This is for the Ten to One Challenge at HPFC and will feature eleven chapter one (this one) focusing on everyone and ten more with a focus on individual characters from the era. Also, this acts mostly as a prologue so future chapters will be longer.
So here we go with the prompt innocent.
In every moment of every life, a person makes that one decision that changes them forever. It is inevitable that it will happen. They may not know the truth or they may never realise the importance but it is true that one choice can have a crucial impact.
The generation that survived and experienced World War II and Grindelwald's War in Europe have universally been known as a resilient and special generation. Their life and decisions may not have been based on either conflict, but there was much more happening at the time than those events: Lives were being forged. It may have been a simple action or inaction. There were just so many events that would fundamentally impact individuals and the world in the future.
History would go on to remember the generation in various ways: The strict and stern Professor McGonagall, the cold Mr Black, the wise Professor Dumbledore, the bumbling oaf Hagrid, fat simpering Slughorn, strange Uncle Lestrange, scheming Rosier, quirky Aunt Lucretia, aging Grandmother Abbott and, of course, Lord Voldemort.
That was their future. That was the people they eventually became.
They were not always like that.
At one point they were innocent.
Mostly.