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Hermione Tranger
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  • Lady of Haris

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  • Deputy Arch Magi of DA
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Father John Tranger
Mother Tanji Tranger
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Hermione Tranger is the daughter of the late John, and Tanji Tranger therebye making her the the only surviving member of her family the small but still noble House Tranger. Hermione Tranger has one sibling in the form of Thomas Tranger of whom is the Lord of House Tranger following the death of their parents and has turned House Tranger into a powerhouse having taken control of the town of Haris during the Hogwarts Civil War.

Hermione Tranger would be for most of her life a Christian and she was quite devout in her belief in Jesus. Hermione would have a religious breakdown following the events of the breaking of the Triumverate when Jesus failed to intervene as she believed he would and this led to her becoming Atheist.

Hermione Tranger is a Magi sensitive person, of which she is a very high level Magi user with her level being Level Four. Hermione Tranger is extremely powerful in the use of Entropy Magi with her ability to conjure ideas from the Fade very high, and she also does not require the use of a wand or staff anymore as she has become skilled enough to reach into the fade without its assistence.

She learned, at the age of eleven, that she was a witch and had been accepted into Hogwarts. Hermione began attending the school when she was eleven, almost twelve, and was sorted into Gryffindor House. An academically brilliant student, Hermione became best friends with fellow Gryffindors Harry Potter and Ron Weezly in her first year of school. When they first met on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Ron thought of her as obnoxious and self-centred, a belief that she only furthered as the school year went on, besting them in every class. However, when Ron and Harry saved her from a troll, she took the blame for them and became their friend. Hermione Tranger would finally perfect to a certain degree the ability to turn raw metals into gold and she would use his ability just shortly before the zenith of the Hogwarts Civil War and returned to her family in Lorraine and used this ability to create a sizeable wealth for them turning them into landed nobles in Lorraine throughout her summer away from Hogwarts, and planned to return to Hogwarts to find them a farmstead and land to purchase. The rise of House Tranger would come to an abrubt end when they were targeted by the Deatheaters shortly before their move to their new lands in Hogwarts and during this massacre John, and Tanji were killed alongside all their servents leaving only Thomas and Hermione alive. Hermione would become embroiled in conflict and death, but it was the realization by her that Harry Potter was being sacrificed by Dumbledore that led her to change her course completely. Hermione would be unable to get Dumbledore to change his mind so instead she went to the library and was able to uncover a large amount of information about the Deathly Hollows. Learning everything she could she would come to realize that the only way she could stop Harry's death would be to gather all the deathly Hollows she could and bring them together in order to destroy their power over Harry. Hermione would leave the lands of Hogwarts and travel westward to the lands of the Kingdom of Alcase where she learned she would find the first of the deathly hollows. In Alcase she would join the forces of the Kingdom of Alcase during a massive battle against the chaos forces of John Orsinio where she would save the life of Talbot Von Orsinio and thus allow him to defeat John Orsinio and rout the chaos army. Leaving the Alcase forces with the Following this Hermione would travel westward where she would meet with the True Sons of Lucerne force called the Circle of Magi led by Bill Lovie of whom had the second part of the Deathly Hollows. When she was inside Orleans she posed as Alice Lovie to the nearly demented Bill, and this allowed her to see into the mind of the troubled former king and gain intimate access into the city. Her access led her to understand that Myctism the next deathly hollows was always on Bill Lovie and that it would always be attatched to him as long as he was living. Knowing she would need to kill him, she would assist her friend Logan Lerman and his sister in their plans of taking control of Orleans. She would sabotage the defenses of the Circle of Magi secretly while the forces of Lucerne, and Ashley Lermans forces took control of the lower levels, and she would nearly fail in her task when she attempted to save Logan. She would arrive in the top tier of the tower when the final fight went down, and it was her presence that blinded Bill for a moment and led to Sophia hitting him in the shoulder with her sword slashing him quite badly. She would hold his hand alongside Sophia as he died, and once he passed away she would take Mysticism from his body and leave the ruins of Orleans for her next stop in the Valley of Lucerne.

Hermione Tranger is a POV character for a chapter of the End of Darkness, a chapter in the Rise of Lucerne, and a significant portion of the School of Magi and it is through Hermione that we learn most of the inner workings of the Hogwarts region. As the onl POV character from the Hogwarts region outside of Harry Potter she is the main character of the Hogwarts theater of the story thus making her departure all the more critical. In the first chapter of Westros we see that Hermione is a major POV character as she travels throughout Europe eventually landing in Orleans.

History

Early History

"Born into poverty her life should have went the way all poor women's lives went. She should have married a farmer's son, and lived her life being a farmers wife, but instead she was born with Magi powers. That Magi brought her into a world that she couldn't have ever imagined she'd be."
-Harry Potter

Not much is known about Hermione's life before she entered the wizarding world. She was the only child of John, and Tanji Tranger, who were both healers in the town of Jortin of Lorraine. They were "quite ordinary" and "a bit bemused" by their odd daughter but quite proud of her all the same. She realized quite early though during her youth that she had Magi powers, and her parents were uncharacteristically supportive of a thing that was usually descived by parents as a curse or worse. Her parents took her at the age of seven to visit the vast Magi Kingdom of Hogwarts and she was introduced to many of the teachers while there and this was the main reason her parents decided to send her to stay at Hogwarts while they saved up money so they could come as well. Her parents would sit her down on their return from Hogwarts, and tell her that she needed to leave this place so that she could have a better life, but they also made her very aware that they were not leaving her as they were going to Hogwarts as well once they could save up the money. She was saddened to be leaving her parents but they promised her that they would be coming eventually so she only had to be alone for a little while and this life was far greater then the one that was left for her in Lorraine. She would pack her bags at the age of eight years old and leave the only home she had ever known to leave for the Kingdom of Hogwarts.

Coming to Hogwarts

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"Hogwarts was a magical place in every sence of the word. Run by people who seemed to truly care about the ones they were leading it created a world that wasn't filled with the inequalities I had grown to feel were normal back in Lorraine."
-Hermoine Tranger

Hermione Tranger enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts, and took assignments, classes, and school rules very seriously. Her favourite subject was initially Charms, and later Arithmancy, and the only areas of study that gave her trouble were Flying and Divination. Some students, such as Terry Boot, wondered why Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor house rather than Ravenclaw, given her keen mind. Hermione admitted that the Sorting Hat did consider putting her in Ravenclaw. Being sorted into Gryffindor, Hermione would share a dormitory with Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Fay Dunbar and another girl. During these extremely early days she kept mainly to herself as she was seen by many to be of such intelligance that it was annoying to be around. She was emotionally hurt by this as she didn't mean to be a snob and she honestly didn't want to come off as one.

Hogwarts Civil War

Main Article : Hogwarts Civil War

The Philosophers Stone
School of Magi
I grew up a young boy being told the stories of ancient Wizards, and Witches and the great things they did. One of these stories was of a great Magi fighting his entire life to defend the Magi world from the outsiders that hated it so much. He fought for years and years, and lost everyone he loved, and I remember asking my mother if this story had a happy ending. My mother carassed my hair before she told me that the story ended with the great Magi defeating the monster that had took everything from him, and the world was saved. I asked her what happened to the great Magi and she changed the subject. I realize now why she did that. The noble man defeats his enemy, and then he dies. This is the way of the good side. We fight and we lose everything just to save a world, that we will never see. It seems unfair to me that the good of the world is so cruely chosen to die, while the evil of the world is given free reign for however long they choose.
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From that moment on, Hermione Granger became our friend. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
Ron Weezly

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weezly were not always the the Triumverate that they would become and in the the beginning it took many close encounters for the three to finally become as close as they have. They would first meet on the train ride from the capital where the students of Hogwarts would first prepare for their departure, and it was on this train ride that the dynamics of the beginning of the group would begin. Harry Potter arrives at the carriage station where joined by his family he prepares to board the Hogwarts carriage train which is a massive carriage which takes the children who are enrolling in Hogwarts and surrounded by his family he sheds a tear as his mother gives him a kiss on the cheek before he enters the carriage. Entering the carriage alongside his cousin Sybill Potter of whom is the same age as he is the two hold hands as they find their seat, but as they are walking down the aisle Sybill is taken away by several young girls of whom knew her from the church and the two say goodbye as Harry finds an empty booth to sit at.While Ron, and Harry started off as friends and Harry was always polite to Hermione there was an almost bitterness between Ron and Hermione due to Rons behavior which was caused by him finding many things difficult due to his lack of natural intelligence on their level. Hermione Granger attached herself to Harry and Ron, following them around and trying to prevent them from breaking school rules and getting into trouble.

That was the first time we nearly died, and a part of me was so scared in that moment that I thought that everything elce in the world would be nothing compared to that moment. As if the danger of that Troll would some how create in me a defence against everything elce that would ever threaten me. I was wrong.
Hermione Granger
The friendship between the three was solidified when, on Halloween during their first year, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll, that had been set loose in Hogwarts in the earliest attempt on Harry's life. Unaware that a troll was on the loose in the school, Hermione had spent that day crying in the girls' bathroom after overhearing Ron making unkind comments about her. The troll made its way into the bathroom she was in, and Harry and
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Ron came to her rescue, and proseeded to fight the Troll. None of the three had any experiance fighting anything of that magnitude so the fight was extremely chaotic with the Troll nearly killing the group several times, but their quick thinking kept them alive. As the fight looked to be going against them Ron was picked up by the Troll who prepared to kill Ron, but before he could Harry stabbed it through the foot with a wooden post, and the Troll fell over from this. With the troll falling on its stomach Harry climbed on its back and shot it behind the head where Hermione screamed to him it had weak armor. With the troll lying dead the group stayed quiet for several minutes as Harry checked on his two friends, and though they didn't know it the Triumverate would be formed by these moments. When Professors Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, and Quirinus Quirrell arrived at the scene, Hermione covered for the boys, claiming she was fighting the troll because she had thought that she could fight one, having read a great deal about them, and that Ron and Harry had merely come to help her escape. From that point on, the three students were best friends.

The Trapdoor

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Hermione Granger would become the source of much knowledge as she gained a relationship with Head Master Albus Dumbledore, of whom begin to show her things that opened her eyes to the darkness of Magi.

The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.
Albus Dumbledore

On one night, she followed them as they were leaving Gryffindor Tower to duel Draco Malfoy. Unknown to Harry and Ron was the fact that Draco was too afraid to challenge them and because of this he had gone to Argus Filch and told him that Harry and Ron were going to the third floor to cause mayhem. When they arrived at the dueling spot they were spotted by Argus Filch of whom demanded to know what they were doing up there and before he could say anything else they bolted away from him and ran upstairs. They were chased by Argus Filch, acting on a tip off by Malfoy, into the third floor corridor — forbidden to students — where they came face-to-face with Fluffy, a three-headed dog belonging to Hagrid. Later on, she argued that her spying was to their benefit when she pointed out the dog had been standing on a trap door, which Harry and Ron had not noticed. After using Magi to cause the dog to fall asleep they moved the god again with Magi before descending into the trap door. After going through the trapdoor, a long drop led to a chamber filled with Devil's Snare, planted by the Herbology teacher, Professor Sprout. The Devil's Snare was designed to entangle and suffocate any intruders, especially quickly the more the intruder attempts to escape. As the Snare is sensitive to heat and light, Hermione used a charm that created a jet of Bluebell flames to free Ron. As they attempted to turn back a Magi wall appeared behind them leading to them having no choice but to go down.

The Birds

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Thats a really big dog.
Ron Weezly

A downward sloping passage led to another chamber filled with flying keys, charmed by Professor Flitwick. A large wooden door led to another chamber. The door would not open with the use of any charm such as Alohomora, one needed the correct key to get through. To pass, one had to use the broomstick provided to catch the correct key. However, once airborne, the other keys will try and attack the pursuer. The group attempted to ride broomsticks which were on the ground in order to reach the keys but they continued to fail at this until finally Harry was able to reach the top of the room and made a death defying jump in order to reach the correct key, and then survived the jump after Hermione slowed his fall with Magi. When the group finally managed to get the key and get into the next room a man in a dark robe appeared in front of them, and while this man throughout the conversation to follow would remain anonymous in truth it was an apparition of Tom Malfoy. When they attempted to raise their wands against him he disarmed the group and proceeded to tell them a story.

Dear children there was once a young wizard that wanted to live forever. This young wizard wanted to live forever so much that he spent his entire families wealth, and all of his time creating a stone which while the user held would make him stop aging. This man would use this stone to prolong his life until one day a thief stole it from him in the night. This theif would take the stone and sell it on the market to a man who took the stone to a school. This school would hide the stone for years and years, but the man never forgot the stone, and finally caught the trail of the stone, and when he did he attempted to get it back, but he discovered their were obstacles in his way. You three have passed three of the obstacles, and if you wish to surive you will pass the rest, and when you reach the end you will give me the stone or you will die.
Tom Malfoy

The man would proceede to tell them that story before making them perfectly aware of the fact that they were going to die, unless they did what he wanted and got him the stone. The three attempted to resist him, but he was far to powerful in that moment and they were pushed back again. With no hope the three agreed to his demands and told him that they would get him the stone. With this the man would pick up their wands and hand them back to the three before he pushed them through a door and into the next room.

Playing Chess

Game of Chess
You've been studying your books for years Hermione. Harry is the most gifted wizard I've ever seen. You want to know what I'm good at. Watch me win us this game of Wizard's Chess.
Ron Weezly

The next chamber was dark and resembled a graveyard, it contained a Human Chess Game, enchanted by Professor McGonagall. To defeat the game, one had to play themselves across the board and checkmate the King according to the rules of Chess. One cannot simply walk across the board and pass, so an adequate knowledge of Wizard's Chess was needed to complete this task. Ron had come to love chess during his time at Hogwarts and was one of the best in the entire school so he was able to defeat the game quite easily, but on the checkmate move he was forced to sacrifice his player and this injured him, and with the entrance to the final room closing in front of them Hermione, and Harry were encouraged by Ron to leave him behind to find his own way out while they went through to the final stage.

Seven Potions

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It's just the three of us. We have to work this out to get out of here. There isn't two other people I would want at my side.
Harry Potter

The next obstacle guarding the Stone was a logical riddle set by Professor Snape, and entering the room Hermione, and Harry now alone without Ronald are left to enter what they know is the last obstacle to their goal. Before entering the room the two held each other for some a few minutes as Hermione had begun to shake uncontrollably out of fear, and Harry consoled her, and in this moment kissed her on the forehead another moment in the expanding chemistry between the two best friends. Upon entering the chamber, the doorway through which one entered was blocked by a purple flame. The other entry way leading to the Philosopher's Stone, was blocked with black flame. A table with seven bottle of differing shapes sat in the middle of the room. Each bottle contained a liquid, but the bottles were not labelled with their contents. Three were poison, two contained nettle wine, one contained a potion to safely traverse the black flame, and the last contained a potion that allowed passage back through the purple flames. The riddle, when properly worked out, revealed the contents of each bottle, and therefore which one was safe to drink to allow onward progress.

Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind. Two of us will help you, whichever you would find, One among us seven will let you move ahead, Another will transport the drinker back instead, Two among our number hold only nettle wine, Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line. Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore, To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four: First, however slyly the poison tries to hide You will always find some on nettle wine's left side; Second, different are those who stand at either end, But if you would move onwards neither is your friend; Third, as you see clearly, all are different size, Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides; Fourth, the second left and the second on the right Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.
The Riddle

Hermione tells Harry that it is a test of logic and not magic wherein most wizards fail. She solves the puzzle, and at Harry's instruction, drinks the one that will allow her to head back through the purple flame, while Harry drinks the one to head into the black flame and into the final room, where he is surprised at who he sees. As Professor Quirrell presumably traveled through the chamber to reach the Mirror of Erised, he must have had to take the Black Fire Potion himself, and, as there was only enough potion for one person in the bottle, that would have used it all up. However, he may have taken some of the potion with him when he entered the chambers, and drunk that instead. Another possibility is that the bottles had had a Refilling Charm on them.

The Stone

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The final obstacle was the Mirror of Erised, designed and set by Albus Dumbledore and was designed with a major moral shield leading to those with moral failings to basically be unable to succeed at this test. The only way to obtain the stone was to look into the mirror, see yourself having it, but not using it. Most people would see themselves using it, such as turning things to gold, crafting Elixir of Life, or giving it to someone. It was at this moment that the man in the dark robe appeared again and this time he revealed himself as Proffesor Quirrell and told the three that he was unable to get the stone from the mirror, and the only person he believed that could was Harry Potter and it was for this reason that he had Draco Malfoy lure the three of them into the tunnel. Also appearing at this point are several others dressed in dark clothing wearing masks who support Quirrel, and while their identity would remain a mystery the people were in fact Draco Malfoy, Astoria Malfoy, Tobias Grundeven, and Charlotte Painsley of whom were there under orders from the Deatheaters leadership. Quirrell asks for help from his master to get the Stone, and a snake-like voice tells him to use the boy. Harry is told to look into the Mirror. Under threat Harry is forced to look into the mirror. He sees his reflection pull the Stone out of his pocket and put it back in, and Harry feels it drop into his own pocket. He lies to Quirrell about what he sees, telling him instead that he sees himself shaking hands with Dumbledore, after winning the House Cup for Gryffindor. The snake-like voice tells Quirrell Harry is lying and Quirrell takes his turban off to show Harry what lies on the back of his head. As Quirrell turns around, Harry is shocked to see another face where the back of Quirrell's head should be. The face has red eyes and a snake-like slit where the nose should be. Harry realises this is the face of whoever this Lord Voldemort is, and Voldemort demands Harry give him the Stone. Harry refuses and runs, but Quirrell seizes him. However, the contact with Harry's skin burns Quirrell and causes him to have boils all over the area in which Harry touched him. Harry grabs Quirrell's face, then his arm, and holds on, with the blinding pain in his head building, until he feels the arm wrenched away before he blacks out. He awakes in the hospital wing with Dumbledore there, telling him Quirrell did not succeed at getting the Stone, and indeed the Stone has been destroyed.

