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EVERYONE KNOWS THAT VOLDEMORT TRIED TO TAKEOVER THE WIZARDING WORLD, BUT MOSTLY PEOPLE FOCUS ON ENGLAND & HOGWARTS, ITS RESPECTIVE SCHOOL. NO ONE HAS CARED TO TELL THE STORY OF THE OTHER SCHOOLS UNTIL NOW.

VOLDEMORT SIMPLY WANTED TO CONTROL DURMSTRANG INSTITUTE OF MAGIC, BUT ITS HEADMASTER WAS WAY TO FIERCE TO BACK DOWN. INSTEAD, RIDDLE WENT AFTER BEAUXBATONS RIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS. BEAUXBATONS WAS BROUGHT DOWN QUITE EASILY, AND HAS BEEN LEFT IN RUINS. VOLDEMORT THEN WENT AFTER HOGWARTS, WHICH HE SUCCEEDED AT DESTROYING. HE KILLED NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM, THE CHOSEN ONE, IN THE PROCESS. ALL OF NEVILLE'S PUREBLOOD AND HALFBLOOD FOLLOWERS WERE FORCED INTO A SORT OF CAPTIVITY, WHILE MOST OF THE MUGGLEBORNS WERE KILLED IF THEY COULD BE FOUND.

VOLDEMORT WASN'T TOO CONCERNED WITH REBELLION. HE THOUGHT HIS DEATH EATERS TO BE VERY PROTECTIVE OF HIM. BOY, WAS HE WRONG. WHEN VOLDEMORT KILLED THE CHOSEN ONE, NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM, HIS FOLLOWERS WENT INTO UTTER REVOLUTION. THEY WANTED MORE POWER THAN THEIR MASTER COULD OFFER, AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS WAS NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED. INSTEAD, ALECTO AND AMYCUS CARROW KILLED THE DARK LORD IN HIS SLEEP AND PROCLAIMED THAT THE DEATH EATERS WOULD EXIST NO MORE. INSTEAD, THEY DECIDED TO PART THE PUREBLOOD AND MUGGLEBLOOD WORLD. THEY TOOK OVER DURMSTRANG WITH EASE, AS THE PREVIOUS HEADMASTER HAD LOST HIS BREATH AT THE SITE OF THEM. THEY ALLOWED THE MUGGLEBORNS AND HALFBLOODS TO BUILD A SCHOOL OF THEIR OWN AND TEACH THEIR OWN KIND, SO LONG AS THEY WERE SEPARATED COMPLETELY FROM THEIR PUREBLOODED WAYS. WIZARDING ENGLAND WAS COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT, AND THE ENTIRE VIEWS OF OUR OLD CHARACTERS TURNED TO NORWAY WHERE THEIR NEW LIVES BEGAN.

THIS IS HOW SPERO ACADEMY OF MAGIC CAME TO BE. IT WAS BUILT CLOSE TO DURMSTRANG. THE SCHOOL WAS TO ACCEPT AMERICAN, BRITISH, AND FRENCH STUDENTS, AS WELL AS BULGARIAN WITCHES AND WIZARDS WHO COULDN'T, OR DIDN'T WANT TO, ATTEND DURMSTRANG. DURMSTRANG HAS ALWAYS PROHIBITED MUGGLEBORNS TO LEARN WITHIN ITS CASTLE WALLS, AND ESPECIALLY BECAME MORE STRICT AS THE CARROW SIBLINGS TOOK OVER. BUT SPERO WAS NOT THE SAME. SPERO'S ENTIRE PURPOSE WAS TO EDUCATE THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN, WHETHER THEY BE FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY OR BLOODTYPE OR NOT.

SPERO AND DURMSTRANG ARE NOW RIVAL SCHOOLS AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS, FOR SOME PUREBLOODS HAVE DECIDED TO GO TO SPERO INSTEAD OF DURMSTRANG - WHICH CLEARLY VIOLATES THE CARROWS' WISHES. WHAT'S WORSE IS THAT DURMSTRANG AND SPERO WILL COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER IN QUIDDITCH AND GENERAL TASKS OVER THE NEXT YEARS, ACCORDING TO GENERAL LAWS CREATED BY THE MINISTER OF NORWAY TO HELP EASE THE TENSION. WHILE NOTHING IS APPEARING TO MAKE THEM COME TOGETHER, IS SOMETHING SITTING AT THE HORIZON WAITING TO RISE? STUDENTS WHO ATTEND EACH SCHOOL SIT IN THEIR ROOMS, GRITTING THEIR TEETH, PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR THE DARKEST OF TIMES.