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Academics Weekly Assignment — April 24th, 2022

Welcome to the Academics weekly assignment for the week of April 24th, 2022! These weekly assignments will give our Professors the ability to showcase some of their lesson ideas here on the website. Each assignment will be posted for a week, in which everyone will be able to read about the topic and respond to the assignment prompt. This week's assignment is "Magical Crime Studies - Magical Criminalist" created by Lyra (myriadofanger).

The assignment is as follows:
Background
Introduction and Brief Overview:

Magical criminalists are those of the magical world who work to solve crimes in an on and off field setting. To become a magical criminalist, you must get at least an O- in your Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, and D.A.D.A. H.A.T.s. You must also receive at least an E in your Alchemy S.M.U.G. and at least an E+ in either your Wandlore or Care of Magical Creatures S.M.U.G. This assures that those in the field are properly prepared to solve any form of case presented to them. Magical criminalists will work in the Ministry of Magicians under the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Origins:
Magical criminalists have existed since the Ministry of Magicians’ origins in the 1700s, however, they took on a slightly different role. This was the most basic form of crime solving and was not always reliable as the workers exclusively used witness reports, confessions, and divination to solve crimes. This was the way of solving crime until 1782. That year, Verona Adhikari, a ministry employee, was tasked with discovering who killed her husband. Her crime solving abilities led to forming the Magical Investigator Office, which was renamed to the Magical Criminalist Office in 1945. This was a new way forward in crime solving.

How Verona Solved the Case:
Having to discover who killed your husband is no easy feat, though Verona makes it seem like one. At first, Verona turned to asking the three witches, the suspects, if she could extract their memories in order to look through them and see who did it. All three witches refused to let her. Adkihari now had to turn to new measures to solve this crime, as she believed divination to be very unreliable and refused to use it. Instead, she turned to a reliable form of magic: alchemy and tracking spells. Using alchemy, she was able to pull poison traces out of her husband’s body. From there, she used a tracking spell to discover where this poison came from. Verona discovered her husband died by drinking wine laced with poison. Luckily for her, the wine glass was not far away. Using magic, she was able to find the wine glass. She discovered that the wine glass was originally a box. The witch who killed her husband took a wooden box and turned it into a wine glass. Verona used a tracking spell on the box and was able to trace it to the witch that killed her husband.

What does Being a Criminalist Entail:
Magical criminalists are, with Auralocks, the first dispatched onto the crime scene. To solve the crimes, magical criminalists must be thorough and cautious. They must assure all evidence is properly documented on paper and with photographs. They must also keep up the chain of custody to assure no evidence was tampered with. When the criminalists go through the entire scene, it is their job to piece the evidence together. This includes untransfiguring any items, creating potions, identifying plants, fibers, or hairs, etc. The job is similar to an unmagical forensic scientist. Once the case is solved, the magical criminalists must create a report documenting exactly what happened. While most cases take a week to two months to solve, some cases can take years in order to gather all the evidence needed. The job is a very rewarding yet time-consuming endeavor.

Assignment
Now that you have read about what a magical criminalist is and how they solve crimes, you find yourself hired in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement as a magical criminalist! What is the first crime you are in charge of solving? How do you solve it? Do you use older methods like divination, or do you use more modern methods such as tracking spells and fiber identification? Be creative, and please keep your assignment appropriate and family friendly!

Please make sure to write at least 5 full sentences to get AC for this assignment! Your assignment must be entirely written by you, and may not be plagiarized (including copying anything from online sources, books, or movie plots) in any way. Assignments must follow all PotterworldMC rules, which can be found here; assignments that do not follow all PotterworldMC rules will be subject to punishment. If your assignment does not meet the requirements, you will be unable to redo your assignment for this week. Assignments are due at 12am PST on Sunday, May 1st, 2022. You may submit as soon as you would like, but any assignments submitted after that time will not receive grades. You may receive up to 20 ACs for your submission. House points will not be awarded to any submissions. If you have any questions, please reach out to a Jr. Professor, Sr. Professor, Academics Advisor, or Head of Academics on Discord.

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