Conflict with Draco

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During his early time in Hogwarts he was consistently approached by one Draco Malfoy who wished for Harry to leave the school. When it became clear that wasn't going to happen the two became bitter rivals and were in near constant conflict with eachother. In the days that came before the Basilisk Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy engaged in a duel which unkown to Harry caused the death of Harnia Trout of House Slytherin.

The Duel
The European Magi Cup
They came here to destroy us. There was no need for diplomacy because both sides knew that the goal was annihilation, and no amount of words was going to change the Teutons minds. That was the saddest part for me. The knowledge that death was the only way this thing ended. Either they died...or we did.

The European Magi Cup

The Euro Cup

In their fourth year at Hogwarts Harry, his parents James and lilly Potter, the Weasley family (except Mrs. Weasley), and Hermione attended the Quidditch World Cup. At Stoatshead Hill, Edward Cullen and his best friend Hilary Swift, joined them. Once at the camp grounds, they met Ludo Bagman, Barty Crouch Sr. and his house-elf Winky, and many other Hogwarts students and their families, including Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, Oliver Wood, and Draco Malfoy. They were able to see the match between the Kirin Tor, and Alcase teams up close, because Harry, the Weazly's, and Hermione had seats in the top box, thanks to a favour Mr. Weezly had done for Ludo Bagman. During the time watching the match Harry became silently jelous about the affection between Ron, and Hermione and this would be one of his first indications that their was something going on.

Ginny Weezly
Ginny Weezly

As his jelously roared its head at him, he left the group and wandered the outskirts of the stadium, and it was here that he sat for a time before he felt a body lay down in the grass beside him. WHen he looked at who it was it was Ginny Weezly the cute sister of his best friend Ron. He had never really gotten to know her since before she was quite young looking but she had grown up a lot in the time since he had seen her last, and now she was quite beautiful, and of this he took full notice. The two lay on the grass for the remaining time the games were on and they talked, before she leaned over and kissed him. The kiss didn't fufill him, or make him feel anything real but it was something, and for the emptiness that he felt he would take anything he could get. The lay their making out for a time before they were interupted by a cough and when Harry pulled away and looked over he saw Hermione looking at him with a look that on the surface was one that a best friend felt when they watched something like that happen but Harry thought that underneath that he could see a tinge of jealously. Following seeing this Hermione who did discover how jelous she was would go into the market that had sprung up and while there she found an alleyway and started crying and it was there where she was seen by Anna Gushina of whom came to her and the two talked over things and became connected by a shared feeling of loneliness.

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Melissa Rosier would become involved with the deatheaters during the Euro Cup where her friends in the form of several Slytherin Students introduced her to Draco Malfoy and through him she finally saw a way forward for herself and not truly understanding what she was getting into she swore herself to them gaining a dark mark.

The Attack
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The night after the match, while the Alcase's team's supporters were still celebrating, a group of black-cloaked, hooded figures held terrifying celebrations of their own by suspending the Muggle camp site manager and his family in air like twisted marionettes. On Mr. Weasley's orders, Harry fled into the woods near the camp site, along with Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny. The group was separated in the woods, and in the chaos, Harry believed he had lost his wand. The trio ran into Draco Malfoy, and he all but told them that his father was among the cloaked wizards. Later, Harry learned that Barty Crouch Jr. had stolen his wand from his pocket. While in a clearing in the woods, Harry, Ron, and Hermione heard someone shout the incantation Morsmordre, casting the Dark Mark - a green skull with a snake protruding from its mouth like a tongue - into the sky. Although Harry did not immediately recognise its significance, he soon learned that the Dark Mark had evil implications. Then, Barty Crouch Sr., Amos Diggory, and other Ministry of Magic employees apparated into the clearing and began to question Harry, Ron, and Hermione about the Dark Mark. After Harry mentioned he had heard another voice conjure the Dark Mark, the Ministry employees searched the area and found the house-elf Winky unconscious in the bushes. Since Harry's wand was found in Winky's hand, Mr. Crouch fired her for shaming his family and disobeying his orders.

The Goblet of Fire

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The Goblet of Fire
School of Magi
I grew up a young boy being told the stories of ancient Wizards, and Witches and the great things they did. One of these stories was of a great Magi fighting his entire life to defend the Magi world from the outsiders that hated it so much. He fought for years and years, and lost everyone he loved, and I remember asking my mother if this story had a happy ending. My mother carassed my hair before she told me that the story ended with the great Magi defeating the monster that had took everything from him, and the world was saved. She told me about how much greatness the noble Magi brought to the world when he destroyed the monster. It was only when I asked her what happened to the great Magi that she changed the subject. I thought nothing of it then but now I realize why she did that. The noble man defeats his enemy, and then he dies. This is the way of the good side. We fight and we lose everything just to save a world, that we will never see. It seems unfair to me that the good of the world is so cruelly chosen to die, while the evil of the world is given free reign for however long they choose.
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Eternal glory! That's what awaits the student who wins The Triwizard Tournament, but to do this, that student must survive three tasks. Three extremely dangerous tasks.
Albus Dumbledore

The Goblet of Fire would become the moment of divergence for the region of Hogwarts, and would bring about the destruction of the fake peace and the illusion was finally broken that Lord Voldermorte wanted peace for the lands of Hogwarts. Hermione was very close to Harry Potter so she was obviously very close to the forefront of the Civil War as the forces of Lord Voldermorte and the forces of Hogwarts silently battled it out for victory. The lives of Hermione Granger and the rest of the Triumverate were still at this point quite idealistic as most of the wizard world of Hogwarts had no idea that Tom Malfoy had become the sadistic man that he had become. The first strikes against the realm of Hogwarts would come silently and it would all begin during the normal event hosted in Hogwarts called the Triwizard Tournament. For Edward Cullen he was beginning to become homesick, while his friend Hilary was beyond just wanting to go home, she was crying nearly every night, and only the excuse of the Triwizard Tournament brought them any kind of peace.

It was supposed to be about eternal glory. It was supposed to determine something between different groups, and yet here we stand. Standing amongst the ruins of the dreams we once had, I can't help but fear for our futures.
Hermione Granger

At the Hogwarts start of term feast, Professor Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament, a recently-revived inter-school competition in which the Beauxbatons Academy of Magi, the Kirin Tor, Nubian Academy of Magi, the Order of Vendolimis from the Kingdom of Senegal, the Magisterium of the Tevinter Empire, the Nehekhara Order of Batholemu, the elven Order of the Netherstorm, the Order of Raijin from the far east, and the Durmstrang Institute would also participate. The Beauxbatons were a school tended to and trained from the greatest Magi that the Kingdom of Alcase could find, while Durmstrang was a secret Magi school hidden in Norway of northern Europe. The Kirin Tor was the Magi fortress and organization within the Kingdom of Lorderon, and the Kirin Tor sent the largest delegation led by Medivh. The delegation from Beauxbatons arrived in a large carriage pulled by Abraxan horses, and brought with them some thirty Magi, alongside some two hundred attendants. The delegation of Beauxbatons pupils was led by their Headmistress, Madam Olympe Maxime of whom had once trained at Hogwarts before using her long Numenorian lifespan to create the Beauxbatons Academy within Alcase. The Kirin Tor would arrive with some forty Magi and a force of some five hundred conventional forces, and would house themselves at the town of Fadustan, away from the city of Hogwarts where half there number were going to travel to a large ruin east of the town while the rest went to Hogwarts for the tournament. The Nubians would arrive following the Kirin Tor and had arrived via Magi boat which they had traveled west of France going north into Germania before traveling south down the Rhine River, and the Nubians only brought some twenty Magi, and a hundred retainers led by Hele Halone.

The sight of their ship appearing from beneath the Lake was a sight to see.
Ron Weezley
The Magisterium from the Tevinter Empire would come shortly following the Nubians and led by Calanthus Vyrantus they were the picture of nobility and honor of which was noted by all who saw them, and they came with some two hundred Magi, and nearly a thousand men at arms and retainers making them one of the largest groupings there. The secretive Order of Vendolimis would arrive from Africanas by flying boat with great suspicion as the rumors said that they had helped and continued to help the Orcs of Africanas but in a bid for growing relationships with the Senegese they were treated with as much respect as possible. Shortly after their arrival, the delegation from Durmstrang, under the watchful eye of their High master Professor Igor Karkaroff, arrived in a magical ship that could travel underwater. The Order of Maal from Lorraine would also send a group of people but led by Anna Gushina, and Alexandra Genin they were not going to participate and were simply coming to watch the events and discuss Magi agenda items with the Hogwarts leadership while there. A feast to welcome the new arrivals was held in the Great Hall, where Professor Dumbledore introduced the other Tournament judges - Bartemius Crouch Sr, Vonded Forden, and Ludo Bagman - to the assembled students. After explaining the rules of the Tournament, Dumbledore unveiled both the Goblet of Fire and the Triwizard Cup to the assembled groups. Students would have until the start of the Halloween Feast the following day to enter their names.
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In agreement with the new rules regarding underage students entering the Tournament, Dumbledore drew an Age Line around the Goblet of Fire, of which concluded that only those over the age of fiteen could enter their names into the Goblet of Fire. Among the entrants for Hogwarts were Angelina Johonlin from Gryffindor, Cedric Diggory from Hufflepuff and Cela Warrington from Slytherin. Fred and George Weasley attempted to bypass the Age Line by using an Ageing Potion but were repulsed by the Age Line and grew long white beards. Edward Cullen would be at first unwilling to join the tournament as he and hilary were both very much planning on using what they had learned to go home, but when Albus Dumbledore was talking about the prestige and rewards for winning Edward would enter wanting something amazing to show his friends when he got back to Lucerne. Sabastian Fawcett of Ravenclaw and Summer Ophellt of Hufflepuff suffered the same misfortune. At some point, most likely during the night, Bartholomule Crouch II. who was using Polyjuice Potion to pose as Professor Moody, bewitched the Goblet with a powerful Confundus Charm. He made the Goblet believe that there would be more schools entering the competition, then entered Harry Potter's name on a scrap of parchment under a false school name. Since no other entrant would be associated with the school, Harry's name was the only one that the Goblet could select for this fictitious school that he named the School of Death.

Choosing the Champions

Fleur Delecour
The Goblet of Fire! Anyone wishing to submit themselves to the tournament need only write their name upon a piece of parchment and throw it in the flame before this hour on Thursday night. Do not do so lightly! If chosen, there's no turning back. As from this moment, The Triwizard Tournament has begun.
Albus Dumbledore

During the Halloween Feast, Dumbledore presided over the selection of the Champions. Artem Belovich, from Durmstrang, was the only person from his school to put in his name and thus was selected automatically as the first Champion. The Beauxbatons Academy of Magi would also only enter one person in the form of Fleur Delacour who thus became the second Champion. The host city of Hogwarts put forth dozens of applicants all placing there name in and the goblet from these names selected Edward Cullen as the Hogwarts Champion a suprise to most as he was relatively unknown. The Kirin Tor would also only place one applicant in the form of Cerin Menathil and thus for this reason Cerin was selected easily by the Goblet of Fire. The Magisterium of Tevinter had put several names into the Goblet and was overjoyed when Rindafinwe Titus the third son of the King of Neromenian would be chosen. The Nippon from the Order of Raijin would enter ten students and thus when the goblet got to their school all ten of the students would kneel before the goblet waiting for their response, and when Ukita hidemune won the nomination the rest of the students chanted for her victory. As the sole person of the Order of Batholemu to travel to hogwarts it was without surprise that the young Euphemia Batholemu would be the one named by the Goblet of Fire to enter the tournament. The Elves of Netherstorm had come with a purpose and that purpose was for the child of the High Nethermancer Zerevor Sunsorrow in the form of Velfeth Sunsorrow to gain entree into the tournament Velfeth had become interested in winning the tournament and as the sole entree Velfeth was chosen by the Goblet of Fire. As the only entree from their respective orders it was Hamilcar Hannonid who entered for Vendolimis and Alara Kandake that entered for the Nubians marking one of the first times in history that there were more then one entree from the Africanas continent. Following the announcements of all champions it was with great celebration that the Champions left the Great Hall to receive further instructions, but to the surprise of everybody, the Goblet spat out a fifth name, as Barty Crouch Jr had intended. Harry Potter, like the rest of the school, was shocked to hear his name called, and went to join the other Champions. After a heated debate, during which Karkaroff and Maxime questioned the motives of Dumbledore and the Ministry, since Hogwarts now had two Champions, it became clear that Harry must participate. Despite his not having entered his own name in the Goblet, the fact that his name had been entered and selected by the Goblet constituted a magical contract that bound him to compete. Even his age was not a real issue; the Age Line was only an effort to stop unprepared students entering and being killed. Traditionally, students as young as Harry had been allowed to compete in the Tournament.

I was unprepared for anything of this magnitude. I was barely recovered from the rigors of the last year, when I was suddenly thrown into the lions den.
Harry Potter

Despite the secrecy surrounding the Triwizard Tournament, Lord Voldemort found out about it from Bertha Jorkins, a Hogwarts Magi of whome had been holidaying in Westbridge and had run into Peter Pettigrew at an inn. Pettigrew brought her before Voldemort, who, using Dark Magi, extracted from her mind information concerning the Tournament. He also learned that one of his faithful servants, Barty Crouch Jr, was still alive and under the Imperius Curse at his father's home, and this would eventually lead to his freeing. Armed with this information, Voldemort set a plan into motion. He freed Crouch Jr from the Imperius Curse, and ordered him to disguise himself as Alastor Moody, Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. There, he would manipulate the Tournament as his Master commanded to achieve the Dark Lord's goal: the destruction of Harry Potter. Alara Kandake would travel to the Republic of Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournmanent of 5122 and once there she was targeted by Rinvious Quirrell who was silently a member of the Deatheaters and he would be able to seduce the young and impressionable Alara kandake into coming to a meeting held by Tom Malfoy and it was there were alongside becoming infatuated with Rinvious she would also become sworn to the Deatheaters.

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That was the first moment I saw him for the person I knew he could be. From that moment on it was hard not to see him as a man above all others.
Hermione Granger

Many people did not believe Harry's story, including Ron believing this to be nothing but another attempt to gain fame. This caused extreme tension between the two friends. Hermione, on the other hand, "accepted his story without question," and assisted Harry in preparing for the Tournament by teaching him useful spells, such as the Summoning Charm, which Harry used in the first task of the Tournament. Besides the resentment that came from Ron for his enlistment, he also received a lot of backlash from the other students, who appeared unwilling to accept his story. Edward Cullen at this point was becoming very popular, as he was seen as Hogwarts true champion, and a generally nice guy. As Harry Potter became the subject of abuse his brother Neville attempted to stand up for him, but this only got him in more trouble and eventually Harry talked him into simply letting it go. It was during this time that Harry and Edward first came into becoming friends, as Edward didn't like the abuse he was taking, and tried desperately to get them to stop but Hilary convinced him to just keep his head down.

The Departure of Rindafinwe
You came to the wrong tent girl. Time for you to be shown what a man does to women who won't realize their fucking place.
Rindafinwe Titus

Its after the picking of Rindafinwe that a disappointed Clary would go to find him that night to congratulate him and be the better person. Going to his tent he was not there but she used Magi to follow his trail and this led to her finding him at the House Lestrange estate within Hogwarts. Using Magi to get inside she would witness Rindafinwe and his friends talking with a man who revealed himself as Rodolphus Lestrange and eavesdropping on the conversation she listens as they discuss several things but for her the most notable is that in return for Rindafinwe helping them they will help him by killing Calanthus. Upon hearing this she flees the estate attempting to find her master and warn him, and finding him reading to Jesikka she blurts out what she heard to him. Despite the dire nature of what she warns him of he is dismissive of the threat and tells Clary not to consern herself with such things and to go to bed and get rest for the next day. Despite wanting to listen to Calanthus she does not go to sleep instead leaving the tent once Calanthus has fallen asleep and followed by Jesikka she goes to the tent of Rindafinwe to confront him. As she reaches the tent of Rindafinwe she hears him talking with several dark robed men about a plot of which she doesn't understand. Not willing to accept this kind of behavior she uses Magi on the group defeating three of them while Jesikka is locked out of the tent by Magi from Rindafinwe. The two engage in a breif skirmish but Rindafinwe is the more powerful Magi and disarms her and then begins to sexually assault her before being stopped by the arrival of several Templar and this causes Rindafinwe to flee Hogwarts through the use of a Portkey. Following the departure of Rindafinwe Titus the judges decided that they would have the Magisterium put in names again and have the Goblet choose a new champion for them to enter. A discussion was held between the Magisters present and they decided that it would be Is-Tinton Haellevnix that would be entered alone, but Calanthus would disagree and going against the other Magisters he would have Clary put her name in as well. When the Goblet put out the name it was Clary that was the next Champion for the Magisterium causing great outrage from the other Magisters, but the situation was calmed by Dumbledore who stopped anything violent from happening.

