Disclaimer: I don't own it; just having a go at fanfiction to see if I can em-provvvee my Eeng-lish.

Dreamer's Note: No, I won't call myself an author. Every half an hour before I sleep, I'll have some idea popped up in my mind before I drift away in my slumber. Sometimes, I wrote and deleted paragraphs after paragraphs just to suit my plot in the future of the story. I'm not very good at writing a poem or such thing, so mostly when witchcraft is mentioned in my story, I'll just say, some verses were chanted or the incantation was there, but not the thing itself. Bear with me.

The True Journey of Harry Potter

Chapter 7 – What's going on around us?

Greeting! My name's Narry, an appointed narrator for this chapter. You see, Adis's not very good at writing conversation, so instead, he hired me to tell you what's going on around the world while Harry is having his wonderful childhood learning about his family's and the Dursley's magic.

Let's see, where should we started? Right!

The Guild of Magic

I was just going to tell you about what's going on at the moment, but Adis has another idea. He wants me to tell you a little more about the GoM's history.

In ancient time, Merlin and Morgana built a castle in the Arctic Circle. You might wonder how, well, do you honestly think there's only icecap there? Of course not, it's just what the muggle who see nothing past its glamour saw. Anyway, I'm not very good at describing the surrounding and how magic works. So, just note that there's a castle there, alright?

The purpose of GoM is mainly to oversee the Magical World. Mostly, the core of GoM just sits in the meeting room and talks and lets the world be. Until such time that the Magical World risks destroyed by the fool of a Dark Lord or the damn of a Light Lord.

The core of GoM was led by Merlin and Morgana, who after pronounced the representatives of Magic itself had decided to construct the GoM. They contacted several Arch Mage around the world and got some agreement with those. In various parts of the world, those Arch Mages were treated like Gods. They were worshipped. Since then, not many magical beings could trained themselves to be Arch Mage, either they lacked of power, their channels could not develop enough, or Magic itself felt they were not worthy.

Therefore, our M couple, Merlin and Morgana, was granted immortality for the time being until they could find a suitable successor. It was centuries later that they found four hopefuls. The M couple tried to train them and with luck, two of the four hopefuls were almost selected. When I say almost, you may wonder why.

Let's see, Godric Griffindor Grants and his wife-to-be, Rowena Ravenclaw Aries, were so prejudiced against the Dark. They could not grasp the basic that Dark is not just evil and Light is not always good. While, Salazar Slytherin Guant and their other friend, Helga Hufflepuff Prewitt, was not so bigot, they were not powerful or intelligent enough. Oh, they were good. They knew their fields of magic, but to have them as leader of such important organization, our M couple just could not allow that.

So, the four hopefuls were helped in their dream, to build a place for all magic users. And Hogwarts was established. End of story for the first four hopefuls.

After that first try, our M couple was granted many opportunities. All failed in their attempts. Magic seeing their defeats, granted them Avalon and infinite lives with a condition that they remained true to the perspective of Magic.

By the time, the next leader was to be found, several members of the core had been removed. So many pure-blood bigotries and the idea were spread widely around the world. So, there were only few humans left as the members of the core.

The core was restructured. In the middle was the leader and there were Light and Dark sides. Humans had to choose though; you cannot be neutral after all. Depended on their preference of Magic ways, some chose to the Light, some to the Dark. Magical Beings did not have such choices. They were born either Dark or Light and they are until the end of Time.

As GoM was and still is a secret organization, only those selected were introduced. It was passed down by blood lines as a heritage until such time that the family or race was found unfitted. Wonderful as it may be, Magical Beings are still in the core, never wavered from the perspective of Magic.

On the Light side, we have most of humans. You can't just name the family since family names changed over times and moved from one to another. To name a few though, let's see, our M couple line passed down from the Ambrosius and Le Fay and the Le Fay was gone after a few generations. The Ambrosius, after a few heirs, in the dark time changed their names to Evans. The Potters, an Asian immigrate, descended from the Arch Mage Intra. Their family ended membership of the core when one Charles Potter became bigot with blood purity, luckily, the next heir was raised by the grandparents and did not hold the same thought. However, they were not reinstated to the organization again. Once you were gone, you are gone. There was no coming back unless the core members decide it. The Dumbledore line was once there. Who else? Ah, a remarkable family, the Weasley, with a reason that would be explained in a moment. The Aries was gone with Rowena when she married and agreed with her husband idea of bigotry against the Dark. That was also the same as the Grants.

