The Rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate
Albus looked out of the headmaster’s office and sighed. He was a hero, the wizard and man who had always fought the darkness, the evil and the undesirables. When he had read the mundane books about an abused boy who fought darkness and dark magic, he realised what he had to do to ensure that the dark magic and old ways were extinguished forever and that the mundane and magical society were always separated, and that involved planning a war that would ensure for once the dark was defeated and the Light side won for all time.
He identified with the novelist character Albus, headmaster of a magical school. After all she might have been writing about him, the one person with the intelligence, knowledge and lightness to know what was needed to defeat the old dark ways. The ways and dark magic that had forever tainted his beloved England, and his soul.
The great and beautiful hymn by Cecil Francis Alexander ‘All things bright and beautiful’ where she states the natural order of things in verse three
The rich man in his castle
The Poor man at this gate
God made them high and lowly
And ordered their estate
Such a pity that the mundanes had butchered the hymn, by very often not singing that important third verse. Trying to eradicate the natural and right order of man in both muggle and magical society. Yes he identified with Albus the hero of the mundane story, the man who knew and had to plan for the future continuation of the magical society.
Albus Dumbledore was not a stupid man and realized that the greater good for society is subjective to the person who is deciding what it is. That is why magical society needed a hero a great man like him, a man not afraid to make and implement the hard choices in life, so other people could sleep at night, safe in the knowledge that their life’s were well ordered.
For Dumbledore the greater good is ensuring that the status quo in the magical society stays the same, that the great in society ruled from their castles, and the poor man excepted and were happy with the crumbs from the great men gave them.
Of course Dumbledore could still remember when the vote had been given to all men over the age of 25 in British muggle society. He couldn’t remember the prime minster of the time who had stated that they had to now educate their masters, the common uneducated man. Of course giving all men the vote had led over a period of time for it being extended to women. Dumbledore was aghast that women could be allowed not only to vote, but to hold the highest positions of power, the muggles had for pity sake elected Margaret Thatcher who was a woman. Then the muggles had invited and tried to incorporate other inferior culture and races, leading to their multi-cultural society.
No for the sake of the magical society and not for his position in it, the status quo had to stay the same, this meant that only the old Light families that held Lordships could be trusted to ensure the right decisions were made and enforced. They controlled the Ministry, and the Minister of magic. Dumbledore knew it was a paternalistic society, but he also understood that ordinary people could not know what was in their best interests, and couldn’t be trusted to make the right and difficult decisions. The fact that over a period of time he had become the most powerful member of their society, only endorsed his views of how a society should be run.
He remembered all those years ago, when Hogwarts was founded by the four idiots. There had come a realization that the gift of magic was arbitrary, and did not pass down bloodlines. He had been a young mage at the time, his magic encompassed the dark side of magic, the emotions that ruled him and his magic and his father had paid the ultimate price for his following of the dark ways.
His father had been away, when Albus had killed the twenty muggles boys for torturing his youngest sibling, his sister who was a retard. A witch who should have been bonded at twelve, thirteen at the latest. But his sister was touched and nobody would bond to one such as her. But her family loved her, and so when he saw the muggles torturing her including the Lord's son, he flipped and killed them. The emotions he felt, Love, hatred, anger allowed him to cast a killing spell at them, and then they lay dead. The Lord’s sheriff came for him, but his father willingly took his place and was hung for the crime of killing the boys. Albus had then realized that the Light followers were correct, magic was only safe in their hands, where the elimination of emotions ensured that the gift of magic was not wielded unwisely.
Dumbledore knew that for muggles magic is magic, and for the magical society that he was born into there was no evil or good magic, there were differing shades of color in magic. And a country’s magic differs from country to country. Some country’s magic is labelled dark in nature; some is light in nature, others are grey in nature the mixture of the dark and light. What determines the nature of the countries magic is emotion.