The First Task

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The first task is designed to test your daring, so we are not going to be telling you what it is. Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard ... very important ...
Bartemius Crouch Sr.
The First Task of the Triwizard Tournament took place on 24 November, and the objective was to retrieve a golden egg that was being guarded by a dragon - the egg would be located within a clutch of real dragon eggs. Using Sleeping Draughts, a team of wizards, including Charlie Weasley, transported nesting mothers of different breeds to Hogwarts from a dragon sanctuary in Croatia. The dragons were hidden in the Forbidden Forest to stop students from discovering them. However, despite the secrecy, the Champions became aware of the task that faced them. Rubeus Hagrid, a great lover of dragons, innocently invited Olympe Maxime to watch the dragons with him, unaware that she would tell her Champion, Fleur Delacour, about them. Harry Potter
Edward Cullen Champion
was also present, again at Hagrid's request, to see what was in store for him, hidden under his Invisibility Cloak. Igor Karkaroff sneaked into the Forest to discover what was being hidden, and told his Champion, Artem. Medivh would tell Cerin Menathil after Medivh watched the Dragons in his mind using spells he had left all around the hidden forest believing that would be where anything would be hidden. Even though Edward Cullen was not present, he was told about the dragons from Harry, who considered it unfair that Edward should be the only one of the Champions who had no clue what the First Task was. After lunch on the day of the First Task, the Champions assembled in a tent near the arena that had been built specifically for the Task. In the tent, they were informed of the task ahead by Barty Crouch Sr. and Ludo Bagman, who would also be acting as judges alongside Professor Dumbledore, Madame Maxime, and Professor Karkaroff. Each Champion was required to dip their hand into a bag that contained miniature replicas of the various dragons they would face, and pull one out. They would then face the real version in the arena. In addition, each miniature dragon had a small number hung around its neck, indicating which order they would face in.
Harry and the Dragon
After the Dragons what could possibly been worse right?
Harry Potter

Harry Potter drew the fiercest of them all, the Hungarian Horntail. On the advice of Crouch Jr (disguised as Professor Moody), he used a Summoning Charm to bring his Firebolt broomstick to him, and maneuvered past the dragon to retrieve his egg. After the First Task, Cerin and Artem were tied for first place, with Edward, and Ukita tied for second, Harry, and Velfeth tied for third. The champions were told that, the Golden egg they retrieved contained a clue on how to pass the Second Task. Without it, they had little chance of succeeding. After seeing how dangerous the task was, Ron, as well as the other students, made amends with Harry, with Ron telling him, "I reckon someone is trying to do you in." He managed to escape the first task with only an injured arm.

Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this; We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.
The song heard when the Golden egg is open under the water.

To prepare for the second task, Harry had to open the egg he won from the dragon, but every time he did, it screeched. His rescue from that particular problem came when Cedric paid him back with the information that he would figure it out if he "take[s] a bath" with the egg. Harry followed this advice; while in the bathroom, he had an uncomfortable exchange with Moaning Myrtle, and on the way back to the Common Room, he ran into Professors Snape and Moody.

Contestant Points at End of Task One
Artem Belovich 48
Cerin Menathil 48
Ukita Hidemune 45
Edward Cullen 45
Harry Potter 44
Velfeth Sunsorrow 44

The latter informed Harry of Barty Crouch Sr's obsession with catching Dark Wizards. Harry did learn that the second task was going into the Black Lake to rescue "the thing they would miss most" from the Merpeople. Harry's new problem was that he had no idea of how to survive underwater for an hour. He got his answer in the form of gillyweed from Dobby, who had come to work at Hogwarts.

The Second Task

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My task seemed impossible until my friend Neville taught me a method for holding my breathe under water using a weed. My life relied on the skill of Neville Longbottom, and a weed...
Harry Potter

All five Champions assembled on the shore of the lake, and were told that they had one hour to retrieve that which had been stolen from them from the merpeople's village, and return. The Champions entered the water; Harry had to eat the gillyweed, which gave him gills to breathe underwater, and webbed hands and feet to allow him to swim faster. Both Fleur and Edward utilised the Bubble-Head Charm, while Viktor partially Transfigured himself into a shark. Cerin Menathil surrounded her entire body with a bubble and would move throughout in this protective shield. The five Champions headed through the lake to the village; although Fleur was forced to retire when she was attacked by grindylows. Harry reached the village first to find that the "item" that had been stolen from each Champion were people close to them. Placed in an enchanted sleep, then tied to the tail of a stone Merperson, were Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, who had been Viktor's date to the Yule Ball, Edward's best friend Hilary Swift, and Fleur's younger sister, Gabrielle. Concerned for the safety of all the "hostages", Harry refused to just take Ron and go. Edward arrived shortly after and rescued Hilary, followed by Viktor. Viktor's partial Transfiguration had left him with the head of a shark, and he found it difficult to free Hermione. Harry passed him a sharp rock to cut her bonds with, then Viktor left carrying Hermione and headed for the surface. Cerin would wander the waters unable to find her way around as the Merpeople had become angry at her after she casually killed one of them, and surrounded her with mist leading to her wandering around for hours unable to know where she was.With no sign of Fleur, Harry made the decision to rescue the remaining hostages himself. Although the merpeople objected and tried to stop him, Harry managed to free himself, and dragged Ron, Perseiphone, and Gabrielle to the surface.

Ron wrapped me in a towel, and in that moment I was half discusted that they had led us into such real danger, and the other part of me was downright excited that I had survived.
Harry Potter

Back on shore, Harry learned from Ron that none of them had ever been in real danger, and that he should have just rescued him and got back as quickly as possible. Edward, the first Champion back, had arrived one minute outside of the one hour time limit, followed by Viktor in second place. Harry was third, and, because they did not finish Fleur, and Cerin were in last place. Despite finishing third, Merchieftainess Murcus informed Dumbledore that Harry arrived at the hostages first, and only his desire to see them all safe had stopped him from finishing first.

Contestant Points at End of Task One
Artem Belovich 92
Harry Potter 92
Cerin Menathil 91
Euphemia Batholemu 89
Velfeth Sunsorrow 88
Clary Folwyn 85

After a conversation with his fellow judges, which included Percy Weasley deputising for the ill Mr. Crouch, it was decided that Harry, for showing moral fibre, would be awarded second place. Edward scored forty-seven points, Harry scored forty-five points, Viktor earned forty points, and Fleur and Cerin came last with twenty-five points. After the first two tasks, Harry and Edward were tied for first place, with Viktor second, with Cerin third, and Fleur fourth.

The Yule Ball

Hermione Granger Yule Ball
There was madness in his eyes as I danced, and it was only the softness of Hermione's skin that kept me from confronting Draco right then and there.
Harry Potter

A month before the final task, the Champions were shown the beginnings of the challenge. They were told the third and final task was going into a maze filled with obstacles to find the Triwizard Cup. On the way back to the castle Krum took Harry aside to ask him something. Thinking that this was something important, Harry went with him. Krum then asked Harry about his relationship with Hermione, in whom Krum was deeply interested. Harry told him that there was nothing between him and Hermione and that she was just a friend, but by this point he knew he was lying to himself. Edward went to the Yule Ball with Hilary, and after dancing all night they returned to his room where they would kiss romantically, but as they parted they both laughed realizing for sure that they were only to be friends. Cerin Menathil, and Medivh would begin at this point to become aware of dark Magi permenating the air, as Lord Voldermorte had entered the area in secret, and Cerin and Medivh came to believe that the person was Harry Potter after hearing the eventual news that he was seen walking madly out of a room.

It was the finality of so much preperation, but I had this overwhelming sence of fear. Fear that I would fail. Fear that I would disapoint. Also I feared for my life. Something inside of me told me this last task was different in a way the good people of Hogwarts couldn't imagine.
Edward Cullen

To prepare for the final task, Harry, Ron, and Hermione used vacant classrooms to practise spells and jinxes. In Divination class between two of these study periods, Harry dozed off dreaming about Voldemort and left the classroom in a disturbing fashion. Rita Skeeter had witnessed this event, and she wrote on the day of the final task, that Harry was disturbed and dangerous. This did nothing to boost Harry's morale, but when he spent the day with Bill and Molly Weasley, they cheered him up when they also came to watch the final task as his substitute family. As the training continued Harry would continue to see signs of darkness in Draco Malfoy, and finally with time to deal with this he would confront the Malfoy heir and the two engaged in a fight which almost led to Harry killing Draco. Leaving Draco broken and wounded on the ground of the bathroom he erased his memory and told noone of the event, while also not getting information from Draco this was a terrible moment for Harry.

The Final Task

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The spirits of the Hogwarts crowd were very high before the final event, with most believing Edward had an easy win ahead

Who could have known how much would happen inside one maze.
Edward Cullen

On 24 June, the Third Task was to navigate a maze grown on the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch. The maze was populated by various obstacles and dangers that each Champion had to overcome. Crouch Jr, as Professor Moody, was entrusted with placing the Triwizard Cup at the centre of the maze. While doing this, he enchanted the Cup to be a Portkey that would be activated by touch, and thus sealed the fate of Harry of whom they planned to win this event. Edward and Harry, tying for first place after two tasks, were to enter the maze first, followed by Viktor, and then Cerin, then Clary, then Alara Kandake, before Fleur entered last. The first Champion to successfully navigate the maze and reach the Cup would be declared the winner.

I felt a change in the air as I moved. It felt as if I was being watched the entire time I was there by some all seeing eye.
Harry Potter

During the task, Edward encountered a Blast-Ended Skrewt, which he barely escaped from, but was able to use his Magi to deflect the fire bolts it sent at him before he finally killed it. Harry had to deal with a Boggart in the form of a Dementor, and overcame an odd golden mist which turned things upside-down. Crouch Jr, however, was leaving nothing to chance. Using Moody's magical eye, he watched events unfold in the maze, keeping the more dangerous obstacles out of Harry's path, while making sure to severely target Cerin and Edward of whom he knew to be the greater targets of getting to the end first. He also Stunned Fleur by ambushing her with thousands of weeds of which surrounded her and pulled her inside the bushes where she was knocked out for the remainder of the final task. Velfeth Sunsorrow entered the final task of the triwizard tournament in fifth place and entered the maze fifth, but upon entering the maze he begin to sense a terribly strong Magi presence and despite years of training he went towards it as his addiction overcame him and finding the source was what appeared to be a magi cube but it was not a Magi cube but instead was a terrible trap which when Velfeth touched it he died instantly becoming the first casualty of the tournament.

Viktor's eyes were the thing I will remember most. Nothing remained of the somber eyes I remembered all the months before, and what had replaced them was dark in a way that was horrifying.
Edward Cullen

As Viktor accidentally neared the end of the maze Crouch Jr would place the Imperius Curse on Viktor, and begin to use him as his personal force. He used Viktor to attack Edward with the Cruciatus Curse in order to clear Harry's path to the Cup, but Viktor couldn't defeat him and only managed to push him back away from the maze entrance and towards another way in. Clary Folwyn took a silent path to the end of the maze and she would nearly reach the trophy but once again Barty Crouch II. would intervene and portal his ally Alara Kandake to the trophy and it was at the foor of the trophy that Clary and Alara fought a duel. The two were evenly matched but Clary would gain the upper hand when Alara tripped on a rock and fell down, and while down Clary struck her with a blow to her shoulder disabling her and leaving her to the mind of Clary unconscious. As Clary went to touch the trophy she would be struck by a magi blase from the hidden Barty Crouch II. and knocked down, and then Barty used Magi to wake up Alara who then went to kill Clary and realizing that Alara was not going to stop Clary used the killing curse on her killing Alara before dropping into unconsciousness due to the wound from Barty Crouch II. Hamilcar would pass the first two tests but finished at the lower levels and thus when the final task started he entered near the last spots but having sided with the Deatheaters on the orders of his leadership team he would enter the final task with the goal of stopping everyone outside of Harry Potter, and he helped this when he fought Ukita Hidemune in a duel after she begin making progress towards the end of the maze and after ambushing her she made the mistake of misjudging his intention and while letting down his guard Hamilcar would kill him with a killing curse, but after releasing the killing curse it was Cerin Menathil that came upon him and watched this happen and Cerin would in return kill Hamilcar.

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Just stay down.
Cerin Menathil

Cerin would come across Viktor next, and when Cerin begin to soundly beat up on Viktor Crouch Jr would intervene by sending dozens of Giant Spiders at her which distracted her long enough for Viktor to begin targeting her. Harry encountered the Blast-Ended Skrewt that had attacked Edward, then heard Cerin being tortured, and rescued her by Stunning Viktor. Cerin and Harry parted company, and Harry had to answer a riddle from a sphinx to continue on into the maze, while Cerin had been poisoned by the spider and fell into a coma before being pulled into the bushes and losing the match but becoming safe. Edward and Harry joined forces to defeat another Giant Spider of whom was so large it tore down pieces of the maze ironically making it easier for them to reach the end of the maze, and after defeating the spider they both arrived at the Cup together. After an argument over who deserved to win more, they decided to take the Cup together, since it would still be a Hogwarts victory. Touching the Cup at the same moment, they activated it as a Portkey, and were transported out of the maze and into the graveyard. Following closely behind them was Viktor of whom touched the Porkey minutes later also entering into graveyard where he would be released from the Imperius Curse once touching it.

The Graveyard
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Harry Potter in the Malfoy graveyard

I didn't know what had happened. One minute I was arguing Edward about who was the deserving winner, and then the next minute I was in some dark and depressing graveyard surrounded by sinister looking men.
Harry Potter

The two had been transported to the graveyard in Little Hangleton, the Malfoy's family's final resting place, where Lord Voldemort was waiting. The two boys who had been on such a high from their success were now suddently in a graveyard surrounded by a series of robed men with clearly hostile intentions towards them. As the two wandered about the graveyard they were met with a loud shriek as Viktor would come through as well after following the residue left by the Porkey. As the three talked and learned that Viktor had been bewitched they became unsure if this was part of the tournament and this ws proven to them when Harry discovered the grave of a Malfoy. Tom Malfoy would appear alongside nearly a dozen of his deatheaters including Peter Petingrew, and would begin to berate Harry Potter for his stupidity. Edward of whome was the older of the two attempted to understand what was heppening but Tom Malfoy had no intention of entertaining Edward Cullen so he simply ignored him, and when he moved closer Viktor stood between them and Voldermorte struck him down with the killing curse. As Harry and Edward raised their wands Lord Voldermore would strike their wands away with Magi and then on his order, his servant Gragorix stunned Edward Cullen, and grabbed Harry.

Lord Voldermorte
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember the truth.
Ghost to Harry

When Harry saw Tom Malfoy at first he was shocked because he knew of this man, and he knew of the influence that Tom held. After watching them knock Edward Cullen uncontious he became horrified that someone of his power would be after Harry, and this led him to beg to understand what was happening. At this point Tom believed he had won and thus he took time to explain to Harry what his plans were, and told him of why he was being ambushed. Following this angry exchange Lord Voldermorte attacked Harry emotionally and the two had a heated argument before finally Tom raised his wand. Harry and Voldemort engaged in a brief duel, but their wand cores connected and created the effect known as Priori Incantatem, and the "echoes" of Voldemort's past victims emerged from Voldemort's wand. They helped Harry to escape from Voldemort by distracting the Dark Lord, giving him enough time to reach Edward Cullen's knocked out body and the diseased Viktor, then Summon the Portkey to him and return them to Hogwarts.

Betrayed
Edward Cullen Graveyard

Edward Cullen understood true power after his brush in the graveyard.

Viktor was dead. The world changed in that moment as I saw the scope of what evil could do. It mattered little what kind of person Viktor had been, he was struck down all the same.
Edward Cullen

Returning to Hogwarts with Edward Cullen, and the corpse of Viktor, Harry was promptly whisked away from the crowds by Crouch Jr, still in the disguise of Professor Moody. While the assembled crowd learned what happened in the graveyard from the waking form of Edward Cullen, Hermione realised that something was amiss with Moody, since she believed that Moody would never have taken Harry away from the tragic scene. In his office, Crouch Jr started to question Harry on what had happened, and how it felt to stand in the Dark Lord's presence. Unnerved by Moody's seeming adoration of Voldemort - something that went against everything he knew about Moody - Harry was rescued by Hermione who in her panic at seeing Harry in any kind of danger had convinsed Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape to follow her, and from the outside of the door they listened to the argument so that they knew for a fact that their was bad things going on. The effects of Crouch Jr's Polyjuice Potion wore off, since, in the excitement, he had neglected to take it at the proper time to maintain his cover. Crouch Jr was questioned under the effects of Veritaserum, and he revealed Lord Voldemort's plan to resurrect himself, and Crouch Jr's involvement in getting Harry to the graveyard.

Aftermath

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"Viktor was murdered by Lord Voldemort... The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this.. It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Viktor died as the result of an accident, or some sort of blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory."
—Dumbledore speaking to all of the students of Hogwarts, and the students who went there for the Tri-Wizard Tournament
Hiding

Following his near death the entire order of Hogwarts decided that no longer could Harry Potter be exposed as publically as he was until the time came that Lord Voldermorte was truly defeated. In this way he along with his parents went into hiding in a farm that was known to only James, and Lilly Potter along with their most trusted friends which unfortunatly also included unknown to Harry the traitor Peter Pettigrew.

The Silent Search for Hope
Look at me Hermione. No matter what happens here I know that you did beyond everything you could to do the best you could for your parents. The decisions and the evil of others is not on us. We can only choose our own path. Monsters move at their own will, and we can only do what we are capable of doing to stop them.

