CHAPTER 7
Lord Haughwards, Jaime de Treize was powerful, clever, and rather thick with the Minister Shacklebolt and the Chief Sorceress Longbottom, called Lord Longbottom a brother, and held great standing with the Goblins of Gringotts. And he owned Hogwarts, the only Magical school in their land and region. Who knew it was the sovereign territory of the Magical Lord of the Realm? And he had such strange, new-fangled ideas.
But Ronald Weasley was thrilled to gain a personal invitation to dinner and an incredible offer of five thousand Galleons for the deluminator that Dumbledore had left him. When the Galleons were offered in gleaming sack of coins he could touch, smell and take away immediately, Ron nearly shoved people out of the way in his haste to get to the Burrow and fetch the darn thing.
By the time he returned to their reserved table at the Unicorn's Tale, in his reckless greed and avarice, Ron Weasley had decided that the bequeathed deluminator would deserve six thousand galleons, but beat a hasty retreat when the young Lord would try to quietly withdraw his offer. Thus feeling proud for having earned five thousand Galleons for something he had never lifted a finger for, he would be enraged to get berated by Hermione in her shrill Harpy's voice. It would be the first time he struck her but it wouldn't be the last.
When Jaime de Treize pulled down many old buildings in Hogsmeade, including the famous shrieking shack, and added more wards to the region, he would astonish the entire wizarding community by offering a building for a fifty-year lease to Gringotts as their sovereign territory within Hogwarts. But they would gladly accept the new homes, apartments, and gated communities within Hogsmeade for anyone who wanted to live in a fully magical community.
Longbottom Hall would be the first piece of land to be magically uprooted and magically replanted in Hogsmeade, its wards and everything else completely intact and doubly powerful for having tapped into the ley lines that ran through Hogsmeade and protected their lands. All of the remaining clans of the sacred 28, except the Weasleys primary home would follow. It would turn into a mass exodus from all over England and UK, into Hogsmeade by the end of the year 2000.
And by then Jaime de Treize would use his family grimoires to reclaim more land from the sea, unnoticed by the rest of the world, and add it to his lands. Eventually, Hogsmeade would be the single largest Magical and Wizarding community in Europe, and in the next two decades, Diagon Alley would be a forgotten but fascinating footnote in annals of the Wizarding History of English Isles. Many English Wizarding kinds would work in the non-magical world, making use of transfiguration and permanence Runes séquence to make things and eke out a fairly decent living.
Two summers after the battle, Lord Haughwards would bring better lighting, an indoor planetarium, and even computers in a nullified classroom, and a projection monitor equipped hall for students to watch educational movies, documentaries and demonstrations in a nullified hall in a new building floating over the Black Lake. Uniforms would be made more practical and in sync with the Muggle world, with Robes and the pointy hat meant exclusively for special events and occasions. An on-campus store would introduce fountain pens, thin papered notebooks and solar calculators protected by patented magic nullifier Runic arrays.
Since he was Lord Haughwards, he would be the only one to control the wards, not the headmaster. And it was easy to remove the wards that frizzled out electronic equipment at least in the outer range of the ward lines. He would use that area to build a mundane studies wing, complete with the most advanced Computer, electricals and electronic wards, and introduce bicycles, rollerblades and skateboards to the campus and even encourage the students to utilize them. The Quidditch pitch would be demolished in favour of an indoor stadium for sports, including quidditch and a magically heated Olympic swimming pool and secure, warded duelling platforms by degrees for the children to practice in. The Black lake would be magically turned into a skating rink during winters for ice hockey, figure skating, and fun times.
Jaime and Neville would eventually team tag and rope Luna Lovegood, later known as Lady Longbottom, into introducing, secretly editing and managing a Hogwarts newspaper run by a select team of Hogwarts Elves as reporters; called Hogwarts Herald, the school paper would quickly replace Daily Prophet as the primary source of news. It would be the only paper to catch glimpses of their favourite hero, Harry Potter exploring the Muggle world; it would be the single most cleverest way to educate the wizards about the Muggle world, cultures, technologies and advancements, and the hidden dangers and issues as well.
Within a week of its launch inside the school, the newspaper's popularity and demand would explode and quickly make itself available for the general public. It would also eventually evolve into an exclusive publisher for the Harry Potter Explores the World column and focus on both Non-Magical and Magical sides of the far-flung corners of the world. Twenty years later, these articles would be compiled, edited and formed into a best seller, and especially popular with the magical kids.
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