Chapter 23
Harry finally finished Godric's journal and put it down. Silent tears were flowing from his eyes as he thought about the life of the most celebrated founder of Hogwarts. People thought that Godric had been the epitome of goodness, while Salazar had been the evil wizard of the time; oh, how wrong they were.
Godric had been the first born son of the Gryffindor family. The Gryffindors were an old family, they along with Slytherins they were members in Potters court hundreds of years ago and also principal Bannermen of Potter. It was during such time that Godric had met Salazar, a boy five years younger than him, but they didn't have much contact during their childhood. He was taught magic by his parents and other tutors, and once he was an adult, he travelled abroad to learn the various branches of magic. While in Magical Italy, which still carried its traditions from the Ancient Roman Empire, he met a woman who was a year older than him, but she too wanted to go abroad and learn all about magic. Her name was Laurentia, and after fighting and convincing her parents, the pair travelled extensively for many years, learning various branches of magic. In Egypt, Godric won the friendship of the Goblins; a warrior race, known for their expertise in banking, warding, warfare and creation of weapons from magical metals that only their race could work with. He spent a lot of time with them, learning about their culture and how to wield a sword. Once, he saved a bunch of goblins from a mob of muggles who wanted to kill them, so the leader of the Goblin community finally accepted Godric's request and made a special sword for him as a reward (Godric still had to pay for it of course). It was a four-foot long blade, made of Goblin silver, so it was very conductive for magic use. While he was quite good with his wand, he couldn't help but be at home with his new sword. He spent many years enchanting and enhancing the sword to his style. By this time, he and Laurentia had fallen in love and had decided to get married.
After talking to her parents and returning to Britain to talk to his family, it was finally decided to hold the marriage ceremony in Rome. Once they were married, Godric and Laurentia returned to Britain, hoping to create a better life for the people of their country. But there were problems as witch hunts grew in popularity; if muggles detected witches and wizards or even magical creatures, they would be attacked in their sleep and killed in their beds. The muggles would then drag the mutilated bodies for all to see. These instances horrified Godric, but he felt that once they could explain to the muggles that magic wasn't evil, everything would work out and both magicals and muggles could coexist in peace.
It was a few short months into their marriage that Laurentia found herself pregnant. The couple was ecstatic and nine months later, Laurentia gave birth to a girl, who they named Geraldine Gryffindor. When Geraldine was only a year old, tragedy struck the family; Godric's entire family had been targeted due to them being witches and wizards. His parents and siblings were all killed by a large mob of muggles. Godric was filled with rage and wanted vengeance, but Laurentia managed to calm him down. It was then that Godric decided to rethink his plan for muggles and magicals coexisting with each other. During his tour of Magical China and India, he had come to a startling realization that the magical community of both countries had separated from their muggle counterparts because of all the violence and instability in their countries brought about by the muggles. While the muggle communities were unstable, the magical communities still thrived, keeping the rich heritage and knowledge of their ancient traditions and magic alive.
Life went on, but Laurentia had made a friend from Scotland named Rowena Ravenclaw. She was several years older than Godric and Laurentia and had come back to Britain from Albania, where her husband's family was nobility. Godric was very impressed with the older woman's sheer intelligence and talent with her wand. The Gryffindor family slowly got to know Rowena, who became close to Laurentia, and thus as an extension, her husband Godric.
But unrest in the muggles soon found its way to strike again. One night, when Godric was away on business, the muggles attacked his home. An entire mob of muggles managed to overpower Laurentia, and burned her at the stake, while her six-year-old daughter was badly injured. Luckily, Laurentia had managed to send a message to her best friend Rowena, who arrived quickly and managed to save Geraldine, but was unable to save her friend. Laurentia Gryffindor was killed.
Rowena sent a message to Godric telling him to come back to Britain as soon as she could, while she took little Geraldine to a well-known healer of the time – Helga Hufflepuff. Although Geraldine was badly injured, Helga was able to save her life. Godric returned to find his wife dead, and his only daughter badly wounded. Rage filled him in a way he had never felt before. He headed back to the village where his family had lived and slaughtered the muggles; every single one of them. The village was a bloodbath, and no one would forget the sight of Godric Gryffindor holding a sword in one hand and a wand in the other, killing everyone he could find, magic radiating off of him in waves, his face in tears. If the muggles wanted to see death so badly, he would show them what death really was.
