After a month long hiatus I am updating stuff! Cleaning off my hard-drive of chapters! Actually getting some work done!
Like all stories in this collection this one is a world-building head canon exercise rather than an actual connected series of events. Thus I present a chapter taking place Not In Symphonia.
Disclaimer: Still don't own it.
Gryffindor was called the Knight's House for a reason.
Long ago, before Hogwarts was founded, Godric Gryffindor was a knight of the England, the Defender of the Realm. He served in the King's court, but more than that, he defended the magical peoples of the realm against the church's witch hunters.
It was for this reason Slytherin asked him to found Hogwarts with him.
You might belong in Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart.
Their daring, nerve and chivalry, set Gryffindors apart.
Not many people know this, but it was originally Slytherin's idea to build a school where magic could be taught to magical children. He saw the muggles persecuting their own for witchcraft and wondered how long it would be before they truly began hunting wizards. Trained magicals could defend themselves, but not all magicals were trained.
He wanted to a place where children would not live in fear of being burned.
An impenetrable stronghold where they could feel safe.
Godric Gryffindor wanted much the same. He was one of the lucky ones, he came from a magical line on his mother's side, so he was kept protected from the pyres.
But Godric saw many muggleborn children burn.
Slytherin was right to have his concerns for the muggleborns. He was worried they wouldn't be able to keep up with the circulum, he worried they wouldn't fit in, he worried about welcoming traitors into the walls.
So he sealed a monster in his Chamber, to protect the children from themselves.
Not many people know this, but Gryffindor knew what Slytherin had done.
But he also knew that the monster could work against the Castle.
So he bound his Blade into his Hat, in case there was a time the Castle needed to be protected from it's Defender.
Not many people know this, But Lloyden Aurion is the Son of a Knight, a Defender of the Realm, from an Ancient and Noble House of Knights.
There was never any question Gryffindor's Sword would choose him to take up the mantle of Defender of the Castle.