The Veelas, Centaurs, and Merpeople are the only magical beings core members of the Light side.

To the Dark side, there is no human member left. You can't really think those who gone dark would remain true to the perspective of Magic, can you? There were some worth mentioned though. Let's start with the Malfoys then. The feud between the Malfoys and Weasleys actually started in one of the annual meetings of GoM core members. There are several meetings around the year, though the big one is the annual meeting where all races and families sent their delegations. It started out fine until the Malfays delegate insulted the Weasleys of their money issues. It went down hills until Merlin got enough and announced them prohibited of attending further meetings. The next family worth mentioned, if you can't guess, is the Blacks. The Blacks family motto used to be 'toujours pur au coeur' or 'always pure at heart'. Once one of the Heads became a Dark Lord and started wreaking havoc to the world, the family was banned and thus resulting the motto to change. It was just 'toujours pur' or 'always pure' nowadays.

The Dark side core members are Goblins, Vampires, Hags, and Werewolves. A few races were banned from the core such as, the Dementors, Giants, and Leprechauns.

Dark Elves were once there, but after became extinct by the hunt of the High Elves due to some misguides planted by a bigot Light Lord resulting the High Elves being punished by Magic to become house-elves and unworthy of being the core members to the Light side.

History could teach us many things; one thing that should be heeded though, is that 'Never Ever Anger Magic!' Look at house-elves nowadays; such a pathetic creatures; powerful and intelligent, but still pathetic.

'Never Ever Anger Magic', NEAM for short, became the motto of the GoM soon after the feat.

Oh, look at the time! I'm babbling, am I not? Anyway, we are now going to observe one of the annual meetings of the core, just a few days after Harry left the Avalon.

"Welcome, honorable delegates," the green-eyes man with a bright green robe greeted, "to the year 1995 annual meeting of the Guild of Magic."

After the show of weapons and magic to be recognized, the meeting started. Felix, the phoenix of Avalon, who landed on the shoulder of Nicolas Flamel, the leader of GoM core, gave a soft thrill. Several Dark members felt chill ran down their spines of their very beings, while the Light members felt heart-brightened. It was a reaction that all Dark members understood well; Light and Dark are different, they could not be mixed, but coexisted.

"Mr. Flamel," the Goblin King, Ragnok the tenth, started. "I hope Mr. Potter's doing well?"

Nicholas nodded, "He's doing very well, even better than we expected."

"So he met with the M couple, then," Queen Isabella of the Vampires stated.

"Mars is starting to brighten, I believe the basic training has gone well," Torian, the Centaurs Elder spoke up. It was always about stars when he said something, but the other members understood him nonetheless.

"Grandfather Merlin mentioned that Harry will be meeting them again once the family's magic was learnt," Nicholas replied and smiled. "I was hoping it would be soon; can't wait to meet him myself."

"Is he one of the hopefuls?" a very old and scary human-like lady quipped in. Mother of all Hags, she was called. "If he failed, this time, I'd like to request him as a meal," she finished with a feral grin. Everyone knew she did not really mean it, though who know what a hag would do, really.

Some member chuckled at the statement Mother Hags made, while the humans members were quite unnerved. Devanate, a human delegate from the Intra direct-line, looked up at her. "I hope he does not fail," he said with a very Asian accent, "he is the only one who has potential to be my family heir since I don't have a child, not that I haven't tried and you know it." The members were slightly somber at that.

Okay, that's only the part I want to show you. If you want more, tell Adis. Now, let's continue a bit about the GoM members, who are humans.

Remember what Devanate said? It seemed that the members from Asia have reduced dramatically, not that Magic is gone from the area, it is just that the Arch Mage Intra's family line and several others were started to go without available heirs. Either it was because of their long life-span or that they had lived in peace far more than the other continents or that they had inter-married far too much and most families are gone merging into each other. Heirs die out even before the current Heads perished. The Intra family represented the southern part of Asia, including India, Thailand, Burma (now called Myanmar), Malay, Khmer, and Java. From other countries, there are only the Emperor of China and the Emperor of Japan. The Arabian countries delegates had long been merged with the Egypt Empire leading by the magical Pharaoh.

The new world, as the America continent is called, has no representative in this meeting. The local Indian Sachem, though still being part of the GoM, has requested not to attend and receive only the minutes of the meeting sent. He or she, once in a while, comes up joining to report of their home-country local events. Sometimes, the Sachem would request help, but very seldom.