Godric then spent his time raising his daughter. He got closer to the Potter family, who had constructed a castle with a heavy amount of wards and a fortressbecause they had given up ruling Britain and established wizengamot but still had a large army and Bannermen they had built the castle for their family to stay here as their castle in Dover was for ruling Britain but now it was nothing but army camp and they wanted to leave life peacefully. Godric then decided to do the same and built a castle at the outskirts of the same village where he was born; now known as Godric's Hollow. Only when he was sure that his daughter wouldn't be attacked did he breathe a sigh of relief.
It was during this time that he had met his childhood acquaintance Salazar Slytherin, who Godric had heard was in a similar predicament like him. Salazar's family too was murdered when he was just a child and had grown up as an orphan, using his cunning nature to survive and manage his fortune. But unlike Godric, Salazar was more in control of his emotions and used his sly and cunning personality to win. He was not a battle mage like Godric, but he was very knowledgeable in obscure magical arts. When Godric found himself very troubled with his past, Salazar taught him how to control his thoughts and emotions, which was basically Occlumency. Godric also taught Salazar many of the battle spells which he had learned during his travels. It was during this time that their friendship deepened.
The two men realised that the witches and wizards were in grave danger and It was then that Rowena came up with the idea of a school. The idea was accepted by Godric, Salazar and Helga, who had by then become Rowena's friend.
They chose a remote location in Scotland, in the middle of a forest, away from prying eyes. They had to ensure that no one trespassed and attacked innocent children. They pooled all their money and constructed a castle. They collectively used their knowledge of magic to erect various wards around the place, to make the castle a magical fortress, something which Godric remembered the Potters stressing about. Once construction was completed, Helga named it Hogwarts. The four then spread the message among the magical community, so that parents would send their children to the newly constructed magical school. Godric personally went to Potter Castle to talk to them, and soon, Alan Potter was the first student enrolled at Hogwarts. People when they saw their prince joining the school sent their children.
As knowledge of Hogwarts spread, many more parents sent their children to the school, so that they could learn from the four learned witches and wizards. Godric specialized in Battle magic and Transfiguration; Rowena focussed on Charms, Runes and spell crafting; Helga specialized in Healing, while Salazar specialized in Rituals,Potions and other obscure arts of magic. Rowena even developed an open ward which was so large, that it could detect magical children born anywhere in the British Isles.
It was then that the problems of muggle-borns came to be. None of them were comfortable with magical children being raised by muggles, so finally Salazar came up with the idea of taking the children from their muggle parents, obliviating the parents of the knowledge of their children and fully integrate them into the magical world. Godric was very leery about taking children away from their parents; he couldn't ever imagine what he would do if someone took Geraldine from him without his consent. Helga pointed out that even if they took the children, they needed people to raise them, as the four of them couldn't do it themselves as they were very busy. While the plan was accepted by all four of them, Salazar acknowledged that it was very difficult to implement it.
It was some years later that Godric found out that his daughter and Alan Potter were seeing each other. He was quite happy with the union, and soon the couple married. Rowena too had a daughter named Helena Ravenclaw, who grew up at Hogwarts with her parents, as Rowena's husband shuffled between living at Hogwarts and going to Albania to take care of his family business. Helga had several children with her husband, who was the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts. Although he remained unmarried, Salazar too wanted children, so he adopted a young boy who was also a parselmouth and gave him his own name – Salazar Slytherin Jr. But Godric had years later always suspected Salazar to have had a biological child of his own; a girl who Salazar was very fond of and not to mentioned possessed the man's vibrant green eyes, but Godric never found out if the girl was indeed Salazar's daughter or not.
Salazar Jr grew up at Hogwarts, but he tended to be very arrogant, and he looked at everyone as his inferior. The boy also hated Godric with a passion, which annoyed his father, as Salazar and Godric considered each other brothers in all but blood. Sure the two men had their differences because of their opposite personalities as Godric was loud and brash while Salazar was calm and cunning, but they both counted on each other as family. This slowly created a rift between Salazar and his adopted son. Several years later, when Salazar Jr did something unforgivable, he banished his son from Hogwarts, telling him to never come back ever again.
By this time, the founders were not their youthful selves. Rowena's husband had passed away, and her daughter had disappeared, and so had her diadem. While witches and wizards lived much longer than muggles, emotional distress tended to make them age a lot faster in their later years rather than physical problems. Rowena was dying, and there was nothing Helga could do to prevent it. Even in her death bed, she craved and cried for her daughter, begging Godric to bring her back so that she could see her daughter one final time before she died. By the time Godric had found out that Helena Ravenclaw had been killed by the Baron, Rowena had breathed her last.
