#i wanted to write a small vignette in the world of introduction to magic

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the first lesson

"belief" chuckled the old man as he turned a delicate glass that contained some opulent limonchello "let me tell you something about how wizards trade in belief"

he was bald, with wild curly hair growing to the sides like the branches of a bonsai tree. he was also rather fat, not in a way that made him look flabby but rather round as a whole. his body could be easily drawn as a circle from which his head poked out, if some leeway for stylization were allowed to the artist. he wore a dark suit and dark round glasses as well as a simple goatee.

"do you lock your doors at night with a key?"

"uh... yes, teacher"

sitting in the small round table at the bar, across from him, was his student. a nervous lady, taller than him and far thinner, with a suit similar to his, dark and antiquated. they looked like undertakers. maybe they even were.

"wise thing to do, given your residence"

The student pursed her lips at this but made no comment. for reasons she could not understand her teacher was fond of making fun or criticizing her economic situation. and for sure there was a lot to complain about, she would do as much regularly, but her teacher seemed to be weirdly fixated on this. he would drop comments about it, cheerfully and casually and she would not respond to any of them and little by little the grains of sand would keep accumulating in the back of her head.

"so every night, before you sleep, you lock the front door of your room with a key, you put the key in the locke and you turn it once, and then twice, and you make a habit out of this, so much so that you do it unconciously, it is an automatic gesture with no thought put into it at all. you dont think to yourself 'now the door is locked', is just a truth of the universe, unacknowledged and yet all the same internalized"

"is this a story or is this your speculations about my life?"

"everything is a story if it's not meant to be literally true, maybe it is true, but that is not my intention"

"very well continue, teacher"

"so the next day, when you wake up and need to step out into the world, before doing that you unlock the door. now this is very important, you don't have to take a few moments to collect yourself and wonder if wether you locked your door last night, you dont have to take stock of your memories and recall that indeed you put the key there before going to sleep and locked the door tight, you just unlock the door because it is a deeply accepted truth that the door is simply locked"

"and the only way to unlock it is with a key"

"the only way indeed! very good!"

she didnt need to add that comment, and if it had been simply up to her whim she would have remained silent and let the man continue his lecture. but she had learned that her teacher enjoyed these interjections, however superfluous they might be, he always recieved them with joy and enthusiasm, as if she had solved a mystery or shown a deep insight. this was another of his weird quirks that she entertained simply because they seemed to make her interactions with him more frictionless.

"and now," he continued "imagine one day you go to a party and drink copious ammounts of alcohol, quantities large enough to make you dispossesed of your wits, not that i suggest you would actually do such a thing, at least not on the regular" the teacher gave her an unwanted wink "so your friends carry you back home and you stumble your steps up to your front door and once inside you are so out of sorts that you simply forget to lock the door, after which you fall into your bed and go to sleep"

"is this something about how my compromised state makes me believe for one night that ill be safe even though i havent locked the door or something?"

"not at all, you sleep soundly all night without being attacked, who knows, maybe burglars and robbers were busy in other houses or other parties, getting themselves merry and drunk, whatever the case may be you wake up the next day with no memory of last night, with quite a hangover, sadly there are no pills or medicines that can aid you with your malady at your home, so you will have to go to the corner drugstore to get something to let you handle your headache"

the student pursed her lips once again. there was a drugstore at the corner of her street, so this story not being about her seemed just a fraction less likely, but then again, there were drugstores at the corners of many streets.

"so you unlock your door and step outside, it's a lovely day with the birds singing and the sun shining and you go to the farmacy and buy the medicine you need to handle your hangover, end of the story"

"but how could i have unlocked the door if the door was already unlocked?" she said mechanically, knowing that this was the obvious question the story was baiting.

"exactly! very good my student!"

an overstated praise for a trite question. maybe her teacher just enjoyed being humored.

"for you see, to you it was not a matter of assuring yourself that the door was locked, to you it was simply a truth of the world, as profound and unquestionable as that things fall down"

"i see, and that is the level of belief i have to master in order to do magic?"

"more or less, yes" said the teacher sipping the limonchello.

"seems difficult to achieve without extensive use of manipulation, doublethink, brainwashing or psychodelics"

"hmm? what do you mean?"

"that...to internalize a belief that profoundly, seems hard to do without a lot of mental effort, without a rather strong amount of self deception and psychological trickery"

"i really dont know what you're talking about, you just have to believe, is the easiest thing in the world"

"it's... not, it's very much not, to believe, to truly believe, to actually thoroughly change one's mind about the nature of reality, against proof, against evidence is basically impossible"

"is that what you believe?"

"is-" oh, that was the trick. she had to internally stifle a groan. her teacher had pulled another of his dumb rethorical tricks. he seemed to be just as delighted when she failed to catch on as he was when she stated the obvious.

