It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The year is 1976, and the students of Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are returning for the start of a new term. Whispers about Voldemort have become louder. Hatred over blood purity has grown violent.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

No truer statement could have been made about Hogwarts. Rivalries have formed between Houses, within Houses, on Quidditch pitches, in classrooms. Rumours have run the gamut from Hogsmeade dates to the latest Death Eater Attack. Students are making allegiances to groups that they're too young to join. But why should that stop them? Hogwarts itself is on the cusp of rebellion.

Times like these inevitably bring out the best and worst of people. Every decision has far-reaching consequences that are too complex to calculate, but in a time of confusion and panic, nobody can afford to be indifferent to the escalating tide of war.

Now is the time to stand and be counted. Now is the time for action. What will your character choose under the pressure: the difficult or the easy path? Exactly what is the right path? Magic or might? And is every path really what it seems?