January Assignment - Legendary Items

What is the name of the fourth hallow? What magical properties does it possess? (10 points)

The Scales of Vengeance allow the owner to inflict pain or suffering upon others, without leaving any evidence, as long as they withstand the injury themselves.

What is the story of how the sister found Death? How does her encounter with Death and her hallow affect her life? (5 points)

After The Sister's husband was murdered, she became depressed. Her husband and children were all she had after her brothers set off to conquer the world with their newly acquired artifacts. The need to find out who the perpetrator was, kept her alive, despite her loneliness and despair. After a couple of months, her grief, and misery turned into hatred for her true love's murderer, and determination to find out their identity. 7 months passed and The Sister wasn't getting anywhere close to finding the culprit. She spent so much time on investigating the murder that she started neglecting her duties as a mother and stopped fulfilling her children's needs, nevertheless she didn't give up. A whole year has passed, and finally, she found the culprit. After utilizing the veritaserum, she found out that the murderer was the village's priest, a filthy muggle at that. He saw the husband performing a simple mending charm, and, terrified and panicked, stabbed his back with a cross doused with holy water.He took the cross with him because a muggle lady thought she saw a vampire in a forest nearby, and asked the priest to help. He removed all traces of his involvement easily, and anybody who began suspecting him, was either disposed of, or offered a large sum of gold. The sister went looking for Death. By the time she found him, two of her three brothers already passed away.Fueled with hate, she asked Death for an artifact that would allow her to kill the culprit without leaving any evidence, just how the priest killed her husband, and left no traces of his involvement in the crime. Death pitied the woman and gave her The Scales of Vengeance. The scales were initially used by Death to decide where exactly in the afterlife the deceased would go. But Death's judgements were always just, and he did not need the scales anymore. Before The Sister ran off to finally avenge her husband's demise, Death explained that in order to draw the blood of her victim she'd have to draw the exact amount of her own blood as well.

In order to finally kill the culprit she had to die. That however, did not faze her at all.

The Sister went to a local muggle building called "shursh" (or something along the lines of that). A "shursh" is a facility in which muggles pray to their God, that is also were priests or clerics work. She entered the building in a middle of a "cermant" (events during which a priest teaches "shursh-goers" about God), and she immediately spotted her victim. She firmly grasped the knife which she prepared earlier, and without hesitation, slit her own throat. Muggles in the "shursh" noticed her presence and began panicking, as drips of blood from her throat fell down onto the left bowl of the scales. Before she joined her husband, and repaid Death's favor, she saw a red line appear on the priest's throat.

She smiled.

What is the legend of the hallow? What is its history? Is there a rumor about its existence? Does it have a long and bloody history? (5 points)

Legend: After the death's of The Sister and the priest, the hallow disappeared together with their bodies. The whole world moved on as if they never existed, her children, who were twins, were told that their mom has gone missing after she had them. Perhaps that's for the best, at least they didn't remember the neglect they had to suffer while their mother tried to avenge their dad. The legend says that they were adopted into 2 different families, and never saw each other after their father's death.

History: Now, the whole wall of text I just wrote? None of it happened, ever. Sorry to disappoint you, but all of that was just fiction. Nemesis Peverell, just like her brothers, was a successful, and very talented spellmaker. She was a very well-known alchemist as well, and to top it all of, even though she didn't approve of them, she was talented in the dark arts. The Scales of Vengeance didn't actually have a name, they were made by Nemesis to help her with her transfiguration experiments, their purpose was to find out the bodyweight in the transformation formula: t = [(w * c) : (v * a)] * Z (The intended transformation (t) is directly influenced by bodyweight (a), wand power (w), viciousness (v) and concentration (c))

Long and Bloody History?: The scales were found in her room after she passed away at the age of 98. Nowadays, the relic can be seen, and appreciated, in Basil Fronsac's Museum of Alchemy and Transfiguration (which happens to be located in Godric's Hollow).A guided tour of the exhibit is also available, during which you'll find out all about the legend, and Nemesis Peverell's life.

Bonus: Draw an image of the four hallows together. (Guaranteed 5 points): The Scales of Vengeance, with the 4 other hallows.

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