The Unspeakables - Fanfic Characters

June 9, 2021

Hey all,

New here but have been a writer for some time and always head back to play in the fanfic pool. Never read the books until I started reading them to my son recently and the whole experience renewed my interest in the wizarding world.

To this end, I started imaging a story that is set away from Hogwarts and the characters we know and wanted to explore some unexplored nooks and crannies (in canon, I'm well aware that the Unspeakables is a deep well for fanfic).

Regardless, I came up with a bunch of characters and out of it spun a sort of narrative. As of now, I have too many other writing projects to turn this into a true piece of fiction but wanted to share my character thoughts and see what others think to the people and narrative bubbling underneath. If you feel like taking this somewhere and fleshing out the tale, go ahead.

FYI, I envision this taking place sometime after Harry and the gang are rather old or even after they've passed. Sorry it's in snippets but I hope it can be pieced together relatively easily.

Without further ado:

The Unspeakables

The most secretive department within the Ministry of Magic, governed by seven unrevealed ministers, the department is dedicated to answering the Unspeakable Question: a question so obvious that no witch or wizard has dared think it. Unspeakables are bound to hunt down, through any means necessary, whatever clue will help them to uncovered the answer to the question: ‘What Is Magic?’ While the potential to perform magic is clearly a genetic trait, the existence of Obscurials and the very nature of horcruxes, suggest magic itself is not dependent on a body and in fact, may be a far more primordial force than any care to admit.

HEROES

Tyrna Ogmore - A by-the-book, middlingly successful, competent but not celebrated auror who is afraid of cars and has a loving wife. Tyrna has a happy, if not remarkable, life. But deep down, she knows something is missing. Some truth. Some answer. A question she has suppressed for years. Tyrna doesn’t know what happened to her parents. She was being babysat when a terrorist attack in London killed them. As an adult, she found a report stating her mum was in the driver’s seat when their car blew up. Her mum didn’t drive and was adamant about road safety at all times. It made no sense that she was driving. This question, never faced head on, transformed into a desire for all answers. This makes Tyrna a good auror, unable to let go of any clue, impossible to satisfy until a case is closed. It also makes her hard to live with. More than that, it means that when she crossed paths with a volatile Obscurial, only to see them taken away by an Unspeakable without so much as an explanation, Tyrna wasn’t going to let the matter lie. Not without answers. Not till she knows everything. Hufflepuff. Tortoiseshell patronus

Boadicea ‘Bo’ Stumpp (nee Beldamy - nicknamed Bo Bells by husband Manny). Former auror, and top Unspeakable, Bo Stumpp works alone. The work she does is covertly capturing and clinically studying Obscurials, due to their unknown capacity to externalise magic as a separate force and their potential connections to the origins of magic. She has taken up the hunt for mentor Primus’ ‘white whale’ Oscurial. Bo tends to act suspiciously around full moons, leading to certain questions being asked. In actuality, this is due to the fact her hudband had secretly been a werewolf and she got into the habit ‘cleaning up after him’ if things ever went wrong. She patrols on nights of full moons to help those who have turned, since she feels she failed Manny. She is fascinated by muggle ‘magic’ and has becoming something of an expert in escape artistry (helped in no small part by the fact she has a prehensile prosthetic silver hand, kept hidden by the fact she almost always wears gloves). Slytherin. Wolf patronus

‘Primus’ Rappiccinia Hearth - Head of the Unspeakables department and chief amongst the Seven. Under her command, agents of the department have been permitted, in extreme circumstances, to use Unforgivable Curses. Taciturn and stern she nevertheless cares for all those she is responsible for. Even if she doesn’t show it. She would die for what she believes in and what she believes in is her people. Twenty years ago, she had a theory about a connection between the origins of magic and ‘wild’ Obscurial magic. Her Primus at the time thought the idea dangerous and forbade her from pursuing it. Defying orders, she tracked an Obscurial to London and provoked them into releasing their Obscurus force for the first time. The effect was devastating. Many Muggles were killed or many more injured. Including Tyrna’s parents. Tyrna’s father wounded in the initial blast, her mother, against her nature and all judgement, got behind the wheel to try and drive them to safety. Both were killed. The Obscurial got away and became Hearth’s own white whale. Regardless, her theory bore weight. This redirected the department away from academic theoretical studies and instead moved it toward active field operations. When Tyrna learns the truth and confronts Rappicinia, she tries to maintain a ‘greater good’ mantra, before Tyrna incapacitates her and frees Ridhi. Hearth’s final act was heroic, passing on all the sealed Unspeakable case files to Tyrna and Bo, including reports on the fledging wizard Ryan Lambert, enough information perhaps to connect with his mother. Swiftly after this, she is murdered by Blutus Thornt, who successfully reroutes the message to the shadowy Heirs of Slytherin. Ravenclaw. American badger patronus

