The time has come to discuss the mess of future plottage commonly known as the Pan-dimensional time/space continuum fabric of magic connector gene plot! Or in other words, the-fourth-unforgivable-screws-up-magic-in-the-UK plot!

Here are the basics.

THE SPELL

• Incantation: Extrai Phasma
• Effect: Removes the soul of another person.
• Uses: When the victim's soul is placed in a magical container, or (the more effective option) tied to the caster's soul through a horcrux, it can be used to have complete power over the victim. The caster is capable of controlling their thoughts, feelings, memories, and actions. The caster can kill them or sustain them. It is virtually undetectable.

THE NASTY METAPHYSICAL OFFSPRING

• The fourth unforgivable puts a strain on the magical, physical, and spiritual dimensions. Cast the spell too many times in any area, and it may cause a 'pull' between the three dimensions that causes abnormalities in magic (such as in the break-in thread, temporary loss/difficult with magic).
• An actual tear will occur when there's a massive blast of energy from one dimension to the other...for example, if an ambitious politician used multiple horcruxes to tie lots of souls to himself, but then released them all at once.
• A pan-dimensional tear makes magic stop functioning. Although all magical beings still have the ability of magic genetically, they can't access their abilities because of the dimensional "fallout."
• A tear only affects a certain area, depending on the number of uses and severity of the tear. All magical beings can regain their powers if they move to a place away from the tear.
• Theoretically, a tear will heal itself.

THE COMMUNITY FALLOUT

• Magical beasts and beings lose their abilities.
• Something happens to spirits/ghosts. (?)
• All unplottable places become plottable.
• All spells are broken. (?)
• All witches and wizards are turned into squibs.

For our purposes, the tear will cover X amount of land and last for X amount of time. The tear will occur on ______, 2019.


That's what we have for a start. Bring on the questions and theories!

Hey everybody.

Just had a quick thought, what if it was an event? Similar to Jasper's Birthday Party. That way everyone could participate but the fallout would be contained in its own area? Seems like it would create a sort of pocket dimension anyway during all the chaos.

Hmm I wonder what would happen if Shallah lost her abilities. If she lost magic but stayed veela I don't see a problem. I don't think she could become human though, shes over 150 years old, she'd be dust.

Also wizards have a longer life span because of Magic would older wizards just die from the shock?

I think if Shallah knew this was coming she would retreat back to Scandanavian to regroup, the idea of being without magic would shake her to the core.

Lastly I sort of like Lee's idea. It would let the rest of the board continue as usual while at the same time allow everyone to have fun with this plot point.

I keep thinking about how many people will die as a result of this, can you imagine all the people in St. Mungo's who are being kept alive by magic?

Then again we wouldn't have to worry about it, unless the 'event' was near that area, in which case it would be a tragedy.

I agree fervently with Niff and Lee. I think it's important not to drag this out too long, since it's more of a plot point than plot.

I agree, and as for ghosts... Assuming that they're sort of mingled bundles of soul and magic, they should cease to exist, but I'd like to think that the human soul has a magic beyond spells and potions and that ghosts are a bit more resilient than enchantments.

That ghosts even exist implies that the soul has a certain measure of independent will, so it'd make sense that the same willpower/fear/whatever that prompted them to stick around after they died would allow them to fight against the fourth unforgivable for a while until the rift healed.

Naturally, though, you can't see them without magic, so they'd seem to disappear. I'm trying to figure out whether it'd be the same with thestrals and dementors. Maybe not thestrals, I'm thinking, because they have actual physical form and are probably only hidden by magic. Dementors are probably the same, although they're rather inconsequential without magic (and also allegedly extinct in England, right?) so it hardly matters.

I don't like the idea of making it an event forum. The point is that it affects everyone in different places on the island. One forum comprising events that are supposedly happening all over the U.K. would be confusing and haphazard. No, we obviously can't let it drag on too long, but we want everyone to be able to play it out and I lose my threads already sometimes under all you other active posters, haha.

The fallout will presumably contain the entire U.K., which means yes, St. Mungo's will be affected. Lots of people will die. Lots of people will die in this terrorist nonsense. We like tragic plots, haha.

I see no distinction between plot point and plot. Plots are made up of plot points. They're one in the same, as far as I'm concerned. Besides, this is a really big plot point, if we're gonna use that terminology.

Ghosts will continue to be there, they'll just be invisible, like Steph said.

As for Shallah, I don't imagine that if she turned human she would die. I think Arty mentioned something earlier to the effect of she'd continue to age normally from that point, and I think that's what would happen rather than accelerated aging to make up for lost time.

When we came up with this idea Carmen and I struggled with the idea of finished magic and sustained magic and what was what and how it would be affected. Thoughts?

Spells and enchantments would cease. Magic would just stop happening as if it never had happened in the first place - Hogwarts will become visible and without magic, Diagon Alley will become exposed etc.

That which is Unplottable suddenly becomes Plottable - Malfoy Manor, 12 Grimmauld Place, Hogwarts. the Ministry. All that jazz. Assuming that only wizards become ghosts I think that they'd cease to exist.

Not a nice option but then - magic's "leaving" Britain for a while. Magical portraits would stop working, too, I think.

These things will be happening all over Britain so everyone will be affected. People will die. Accidents will happen - Quidditch, for example. Players will fall out of the air, anyone using magical means to stay alive will die and powers will stop working. Metamorphmagi and animagi will be affected. Whether this means they'll lose their current morph or be forced to stay an animal remains to be seen, I guess.

And wizards and witches wouldn't become squibs. They'd become muggles. Squib implies they're able to see some of the effects of magic - Hogwarts etc. There'll be no magic left for them to see thus everyone will be a muggle until the tear heals itself.

I'm going to have to go with Spiv on the anti-site wide event front. We would have to designate a certain time frame to the problem, but it would be too confusing to rp everything that is supposed to be happening all over Britain in one forum...otherwise why do we bother with forums at all? And since we use liquid time here anyway, many of us will probably be rping stuff that happens before/after the "Pan-dimensional time/space continuum fabric of magic connector gene plot" at the same time anyway.

I think I was discussing the magical creature problem with Carmen and/or Spiv a while back. And we thought that magical creatures wouldn't necessarily cease to exist, they'd just lose magical properties. So I guess house elves, and pixies would still be there...they just wouldn't be able to use their own brand of magic.

As for age problems (such as Shallah), I thought earlier that it wouldn't necessarily matter how old she actually is, but rather how old her body percieves her to be. She may have been born 200 years ago, but her body hasn't actually aged past say the age of 30 (or whatever). So I would imagine that veela/really old wizards etc... would just continue to age from their physical age. It'd be kind of like...how a person can be 22 but due to eating habits have the cholesterol of a 60 year old, only in reverse.