"that is the first belief you have to change, indeed is the first belief that all wizards have to change when they start" he said, chuckling again.

"that is the first spell that every wizard casts" she said, completing the thought.

"now" said the teacher, pulling out a small box with a large lock on it from his cape. he placed it on the small table, in the middle of the glasses, and then he pulled a key from a pocket. he put the key on the lock and turned once, and twice. then he put the key back into his pocket. "i want you to open this box"

the student looked at the box. so that was her challenge, to find the way to believe in her heart of hearts that this locked box was actually open. no, not even believe in hear heart of hearts, not even to know, really. this had to be something that trascended awareness.

she took a big gulp from her beer. she was going to fail the test so she wanted to steel herself to be embarassed.

obviously it was impossible for her to rewrite her brain right there and then and she was not even going to try. there was going to be no clapping while saying that she believed in fairies. that was just not how actual beliefs about the world were formed.

if it was a trick that all wizards had to master, she didnt have the instruction or the tools for how to do it. she looked at the box a little more. her hands hovered over it, hesitating. the moment she placed her hands on it and failed to open it, the test would be done and she would have failed and the was no circumventing that. she just wanted to delay the pie to her face a little longer.

of course, because she was her, she couldnt help but actually pause and still try her best to find the answer to the conundrum. she covered her mouth with one hand and scratched her mane of curls around her head with the other, like she did whenever she was deep in thought. her brow deeply furrowed with concentration.

And then she realized the true nature of her test. how dissapointing. it was a dumb trick of course. she placed a finger on top of the box and said "abracadabra"

She then opened the box.

"marvelous! marvelous! exceptional! very good my student! not even i did better than that when i was faced with the test!" exclaimed the teacher while clapping enthusiastically.

She was well and truly tired of her master's condescention.

"you didnt lock the box when you put the key in, you unlocked it" she said, rolling her eyes "the box was unlocked all along"

"exactly! precisely! the box was unlocked all along, just like the door in my story was locked all along!"

"no! no that is not the same thing!" insisted the student banging the table with her fist "in your story, someone believing that a door is locked changes reality retroactively to make it so that the door was always locked, but in my case the box was actually unlocked all along!" the ruckus made one of the waiters show up with a confused look in his face

"well yes, that is the point, that is what changing reality retroactively is supposed to look like, like it was unlocked all along" the teacher turned towards the waiter "thanks for showing up, what is the cost of these beverages, garçon?"

"that would be 30 in total"

"ah! very well, now you see i am a magician, so allow me a bit of flair" said the master waving his hands around in a very theatrical way "your fee is inside that box being held by my lovely assistant, my dear girl would you hand the box to our waiter?"

She rolled her eyes and gave the box to the poor confused man. who grabbed it and tried to pry it open. but he couldn't.

"um... is the box closed?" asked the waiter, out of sorts.

"oh? it should be opened, try again" said the old man.

the waiter struggled a little more but he could not open the box in any way. finally he turned to the teacher with forlorn expression.

"i give up, what's the trick?"

the old man reached behind the waiter's left ear and pulled out the key.

"here why dont you try with this"

"that is a really old trick" said the waiter while he unlocked the box and pulled out the money from inside it. he returned the box by forcefully pressing it against the old man's chest.

"what i nice lad!" said the teacher, while putting the key into the lock again and turning it once and then twice again. "anyway, where were we?"

the girl was just looking at he teacher, a mix of confusion, annoyance and a little bit of fear on her face.

"ok, how did you do that" she asked.

"i didnt do anything, you did, you opened the box"

"no, that... that was a trick, the lock is a clever mechanism or something"

"you are thinking like a magician, and i am asking you to think like a wizard, you opened this box, my dear girl, because you believed that it was opened, you already did this trick once, now all you have to do" said the man, placing the box back into the table "is do it again"

she hesitated.

"this is still a trick, right? you rigged it somehow so that if i try ill be able to open the box?"

the teacher laid back on the chair, very satisfied with himself. he crossed his fingers over his belly. she somehow felt that this, out of everything he had done that night, was his most sincere display of pride in her.

"what do you believe?" he said

she reached for the box.

[coruscorp-blog]

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plot

In the year 2012, the Ministry of Magic discusses plans to further studies for the incoming youth to cope with the influx of new knowledge that comes with advancing time. Eventually, they come up with an idea equivalent to Muggle college, where four more years are added to assist students in specializing even further in their future. This includes additional courses along with internship opportunities so that students may decide if the job they wish to take up is the right job for them.

In 2014 after many proposals and suggestions, the program is implemented in the ancient Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A prototype filled with many curious and eager students, if successful the other schools around the world will also debate the merit of the new arrangement.

