Welcome to Until The End. We are a moderate Harry Potter role-playing site set in the Marauder's Era. Our plot is generally derived from details in the book, but as an AU site we do take liberties most anywhere we like. Those who died in the books can have a second chance at living, and those who lived are always at risk.
Tom Marvolo Riddle has long since disappeared and in his stead Lord Voldemort has risen, bringing a small army with him. The Ministry of Magic has thus far ignored the growing menace that is the Death Eaters and Albus Dumbledore has taken it upon himself to defend the wizarding community from an evil he knows is building. War is coming. Pick a side!
School's Out For Summer
The Hogwart's Express has pulled up to the station in King's Cross station and the summer holidays have officially begun. What mischeif will you get into in the warm summer sun?
*Coming Soon* - Summer Solstice Carnival
Travel by portkey to the biggest summer celebration in wizard society - The Summer Solstice Carnival! There will be food, games, prizes, fun and more!
Harold sees himself with his wife standing beside him once again.
His son, bearing the Dark Mark.
Harold is possessed of a sharp wit and sometimes cutting sarcasm. He values learning and intelligence, holding that it is vital to understand the world around you, but values drive and ambition just as highly.
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History
Born in 1894, during the latter years of Queen Victoria's reign. Harold grew up in Greengrass Manor, in the south of England, where, perhaps unusually for someone of his descent, he attended a Muggle school for the first eleven years of his life. His father worked in the Minister's office, whilst his mother held a minor role in the Muggle government, enabling her to pass information on any developments back to the magical world. Due to this, Harold developed a rather more balanced understanding of the world than might have been expected of a pureblood heir of his generation, and though this led to some bullying from his peers initially when he first attended Hogwarts, this didn't last long, for the same reasons that his parents were still entertained in polite pureblood society- because the Greengrasses were amongst both the richest and the most politically powerful families in the magical world, as well as being among the oldest. Despite being rather progressive in their views on Muggles, Harold's parents were by no means ignorant of the long traditions of their family, and so when they despatched their son to Hogwarts, it was in the understanding that he would return as a member of Slytherin House. This, he duly did, although there was a moment where he thought that the Hat might Sort him into Ravenclaw instead.
Harold had an illustrious career as a student at Hogwarts; he was quickly noted by his professors to be generally intelligent, quick to pick things up, hardworking and eager to learn, and these were traits which served him well in all his subjects. Unlike many of his peers, he did actually form friendships across House boundaries, particularly amongst the Ravenclaws, which did rather bemuse his Head of House, who considered Harold to be more or less the archetype of a Slytherin. In his fifth year, he became a Prefect, much to the delight of his parents, who had both held the role previously, and in his seventh year, he was named as Head Boy.
Leaving Hogwarts with an impressive collection of NEWTs, Harold drifted a little. Having applied himself so greatly to his scholarly exploits for the past seven years, he indulged a wish to see the world a little, and he travelled for several years, finding himself everywhere from China to the United States and learning a great deal about their cultures in the process. In 1916, he finally returned to England, where he wrote a book on the variations to be found in the practice of magic around the globe, which was generally praised by academics, before taking up a role at the Ministry on the Committee for Experimental Charms, since Charms was a subject which had always been one of his favourites at Hogwarts, and he had been sufficiently talented in the subject for his professor to have introduced him to some post-NEWT material. This role was one which he filled with great dedication and aptitude for a number of years until deciding in the inter-war years that he wanted to go travelling again.
Consequently, he joined a task force for the ICW, working in India, which was where he found himself at the outbreak of the Second World War and, being there, was obliged to stay there due to the severe difficulties of getting home. It wasn't until March, 1945, that he finally managed to get home again, and he brought with him his wife, a pureblooded French witch with whom he'd worked in India. On his return, Harold discovered, not entirely to his surprise but greatly to his sorrow, that both of his parents had passed away in the interim, and that he was therefore the sole remaining member of the House of Greengrass. Their funerals were held in the June, and Harold Greengrass married his fiance, Marie, in the November.
It was a year, almost to the day, after the wedding that their first child was born; a girl who they called Annabelle Edith, after her maternal grandmother who'd died as a casualty of Grindelwald's activities in Europe. Harold, who was back in his old role on the Experimental Charms Committee, as well as working on a selection of beauty charms of his own development, was ecstatic, and he was even more delighted when, two years later, the couple had a son, who they named Charles Francis.
Of course, by this point, Harold was no longer as young as he had once been, and he had long since decided that his globe-trotting days were over. Whilst he was in possession of a family fortune which would have enabled him to live several lifetimes without ever needing to lift a finger, his active mind craved intellectual work as stimulation, and he had grown bored with his Ministry work- and so it was that, aged a little over fifty, he applied to teach Charms at Hogwarts and, what with his impressive credentials, was accepted without a great deal of fuss.
There were hardships, of course; it had been a long time since Harold was at Hogwarts, after all, and being away from his young family was difficult, but he loved the work and he enjoyed being around the students, and so he stuck at it. In fact, he stuck at it for so long that, somewhat to his own surprise, he was considered to be an acceptable candidate to be Head of Slytherin House upon his predecessor's departure and, having been offered the role, accepted immediately. This joy was, however, tempered with a great sadness, as his wife, whom he loved dearly, died of a bad case of dragon pox before hearing the news, leaving Harold to himself.
The world that he found himself in now was one which was growing more hostile by the day and, while some might have refused to acknowledge it, Harold was perceptive and he was most certainly not any kind of fool. He was well aware that the Death Eaters were a threat, and the issue came a little close to home when his own son started speaking admiringly of what they did. Harold, as a peace-loving man and an advocate of a non-discriminatory society, was seriously worried, and even more so when his son tried to prove to him that being of pure blood made him 'superior'. He threatened to disown the boy if he ever thought about joining the group and, now fully convinced of the dangers of the Death Eaters, approached the Headmaster to see what he proposed to do about it.
