Gather around young students, have you ever imagined what would your life be like in twenty years from now? Where would you work, or where would you live, or anything you can think of your future might be like. In today's challenge I want you to prepare an HA that tells us this story of you in twenty years from now. Have fun, but there are some rules.

Theme: Twenty Years Into the Future

Rules:

🕐 Make ONE new HA representing your character in the future doing whatever you think he or she might be doing.

🕐 No school robes since you are a longer a student.

🕐 Tell us a brief description of what happened to your character.

🕐 Don't forget to add your name and house to the entry.

Each student can enter one original character HA only. All those who followed the requirements will be granted 10 points! Bonus points may be awarded to creative entries.

This challenge will end Monday August 13 at 11:59PM.

Aurora Flynn, Hufflepuff

More than twenty years have passed since Aurora first dreamed of the sanctuary. The path to success was not easy nor smooth straight out of Hogwarts, however, Aurora never failed to persevere and grow from her trials. Along the way, she came to accumulate scores of magical creatures - some more fortunate than others. Five years of travel had opened her eyes to the extent of the horrors many creatures endure at the hands of dark magic, and so, Aurora's sanctuary was born.

Aurora's days are filled with darned hard work - for which she gains sustenance through the friendship of the animals under her care and the satisfaction of educating the masses of visitors she entertains monthly. If you're ever passing through, Aurora's Sanctuary is always open for a quick tour and a nice cup of tea.

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Parker Lange hopes to be on her way as a confident, mature, and savvy witch by the time she's 34.

She would be proud of her life if she knew how her hopes grew and materialized. For her, success is a happy home complete with people to share it with and work to keep her cheerfully occupied. Her dream is to build and run a luxurious houseboat that doubles as a marine animal rehabilitation center. Parker will still enjoy collecting interesting gifts from the sea that wash up on shore, hence her newer handmade sea glass earrings (a hobby) and pearl ring from childhood. At her neck is her wedding band and on her finger is her engagement ring. Sometimes all three of her rings end up around her neck for safekeeping.

She marries a Muggle, and the vast majority of animals they care for and return to the sea are non-magical. Oil spills, plastic pollution, climate change, and general disregard for the environment mean that Parker and her family always have work to do. They take in students from Hogwarts during holidays to share their experiences of life on the seas in a sort of internship program. They're happy to better the world in which they coexist with all other living (and non-living) creatures.

Parker's true loves are her husband, the sea, and traveling and exploring the realms of both magical peoples and Muggles.

Parker Lange, Slytherin

It's hard to predict what could happen in the future. Time is like an always shifting body of water. Every small choice in the present can cause ripples that could reflect hundreds of possible outcomes. Even the most skilled of seers can never completely pinpoint every potential future, though they are very good at foreseeing fixed points in time. Some are also very good at persevering against the tides of time and can push head forward to a destiny that they have carved for themselves through the thick waters. Others merely go with the flow or take the paths made for them by others.

The picture above is one of the countless latent solutions that could be foreseen for Toru. After graduating Hogwarts they worked in their family’s imported goods store off of Diagon Alley for a few years before their grandmother asked them to join them in Japan to help take care of her and their aging grandfather at the family shrine. With deep loyalty to their family they moved halfway around the world and settled into the quiet shrine not too far from the coast on a pristine lake.

Of course they could have just as likely fell in love, married, stayed in England and built a life there. Time is fickle and ever-changing after all.

Toru | Hufflepuff

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Nicola Stromwing, Hufflepuff

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As always planned, Millie went onto marry Emmett Keller and the two became very successful curse breakers who traveled the world. After 15 exciting, adventure filled years of traveling and breaking curses in Norway, South America, China, Japan, Egypt, Ireland, Iceland, Greece, Rome, and many more places, the two decided they had enough curse breaking adventures and they left Gringotts bank. The couple moved to Hogsmeade and bought a large cottage.

Millie returned to Hogwarts and became the new Charms professor/mistress and head of her beloved Hufflepuff house. She based her teaching style off of the stories her father had told her about Professor Flitwick and of Professor Norman. She quickly became popular among the students for her fun teaching style and cheerful attitude. She kept them entertained with curse breaking stories and her sweet treats. She uses her experience as a curse breaker to reinforce the importance in doing well in Hogwarts because one never knows when they need to relay on a certain charm. She also tutors students in History of Magic and Ancient Runes to make them more interesting. While Millie is teaching during the day, Emmett runs a private curse breaking business in Hogsmeade.

Once the couple settled into their life in Hogsmeade, they had a daughter, Zisa and a son, Finn, who both show great promise in their magical abilities.