Now Dumbledore understood that British magic had always been dark, it washes over people like a hot shower, or a cool wind on a hot day. It comforts people, and wraps them up at night like a warm blanket. For a practical, pragmatic people, that try to hide their emotions from strangers and sometimes friends, the British magic is filled with emotion, the laughter, the sadness and the emotions in between. Because Dark magic as the Jedi Knights in the film Star Wars would say is fueled by emotion, to be able to cast strongly using dark magic, then the magical person has to use their emotions to feel and use the magic, and surprisingly for most native British wizards, they instinctively know how to channel their emotions into their magic. Dark magic can like Light magic do a lot of damage and kill people, but dark magic has the most comprehensive healing and protection spells known to wizards.
So if the British magic is very dark in nature, how did the light supporters manage to not only take over wizarding Britain but outlaw the natural supporters of British magic as evil, the answer starts with the conquers of Britain the Romans.
The Roman wizards used predominantly light magic, magic that relied on logic and rules that had to be followed, the light magic followers had banished emotions in the casting of their magic. All spells had to be cast without emotion, with a calm and logic outlook from the wizard, light magic became a harsh and uncompromising, it is like the jobs worth or religious follower that can only follow the rules that have been laid down over time, there is no randomness or improvising in light magic, as there is in dark magic. In time the light magic supporters began to be afraid to use their emotions at all in magic, they saw the use of emotions to fuel magic casting as evil and unpredictable. The light wizards were some of the priests of the Roman god and goddess, over time they became the advisors of emperors and then popes and religious figures, so when the Roman conquered Britain, the Roman light wizards were scared and horrified by the magic that the Britons naturally used.
Magic in Britain was not separated into artificial groups, the wizards or druids as very wise and great magical individuals taught everybody, including the creatures that magic was everybody’s birth right. A farmer they reasoned had the magic to grow the crops for their communities, a mother had the magic and knowledge to bring up and support the next generation. Wizards were seen just as natural priests and priestess that had a duty to help and support their communities, they fought for them, protected and healed them. The Romans came and conquered Britain and tried to banish the inclusive natural magic of Britain. They tried to separate magic from the British communities, by killing the British druids and outlawing the British druidic religion. They artificially separated the British magical citizens that were left from their communities.
But it is difficult to banish a countries natural magic, whether it be dark, light or grey. Lady magic finds a way to ensure the continuation of the magic whether it be light or dark.
Then the three lords of the universe had decided to ensure the continuation of dark magic, by using the savage muggles! They took the concept of the Hog Father from the Disc world and transplanted into British muggle culture and society of the time. But unlike the Hog father, the muggle Father Christmas is from a long line of muggles with no noticeable magical gift.
Father Christmas or Yuletide Father as magical children call him is not from only one blood line, Father Christmas and its magic handed from one muggle to another. At the end of a long life, the old Father Christmas selects his successor. There are of course rules to govern the selection, the new Father Christmas must be married, there can be no offspring to the couples union. But they must be part of an extensive and all-encompassing family, and Father Christmas must never look like what people have come to see or expect as Father Christmas. Lady magic of course ensures that the right successor is selected by the outgoing Father Christmas.
And all this is completed to ensure that magic cannot die, for every year just after the old yuletide solstice the muggles celebrate the festival Christmas. And it is on Christmas eve every year, when the muggles children believe in magic through Father Christmas, that the bond between Lady magic and dark magic is re-affirmed and strengthened.
Albus through the years has tried to destroy and kill the numerous Father Christmases, to finally be able to destroy for all time what he perceived as dangerous and dark magic. But Father Christmas amongst the muggles children has grown. And then the muggle children grow up and continue the cycle again with their own children! Albus had tried to stop Father Christmas from spreading magic on Christmas eve throughout the western world, but Father Christmas cannot be stopped by using magical means. His gift or power from Lady magic to spread and allow the muggles to reaffirm the bond with dark magic, does not use or consist of magic.
It is death, time, fates and fortune that have given and granted Father Christmas the power to allow the muggles to reaffirm the dark magic bond yearly.
