Hogwarts 1996 -> Character Profiles

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies. The Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not. Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives."

The wizarding world grows darker every day.

Harry Potter is dead. The prophecy is fulfilled. Lord Voldemort's hand stretches farther with every passing day. He is gaining support rapidly. With nowhere else to turn, the Ministry of Magic is falling to him. Albus Dumbledore, the only wizard that Lord Voldemort fears, has disappeared without a word. Death Eater influence in Hogwarts is growing. Teachers have gone missing, replaced with Voldemort's supporters.

Some students have gone missing, others are beginning to show their own support for the rising evil. The Daily Prophet reports gruesome murders of those who oppose. No place is safe or out of evil's reach.

All hope seems lost.

However, opposition is hidden away in the darkness of the Forbidden Forest on the outskirts of the school grounds. Dumbledore never went very far, nor did he abandon his responsibility to the people of the Wizarding world. Having very well feared that this exact situation may occur, he was not without another option; a fail-safe that even he feared to use.

An ancient book of prophecy states that �one born under a crescent moon bearing a mark of darkness should be held close at hand and kept under a piercing eye, for great wizard shall he be or the greatest of terrors.� When a muggle boy came into the world bearing a mark resembling that of Voldemort, Dumbledore knew what could lay in store for him. After the fall of the chosen one, the great wizard could not wait for a new one to arise to replace him. He turned to the boy he�d found so many years ago and took him as an apprentice in the secrecy and brutal environment of the forest. The boy, now a young man, was a true force of nature before such training, however, the solitude and intense hardships of the forest only made Caleb Eastwood all the greater.

Now, Dumbledore fears he may not be able to keep Caleb in the woods much longer. The time has come for him to seek his fortune in the place of the chosen one, lost. However, it is not without hesitation that he loses his student upon the world. For if the Dark Lord falls, beware, if not stopped, another Dark Lord will rise, more terrible than the last.