Amelia Tudor, Hufflepuff

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Twenty years are a very long time. However, Elizabeth's life was never a disorganized one - in fact, it was according to the plans her parents made when she was just a young, 5 year old girl. Always knowing what her path in life would be, Elizabeth strived to fulfill her own dreams and ambitions as well. Being betrothed to Corvus Farlan Montgomery, the son of her father's best friend, she never had to worry about finding a perfect match. Some jealous voices might just say that both are lucky to get along, the couple simply knows better. Knowing each other for such a long time and having a similar upbringing as both come from pure-blood families, Elizabeth and Corvus do share a strong and understanding bond in their marriage.

Prior to Elizabeth's last year at Hogwarts, she and Corvus married in the summer break as the latter got a job at the Ministry of Magic as well. They moved to Edenbridge, a small town in the Sevenoaks district of Kent and tweaked the house they bought there with magic. It appears as a normal house in Tudor architecture to Muggles, but becomes a beautiful grand manor to witches and wizards. Elizabeth finished Hogwarts with 8 N.E.W.T.s (History of Magic, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Herbology, Defense against the Dark Arts, Care of Magical Creatures and Arithmancy) and then landed a job at the Ministry of Magic. By the age of 30, she was promoted to Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation.

On this picture, Elizabeth Amalia Montgomery (née Covington) is shown in front of the manor. It's a beautiful morning on this first day of September. She's waiting for her family to be ready so they can apparate to King's Cross, London. The Montgomery family has two children - Cormac Theodore Montgomery (13 years old) and Nicholas Graham Montgomery(11 years old).

~ Elizabeth Amalia Covington ~ Slytherin ~

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Callista Zabini presides over the tenth anniversary party for her Harajuku boutique brand, Majokko Matsuri. She has shops in the wizarding and mundane districts in Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, San Francisco, London, Milan, Sydney and New York--although the characters in the prints on the garments sold in mundane shops don't move.

Callista also does costuming for both mundane and wizarding musicians and bands. She went to Vantan Design Institute in Tokyo after completing her NEWTs, and began working in fashion full-time shortly after leaving school, although she briefly sang with a visual band in her middle twenties.

Of course, her mundane fans are unaware of the work she does with her sister Fiammetta in promoting the adaptation and adoption of new technologies among wizards and witches, or her charitable fundraising efforts to support magical wildlife conservation.

At the age of thirty-six, Callista just might finally be willing to consider settling down and having a family of her own, but with whom, at this point it's impossible to say. Over the years her name has been linked with a number of others--but she's always been focused primarily on her designing work, her involvement with the arts, her charitable giving, and her political activism.

Callista Zabini, Slytherin

Private Outfit Kiara ends up pursuing a career no one, including herself, expected her to. Though she traveled with activist groups all through her 20s and helped run websites and traveled around the world to organize rallies and marches and panels, she eventually became exhausted. Kiara was never a very social person, so even with the days of alone time she so carefully scheduled, and the impromptu solitary hikes through foreign mountain ranges, being around so many people and having her job primarily consist of working alongside people... it took it's toll. Eventually, she just burned out.

So she got married, settled down in a small wizarding village in Armenia, and started writing horror books. She wasn't sure how the idea first came to her; she'd been writing out small paranormal ideas and scenes in her journal for ages, but her life in Armenia was so much slower and uneventful than the life she was used to, and so she got bored, and just sort of started... staying up all night spinning stories that would make less stalwart souls than her own shiver? She got a kick out of thinking how people would react to what she wrote; and how her friends did react, whenever she gave her stories to them to read, and that's all it was at first. But as she kept writing them, her friends, her husband, and her brothers started saying, "Why don't you publish these?" Well, why didn't she?

Her writing took on more meaning. Kiara had heard a lot of stories and interacted with a lot of people and learned a lot about different folk tales, superstitions, belief systems... and just the human condition in general, from being on the road as an activist. She had integrated some of that material into her original stories without even trying, but now it became more intentional. Who said that just because she was living in a small village now, that she couldn't still try to change the way people thought? Make them question how they viewed themselves, and the world, and the people who lived alongside them in the world? Her readers and reviews say that it's this realism and current issues element that make her stories more alarming. They get inside your head. They seem like they could happen.

No one in her village really knows she's a published author with a growing readership, however. They're mostly older people, and her books are slow to make it into the Armenian bookstores anyway. Besides, she uses a pen name. She might be up all night with cups of coffee trying to meet a deadline, but her day job is running a small crystal shop, where she gets the same locals in and out everyday, and they carry out pleasant conversations about which crystals would be best for a new pregnancy, or which are most helpful for arthritis, or a failing memory. Kiara used to hate small talk, but now she finds it to be a refreshing change from the plots that usually spin around her brain. It's nice, sometimes, to listen to someone who's biggest concern is wether or not they're going to like their new daughter in law, or that they can't keep the rabbits out of their garden... instead of kidnapped children or despot dictators or broken time loops.