The largest part is European countries. Many families had their participations in GoM, but years after years passed and it is reduced to only the Flamels, Ollivanders, Delacours and Krums.

The Delacours is now representing both the family and the race of Veelas as Queen Aphrodite's only daughter, Apolline, married to Monsieur Delacour, the Head of the family.

So the GoM are doing their job well and developing lots of gadgets and inventories to be used in their courses. Let's see to other organization.

The Squib Society

It has started when the magical line of Evans met some other pureblood lines, whose children started to be born squib by the actions of their parents or grandparents, which anger Magic itself. Evageline Evans, the line's matriarch at the time took pity to those children. They were casted out and disowned by their families and some were even left on the street. She took them in and after consulting with her husband, who, in turn, consulted with his ancestors who were and still are alive, started the society of squib children.

The children grew up learning of their heritage. One day, a Dursley suggested they took revenges on their magical family. Evageline stopped them just in time before Donovel Dursley would go and kill his grandparents. She led them to the right path to take on the family with the non-bloody way. It seemed Magic had not granted their family with any magical child. One by one, those bigot families' heads noticed that none of their children had produced a magical child. So, once the noble and ancient house of Evans had contacted them about their abandoned children, they were so submissive to their families' faiths and accepted the idea of leaving the magical world and practiced the only possible way of magic available to those squibs; the witchcraft.

You may wonder if the Evans line was magical, then how come they are in the Squib Society? Well, let's just say, Love is a strong matter. The Evans line became squib by their choice and with their ancestors, our M couple's consent too. One Mr. Adrian Evans married to a squib named Celestine Crouch, resulting with their child born squib.

The Evans line, though continued with squibs until recent, Magic has once granted them a magical child, a boy named Nicholas Evans. Nicholas would love to carry on the Evans name if not for Merlin suggestion that he started his own family name. Not that he looked down upon his own family, but the Evans line would have their child born squib until merged with others. It was Magic in the play and Merlin knew better that Nicolas would last longer than his own child or grandchild. Nicholas Evans became Nicholas Flamel with a very tight relationship with his Evans family. Sometimes, when the need arose, the Flamel family would support the Evans until it was stable once again. This was secret among secrets of the Evans family passed down only to the rightful heir or heiress. When there was only an heiress, the husband should renounce his family name and joined into the Evans instead, thus keeping the line long span.

The Evans was voted as the leader of the Squib Society for their support from the start and their open-mind. Even, the land where the Gathering Hall was built in had been the Evans'.

Years after years, the society started to drift apart. The family secrets became more strictly kept to themselves resulting that some family practiced their magic through witchcraft less and less; it also could be because the family heads lived longer than their children too. Nowadays, as you may notice, though the society is still around, most families do not know that they could still do magic to some extent any more. As such, there are only two families remained that still practicing magic, the Dursleys and the Evans.

Perce Evans was a notable leader of the Squib Society. Being a democrat, he proposed the council body for the society, which received well within the members. Seven noble families were chosen and every member of the families was such high-regarded that the council members remained with the seven families until the disbandment was announced several years ago.

The councilors are from the family of Androix, Beastry, Cornell, Dursley, Evans, Freeman and Granger.

Once the magic of disbandment was lifted after Harry casted his first Rune Magic releasing his aunt's memories, the society was once again grouped. Their new project is to contact all muggles parenting muggleborn witches or wizards; to encourage and comprehend them the subjects of magic and the magical world at large.

Phew! That is a lot to take in, isn't it? Well, Adis is pulling his hairs right now doesn't know what else to put in anymore. So, my job's done here. Hopefully, he would find something for me to do again. Tada for now; enjoy the story!

Narry, the narrator signed off.

Chapter ending note: There you have it, I'm not quite sure when would be my next post seeing that I'm leaving for a few weeks trip visiting my hometown tomorrow and internet access, alright, even electricity is not something you can easily find there. I mean, imagine a small village in a rural area in the jungle of Thailand. It is deep in a valley surrounded by mountains. Communication was cut unless you are willing to walk 2 hours to get to the main road and another one and a half hour truck-ride to the closest town. It was quite a good visitting place for backpackers and home-staying travelers though. Harry might make a trip there later in his life, if I'm still on the story after our old Voldie's gone.