Post by Harry Potter on Oct 2, 2009 20:17:57 GMT -5
BEFORE THE ‘BOY-WHO-LIVED’.
BEFORE A PROPHECY CHANGED LIVES.
EVEN BEFORE THE MARAUDERS.
A YOUNG WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO A BABY BOY IN AN ORPHAN IN LONDON. THE WOMAN WAS ONLY ABLE TO GIVE THE NAME OF HER SON AND HOPED THAT HE WOULD LOOK LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE PASSING AWAY WITHIN THE HOUR. THE DATE WAS DECEMBER 31, 1926. THE YOUNG WOMAN’S NAME WAS MEROPE GAUNT. THE BABY’S NAME WAS TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE; WHO WOULD LATER GROW UP TO BE ONE OF THE DARKEST WIZARDS IN HISTORY KNOWN AS LORD VOLDEMORT.
FAST FORWARD FORTY-THREE YEARS TO THE YEAR OF 1973. THE CURRENT HOGWARTS GENERATION IS GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER YEAR OF LESSONS. AND AS NORMAL AS THEY MAY SEEM, EVERYTHING ISN’T WELL IN THE MAGICAL WORLD. FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS, AN EVIL WIZARD KNOWN AS VOLDEMORT HAS BEEN TERRORIZING BOTH THE MAGICAL AND THE MUGGLE WORLDS. AND WHILE HOGWARTS MAY BE THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE AT THE MOMENT, EVEN THE ANCIENT CASTLE IS FEELING THE DARK WIZARD’S STRUGGLE FOR POWER. FOR YOU SEE, TOM RIDDLE RETURNED BACK TO HOGWARTS IN THE SUMMER OF ’71. THE PREVIOUS HEADMASTER, HEADMASTER DIPPET, HAD TOLD RIDDLE HE COULD HAVE A TEACHING POSITION. BUT DIPPET IS NO LONGER THE HEADMASTER. INSTEAD, THAT POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED BY NONE OTHER THAN ALBUS DUMBLEDORE. AND WHILE RIDDLE MAY HAVE HAD OTHERS FOOLED OF HIS TRUE INTENTIONS, DUMBLEDORE WAS NOT ONE OF THEM. HE HAS DENIED VOLDEMORT THE POSITION AS DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS PROFESSOR. AND IN DOING SO, HE MAY HAVE BOUGHT THE YOUNG MINDS WITHIN HIS CHARGE A SMALL WINDOW OF HOPE AGAINST VOLDEMORT’S CONTROL. SINCE THEN, HOGWARTS HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO HOLD DOWN A D.A.D.A. PROFESSOR FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. SOME ARE STARTING TO WONDER IF THE JOB IS CURSED. BUT FOR THE YOUNG MINDS OF HOGWARTS, THIS MATTERS NOT. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS THE NEXT SPELL THEY WILL BE LEARNING, AND THE UPCOMING QUIDDITCH MATCHES. AND FOR SOME, THIS YEAR WILL BRING WITH IT A WHOLE NEW MEANING.
STARTING THEIR THIRD YEAR OF HOGWARTS MEANS BEING THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. AND FOR FOUR YOUNG GRYFFINDOR’S THIS MEANS A FEW THINGS. ONE, THEY CAN START GOING TO HOGSMEADE WITH THE REST OF THE CASTLE. AND TWO, THE NEW FOUND INTEREST OF GIRLS. THAT’S RIGHT. PUBERTY. JAMES, SIRIUS, REMUS, AND NOT SO MUCH PETER ALL START TO HEAD INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ADOLESCENCE. OF COURSE, THEY'RE STILL AS IMMATURE AS EVER. BUT AS THEY ARE COMING OUT OF THE CARE FREE WORLDS OF CHILDHOOD, THEY ARE STARTING TO BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE STRUGGLES TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE THE SAFETY OF THE CASTLE WALLS. AND FOR SOME, IT’S MORE NOTICEABLE.
JOIN THE STUDENTS AS THEY EMBARK IN ANOTHER YEAR OF HOGWARTS. WATCH AS MORE PRANKS ARE PULLED, BATTLES ARE WON AND LOST BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF HOGWARTS, AND BONDS ARE EITHER STRENGTHENED OR WEAKENED. COME WHAT MAY, IT’LL AFFECT THE FUTURE IN WAYS THAT’LL TURN YOU UPSIDE DOWN AND SPIN YOU AROUND. ARE YOU READY TO START THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE YEARS?
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