Post by linders on Jul 8, 2009 12:15:09 GMT 1
Things have gone badly. Actually worse than badly. If that were actually possible. The year was 1997, and everything was going downhill. The Dark Lord was in control of the Ministry of Magic and he crowned himself not Minister of Magic but King of the Wizarding World. His horcruxes being destroyed, he needed more and quickly. For that he turned to Bellatrix Lestrange, a woman who was infatuated with him, but he had no true feelings for. To him, she was just a loyal follower, for the Dark Lord loved no one but himself. They conceived triplets, and the Dark Lord took the children from their mother when they were five. As if making his own children horcruxes wasn’t bad enough, he allowed his Death Eaters make muggle born witches and wizards into servants. Though, servant was putting it mildly. Soon their servants included captured half-bloods and blood traitors, too. The servants were actually slaves, but the Dark Lord disliked the term slave and stuck with the term servant. It sounded more humane even if the servants were treated with complete disdain behind closed doors, it made foreign relations smoother sailing.
While Dumbledore and Harry were out searching for Voldemort, Severus Snape was appointed Headmaster of Hogwarts. Order Supporters and Loyalists were flogged and verbally abused on a regular basis. Dumbledore couldn’t return to Hogwarts without a fight and he knew the Order had to regroup so he didn’t return to Hogwarts and he forbade Harry to, knowing the Dark Lord would love to have the boy without his direction or guidance. He wasn’t about to allow that to happen. As if forced servitude and DE control over the Ministry and Hogwarts wasn’t enough, Antonio Sanguini opened his own carnival called the “Greatest Show Unearthed” based on a muggle band’s song (Creature Feature) that blasted through the park.
”The Dark Carnival Is In Town
You Better Be Ready
Just Follow The Parade
Of Dancing Skeletons
Full Of Ghoulish Delights
Around Every Corner
Don't Tell Your Parents You're Here
They Will Soon Be Mourners
Welcome To The Lower Birth
The Greatest Show Unearthed
We Appear Without A Sound
The Darkest Show Around
We Will Leave You In A Daze
Madness, Murder, Dismay
We Will Disappear At Night
With Blood On The Concrete
I Will Be Your Ticket Taker
Come Inside It's A Dream
Enter The Fun House Of Mirrors
No One Can Hear You Scream
We Can Supply Anything
That Your Heart Desires
But The Consequences
Will Surely Be Dire
Welcome To The Lower Birth
The Greatest Show Unearthed
We Appear Without A Sound
The Darkest Show Around
We Will Leave You In A Daze
Madness, Murder, Dismay
We Will Disappear At Night
With Blood On The Concrete
Come Inside
For The Ride
Your Deepest Darkest Fears
The Best Night
Of Your Life
You're Never Leaving Here
The Unknown
The Unseen
Is What You're Gonna Find
Witness This
Witness That
Until You Lose Your Mind
Welcome To The Lower Birth
The Greatest Show Unearthed
We Appear Without A Sound
The Darkest Show Around
We Will Leave You In A Daze
Madness, Murder, Dismay
We Will Disappear At Night
With Blood On The Concrete.”
The carnival was a place where enemies of the Dark Lord’s children or muggle children were sent to be terminated. Of course, the children don’t know they’re going to their deaths as the park has every pretense of fun, but the Order knows and they’re utterly disgusted by this! Not to mention forced institution of slavery guised as servitude? Well, that doesn’t set well with them, either.
The year is now 2024. This has been going on for twenty seven maddening years and the death eaters aren’t about to relent any time soon, most unfortunately. The Order has managed to destroy the Death Eater’s holds over Ottery St. Catchpole, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley. But it’s been a narrow victory and a hard battle that has spilled a lot of blood and shed many innocent lives. The battles only heighten everyday. Don’t you think it’s time for a bit of change? Then again you may hold sympathy with the Death Eater purists. That’s your own business. Only one thing’s for certain. We’re all in this In This Together.
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