The Search for Hermione's Parents

Hermione Granger Searching for Parents
I don't care about the fame Hermione. I just want to help you find your mother and father. This can all wait a few weeks.
Harry Potter

It was during the lead up the the civil War in Hogwarts that the life of Hermione would become entrapped in the violence of the coming conflict as seeing how close Hermione was to the chosen one in Harry Potter Tom Malfoy would target her by ordering her death. The Death Eaters under Lord Voldermorte would stage the Night of Violence of which was a targeted assassination of leaders of the loyal elements of Hogwarts and spread throughout the entire kingdom as it killed hundreds, and it was under the cloud of this that they targeted Hermione and her parents. Believing through poor information that Hermione had left to see her parents following Harrys victory in the Goblet of Fire they were unaware that she was staying with Harry Potter and not her parents in Lorraine. When the death eaters arrived at her home they tortured her parents trying to find out information on her location but they resisted and were killed and thus unable to find her the Death Eaters left. When the night of violence finally ended Harry and Hermione attempted to find Ron but couldn't as he was hidden away with his family by members of the Hogwarts army as were most of the nobles, and thus unable to find Ron they went alone in an attempt to find Hermione's parents who they didn't know were already dead.

Everyone looks at you and they see a hero. They look at you and they think that there goes the greatest Magi in the world. Would you like to know what I see Harry Potter. I see a coward. I see a person who is going to wish they had picked different sides once all this is over. Your going to see the cost of everything you've done. You'll see.
Draco Malfoy

As they left the city of Hogwarts they would be met on the road by Draco Malfoy, and Astoria Malfoy of whom would laugh about the deaths during the Night of Violence and Draco would taunt Harry on being the only member of House Potter not in complete isolation out of fear. The four would come to blows with Draco and Astoria on the losing end of things, and Harry and Hermione would go to leave when Draco stopped them once more threatening to kill Harrys family for what had happened today. While Harry and Hermione returned to their horses in their journey to find her parents Draco and Astoria would return by Magi to the fortress of his family in the form of the Malfoy Estate just outside of Westbridge where they would demand to be involved on the destruction of House Malfoy but in a critical error they did not reveal the departure of Harry and Hermione.

The Farm
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As the two traveled to the small farm of her parents they traveled through the country side as to avoid being discovered and this was the first time of what would become almost every night where they would fall asleep together in an attempt to stay warm. It took them two days to reach her farm but when they did they could see the fire coming from the farm hours away. Hermione broke into a run when they saw the fire, and it was all Harry could do to keep up with her. When they arrived at the farm they saw that the house was burned down, but when there didn't appear to be any sign of bodies there was a brief hope that they survived the fire. This hope faded when they saw the bodies of her parents and their servants hanging from a tree in the back of their farm. After discovering the hanging bodies of her parents Hermione was overcome with grief and Harry and Hermione basically just lay against a tree for hours as she cried herself into Harry's shoulder. When she finally calmed down her emotional state caused her to kiss Harry and although they both quickly pulled back that was the moment between the two that their mindset changed. Hermione was emotionally exhausted and so she passed out, and while she was passed out, Harry got her parents, and servants bodies down from the tree and used his Magi to dig their graves and clean them up.

The Goodbye
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Whatever I feel for you doesn't matter because I know that my best friend loves you too and I love him too much to make him feel the pain that I feel without you.
Harry Potter

When Hermione woke she discovered Harry standing by the edge of the graves and she silently thanked him by kissing him. The two stood silently in front of the graves of her parents before they once again began kissing. This time it became more heated and it only stopped when Harry pulled back and stopped them. Hermione and Harry discussed that they had to find her brother before whoever had murdered her parents found him, and thus she stayed in place while Harry gathered a shirt that was her brothers from the farm and despite attempts to use Magi to find the shirts owner in her brother they were unable to. Following this failure Harry showed Hermione another piece of clothing he had found, and she used her Magi to discover its owner was a Death eater named Gragorix Lux of whom they immediately realized was the man responsible. With this knowledge the two packed themselves and headed towards the location of Gragorix Lux who was - according to their Magi tracking - in the town of Haris west of her parents farm, and guessing he was there searching for her brother there the two would immediately leave for Haris. It wasn't even a days walk so they arrived at Haris later that day they followed Hermione's Magi trail discover that Gragorix and his companions were in a tavern. While Hermione wanted to plan things out and ambush the deatheater it was Harry that saw Gragorix laughing through the window and barged into the tavern and begin threatening Gragorix.

Duel with Gragorix Lux

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He deserved to die. That was the first person I ever needed to kill, and looking back on that I shouldn't have forced Harry to do what he did. I should have taken a moment and really thought all this through. What did I gain by chasing this guy across the Kingdom? Would his death bring anything back for me? Would it do anything other then just relieve me of a moments pain? Since the anwser was no to everything I just look back and see all the killing I've done and can't help but wonder if I would have still done it all if I hadn't sold my soul that day.
Hermione Granger

Gragorix Lux wasn't a weak Magi and he believed that if he was able to kill Harry Potter or at the least capture him he would gain unimaginable power with Lord Voldermorte. One of the deatheaters with him attempted to stop him because he knew that only Lord Voldermorte would accept being the one to kill Harry, but as he stepped in front of Gragorix he was felt a knife stab him as Gragorix killed him. Gragorix having killed one of his own companions unleashed a barrage of spells at Harry which he deflected killing one of Gragorix's companions and knocking the other remaining companions unconscious but despite this deflection the Magi was so powerful that he would smash through the wall of the tavern. With Harry momentarily out of commission Hermione overcome with rage at the man who was involved in the killing of her parents attacked Gragorix. Hermione was no match for Gragorix and was struck with a table launched at her by Gragorix. Just as Gragorix was about to kill her Harry came to and returned inside where he surprised Gragorix by launching the killing curse at him, which instantly killed Gragorix. In this moment Harry had no time to actually think about the fact that he had used a killing curse instead of the hundreds of other spells he could have used as Hermione could be hurt. As Harry approached her she should have felt fear towards Harry since he just unleashed the killing curse but instead she was nearly overcome with lust and love for him, and only through her strongest will power did she not kiss him when he leaned down to pick her up.

When I picked her up I can remember how scared I was to see her face. I was so worried she would look at me different after seeing me killing him. But when I finally looked down she had this look of pure love on her eyes. No one ever made me feel as loved as she did in that moment surrounded by all that bad.
Harry Potter

Harry quickly picked up Hermione and while Harry yelled for everyone remaining in the tavern to leave immediately and with the last one having left he woke up the unconscious companion of Gragorix of whom revealed himself to be Gragorix Lux II. the son of Gragorix and interrogating the young man they would discover that Hermione's brother had succesfully fled Haris and fled to Hogwarts giving Hermione much relief that her brother lived. While Harry used Magi to tie up Gragorix the two heard yelling from outside and looking through the window Hermione saw several Deatheaters and nearly a half a dozen Deatheater men at arms and realizing there was no escape out of the tavern Harry prepared to fight and die there, but Hermione was unwilling to give up. Hermione would search through the belongings of Gragorix and his companions and discovered a small metal cube and realized that it was a Portkey. One of the Deatheaters charged into the tavern and Harry knocked him back with a spell, and at this Hermione cried out to him to touch the Portkey and trusting her Harry would touch the Portkey teleportation the two to the location of Gragorix's Portkey which turned out to be his personal estate. Finding themselves in Gragorix's house they were shocked by a large family laughing around a table and Harry pulled out a sword and demanded to know who they were and they revealed themselves as Gragorix's family including his three children. Gragorix's wife realized from the blood that they had stolen his Portkey and demanded to know what had happened to Gragorix and when Harry told him they had killed him for murdering Hermione's parents Gragorix wife would attack Harry forcing Harry to kill her when she refused to stop. Following her death the two would storm from the house stealing two horses from the stable and begin their ride from Gragorix's home back to Hogwarts. As the two rode back to Hogwarts Hermione understood far more then Harry did that things between the two had changed, and that when they got back her relationship with Ron would be tested like she never though it would be.

The End of House Potter
A week ago our families were just our families. Something annoying that we had to see all together on holidays. I took for granted all the love and protection they offered, and now look at them. Piled up in a room dead. I lost everyone tonight. I lost my family tonight.

The End of House Potter

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The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies....
Prophecy of Rozetheus

It was Lilly Potter that would come to have a frienship with Tom Malfoy of whom after hearing the vision from Rozetheus made all efforts to infiltrate House Potter, and it was during this time that he became infatuated with her, but her feelings for him was one of friendship. As Tom Malfoy moved himself into a position of being a friend to the family he portrayed himself as an honorable man named Reginald Potter a bastard child of Kingsley Potter, and thus having hidden who he truly wasd it was during this time that Tom Malfoy first came to meet Harry Potter. Tom Malfoy would return to the forbidden once again after becoming infatuated with Lilly Potter and during seeking out Rozetheus the two would talk and during this conversation he would be told by Rozetheus that the son of Lilly Potter would eventually kill him, and this vision would set Tom Malfoy down the road of violence against House Potter. While this was happening Harry Potter is standing at the gates of Hogwarts where alongside Ron and Hermione they are saying goodbye to Edward Cullen, and Hilary Swift of whom are leaving Hogwarts to return home to Lucerne. Harry and Edward discuss what happened at the graveyard at the end of the Goblet of Fire and Edward wishes him luck in dealing with Tom malfoy of whom they both know from the fight is on a different level then anything else they have ever seen. Watching as Edward and Hilary fly away on a broom stick and as he stands there alone while Ron and Hermione hold eachother he thinks that fresh from his victory in the Goblet of Fire and following this victory and the events of the Euro Cup he has become infatuated with Hermione Granger a point that becomes clear when he sees Ron his best friend kissing Hermione. Saying goodbye to his friends they part for the night and in his jealousy he travels into the Forbidden Forest where he hopes to meet with one of the Centaurs of the Forest who he plans to ask whether or not he and Hermione will be together so that he knows whether to move forward with or without Hermione. Meeting with the centaur leader in the form of Rozetheus the two talk for some time until eventually Rozetheus reveals that he met with a magi from Hogwarts some time ago and told him that the child of Lilly Potter would end his life, but trying to find out who the Magi was would fail and Rozetheus would demand Harry leave which he tried to resist but was taken by force out of the forest by several centaurs. Harry goes to the only person that he believes can help him find out the truth in the form of Albus Dumbledore of whom has helped him immensely throughout everything that has been going on, and arriving there the two talk for some time until eventually Albus who looks extremely pained talks to Harry about going home to see his family but Harry believes he is the target after hearing what Rozetheus has said and thus refuses to leave, and Albus agrees to help him find out the whereabouts of Tom Malfoy so that he may kill him. Leaving Hogwarts with Albus and several professors and a handful of men at arms they travel to the ruins of the Malfoy estates west of Hogwarts where Albus believes they will find evidence about where else the Malfoy's may have gone too. Arriving at the Malfoy estates they find the place abandoned as they expected but there are bodies on crosses all over the estate and they all display the sigils of prominent houses and seeing more of the violence of the Deatheaters Harry once more vows to kill Tom Malfoy. As they search the grounds Harry using Magi discovers a letter which details that the malfoys have a safe house in Hogsmeade and that it has been used quite recently and thus the group decides to travel there immediately.

The Hunt for Tom Malfoy

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Evan. Where is your son and daughter? What happened here?
Severus Snape

Harry Potter travels with Ronald Weezly northward to the town of Hogsmeade where they have joined with several Hogwarts instructors and nearly two hundred men at arms and a dozen knights in searching the town for what is believed to be the head of a Deatheater cell. Interrogating several suspected deatheater supporters they discover the identity of the man to be Evan Rosier and learning this Severus Snape is shown to be visably horrified as Evan Rosier was a good person throughout their time together at Hogwarts and never showed any signs of being of any sort of dark thinking. Travelling to the Rosier Estate in the town they storm into the estate and find Evan Rosier sitting at the table where the decayed bodies of his wife and two of his four are still sitting at the table, and he talks with them without even seeming to realize that they are dead. Talking to Evan they discover that Evan was placed under the Imperius Curse and now is a loyal servent of Tom Malfoy unable to truly betray him and also under the belief that his dead wife and children are still alive, leading to the group discussing what they should do with him. While they are discussing what to do with Evan in the main room its Severus Snape executes him through the use of the Killing Curse in the bedroom where they had moved him and despite anger from the group he reveals that he removed the Imperius Curse and got what information he could from him but mercy killed him as per his wishes. Severus details that from Evan he learned that Tom Malfoy is going under the name of Reginald Potter but after hearing this Harry argues this saying the man was a distant cousin of the family and he had met the man himself and he did not look like Tom Malfoy. Severus reveals that Tom Malfoy is extremely powerful and that most likely is that Tom was using Magi to conceal his appearance in an attempt to get close to House Potter and realizing the threat that his mother is under the group leaves Hogsmeade with all haste and travels with great speed to holyhead where his mother and the now revealed Tom Malfoy are.

My mother is dead. My baby sisters are dead. My father is gone. My brother is gone. You tell me Harry Potter. What would you do if this happened to you. If you lost everything and everyone that mattered to you. Would you not support the one thing that might give you a slight chance of getting it back.
Melissa Rosier

As they leave the estate gates the group is moving so quickly that Harry and Ronald get stuck behind and with only three men at arms with them they travel down the wrong road due to the Magi trickery of Melissa Rosier where they are met by a girl and man and a dozen men at arms and the girl reveals herself to be Melissa Rosier, while the boy is Napolean Rosier. After the conversation fails the groups get into a fight and Ronald is struck down by a glancing magi bolt while the three men at arms are all killed leaving Harry to fight alone against Melissa and Napolean and seven of their men at arms. Despite Harry attempting to stop the fight Melissa refuses and after deflecting everything he fires a very powerful Confringo or blasting spell at the enemy group killing all the men at arms and Napolean Rosier as well as nearly killing Melissa. Harry goes to the broken body of Melissa walking through the death he has created and finding her on the ground with her arm blown off and bleeding out the two talk and Melissa tells him how for the first time she regrets what she has done and believing her Harry uses his Magi to save her life, before going back to Ronald and helping him up. Turning back they find Melissa is gone, and after alerting a group of Hogsmeade defenders to what has happened they get back on their horses and continue towards Holyhead.

Come with me Lilly. You know that you love me the way I love you...
Tom Malfoy

Arriving in Holyhead the group confronts Tom Malfoy of whom is talking with Harry's mother Lilly and revealing his identity as Lord Voldermorte he grabs Lilly and attempts to portal out but is stopped by Severus of whom pulls Lilly away form Tom Malfoy but before they can get Tom he is pushed through the portal by Tebrus Goyle who is revealed to be deatheater. Following this event the knowledge of the leadership of the Deatheaters had been revealed and thus the full might of Hogwarts went into finding Tom Malfoy but for his part he had now switched to targeting House Potter for destruction and this became the target of all of Tom's energies. As the prophesies led Tom Malfoy to begin plotting the destruction of House Potter it was Severus Snape of whom had secretly been a member of the Deatheaters to turn against them and he would travel to Hogwarts and reveal to the Order of the Pheonix that House Potter was the target of all the energies of the Deatheaters. Now a loyal member of the Order of the Pheonix he begin to tirelessly search for Tom Malfoy and it was in this search that brought him to Westbridge where he dueled Tom Malfoy but was defeated in a duel shortly before the massacre of House Potter.

Siege of Castle Goyle

Your Grand father came looking for me too Potter. Look what happened to him.
Tom Malfoy

Following the discovery about the leadership of the deatheaters it was Kingsley Potter that led a force of Potter men to Castle Goyle where he attempts to confront Lord Londro Goyle on his son Tebrus Goyle's invovlement with the Deatheasters but in an event known as the Siege of Castle Goyle the forces of House Potter are defeated and the entire force is put to the sword leaving the Lord of House Potter dead and his son James Potter to become the new Lord of the house.

The End of House Potter

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This is where the Potter's end. This is where we start a new dynasty in these lands.
Tom Malfoy

The disappearance of Harry Potter was something that was well known among the top echelon of the Hogwarts Loyalists but as the conflict in Hogwarts continued to rage the forces of Tom Malfoy were unaware of the disappearance as the loyalists attempted to hide his mission from all outsiders. Because they didn't know he had left Hogwarts with Hermione Granger the plan to kill him along with the rest of his house remained in place, and two days after Harry and Hermione left Tom and his forces massed for the attack on the Potter estate. The House Potter estate was the walled and garrisoned hideout of nearly the entire House Potter, and for this reason it had major defenders with it, but the disaster would come when one of their members in Peter Pettigrew who controlled nearly half the garrison as a vassal of House Potter betrayed his best friends and turned to the side of Tom Malfoy. Alongside just controlling half the garrison he was also one of the Magi responsible for the maintenance of the Magi shield that was surrounding the estate, and thus this betrayal meant that he lowered sections of the shield allowing the forces of Tom Malfoy to sneak inside the estate. The walled estate would have provided ample defences against the Malfoy/Deatheater forces but with the garrison compromised the Pettigrew forces turned on their fellow defenders killing and gaining control of the entire walls section without alerting the inner estate that things had collapsed. The members of House Potter not knowing that there defenses were gone went about there time in the house and several of the younger members had already gone to bed when the Malfoy/Deatheater forces surrounded the several houses that composed the Potter estate, and of these it was the majority of the men that remained within the main house while the only man that didn't remain in the main house was Neville Potter of whom had taken with shock that Tom Malfoy burst through the front door while they were eating and proceeded to kill the family. A few including Lilly Potter suvived the inital attack, and it was for these members that the worst would be done.

