Rise Of House Falken (Harry Potter Fan Fiction) - Chapter 76

But the peace did not remain for long in the magical world as many problems started appearing around 800AD that threatened to destroy the peace. Around that year, in the non-magical side many wars started happening between different small kingdoms and during these wars some magical people died as collateral damage when the enemy armies destroyed their villages. This angered many wizards and witches. They had no problems with remaining hidden from the world despite superior strength but when due to the wars magical people started dying, they were angered and wanted to do something.

The magical people saw the constant wars that were happening in the non-magical world as a sign of them being unfit of being rulers. Also the magical people did not want non magical people to rule them. Thus many magical families decided to take the power into their hands. To do this, the magical families formed their own small kingdoms and started conquering other smaller kingdoms to become a decent large size kingdom. They still decided to hide their magic and fought battles the normal way only using some hidden magic attacks to cause large damage to their enemies when needed. They had to do hide magic since other kingdoms could use it as a reason to rally people against them and overthrow them.

This happened only in Europe. The countries in other continents did not have Europe’s problems and thus did not bother about the happenings of the mundane world. They were happy to remain hidden and live their life peacefully. With the European magical people and families concentrating more on the mundane side, the magical development slowed down in Europe compared to other places.

In Europe, the kingdoms which were secretly under rule by magical people grew into large kingdoms over a period of many years. They conquered other lands and increased the size of their kingdoms. When conflicts happened between two kingdoms under rule of magical families over land, they were resolved with secret magical duels. In this way after many years passed filled with wars and conquests almost all of Europe was taken over by large kingdoms under magical families. Britain and other countries came into being in this way.

The kings and queens ruled over their kingdoms properly. To avoid future problems, the other magical families were given noble ranks and given land to rule. The non-magical war heroes were also given noble ranks and land to rule to appease the people of the kingdom. Due to the efforts of the various magical rulers, the rate of development in the non-magical side increased exponentially. It can be concluded that the increased rate of development of Europe compared to other places was mainly due to the actions of magical rulers.

But all was not well. For some years it was calm but later big problems started appearing. The magical people who did not belong to large families did not like the fact that they and the non-magical people had equal rights in the kingdom under the rule of magical people. They did not like the fact that they were not given special status in kingdoms ruled by magical people. These people were supported by some small noble magical families who wanted to make use of the conflict to rise up in ranks. This led to many battles happening in the magical side while the mundane side was comparatively calmer.

To make matters worse for the Monarchs, witch hunts started happening all around the continent. The monarchs were unable to stop the hunts from happening since the influence of the church was high and they did not want conflict with them. Due to the fact that muggleborns could not be detected early before the first accidental magic, they couldn’t do anything to stop the witch hunts. Many small children of magical families were also killed when they showed accidental magic out in the open. This same thing was happening in all countries in Europe.

The inaction of the monarchs on the perpetrators led to a lot of magical people hating them. They decided to take action on their own and started killing the perpetrators. They also attacked many churches. Many mass killings by wizards happened during that period. The monarchs executed these wizards openly to appease the church. The church had the support of the common people and the magical rulers could not do anything without facing a revolt.

The common magical people did not like this. They were the ones that were most affected by the witch hunts. They protested against the decision to execute wizards openly just to appease the muggles who they saw as inferior. The people calling for special status in the kingdom and action against the church as revenge for the witch hunts increased. The war in the magical side escalated and sides were formed.

The light side and the dark side. The light side was made up of people who wanted to find peaceful solutions for the problems and continue to rule the kingdom in the same way without prejudice against non magicals. While the dark side was made up of people who were fed of hiding from the non magicals and wanted to come out in the open and act against them. The dark side also contained people who wanted all magicals to be given the special status.

The difference in the opinions led to wars in the magical world between the light and dark side. This started the downhill slope in the development of the magical world. Since the light side contained all major magical families, the war was a small scale one at first. But later the war escalated when powerful wizards from the major families with no claim to the family headships started joining the dark side. They wanted to make use of the war to kill their relatives and gain the noble ranks in the kingdom.

Many deaths occurred in the magical world as well as in the non-magical world. The people in the dark side did not care if the magical world was exposed. Only the light side was worried. So they had to fight the dark side as well as make sure that the magical world was not exposed. There was no peaceful solution available for the various reasons of the conflict and hence there was no end in sight for the war. Only way for the war to end was one of the either sides to give in or to be exterminated.

Many solutions were tried by powerful magical people to stop the war but none of them succeeded. It was during this time when the founders of Hogwarts came together and founded Hogwarts. Hogwarts acted as a safe place where children could practice magic without the fear of being seen and getting killed by witch hunters. Before Hogwarts was formed, there were no magical schools in Europe or anywhere else in the world. Magic was taught to a child by the child’s parents or family members in their homes. The muggleborns during that time had to join big magical families as guards or servants to get an opportunity to learn to control their magic. But Hogwarts changed everything. Now everyone including muggleborns could go to Hogwarts and learn to control their magic there. But this was not a perfect solution since muggleborns were killed in witch hunts way before they were even found by Hogwarts professors.