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Chapter- 1

It was raining thick, hard and fast in the village of Hogsmeade. The clouds thundered and lightning flashed in the sky. The streets were completely deserted except for one man who was walking rather rapidly.

This person was a tall, well-built man, with muscular arms and slightly tanned skin. He had bright blue eyes, and red hair with streaks of gold in them. He was dressed in robes of bright red and golden colors. A wand was clenched tightly in his hand and a sword was dangling at his waist.

This person was Godric Gryffindor, a founder of Hogwarts and one of the most powerful and bravest wizards of all times.

He had almost made it upto the gates of Hogwarts when one of the guards stopped him, and spoke in a slightly scared tone,

"L-lord Gryffindor, we have been asked not to allow anyone inside the castle without confirming their identity."

Godric was slightly surprised to hear this because he had never been asked for identification before. But it soon occured to him that this must be yet another precautionary measure taken by his best friend. So he complied and nodded his head at the guard.

The guard almost hesitantly took out his wand and performed a few identity detection spells on Godric. He hastily backed out of Godric's way once the spells made it clear that it was indeed him.

"Don't worry," Godric patted his back and said, "You were just doing what Salazar had ordered you to do."

The guard looked a little surprised and asked, "How did you know that I was ordered by him, My Lord?"

Godric chuckled a little and said, "Well, I just happen to know my friend very well." With that he proceeded inside the gates and towards the castle that would one day become the number one wizarding school in the whole world.

The founders and most of their associates were currently residing at Hogwarts, the castle which they had been rebuilding to turn it into the first ever school of magic. They had to halt the construction process because of the war against the goblins and had since taken refuge in the castle. Being the most powerful wizards and witches of their time they were the ones leading the war.

Gryffindor entered the great hall to find his three friends discussing the war tactics with fellow wizards and witches.

Rowena Ravenclaw was sitting in a high-backed chair, studying a few maps. She was the perfect example of 'beauty with brains', with her soft brown hair, chocolate brown eyes and a brain whose plans never failed. She was as usual wearing robes of her favorite blue and bronze colors. Godric observed that she was still wearing her diadem. Of course, these days, she never left the diadem as she needed it constantly for helping her in making different battle strategies against the goblins.

Then there was Helga Hufflepuff, the sweetest and youngest amongst them, sitting besides Rowena and stuffing up cauldron cakes. She was wearing robes of a bright yellow color, her black hair was tied in a bun and her deep black eyes were sweeping across the great hall from time to time. She noticed Godric and waved at him. He smiled and waved back in return.

However, this gesture wasn't missed by the fourth founder, Salazar Slytherin, who was possibly the most cunning of them all. He was wearing robes of bright emerald and silver colors. His silver blond hair was swept back rather carefully and his usually bright green eyes were quite serious at the moment.

The instant he saw Godric, he almost yelled, "Godric, where had you been? Do you even know how much worried we all were? Do I have to tell you now that it is not safe to roam around on your own in such dangerous times?" Salazar's outburst had grabbed the attention of everyone in the great hall, and now all of them were staring at Godric.

"Calm down, Sal," Godric started in his usual fashion, "Well, there was news that Ragnak and his army are camping near Hogsmeade, so I had just gone to spy a bit on our dear enemies.

"Gone to spy? On your own?" Rowena asked looking startled, "Really now, Godric, your reckless stunts of bravery are increasing day by day!"

"Will you all stop treating me like a baby please?" Godric asked exasperatedly, "I had to go on my own because there was no time to inform all of you. Besides, the goblins are currently under the impression that we don't know they are camping so close. I wanted to let them think like that for the time being."

"They are in Hogsmeade? That's so close!" Helga exclaimed with fear.

Most of the witches and wizards in the hall also looked worried.

"So, what did you found out anyway?" Salazar asked him sarcastically.

"Well, the entire situation doesn't look too good for us. They have already recruited the giants on their side and they are soon going to have a talk with the vampires. If we don't do something immediately the entire magical population might soon turn against us," Godric's tone was much more serious than usual.

"Well, we can't deny that it was our fault in the first place which has now got everyone turning against us" a wizard from the crowd spoke.

"Be quiet!" Salazar hissed angrily, "I don't want anyone amongst the wizards to have any sympathy for those treacherous creatures! If you dare support them you would be immediately executed."

"Calm down Salazar," Rowena said in a commanding voice, "We had already called the goblins and other creatures for a discussion many times. If they don't turn up and continue going against us then that leaves us with only one option. To fight and defeat them before they defeat us."

"Wait, there is something more," Godric said remembering more of the conversation he had been eavesdropping on, "The goblins have found out about the prophecy."

There was a complete silence following Godric's statement as everyone took in his words.

Helga was the first one to burst out, "No, the prophecy is our only hope of winning the war! How on earth could those goblins find out about it?"

"Well, there's a traitor in our group for sure!" Salazar exclaimed angrily, as his bright green eyes swept the great hall, trying to find a trace of guilt on someone's face.

"No way!" Godric said angrily, "Everyone over here are our friends and loyal to us. I refuse to believe that anyone of them would pass information to the goblins."

"I don't think this would make much difference anyway," said Rowena, "According to the prophecy, seven powerful wizards and witches from the future would come to help us and they supposedly have the powers to defeat our enemies. I don't believe this. Inspite of a lot of reasearching I didn't found anything to support this time-travel theory."

"They would be from the future though, perhaps some advanced time-travel means would have been invented in their time," Godric wondered.

"Well, even if you are right, why would someone leave the safety and comfort of their own time-line and come to help us?" Salazar asked him and further continued, "Even I think that putting our hopes in some prophecy is a waste of time. We should devise new ways to face this problem on our own."

So, the rest of the evening passed with the founders and the wizarding army forming new plans and coming up with new ways to win the battle. None of them knew however, how soon the prophecy was going to come true and how much it was going to change their lives, the lives of the seven time-travelers and the future.

A.N.:- Hello everyone, so this was just a random idea that occurred to me. The next chapter will have Harry, Tom and the others in it. Please review to tell me how good or bad this chapter was.