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Chapter1 – Trouble Across the Sea
Thousands of miles away from Harry, thousands of miles away from Hogwarts, Voldemort's evil could be felt. It wasn't only in England and the rest of Europe that felt the effects of the war, but in nearly every other country in the world. America was no exception. Most European wizards and witches regarded their American counterparts with wariness. The European wizarding community believed that the American wizards where all like cowboys or something to that nature. Of course while their prejudice could hold true to some of the American wizards, many where just like the rest of the worlds magic population.
In fact America had its own school of witchcraft and wizardry, Woodshen, named after the schools founder Herbert Woodshen. Herbert Woodshen was also the first wizard to go to America in the mid 1600's. While not as big or prominent as the schools in Europe and other older countries, it still trained many young witches and wizards.
When Voldemort had first attacked and tried to gain power, Europe wasn't the only place to feel the pressure. There were many Death Eaters in America that faithfully served the Dark Lord and did his will. There were several battles between the American Death Eaters, their allied and the good American wizards. Since there weren't very many wizards in America, and there were many more Death Eaters, they were fighting a losing war with the Dark Powers. It wouldn't be long before the Death Eaters would overrun the American wizards when all of a sudden the Death Eaters disappeared. It wasn't long before they had learned what had happened, that Harry Potter had defeated the Dark Lord, and he was only an infant still. So they set about the task of rebuilding what was destroyed.
Life returned to normal, as normal as they could possibly be at least. There was the problem of a large number of orphan children, whose parents had fallen victim to Death Eaters, werewolves, or the Inferius. Most of the children were able to find adoptive parents, but not all of them. Those who were unable to be adopted by parents were adopted by the Woodshen School. There those children lived during the school year then went to live in a school owned and protected building during the summer months. Captured Death Eaters and Werewolves were sent to Great Britain for trial by the Ministry of Magic and many were sent to Azkaban.
After several years of peace, the Death Mark was once again seen in the skies in Great Britain at the Quidditch Championship and the news quickly reached American ears. IT wasn't long afterwards that Death Eaters were once again seen running around causing chaos, though they were not great in numbers. Two years after the first Dark Mark was seen, Death Eaters were causing destruction in mass numbers. There were now open battles between Death Eaters and the hitwizards, who were the American version of the Aurors of Great Britain. The Woodshen School officials decided that the school was no longer safe for the students to learn. It was decided that the students should be sent away to continue their education in safety. However, with the recent attacks by the Death Eaters many families had gone into hiding, bringing their children with them. There were perhaps twenty or so students left in the school. Most of those were orphans from the recent attacks, while there were still some of them that had been orphans from the first war with Voldemort.