Roll into the present and the school is thriving more than ever.

rules & regulations

CORUSCO is a closed, semi-literate, original character roleplay based on the harry potter series.

APPLYING

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application

— OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME : RESERVE PASSWORD/URL : OTHER CHARACTER : if applicable DISCORD : optional for people wanting to be in the group chat

COMMENTS ?

— IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION

( FACECLAIM )

LAST NAME , FIRST NAME , OCCUPATION/GROUP

( NAME )

LAST NAME , FIRST NAME

( DATE OF BIRTH /AGE )

YEAR/MONTH/DAY , AGE - STAFF MUST BE MINIMUM 25 YEARS OLD.

( BLOODLINE )

PUREBLOOD/HALFBLOOD/MUGGLEBORN

( YEAR )

6th YEAR AND UP. PLACE X IF TEACHER. FOR 2018 - 2019 SCHOOL YEAR

- 6TH YEAR: 16/17 ( Sep. 1st, 2001 - Aug. 31st 2002 ) - 7TH YEAR: 17/18 ( Sep. 1st, 2000 - Aug. 31st 2001 ) - UPPER 1ST YEAR: 18/19 ( Sep. 1st, 1999 - Aug. 31st 2000 ) - UPPER 2ND YEAR: 19/20 ( Sep. 1st, 1998 - Aug. 31st 1999 ) - UPPER 3RD YEAR: 20/21 ( Sep. 1st, 1997 - Aug. 31st 1998 ) - UPPER 4TH YEAR: 21/22 ( Sep. 1st, 1996 - Aug. 31st 1997 )

( HOUSE )

GRYFFINDOR/HUFFLEPUFF/RAVENCLAW/SLYTHERIN

( SUBJECT )

STAFF PLEASE LIST THE SUBJECT YOU ARE TEACHING HERE

— BACKGROUND SECTION

Please write a background here. Make sure you can express your character’s personality and how their life has shaped them to be who they are today and their respective houses. Minimum of at least 500 words written in paragraph style. Descriptive bulletpoints do not count.WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING ANY MORE SEERS.

Before submitting your application, please make sure to :

READ the rules !

Have your Ask and Submit open !

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Check the masterlist for taken faceclaims.

(while it is not necessary to look at the classes available, it it recommended to give these sections a quick skim through.)

curriculum

school rules

Students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest with the exception of Care for Magical Creatures classes.

Fighting is not tolerated at Hogwarts.

Students are to remain in their dormitories or common rooms after ten at night.

No magic is to be done in the corridors between classes.

The only pets allowed are small pets, such as an owl, a cat, a rat or a toad. Other pets of similar size may be permitted upon special exception such as hedgehogs, small lizards, and Pygmy puffs/Puffskeins.

In order to get to the restricted section, you must have a signed note by a professor.

Students are not allowed to use magic over the school holidays. Only of age wizards (over 17) are permitted the use of magic outside school. Magic must not be used in the presence of Muggles if at all possible.

Love potions are not allowed at Hogwarts.

No food or drinks inside the classes or the library.

Cheating is not tolerated at Hogwarts.

Be respectful of the Hogwarts Staff.

The use of Unforgivable Curses are forbidden and punishable by arrest and sentenced to Azkaban.

The breaking of rules will result in discipline. Including, but not limited to loss of house points, house point deduction, and notification of a guardian. Serious offenses will result in suspension or expulsion from Hogwarts.

Do not attempt to come in contact with Peeves. If you happen upon his mischief, contact staff immediately.

classes available

core classes

Astronomy

Charms

Defence Against Dark Arts 

Herbology

History of Magic

Potions

Transfiguration

electives

Alchemy

Apparition

Arithmancy

Care of Magic Creatures

Divination

Muggle Studies

Study of Ancient Runes 

extracurricular

AlchemyAncient Studies

Art 

Frog Choir 

Ghoul Studies 

Magical Theory

Music 

Orchestra 

upper year curriculum

Upper years will be attending classes of the same subjects already offered at Hogwarts, but with a more advanced lesson plan and specialized course of learning pertaining to their desired profession. Think of This list has been narrowed down for your convenience. It would do well of you to click the link of the job and speculate which specialized classes may be taken. All questions concerning the curriculum of upper years are welcome and encouraged!

Full list of professions available in the wizarding world are listed here: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Jobs_in_the_wizarding_world !

Arithmancer

Astronomer

Auror

Curse Breaker

Herbologist

Magizoologist (also known as a wizarding naturalist)

Mediwizard or Matron

Metal-Charmer

Ministry of Magic employee 

the Department of Magical Law Enforcement

The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

The Department of International Magical Cooperation

The Department of Magical Transportation

The Department of Magical Games and Sports

The Department of Mysteries

Muggle Relations

Obliviator

Potioneer