Name Cause of Death Killer
Kingsley Potter Killed defending the main house Tom Malfoy
Lilly Potter Tortured to Death Tom Malfoy
James Potter Killed while attempting to protect Lilly Potter Tom Malfoy
Neville Potter Killed at the Barracks Peter Pettigrew
Lilly Potter II. Raped and left for dead Gregory Malfoy
Septima Longbottom Raped and left for dead Amycus Carrow
Dilys Potter Raped and left for dead Thomas Avery
Walburga Potter Interupted rape of Dilys Potter and Killed Thomas Avery

The child Lilly Potter II. would be asleep when the Deatheaters broke into the estate and sleeping in the Blue House with her nursemaid it was Gregory Malfoy who entered the Blue Room and seeing the older nursemaid it was Gregory that smashed the older women with a mace killing her before raping the six year old Lilly Potter II. and due to her age she would die as a result of this attack but was still alive when Severus Potter arrived back at the estate and him finding her dying was one of the first things he found. As the Deatheaters went house to house it was Thomas Avery, Amycus Carrow, Draco Malfoy, and Tobias Grundeven that entered the red house that contained the family of Sirius Potter of whom was not present at the estate haivng gone hunting that night, and entering the home the family was defenseless and in this defenselessness Amycus, and Thomas would rape Septima, Dilys Potter leaving Sybill Potter to be handled by Draco and Tobias of whom would take the young girl into a separate room in the house and here they would discover that they were not able to do it, and Draco fled the room leaving Tobias to kill Sybill but he was also unable to do it and instead used Magi to knock her out and he would drag her to the Potter pond where he put her into a boat and escaped the massacre with her. On the night of the Potter Estate massacre it was Walburga Potter who had left the red house to get something to drink from the well when she heard screaming and returned to the red house to find Septima and Dilys being raped and she would stab one of the attackers in the neck killing him but she was then in turn killed by Thomas Avery and her body left in the room for Severus to eventually find. Neville Potter would be staying in the Potter Baracks during the assault on the Potter estates and while he was in the barracks he was killed alongside the dozen other sleeping men at arms in the barracks by the forces of House Pettingrew who came into the barracks and attacked them without warning. Tom had the few men that survived executed on the spot but the women were brutalized in the worst ways until only Lilly survived. In her dying breath she mocked Tom's failings.

House Potter Destroyed
You have failed in your mission Thomas...my son...lives on.
Lilly Potter

It was in that moment that Tom understood that in his haste he hadn't noticed that Harry Potter wasn't one of the dead. With reinforcements from Hogwarts incoming Tom and his forces raced out of the house and left behind the ruins of House Potter. Inside the Potter estate lay the bodies of basically the entire family outside of the few that were not there at the time, but most importantly in the end was the fact that Harry Potter was not there as if he was there would have been no stopping the future end game of the insane Tom Malfoy.

Discovery
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Harry you have to promise me that you won't do anything stupid once I tell you this because after everything thats happened you know I'll follow you, and after everything thats happened I have to believe were just not a match for him. What he did...Its something...I just can't fathom how someone could have so much hate in them.
Ronald

The Order of the Pheonix would send a small force to the estate led by Remis Lupin after no response from the estate, and this force would arrive to discover the horror that was the scene at the Potter estate. Remis would send word back to Hogwarts what had happened and in response to this Severus would arrive at the Potter estates a day following the massacre and discovered alongside the other members of the Order of the Phoenix the ruins of House Potter and Severus would be emotionally destroyed by the deaths of his beloved Lilly and their child Desimus but swore an oath while holding her body to defend her son Harry Potter like he was his own son.As Hermione and Harry arrived in Hogwarts on the griphon they were met by Ron who they expected to be upset about being left behind but instead he simply silent gave Harry a hug before whispering in his ear that something terrible had happened. When Harry promised that he wouldn't do anything stupid Ron told him that basically everyone in his family was dead, and that their massacre was the work of Tom Malfoy. As Harry begin to lose control, and begin openly saying that he would go after Tom he was reminded by Ron that he had promised and that between the three of them a promise meant everything. As Hermione attempted to hug him he became disgusted with himself for what he felt he had done to Ron, and he recoiled before running into the woods nearby where he was followed not by one of the Triumvirate but instead he was followed silently into the woods by Ginny Weezly.

A Mistake in the Night
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As he finally slumped against a tree he silently hoped that Hermione would follow him, and that he could just hold her. Despire everything that had happened he wanted her. He wanted her with everything and when he felt a hand touch his shoulder, and then soft lips touch his lips he allowed his mind to ignore the red hair of Ginny Weezly and just believe in that moment that it was Hermione. The two became intimate, and with no restraints or thought of the future he allowed Ginny to believe as he continuesly said that he loved her to believe that he meant her and not Hermione. This would lead to many mistakes, and future problems but most of all it would lead to the fact that Ginny would always remember that moment and would from that point on believe that Harry loved her. As they finished and Harry realized the depths of the mistake that he had just made, he attempted to think of some way to fix things but their was nothing that he could think of the repair this. His family was gone. He had betrayed his two best friends by becoming intimate with Ginny, and falling in love with Hermione, and no matter what he tried he didn't think he could fix that. In that moment he looked at Ginny and where he was feeling dread, and dispair she had the look of pure happiness across her face, and he allowed himself for a moment to forget, and together they leaned against a tree and he wrapped her together with him in his cloak before they fell asleep together.

Massacre of House Longbottom

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Two houses were destroyed that night. Everyone remembers the Potters, and they should. What happened to them was horrible. Their misery should not lesson the misery of the fact that my family bled that night as well.
Lily Flume

The forces of the Deatheaters knew that all attention was on the Potters and thus a smaller group led by Londro Goyle prepared to assault the forces of House Longbottom while all attention was on House Potter. Joined by several Deatheaters including Melissa Rosier the forces of Londro Goyle moved against House Longbottom in Fadustan and were mainly comprised of those forces that the Deatheaters believed had too much emotional attachment to House Potter to do what must be done and no where could this be more true then with Melissa Rosier who was silently falling in love with the idea of Harry Potter. With most of their defences away with Neville Longbottom the Longbottom castle was lightly defended and thus the Deatheater force was able to during the night break inside the gate killing as many defenders as they could while they butchered their way to the keep, and upon reaching there a fight broke out as the defenders attempted to keep them away from the children and women inside. Melissa was able to apriate through a wall and broke inside killing several guards and breaking their defenses and leaving the inner keep open and with this all the men inside the keep were put to the sword while the women and children were taken as prisoners and the Deatheater forces retreated from the castle as by this point the garrison of Fadustan was beginning to rise to the ambush. During the massacre of the men it was Melissa that used Magi to portal away Augusta Longbottom II. the daughter of Neville Longbottom and the young girl was unable to identify who saved her and thus Melissa's work went unheralded.

The Battle of Hogwarts
I know that you are preparing to fight. Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood. Give me Harry Potter, and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. You have until midnight.

Battle of Hogwarts

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Look around you men and women of Hogwarts. Our enemies want to destroy everything that you are. They have killed your families. Murdered women and children, and showed themselves as monsters. Today we resist not because this is our duty. Today we resist because we are men and women of honor and morality and this is what we do.
Albus Dumbledore

Following the Night of Violence and the massacre of House Potter the forces of the Death Eaters had failed in their further attempts to anihilate the remainder of House Potter including extreme failures in the killings of Luna, and Sirius Potter of whom were basically undefended at a northern estate but had been rescued by Ron Weezly in the night. Following these failures and the return of Harry, and Ron to Hogwarts the Deatheaters were leaked that Harry had returned and brought their full forces to bear against Hogwarts in the form of hundreds of Deatheaters, and nearly four thousand men at arms against the defenders of Hogwarts who had not called on the vassals of Hogwarts and thus were low on foot soldiers but high on Magi fighters. Thus arriving and putting the city under siege they would realize that they could not hold their position for long and the only real form of diplomacy was Lord Voldermorte coming to the Hogwarts bridge and threatening the city if they did not release Harry Potter but he was rebuffed and thus true to his threats the Deatheaters would prepare their assault for the next day at mid-day. Very little diplomacy went between the two sides as following the Night of Violence it was very clear that the only purpose of the men of the Death Eaters was the destruction of the current members of Hogwarts that had not sided with them, and thus this left little room for haggling.

The Attack
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Your mother looked into my eyes Harry when she died. I saw the fear as I tortured her. I saw the fear as her eyes saw everyone she loved dying around her. It might have been the screaming of your cousin Walburga that was forcing the tears from your mother though. What we did to her even I shuddered for a moment at.
Tom Malfoy

With the morning coming and going and the defenders unwilling to hand over Harry Potter and the other surviving members of House Potter Tom Malfoy would reluctantly be forced to launch the assault despite knowing that his forces were not capable of taking the city. With the forces of the Death Eaters being pushed back all across the lines but the losses mounting on both sides it was Harry Potter that would leave the battlements along with Ron where he moved to duel Lord Voldermorte in what he thought would end the siege. As the two approached Tom Malfoy who was in the middle of killing

Retreat of the Death Eaters
I will return Harry Potter. This is not the end this is just the first dance in a long twisted game you and I shall play.
Tom Malfoy

Following the defeat of Lord Voldermorte by Harry Potter and his near death, along with the arrival in the west by a relief force from outside forces the forces of the Death Eaters would nearly to a man rout into a full scale retreat.


Hogwarts War with The Empire

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Hogwarts War with The Empire
They came here to destroy us. There was no need for diplomacy because both sides knew that the goal was annihilation, and no amount of words was going to change the Teutons minds. That was the saddest part for me. The knowledge that death was the only way this thing ended. Either they died...or we did.
Hogwarts Fortress
Burn the city to the ground and we will rebuild over the ruins of the old order. Let not a stone remain. Let not a single member of that bloody order survive. Burn it to the ground. Slay the men...the women...the children...leave nothing alive. Burn. Destroy. Kill.
Lord Voldermorte

Following the Chaos that was the Hogwarts Civil War there was a brief period where there was peace in the region of Hogwarts. During this time under the leadership of the increasingly influential Harry Potter the city rebuilt itself, and the damage that the Malfoy's had done to the Republic was slowly repaired. But this peace lasted for less then a few months, and it became a moot point when Hogwarts begin receiving letters from the Empire asking for their surrender. This came as a shock as the two parties had usually shared a common interest, and that interest had been for mutual trade and never towards annexation but clearly something had changed. For Hogwarts they met this calls with returns saying that they were basically confused as to what had happened, and thus they wished to remain friends and trading partners but the response to this implied very clearly that the Empire wasn't going to let their aggression just go down and thus those inside Hogwarts reformed their defenses and prepared for the coming offensive.

My emperor I write to you to let you know that we have made arrangements with the exiled House Malfoy in order to take control of the city of Hogwarts. Violence committed by the murderous Franks of Hogwarts and their neighbors has determined that we have no time to wait for advice from your brilliant leadership, and must apologize for the haste of this letter. Long live the Emperor. Long live Austria.
Priam Troy to Karl Franz

On the Empire side of things they had been contacted by the forces of the Deatheaters and in this communication they had made deals with House Malfoy in order to destroy Hogwarts in order to facilitate better control of Hogwarts more northern region as well as promises of giving up the other independents around Hogwarts. It had begun with several trips by the servants of Lord Voldermorte to Nuln itself the capital of Austria and while at first Priam Troy deemed it unimportant to him he was alerted to the interest in Hogwarts by some of his more disloyal members of Austria and this brought him to the negotiating table. In the end he cared nothing for Hogwarts and thus made a deal relatively quickly, but in a fake gesture of kindness he placed most of his political enemies in charge of the actual military campaign and offered them nearly all the rewards that went along with it. The forces of Austria would cross the Urhine River near Pfeildorf, and as the armies assembled the divided leadership sent by Priam Troy found themselves supported in the region by basically no one as the entire region was very frightened of the Imperial movement against Hogwarts and several of these surrounding nations openly stated they were supportive to Hogwarts.

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Edgar Hufflepuff was crying alone in the corner begging Arch Mage Albus Dumbledore to unconditionally surrender the city. He spoke as if that would save us. He had allowed fear to overcome his judgement and when he did that he lost the reason that everyone else in the room knew. Surrendering wouldn't save us. They were going to kill us all and no white flag would change that.
Harry Potter
Scouts that had been placed throughout the countryside begin reporting back to Hogwarts that a truly massive army was incoming towards the fortress in numbers in the hundreds of thousands. The Hogwarts ally in the Realm of Zelhinir would also send scouts into the fight led by two huntresses in the form of Syndel Winterdew, and Aethalas Coldwind of whom would be responsible for silently cutting down the scouting groups of the Empire army in order to blind them as much as possible to what they were walking into. The Empire commanders had ignored the defenses around the fortress of Tarherd and the fortress of Tinevarn was also ignored leaving the entirety of the Emperian army to make a near direct line towards the capital in Hogwarts. Believing that the army would first attempt to establish control of the region the defenses were prepared for the eventuality that they had more time to prepare but to their surprise the army made its way directly towards the fortress with only small splinters moving towards the mini castles scattered throughout the kingdom. Other then these forces the Empire also sent a large force under the command of Wilhem Delgougen of whom led a force of Austrians towards the Realm of Dale where they would attempt to take control of the northern farming lands, and the extremely valuable central mining grounds. When they were only a day away from the fortress they sent one last letter to Hogwarts basically stating that if they didn't surrender they would all die within the fortress, and to this letter Hogwarts simply burned it and did not respond. There was some debate within the fortress led by Edgar Hufflepuff of whom wished to surrender and take their chances, but eventually it was completely agreed upon that the Emperian army would not honor the surrender either way, and thus they were fighting to the death no matter what way they did things. The next day the army of the Empire arrived on the outskirts of Hogwarts and begin encircling the fortress. While the Empire was doing this Harry Potter led a large contingent of Dumbledore's army through the tunnels beneath the fortress, and they made their way behind the lines of the attackers.
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Serius Black, and Severus Snape led the main tier of defenses at the massive bridge, while in the open fields of the western block the defenses were led by Albus Dumbledore, and Minerva Griffindor. A small relief force was sent northward from the large Hogwarts town of Holyhead, but the vast majority of Holyhead's forces were arrayed in Holyhead itself as it was threatened by a small army coming against it. The plan for Hogwarts was basically to use massive summoned creatures to block the attackers while the overwhelming Magi of the people was used against the basically exposed troops of the Empire. Damara Dodderidge the headmaster of House Griffindor would assemble a troop of forces as the attack was preparing to be launched against Hogwarts and moved this force into the neighboring nation of Dale of which was one of the most stalwart of Hogwart's allies and was going to come under some assault. The Empire's commanders present wanted to shell the fortress for two days before attacking and through this to wear down the defenders, but the overall commander in didn't think this necessary and simply ordered that the troops to move forward and mass the Hogwarts defenders.

Fall of Hogsmeade

Anders Hufflepuff
Hogsmeade stood on the doorstep into Hogwarts and while we all knew it couldn't be held that didn't stop us from trying to hold the town. We fought them for every inch they took but as you know Arch Mage there was never any holding Hogsmeade. The only god news that I can tell you is that we killed far more of there men then they killed of ours.
Albus Dumbledore

The town of Hogsmeade was located just north of Hogwarts and located beneath it in terms of latitude it's taking was required before someone could take Hogwarts but problamatic in its defence was its nearly devoid level of fortifications. Placed in charge of the defence of Hogsmeade was Anders Hufflepuff of whom was joined by several other very influential members of Hogwarts in the hopeless defense of Hogsmeade meant more to damage the Emperian forces then actually hold the town. As the Empire forces arrived near Hogsmeade the town had been completely drained of population and the only remains in the town were some five hundred infantry from Hogwarts and nearly a hundred Magi. The Empire sent in some two thousand troops into Hogsmeade and these troops were able to quickly push the small Hogwarts forces out of the town, but they did take significant casualties after they were caught in several fire traps and acrurate archer fire from the buildings. Either way the forces of Hogwarts lost some sixty troops in the failed defence, but the Emperian forces lost nearly three hundred and eighty troops which was a drop in the bucket for what they had in total.

The Attack Begins

We need to keep moving everyone. I know your all afraid of what is happening in Hogwarts, but what were doing here will define that battle. Hogwarts will survive. They will hold the line. They will do everything they can, and I believe in my heart that they will hold. The only thing in question is whether or not we will do our part of this war. Will we fail. I refuse to fail. Lets move.
Harry Potter

The Emperian army would halt itself in the ruins of Hogsmeade and unlike most of the north they did not devastate the town as they would use it as a staging point for their forward command while the main command remained north of Hogsmeade and ordered the battle from afar. In the west a small Emperian army assisted by a force moving in from Lorraine and western Austria would halt itself north of Holyhead and block it from being able to send assistance to Hogwarts as the main army moved against it. In the south it was the forces of Dale that were beating back the forces of Austria around Holyhead, and thus in the south the static nature meant that no reinforcements were going to be coming from either sides to the Hogwarts Battle.

The Western Field
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They came to the west with the utter belief that it was already won. They moved forward in straight lines and were devestated in a way they should have never been. Had they have been even the slightest bit prepared to move slowly, or actually plan towards victory they might have achieved it.
Albus Dumbledore

The attack on the western field was always going to be the most numerous, and this had more to do with the fact that the commanders of the Empire believed so strongly in their superiority in numbers that the western field offered the largest of the attack avenues so thus the most troops were sent in. Alongside this large scale opening in the western front there was also the fact that the walls of the western section of Hogwarts were only a single tier while all the other sectors of Hogwarts were two tiers of walls, and in the case of the northern route there was three tiers of walls. Nearly fifty thousand troops were on this western side, and they prepared to attack in three waves with the first wave consisting of some 15,000 troops and this first wave was shockingly made up of most of the elite sections of the western army. In the defenses by this point Dumbledore, and the nearly two hundred Magi with him had summoned to them thousands of elemental creatures of which were hidden carefully in small crevasses throughout the fields thus concealing them from view and in this way they would create a massive shock value when they first appeared. Alongside the hundreds of Magi, and the thousands of Elemental also stood nearly four thousand regular troops of the Hogwarts Castle of which would defend the walls with arrows, and cauldrons but no one believed they could hold for long against such numbers. In command of the western attack would be Vaelin Troy a cousin of Priam Troy, and despite being known as a casual drunk and foolish in mind he was placed in charge of a large force of men at arms.

