Hi folks…welcome to the background info for "The Winchester Brothers and the Battle Across the Pond". This is the beginning of my new series! I am so excited! Dive in, enjoy the first chapter, and please review, ask questions, make suggestions, etc!
Salem Institute for Magical Studies, Salem Mass (SIMS)
The Wampanoag tribe founded the school. The Puritans almost put them out of business, but sympathetic French trader wizards helped keep the school alive.
There are 3 Houses:
Crow (ambitious, pure-blood type, think Slytherin and the darker elements of Ravenclaw) Colors Purple and Silver, Motto: Cunning, Ambition, Intelligence Latin: Callidus, Cupiditas, Intellegere
Wolf (smart kids, brighter elements of Hufflepuff and the nicer Ravenclaws. Sam's house) Colors Blue and Bronze, Motto: Truth, Integrity, Philosophy Latin: Veritas, Integritas, Philosophia
Eagle (hero types, Gryffindor and braver Hufflepuffs. Dean's house) Colors Red and Gold, Motto: Honor, Loyalty, Courage Latin: Honestas, Fidelitas, Animus
Dean is capt of the Eagle Quidditch Team, and a beater. Considered by peers to be a badass and something of a player, he excels in academics but plays it down. He gets grades like Hermione without even trying, a fact that annoys the snot out of Sam, who has to work for everything, although Sam is considered the truly gifted Winchester brother. He excels in everything academic. A terrible flyer, he hates brooms in general. Takes a lot of abuse from the Crow kids.
John Winchester is highly regarded in the Wizarding world. World renowned hunter/wizard, and in the magical community, hunting is a paid profession. My Winchesters are not poor and had a good childhood. Dean still considers himself responsible for Sam.
Mary Campbell-Winchester still died under the same circumstances. John moved the kids to Sioux Falls to share Bobby Singer's home. Bobby helps raise the boys when John has out of town jobs. With apparition, John is able to be home most every night. John is a WONDERFUL father in my world.
Bobby same age as John in my world. Karen Singer still possessed and died. Bobby and John graduated Salem Institute same year as best friends in Eagle house. Dean follows in John's footsteps at SIMS with his achievements. Sam reminds the professors of his mom, and has many of her same strengths.
Bobby, Pastor Jim, Caleb, and Ellen Harvelle all wizards/witches. Ellen homeschools Jo in magic, so we won't meet her in this world. (or will we? ;) )
Azazel is still a demon with ties to Voldemort.
Sam has his powers, but they won't manifest until Dean's in danger.
Characters in 'verse are canon pre-pilot. In other words, no Ruby, no Jess, no Meg, no Cas, no Crowley.
Dean's patronus is an Impala (the antelope, not the car!)
Sam's is a Golden Labrador.
Dean's Strengths: Excellent Quidditch Player, dreams of going pro but plans on being a hunter. Excellent flyer (so yeah, that's not canon lmao) Excels at Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions and Transfiguration. Magic with practical use comes very easily to him.
Sam excels in Charms, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies, Divination (which is a viable class with a real psychic as prof) DADA, Care of Magical creatures.
Dean is very popular, liked by people in all houses, pretty much adored in Eagle, worshiped by Sam's friends for sticking up for them, heavy prankster, thought of as a troublemaker by some teachers, especially David Mortimer, Charms professor and head of Crow house.
Sam is quiet, still on the small side, picked on constantly by the Crows, very well regarded by 4th year and younger in his house. Professors adore him.
Dean's best friends are Jason Carroll and Connor Vincent. They are a triple threat of the best looking guys in Eagle, and all on the Quidditch team. They call each other Hero (Dean), Sizzle (Jason), and Boss (Connor). Dean's nemesis is a Crow seventh year named Percival Donner, an American born English pureblood. Rumor has it that his parents were Death Eaters in England and ran after the "Potter Incident".
Sam hangs with a girl in his year, Katie Maxwell, and a 5th year boy, Dylan Davis. Two other 4ths, Mike Simon and Dustin Jones, also tend to gravitate to Sam's group. Donner's little sister, Cressy, a 4th year also, is Sam's worst enemy as is pretty much everyone else in Crow house that isn't terrified of Dean and his boys. Sam and Katie are widely considered by the teachers as some of the most gifted in the school, and definitely the brightest in their year.
Boys are canon in how they interact. Dean is very protective, spends a lot of time threatening anyone who threatens Sam. Sam thinks the sun rises and sets on Dean, and worships his hero of a brother.
Harry Potter and Dean Winchester are pen pals. They started writing each other in second year as part of a pen pal exchange program in the back of Which Broomstick? magazine. They hit it off, and Dean has visited Harry twice in England, first for the Quidditch World Cup and then at Grimmauld Place for Harry's birthday. As a result, Dean also corresponds with Ron, Fred and George Weasley, and Hermione Granger. Fred makes it a point to keep Dean updated with the latest Weasley's Wizard Wheezes catalogs and refers to Dean as his "Most Valued Customer".
During the course of 6th year, Harry and Hermione start writing to Dean about what's going on in England with the Death Eaters. John Winchester is telling Dean about how the supernatural community has gone out of control with possessions, creatures not adhering to traditional roles, and many other portents of doom. (Yeah dramatic, blah blah blah).
Right before start of term, Harry sends a letter inviting Dean to his birthday party at the Burrow. Dean can apparate now, so he agrees to go. While there, Ron, Harry and Hermione tell Dean about Dumbledore's mission and how they don't intend to return to school. Dean wants to drop out of SIMS and join them. Harry says no.
Dean goes home after the party, disappointed. Term starts a month later. And that's where this story begins.
Enjoy, and feel free to ask questions!
Also, as an aside, Dean was born January 24, 1979 and Harry was born July 31, 1980. For the purposes of this story, I am bumping Harry back down a year to 1979.