Ask Us Anything!

[alt_moderator]

The cast thread is filling up rapidly, and while we don't have to fuss about comment collapse, it is getting difficult to navigate...

So here's a new post, where we're asking YOU to ask US: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

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[jenett]

The Margery Birdwhistle part:

Margaret Thatcher was actually Prime Minister in 1982-1983, when the first war happened. Here, let me quote the squence from the wiki, for ease:

Early March: Fall of the Ministry. The Death Eaters make their move to take over the Ministry during a hearing of the Wizengamot to consider Harry's guardianship case, hoping to capture Dumbledore and Sirius, but both escape. Dumbledore flees, retreats to his safe house and grabs Trelawney, and flees to America. Sirius flees to France. (Alice is pregnant pregnant with Evelyn during this event.) Serena Baddock is killed in the fighting.
March 30 : Assassination attempt on Voldemort, using a Muggle gun - Raz gets in the way.
April 2 : Falklands War begins. Muggle government presumably entirely distracted.
May 20 : Regulus flees.
June 20 : Falklands War ends.

(Which makes so very much sense if you realise the combination of the timeline, really.)

The following year, when the wards come down, they take the Muggle government entirely. Margery Birdwhistle had lost her seat in the previous election (so she was known to a wide range of people, but not actually in the government) but you can assume that most or all of the current Muggle politicians died, got put in camps, got put in camps and then died, etc.

[edschweppe]

I am so looking forward to seeing the full timeline!