Lake Hogwarts
It was a horrible mistake of them to even think about attacking over the lake. They didn't have the forces even partly capable to destroy our defences. They didn't have the leadership. They didn't have anything close to a hope. It was a massacre as soon as they came.
Albus Dumbledore

Lake Hogwarts expanded a large proportion of the eastern approach but there was a small series of locks, and islands that allowed the attackers to attempt an attack that of all the attacks would prove to be the most dangerous, and in the end the most devastating in terms of overall percentage lost. The Empire over the night had constructed hundreds of small boats which they would use to transport the force of some 14,000 in the first wave to the series of small island castles that dotted the lakes locks, while another force of 18,000 would make the attack on foot directly against the locks through the canals that were open to the ground. As an added attack angle a group of some 2,500 unarmored troops were prepared to swim to the first series of locks with the goal of being light skirmishers that would hopefully augment the attack, and would be armed by small equipment boats that would be sent along with the attack. The Empire forces would come at the river during the night, and they hoped that the night would provide additional cover but the Magi defenders would use illumination spells to light the sky once they knew the attack was underway and thus despite it being the pitch dark of night they could see all around them.

Northern Bridge
Let the foolish Ont die on the bridge with everything he ever thought he was capable of falling with him.
Vaelin Troy

The Northern Bridge was a massive sixty foot wide bridge connecting the northern pass to the castle itself, and stretched for some six hundred feet with no cover. For this northern attack the forces of The Empire believed they had little chance of success and so Vaelin Troy placed in charge of the attack the noblemen Herdeck Ont of House Ont of whom were resisters to the direction of House Troy and had been a main source of Priam's ire.

The Suprise Attack

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With the forces of The Empire being destroyed in the eastern locks, and massacred in the northern approach the overall commanders saw only one true opportunity and that was to throw all of their reserves into the battle on the western front which while being devestating for them casualties wise was the only one that they were even advancing into. But while they continued down this path of thought they could not see that the force led by Harry Potter and his friends was now only minutes away from their command base in the northern approach. The command base had been constructed beneath a hilltop which turned it into a valley, which they believed was a nice spot to conceal themselves but they didn't anticipate it would allow an enemy force to advance almost secretly to its outskirts. With the reserves spread throughout the region the commanders were defended by a small force of only some two thousand troops and by this point some of those had been sent to the northern approach to attempt to keep the defenders there locked down meaning there was only some 1,000 troops left in the command base to defend. Harry, Hermion, and Ron gathered themselves and their force and begin encircling the command base with their full force of some three hundred Magi, and they begin silently over the next few hours they each summoned elementals to them which brought their force to some two thousand meaning they were about to attack the command base with complete suprise and have the numbers advantage. Waiting till night Hermion, Harry, and Ron settled into the hilltop and laid together in what was perhaps one of the last moments that the Triumverate would ever have with complete trust and love for eachother. Together they talked about everything they had been through, and they promised themselves that when they were done they would try to just be students again.

The Massacre and Retreat
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"You felt terrible as it was happening because how many of these men and women actually deserved to die. They were following orders though, and they had to die the same we would have if they had succeded."
-Ron Weezly

As night fell the Triumverate were awoken by Neville Longbottem of whome told them it was time. With this decleration the group made the sign that the time was now to attack and with this the entire force advanced over the hills and into the valley beneath. The Triumverate moved silently as did the rest of the force, and all around there was the bright hue of different colored elementals as the elementals followed their summoners into a massacre that would send reverberations throughout Europe, and lead to a further series of massacres that would prove to be a marking point in history. The group was able to reach the camp without any problem and they all silently took down any sentries that were present, and then once they were litterly touching the hundreds of tents they unleashed the elementals into the camp while the Magi waited on the outskirts and killed anyone able to escape the inforno of the elementals. Over the next few minutes the force of some 1,000 troops along with the nearly another 1,500 commanders, administrators, servents, and aristocrats were massacred leaving no survivors. With the command base annihilated they burned the remains to the ground to make sure everyone was dead before they then sent Magi messages to the defenders in Hogwarts that the command structure was gone.

The Retreat
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Battle of Holyhead

In the south while the main force of Imperials was attacking Hogwarts the southern commander in Wilhem Delgougen was forced to consolidate his forces to move them all around Holyhead in order to keep the fighting in the south going as the forces of Dale had arrived in heavy numbers and had been joined by the Kingdom of Taledavia and together they had defeated the forces of the Empire in the south pushing them all towards Holyhead. Still besieging the city of Holyhead, Wilhem Delgougen did not understand he was now horribly outnumbered due to the work of Shindrell Icewing who had entered the conflict and had went about killing all the scouts of Wilhems army. The two kings of Dale arrived at Holyhead and on the understanding it was for diplomacy they would engage Wilhem in conversation and without scouts Wilhem while he was negotiating was surrounded to the north by the forces of Prince Talbot Grendren of Taledavia, and once this was finished King Bard Girion II. of Dale would let Wilhem know this and accepted the surrender of Wilhem of whom had know hope of victory following this.

Destruction of Greenshop

"Sometimes revenge is all you have left. So many lay dead all across the land, and someone needed to pay for those deaths. Someone was going to pay, and the consequences are unimagineable."
-Severus Snape

Following the destruction of The Empire Army, Dumbledore's army council quickly convened and decided that the Empire needed to understand that this sort of behavior would not be accepted. In order to do this they decided to destroy the city of Greenshop where the remenents of the army had retreated to, and reinforcements were now funelling into. A force of Magi led by Severus Snape would arrive at the outskirts of Greenshop as the massive army of The Empire was reasembling for another attack of which Hogwarts would not survive. Grouping together nearly a hundred Hogwarts Magi grouped their power together to asssist in the actual conjuring of the spell that would have dire cicumstances. The actualy spell would be cast bySeverus Snape, and its effects would basically rip the entire city of Greenship into the sky and then it slowly turned into dust. Those who watched the destruction said that such destruction wasn't even believed to be possible, but what this had showed was how truly horrifying Magi could be when turned to the pursuit of destruction.

Hogwarts war with the Empire

Complete and Unconditional Surrender

When news filtered in to the Empire's military command that Hogwarts had completely destroyed the city of Greenshop, there was extreme fear amongst all present. The loss of the nearly 110,000 person city was too much for Karl Franz, and led him to send a letter of unconditional surrender to Hogwarts.

This surrender was unprecedented in Empire History, and would be a source of great shame for many of the military elites in The Empire.

The Breaking of the Triumverate

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Civil War in Alcase

Main Article : Civil War in Alcase

Hermione Arrives in Alcase
I speak...its just I never thought I'd actually find one of them. I just assumed he would have been two steps ahead of me...but you...your proof that I can save him.

Hermione Arrives in Alcase

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I was alone for the first time in my life, and the loneliness was a pain worse then anything I'd felt since the death of my parents. It wasn't the lack of human companionship it was the fact that I couldn't reach out and touch Harry if I wanted to. Everything that was good was just so far away, and it seemed clear to me as I searched the ruins that nothing was going to be easy on this path.
Hermione Granger

Hermione would enter Alcase as the forces of the Kingdom Of Alcase were battling internal chaos forces led by one of the ruling house, but for her part she didn't see how truly dangerous the land was all she saw was the fact that she was separated from everything that she loved including Harry most of all. Upon their arrival at Strasburg they meet with Fleur Delacour of whom takes them to the Academy where they meet with the leadership of the Children of Harnene of whom Hermione tells them what she is after, and they initially state that they don`t know where the item she is looking for is, but she sees that Olympe Maxime is lying and begins getting upset which almost starts a fight but is stopped when the Children Council leaves the room to discuss. Returning from their discussion they reveal to Hermione that they will help her find the necklace if she allows two of their number to go with her in order to make sure that nothing hostile happens to the one who has the necklace, and she agrees despite not wanting so many people with her. Departing Strasburg with Fleur Delacour, and Josette Didier now five strong they head westward where she is still not told who has the necklace but is told that she will be introduced to the one who does and that person will decide whether or not Hermione can have the ring. While on the road they begin to come across bodies and the signs of battle and at this Fleur Delacour reveals that the holder of the necklace was Leliana Thoe Orsinio of whom had left for the west with most of the Strasburg army in order to battle John Orsinio. Realizing she had to act quickly before Leliana Orsinio possibly was killed and lost the ring to the forces of evil that she might not be able to get the ring back from. Hermione, and the group would travel by horse for days, running their horses ragged until they discovered a large battlefield, and the camped army of Alcase. As the group waded through the thousands of bodies she wondered sadly whether she was too late, but when the group was taken in by several Alcase guards her hope rose.

Finding the Ring
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Seeing her alive told me for the first time that I might actually be able to do this without Harry having to die. If I could just find all the dead grails I could save him. If only...
Hermione Granger

She was immediately taken to a low level commander, and when she was cleared that she wasn't a member of the defeated forces of John Orsinio she asked to be taken to Leliana Orsinio, and the guards told her where she was, and she bolted towards the area leaving behind the yelling members of her group who could not keep up with her. Finding Leliana's tent she barged in without any sort of notice, and the guards posted at the tent didn't react quick enough and she was inside the tent with Lelliana. Once inside the tent she used Magi to close to entrances, and block herself in with Leliana. Leliana immediately went for her sword, and as she grabbed for it Hermione saw the ring on her finger, and dropped to her knees in happiness. Leliana at this point was beyond confused but she called out for aid, and she could hear the sounds of swords hitting against the tent but as soon as they hit the cloth the sword was pushed away, and no damage was caused. As the commotion outside got more out of hand and more and more guards tried to get in Johanas reached the area after hearing the alert, and attempted to charge his way through the tent to no avail.

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Leliana Orsinio : What sort of Magi is this?...Do you not speak women?

Hermione Granger : I speak...its just I never thought I'd actually find one of them. I just assumed he would have been two steps ahead of me...but you...your proof that I can save him.

Leliana Orsinio : Save who?

"Hermione Granger : Harry.

The two would proceed to talk and Hermione showed her the book prophesying the danger of the ring in her company of which Hermione told her was the Black Ring of Mael, and was a piece of the evil Dead Grails and as they talked and after realizing that Hermione meant her no harm she lowered her sword and Hermione released the spell blocking the tent. As the spell went down Johanson barged through the cloth and crashed into the tent before getting up and picking Hermione up by the neck and nearly killing her before Leliana was able to get him to release her. The three would talk, and eventually Hermione would eventually get the ring, and told them thank you for their help, and she was sorry for everything that she had caused to them. As she got on her horse to leave and everyone said goodbye the sound of trumpets went off, and as she peered towards the sound she saw a massive dark cloud on the horizon. As this was happening the Lothlorian Elf Zerevor Sunsorrow also arrived at the site but having seen that Hermione had reached the forces of the Kingdom of Alcase first he made the decision to lend assistance to John Orsinio in return for promises that he could have the ring once John had victory.

Second Battle of Avricourt
Demons three times the size of a man. Humans with three arms. This was what chaos gave you.

Second Battle of Avricourt

Main Article : Battle of Avricourt

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I looked at the cloud and tried to feel for some kind of Magi in the area, and what I felt was horrifying. Like a void had appeared in the world the chaos worshippers were a presence in the Fade that I hope I never feel again.
Hermione Granger

Following the destruction of the army of Chaos in the first battle of Avricourt the forces of John Orsinio had retreated, and everyone believed they would flee completely out of Alcase, but instead he regrouped the remaining chaos forces west of Avricourt. The army of Alcase was going to chase them down, but the distraction of Hermione Granger, and the fact that a larger force being led by the King in Fabin Von Orsinio meant that the Alcase forces were in the same position camped. John Orsinio had managed to gather a larger force then in the first battle, but did it at the cost of completely surrendering his original plan of long term raiding, and occupation of the lands of Alcase as he had brought every single soldier he had available to the battle. As Fabin Orsinio reached the area John Orsinio launched his assault on the camp of Leliana, and Johanson hoping to defeat that camped army before turning against the remaining force in Fabin's army. The force of John Orsinio would bring thousands of demons along with it further augmenting its numbers, and as it appeared over the hills near Avricourt the army of Johanas, and Leliana would marshal themselves to fight against the army of Chaos. Hermione seeing a chance to flee eastward would be given the blessing of Leliana to leave them and do what she had to do, and she was nearly going to leave before she realized Harry would not have wanted her to do that, and even if he did she could not accept becoming the person who just left. Discussing it with the others in her group they all agreed that they had to stay with Fleur Delacour being especially strong towards staying and with that agreed on she turned around and followed Leliana into the right flank.

Chaos has come to our doorsteps men. It is time we showed traitors what happens when they take the easy path. Anyone can choose to betray everything they stand for, and gain some marginal reward, and remember my friends that is the easy way. The hard way is the path we all have chosen. The hard way is standing beside your brothers and sisters and defending the land you grew up. Defending all the values that make our existence worth fighting for.
Johanson Hawkes

Remaining at the camp the camped army would prepare themselves for the charge, and Johanas would command the center of the force, while the left flank was commanded by Isabelle Hurnia, while the right flank was commanded by Leliana and she was joined there by Hermione. Seeing this from their vantage point the royal army of Fabin would make their way towards the valley beneath them but were several hours away, and thus wouldn't be able to affect the initial assault. As the Chaos forces smashed into the army the intial charge broke pieces of the army as the demons horrified them, and the mass charge nearly caused a retreat of the army. As the army wavered Hermione would summon a gigantic yellow bird that flew over the ranks of the army and gave them heart, and this somewhat steadied them.

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Demons three times the size of a man. Humans with three arms. This was what chaos gave you.
Johanas Hawkes

As the fighting intensified John Orisinio watched from the ranks as Johanas Hawkes wiped his way through the ranks of the chaos center forces, and then watched the Alcase forces celebrate as Johanas killed a greater demon of Slanaash. Seeing momentum change against him despite his larger force John Orsinio would charge into the left flank where Isabelle Hurnia was fighting a losing fight against a large force, and he would engage her in a duel. Granted gifts by Slanaash John was beyond the fighting ability of Isabelle and he sliced her nearly in half before tossing her head into the Alcase ranks, and causing a near rout of the left flank. As the left flank collapsed John turned his forces from attacking the left flank to moving against the center and Johanas. On the right flank Hermione and Leliana killed their enemy one after another but there was always another, and so Hermione watched as Leliana broke from the front line and cut her way through the chaos ranks making her way towards a Chaos Magi. Fighting the Chaos Magi Hermione led a charge as well breaking the chaos forces attempting to surround Leliana and her force that had broke through, and the right flank begin to be pushed back towards the dueling Leliana and Magi. The Magi and Leliana would duel for many minutes, but the Magi found his spells constantly blocked by Hermione and her group, and as it continued Leliana finally killed the Magi and broke the right flank of Chaos. With the death of the Magi the demons begin to lose form, and after a few minutes the demons of the Chaos Army had shifted out of the real world and back into the fade where they had been summoned from.

Our left flank had broken, while their left flank had done the same. As Lelian pushed to the center and John did the same the final battle would be found in the center.
Hermione Granger

With both left flanks of the two armies being overwhelmed the two victorious flanks moved to the center and engaged the already desperate fighting in the center. As the Magi force of Hermione Granger moved to support Leliana it was Zerevor Sunsorrow who finally made his move engaging them in battle and attempting to kill Hermione for control of her ring. The group fought Zerevor but his power was incredible and centuries of life had left him with a control and knowledge base that was difficult for the six to defend against and with Zerevor overpowering them Hermione was able to defend herself but a deflected blasting shot struck Josette Didier killing her instantly and only narrowly missed Gilbert Genin who lost an arm and was horribly burned by the shot. Enraged at Gilbert being hit it was Alexandra Genin who lost herself to magi and attacked Zerevor with renewed effort and when everything she threw at him didn't work Zerevor was finally defeated when Alexandra charged at him physically knocking his staff out of his hand. As they tried to kill him a panicked Zerevor used non-verbal Magi to teleport from the field leaving behind his staff, but surviving the battle. With Zerevor gone the group left an emotionally destroyed Alexandra behind to care for her dying husband while they made their way to assist the center. John Orsinio seeing Johanas kill one of his few remaining friends, and perhaps the sole remaining person he trusted would charge at Johanas, and as he was overcome by anger and rage his god himself in Slanaash would change him from his human form into a Greater Demon of Slanaash and it was in this form that John Orsinio and Johanas Hawkes would battle. An extremely formidable fighter John was only able to hold off the charge of the now demonic John Orsinio and felt himself pushed back inch by inch. As he was knocked to the ground John would be smashed back from a bolt by Hermione Granger, and Bethany Hawkes of whom were able to keep John down while Johanas, and Leliana charged at him and struck him many times killing the demon and releasing John Orsinio. With John Orsinio dead, and the demons deforming the chaos forces were broken, and despite attempts by the other commanders of the army to hold them they would retreat away from the slaughter that was now ensueing on the chaos forces. By this point the cavalry of Fabin including the king himself had arrived and would charge into the retreating chaos forces wiping out the remaining parts of the army.

