AN: Hello my darlings. This is the sequel to Reactions.

Disclaimer: I do not own any recognizable content or characters. All I own is a general idea of how I want to write this.

Harry and Draco agreed that they would focus on the reasons behind the war before anything. They also agreed to have their conversations in the Room and Harry invited Luna, Neville, Fred, and George to join them as well. Mainly so they'd be forced to focus and not snog.

Today was their first scheduled lesson. Of course Draco had waited until they were all proficient at Occlumency so nobody could peek into their minds and find out they were finally learning the truth. So it was mid-March before they began any actual discussions on the war.

"Alright, who thinks they know the reasons the Dark Lord had for initially starting the war?" Draco asked.

"Because he is a psychotic nutter who hates everyone?" Fred queried.

"Because he likes chaos and death?" George supplied.

"Because he didn't have a loving childhood." Luna stated.

"D! All the above!" Harry exclaimed with a laugh.

Draco sighed and rubbed his temples. "No. He started off with a political campaign. He wanted all magical children from their first display of accidental magic to be brought into the magical world and raised by a magical family."

Neville tilted his head. "Why though? Wouldn't it be better to leave them in their homes?"

Draco shook his head. "Children raised by muggles are more prone to be abused, shunned, and are a thousand times more likely to become Obscurials."

The purebloods looked sick at that. Harry tilted his head. "A what?"

Draco sighed. "An Obscurial. That is the term given to someone who houses an Obscuris. The best way to describe that is a magical protective parasite. When a child becomes so fearful of their magic, of the consequences of performing magic, they repress it. The repression of their magic causes the magic to separate from the child, but it does not leave. It becomes so protective of the child it has caused entire cities to crumble in its attempts to remove the threat. The most likely outcome from this is death to the child from the use of too much magic. The last known Obscurial was in New York. The child was the oldest Obscurial known. He was fifteen when he died. This was during the height of Grindlewald's reign."

Harry looked down and winced. "Does it look like black sand?"

Everyone looked to Harry. "Yes. That is the most common appearance." Fred said softly.

Harry closed his eyes and his hand dissolved into black sand before returning to its original state. "It's why I still have bouts of accidental magic then. I'm sure that it is what killed Quirrel. Not some love protection like Dumbledore believes."

Draco wrapped an arm around his boyfriend and kissed his temple. "That is very likely Harry."

All of Harry's friends gave him sad smiles. "It's ok Harry. We know it's not your fault." Neville said softly.

Harry swallowed thickly and nodded. Draco decided to continue his lecture to take focus off of Harry. "Now, you see that the muggles are still a threat. Not all muggles mind, but enough to cause worry. On average one third of muggleborns are treated horribly that we know of. Another third never even make it to Hogwarts. The last third are from happy loving homes, but their parents are still ill prepared to handle raising a magical child. Not only that but because they are raised in muggle homes they never know the Old Ways and how beneficial it is to our magic to practice them."

The purebloods all nodded, some more slowly than others. Harry sighed, knowing he would be asking many clarifying questions. "What are the Old Ways?"

Draco pinched the bridge of his nose. "Think of what the muggle call Wicca and you're on the right-ish track."

Harry nodded slowly. "Ok then. How is it beneficial?"

Draco wanted to hex someone at how little Harry knew. "It strengthens our magical cores, brings us closer to magic. That's not all but those are the biggest benefits."

Harry smiled, knowing how patient Draco was being. "If it's such a benefit though, why is it outlawed to openly practice?" Neville asked.

"Because the ministry wants us weak and easily controlled." Luna stated bluntly.

Draco blinked at the clear, sane way the Lovegood spoke before nodding. "That, and because the muggleborns coming in saw the practices and flipped out. To appease them the open practice is illegal. Many still practice in private."

Harry rubbed his forehead. "Hence why Tom wants muggleborns to be brought in earlier when they have little to no influence from their muggle families and can be raised as magical, right?"

Draco nodded with a smile. "Exactly. It's simply smarter and better for society to do so. Unfortunately you have people who believe that a child should be kept with family no matter what."

The four Gryffindors and Ravenclaw knew exactly who he meant. "Dumbledore." They said at once.

Draco nodded. "Yes, he was the biggest player against removing magicals from the muggles. He gained a lot of support because it was also very soon after Grindlewald's defeat and the magical world was intent on doing whatever he wanted. This frustrated The Dark Lord, so he gathered up those with like-minded ideals and tried to show that it was better his way. This would in turn be the start of his 'reign of terror' and thus the war."

"But why did he start killing people?" The twins asked.

Draco raised a brow. "He didn't. Dumbledore's followers actually caused the first fatality, and the second, and the third. The Dark Lord and his followers only started using lethal spells to fight back. With so many of the 'victims' being memory charmed nobody can accurately say what goes on at the skirmishes. You can't even ask the ones who were there because it's all he said/she said. Then, to try to get the upper hand in the fight, the Dark Lord started using Dark spells. Which contrary to popular belief does not cause the caster to become insane. The insanity seen in Dark Magic users today, is actually a combination of a curse and potion inflicted upon someone. It only takes hold if someone has recently used Dark Magic. Any idea how so many are cursed?"

The five who had been listening looked thoughtfully at each other before a metaphorical lightbulb went off. "The wards! Using a curse ward on Hogwarts and them a potion in the food!" The twins exclaimed together.

Draco nodded. "Which is why my father has been trying to get rid of Dumbledore."

They six sat in silence while five of them absorbed this information.

"I think that will be all tonight. I've given you all a lot to think about."