PLOT UPDATES
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MINISTRY
THERE HAS RECENTLY BEEN SOME DEPARTMENT HEAD CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY. MS. ORLANNA SLOPER, TWENTY-SIX, WAS JUST DISMISSED AS THE HEAD OF THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF MAGICAL CREATURES DEPARTMENT. THE SUCCESSOR? VERA SERGEYEV. SHE WAS MS. SLOPER’S ASSISTANT BEFORE BEING PROMOTED. THIS HAS CREATED A RECENT UPROAR WITH SOME OF THE OTHER MINISTRY HEADS. TO BE SPECIFIC: SLOPER’S COUSIN, CURAN SLOPER. HE’S NOT ALONE IN HIS UPSET HOWEVER, RHAPSODY ACKERLY (HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAGICAL TRANSPORTATION) AS WELL AS ANDREW AUBREY (HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAGICAL ACCIDENTS AND CATASTROPHES) HAVE ALSO DISPLAYED THEY’RE UNHAPPINESS AT THE MINISTER’S DECISION. IT MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO SOME PEOPLE, BUT RIDER SCAMANDER, THE MINISTER OF MAGIC, AND MS. SLOPER WERE QUITE CLOSE. SOME WOULD SAY TOO CLOSE. SCAMANDER DOES HAVE A WIFE, DARLA, BUT THERE HAS BEEN MANY RUMORS OF HIS AFFAIRS. THE LATEST? ORLANNA SLOPER. YES, THAT’S RIGHT. THE LASTEST GOSSIP SUGGESTS THAT MS. SLOPER AND MR. SCAMANDER WERE HAVING A TORRID AFFAIR. BUT WHY WOULD HE FIRE HIS MISTRESS? BECAUSE HE FOUND A YOUNGER, PRETTIER ONE. THAT’S RIGHT, VERA SERGEYEV. OF COURSE THIS IS ALL HEARSAY. THREE HEADS AGAINST IT, THREE HEADS FOR IT, MS. SERGEYEV IS CERTAINLY CREATING RIPPLES IN THE MINISTRY. BEFORE THIS THE MINISTRY HEADS WERE MOSTLY IN AGREEANCE ON MOST MATTERS, THIS COULD BE A HORRIBLE DECISION ON THE MINISTER’S PART. ON A MORE SOMBER NOTE, TWO NOTABLE AURORS WERE KILLED TODAY. PEARCE ENTWHISTLE (HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAGICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT) HAS YET TO GIVE THE DETAILS ON THESE DEATHS. THE ONLY THING KNOWN IS THEIR NAMES: REY HENRIK ANDRIST AND ARTUS CAROLL STEBBINS, TWO VETERANS OF THE FORCE. ARTUS IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ARREST OF TWO REFORMIST REBELLERS WHO SET FIRE TO BORGIN & BURKE’S LAST DECEMBER (THE FIRE WAS QUICKLY PUT OUT, ALTHOUGH AN EIGHT YEAR OLD WAS SEVERELY BURNED).
GRENIER LOYALISTS
A LITTLE LOVE MAY HAVE BEEN LOST RECENTLY BETWEEN THE GRENIER LOYALISTS AND THE PURISTS. TWO MEMBERS OF A PROMINENT PURIST FAMILY, THE TWO MACNAIR BROTHERS, WERE HEARD TALKING ABOUT THE GRENIER’S AND THEIR SUPPORTERS. THEIR HURTFUL COMMENTS? AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW, THE PURIST FACTION DO NOT BELIEVE IN MARRYING WEREWOLVES. THE MACNAIR BOYS APPARENTLY THINK THAT THE GRENIER’S SHOULD FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE. THEY MADE SOME…RUDE COMMENTS CONCERNING SOME EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF THE GRENIER FACTION. WHO? UNDOUBTEDLY THESE COMMENTS WERE DIRECTED AT MADALENA CONCEIÇÃO AND LOUIS GRENIER. LOUIS IS MARRYING EDMONIA, DUE TO AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THEIR FATHERS. MALALENA HAS GOTTEN PREGNANT, A PREMARITAL PREGNANACY MIND YOU, WITH JACQUES BOISSIEU’S CHILD. THE COMMENTS MADE WERE FAR TOO HARSH TO MENTION, BUT WE’VE GOT NO DOUBT THAT THE BOISSIEU’S (WHO THE GRENIER’S HOLD A CLOSE ALLIANCE WITH) WILL BE UNHAPPY WITH THE MACNAIR BOYS. THESE REMARKS WERE MORE THAN LIKELY SPARKED BECAUSE OF THE RECENT ENGAGEMENT OF DIMITRI ANTOKOLSKY AND CLÉMENCE BOISSIEU. IT’S SAID THAT LUCIEN MET WITH ARCTURUS ON WEDNESDAY TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER. “ONE THING THE GRENIER’S HOLD CLOSE TO THEIR HEART IS RESPECT. IF THERE IS NO RESPECT IN A RELATIONSHIP THEN THERE IS NOT RELATIONSHIP,” QUOTED BY LUCIEN GRENIER. IT SEEMS THAT THIS VERBAL ATTACK ON THE GRENIER’S HAS CAUSED QUITE AN UPSET BETWEEN THE TWO POWERHOUSES.
