InsaneJournal

The year is 1976 - a time of bellbottoms and platform shoes, disco music and embarrassing slang, burning bras and damning the establishment. It's a time of change and upheaval, where new ways of thinking are embraced by many and scoffed at by an equal amount. People are beginning to question the government, wondering if things should be done slightly differently. New kinds of music and fashion is emerging, making more conventional adults complain about the noise and wonder what will happen to the world with such a corrupt generation in the works. There is laughter, happiness, and the world is just as it always should have been.

But underneath the seemingly peaceful world, there is a darker plot being stirred about that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Every day, more articles come out in the Daily Prophet describing strange attacks, curious deaths, and all out mysterious events that not even the editor can smooth over to not seem interconnected. The people are beginning to wonder, putting the puzzle pieces together. The older witches and wizards are reminded of the dark time of Gridelwald from years ago, praying that history will not go about its usual way of repeating itself. All the while, the not so quiet whisper of a man named Voldemort who prefers to be addressed as the Dark Lord goes through the masses.

Meanwhile, students are returning to Hogwarts, preparing for a new and exciting year at school. There are tearful reunions, glares exchanged between lifelong rivals, and new students that are cowering at the idea of the new, frightening adventure they are setting themselves on. In their bags resides a new sort of book - an interactive journal. They are something of a homework assignment, with instructions from the Headmaster himself asking them to use them wisely and as a way to keep close with those who matter the most and meet new people who the students might have otherwise not known.

However..just how enjoyable can a school year be when so much devastation is occurring outside of the walls protecting them? Will the friends, gossip, and schoolwork be enough of a distraction for the students? Will they be able to prepare themselves for what's waiting outside in what's proving to be a rather mad world?