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But the young Albus Dumbledore had learnt to his cost how evil dark magic was, how using any emotion in casting your magic would ensure that it hurt people, destroyed the good and just, supported and advanced the evil and dishonest.
From the day that Albus had killed the twenty muggle boys, he had followed the light way, he had managed to control his emotions. He had learnt over time to ensure that what he planned was for the greater good.
He was a young man when he met Death on the way to somewhere, but unlike the Preverell brothers, where Death met them on the bridge of the river. And as in the famous fable they each won an artifact through using trickery and their magic to defeat Death. The artifacts were lost though time, but occasionally became reunited at odd times, to cause damage and heartache to the users.
Albus was the man who in the muggle stories played cards with Death for his life, and he won. His reward or punishment was not to die at his pre-ordained time, but to live until one of two conditions had been met.
The first condition was that Lucifer would once again claim Albus soul and take it down to hades with him. Of course Lucifer could never conceive of taking to his domain such a pure and noble soul, untainted with the misdeeds or sins. His life had been given to good work and morals, he had humbly ensured that the dark magic was overcome, until only a very small residue was left.
Of course if Albus had only asked Lucifer why he didn’t want Albus soul, it would hurt such a honourable and perfect man. Lucifer in his domain had informed the Lords of the universe that he would never accept Albus soul into his kingdom. After he had been tricked by Albus, soon after the first meeting with death, when he was imprisoned up a tree by Albus, until his friend the arch angel Gabriel rescued him! No according to Lucifer, Albus soul was too tainted by evil to be ever be redeemed. Best just stick him with Hitler etc. and the rest of the time lords beyond time and space!
The other condition was that Albus had to live on the earth until the three lords of the universe had deemed that Albus had learnt his lesson at last, or was imprisoned for all time by them. They had decided that Albus had to have the chance learn and realise that magic was encompassing gift, and that all shades of magic were not only natural but required to ensure the balance in nature herself.
He had been alive when the Roman Emperor Claudius refused to believe the justified roman magical communities hatred and fear of Britain and its magic. It appeared to him to be misconstrued and wrong. This emperor admired the British and during his reign ensured that the British population had relative freedom, but he knew that his family would kill him eventually. So he gave to the Britain’s his greatest treasure his only magical son (Severus), so they could raise him in safety and ensure his family linage carried on, the emperor knew that this son he gave to the Britain’s to adopt was a dark wizard, and he was proud of the child.
The Britain’s hid the child in plain sight of the Romans and the light supporters, the emperors line continued to this day, all his descendants from his son had roman emperor names, the family name was changed to Son of Claudius, which was shortened quite quickly to Prince. And Claudius son grew to be a powerful dark wizard, who because of strength and leadership qualities was proclaimed the natural leader of the British magical community, which by this time had to go underground to survive. Over the long years of his life, Severus decided that he wanted children from all over the British Isles that had the magical ability to be taught to use their magic for the betterment of their communities, whether they be muggle, half blood, or laughing pure blood, he never choose between magical creatures such as Goblins, Vampires or Werewolves, a person’s magic was a gift from lady magic and not a right.
Severus towards the end of his long life, that had seen the demise of the Romans, King Arthur and Merlin. He at the end gathered together four magical tutors, and gave them the task of building the first magical school that taught how to use magic correctly and ethically. How to protect the less fortunate with your magical gift, how to heal people and help them towards the gates of paradise. The teachers of the school only task was to help the magically gifted learn how to control their magic whether they had an infinity with light or dark magic, or even grey magic. The school was Hogwarts, and the four tutors were the four founders of the school and friends.
The four houses of Hogwarts were originally two all witches and two all wizard houses. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff house were where the light originated children were sorted. Slytherin and Ravenclaw house housed the dark affiliated children. It soon became noticeable to Albus that the dark houses contained the British born students. The light houses were comprised of the Roman conquers children.