Lucerne Finds Orleans

Main Article : Lucernian Invasion of Orleans

The Fall of Orleans
It is time to close the book on my father. His time has come to an end.
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King William third of his name has given us so much, and I just want...I just need to do something for him.
Sophia Lovie

Following the departure of James Lovie II. from the Kingdom of Lucerne after the events of The Journey - had revealed him as the monster responsible for all the violence that had been happening in Lucerne - the former king had fled westward and made his capital within the ruined city of Orleans. It was while here he would gather many to him and rebuilding the city it became the hub of the region as well as most critically the center of the slave trade in the region. While James Lovie had escaped, and due to a lot of work by the Circle of Magi the evidence of the Circle operating in Orleans were removed leaving very little clues behind them being in France. discovered during the Fall of Berne and it was these clues that led Ezio Ederiz to send three of his Assasin Lords in the form of Sophia Lovie, Harlaquin, and Helaquin into France on a mission to discover the location of Bill Lovie. The three would discover a land of desperate humans and doing there best for those they found proved nearly impossible but finding these people kept leading them towards to spots in the form of Paris, and Orleans with Harlaquin, and Helaquin travelling with their forces to Paris while Sophia took her forces to Orleans and it would be while travelling on the road that she would find the proof that she needed. While travelling on the road her forces would follow a group of horsemen marked with the heraldry of the Circle of Magi and killing these men would lead to the discovery of a letter revealing that Bill Lovie was in Orleans. Realizing what she had discovered Sophia would return to Lucerne by griffon alongside two of her cloaks in the form of Evie Frye, and Jacob Frye but would leave behind her third cloak in Tobias Henkel as well as all of his whelps and gave Tobias the command to infiltrate Orleans and gain a holding for her as she would be returning.

House Lovie
The Rise of Lucerne
I saw the destruction of the world, and knew I had to stop it. There was nothing left to do but become bigger then everyone else. The Empire was never going to be the beacon the world needed it to be. Westros was on fire. The Bretonians had reached for the stars and been burned. And the old shadow of Numeron was fading far too quickly. It was left to us in Lucerne to change the fate of all those who wished to reject darkness. We were the last hope for a world who had long since given up on believing.

I was still reading the notes when a knock to the door moved my vision upwards for the first time in hours. "Come in" From the openeing door came Doma Rossan and Tobias Henkel of whom the former entered holding a letter. "What can I do for the two of you?"

"My Lord we have intercepted a letter meant for Paris that may reveal the location of the former King." Tobias remained kneeled until I bid him to rise, while Doma was known for her lack of understanding of such graces, and remained in a sort of half bow and the other half some sort of lazy lean.

"Show it to me please." Doma stepped forward and handed me the letter of which wasn't sealed. "I assume you opened the seal, and their are little questions of its authenticity?" Tobias stepped forward bowing before me and then speaking.

"Yes we killed the three men carrying the letter and they all carried the badge of the false king."

"Good." I opened the letter from the rope that kept it together and begin reading.

May the true King of Lucerne rule forever,
We are preparing the latest shipment from Orleans, and it should arrive to you no later then two months. We have been having problems on the road so make sure to tell your Orcish overlords that they need to protect the roads better or else they risk us not being able to send out product to them.
There will be a squire from the lands of the Franks coming to join you. Teach him what you can until the slaves arrive, and from there send him south to Orleans with ten of your best men. He must reach Orleans this is of great importance as he is of great importance. Do not ask who he is, and do not harm a hair on his person or else the true king shall send you to hell in the most painful trip of your life.
In other news we need you to keep your ears out for the location of a certain Teutonic man named Aerin Toldenhammer of whom is meant to give you a series of books that are of great importance to us. He may not come here and if he suggests this then make sure to tell him that if he comes here then we shall burn him alive and take the books. Make sure he understands that this is us forgiving him, and he should be thankful for that.

-Kieth Schwartz

I knew who Kieth Schwartz was and that made it all the more terrifying to hear that he still lived. It showed their stupidity that they simply stated they were in Orleans, and so stupid was this that I wondered immediatly whether this was a trap. "What information do we have on the Orleans area of France?"

"Ezio from our talking to several Elves of Quel'Thalas the area of Orleans was especially hit by the Orcs, and there is nothing of any kind of population of humans that remains in the area." Sometimes the way she spoke to me without using proper titles made me think she was the only one with any real bravery around me, but sometimes I wondered whether she was some kind of noble. It would make sence for her to have come from some kind of money, as she spoke far too good of the language to 

"Have the Elves been to Orleans?" I knew the Elves travelled northward many times during the recent years as they attempted to both locate more humans to funnle into the area they were trying to grow into a buffer zone for themselves, and I hoped they might have gone as far north as Orleans during these trips.

"They say that they rescued several slaves of whom were being sent to Paris from the ruins of Orleans, and the hellishness of life in Orleans was very clear from their reports." Tobias stopped when Doma put a hand to his arm and we both waited for her to speak.

"My Lord." She paused for a moment and it gave me time to think about the fact that she had called me by my title. "I believe I am the perfect soldier to be sent to find out whether this is the location of Bill Lovie. Me and Tobias can take our Whelps and fly by Griffin to the area and scout it out without any problems."

"You are correct Doma you would be the perfect person, but I must ask why you want it so badly. In my years wanting something with passion can be either a very good thing, or a very bad thing."

"King William third of his name has given us so much, and I just want...I just need to do something for him. I spoke with him when we were in Westbridge, and the care with which he spoke to me was something I shall never forget. He knew I was a member of the Violet Dragons, and that didn't matter to him. He spoke to me as if I was the highest of ladies when he knew I wasn't, and for that he deserves someone to help him. Help him find the truth that he needs to know." I watched her as I thought. It was clear she was skilled enough for the task, but I worried about what her alterierve motives were, and whether these motives would be a hinderance or a boon to the mission. I watched her face though and saw a change. Something in her eyes when she looked at me changed. It was like watching the purpose behind one's entire life, and I knew which side of the ledger her involvement would sit.

"When do you depart Doma?"

While the Lucernians were planning their move against the city of Orleans they would send the cloak of the dragon Tobias Henkel to Orleans of whom would begin the Lucernian infiltration of the city. While this was happening hundreds of Orleans slaves remained prisoners in the dungeons beneath Orleans and for Tobias Henkel he would decide to make his command center with his forces in the dungeon of Orleans where he would discover the dungeons were filled to the brim as the current status of the city was on the razor's edge of violence and only the extremely violent behavior of the Orleans garrison held the city somewhat under control. While Lucerne was infiltrating Lucerne there was another element of the region that was also making great efforts to get inside Orleans in the form of the Kingdom of Orleans Rebels of whom had managed to get Theophile Boudier inside the dungeons and it was Theophile that would find a girl in the dungeons that would eventually spark a major change.

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I looked through the bars of my home now, and I should have felt better. I should have been saved by him. But instead he was my captor. He was the one that was the cause of all my pain.
Ashley Lerman

Ashley Lerman had remained locked within the dungeons of Orleans for months following her discovery by her brother and it was during this time that her brother taunted her through bringing other slaves from the dungeons and then he would torture and kill them. As this continued she came to speak with a cloaked man called Theophile Boudier of whom spoke to her with a kindness that she hadn't seen since her brother Logan had been with her, and it was after talking with her she was released in secret by Theophile of whom was infiltrating Orleans on behalf of the rebels outside the city. Seeing young Ashley Lerman he overheard her conversations with her sadistic brother Faedra, and quickly released her when he had the chance, and released into the area around Orleans telling her to travel westward where she would be seen on the road by the rebels and protected by them. Ashley would follow his directions travelling down the road going west but would be forced to go offroad when a group of Orc wolf riders almost saw her and having gone off the path and exhausted from her time in the dungeon she wandered the forests west of Orleans until she collapsed of exhaustion. While collapsed she would be discovered by the forces of Luke Ellerdeen and the Kingdom of Orleans Rebels of whom brought her back to their main holding south of Peronville where she was placed in a bed and Luke waited at her side for her to wake.

The Rebels

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It was a desperate life that we were living out here in the forest. If it wasn't the constant threat of the Orcs, it was the slave riders of Orleans that kept us from ever really knowing peace. But that kind of fear also breeds a hate in a person. I didn't dislike the Orcs. I wasn't mad at the slavers in Orleans. I hated them. I wanted them dead, and thats a powerful emotion for anyone to carry with them.
Luke Ellerdeen
When she did wake she discovered Luke asleep on a chair and initially scared she would leave the bed and try to escape but was stopped outside the door by Christophe Duret of whom introduced himself as a knight sworn to Luke Ellerdeen the king of the rebels of Orleans. Speaking with Christophe and the now woken Luke she would find a people demoralized beyond belief by the death and destruction they had seen over the past many years, and she immediately felt a sense of connection to that kind of sadness based on what happened to her family. During her time in the camp she came to better understand what was happening in France, as in Lucerne it was basically believed that everyone in France had either retreated to England or was dead. Luke made her aware of the fact that large numbers of humans still remained in hiding in the forests and other hiding places, but were heavily targeted by Orleans in the south, and Paris in the north of whom were basically slaver towns that the Orcs left alone because they suited their purposes. She would become close with Luke Ellerdeen of whom was somewhat the leader of the camp, and she would convince him that they needed to help the thousands that were in the pens beneath Orleans awaiting being sent to the slave markets in Paris.
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Ashley knew that she could find out invaluable information about the defenses of the city through her brother and also get him out of the city, and despite wanting to never return to Orleans while the Orcs still controlled it she would agree to reenter Orleans alongside several of the rebels in Marian Besson, and Thibauld of Ellerdeen. Travelling back to Orleans with the knights they would reenter the city and through the assistance of rebel supporters in the city they were able to locate where Logan was living and getting inside the home they would find Logan eating dinner with a girl of whom was holding a very young newborn and at the sight of his sister he would start crying and the two siblings would hug for sometime until Marian forced everyone to get back to it as they could not stay long. Through Logan they learned the size of the Orc forces in the city as well as the secret reserve Orc forces who were camped in a small castle northeast of Orleans and learning this they knew that whatever they were going to do had to start with the destruction of the Orc forces, or at the very least the weakening of the Orc forces.
Capture of Peronville
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This is the moment of our vengeance mayor. Pick the right side.
Luke Ellerdeen
Turning of Mathias Peltier
This is what survival looks like lord Peltier. Is surviving what you want for your family? Or do you want to live? Work with me and we can finally give our people the life they deserve.
Luke Ellerdeen

Mathias would finally discover his chance to make things right when he was forced to travel to the nearby town of Peronville where there had been a rebellious movement and after he had successfully argued to not send the orcs he traveled to the town where during his meetings with the rebels he would meet Luke Ellerdeen the leader of the Kingdom of Orleans Rebels, and during this meeting he would convince Luke to publicly submit but privately they would work together to end the Circle of Magi.

Lucerne Finds Orleans

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"I returned to Berne with all haste knowing what I knew. We had went to Orleans in the feint belief that Bill might have been there but never for a moment did we actually think we would have found him."
-Tobias Henkel

Tobias Henkel after setting himself up within the dungeons beneath Orleans he would begin to set his people to scouting out the city, and they would discover during these patrols that the Circle of Magi was held up within the tower while the actual control of the city was left to the Orcs and the human forces of whom were led by Logan Lerman a man who they discovered was a good person. Tobias would alongside several of his men get inside Logan's house where he discovered Logan was hiding a young women and a baby within his house and discovered they were Logan's lover and their child and after making her understand he they were not a threat to her or the child she would reveal more about what he was trying to do, and it was in this situation that Logan would enter his home to find them all talking. Logan would tell Tobias of the situation in the city specifically mentioning Hermione Granger and the things that she was trying to accomplish, and discovering without a doubt that Bill Lovie was in the city Tobias would have Evie leave the city and travel to Berne where she would relay this information to the gathering forces in Lucerne. She would travel by griffon back to Berne alongside her brother Jacob of whom had been hiding out in a nearby cave waiting for the group in case anything went wrong. Arriving at Berne they would use the Magi stone there to detail what he had discovered to Lucerne where it would find Ezio of whom would seek clarification from William on how they would proceed. Returning to Berne he met briefly with Doma Rosson of whom told him that she was returning with him, and that they were to wait for more reinforcements before they struck. As they read the letter written by Ezio with William's orders in it in response to his findings they realized that there main concern was the killing of Bill, and that anything and everything else was secondary to his death. Returning to the Orleans area with Doma Rosson, the two could not know how much things had changed in the time they had been gone. When they returned they found that Ashley and Logan had disregarded their command, and were in fact marshaling forces from the nearby camp and were planning to free the slaves beneath Orleans. Seeing opportunity in the distraction this might cause, Doma, and Tobias decided they would assist the siblings in their plans. 

The Uprising

Ashley would support her brother, and together they would orchestrate a plan to break out the slaves from within and beneath the city. Ashley would be separated from her brother when on the day before the plan he went to help Hermione, and didn't return to her as he said that he would, and she would be forced to move forward with the plan anyway. They would receive more help when Tobias Henkel arrived back in the city with several more members of the Order of the Violet Dragon. Together with Tobias, and Dama Rossan they begin taking out many of the guards that would impede their plans, and worked side by side with Hermione of whom was going to get Mysticism while everyone was reacting to the chaos of the dungeons opened. During this chaos some members of the Circle of Magi forces would begin surrendering and this included Maegaran Targaryan who attempted to convince his cousin Aerlyon Targaryan to also surrender, but despite begging Aerlyon to give up his loyalty to James he was unable to convince him leading to Aerlyon taking part in the attempt to retake the dungeon.

The Breakout

On the day of the escape everything would go according to plan, but as she entered one of the last dungeons she found her brother Faedra standing over a body that he was stabbing repeatedly. She would stop for a moment, and consider everything that Faedra had ever been, and in that moment she finally said goodbye to her brother and stabbed him through the back killing him. As she looked at the body Faedra had been stabbing she broke into hysterics when she discovered it was her brother Logan who lay dead. Tobias would come looking for her when she didn't arrive where she was supposed to and found her crying over the dead body of Logan. He was forced to carry her out of the room locking the door behind them so that she would finally leave the room, and with that she was forced to say goodbye to the brother who had given up basically everything for her. As they worked their way out of the dungeons they were knocked to the ground by a massive crash that shook the foundations all around them. After making sure the former slaves were escaping as was planned, Ashley followed Tobias as he made his way to the sound of the explosion, as she came to understand the Order of the Violet Dragon had other things in mind other then just saving slaves when Tobias told her they were there to kill Bill Lovie or at the very least destabilize his operations here.

Death of a King

Forced to fight there way through the fighting they finally arrived at the explosion where they found Dama Rossan fighting Bill Lovie, and saw the cause of the destruction as a massive hole had been blown in the side of the tower. Joining the fight the combined fighting of everyone against Bill finally broke him, and he collapsed to the ground defeated. In that moment he let everyone in the room know that Doma Rosson was actually Sophia Lovie the daughter of Tavlian Lovie and that he was sorry for everything he had ever done. As the life ebbed from his eyes Sophia moved towards him and held his hand as the dying former King of Lucerne finally died.

Second Arnor War

Main Article : Second Arnor War

Second Arnor War
This right here is a line. If you cross that line my friend we are going to have issues. Stay away from Arnor. Leave it to its own devises and our two nations can have peace...If you threaten them, then I'm going to threaten you....It is that simple.
The Fall of Arnor
You told me about lines. I didnt want to cross the line. But here were are.

Austrian Invasion of Arnor

Battle of Krost

Main Article : Battle of Krost

I could look out in the morning over the wall, and for a moment I couldn't see them. For a few moments they were hidden behind mist, and the trees. In those moments I liked to imagine the situation was different. I liked to think that my brother was still alive, and the world was at peace.
Liam Hemsworth

As the Empire invaded southward into Arnor the fortress of Krost was one of the areas they planned specifically against, and they would bring heavy artillery against the fort, alongside some ten thousand men at arms and two thousand knights would be sent under the command of Deiter Stroh of whom was a seasoned commander of whom was well aware of the skill of Liam and wasn't going to walk into a defeat as many previously had. Liam organized his defenses knowing they had to damage the artillery as best they could in the beginning or else their defenses would be greatly weakened, and for this he would array dozens of skirmishers in the trees before the army of the Empire was marching, and in the gaps large pits were constructed that would collapse when the siege machines passed over them. Deiter Stroh weakened much of this plan when he marched irregular troops first, and was well prepared for ambush from the trees and because of this the Arnorian skirmishers were heavily damaged and did little damage to the Empire army. The pits though were a different matter and they would destory upwards of half the siege machines in the Empire army while heavily delaying them as well as they filled them in so that they could keep moving.

They were just a swarming thing moving against us. Whatever there commander thought he must have known the one strategy they had we had no chance against. There numnbers. They just had too many troops...
Liam Hemsworth
Fall of Fornost

Main Article : Battle of Fornost

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The Arnor Invasion was going completely the way of the Austrians. All across the front the border defences that had been formed to defend against small incursions were wiped out without any real casualties to the Austrians. These losses though could not be so easily replaced by the Arnorians of whom were retreating back across the front. Only at the the defense of Talheim, and Kost had the defenders on the side of Arnor been able to resist the Empire in any real form.

Magheim had been sacked. Krost was completed surrounded alongside Talheim. Fornost stood alone, and if it fell this all came crashing down. There was no future for Arnor once Fornost went down.
Natalie Portmane

Marcel Lovie II. would lead the army of the Kingdom of Lucerne into the Second Arnor War as the vangaurd of the larger force that was being gathered by William Lovie III. Travelling through the lands of the Kingdom of Stor they used the tunnels of the Dwarves of Dun Garek in order to reach the besieged land, and they were joined by several hundred Dwarves of whom remained behind in Frostmore instead of heading to Fornost. Marcel Lovie II. would arrive to find the city completely surrounded by the forces of Austria and in this way he moved into the surrounding forest and awaited darkness.

There were so many soldiers surrounding the city, and for a moment I felt like William Lovie II. who had saved the city on the back of a dragon.
Marcel Lovie II.

