Gotc: Hi there everyone!! How goes life? Well, this idea sorta came to me in the middle of the night, and so I decided to write up a prologue for you all! If people like it, then I'll go ahead and keep it going, if not…well, no harm done!

Ace: Except for wasting precious moments of these poor people's lives that they will never get back!

Gotc: Yeah…Readers, meet Ace. He's the constant pain in my side that more often than not winds up in my fics. Not this one though, cause he's in time-out.

Ace: Oh please! I get one ticket for reckless endangerment and you act like the world is coming to an end…

Gotc: Base jumping from the top of the Emipre State Building will bring your life to an end! And if you ever manage to survive doing it again, I'll personally see to it! Anyway, let's move on from Stupidstuntsvile and onto our fic! There's one more member of my disclaimer crew I would like you all to meet, so let's give a warm welcome to my adorable plushie friend: Squeaky the Whale!

Squeaky: Squeak! (Translation: Welcome to this brand new fic everyone! Please keep your hands and feet inside of the fic at all times and please remember that Gotc does not own any part of the Harry Potter poltline, or any familiar characters mentioned herein.)

Gotc: Awwwww……He's so cute when he's keeping my rear-end out of prison for copyright infringement…

Ace: Humph…Why do you like that diminutive Shamu-reject more than me?

Gotc: Because I have yet to pay his bail. Enough chatter! ON TO THE FIC!!! Enjoy!

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Chronicles of the Animagi

CHAPTER 0: Prologue

Voldermort. For years, it was taboo to so much as utter his name to the winds. He held our world in an iron grip for decades, until the night when a child at long last brought him to justice. We celebrated that night, for his deeds, his loss, and our freedom. But even amidst the throws of joy, buried deep in the hearts of us all, we knew the danger had not yet passed.

But rather than assure we would never again be taken by the long reach of his shadow, we chose to bury our heads in the sand and dismiss our unease as simply a bad bit of dinner. Years later we paid the price for our unwillingness to act, and it took and Order of the bravest witches and wizards to come to our aid, with the Boy-Who-Lived leading the way and smote the Dark Lord, once and for all.

Once more we thought we should have peace, but evil is a virulent hydra; we may have cut off it's head, but never stabbed it through the heart. Now dark magic grows once more in the shadows, delving deeper into far older magicks and awakening nightmares that should have slept on for the rest of eternity.

We feel them growing, in both strength and number. We can hear their whispers on the winds. We see their dark shadows looming on the horizons, waiting until they can once more cast it over the land. We know, because we are connected to them, not by choice, but by a strange twist of fate. In all things there is always a price. In magic, it must be balance.

As they grow, so do we, but so concerned are they with their own secrecy, they know nothing of us. Another war brews on the edge of time, but this time, we will be ready for it. This time we shall destroy the Hydra once and for all. Let these new "sorcerers" boil forth from the bowels of the mountains where they hide; we are waiting. We are ready. We are the Animagi….

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Gotc: Well? I hope that was good, I certainly enjoyed writing it. Anyway, be sure to review and tell me what you think and if enough people like it, then I'll go ahead and post more! Until next time! Laters!