Albus as a young tutor knew that for the good of magic the Dark ways and dark followers had to eradicated, he knew how dangerous the dark side was, how the use of emotion in magic led to death and destruction. It also perhaps help him to realise how dangerous dark magic was, when he saw that the British conquers the Romans were the bringers of Light magic to British shores. How noble, strong, respected and powerful the light magics of Rome were. How as the priest and priestess they ensured that the Roman Emperors followed their advice. Not for them living in the same hovels and shacks as the rest of their communities, helping their communities because magic demanded it.
Albus noticed that powerful magical light people, were natural leaders who were followed blindly, by the very powerful in Roman society. They were the first real ‘rich and powerful men in their temples’ and the rest of society accepted the crumbs from their lavish tables. But Albus being as perfect and noble as he was, never acquired power and wealth just for himself to use. No he acquired the power and wealth to use for the betterment of magical society, the fact that magical society ensured that a worthy man as himself had always the little and major luxuries in life just proved to him that he was right in his evaluation of the light magic and its traditions.
Albus made a plan, he ensured the continuation of his line. After all he had base needs that needed to be attended to, and just in case death or Lucifer reclaimed his soul. Women, be it witches or muggles, fell at his feet and throughout his long and noble life until quite recently, and it had been easy to ensure that he procured children.
His brother’s line had prospered, of course not as wealthy or powerful as Albus was. It terminated at his nephew Aberforth, who had turned to Albus heartache and sorrow to the dark and old ways. Forsaking Albus wise counsel and advice, but hopefully the child would over time see the error of his ways and return to the light side and it’s ways.
When the founders died Albus started to separate the magic and muggle society, with the aid and support of the powerful citizens and Catholic church. He started to ensure that the dark side and old traditionalists were marginalized. It took centuries but as in all good stories and legends. The light side managed over the years after the deaths of the founders to demonize the dark magic supporters.
He ensured that Hogwarts herself were funded by the British monarchy, recently culminating in the stupid mundane government. It was also funded through the old families, and recently the stupid muggle children families, who thought their precious children were being given superior education.
Albus for the greater good, had to ensure the eradication of dark magic, only light could remain. It meant when the two societies had finally been separated with the help of the Catholic church and powerful in society, that wars between the light and dark sides were planned out, and the light side always won. Demonizing even further in the British magical community the dark side.
It had only taken a couple of centuries of planning to almost realize his aims all those years ago when he had first started to follow the Light side, but the supporters and families of dark magic had proved to be tenuous in nature.
But Dumbledore over a long period of time now controlled magical society, countries bowed to him. People were afraid of him, but he was not a vindictive man, he was the wise father. The father who ensured that for the best, disciplined his children often very harshly it was true. But a father knows that to spare the rod, spoils the child. As the muggle christen bible states.
He had for the good of the magical family at large, thrown out the old British families the Claudians during the muggle first war with just the clothes on their backs. His dislike of the Goblins had turned to outright hatred when the sniveling little dark creatures would not give him or his supporters access to the Claudians families their money or assets. He after all needed the money and assets not for his own use, but to use to ensure that his plans to eradicate the dark side were sucessful.
Then the muggle world had tried to break his control on magical society, joining with and advising from the background Lord Voldemort’s group. Dumbledore still shuddered when he thought about how radical the dark sides ideas and plans were at the beginning, and how they wanted to reform magical society. Lord Voldemort’s group had wanted to ensure the magical society had embraced democracy'. He had been dismayed that the ‘dark supporters’ had after the muggle second world war and the supposed defeat of Grimwald, had started to demand more rights for the disenfranchised members of the magical society. They had started to demand that the magical society should become democratic, and their argument was that society would then start to evolve, for Merlin’s sake the dark supporters had even wanted magical health care and education to be free for everyone, not just for individuals who could pay.
The dark supporters had wanted all the different species to be able vote, just like the muggle societies and other international magical societies outside Britain and northern Europe were run.
