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House Potter

House Potter is a greatly diminished in number but very powerful Frankish House that lives within the Rebublic of Hogwarts and dominates the Magi community there. House Potter is a supremely powerful Magi family that contains what many believe to be the most powerful Magi user in the entire world in Harry Potter, and on top of this there numbers have often held very powerful Magi.

House Potter's sigil is of the ancient House Black that they believe they originate from, and contains on top of this a lion that has become their standard on the battlefield. House Potter has no words as the Frankish of this reason do not often keep words, and House Potter is no different in this regard.

Much of the Potter family were killed in the Hogwarts Civil war in coordinated assasinations, but a few of their number survived and they continue to hold a heavy amount of influence in Hogwarts. Of the survivors is Harry Potter who is deemed by many to be the most powerful Magi in the world and it is through him that the conflict between House Malfoy and House Potter has now been waged. Following the defeat of The Empire during the conflict it was the goal of House Potter to rebuild there strength and they did this by marrying off both Harry, and Luna Potter the two remaining children of House Potter, and the notorious bachelor Serius Potter was also married off. All of this has led to several new children born to the family, and this has obviously been a boon to the diminished chances of House Potter's survival.

History

Early History

Coming to Hogwarts

See Also : Hogwarts

Hogwarts Civil War

Main Article : Hogwarts Civil War

During the opening events of the Hogwarts Civil War the position of most of the Potter's was planned as a secret as to make sure that the prophesy wouldn't be in danger. This plan went well, and the forces of Voldermorte were unable to reach the Potter's. This changed when two friends of the family decided to join the side of Voldermorte. The first was Garrot Harnsworn whose wife and child were captured by Voldermorte and used as leverage. With control over Garrot the death eaters slowed their attacks for a time and the forces of Hogwarts believed the worst over.

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

Main Article : 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.

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

The Triumverate4

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
Hermione Granger 9
"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
Hogwarts destroys

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.

Noteable Members

  • † Kingsley Potter. Died during the Hogwarts Civil War
    • † Walburga Potter. Died during the Hogwarts Civil War
      • Sirius Potter
      • † James Potter. Died during the Hogwarts Civil War
        • † Lilly Potter. Died during the Hogwarts Civil War
      • † Tannelbrove Potter. Died during the War with The Empire
  • † Hadenbrow Potter. Died during the Civil War in Hogwarts
    • † Menalbrocken Potter. Died during the Civil War in Hogwarts
      • † Hadenbrow Potter II. Died during the War with The Empire
        • † Hurtia Potter. Died during a dueling mistake with student.
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