[Always open]: Department of Mysteries

Hi guys! This challenge is for my Blue Hand Badge and will be graded by a member of the staff. Thanks!

In this challenge, you will be taking the role of an Unspeakable working in the Department of Mysteries who has recently made an astounding discovery through numerous hours and weeks of research and study. You are finally making your discovery public and need to discuss everything involved with your study.

Requirements:
-What was your study on?
-How long have you been studying this particular branch of research?
-What led you to an interest in this area of study?
-What were you trying to prove/disprove?
-Why is this discovery important enough to be made top secretly in the DoM?
- What types of experiments did you perform?
-Were there spells, charms, curses or jinxes involved in the experiments?
-What conclusion did you come to after your research?
-Will this be a shock to the wizarding community?
-How will this benefit witches and wizards?
-no less than 500 words

If possible, please include pictures or diagrams (can be handmade).

This challenge will be worth up to 500 points! Be as creative as possible: remember, you can make all numbers and facts up (unless specifically mentioned somewhere in the books).

The below will not only put me at risk for Azkaban, but possibly put the lives of many in danger. Though my life, and many others could be in risk, the knowledge you are about to expose yourself too is indeed true, and needs to be taught! If these studies are not shared, and learned, many could be abuse the knowledge without awareness. Please do not use my work to hurt a soul, but learn from my mistakes, and inhale the intelligence of others who have used the below secrets for good.

It all started with a hunch. Book after book, I read and self taught countless spells, and charms. One section of magic, had always spoke to me. Dark Magic. The mind tricks, the pain and suffering.

I am a good soul, with morbid thoughts, and unforgivable actions.

My dark twisted mind, knew there was something missing from all of these books; magic has no limits, so why does the teaching? I needed to learn more then books, studies, and professors could teach me.

My name is Emma Finnigan, and I am an Unspeakable.
My research started with just my books and I; my niece stumbled upon my journal of notes, and once what I have learned is shared, it can not be unlearned. Amelia Finnigan, had no other option but to join me in the adventure of secrecy. When my books on History of Magic, and Magical Deaths, had not been telling me what I had wanted, I had Amelia, sneak into the Forbidden Section, of the Hogwarts Castle Library. Yes, I am aware I put the 4th year in risk of expulsion, but Filch, would not be opposed when he finds out why.

Amelia, had discovered just what I had been looking for, what my books, and records stollen from the Department of Mystery, could not tell me. After reading a book published by a great ancestor of our very own Sirius Black, I knew my hunch was correct. Angus Black, had written a fiction book about his adventures in a certain Forbidden Forrest. This book talked about a curse, one never spoken of, never taught, never even known of! This book had been published into five copies, one copy destroyed in my hands, four copies lost in time, whereabouts unknown to all.

So what is this curse I mention?

The curse I discovered is the Willaspe, curse. By casting this curse, you are not only invading the mind of any Muggle, Witch, Wizard, or Creature, but controlling every thought, memory, and action. It's as if you are going into their head, and rewiring everything in their mind! By just one flick of your wand, you could make them believe they are a completely different person. By just a swoosh of the wrist, you could make them say anything you pleased! Just one word, is all it takes, and you have complete control over anything in their mind.

The book written by Black had been fiction, so why is it that this book had been band from ever being shared, or read? Well my fellow readers, because this curse, is unspoken of for a reason!

When experimenting with the curse, I had Amelia, steal a Boggart, from her Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. She released it for me, and instead of using the Riddikulus, charm, I allowed the Mermaid that came from the Boggart, to approach me slowly, and yes, it was frightening! I then grasped my wand firmly, and stared into the maroon colored hair creatures eyes, and the word rolled off my tongue.


I whispered the word and the Mermaid vastly froze into a solid statue figure. Her every memory lurked into my mind, I saw her past, I felt her anger, and then... I controlled her. I used her as my puppet and made her believe she was on fire. She broke her stillness and began to screech, cry, and move her body in a painful motion. Of course she was not hurting, she was not burning, but by one curse I made her believe otherwise.

Again a Boggart approached me.


I said it in fear as I remembered the scream of the mermaid. I casted the curse. Memories, thoughts, and feelings. I felt heard, and saw them all. The Mermaid then began to believe she was a Dementor, because that is what I had told her she was. I made her kill herself from guilt due to to sucking the soul of my lover. I felt remorse of course! But I had to carry on with the studies. The people needed proof that this curse was more than a made up thing from a fictional forbidden book!


My oblivious behavior kept me from realizing Amelia, had been hid in the crack of the door, watching as I tortured the creatures. This is where my mistake had been made. She was not as cold hearted as I. She saw the hurt I caused, so she dug through my stuff and destroyed the book. She wanted to turn me in, her loyalty to help me learn more about magic had vanished. I had no choice.


There is not a day that goes by where I don't regret using Magic for bad, where I wish I had never started to look into the past of Dark Magic. Not a day passes where I don't beg myself to forget. I cannot. So rather than exposing you to a curse and letting you run wild with a word that could be used for murder, I plead that we can use it for good. To look into the minds of creatures to communicate and understand, instead of control.

In just three weeks of studying I took the life of my very own niece, a Boggart, and inflicted torture upon another.

I believe in the past they did use Willaspe, in numerous positive ways, all it takes is one Witch or Wizard, like myself to create a bad image to a spell, and let others believe it has to be a curse. I blame the Department of Mysteries. For I being an Unspeakable, I know what secrets we hide. I strongly think this has been a secret forgotten in the past, due to one person in the DoM, wanting nothing to do with it. Why should they get to say it's evil? Because I used it badly, does it make it a bad thing?

I am a good soul, with morbid thoughts, and unforgivable actions.

My name is Emma Finnigan, and I rediscovered the Willaspe Curse.

That curse sounds like a mixture of the Imperius curse with Legilimancy. Either was, it was a nice reading and interesting story! I just wished there were more details in for example what wand movement was it necessary? Did sparks shot out or was it a silent stream of air force? There was still a lot of effort put into to this. Well done!

RAVENCLAW
HeatherrrBrooke - 400 HP