It had taken a period of time, but bit by bit membership and therefore rights for dark creatures, and thinking beasts had been dismantled, and then these supposedly dangerous creatures and beasts were supposed to be controlled for the safety of wizarding and therefore magical society. This for Dumbledore had the many benefits, one had included making sure that the dark creatures (like the cowardly bully Gryffindor student Lupin) he befriended and helped, became indebted to him, and carried out what the dirty work he needed doing.
But to Dumbledore’s anger, the dark creatures and beasts kept giving him the proverbial finger. The werewolves kept themselves to themselves and had like the centaurs evolved their own society which operated outside the wizarding one, but interacted successfully with the savage muggle society. The Goblins on the other hand, controlled the money and all magical and wizarding contracts, curse breaking etc, not only was their society independent, but the wizarding society couldn’t function without them.
The Vampires were not only literally blood suckers, but due to their intelligence and long lives, had taken control of the legal profession. Some vampires literally could remember the Doomsday book, there was even one who had been part of William the conquers elite invading force. The head of all world vampire and clans even remembered and hated Albus from his youth, vowing to ensure that Albus was defeated at last for all time.
After the second world war, he had given Poppy Pomphrey’s father sanctuary from the Nazi hunting that the muggles had started. He had after all just made it out of the German muggle society into his native British magical society himself. The wizard a German medi-wizard had through the camps, developed a means of transplanting into a squibs core, the core of another. Of course there was sacrifices involved for the donor, but that was acceptable. After all transplanting the cores of dark affiliated children into the squibs of light followers, was a noble and just decision. Dark affiliated magical children did not deserve the gift of magic, and that was why he endured the dark families like the Blacks and Malfoys. There children cores were needed to ensure the continuation of the light families children.
But losses had to be endured, and it seemed that the dark affiliated families would be leaving with the poor from British magical society. Well it didn’t matter, the light followers were the majority of the magical society now. It was a shame that the muggle governments including the Americans and Russians still wanted his blood for his supposed crimes during the second world war with the Nazi regime.
Dumbledore knew for the greater good of society, sacrifices had to be reluctantly made. One was the marriage of James Potter and Lilly Evans, with their marriage and subsequent deaths. Dumbledore only wanted them married to produce an heir, then he would have them killed, without getting his fingers dirty. With them dead and the heir under his control and hidden away with its abusive muggle relatives for its own safety, Dumbledore would be able to control the Potters fortune and lordship seats.
Only Severus had gone and upset his plans. For years Dumbledore since his mother a squib had been reluctantly thrown out of the Prince family, on the advice of course of Albus. Albus had planned that Severus would become his spy, and with the guilt and hatred that Severus would have had, he would have been Dumbledore’s perfect pawn. Not only that but when Severus had completed his potions mastery then the money Dumbledore could save,
when he had ensured that Severus had to teach at Hogwarts, under almost slave conditions.
Dumbledore had started the long process of grooming him into his role, undermining Severus, ensuring that he was abused at home and bullied and belittled by the staff and students at Hogwarts, during Severus first year. Ensuring that Severus embraced the dark side, Dumbledore had even ensured that the sorting hat had placed Severus in Slytherin.
And Severus is the last heir of this bloodline, it is important to get him under control. Even as a cracker, he could sway them to his side. The darker families have always followed the Claudians. Should they learn his true identity, then it would be too late for Dumbledore to fulfill his plans.
But oh no the little shit had to just get adopted, with parents and family that loved and supported him. Really what was the use of ensuring that certain children were abused by their families for the greater good of course, when said children turned round and gave him the proverbial finger.
Then the mud blood girl Lilly Evans had to change, becoming instead of a light fanatical supporter and bully from the Light house Gryffindor. She had started to embrace the concepts and traditions of the dark followers, she was managing to embrace the two cultures. Perhaps it was his fault, for placing her in the Slytherin house when she questioned the morality of her house mates. But he had known then that his perfect mud blood pawn was lost to him, when she returned from her new guardians home last summer.
