Post by Sorting Hat on Sept 15, 2017 16:42:19 GMT 5.5
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Year 1978
March :Peter Pettigrew has joined hands with Macnair and Avery to support the cause of Voldemort.
June : Marauders have graduated from Hogwarts and were recruited into the Order of the Phoenix by Albus Dumbledore.
August : Lily and James Potter have tied the knot with Sirius Black as the best man and Alice Fawley as the maid of honor.
September : Augusta and Harvey Longbottom host a grand dinner party on the eve of their son Frank Longbottom's marriage to Alice Fawley in the Longbottom Manor. The manor’s wards have been attacked by death eaters, but they couldn’t enter inside.
December : Regulus Black officially entered the ranks of Voldemort along with his best friend Severus Snape.
Year 1979
March : Voldemort requests Regulus to lend him a house elf. Regulus lends him Kreacher with the order to return back to him once the work is done. After Kreacher returned and told Regulus about the slytherin locket , he began to suspect. For the first time in six years, he contacts his elder brother, Sirius Black.
April: The Black brothers meet one another and after forgiving each other, they soon head to Albus Dumbledore upon guessing that the locket is a horcrux. They knew about the nature of those abominations, because of their mothers’ interest in the dark arts.
Regulus agrees to become a spy to the light side and begins to meet up with his brother in the hogshead to pass on the information regarding Voldemort’s activities and to look out for further horcruxes.
May : Severus Snape found out about the Diary which was handed to Abraxus Malfoy, and suspected that there was more to it given that the dark lord had given the hufflepuff's cup to Bellatrix Lestrange just a few days, who could not keep quiet and was bragging in that evening. Both Malfoy and Lestrange claimed themselves to be the loyal followers goading the others. Snape was already regretting his decision to join the dark side and was reconsidering about it and spoke the same to Regulus who was uninterested by the events happening.
Regulus admitted to being a spy and had even convinced Snape to reach out to Dumbledore, hoping that the elder wizard could help his friend who seeks redemption.
June :
Regulus and Severus with the help of Cyrus Malfoy sneak into the Manor of Abraxus and pick up the diary whose only protection was Malfoy blood to be given willingly which Cyrus did. At the same time the locket was retrieved by James Potter, Sirius Black as well as Remus Lupin, where Remus drank the potion.
Upon knowing that Peter is the spy in the Order through Snape, the order takes the decision of sending Peter away along with Remus in the pretense of dealing with werewolves so as to not raise suspicion.
July :
The horcruxes were all stored at Hogwarts in an empty classroom, with Albus as a secret keeper.
Voldemort visits Hogwarts to ask Dumbledore his wish to teach the DADA to which the headmaster declines. Voldemort places the diadem in the come and go room on his way back from school.
Albus Dumbledore takes the help of the house elves at Hogwarts to try and find the diadem when word reaches him that the diadem was planted at Hogwarts from Regulus..
August :
After searching the castle for a week one of the elves informed Albus about the come and go room, and that Voldemort had been in that corridor the evening he came to Hogwarts.
Albus along with Alastor Moody, Minerva McGonagall and few other order members ventured in to the room and began to look for the diadem.
After two weeks of searching, they found it lying atop on a dusty mannequin. Retrieving it carefully Albus locked it away in the classroom, away from students.
The order then began to look for ways to destroy horcruxes.
September :
Searching through several books Albus and the order decided that the best way of destroying a horcrux would be to use fiendfire in a closed room. They decided to use the come and go room, and Albus has asked for it to provide them a room which would contain the fiendfire and prevent it from spreading.
The order members all began to train under Albus Dumbledore and Alastor Moody. They knew that once Voldemort comes to realise that his horcruxes were destroyed he would attack them, and it would be a war, and the order decided to be prepared for it.
The school reopened once again, and the students could sense that Hogwarts was slowly being affected by the war happening outside, in the wizarding world.
October :
The end of September and the month of October saw quite a lot of death eater attacks. With the timely information from Severus and Regulus, the order members were prepared to defend and fight. Even still they had lost a few of their members.
By the time of mid-October the death eater attacks became too violent. Diagon Alley, Horizont Alley, Carakitt market have all been attacked at various times and most of the shops were demolished and set on fire.
Students were attacked on their Hogsmeade visit, but the timely appearance of order members saved them from having any casualties. After the incident students were all sent back to their hones.
As October was coming to an end, Albus picked Hallowe’en morning to destroy the horcruxes, and an empty castle with no students was a better battlefield than anywhere else.