CH 2: Sickness

The LeGrange's were a rather prominent pureblood family in France that had none of the prejudices of so many other pureblood families especially many of those in England. The family currently consisted of Pierre LeGrange Father, a distinguished looking gentleman with square features, brown straight hair and blue eyes; built like a bean stalk he was thin but defined and stood at 5"8. Antoinette LeGrange (nee Durand) was herself from a noble pureblood family that was steeped in tradition thus also believing in betrothal between families of the same or of similar standing. She had blond curly hair and hazel eyes; she had the body of a ballet dancer and stood at 5"7. While her family didn't necessarily have the same pure-blooded prejudices that they once held due to the realization that many pureblood families were having to inbreed which they knew was far from beneficial to the future survival of any good pureblood family. This view would later serve a purpose to her family. Richard was a two-year-old toddler with mousey brown curly hair and hazel eyes; there was also his six-year-old sister Marianne with sandy blond hair and blue eyes and four-year-old sister Charlotte with her blond curly hair and blue eyes. The previous year the family had lost their older son Pierre aged eight to Pneumonia. The family was always close knit with the parents doting on their children, but with the loss of one of them, the parents became even more protective of their offspring. Richard now being the only living heir was particularly sheltered in order to protect him. Unfortunately, this would not be enough.

In the August of 1958, the LeGrange's were enjoying their summer at their castle Sûrrefuge in Ajaccio, France. Young Richard became very ill; not knowing what it was that was ailing the young wizard, they returned to their home; Château Jardiner, in Villemur, Toulouse, France. They had their family Medi-wizard attend the young boy but were still left none the wiser on what was wrong with him. They couldn't be sure that he hadn't had a curse placed upon him or if someone had given him a potion, as a result of these events the family would later dispense with human help in favour of the trusted elf help.

The Medi-wizard continued to test the young child while his condition continued to deteriorate. The family was stricken with grief and fear that they would loose another child. It turned out that he had somehow contracted a strain of Rotanny Fever an old childhood disease that had not been around since the 15th century. Treating it was just as dire as finding out what it was by the time a cure was produced, the boy was close to death. Having been administered it was a matter of waiting, no-one knew that there would be adverse affects that would effect the boy for the rest of his life. Being that they were a powerful family and the boy had already shown a talent for basic wand-less magic, because of his age they had high hopes for him, they just prayed that this illness would not affect his ability.

The years continued to pass and young Richards magical abilities didn't seem to be advancing but his parents still paid no heed to it, believing that he just may have a control of his magic and was not using it. He was like all pureblood children, home schooled by a tutor and although the tutor had pointed out the lack magical usage by the young wizard to his family, they never gave a thought to the sickness that almost took his life a number of years previous until the lack of a letter from Caste Veneficus Academy for Wizards failed to appear, (it is a smaller school but his parents don't want him going to Durmstrang as they don't believe in their ethics) Antoinette became concerned that maybe he had been effected and so he was taken for testing at Regius Crepidoinis of Research in Presencia of Veneficus Morbus (The Royal Foundation of Research into Effects of magical Diseases). After a number of tests it was deemed that young Richard was now a Claudo Vires(Blocked Power) and would be for the rest of his life, they were told "it is like his magic has been bound and there is no way of reversing the effects. Although he will have some emotional problems it shouldn't be so bad since he will have grown up and not known what it was like to be able to use magic before loosing it. When or if he decides to get married, any children he has will not be affected and they will be magical, presuming he marries a pureblood of course".

The family was devastated by the news but instead of send him away from the family and disowning him like so many pureblood families would do in such situations, his parents agreed to keep him at home along with the secret and continue to home school him in hopes that they could improve his situation. Unfortunately by the time he was of age there was still no improvement. The prospect of a good union through betrothal would not happen since any prospective families had reservations about their daughters marrying a wizard that had no magically ability, those that were prepared to do so found Antoinette's resistance; although they would never know why, she remained adamant that her son should still marry someone of fine breeding and unfortunately those on offer where far from such.

So Richard remained at home with his parents with no idea if he would ever get married, he took up reading and studied about muggle life since living as an adult with no magic in the magical world was depressing him. He decided that a career might help stem his boredom and so studied and trained to be a dentist. Pierre his father had reservations at first but then realised that there was little else could he do, his mother accepted that he needed something to do with his life and understood that he felt isolated so she supported his decision.

1975 – 1981

Voldemort was rising in power in England; recruiting purebloods from throughout Europe and Great Britain to aid his cause, some recruitment was also forced. Antoinette was worried though because this Voldemort believed in the destruction of anything less than pure and with Richard's inability to perform magic, Voldemort was sure going to destroy him. She discussed with her husband the options they faced in order to save their only son. There was a story amongst purebloods of a family in England that had been cursed and thus lost their powers. After much research they found the story to be true and set about arranging a marriage between their son and the daughter of this Allonby family. It was arranged that Richard would take on the life as a muggle under pseudonym name of Granger, with the Allonby's curse this would of course mean that their would be no magical children produced unless the curse was of course broken. This was considered to maybe, being a good thing for the families' protection though the breaking of the curse would be looked into and researched in the hope that it could be broken if the downfall of Voldemort was successful.

On February 14th 1978 Jane Allonby married Richard Granger and they moved to a moderate home in Kent, on September 19th 1979 Jane gave birth to a baby girl who they named Hermione Jane Granger. Voldemort was still a threat but since they lived as far as possible from the magical community and had no contact with it in any way or form, they remained safe. They kept on living as muggles and opened up their own dentistry business which became rather successful and lived happily unaware of the happenings in the magical world. Almost four years had past when Richards' family heard what happened to Voldemort in July 1981 and they considered making contact and bringing him and his family back to the magical world but Richards father felt that it would not be a advisable since they could not be sure of what exactly had happened to Voldemort and the family was happy where they were. Richards' mother missed her only son and wanted dearly to meet her granddaughter but agreed with her husband. They were keeping an eye on the family through means unknown to Richard so that is how they knew that Richard had a daughter and they were happy. So the Grangers remained muggles for the foreseeable future.

TRANSLATIONS – are done via a site Intertran, so sorry if they are wrong.

(Latin) Caste Veneficus Academy Purely Magical Academy

Rotanny Fever was a childhood disease that actually did exist once upon a time but there are no records of what the symptoms were or how it would affect the child.