Summary: After the Happening, something happened that caused Dumbledore and Grindlewald to become one of the world's leaders. But sir, do you hear the people sing, the bells toiling for the future.
Toronto Duchy, Ontario Union Empire, 2002
To be fair, the Degaulle's were a former cadet branch of the Malfoy's that survived the fate of being burnt to death, by going to Quebec and coming back to England. They changed again and split to Canada and England after the Happening.
Santiago Degaulle was asleep when he heard his parents scream in fear. It was a werewolf, and it then ate them to death. He lost consciousness after.
" Santiago?"
" Santiago?"
He woke up in horror, as he realized that he was a werewolf. Sure, there were equal rights and such, but there was still a stigma and some history between the 2 communities.
He looked at his father's twin, Juan.
" Santiago, your parents didn't make it out alive. You're also a werewolf. ", said his uncle Juan.
He wasn't a naive 11-year-old anymore. He wasn't the young boy after the bite, he was now a scared werewolf.
- 10 years later-
He looked at his uniform as he went to work. It was 2 days after a full moon, and he was still somewhat exhausted. He looked at his photos of his parents and sent a letter to his Uncle Juan. He wondered as the pissed-off widow, Narcissa Stark came in.
" I know that Howie is dead. Why was he randomly attacked by a pack of wolves, why?", said the widow.
The Stark case, as he noted was very similar to the case that killed his parents, with a kid surviving but scarred since it wasn't a full moon.
" We don't know why. There is a possible motive linking this to Obadiah Stane. I know that his death and your son's condition are making you angry, but please don't take it out. ", he said calmly.
She said that she understood and that her son was at school again.
He then looked at his files and looked at the widow with sympathy.
He took his files and looked at the current sky-beast invasion.
He took his broom and scouted the Toronto area. Tomorrow was Empire Day. The decorations were being put on, celebrating the city-states and the duchies of Ontario. He flew around checking the bases of CN, and Scarborough. The city-state was divided between the annexed countryside and central districts. He looked at the countryside that he called home changed, to the dense high-rises of Scarborough.
- 2024-
Boston, Harvard Magickal University, Free Republic of New England.
The man entered the pub. He was going to talk to Hermoine about a few issues with how Dumbledore was overusing dark arts, and his oppression of the "dissidents".
" They arrested Friesen for saying his opinion. FRIESEN was called a backward guy, just because he was describing Dumbledore's policy as a great purge, of muggleborns and purebloods. FRIESEN was sentenced to something I'm not describing for 40 years. The Oxford professor. ", said Santiago.
" I'm not in that much contact with the wizarding world since graduation, and becoming a Physics Professor, but that's a war crime. I mean, being sent to a Labor Camp, just for being against the purging of dissidents is just horrible. They also arrest anyone found to have forbidden books by arrest, as I heard from my other contact. ", said Hermoine.
" I heard from my uncle that they plan to send the " dissidents", and allied groups to slums. He heard that from a former colleague. The Dumbledore camp is also getting larger in Buffalo and the Duchy of Ohio, neighboring regions. The situation is horrible right now. Thankfully Canadians and New Englanders still have some decency to not support him", said Santiago.
" I mean you've changed a lot since your teen years. You look more tired and a bit more worn than when you were 19. I can probably inform the wizarding public, but how?", said Hermoine.
" Sneak in posters, articles, and the such. Unite dissidents against Dumbledore. Talk about it with the Oxford guys. I know the History department. I taught there until this year. I left due to fear of being sent off to labor camps. My wife is planning to get a Green Card to come here with my son. I was able to get the papers to come to Canada and now, it's just if the government would accept an exit visa.", he said.
He hadn't heard from Astoria in 2 months, and he hoped that they escaped out of Dumbledore's Europe.
" They're probably stuck in there. I read that her sister Daphne was considered a radical dissident, and your wife was also one. Astoria Greengrass, your wife, has not been arrested yet or relocated. She's in hiding. I assisted her and Pansy to escape. I was able to give her a forged exit visa along with one for your son. ", said Hermoine.
" I never knew that they were coming here. I left after they purged Jackiro. Friesen told me I had to leave for my own safety. He was a dissident supporter and worried that I would be killed for being a werewolf and that my wife's opinion would get her sent to a labor camp. He was trying to help most dissidents fight, and for a few to escape. I mean him being sent to a dissident camp was the worst. He was the leader of the Freedom Alliance, the main Dissident organization. ", said Santiago.
" I understand why the dissidents are mainly muggleborns and purebloods. The muggleborns are horrified and don't come from places that have this amount of Human Rights abuses, and the purebloods are against the destroying of their cultures. I heard that Ohio killed Mohawks that were against the policies. ", said Hermoine.
" I never knew it was that personal. I mean I knew you had different opinions, but your wife to be sent off, just for common decency, that's bad. Similarly I got an offer to return to Canada, and I'm coming back this week. ", said Hermoine.