Disclaimer and Explanation

Disclaimer and Explanation

The characters Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, and the school Hogwarts all belong to Joanne Rowling, and are registered trademarks of (sigh) Warner Brothers.

Now, if you are ready to be thoroughly bored, I'd like to tell you a few things about this story. Yes, you may go on to chapter one if you'd like…

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… Still there? Oh boy!

I was looking up information about Britain for another story when I came across a passage that interested me very much. Here it is:

"Vortigern was the British king who invited the Jutes to come to Britain to help him fight the Picts about 449 A.D. This event began the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England. Later he fought with Hengist, leader of the Jutes, whose victory led to the founding of the kingdom of Kent. Some legends say he married Hengist's daughter, Rowena."

(The World Book Encyclopedia, 1969 Edition)

So, I ended up abandoning my other story (for a time) and have been working on this instead. I had always wondered about the founders. In many stories I had read, they were fairly one-dimensional characters (I apologize if they are in mine as well!). But as I read more and more about the events surrounding the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the 400's, a possible story fell into place. If any of the background information interests you, please check out http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/ to learn more about this period of history. Of course, I have taken many liberties with the timeline, and the events and places, and if you spot anything that's just straight out wrong, please e-mail me. Some of you may have studied this in history, and know far more about it than I do, but for me (a clueless American) it's been lots of fun discovering this bit of time. The story begins in the year 446 A.D., placing the founders 500 years before all other accounts, in the days preceding the reign of King Arthur…