PURIST
ALTHOUGH THE PURST ALLIANCE HAS JUST WON A VICTORY IN THE DIAGON ALLEY BOMBING, IT SEEMS THAT THERE IS TROUBLE IN PARADISE. THE PURIST’S LEADER, ARCTURUS LESTRAGE, AND HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND’S, NATHANIEL MALFOY, RELATIONSHIP SEEMS TO BE BREAKING APART. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THERE WAS A SCENE AT THE GENTLEMAN’S CLUB, LES CADEAUX, BETWEEN THE TWO. SOURCES SAY THAT THE TWO ARE BUTTING HEADS, NATHANIEL THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE PUT IN CHARGE AND ARCTURUS IS NOT HAVING IT. AS MOST KNOW, THEY ARE RELATED AND THIS COULD CAUSE AN UGLY RIFT BETWEEN THE PURIST FACTION. IN ADDITION TO THIS RIDGITY BETWEEN THE TWO MR. CAESER BLACK IS ALSO SPARKING SOME INTEREST. HE SEEMS TO BE A LIGHTENING ROD BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS, ALWAYS QUICK TO BRING UP CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES THAT THE TWO DON’T NECESSARILY BELIEVE IN. BESIDES THEY’RE DISAGREEMENTS ON SOME OF THE ISSUES THERE IS ANOTHER POSSIBILITY. A WOMAN. TO BE SPECIFIC DANIELA SERENE CONCEIÇÃO, A GRENIER LOYALIST. BOTH OF THE LEADERS (ARCTURUS AND NATHANIEL) ARE MARRIED, HOWEVER THEY BOTH ALSO SEEM TO HAVE A GRAND TIME IN ENTERTAINING MS. CONCEIÇÃO. WHO HAS SHE BEEN SEEN AROUND OTHER THEN THE TWO PURIST HEADS? CAESER BLACK. WHO’S TO SAY WHAT THE GIRL’S REAL INTENTIONS ARE? OFFICIALLY SHE WAS SENT BY HER FATHER TO ACT AS SOMEWHAT OF A LIAISON TO THE PURISTS. ANOTHER TAKE ON MS. CONCEIÇÃO’S VISIT IS THAT HER FATHER, LEOPOLDO CONCEIÇÃO, NEEDS TO KEEP IN GOOD GRACES WITH LUCIEN GRENIER. CONCEIÇÃO, BOISSIEU AND GRENIER HAVEN’T BEEN ON GOOD TERMS AS OF LATE BECAUSE OF THE UNMARRIED PREGNANCY OF MADALENA CONCEIÇÃO AND JACQUES BOISSIEU. WHATEVER THE REASON, THE EFFECT OF MS. CONCEIÇÃO’S GACE AND CHARM CAN ON THE TWO PURIST’’S CAN BE VIVIDLY SEEN.
REFORMIST
“ELIAS, GET OUT OF THERE!”
“HOLD ON, CONNOR. IT’LL BE FINE!”
“SHIT, MAN, THIS PLACE IS ‘BOUT TO BLOW.”
“JUST ONE... LAST... THING...”
“I’LL BE WAITING ‘ROUND THE CORNER.”
IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LIKE THAT. THEY’D LAID OUT A PLAN AND HAD GONE OVER IT A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE HAND. CONNOR AND ELIAS WERE GOING TO GO IN, SET THE BOMBS, AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE BEFORE THE PLACE EXPLODED. IT WAS FOOLPROOF! BUT THEN ELIAS HAD TO GET ALL FANCY DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE OPERATION. CONNOR FINALLY GAVE UP AND WAITED A BLOCK AWAY, BUT HE NEVER SAW ELIAS AGAIN. IT SEEMED THE DETONATOR DETONATED BEFORE ELIAS GOT OUT. MAYBE SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH THE DETONATOR OR MAYBE ELIAS JUST LOST TRACK OF THE TIME REMAINING. SURE, THE BOMB MANAGED TO TAKE THE LIVES OF A FEW ALLEGEDLY IMPORTANT MEN, BUT THE VICTORY WAS OVERSHADOWED BY THE DEATH OF ONE OF THE LOYALIST REFORMIST. MAYBE ELIAS COULD HAVE BEEN EASILY FORGOTTEN HAD HE BEEN A BACHELOR, BUT HE HAD A WIFE AND A FAMILY. HE HAD THREE GIRLS AWAITING HIS ARRIVAL HOME EVERYNIGHT, BUT THEY WOULD NEVER SEE THEIR BELOVED HUSBAND/FATHER AGAIN. VENEZIA, ALSO AN IMPORTANT MEMBER TO THE REFORMIST MOVEMENT, WAS ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED BY THE NEWS. SHE AND ELIAS HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH A FEW ROCKY TIMES LATELY, BUT SHE HAD LOVED HIM WITH HER ENTIRE HEART. VENEZIA, IN HER ANGER, RIPPED INTO CONNOR WITH HER ACQUISITIONS THAT HE HADN’T DONE ENOUGH TO PREVENT ELIAS’S DEATH. NOW CONNOR, THE GREAT LEADER OF THE REFORMISTS, HAS THE GUILT OF A FRIEND’S DEATH ON HIS SHOULDERS AND THE ACCUSING GLARE OF SAID FRIEND’S WIFE WIDOW BORING INTO HIS BACK. THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE REFORMIST GROUP.