AN: Just posting the intro to get things started out! More will come soon.

Disclaimer: JK Rowling is a genius and created everything of substance that follows.

Hogwarts is comparable to The Underworld in Greek Mythology. The majority of students end up in the Fields of Elysium, this is neither good or bad luck to the person on the receiving end of this eternal classification. The genealogically gifted and generally lucky are given the eternal glory of the Fields of Asphodel. Genealogical gifts can span from general good genes to your parentage, who your parents are can change your classification completely.

Then there's Tartarus. Tartarus, to put it simply, is a dark place where souls are sent to suffer and eternal punishment. Tartarus is where everyone is sent. The freaks, the geeks, the artists, the socially inept, the poor, the unhygienic, the genetically disinclined. Tartarus represents the living hell that some students experience in Hogwarts. In Greek Myths villains are sent to Tartarus, but at Hogwarts it's where the outliers go to live out their six to seven year punishment.

But Tartarus isn't so bad when there are others damned with you

Funny thing about the way student life at Hogwarts was just categorized. It is a rare moment when one can guess what your placement is without knowing you very well.

Take James Potter and Sirius Black for example. In silent observation of their lifestyles one could assume that the pair, best friends and descendants of powerful pureblood families, had been gifted an easy life at Hogwarts of eternal glory in the Fields of Asphodel. Truthfully, that was the case, but not because it was the hand they were given.

James Potter's generally nonchalant nature led many of his schoolmates to believe that his life was easy, unplagued by decisions, and something to be coveted. And during his years at Hogwarts it was, but some say he used up all of his luck winning hearts and Quidditch games. Luckily for James no one ever discovered that he was naught more than a lanky boy blessed with good genes and cursed with bad eyes sight.

His parents would describe the time before James grew into himself as The Time of the Mop. Firstly because his head of black hair looked very similar to a mop, and secondly because during his first growth spurt their house elf was required to use a mop more times than she'd ever done in her life.

The poor clumsy lad, they would say.

The poor clumsy dollop head, the house elf would mutter as she cleaned up yet another mess.

Lucky for us and him, he grew into himself before the students at Hogwarts caught on to his unlucky lifestyle. It was, in fact, the summer of his eleventh year that this growing into himself occurred. Suddenly his limbs didn't have minds of their own and his straight nose wasn't too big for his face.

In the five years that followed James' confidence and abilities as Chaser on the Quidditch team gained him a place of glory in his eyes and the eyes of his companions. He also gained an enviable group of friends and inevitably strong feelings for a certain young lady that were not returned.

Sirius Black, heir to the great and noble house of Black, had been deemed a blood traitor by his family and lived everyday of his life knowing that he'd been nothing more than a disappointment to his family. And sometimes he didn't care, but other times he found it a difficult lifestyle to bear. Upon the summer of his before his sixth year his rather ferocious Mother physically removed him and whatever items within his possession that she could from her property. Leaving him with naught more than his motorbike and wand. Luckily, in his traitorous ways, he'd gained a wonderful friend in the form of James and was allowed entrance into the home of the Potter's as an unruly son alongside James.

His fellows students wouldn't know that from looking at him.

Even now you can find him sitting in the Great Hall with James and their friends Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, talking animatedly about the year ahead of them and the pranks that will ensue, none but his present company and his family 3 tables down would be able to tell you of the injustices(Or justices, if you ask the Blacks) that he'd experienced.