Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling's characters aren't mine. And I do not own London.
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After graduating from Hogwarts, Harry Potter was immediately drafted onto London's premire quidditch team. He led them to two consecutive World Cup wins before a terrible accident which nearly took his life cost him his place as Seeker. Wizards all over England mourned his loss as they would the loss of their magic, and demanded the highest possible punishment for the driver of the flying carpet which had lost them their greatest Seeker in decades (Which the Ministry was happy to do, because not only was the twit driving an illegial object, but he was extremely drunk on butterbeer).
Meanwhile, two years after graduating from Hogwarts, Hermione Granger had a job within the Ministry for Muggle Relations, and was well on her way to becoming the Minister of Magic (the Daily Prophet predicted four more years until she reached the top).
Ron Weasley, after graduation, had pursued certification as a Professor of Transfiguration, and following Professor McGonagall's acsension to Headmistress had been hired to take her place. (Dumbledore had stepped down at the end of the previous year, and had retired to a promintent post on the school's Board of Govenors. He still lived on the grounds, partially because he had had no other home for so long, but also because McGonagall though he was insane to step down, and flat out wouldn't let him leave.)
After Harry's accident, he retired to a hole in the wall (magicked so that it looked like a proper flat). When they heard about Harry's change in living arrangements, Hermione and Ron kidnapped him (well...not quite kidnapped...rather... took him out to lunch and...didn't let him go home...) and invited him to live in the flat that Hermione claimed she and Ron had been living in for the past two years (when in fact the lease had just been settled that morning). To their relief, he accepted their invitation.
As we join their story, it is the November after Ron began working at Hogwarts. The three have been living in the flat since the previous July. Together they watched England's standings plummet after a series of losses against teams who no witch or wizard had ever heard of. In wake of this humiliation, and of his friends' success, Harry wallows deeper and deeper into a pit of his own misery, and finds whiskey to be a comforting, if not constant, companion. Both Ron and Hermione are watching his decline with ever increasing worry, but have no idea what they can to do bring Harry to his senses.