Using the night as an ally he was able to get very close to the Empire army before they knew what was happening, and ambushing them while most of the army was either asleep or facing the wrong direction a brutal melee ensued. Marcel and Fredrick Clegane would cut their way through the army of the Empire with their personal elite gaurd and find the command structure of the army and Marcel defeated Driam taking him prisoner. With the defeat of Driam Troy the rest of the forces begin surrending, and Marcel would quickly send the prisoners southward towards Frostmore while he took Driam Troy into Fornost where his additional forces allowed Fornost to hold against the siegers all around them. 

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I had hoped that Driam Troy's capture would bring them to the table, but despite him being a hostage they refused to even respond to diplmocay. It became clear easily enough that the Empire was not interested in Arnor surviving in any form.
Marcel Lovie II.

With the capture of Driam Troy Marcel and the other commanders attempted to use diplomacy to push The Empire back, but discovered none of their attempts were met by even communication. Realizing there would be no end to this fight and it would be fought to the last drop of blood Sif Hemsworth, and Marcel would come to the conclusion that they needed to hold at Frostmore where the defences were greater. Due to this plan Marcel would be influencial in keeping the royal family of House Hemsworth alive after he made them aware of the fact that the Empire forces had made threats of what would happen if they captured the members of House Hemsworth. The siege of Fornost would become even more dire and potentially disasterous when the illusive Priam Troy would arrive with a larger army and a clear thought of defeating Fornost through whatever means neccessary. With the knowldge that the city was going to fall he would lead his forces and some of the defending Arnor forces out of the doomed city and prepare to move to Frostmore where they would make their last stand. Marcel would do his best to console his cousin Natalie but was unable to convinse her to hide, and because of this he was forced to sadly say goodbye to his cousin who was so brave, and took Britney, and Lucie Lovie with him out of the city and southward towards Frostmore. Inside Fornost the defenders led by Sif Hemsworth remained resolute in dying in defence of the city, and they held the walls to the last man as the siegers led by Priam Troy broke through the walls in several areas. Charging through the gaps in the walls the defenders would initially attempt to hold the gaps, but overwhelming numbers forced them to retreat back to the keeps that lay within the city, and defend themselves from there. Falling one by one the keeps and strongpoints were no match for the unending armies of Austria, and thus the final stand was made at the Royal Fornost Palace.

She was ready to die. Her life was a hollow shell now she told me, and I never knew what had saddened her to the point that she was ready to die. I took her son with me because she was a brave soul, and that kind of spirit needs to be protected as best you can.
Marcel Lovie II.

Priam Troy stood with the army for the first time demanding for Driam Troy's return but Sif Hemsworth laughed at him from the walls lying that Driam was dead, and that only his body would be discovered by the Teutons. Priam instead of ordering the storming of the keep would bring forth catapults and ordered dead cows fired into the palace grounds and did this the entire day causing disease to spread amongs the Atlantians. As the Palace grounds were bombarded with disease the rest of the city was pacified and the many nobles unable to retreat southward were taken into their control, including several members of House Hemsworth. As the defenders of the palace died in their dozens Priam begin firing burning oil into the palace and so few were the gaurds that they were unable to combat the fire and it spread horribly throughout killing the remainder of the defenders. Sif Hemsworth and a handful of defenders opened the Palace gates and attempted to meet their end in honorable combat, but Priam Troy would fire on them with archers, and crossbowmen killing them before this could happen.

Britney Turns Away
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I saw who my mother really was in that moment. She spent her entire life telling me how dearly she loved my father, and yet here was her chance to save my father's cousin and she wouldn't even raise a finger. It would have taken nothing to help him, and yet she did nothing.
Lucie Lovie

As the army of Marcel Lovie retreated southward it was still filled with several thousand troops of the Order of the Black Numenorians led by Britney Hemsworth, and it would be this force that would dramatically change the outcome of the Battle of Frostmore. As they approached Frostmore she would be alerted by one her agents using one of the Magi Stones of Lucerne that the region of Lorderon had gone up in flame after discovering that Arthas Menathil was a chaos servent and was heading north with an army now no longer aligned with Lucerne. Realizing that no reinforcements were incoming she knew the fate of Arnor was sealed, but she also knew she needed time to get away, and thus she ordered her forces to sneak eastward during the night as they camped. Not alerting Marcel to the betrayal of Arthas Marcel was shocked in the morning when a quarter of his army was gone, but had no choice but to continue on to Frostmore. Britney took the entirety of her force as well as draining some of the defenses of Frostmore and traveled eastward before traveling southward into Dun Garek where she and Lucie bid goodbye to Arnor and made their way southward to new horizons.

Arthas Moves North
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Don't do this Arthas. I just need more time.
Lucie Lovie
Last Stand of Marcel Lovie
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word from Dun Garek told me that noone was coming, and in that moment I knew what William would have wanted. He would have wanted me to retreat the army and save as many lives as possible. But as I looked around at the honorable people of Arnor I couldn't abandon them. So we fought, and so we died.
Marcel Lovie II.

As Marcel planned the defences of Frostmore alongside others he was horrified when the banners of the Empire of Valeria begin appearing on the western front, while The Empire's banners also begin appearing on the northern side of the fortress. Marcel upon all of these changes would make top priorty be the surival of as many of the Arnorian people as he could and they flooded southward into Dun Garek in increasing numbers as Frostmore turned into the last bastion of Arnor outside of Talheim. As the southern exit from Frostmore begin to be shut by the Valerians the remaining people inside Frostmore were forced to accept that they may be doomed, and Marcel did his best to quell the fear in the city, but it was as fear hit them that the Valerians struck against the western walls. The Valerians struck with hundreds of cultists, and more terrifying a few thousand demons struck the western walls and broke the moral of the defenders until Fredrick Clegane rallied them when he killed a larger demon. As the defenders rallied Fredick was struck by a black arrow killing him just as Marcel Lovie arrived to congratulate him on his turning of the tide. The defenders wanted to break and pull back but Marcel fought side by side on the western wall and held it for a time. During this desperate last defence while defending against cultists climbing up ladders it was Reingard Highdor that would be stabbed and slashed leaving his one arm gone and bleeding terribly from a wound to his stomach. Realizing that he needed help quickly or he would die it was Marcel that took him inside the tower they were defending and after telling Reingard that he would go and get a healer for him they both heard the fighting outside intensifying and opening the door saw the wall was falling. Realizing the situation Reingard would demand that Marcel leave and save the city over just him, and both crying they said goodbye as Marcel locked the tower door behind him leaving Reingard to bleed out in the tower.

It shocked me to learn that so many troops had already gotten through the Dun Garek passe, and I was elated by the news of Arthas's arrival.
Marcel Lovie II.

Marcel would arrange his forces into Frostmore following this because he was sent ravens by Arthas Menathil that his forces were incoming, and that he should remain there as the entire Lucernian army was only days away. As Frostmore was surrounded Marcel was confused as to where the relief was, but remained rresolute in following what he had been told, and for this reason he didn't retreat from Frostmore. The Valerians finally broke inside the walls, and he was told that The Empire forces had disaspeared from the north heading northward, and thus renewed that perhaps they were retreating in fear of the coming Lucerne army he fought with new passion in the defence of the city. As the city fell he defended the keep to the last, and was defeated in single combat by a Valerian man who had wings sprouting from his body and was just barely alive as he watched the forces of Valeria pull back. Marcel would wake up and find Arthas standing over him, but Arthas had completely given in to Chaos and would kill Marcel before desecrating his body and leaving the city.

Alice Discovers the Truth
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Marcel is dead.
Alice Lovie

While uncousioness the link between her and Marcel leads to her feeling his final moments from his point of view, and after this she wakes telling everyone around her that Marcel is dead.

Finding a Queen
Find my cousin Karl. Her survival keeps alive the dreams of a nation. Arnor must survive.

Finding a Queen

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Since the death of Chris Hemsworth and the Fall of Fornost Natalie Portmane had remained within its walls unwilling to leave, and with the deaths of her husbands parents she stood as the Queen of Arnor.

We are here on business from the King of Lucerne. Our actions are sanctioned by your Emperor. What more information do you need in order to get out of my way.
Hayden Percy

Following his arrival in Westbridge it would be Karl Donovan that would go north alongside Christopher Bell, and Hayden Percy in order to retrieve the bodies of Marcel Lovie and the other fallen members of the Kingdom of Lucerne. While Donovan was in Arnor he was given orders by William Lovie III. to attempt to find Natalie, and Tyse Hemsworth of whom had not been located and were believed to be in hiding in Arnor. In this act he would silently depart from the larger Lucernian army and move alongside Blanche Menathil and members of House Menathil into the city of Fornost which they infiltrated with ease due to the chaos of the situation. Once inside Fornost they discovered that there were mass executions happening and on top of that the Emperian forces were attempting to locate the Numenorians in the city, and especially the royal family. In a desperate search to find Natalie Portmane before the the Empire forces could they got lucky when they were tipped to her location by Atlantians who wanted the Queen to escape.

First Escape

Finding Natalie hiding in a secret dungeon beneath Fornost, they would lead her out of the dungeon and the city with the help of a loyal Atlanitan scout. As they made their way into the forest Natalie was discovered by Empire Knights and in order to try and protect her son she led the knights away from the group and was captured. Karl would stay behind to see what happened and try and rescue Natalie and he would be present when Aldo Troy one of Priam Troy's nephew would put Natalie in chains taking her by horseback moving westward to which Karl and his group would begin following them at as close a distance as possible. 

Discovery

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Look around you Karl. This land is the land of the darkness now. The Empire corupts everything it touches, and whatever this place was is gone now.
Hermione Granger

It was at this point that Hermione Granger would still be with the Valerian army as it ravages and destroys the lands of western Arnor capturing thousands and sending them back to Valeria where Kieth Schwartz tells her the Slanaash followers in the army are preparing a massive escalation of their violent excesses. Hermione Granger witnesses Kevin Zegers mask his appearance to diplomats sent from The Empire making them believe he is honorable and because of this the Empire does not intervene against his chaos forces allowing him the ability to return to Valeria and deal with his sister and her rebels. During this period following the ravaging of western Arnor by the Valerians it is Keven that makes a deal with Austrian diplomats that give much of western Arnor to Austria in return for not revealing the chaos elements within the Valerian army. Moving further westward Hermione is silently warned by Kieth Schwartz that things are going to get very violent once they get back to the core Valerian lands and if she wishes to leave then the time is nearly up for her to get away.

Wake up Hermione. Its time for you to see something.
Hermione Granger

The next day she is woken in the middle of the night by Keith Schwartz of whom commands her to follow him and she does follow him into the forest where they ride for an hour before coming upon a grove where she sees Kevin Zegars and his command structure all standing around seemingly waiting for something. They wait there for another hour watching Kevin Zegars group and while there they eventually discover a group of Empire soldiers enter the grove and they escort a small group of chained and hooded figures of which when Kevin begins laughing maniacly they discover that one of the victoms is Natalie Portmane the Queen of Arnor. Seeing Natalie Portmane and remembering the kindess that she had been shown by William Lovie III. what seemed so long ago she almost goes to try and fight but is stopped by Kieth Schwartz of whom tells her that she won't survive and needs to escape so the Lucernians truly discover where Natalie is. Forced to leave lest they be caught she follows Kieth of whom takes her not back to the Valerian camp but instead to a small hidden camp where he tells her they will be parting for the final time revealing the camp is held by Lucernians following the trail of Natalie Portmane. After seeing this Hermionesays goodbye to Kieth Schwartz of whom she had grown to like as a person who she knew regretted everything in his life, and then makes her way into the camp where she is met by several guards including their leader in Karl Donovan.

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We are men of Lucerne. We mean your people no harm
Hermione Granger

Following the path of Kevin Zegars forces westward as Kevin and his force made there way back to the Valerian lines it was a horrifying test for Karl Donovan and the Lucernians of whom are completely unprepared for the massacres they are forced to witness as they pass through the lands of Arnor. As they move forward it becomes clear that they will have to make a move to get Natalie back before the forces of Kevin reach Galheim as once they pass Galheim the Lucernians will be unable to continue persueing and thus they prepare to move into the Valerian camp during the night.


The Dagger of Lost Souls

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Watching someone from afar that you know has a dagger with the ability to control minds was a disconcerting prospect. But as we continued to watch him it was as if he never felt the need to use the dagger. He had conflicts that he resolved with his words, and he kept the dagger nearly always hidden beneath his bed. It wasn't until he was forced to use the dagger that we even came to believe that he understood what the dagger did.
Selina Surion

Selina Surion would finally catch up with Hermione Tranger when she had awoken in Westbridge after her survival of Arnor, and Selina would wait a few days before she confronted the girl she had been waiting so long to discuss things with. Alongside Hermione Tranger, Selina Surion would travel into the Riverlands where they needed to track down a dagger in order to further their plans to gather the Dead Grails. Finding information that Kren Scarlet had obtained a dagger that matched the description the two would find him in order to obtain the dagger. The two would find him a wealthy and powerful noble, and following him for weeks Selina would come to greatly admire Kren and had a serious affection for the young man. During this time Hermione would come to explain some of her love for Harry and the fact that basically all of this while important to the continent in an unimaginable way was actually for her more about the survival of her beloved Harry Potter. Selina came to tell her of how she was one of the last of what was once a thriving Numenorian community in the lands Austria (she lied as she didn't completely trust anyone to know where her family was located) and in giving away their secrets they grew quite close. Around this time Hermione begin to feel an ominious cloud overtaken the city of Hearthglen, and she and Selina both became aware that something dark had entered the city, and that it was not a coincidence that it had arrived at the same time as they had. Realizing they needed to move quickly Hermione was able to use the Cloak of Neverune to allow her and Selina to enter the keep of Hearthglen where they would come to look for where the dagger was hidden by Kren.

Attacked in the night like the monsters they had become. We would learn for the final time the consequences of what happened when you asked for too much. Ravenholdt had asked for the stars and the gods didn't answer them. When the gods abandoned them the demons came and acted as their saviors. For that they are forever doomed. Sometimes a god answers you immediately and you thank them for what they have done, and the speed at which they have done it. Other times the gods cannot answer you right away, and it is in these moments that the weak choose demons, and the virtuous choose patience. The Ravens should have waited. They should have waited...
Hermione Tranger

As they prepared to take the knife from him at night they watched as several black robed men infiltrated his keep. Watching the men from afar they were shocked into action when the assassins would murder an old man that was wandering the halls of the keep doing his tasks. Coming out of their hiding spot they would gain on the assasins and just reach the room when the two attempted to kill Kren. Defending him against the assassins he awoke and used the dagger to mind control the assassins into stopping attacking him. He used the dagger on Hermione, and Selina as well and from their initial anwsers and the fact that they were defending him he became convinsed of their innocense. Using the dagger further he was able to discover that the assassins had been sent by the Order of the Raven after Ravenholdt signed an alliance with Mordor, and one of their first tasks was to derail the attempts to gather the Deathly Grails. The assasins revealed to them that the Order of the Raven had sent hundreds of its finest throughout the continent in order to try and find the Grails, and that the two in the Riverlands were only a small drop in the bucket to the numbers that were on the move. As they continued to gain more information they were halted by a third assassin who appeared in the window and killed the two assassins with throwing knives before escaping out the window, and after they chased him across the roofs of the keep he too got away after he committed suicide by jumping from the top of a tower into the ground.

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Hermione Tranger would be uncertain if anyone knew of her quest, but when Selina arrived followed shortly after by the Ravenholdt assasins she knew the cat was out of the bag.

I realized in that moment that the secret was out. I had been discovered.
Hermione Tranger

Following the death of the third assasin they would return to the home of Kren Scarlet and find his uncle Darion Scarlet had arrived in the city, and that they needed to leave, but that Kren would meet them east of the city in the small Holdfast of Poppen Hold. Hermione and Selina would leave Hearthglen as he said, and arrived at Poppen Hold where they found it the personal keep of Kren Scarlet, and they were admitted entrance after a raven had arrived from Kren saying they were his friends. When they were preparing for sleep they were stopped by the Captain of the Gaurd of Poppen Hold in the form of Ser Wilfryd Willot of whom took them into the dungeons where they met with the dungeon master of whom showed them a captive who they quickly realized from his atire was a member of the Order of the Raven. They were unable to speak to him as the Captain said that he had been commanded to keep the prisoner away from everyone until he arrived. Hermione, and Selina would wait as patiently as possible for two days, and Hermione was preparing to storm the dungeon to torture the Black Raven when Kren Scarlet arrived at the castle and accompanied them into the dungeon.

This man entered Hearthglen a day before you two saved my life. He brought with him a device that darkens the litteral air around it, and I want to know what his purpose was.
Kren Scarlet

Kren Scarlet would use the dagger to force the Black Raven to reveal information to him, and learned quickly the man was Petar of Weerhousen, and had been a member of the Ravens since before Ezio's civil war nearly destroyed it. Kren was able to learn that the device that Petar had brought with him was a sort of Palantir of which leached the light, and good from the area around it due to the fact that Sauron was able to see through it. Krens was able to destroy the device through the assistence of Petar, and once it was destroyed he learned that it was used to corupt the holder of the device, and it was linked to a necklase he still wore. Destroying the necklase he was revealed to be an honorable man that was being menipulated by the necklase and didn't remember anything since the day he had put the necklase on. Kren would leave Petar in the dungeon while the three went to his personal quarters and discussed the next move. Hermione was reluctant to reveal anything but Kren made her painfully aware that she would need him and the dagger before everything was done, and thus she revealed that she was now going to head for the next Dead Grail of which was Elder Wand and was present in the lands of Albion or England.

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