So now for his plan to work, he had to manufacture a new dark lord from somewhere and quickly, and find the insufferable James Potter a malleable and opinionated partner. He had to also find a person to take the place of the little shit Severus Snape. Whilst fighting the merging of the two British societies into one, all of course for the greater good, and to ensure that as the hymn stated everybody in magical society knew and were grateful for the status in society.
He still had time, even more time now really! With the mundane government giving the option for magical citizens to join them and leave the superior magical society. All the dross and dark affiliated magical citizens would leave, allowing Dumbledore to guide and raise the light and just citizens that were left.
He still had control of Hogwarts (just he admitted), numerous light followers accounts and vaults, he controlled the ministry and Wizengamot. He was the most powerful mage to ever walk this earth, even greater and more powerful than merlin himself! And he had years to stage and fight a two pronged attack on dark magic, to eradicate it for all time. He had his original plan to ensure one last war spread over a numerous number of years. And to plan the final and permanent destruction of the muggle Father Christmas, because after all without the yearly renewal of the bond between Lady magic and the muggles; dark magic and its ways would finally be eradicated and die out.
Albus took a lemon drop and smiled the smile of a good and great man. A man who knew how moral and good he was, a man that had made the ultimate sacrifices over his very long life that had lasted for centuries.
This great, noble and good man, our hero of the story had throughout the centuries of his long life distanced himself so much from human emotions and foibles, that he now classed the whole of society as a chess board, and people in society as Chess pieces that could be sacrificed for his plan for the greater good.
Albus after all would never identify with the villain in that mundanes book, the lowly potion master, professor and spy. Because like all good and great hero’s and men, he had never since he was a young adult and learnt from his one transgression, committed a crime, fallen off the path of righteousness or even made a wrong decision.
After all how could perfection that encompassed Albus, ever know of the anguish, shame and hard work needed to gain the redemption of a repented sinner.
He would ensure that they would all pay. Severus Snape thought he is safe with his new family. Not for long, the boy will pay for his audacity to slip away from his role in Albus' world order.
Why should Albus care, what damage he can inflict on the teenager, to show once and for all, that nobody oppose the great and wise Albus Dumbledore.
And Harry Brown will be the next on his hit list. Yes, it all had gone down the drain as this brat destroyed his ideal Hogwarts' reality. He reminds him of someone, but he can't say who it could be.
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There was a knock on Albus office door and after Albus had bade the people to enter, three goblins and a team of mundanes entered his office.
The three goblins informed Albus that they were here on the orders of the Hogwarts new owners, and concerned magical and mundane parents. With of course the express permission of the new board of Governors to carry out the requested audits of the school. To inform the government and new school leadership where changes had to be implemented.
The mundanes comprised a very experienced and established Ofsted team of inspectors, who would be making recommendations to the new Hogwarts secondary school for talented magical pupils.
The team of Goblins consisted of Wouldconvicthisownmother, Evenauditorshatehim and Rulesarenotmadetobebroken who had been handpicked for the Hogwarts audit. The Goblins on the instructions of their mundane partners had ensured the most hated and officious Goblin auditors they had were teamed together for this audit. Everybody in the Goblin nation had sighed a breath of relief when the above Goblins were handpicked for this audit.
Pearl smiled as she entered the office with Fitzwilliam and Lord Black and joined the two teams of specialists who were to start conducting the audit of the school, with a flourish she gave Dumbledore a letter.
He opened it and spluttered in rage “You CANNOT fire me! After all WE ESTABLISHED THAT I HAVE LIFE LONG TENURE AS HEADMASTER OF THIS SCHOOL, YOU STUPID MORONIC MUGGLE BITCH!”
Pearl calmly studied her nails and she informed him “Headmaster Dumbledore! You have life long tenure as headmaster to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, which is no more I am afraid……..This school is now officially named as the Hogwarts secondary school for talented magical pupils…and I have great delight in evicting you from the post of headmaster…you have until the end of the day to gather your belongings and leave this establishment”