It had been a sorrowful time at Hogwarts after they lost Rowena. But the other three decided to move on, and ensure that Rowena's name would live on at the school. After a span of a few years, whispers began reaching the school that Salazar Slytherin Jr had started killing various witches, wizards and muggles alike, so that he could become the ruler of Britain. Salazar finally had enough of his son's actions, so he decided to go confront his son and end his life once and for all. Godric had wanted to come along with him, but Salazar refused, stating that this was an internal matter between father and son. Salazar left Hogwarts so as to stop Salazar Jr from killing any more people, against Godric's advice. That was the last time Godric saw his friend. There was no news of his death, but Godric had used an arcane spell to check if he was alive. He was devastated to find out that Salazar Slytherin had been killed by his son, Salazar Slytherin Jr.
By this time, Godric was old, and all the hardship that he had endured had weakened him. Salazar Jr launched a massive offensive at Hogwarts, hoping to take the castle by force, but was thwarted by the wards and the combined forces of Godric Gryffindor , Helga Hufflepuff and Potter army; though Helga was the one who finally fought with Salazar Jr and killed him although she died due to her injuries, while Godric dealt with Salazar's forces. But the battle had severely weakened the aged warrior, and he soon left to spend his remaining days at Potter Castle with his family.
Harry finished reading the journal he was in living room with is grandparents who had finished reading the journals. His grandfather had returned from Gryffindor castle after a tour when he came back it could clearly be seen he was impressed by the beauty of the Castle.
Suddenly a elf popped in "Master Charlus Lippy be sent by Master Arcturus who told to collect the Book" Charlus had told about Harry being chosen by Hat as righfull heir of Gryffindor the black family had congratulated harry and they were curious to read journal of Godric Gryffindor so Charlus had agreed to lend the Journals for them to read .
"Take it Lipsy" Charlus handed the book to the elf.
"Harry tomorrow James and Lilly are coming here for a important meeting which they had told it was very important as they told it involved something that why you both were targeted by voldermort" Charlus finished
"ok Grandfather I will be present. Now grandmother will you like to visit Slytherin castle with me" Harry asked smiling towards his grandmother who had wide smile on her face
"Sure we can go there after we finish the meeting tomorrow"Dorea said to harry ruffling his hair
"Harry your idea of launching communication mirror in the market has made a big success and now you had told me that something like telipisin something in muggle world that we can launch it in wizarding and make a lot of money" Charlus told Harry smiling and beaming proudly at his grandson who had told his about Mobile phone of muggle world that in wizarding world we could launch communication mirror in wizarding world charlus decided play this gamble and launched the mirrors in market and it was a success atleast something useful was done in the trip which his grandson had taken in muggle world last year with his grandmother now he had more ideas on improving it.
"Its Television it is like a big communication mirror in which we can use it instead of newspaper or we can do something like muggle movies it will earn us a lot of money" Harry told his grandfather who knew a little about muggle world as he was forced to go to shopping and trips to muggle world by his Grandmother.
"Sure we can do it. I am sure you will be a successful businessman seeing your ideas of communication mirror has already earnt us nearly a 2 to 3 billion Galleons as we have launched it in many magical countries it is a success" Charlus told Harry who just smiled
"Now can you both stop talking about your business and tell me about your progress to ask Daphne out remember Harry I don't like hiding about the contract from Daphne its not good I want you to ask her out as fast as you can" Dorea told Harry who was blushing
"Yes Grandmother I am going to ask her out this year" Harry told his Grandmother who was smiling at him and she nodded at him.
After that Harry and his grandmother left to slytherin castle which was similar to Gryffindor castle except wherever there was Red and Gold colour in Gryffindor Castle here in Slytherin castle it was Green and Silver colour and it had big dungeons when he questioned the elfs which were serving the castle from many generations and maintaining it he got to know Master Slytherin used to keep his familiar Basilisk and last anyone other that Salazar to enter the castle was Amarantha and her Husband and daughter after which no one returned and elfs were more than happy to serve their master Harry explored the dungeons and then he learned that the Dungeons connected to Castle grounds Harry decided to bring salina here until she was needed in hogwarts were she could live peacefully
Review Please. I had finished Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 so i m posting these but i will not post any further until i finish editing all previous chapters till then Good bye.