Hi everyone! This is the first story that I got the courage to put up here. I would like to thank Neferiti for finally convincing me to upload it! I would also like to thank Mr. Lawlor for convincing me to write this story in the first place. Without you two this story would never be up here so i would like to dedicate this story to the both of you.
This story is a cross-over of the book series Harry Potter and the TV series Charmed. This is the prologue; just a little introduction telling everyone what's going on. I hope you like it!
The Daily Prophet
August 9, 2024
Dangerous Secret Kept by the Ministry of Magic
All witches and wizards know the Wizarding World; we live in it. But our Ministry is hiding a secret: there is another, different magical world out there. This type of magic, called Wicca, is mainly practiced in the United States of America, just as Witchcraft and Wizardry is confined to Europe. We have kept our distance from this other community because of obvious differences. "Wizard" and "Witch" are used to describe magical males and females respectively, but all humans who practice Wicca are called "Witches", with no certain term used to distinguish if the practitioner is male or female.
Being from America, their culture is very different from our and, as a consequence, so is their magic. They do not need a wand to perform magic; instead they use short, rhyming, poem-like chants usually comprised of several verses. They use their magic to protect Muggles from beings called "demons". "Demons" attack innocent people and witches alike to give evil the upper hand in their ongoing magical war. Witches are also not allowed to use their magic to help themselves, or for personal gain.
The contact between our world and theirs has been limited for obvious reasons. Meetings only take place in severe magical situations, where assistance from the other community is needed. If there were to be a meeting, the Minister of Magic, along with several high ranking Ministry officials and a few select advisors, would meet with the Council of Elders (the governing-like figures) and a handful of powerful witches in an unknown location. The last time such a meeting occurred was about a year after the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in 1994, when the Ministry of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, after months of denying He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's return, finally took Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore's story as truth when he saw He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named with his own eyes in the Ministry of Magic. An emergency meeting was called and the magical community in America was informed. They helped as best as they could, but, having a radically different magical style, there wasn't much they could do in the fighting department. Albus Dumbledore reportedly worked closely with a member of the Council of Elders, Gideon, and they developed a strong connection as headmasters of the most prodigious magical schools in their respective countries (see The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, chapter 23, "Unusual Alliances" for more information").
The meetings previous this recent one were in 1981, the fall of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and one of an unknown date, near the beginning of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's rise to power.
It has recently come to my attention that another meeting has recently been called, this one concerning a rising evil power in the Wiccan Community. The Council of Elders had requested a meeting with Kingsley Shacklebolt, our Minister of Magic, to express their growing concern about the matter. The Council doesn't have a definite pinpoint of who the power is, but they have a feeling that he is trying to do more than unite demons and witches; uniting the two magical worlds, under his reign, is also on his agenda. Both sides are working on the identity of this mystery person. Also discussed in this meeting was the position of a young man who was never mentioned by name. The Elders believe that he has information that will be beneficial to the Order of the Phoenix, the society that was organized by Albus Dumbledore to counter He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and his followers' actions. They were very cryptic about why they thought this other mystery person would be helpful to us, though it seemed they didn't know exactly why themselves.
Knowing that the Ministry of Magic has kept this secret from the rest of the Wizarding Community, I find myself wondering what else could they be hiding? Do you feel safe now that you know that your own Ministry, who has sworn to protect you and your family, has kept such a dangerous secret from the public world? Those are the questions that need to be asked today. – Rita Skeeter.
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