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A.N: I'm forwarding the timeline by ten years meaning the night of the attack in the Godrics Hollow happened in 31st Oct. 1991. Because I was born in 1991 so I've got no idea about how to write scenes of culture from the 80's & 90's..
Life in the British wizarding society was brought to a halt by a certain dark wizard in the 80's. Prior to the rise of this dark wizard, British Island were relatively safer from the horrors brought to Europe by Gellert Grindelwald in the 1940's. That war truly devastated Europe and its wizarding culture like it's muggle counterpart brought on by Hitler. It went on unchecked until Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, then professor of transfiguration in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, defeated Grindelwald in an epic duel in 1945. So the presence of Dumbeldore was enough to detour any aspirant dark wizard from creating trouble in Britain. But around the later part of 1970's a new name was being whispered in the pure-blood faction of the British wizarding society. Words were travelling about a new lord Slytherin who was promising the purebloods their rightful place in the world. A world free from the influence of muggleborns and halfbloods, where the purebloods would rule unopposed over the muggles.
At first the signs of trouble brewing were largely over looked because the attacks happened in sporadic fashion. A muggleborn family killed here and there, arson and vandalism of muggleborn and halfblood houses and business. But then at 1979, 24th May the whole of Britain came to a rude awakening when the minister of magic Eugenia Jenkins was assassinated in her office with a macabre mark floating on top of the ministry building. After that there was no stopping of the pure blood fanatics and the name Lord Voldemort or rather his moniker He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named became synonymous with terror and death. And his followers called the Death Eaters became rampart in killing muggleborn and half-bloods everywhere in Britain. The situation was dire and it seemed the only safe place in wizarding Britain was Hogwarts because Dumbledore was there. The ministry tried everything to pass the situation as random acts of terrorism but the situation was clear to the public that it was war against muggleborns and halfbloods. But the pure blood faction of wizengamot and ministry of magic did everything in their power by blatant corruption, intimidation or by assassination to stop anyone from trying to stop the pure blood movement.
The only ones who were trying to oppose the death eaters and lord Voldemort were a group of militia lead by Albus Dumbeldore who became known as the Order of the Phoenix. Consisting of aurors and hit wizards, this group dealt several crippling blow to Voldemort and his followers. But as the years progressed it was apparent that they too were insufficient to oppose Voldemort and his ilk.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, March 1990
Albus Dumbledore was now tired of his inability to stop the constant killing of muggleborns and halfbloods. It was now clear to him that his former student Tom Riddle has become more dangerous and powerful than even Grindelwald was in his prime. The public thought that Dumbeldore was more powerful than Lord Voldemort as it was known to public that Voldemort escaped from duels with Dumbeldore every time he went against Dumbledore. But Albus knew the truth that he was unable to overpower his former student when he dueled against Tom even with the Elder wand. It was clear from Tom's appearance that he's done quite a number of dark rituals on himself and delved in the darkest of arts to increase his power to a phenomenal level. Now Albus was just trying to prevent death of muggleborns and halfbloods as best he could with the order of the phoenix and to stop recruitment of new death eaters from his school. But at long last now he could see some hope in the form of a prophecy given to him last week by Sybill Trelawney, great-great granddaughter of a genuine Seer Cassandra Trelawney, when she appeared for an interview for the post of Divination teacher in Hogwarts. The prophecy –
Beware of him as the Dark creeps in...
Born to vanquish the Dark Lord…
Born to those who have thrice defied Dark Lord's wrath…
Born to power as the seventh month dies...
Marked by the Dark Lord, veiled by shadow…
With power the Dark Lord knows not...
As neither can live while the other survives ...
Beware of the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord...
gave him hope that at last somehow Voldemort can be vanquished in the coming future. After careful consideration he was quite sure the prophecy told about a child about to be born to either James and Lily Potter or Frank and Alice Longbottom. Both of the couple were in the Order of the Phoenix and both of them had defied Tom thrice in the previous years. Now Lily and Alice were both pregnant and expecting their child to be born around July. So he asked James and Lily to meet him today at Hogwarts to plan for the future contingencies against death eaters and their leader.
"Albus, James and Lily with Sirius have come. Should I send them to you now?" As he was thinking about the future, came the voice of Minerva McGonagall, deputy headmistress and professor of transfiguration.
"Of course Minerva, send them up."
Dumbeldore sat on his chair waiting for his guests to come up and soon James and Lily Potter entered in the room with Sirius Black, childhood friend and proverbial shadow of James Potter.
"Hello Lily, James, Sirius how are you all? Where is your eldest Lily dear?"
"As fine as we can be professor in the current situation and Harry is with Remus and Peter in the manor." replied Lily as she was sitting down, "Why have you called for us today professor? is it about order business?"
"No my dear, I'm afraid it's a matter more serious than the order business."
"Is there any matter more important than those death eater bastards and their lord now-a-days!".
"Yes Sirius this matter is more important than our dealing with the death eaters because this deals with the chance of defeating Voldemort for good. A week ago a prophecy was made to me by Sybill Trelawney as she approached me to be a teacher for divination in Hogwarts which can lead to vanquishing lord Voldemort."
