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The First War

Twenty years ago, there was waged a horrible war in the wizarding community. A terrible wizard, who had emerged after a decade of transformation had developed a following of loyal, albeit dark, but loyal followers. It was during this span of 15 years that one man ran so ramped throughout the wizarding world that his name was never spoken. It was never spoken by those scared of him; however there was a group of powerful wizards that fought against this great, dark wizard. It was the Order of the Phoenix that stood against this wizard and fought until his untimely defeat at the hands on a one year boy. How is it possible that the Order of the Phoenix headed by possibly the greatest wizard of modern time, Albus Dumbledore, didn't defeat the great wizard Voldemort, but a small boy with a small patch of untidy black hair, and piercing green eyes... Harry Potter, how is it possible that he managed to live, and defeat the dark lord?

It was during the day of his defeat that wizards threw all conspicuousness aside; however for the Order of the Phoenix, it was a new beginning. They had lost members in the war, most noticeably the Potters, James and Lily, who were murdered at the hands of Voldemort himself who then turned his wand upon Harry, a fatal mistake. And the Longbottom's, Frank and Alice, who were tortured with the Cruciatus Curse until they went insane at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange. Both had produced a child in the month of July, Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom.

Months before either were born, a tall, fluttery woman with large glasses and dresses that gave her the impression of being a large insect had applied for position of Divinations teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. That night, coupled in the Leaky Cauldron, a very popular pub and portal to wizarding street Diagon Alley, with none other than the headmaster of Hogwarts and founder of the Order, the very faulty Sybll Trelawney, great-great granddaughter of legendary Seer Cassandra Trelawney, gave a prophecy of her own. Within that room she gave a prophecy, a prophecy that had to deal with the end of the Dark Lord, his reemergence, and the death of either he, or the one that he marks as his equal.

And while it is thought that only Albus Dumbledore had heard the whole thing that in fact was not the case. For on that fateful night, there had been a speck on the windowsill that no one had paid the slightest attention to, a red bug with black spots, a beetle to be precise.

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