The Rise and Fall of the Dark Lady Granger
By: Bartholomew Bagshot
In memory of my Great, Great Aunt who taught me the wonders of history.
Prologue: The Greatest Dark Lady Who Ever Lived
There used to be a man who considered himself to be the greatest Dark Lord who ever lived. He fashioned himself a name that became so feared the populace would dare not utter it, even after almost everyone believe him dead. He had two 'reigns of terror'. Both were ended by the same man.
The first reign of terror saw many old pureblood families exterminated. The first reign of terror saw the deaths of many good men and women who had done nothing worse than being born to muggles or married to muggles. That war saw its end when the Dark Lord sought out a baby boy prophesized to be his equal and his death. That boy survived the Dark Lord's Killing Curse and banished the Dark Lord for, what most people believed, eternity. So began the legend of Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived.
But, like the great Albus Dumbledore predicted, the Dark Lord rose from beyond the grave more powerful and terrifying than ever before. In many ways, the second reign of terror was better than the first. The Dark Lord sought to preserve the old pureblood families and many of those families lived through that time despite being at the mercy of the Dark Lord and his followers. However, in more ways, the second reign of terror was much worse. Muggleborns were lucky if they were killed, but often were sent to concentration camps where the Dark Lord's followers took great joy in practicing dark magic on them. The most common torture, after the use of Cruciatus Curse, was to take away muggleborns fertility in the most painful rituals possible. To accomplish this, of course, the Dark Lord took control of the Ministry of Magic and effectively became the ruler of Britain. The Dark Lord was, again, defeated by the Boy-Who-Lived at the Battle of Hogwarts.
Despite his many triumphs and being the brief dictator of Britain, the Dark Lord Voldemort is not considered the greatest Dark Lord to have ever lived. He is considered greater than any Dark Lord before him; greater even than Gellert Grindelwald who almost succeeded in taking over Europe, but with muggles.
But, not the greatest. Indeed, that title belongs to Hermione Granger, the woman who almost destroyed the magical kingdom of Britain in a matter of a few short weeks with just the magic in the tip of her wand.