"What! You know very well professor that prophecies are not something to depend upon. There are numerous cases where prophecies were proven to be wrong and cause terrible tragedies for believing too much on them. And I've heard about Trelawney before. While it's true that her great-great grandmother was an authentic seer but from what I've heard Sybill Trelawney has not inherited her gift. So I think we can't depend on a prophecy made by her on a subject so important."
"Now, now, James, I was present when this prophecy as made so I know that It's an authentic prophecy. And I believe this to the first authentic prophecy made by dear Sybill. But even in the case that it was not a genuine prophecy, by now the point is moot because Voldemort is sure to hear about it and as much as I know about him, he is sure to act upon it."
Sirius couldn't help himself anymore after listening to all of this, "How the hell will Voldemort know about it!"
"Well Sirius, I was interviewing Sybill in the Hog's Head inn and as she started to deliver the prophecy there was a commotion outside of the room and an unfortunate young man was caught eavesdropping on our conversation. My brother threw out that man but I'm sure he heard quite a bit of the prophecy and we can assume that surely Voldemort will also be learning about the prophecy."
"What! And you let that man walk out of there? Tell me who was that man professor right now or so help me God. I will take care of the vermin at its fit to deal with the lot of them."
Albus remained calm at the outburst of Sirius, "No Sirius we will not lower ourselves to their level as I've stated numerous times. I think that unfortunate man will receive more punishment at the hand of Tom for merely listing to something that can prove his vulnerability than you can deal to him. Now let us hear about the prophecy and from then we can determine our plans."
After learning about the whole prophecy Lily stated, "And this is where we come in I suppose professor."
"Yes Lily, as you are now well aware about the statements of the prophecy, you can guess about what would be the possible reaction of Voldemort. You and dear Alice are both expecting and both of you and Longbottoms have defied him thrice till now. So it's quite clear to Lord Voldemort about who target as the candidate for the prophecy. Now at this point it's still unclear whether the Longbottoms or your child will be the child of the prophecy so it's safe to say that both of you are equally at risk from him and his followers. So it's imperative that we take immediate steps to prevent any mishap with both of your families."
"So, we have to go into hiding and we can't use any of our potter manors because they are well known to public. Voldemort and his bunch has proven to be quite capable to be able to break into well warded houses as evident in their attack on the Bones manor. Only their daughter Susan survived as she had gone to her aunt's house."
"Yes and you can't go into any of the Black family houses as well. Grandfather Arcturus haven't officially disowned me from the family so I can technically still enter any of the houses and give shelter to anyone I deem to be eligible for protection but I think my darling mother and cousin bella will pose a greater threat to you than anything Voldemort can dish out if you do so."
"Yes that is very true but I think I have a couple of places where both of the families can go into hiding. The locations of this places are not known to general public and no one knows that these are Dumbeldore family properties. One is in a village called Godric's Hollow in Devon and another one is in Somerset. You can go into hiding into any one of the places and I will contact Frank and Alice to inform about the situation and the details as soon as they are finalized here."
After thinking and discussing with Lily about Dumbledore's proposal for a while James decided that they will go into hiding in Godric's Hollow but he was still not so sure about total protection for his family so he voiced his concern to the headmaster, "Very well professor, we will be going into hiding into your property in Godric's Hollow but I'm still not fully convinced about the security measure in there."
"I have been thinking about that as well my boy, and so I've decided to cast a Fidelius charm on both of the properties as your family move in. It'll be impossible for even Voldemort to find you under the Fidelius. So the only thing remaining to be decided now who will be the secret keeper for your family."
James looked to Sirius after listening to Dumbledore's proposal, "You can be our secret keeper Padfoot" but to his surprise Sirius refused to be the secret keeper with a mischievous grin, "No Prongs, I have a better plan. Everyone knows that I'm your best mate so it's natural to assume that I will be your secret keeper for the Fidelius. So I'll spread a rumor anonymously about being just that and leave the country to direct Voldemort and his bastard followers to me. But we'll assign another one to be you secret keeper with none being the wiser."
"Well I'll be damn! You thought all of that! Are you feeling alright Padfoot after all that hard work?"
"Oii! sod off Prongs.. I'm a marauder after all."
"Stop it you guys" Lily rolled her eyes at the immature behavior of her husband and his best friend before continuing, "That's a brilliant plan Sirius. We should choose either Remus or Peter as the secret keeper. What do you think darling?"
"Well love, I'm not so sure about Mooney. We all know that he can't help himself in the full moon even with the wolfsbane and add to that Fenrir Greyback has thrown his lot with Voldemort. So Mooney can be easily forced into giving up the secret against his will. I think Wormtail is the best choice. No one will ever suspect of him being the secret keeper."
"I'm sure that Remus won't be giving up our secret in any circumstances but you are right that Peter is least likely to be suspected of being a secret keeper."
"Very well then, we'll be leaving for Godric's Hollow tomorrow. You can floo into our house at 5 o'clock in the evening professor. We've have to leave now so that we can prepare for the coming ordeal. Goodbye."
As the couple and Sirius left the headmaster thought to himself that at long last the days of terror might just end pretty soon and went on to contact Frank and Alice to inform them about the upcoming situation.
