Changes - Things to be aware of...
Characters
Canon
Cho Chang - Working at the Ministry. Has a very important job within the Accounting Department. Divorced with a daughter Erica, who lives with her father - Jonathan Brent. - point of contact -->nixchan
Luna Lovegood - Got involved with a centaur some point after leaving school. Had a daughter Sybil by the centaur. The couple are still together, but rarely get to see much of each other. Luna's job is undetermined. - point of contact -->tehexile
Pansy Parkinson - Pansy went a little wild after Hogwarts - her daughter, Cecilia, being one of many results. She now owns Borgin and Burkes and has been trying to improve its reputation. - point of contact -->ucrazyutaraptor
Ginny Potter - After leaving Hogwarts Ginny continued to play Quidditch and became very successful with time at the Falmouth Falcons. After the unplanned birth of James she stopped playing and coached part time while helping out at the Diagon Alley premises of Weasley's Wizarding Weezes. When Harry started teaching at Hogwarts she transfered to the Hogsmeade shop during term time. - point of contact -->nixchan
Fred Weasley - Having suffered a rather traumatic death in the castle Fred refused to move on. His connection to his twin was so strong that he remained. It is suspected that he will leave Hogwarts when George leaves this mortal coil, but no-one is very sure about that, least of all Fred. As it is he's giving Peeves a run for his money and trying to convince the people in power that Nearly Headless Nick has been around for way to long and that Gryffindor could do with a new house ghost. - point of contact -->nixchan
Hermione Weasley - Hermione is working for an undetermined charity in London. - point of contact -->nixchan
New
Evelyn Lacey - Hogwarts' Transfiguration teacher.
Alasdair MacTavish - Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts.
Medea Malfoy - Eastern European wife of Draco Malfoy. Chosen by Narcissa to improve the family's financial status. Medea was disowned when she refused to leave Draco's side after her family found out about the Malfoy's unsavoury past. - point of contact -->lux_fiat
Ariana Weasley - Bill and Fleur's second daughter. Currently a first year. - point of contact -->pyxii_dust
Organisations
MIL - Muggle Intergration League - point of contact -->captain_magpie
WizTech - Founded by Diligo Venator.
Not much is known about the famous Asian-American entrepreneur, save that he had battled for muggle technology rights since he arrived in England shortly after the fall of the Dark Lord. With the help of Arthur Weasley, his biggest supporter in the Ministry itself, magical “upgrading” for the computer and the internet was sanctioned in 2008. However, the internet still had to be proven safe before it could be distributed to wizards. With seven years of secret enchantments, security measures, and a whole new branch of the Ministry for internet surveillance, it was finally approved. This new Ministry Department still keeps tabs on where the wizard population surf and attempt to limit Muggles finding out about the wizarding world via the Internet.
When the WizNet was released in 2015, every muggle-wizard home wanted the new WizTech computer and some all-wizarding families weren’t horribly far behind.
Soon, the interest in muggle technology and the demand for new WizTech products hit the fan. By 2017 more devices had become Ministry sanctioned, and cell phone-mp3-internet devices are starting to become as common as owls and radios among the younger generation. WizTech opens a whole new door to muggle life. Wizard kids quote Pirates of the Caribbean and blog on LiveJournal right along side everyone else.
The MIL (Muggle Intergration League) is outspoken about the benefits of exposing wizard children to muggle pop culture. However, there are those who don’t appreciate the new lifestyle. Owl trainers worry they’ll soon be out of business and old traditionalists (especially purebloods) claim the muggle way of life is poisoning the minds of their children.
WizTech is also an international company with big sales in Asian countries, making Diligo Venator one of the richest men in England.
Another point of interest about Mr. Venator is that he is a metamorphmagis, though, he hasn’t changed his appearance since his business boomed saying: “If the kernel shaved his beard, no one would buy his chicken.” With his lavender and black streaked hair, and his yellow goat-like eyes, his appearance is iconic and one of the most well-known in the wizarding world.
NOTES: Hogwarts is still a tech-less area. Professor Flitwick has a handful of very old computers that work in his classroom. They have been carefully reconfigured to work under the spell of Hogwarts. There is still too much unease within the older ranks at the Ministry to allow Hogwarts to be fully techified.
WizTech merchandise however does work in Hogsmeade and an Internet Cafe has been opened there.
- point of contact -->ligea