Plot Ideas

Pre-950's (for sure pre-990's) –

• (HP) Queen Maeve was an Irish queen who taught magic in Ireland before Hogwarts (druidess)

• (HP) Cliodna was an Irish witch and druidess talented in potions and transfiguration, and was an animagus (Queen Maeve's pupil)

• (HP) Remus Lupin mentions there are no royalty in the wizarding world (HBP). But, we do have enough characters with noble/royal honorifics that I think it’s within reason to create a world where there were some aristocracy and royalty further back in history.g. Meave and Morgan le Fey were “Queens”, Helena Ravenclaw was a “Lady”, there are lots of “Sirs” including Sir Cadogan, etc. Some can be assumed to have gotten their titles through connections with the Muggle aristocracy but nothing of the sort is ever explicitly said. I think it’s equally reasonable to assume there was an actual Wizarding royalty and aristocracy at some point.

During the 900’s –

• (HP) King Arthur is born. We don’t know if King Arthur was a Muggle or not, but considering only Merlin is ever said to be a wizard, let’s assume Arthur was a muggle and king over the muggle and patriarchal kingdom of Alba, while Morgan le Fey’s mother was a witch that king Uther took up with, and Morgan le Fey later became queen of the magical realm Avalon.

Ca. 982 or later –

• (HP) Morgan le Fey was born. She later becomes Queen of Avalon.

• (HP) Merlin was born.

• (HP) The whole debacle between Helena Ravenclaw and the Bloody Baron

• (HP) The Fat Friar is born.

Ca. 990 –

• (HP) Hogwarts was founded.

First years of Hogwarts

• (HP) Merlin attends and is sorted into Slytherin House.

• (HP) He befriends Cadogan (Gryffindor).

• (HP) It would be interesting if Merlin and Salazar Slytherin disagree on muggle rights since one was known to be pro- and the other known to be anti-muggle rights.

• (HP) Helena Ravenclaw attends Hogwarts

• (HP) The Fat Friar attends Hogwarts

Post-1000

• (HP) The Fat Friar is executed by the Christian church for doing magic. He's part of the muggle-inclusive Kingdom of Alba, where some Wizarding folk have converted to Christianity. 

• (HP) Cadogan is knighted and introduced King Arthur’s Round Table at Merlin’s behest. I assume that as a Slytherin, Merlin wanted supporters at the Round Table to push through votes and urged Arthur to introduce Cadogan since he knew Cadogan would then be indebted to him.

• (HP) On Pottermore, also Lancelot, Bedivere and Percivale are mentioned as contemporary Knights of the Round Table but it’s indicated that only Cadogan was a wizard. Let’s say that the other three are wizarding-friendly muggles, considering they actually got a mention on Pottermore, and were part of Merlin’s “coalition” at the Round Table.

• (HP) Later in Merlin’s lifetime, Merlin institutes the Order of Merlin as a muggle rights organization

• (HP) Merlin strikes up a feud with Morgana, Arthur’s half-sister. Let’s say the kingdoms were constantly at war since Christianity had been introduced and it condemned magic. Merlin supports muggle integration and light magic in the Kingdom of Alba while Morgan le Fey supports muggle segregation and dark magic in the Kingdom of Avalon.

• Morgan le Fey and Arthur also have a personal feud considering they have different mothers, and according to Arthur, Morgan is a “bastard child” (Christian values).

• (AL) According to Monmouth, the Picts were enemies of King Arthur but were eventually wiped out by him, while historians think they were absorbed into the Kingdom of Alba. I think it would be interesting to have the Picts as a third party in the conflict, eventually resulting in their muggles and some Wizarding folk being absorbed into Alba while a faction of the Wizarding Picts split off and lived in isolation from the other kingdoms.

• Avalon eventually falls to Alba.

Undetermined

• (AL)(HP) The Picts have been seen as great warriors since they were one of the only groups that never fell to Roman rule. They’ve also been described as “naked” warrior, covered in beautiful blue tattoos all over their bodies. They spoke Pictish, a Celtic language, which I imagine to be like Welsh is to Irish.

• I imagine that the Picts lived on into modern times as a relatively isolated community with their own beliefs and culture (drawing on the historical description above), sort of like a sect. They started attending Hogwarts and integrating into society somewhat but are still relatively separate from the rest of the Wizarding world. E.g. covered in blue runic tattoos, women wear a veil and wear their hair down to the floor, or other things.

13^th century –

• (HP) the Wizards’ Council was formed. The Lords of each family represented its family’s needs on the Wizards’ Council and they essentially debated and voted until a decision could be reached. The monarch had the final say.

14-16^th centuries –

• (HP) the Wizarding Royal Family slowly lost its standing due to heavy inbreeding and poor decision-making. While the monarch used to have the final say on the Council, as the royal family lost its standing, increasingly decisions were made through the Lords debating and voting, and the monarch’s word lost value.

Sometime during the witch trials –

• (HP) the Order of Merlin changes from muggle rights to award it to wizading folk who performed a great deed at personal risk or otherwise contributed to the betterment of wizarding society.

• (HP) After a few centuries of upheaval and witch burnings the royal house in Britain had gradually lost its standing and the Wizards’ Council had increasingly become ruled by the lords rather than the monarch.

17^th-18^th century –

• (HP) The International Confederation of Wizards decided to implement the Statute of Secrecy in 1689, though the Wizarding Nobility in Britain had long exploited their Muggle neighbours for wealth and opposed its implementation. Since it was mostly common wizards who fell victim to muggle persecution, this opposition led to the Wizarding Revolution in Britain.

• (HP) 1690 - The Wizards’ Council had to temporarily reform into the Wizards’ War Council due to the unrest in the country. With numerous lords debating all the time on the regular Council, this was a rather inefficient way of making quick decisions, which was needed during war. This was why the five strongest families decided to temporarily take charge and form the WWC. (Malfoy, Black, Lestrange, Gaunt, ?)

• (HP) In 1692, the emergency WWC finally signed the Statute of Secrecy and it could be implemented internationally.

• (HP) In 1707 the Revolution finally came to an end, the King was ousted, peerange honorifics were outlawed, the Wizards’ Council was officially disbanded, and the Ministry of Magic was formed.

• (HP) A few honorifics were therefrom accepted, like Warlock, Sorcerer, Grand Sorcerer, Chief of something-or-other, Professor, Madam, Sir (but not in the sense of knighthood), Officer, which where (supposedly) based on merit rather than circumstance of birth, but in reality few who weren’t former nobility could ever achieve these honorifics in the first few centuries

• (HP) It’s not illegal to call a historical figure by her title, like Lady Ravenclaw, or refer to someone figuratively as a “Lord of the something-or-other” – e.g. the “Dark Lord”

Undetermined –

• (AL) One recurrent aspect of Arthurian literature was the notion that he would one day return in the role of a messiah to save his people. Considering the plotline above where Arthur and Merlin represent the “Light” and “muggle-integrated” kingdom, but then the Order of Merlin turning away from muggle rights, finally to Grindelwald and Voldemort and purist supremacy, I’d like to see a return of Arthur so “save” – who? Britain? The Bitish Wizarding World? Is Harry actually Arthur? (don’t like this one, sorry)

Interesting sources -

https://www.arthurlegends.com/the-picts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur%27s_messianic_return