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-:¦:- The Hogwarts Founders Timeline
 Because Twin Vice deals a lot with the four Hogwarts Founders, Helga Hufflepuff, Salazar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw, I had to jot down a timeline for myself to refer to in order to get plot points straight. I think my love of Medieval History probably comes through here, hehe. ^^;
HARRY POTTER FOUNDERS TIMELINE
- in relation to "Twin Vice Paranormal Detectives",
a post Deathly Hallows, Fred and George fanfiction
THE 4TH CENTURY
Date Unknown: Merlin the wizard born
THE 5TH CENTURY
Early 400s: Three brothers, Antioch, Cadmus and Ignotus Peverell, receive three gifts (Antioch the Elder Wand - a branch from the World Tree, Cadmus the Resurrection Stone - a berry from the World Tree, and Ignotus, who was loathe to pick any gift at all, the Invisibility Cloak - bark from the World Tree), from a passing rider who they later recount in their story as the personification of Death. It was said that Death was bound to give any mortal who recognised him whatever gift they desired. The Peverell brothers’ gifts were later named the Deathly Hallows and were rumoured to give whoever brought them together, mastery over death. The wizard, Merlin, was the first to write the brothers’ story down.
- 489: Arthur is born, a child prophesised to be a great leader of the Britons
- 498: Arthur is apprenticed to the wizard, Merlin – a controversial move amongst Muggles and in the wizarding community, too, as Arthur was born without any magic ability. In actual fact, Arthur was born a Squib, but knowledge of this is hidden by Merlin.
THE 6TH CENTURY
500 – 539: Arthur fulfils his prophecy, becoming a great leader and uniting both Muggles and magic-folk against invading Anglo-Saxon forces, until his death in 539.
Late 500s: Merlin is rumoured to have died, though knowledge as to the whereabouts of his tomb remain a mystery.
THE 9TH CENTURY
Events of this century:
Date unknown: A crooked Goblin, Nogg the Nefarious, claimed to have discovered the World Tree, Yggdrasill, where all magic is rumoured to come from. Deceiving the guardian of the tree, Nogg burrowed to the centre of the earth where the giant serpent, Nidhogg, lives beneath the tree's roots. Nogg stole three scales from the serpent and from it crafted the mirror Ouroboros. Nogg's cleverness, however, was no substitute for wisdom and the mirror became one of the most powerful magical devices on earth.
THE 10TH CENTURY
Events of this century:
- 920: Gudrun, one of the last Snow-Walkers, is born in Germany, near the Black Forest
- 927: The Kingdom of Wessex in South England is transformed into one Kingdom of England after Edward the Elder's successor, Athelstan, conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time.
- 928: Gudrun finds the crooked man, Nogg the Nefarious, caught in a fox's snare (as in a fox's snare to capture unwitting humans). She tells the old Goblin that she will let him go, but at a price: he must give her the mirror he is carrying. The mirror is the mirror Ouroboros and Nogg's most treasured possession.
"Do you have any idea what I went through to obtain this, you little witch?"
The little girl only shrugged carelessly. "What do I care what troubles have fallen on your head if you walked into them knowingly. The saving of your life has a price and all I want in the world is that mirror. I can sit and wait, and watch you die, or you can give me the mirror in exchange for your life, but it is all the same in the end."
The crooked man saw that the little girl was right and he had no choice but to agree to her demand. But he also knew that witches did not live forever and that Goblins never forget.
- 937: The first werewolf (Fenrir) is born after Gudrun sleeps with one of the wolf lords, Skald, as recounted in one of Beedle the Bard's tales:
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Gudrun who lived on the edge of the Black Forest. She was beautiful and strange, and far cleverer than any man who would be her suitor. The people in the surrounding villages often whispered of her, ‘One of the Snow-Walkers,’ they muttered, sometimes fearful, sometimes awed, ‘Definitely not one of us. Why, she could even be a Queen’.
Around her shoulders, Gudrun wore a red cloak (all the better to see her with) and often she would travel deep, deep into the forest, for she was a fearless girl who did not mind the dark places of the world. One night, as she was walking through a grove beneath a bright, full moon, she met a wolf. His name was Skald and his coat was silver and pale as the moon at which he howled. At once, Gudrun fell in love with the strangeness of his voice.
"Pretty wolf," she whispered, "why do you howl at the moon?"
"Because my brother was tricked by the cat to spend all eternity hanging there," the wolf replied, though wary. Never before had such a young girl come so willingly into his forest. "Are you not afraid of me?"
"Pretty wolf," she whispered again, running her fingers through his fur and grasping his ears; her hands were gentle but cold as ice and when she smiled, there was something very dreadful in her eyes, "the only thing I fear is Death."
From their union there came a cursed creature that was neither man nor wolf, but as terrible and cruel as the Snow Queen whom Gudrun grew up to be, and soon there were many of its kind; an army fit for her war against Godric Gryffindor.
And that is how Werewolves came into being.
It is prophesised by an old seer woman that Fenrir will one day bring about the end of the world. In response, Gudrun instructs the Goblin Nogg to bind him in a cell beneath her home.
- 953: Gudrun marries Sinious Slytherin, an Earl in East-Anglia. The Slytherins establish themselves as a powerful, 'Purest', wizarding family throughout the country, known for their ruthlessness and cunning.
- 959: Whole of England under King Edgar's control
- 962: Godric Gryffindor is born in Cornwell, an area in south-England inhabited by the old Celts. It is rumoured that Godric is a distant relation of Arthur, old King of the Britons, who was once apprenticed to the legendary wizard, Merlin.
