Matthew Alvon and the Guardsmen
Prologue
So I'm going to ask you a simple question, have you ever heard of the Hogwarts Guardsmen. No, I suppose you haven't. It's one of Hogwarts many secrets. I'm lucky just to tell you the story. The story comes from a boy well, not really a boy, he's seventeen now and just helped his adopted brother and friend Harry Potter save the wizarding world from the Dark Lord, but he was commissioned into service at the age of thirteen. He picked me to tell his story so no one would ever forget the sacrifices the Guardsmen have made to serving and protecting Hogwarts for all of time. It started a year after Salazar Slytherin left the school of witchcraft and wizardry and Godric Gryffindor had set up the Guardsmen to protect the school. Matthew Alvon told me the ancient story that all Guardsmen are trained to remember. The story goes that Godric Gryffindor, a man who understood the importance of swordsmanship having had a sword himself, took upon himself to find students to train in the art of the sword. And so became the First Guardsmen. They patrolled the corridors along with the prefects watching the students as the slept protecting them from the dark secrets hidden around the castle grounds. He continued on of how the Guardsmen sought after peace and justice and that it was an old tradition and honor to be amongst them. It's what also made him stand out before his adopted brother Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, and the boy who defeated the Dark Lord, not once, not twice, not thrice, not four and well you get the picture, the Boy Who Lived beat Voldemort a lot during their years at Hogwarts. So this is Matthew Alvon's story and how he went from a boy locked with his brother under the stairwell to one of the most famous Captain of the Guards.
