Hogwarts
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"Beginning, middle, end"
I cannot indicate exactly where it all began. Not where it finished. It would be a waste of time try to review all the steps and events, and see where it would stop. Or where it had been started.
I could tell it started in a Muggle orphanage – and a boy tormented by Muggle kids. And it made the boy stay with a repulsive hatred of Muggles. Then came Lord Voldemort; Tom Riddle was forgotten.
But soon, I'd have to say that it began with a witch in love with a Muggle, named Tom Riddle Senior. And about how he abandoned her. And I go back to the fact that the father of this witch, Merope Gaunt, despised her.
Or, even, I could say it started with a young boy living in a cupboard under the stairs, along with his uncle, aunt and cousin, who hated him. However, I'd return to Godric's Hollow, where the boy's parents died.
And, going ahead, I would go back to the point that these parents, Lily and James, hated each other in school, just to fell in love for each other. But also had the fact that Severus Snape loved Lily Potter nee Evans, and without her, he became a Death Eater, a follower of Voldemort.
Oh, I could tell it all began with a brilliant – but a little selfish – wizard, named Albus Dumbledore. And how he agreed with Gellert Grindelwald about pursuing the Deathly Hallows and become the Masters of Death.
And for what? I'd go back to the point where Ariana Dumbledore, Albus's younger sister, was attacked and never was the same. And this led discussions between Albus and Aberforth.
Well, I can return to when the three Peverell brothers cheated the Death, and thus received relics – the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility.
And how, over the years, wizards and witches wished these three objects.
And – how could I forget? – I could also say that it all started at Hogwarts, when Dumbledore went to the school. As I could say it started when Tom Riddle Jr, Lily Evans, James Potter, Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and many other went to the school.
I could start with a story of many. And I couldn't tell where it ends, because after the story of the boy in the cupboard under the stairs, come the story of his sons and the sons of his friends, Ron and Hermione.
In fact, I could even start with the story about a clever Muggle-born, Hermione Granger. Or even the Pure-blood wizard, Ron Weasley – and increase her sister, Harry's wife, Ginny Weasley.
However, with that, I'd return to the troubled young child at the orphanage, Tom. And I continue with these strange thoughts of end and begin.
Hm. Want to know well?
I could also say it started with Helga Hufflepuff, Salazar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw – and how they created Hogwarts, where everything happens.
But that would involve their stories, and their parent's stories, and their grandparent's stories.
So, I'm not going to create a timeline – I probably would stop how the universe began or why; and I could not tell why.
In the end, the only thing I can say is: Hogwarts is a good place to say where it all began and where it ended. Yet, we can consider the question that there was the place where most of the things happened, and where all those wizards and witches, all these people stayed at some point in their – long or short – lives.
Hogwarts: where all happened – where it all began, where it all ended.
Where everything is possible.
