiciously around full moons, leading to certain questions regularly being asked. In actuality, this is due to the fact her husband had secretly been a werewolf and she got into the habit ‘cleaning up after him’ if things ever went wrong. She patrols on nights of full moons to help those who have turned, since she feels she failed Manny. She is fascinated by muggle stage ‘magic’ and has becoming something of an expert in escape artistry (helped in no small part by the fact she has a prehensile prosthetic silver hand, kept hidden by the fact that she almost always wears gloves). Slytherin. Wolf patronus
Ridhi Kaur -
Naomi Scott
The ‘White Whale Oscurial’. Ridhi accidentally killed her family as a child in London during her summer holidays home from Hogwarts. Considering not returning to the school, she spent the entire summer in shame and denial, eventually trying to suppress her own powers. This quickly caused an Obscurus parasite to develop. Confronted by a young Rappicinia Hearth, her powers violently erupted in a packed London street, killing her parents and many others. Ridhi then wiped her brother’s memory to forget he ever had that family and to spare him the pain. And, if she was being honest, to leave no witnesses. Somehow, whether during the attack or this spell, she transferred a portion of wild magic to her Muggle brother Nikesh, who’d been jealous of his witch sister for years. Since then, Ridhi lived in hiding from the Ministry. From that time she has been hunted by Bo Scrubb. At some point, Ridhi met Naomi Lambert to whom she explained as much as she could about the world of magic. Ridhi was still hunted by Bo and ultimately captured and experimented on. Ridhi is currently held in a cell below the Mind Room. However, this once immensely powerful Obscurial seems to now be completely devoid of all magic, even as the woman named Eurydice’s power grows.
Nikesh Kaur -
Sacha Dhawam
Thirty one years old, a Muggle and on the run. After getting caught up in the Obscurial capture that bought Tyrna and Bo together, Nik is now under Tyrna's protection, not initially by her choosing. He was saved by Tyrna and followed her to a Ministry entrance and waited for her return. He confronted her, confused and bewildered and knowing only she knew how to help him. Tyrna, unable to ignore a lead, took him under her wing. When Marcus Prendick attacked her, Nik exhibited accidental wandless magic…but still registered as a Muggle. He is grieving his recently deceased parents, unaware he was adopted. He has no idea why he is being hunted by…
The Unspeakables
The most secretive department within the Ministry of Magic, governed by seven unrevealed ministers, the department is dedicated to answering the Unspeakable Question, a question so obvious that no witch or wizard has dared think it. Unspeakables are bound to hunt down, through any means necessary, whatever clue will help them to uncovered the answer to the question: ‘What Is Magic?’ While the potential to perform magic is clearly a genetic trait, the existence of Obscurials and the very nature of horcruxes, suggest magic itself is not dependent on a body and in fact, may be a far more primordial force than any care to admit.
HEROES
Tyrna Ogmore -
Georgina Campbell
A by-the-book, middlingly successful, competent but not celebrated auror who is afraid of ‘unnatural’ human inventions, particularly cars. Tyrna has a happy, if not remarkable, life with her loving bookish wife. But deep down, she knows something is missing. Some truth. Some answer. A question she has suppressed for years. Tyrna doesn’t know what happened to her parents. She was being babysat when a terrorist attack in London killed them. As an adult, she found a report stating her witch mother was in the driver’s seat when their car blew up. Her mum didn’t drive, leaving it to her Muggle father, and was adamant about road safety at all times. It made no sense that she was driving. This question, never faced head on, transformed into a desire for all answers. This makes Tyrna a good auror, unable to let go of any clue, impossible to satisfy until a case is closed. It also makes her hard to live with. More than that, it means that when she crossed paths with a volatile Obscurial, only to see them taken away by an Unspeakable without so much as an explanation, Tyrna wasn’t going to let the matter lie. Not without answers. Not till she knows everything. Hufflepuff. Tortoiseshell patronus
Boadicea ‘Bo’ Stumpp
(nee Beldamy - nicknamed Bo Bells by husband Manny)
Gwendoline Christie
Former auror, and top Unspeakable, hard-drinking and always ready for a scrap, Bo Stumpp prefers to work alone. Unfortunately, the department demands all agents work with a partner. Bo hates hers. The work Bo does is covertly capturing and clinically studying Obscurials, due to their unknown capacity to externalise magic as a separate force and their potential connections to the origins of magic. She has taken up the hunt for mentor Primus’ ‘white whale’, a fugitive Oscurial. Bo tends to act suspiciously around full moons, leading to certain questions regularly being asked. In actuality, this is due to the fact her husband had secretly been a werewolf and she got into the habit ‘cleaning up after him’ if things ever went wrong. She patrols on nights of full moons to help those who have turned, since she feels she failed Manny. She is fascinated by muggle stage ‘magic’ and has becoming something of an expert in escape artistry (helped in no small part by the fact she has a prehensile prosthetic silver hand, kept hidden by the fact that she almost always wears gloves). Slytherin. Wolf patronus
Ridhi Kaur -
Naomi Scott
The ‘White Whale Oscurial’. Ridhi accidentally killed her family as a child in London during her summer holidays home from Hogwarts. Considering not returning to the school, she spent the entire summer in shame and denial, eventually trying to suppress her own powers. This quickly caused an Obscurus parasite to develop. Confronted by a young Rappicinia Hearth, her powers violently erupted in a packed London street, killing her parents and many others. Ridhi then wiped her brother’s memory to forget he ever had that family and to spare him the pain. And, if she was being honest, to leave no witnesses. Somehow, whether during the attack or this spell, she transferred a portion of wild magic to her Muggle brother Nikesh, who’d been jealous of his witch sister for years. Since then, Ridhi lived in hiding from the Ministry. From that time she has been hunted by Bo Scrubb. At some point, Ridhi met Naomi Lambert to whom she explained as much as she could about the world of magic. Ridhi was still hunted by Bo and ultimately captured and experimented on. Ridhi is currently held in a cell below the Mind Room. However, this once immensely powerful Obscurial seems to now be completely devoid of all magic, even as the woman named Eurydice’s power grows.
Nikesh Kaur -
Sacha Dhawam
Thirty one years old, a Muggle and on the run. After getting caught up in the Obscurial capture that bought Tyrna and Bo together, Nik is now under Tyrna's protection, not initially by her choosing. He was saved by Tyrna and followed her to a Ministry entrance and waited for her return. He confronted her, confused and bewildered and knowing only she knew how to help him. Tyrna, unable to ignore a lead, took him under her wing. When Marcus Prendick attacked her, Nik exhibited accidental wandless magic…but still registered as a Muggle. He is grieving his recently deceased parents, unaware he was adopted. He has no idea why he is being hunted by…