‘Minimus’ Teddy Lupin - Quiet, studious, not hugely good with social interactions and uneasy with duelling, young Teddy remains possibly the finest magical inventor in the world. Newly graduated from Hogwarts, the Ministry snapped him up and it was only a handful of years before the Unspeakable department laid claim to him. He now invents and bewitches the various tools of their trade. While technically not one of the Seven, he does have a seat at the table and is privy to all meetings…as keeper of the minutes (a duty he takes very seriously). He is far more sympathetic to the plight of Muggles than many of his contemporaries and after the death of Rappicinia Hearth, he is given the position of Primus- as much to his shock as anyone else’s. In truth, member of the Seven, Rubin Thisk forced the board’s hand in the matter, believing Lupin could be his puppet. But Lupin had more integrity than all but his dearest friends would believe. Once in the position, he immediately suspended all Obscurial capture activities and was ultimately successfully in petitioning the Ministry to create the Department of Muggle Aid and Development. Hufflepuff. Common frog patronus

Nikesh Kaur - Thirty one years old, a Muggle and on the run. After getting caught up in the Obscurial capture that bought Tyrna and Bo together, Nik is now under Tyrna's protection, not initially her her choosing. He was saved by Tyrna and followed her to a Ministry entrance and waited for her return. He confronted her, confused and bewildered and knowing only she knew how to help him. Without knowing how or why. Tyrna, unable to ignore a lead, took him under her wing. When Marcus Prendick attacked her, Nik exhibited accidental wandless magic…but still registered as a Muggle. He is grieving his recently deceased parents though does not know he was adopted. He has no idea why he is being hunted by…

VILLAINS

The Eye of Eurydice

A human terrorist cell using ‘wild magic’ to attack Magic strongholds, as well as luring and attacking prominent magical figures.

Marcus Prendick - A zealot commissioned with bringing in Ridhi. When Tyrna is first confronted and bumps into Bo, she is pursuing Prendick, aware he is hunting down a dangerous Obscurial. Tyrna is shocked to see the unstable magic Marcus employs. She’s more shocked when Bo uses the Killing Curse upon him. When Bo announces that Prendick was a Muggle, her world is rocked. Tyrna attempts to arrest Bo who laughs her off. Prendick’s legacy is bringing Tyrna and Bo together and Tyrna’s first contact with the Eye of Eurydice.

‘Eurydice’ Naomi Lambert - Creator of the Eyes of Eurydice. She was named Eurydice by newer followers who believed that their leader must be the Eurydice their group was named after, though initially never gave herself the title. Naomi understands the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to be one showing how a young woman saw the pits of Hades and the monsters who dwelt there, monsters believing themselves gods. Eurydice saw the truth of their callousness and how they toyed with human life and, unlike her lover, refused to look away from that truth, no matter the cost to herself. That is now Noami’s impetus - to confront the truth and in doing so, rob the gods of their power to control human life. Naomi was a geneticist before her life fell apart. Her son Ryan died of cancer in the summer before starting Hogwarts, only days after receiving his letter. Naomi was enraged but useless in the face of magic, unable to access their world to plead or pass judgment. She attempted to publish an article in a scientific journal revealing the truth about magic. An auror named Janus Thornt was assigned to the case. He had the story buried. He took both pride and joy in also seeing Lambert ridiculed and publicly shamed by the few colleagues who’d heard her theories. Mocked and voiceless, he then mind-wiped her. He’d not accounted on the fact she had created complex and detailed notes and recordings should those with magic try to silence her. She relearned talk Thornt took from her. Naomi lost her husband to her anger and obsession. She became alone and powerless. Until she watched Bo attempt to capture the Obscurial Ridhi Kaur. Kaur helped Lambert who, through unknown means, somehow claimed magic from her. Perhaps it is because an Obscurus is born from a powerful desire to be rid of magic that it was able to latch on to one with a powerful desire to obtain it. Now determined in her mission, Lambert no longer seeks to expose the world of magic, but to usurp its power and cripple it into submission. Why should people die of starvation and disease? Why should so many suffer and know pain when hidden from sight are unimaginable advancements that could bring hope and healing to so much of the world? And if witches and wizards will not share this power, she will take it from them by force. Then Ridhi was collected by Bo. Now Naomi is seeking Ridhi’s brother, Nikesh. Unlike most other members of the Eye, Lambert, like witches and wizards, focuses much of her magic through an artefact, in the same fashion a wand is traditionally used. Lambert uses a locket containing strands of Ryan’s hair. It is her magic, distributed amongst her followers, that powers the Eye. With her death, the Eye collapses, its members mind-wiped and rehabilitated

Skollda Stumpp - Norwegian. Sister of Manny Stumpp. Muggle. When Manny died, the police found his body, two others, and Skollda standing over them. It seemed like a massacre. Skollda only remembers the monster that ‘killed’ Manny and the others found there. And she remembers Bo’s face. Skollda was locked in prison for years and it drove her mad with vengeance against her brother’s killer, who she believed to be the true serial killer behind the attacks. Skollda taught herself, with much practice and a constant amount of pain, to generate an unstable world patronus to strike fear into her enemies as the wolf like creature she saw the night that still haunts her dreams. Since escaping she has was approached by The Eye of Eurydice who swayed Skollda by showing her a photo of their next target, Bo. Skollda believes Bo is the one that killed Manny. In Lambert’s final conflict with the Unspeakables, Skollda calls for Naomi to avenge Manny and Ryan. Naomi is disgusted by the comparison between her son and Skollda’s mongrel magic brother; claiming his death would now be classed as a triumph for the cause. In response, Skollda musters all her power to kill Naomi, killing herself in the process.

