"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

There was a time when they were just children, eager to go to school and learn things they'd never dreamed of learning before. There was a time when they were friends and enemies and lovers, when they were joined together by a fate none wanted to see. There was a time when they were four students, roaming the stone halls and thinking of new pranks. They fought and they argued and they loved with a love that was more than love. They were a family, in every way but blood - but blood does not make a family.

They joined together as four boys, lost in a world of death and destruction, and made it their own. They found friends in the most unlikely places and they pushed through days that nothing seemed to go right. They stuck together through the toughest of times and they shielded one another from the dangers lurking just beyond on the edges of darkness. They had a bond unlike any other, and they would never allow that to break - but in a time of war and betrayal, not all is as it seems.


Hey guys, Hellsbane here. So, after reading This Why We Fight by the splendid Birdie Lo Green, I got an idea. Now, I've honestly had the idea for a while, but after reading Birdie's story, the idea just grew and grew. So, here it is. I'm terribly sorry for the shortness of this chapter, but this is really just the prologue. The next chapter will be longer, I promise! Also, I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters from said book(s)!

- Hellsbane