Kiara, Ravenclaw

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Twenty years are not very long when counted in elven time!

After Lysandra has completed her studies in Hogwards she returned to her home in the Enchanted Elven Forest.

Twenty years from now on, Lysandra has become a good wielder of wizard and a very good of elven magic. However, she still is an apprentice in the elven world, trained by the most wise of them to become a healer of magical beings, specializing in care for unicorns, felines and rabbits. Also, she took on the duties of her mother in the elven council because the latter was appointed to act for the WENA, the World Elven Nature Organisation, which is localized in Findhorn, Scotland.

At her tender elven age, Lysandra hasn´t thought about a husband and children so far. On that front, she has one ot two decades to think about her wishes and ideas. Let's see what the future brings!

Lysandra, Ravenclaw

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Twenty years later Darcy has already reached his biggest goal in life - becoming a dragon keeper. He is working for a dragon preserve which implies dragon care, watching dragons, close monitoring and science. It's a dangerous job for sure and wounds caused by dragon fire or acid come in more frequently than sunny days but Darcy never wanted to do something else and he wouldn't trade his life with anyone elses'. The hard work, and especially the study in "Care of Magical Creatures" has definitely paid of for him.

Darcy isn't married or in a relationship because he still has a difficult time with other humans. Despite not being on the avatar image it's important to add that his cat "Charlie" is still at his side.

• Darcy O'Donovan, Slytherin

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Mae is now 35, in 20 years, she spent 7 as a librarian then one day she chose to follow her deepest dream and went to tour the world in search of knowledge, any kind of it. She met a great number of people, both magical and not during her wandering. Nowdays she is still going everywhere but always find the time to come home and see her family.

Mae isn't in a relationship nor is she really looking for it, it will happen or maybe not someday. For now she going to write a book about her adventures.

oopale, Ravenclaw

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Sauvage / Hufflepuff

this one finishes on Monday!

[edit] Niamh now works on a Muggle archaeological site in Egypt, as an undercover Curse Breaker.... you never know what those naive Muggles will dig up and lay their hands on, without realising how much harm it could cause them! Outfit Not Found

Niamh Doyle, Gryffindor

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After travelling the world a bit post-graduation, Charlotte settled down into a happy life as a librarian. Her library caters to muggle and magic folk alike. It helps that the muggles don't realize there is an extra storey or two on the building!

-Charlotte Rose, Ravenclaw

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After her apprenticeship, Chell pursued her dream of caring for dragonlings. Though the dragons were hesitant at first (and a repeat nearly occurred), she was able to gain their trust and become accepted into their community.

Chell Belliveau | Ravenclaw

This is due today at Midnight :) :)

Elise Cortez, Slytherin

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Keet ended up doing what she always wanted to do, painting magical portraits. These portraits aren't of witches or wizards, though, they are of their magical companions! Keet loves her occupation, and has made some wonderful friends along the way, especially those of the feathered variety. ;)

Keet Arlie, Ravenclaw

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If anyone had told Drew Wilder twenty years ago that he would be doing anything other than dealing with equines, the boy would have laughed. But time and experiences change a person and make a boy into a man, and that’s what happened with Drew.

It was all quite by accident actually. After graduating Hogwarts, Drew worked for three years at the magical animal park he’d visited and loved so much as a student. He continued his writing on the side and still read copious amounts of books, often claiming that he had to read each new acquisition for the giftshop in order to properly help sell them. After reading one book on space and constellations, something which had always held an interest for him, Drew came upon a legend of a comet called the Lupine Comet. More research led him to an ancient tome written in runes. Now this was something which the young man hadn’t bargained for as he was not extremely skilled with reading runes. However, Drew persevered. One night, while reading the runes aloud, he noticed a bright glow in the sky which seemed to be an unusual violet color. Going outside, Drew was startled to see the light form a shape, similar to a patronus, and hurtle from the cold winter sky toward him. Little did the young man know, he had called into being an astral wolf from the heart of the Lupine Comet. Enveloped in a cloud of stardust and violet light, Drew’s raven hair turned purple. The wolf, Comet, became his companion and protector, choosing to stay with the man who had called him to earth. He retained his violet aura even though his fur turned a dark blue and the stardust formed constellations to show his linage. Drew’s hair as well remains purple when Comet is near and if the two are separated, it darkens to his former jet black.

Drew still loves his equines, make no mistake about that, and today actually breeds Arabians like his beloved Fleetwind with winged horses, allowing witches and wizards to own a new breed dubbed the Winged Wilders. But because of Comet, his name is now linked more with rune study and interpretation than magizology, which were his boyhood dreams.

Drew is shown here with Comet and a young Winged Wilder who is the grandson of Fleetwind and an Abraxan.

Drew Wilder ~ Slytherin