- 962: Gudrun gives birth to twins, Sol and Salazar
- 965: Helga Hufflepuff is born in Wales
- 967: Rowena Ravenclaw is born in Glencoe in the West of Scotland
- 975: Godric Gryffindor sets out on a quest to discover Merlin's tomb
- 978: Sol announces his marriage to a Muggle girl. The announcement enrages his family. Following orders from his mother, Salazar murders his twin; an act of blood-treachery which will come to haunt him all his years and influence some of his most important decisions.
- 985: Godric discovers Merlin's tomb in Wales. On returning home, Godric insists he has seen a vision in the runes which will unite the witches and wizards of Britain and free them from Muggle oppression.
- 987: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is Founded
Growing distrust on the part of Muggles for wizards and witches compels the four greatest witches and wizards of the age - Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin - to found Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Wizarding World begins to withdraw and hide itself from the Muggle World.
992: Rowena Ravenclaw gives birth to a daughter, Helena
993: Puck Hufflepuff, youngest brother to Helga Hufflepuff, is born
998-9: The invading army of the Unseelie Court, better known as The Host, terrorize the country, kidnapping children and destroying entire settlements under the cover of darkness. After several unsuccessful attempts, the Hogwarts Founders lure The Host into a trap where Rowena Ravenclaw seals them with the One Word. In order to keep the knowledge of the One Word safe, Ravenclaw carves it into a chalice and entrusts it to Helga Hufflepuff. The secrecy surrounding the One Word embitters Salazar Slytherin, who accuses Rowena of having no trust in either himself or in Godric Gryffindor. In a rage, Salazar reveals the truth of The Host's seal to his mother, Gudrun.
THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
Events of this century:
1000 - 1005: Growing friction between Salazar and Godric and Rowena over The Host's seal and the admittance of half-bloods into the school pushes Salazar to create the Chamber of Secrets. During this time, a relationship between Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar begins to grow, but it is cut short after the friction between Godric and Salazar erupts into violence, resulting in Salazar leaving Hogwarts in a fury.
1006: Gudrun begins to build an army intent on running the Founders out of Hogwarts and ridding the country of half-bloods and ‘mudbloods’, handing them over to Muggles or turning them into werewolves. Disgusted by these actions, Salazar returns to the fens to build his home on the very spot where he murdered his twin, in repentance for his sin.
1008: Jealous of her mother’s fame and intellect, Helena steals Rowena’s diadem, which was said to bestow wisdom on whomsoever wore it.
1009: The murder of Puck Hufflepuff at the hands of Gudrun enrages Godric Gryffindor and Hogwarts openly declares war against the Slytherins
1010: The Moon-Day Battle - Slytherin's campaign against Hogwarts grows in success and size, encompassing witches, wizards, the Glencoe giants, hags, vampires and an army of werewolves, previously half-blood or mudblood slaves infected by Fenrir.
May 5th - the army meets with Hogwarts' at the foot of the Buachaille Etive Mor, the Mountain Herder. Expecting an easy victory by attacking at first light, Godric makes a cocky first assault, going against Ravenclaw’s better judgement. Ravenclaw’s uneasiness proves to be well grounded when the opposing army produces a Babylon Candle capable of turning day to night, so that their army of werewolves and vampires are able to transform. Hogwarts scrape a victory when Godric beheads Sinious Slytherin.
Helga Hufflepuff dies two months after the battle as a result of a curse placed on her by Gudrun. The chalice falls into Slytherin’s hands. Helga’s body is buried beneath the threshold of Slytherin’s home.
1011: The Winter Year – The country is assaulted by a storm lasting the entire year. It is rumoured that the storm is not natural, but Gudrun’s doing (earning her the nickname, the Snow Queen). December 1st, The Winter War - Hogwarts is taken by Gudrun's army in a surprise attack. Salazar rejoins Hogwarts, informing Rowena that, should he die, she must remove his heart and put it in the keystone above the Hogwarts threshold. The balance tips in favour of Hogwarts after the centaurs (despising the 'unnaturalness' of werewolves) join the fray and Gudrun’s army is finally overthrown. Gryffindor and a small army chase Gudrun to the Black Forest, but are unable to stop her before she can make a pact with the mirror, Ouroboros, sealing her body and soul inside the glass. Furious, Godric was able to smash the mirror with his sword (the sword having magical properties itself, being Goblin-made), but the attack weakened him and he died from a stab would from Nogg the Nefarious. The mirror fragments were never found.
1013: Rowena Ravenclaw, wishing to reconcile with her daughter, Helena, sends the Bloody Baron to search for her. After many months of searching, he discovers Helena in Albania, but after she refuses to return with him, he murders her in a jealous rage. Overcome with guilt, the Bloody Baron takes his own life. Helena’s ghost returned to Hogwarts, only to discover her mother had died from grief after hearing news of her daughter’s death.
1016: England conquered by the Danish king Cnut. Earldoms based on the former kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia, but initially administered Wessex personally.
1066: The Battle of Hastings; the Norman Conquest of Britain. Rumours regarding sightings of Puck Hufflepuff, Helga Hufflepuff’s deceased brother who was gruesomely murdered by Gudrun, begin to circulate in the wizarding community, while stories in the Muggle word begin to formulate about an elfish character, responsible for leaving frosty crystal patterns on windows on cold mornings. In years to come, Muggle children give Puck a new name; Jack Frost.
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