HARRY POTTER and the KNIGHTS of GILNEAS

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NOTE: This is an idea rough, intended for commentary and suggestions prior to possibly posting HP: KoG as a separate story. As such, it is very condensed when compared to a proper story, containing as it does, a collection of cut scenes rather than properly fleshed out chapters.

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CHAPTER ONE: A Castle, a Village, and a Forest Arrive…

"This is intolerable!" Headmaster Albus Dumbledor stated with conviction to Minister Cornelius Fudge and his party. "First you allow a Dementor, of all things, on the Hogwarts Express, where one of my professors has to fend it off from a nearly successful attempt at delivering its kiss to a group of students. Then, as if that wasn't enough that just the one Dementor nearly went out of control, you post a whole contingent of them around both Hogwarts and Hogsmede, providing those despicable creatures with even more temptations to go rogue…"

"Now see here, Dumbledor," Minister Fudge interjected in an attempt to reassert his authority, "with Sirius Black not only still on the loose, but actually sighted around Hogsmede and even within Hogwarts itself, it is imperative that the Dementors be allowed into the castle itself for the safety of the students!"

"Safety?" Dumbledore thundered incredulously. "Those foul creatures invaded the Quiddich field during a game, causing widespread panic and once again nearly kissing several students! And you want me to let them into the castle where they can try again? Have you gone mad?"

"I have full approval from the Board of Governors…"

"The Board of Governors does not have the authority to compromise the safety of Hogwarts by permitting abominations such as Dementors inside its walls!"

"But Sirius Black…"

"Is a mere fraction of the threat in comparison!"

"And what else do you propose," Lucias Malfoy remarked disdainfully, quite pleased that the situation had gotten so far under Dumbledor's skin. "The Aurors are already stretched too thin as it is. We cannot ask them to provide sufficient coverage to protect the school."

"If the ministry had refrained from cutting more and more of the D.M.L.E.'s budget every year for the past ten years, we wouldn't have a shortage of Aurors!"

As Fudge was sputtering, trying to come up with a rebuttal for his implied incompetence, Malfoy elected to repeat his own argument. "And what do you propose to do? It has already been demonstrated that the much vaunted wards of Hogwarts have been insufficient to keep out a madman like Black."

"You want to see just how effective the Founders made the wards of Hogwarts? Fine then, perhaps a demonstration is in order" And so saying, Albus Dumbledor held his want high and intoned, "By the Authority granted to the Headmaster of Hogwarts by the Four Founders, I invoke the protections of the most ancient and powerful of the defensive wards: Grand Siege! So mote it be."

With a flash, the castle started to shake.

And then reality seemed to twist sideways…

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It is most unfortunate to note that much of the documentation of many ancient wards throughout the wizarding world had become lost or mistranslated over the centuries since they had first been emplaced. For the Grand Siege was not, as Dumbledor supposed, the ultimate defense of Hogwarts itself, but rather the ultimate defense of Magical Britain as envisioned when witches and wizards started to withdraw and hide from the nonmagical world.

All throughout the British Isles, every bit of magic, every witch and wizard, every magical creature and mystical plant, every warded property and enchanted item vanished. Disappearing only to be replaced by something else.

And, in many cases, this something else proved to be quite horrible indeed…

(Authors note: not sure how plausible this plot device is. Might use a different triggering scenario involving the Department of Mysteries instead…)

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Silvanus Windrunner shrieked in frustration when the scope of this latest setback became apparent.

She had been just about to enter the Gilneas City in order to draw out that fool of a king, Genn Greymane, in a personal confrontation so that the idiot worgen inflicted leader could be assassinated by one of her archers armed with an arrow laced with silver and wolves bane when she was forced to resist a great and terrible pulling sensation. And while she managed to resist this mysterious force, she watched helplessly as the bulk of her invasion force staged in the Northern Headlands and Northgate Wood simply vanished, to be replaced by trees, centaurs, giant spiders, and a meriad of other things not under her control!

Oh, there were still some Forsaken left, and perhaps a vat or two of the plague, but there was no longer nearly enough of either to continue with her grand strategy at this time, so she opted to cut her losses and retreat, leaving only those forced already engaged in the Battle of Gilneas City behind so that the precious plague vats that remained could be withdrawn and recultivated once more into sufficient amounts to go forward with her plans.

And that wasn't even the worst of it. Not even her forces in southern Silverpine were spared, and those Forsaken left behind had proven to be ineffective for wiping out the remaining Worgen in Pyrewood Village, and there was a new village where the crater left behind by Dalaran used to be. One apparently as heavily populated by mages as Dalaran itself!

Hopefully, whatever had caused this bizarre transference did not extend all the way into Tirisfal Glades itself, or she would be faced with the second fall of Lorderan as the Scourge swept unhindered from the Plaguelands and into Undercity…

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(NOTE: This is nowhere near a complete chapter, as it obviously need to be fleshed out more. Comments and suggestions for how to alter or expand on these ideas before the official first chapter is posted as a seperate story are more than welcome).