Blutus Thornt - Som of Janus and Circe Thornt. An auror and Tyrna’s former partner. Secretly he has been trying for years to uncover his parent’s dark magic secrets, claim magic solely for purebloods and gain control of the Unspeakable department. He kills Primus and passes Unspeakable secrets to the Heirs of Slytherin, though is incapacitated and arrested by Minimus. Stoat patronus

‘Septimus Slytherin’ Rubin Nisk - A bureaucrat of the highest order and one of the seven ministers charged with governance of the Unspeakables department. Seventh son of a seventh son and descendant of Salazar Slytherin himself. Septimus is secretly the charismatic and populist founder and head of the clandestine cabal of influential pureblood supremacists known as the Heirs of Slytherin, so named due to his proud ancestry. Their ceremonial crest is a basilisk. Cobra patronus

OTHERS

Ridhi Kaur - The ‘White Whale Oscurial’. Ridhi accidentally killed her family as a child in London during her summer holidays home from Hogwarts. Considering not returning to the school, she spent the entire summer in shame and denial, eventually trying to suppress her own powers. This quickly caused an Oscrus parasite to develop. Confronted by a young Rappicinia Hearth, her powers violently erupted in a packed London street, killing her parents and many others. Ridhi then wiped her brother’s memory to forget he ever had that family to spare him the pain, and, if she was being honest, to leave no witnesses. Somehow, whether during the attack or this spell, she transferred a portion of wild magic to her Muggle brother Nikesh, who’d been jealous of his witch sister for years. Since then, Ridhi lived in hiding from the Ministry. From that time she has been hunted by Bo Scrubb. At some point, Ridhi met Naomi Lambert to whom she explained as much as she could about the world of magic. Ridhi was still Hunter by Bo and ultimately captured and experimented on. Ridhi is currently held in a cell below the Mind Room. However, this once immensely powerful Obscurial seems to now be completely devoid of all magic, even as the woman named Eurydice’s power grows.

Managma ‘Manny’ Stumpp - Bo’s deceased lover, fellow Unspeakable and former Auro. One night, Stumpp received a distress call from his estranged Muggle sister Skollda. He rushed to her house only to find it had been a ruse. Manny’s old partner from his days as an auror, Janus Thornt, along with Janus’ wife Circe, had laid a trap. The pair ambushed him. They revealed they were both now heavily practiced in the Dark Arts and had aligned themselves with a group of other dark witches and wizards, called the Heirs of Slytherin; a group dedicated to controlling magic itself and restoring it to pure bloodlines. Believing the Unspeakable department had the answers, the tied up Manny and tortured him for answers, putting spells on the house so that nobody could apporate in or out. However, they’d not accounted on Manny’s husband and auror Bo, to come looking for him. Bo battled the couple at released Manny. But too late. The Thorntss’ involvement had prevented Manny him getting to his potion in time before the moon appeared. They did not realise the reason Bo had followed his trail on this night was because Manny was a werewolf. Bo tried to prevent his transformation but it was no good. He changed and tore the Thornts apart. The Thornts dead of the floor, Manny turned on Bo. At that moment, the moon was covered by clouds and for a second, Manny was back. It was then that Skollda came home. Seeing the bodies of the Gaunts she screamed. The clouds shifted. To save her from the horror she was about to witness, Manny put Skollda to sleep right before changed. Skollda fell unconscious. The last thing Skollda saw was two dead bodies, her brother in agony and Bo. To save Skollda’s life, Bo was forced to kill her husband before he fully transformed again. Muggle police arrived, called to the commotion by neighbours. They arrived before Bo could clear up the mess. Due to not wanting to document the specifics of Manny’s work, the Ministry didn’t interfere to cover up the murders and let Skollda take the blame. The unanswered questions around her husband’s death hardened Bo and led her to become an Unspeakable. Lamb patronus

Brigid Ogmore - Irish, Tyrna’s wife, and a remarkable combination of athlete and academic. Pureblood from a rich family. At six years old, she gave their house elf Winny a dress, freeing them. Winny has lived with her and been her best friend ever since. Sarcastic and competitive, she was a Beater in school and still aggressively defends those she cares for and protects - especially Tyrna, Winny and her own students. Ancient Studies and sometimes History of Magic Professor at Hogwarts, she dislikes whenever her Ancient Studies course is undersubscribed and she is forced to job share with Professor Binns. Brigid becomes an invaluable expert for Bo and Tyrna when it comes to understanding the theory behind ancient wandless ‘wild’ magic and this guides them in determining how the Eye is utilising magic. Hufflepuff. Chaffinch patronus

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