Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the story's characters. I also do not own Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Warning: This is a Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter slash (a male/male relationship). IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T READ IT!
Prologue
A Tale of Star-crossed Lovers
The realm of Hogwarts is considered most magical area in all of Europe. This large and beautiful region is where witches and wizards had once lived in harmony with one another and neighboring kingdoms. However, nothing is meant to last forever…
Sadly, as time passed, this kingdom had a great and terrible conflict with an eastern territory called Durmstang. Four witches and wizards made themselves known during this time as they helped end this most disastrous quarrel with eastern kingdom. These Four were the greatest and wisest elders of Hogwarts: Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, and Salazar Slytherin. The Four worked together to reestablish peace between Durmstang and Hogwarts. Once peace was restored, it was decided among the people of Hogwarts that one of the mighty Four should take total command of the entire kingdom as the wizard king or the witch queen. Each of the Four thought that it was he that should take over. The problem escalated until the Four friends were openly dueling and fighting with one another. The villagers became scared and were so afraid that they would get caught in the line of fire, that each villager chose sides of who to fight for between the Four of them. Finally, after 3 years of open battle, Hogwarts was split into 4 areas. One area was for the Hufflepuffs who were considered the most loyal and just. Another area went to the Ravenclaws who were the smartest and the wittiest. Next came the Gryffindors who were the bravest and the proudest. And lastly there were the Slytherins. who were the sneakiest and the cleverest.
The feuding between the four regions did not end as the centuries passed. It was only until 503 years passed after the riot between the original Four that there seemed to be hope for peace. A council was held in Diagon Alley, the only neutral area in Hogwarts, by the four chieftains of realm: Dumbledore for the Gryffindors, Flitwick for the Ravenclaws, Sprout for the Hufflepuffs, and Grindelwald for the Slytherins. The four greeted in peace and many decisions had been made. They decided that a new village was to be made, and that like Diagon Alley, it would be a neutral area where all four groups could go and interact with each other. The four chieftains also decided that a minister was to be elected by all the people so that the four regions could share a common head. Soon the acts and decisions made by the four councilmen were taken into affect.
Peace, however, still did not come easily. But, with time and with the help of Dumbledore, Sprout, Flitwick, and Grindelwald, civil unrest soon decreased greatly. The four clans began to trust one another and become neighbors to each other. Parties and festivities were held to bring unity into Hogwarts again. Unfortunately, one despicable act changed all that the four councilmen worked for…
No one knows how or who exactly committed the crime but all the people of Hogwarts agree that it was a ghastly murder. On the night of Halloween, when all the villagers from the four families were celebrating in Hogsmeade, Grindelwald the Great was killed. When the villagers found the body in an alley, the case was brought to the newly appointed minister of Hogwarts. After months of detective work and research, no one knew what exactly happened to Grindelwald. The Slytherins were so upset that they accused the wise Dumbledore of the murder. Dumbledore tried to reason with the Slytherins and protest his innocence of the crime, but they would not hear it. The accusation against Dumbledore only fueled the fury of the Gryffindors, who angry that the Slytherins would have the audacity to blame their leader. Hogwarts had then seen a civil war that was more violent and ruthless then ever before, the Gryffindors versus the Slytherins. All the noblest families of Gryffindor, the Potters, Longbottoms, and Weasleys and even the more lowly Gryffindors fought with the Slytherins, especially the Malfoys, Flints, and Bulstrodes. Many had died during those battles and still the clash continues between the two clans.
The Hufflepuffs and the Ravenclaws had decided not to choose sides between the two. Sprout and Flitwick's clans did continue to seek peace between the warring neighbors and with each other.
Though the Slytherins disgraced Dumbledore, he continued to regulate over the Gryffindors along with Minerva McGonagall.
After Grindelwald's death, the Slytherins were completely lost without their leader. Many excellent candidates gladly wanted the job but there was none so efficient as Voldemort. The Slytherins soon chose him as the head of their family, and he brought them to victory against the Gryffindors. As time passed, however, Voldemort slowly began to turn into a ruthless dictator. The Slytherins became afraid of him and many did not want him to continue as their leader. But those that went against Voldemort often turned up missing. So, the Slytherins lived in constant fear of their ruler. He might be terrifying, but he was the cause of their many successes against the Gryffindors.
But the fates would not suffer such violence in Hogwarts for long…
Dumbledore knew that there had to be a way to stop this excessive violence, but he did not know what to do. So as a last resort, he went to the old seer woman Trelawny that lived in a cottage on the outskirts of the Hogwarts, near the Ravenclaw district. He knew that she had not made any predictions since she was a youth, but he had to try for the good of the people. After sitting with her in her small stuffy cottage for more than an hour, he was close to giving up and leaving her musty little home. However, the fates decided that today was the day that the old woman would make one last accurate prediction after 10 years. The lights flickered in the small cottage and a surge of magical energy filled the room. Dumbledore curiously watched as Trelawny's eyes glazed over; she began to burble lowly in an eerily deep voice. Dumbledore did not catch all of what she said but he did get the most important part of it:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Hogwart ………………….
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers (meet;
Whose misadventured piteous suffering
Do with their struggles bury their parents' strife. (AN: 1)
Dumbledore, though he was said to be the wisest of all wizards, was not sure exactly what to make of this prophecy. So he decided to remember this information for later days and wait for the lovers who could stop the rioting and inevitably Lord Voldemort.
(AN: 1) Quoted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
