London Is Drowning

Rumors of Voldemort's plans to challenge Dumbledore for the fate of the Wizarding World reach his inner circle. Fearing the worst, Rodolphus Lestrange calls a select group together and begins making contingency plans.

Voldemort officially challenges Dumbledore to a duel at Hogwarts to determine the war's victor once and for all. When the smoke clears hours later, both leaders are found to have fallen during the battle. The war comes to a standstill but for groups of "rogue" Death Eaters going on the occasional raid.

The fragile peace comes to an end when a well respected and loved member of the Wizengamot is kidnapped from a Ministry Event by a mentally unbalanced muggleborn, causing distrust between purebloods and muggleborns to come to an all time high.

After several smear campaigns maligning muggleborns have begun to change public opinion, another bomb is dropped outing Voldemort as a muggle-raised halfblood and claiming those from muggle backgrounds cannot be trusted.

A new bill called the Muggleborn Registration Act is proposed and passed in the Wizengamot, requiring all muggleborns to register with the Ministry's Heritage Council in order to keep better track of "potential security threats" for the good of Wizarding Society.

What is meant to be a peaceful protest in defense of muggleborn rights becomes what will be remembered for years after as The Diagon Alley Riot when five grown muggleborns attacked three purebloods still of schooling age without provocation. Things escalate quickly from there, eventually culminating in a trial several months later that would lead to all five men being kissed.

The last Wizengamot session before the holiday season is interrupted by a gun-toting Lindsay Tyler, who is driven mad by grief after her boyfriend was sentenced to the kiss for his part in the Diagon Riots earlier that week. In her grief she opens fire and kills seven elders, prompting the Great Ministry Purge of 79.

Fearing further violence from unknown muggle weapons should any disgruntled muggleborns find a sympathetic enough insider in the Ministry's ranks, the current Minister for Magic elects to elects to cull all personnel with muggle parentage from the Ministry payroll and ward the building against muggleborns entirely.

Muggleborns unhappy with the political climate begin to ban together, forming what will eventually become known as the first ever version of the Resistance.

The Resistance continues to grow slowly but steadily, prompting lawmakers to pass the One Or None Act - a bill that strictly governed who wands could be sold to by demanding at least one parent accompanying children to buy their first wand be a witch or wizard. The move would see hostility between the various camps to rise to record heights.