The Domino Effect (A Harry Potter Fanfiction)

CHAPTER 12: Step One

Staying in magical Britain is a very big change for Augustus "Oggy" Blake. It was a big plan for the Peverells to return to Europe. Can you imagine that the Peverells have their own castle? A castle! It's not as big as Ilvermony or possibly Hogwarts (he hasn't visited that yet) but it is still considered a castle. Oggy was a graduate of Ilvermony, from the House of Pukwudgie which is a house of healers. Although it is common for graduates of this house to pursue healing-related careers, healing isn't just something about the medical field. There are many forms of healing. A walk in the park can heal a soul, making solutions that will help heal the environment or the people themselves, and much more. This is why Oggy thrives a lot in charitable activities, especially regarding children.

The OTOS scholar unity is the first step for Oggy to make the preparations to enter magical Britain. Immigrating here was a challenge. The Peverells have not been on the continent for hundreds of years. There is also the part that he is used to American culture and society and while their origins are in Europe, more particularly in Great Britain, he is often perceived as a bit lower class. British wizards and witches normally see their American counterparts (those with a history of their names in Europe) as branch families not as main families so many of the noble houses, think Blake and possibly his cousin when he arrives do not hold that much power to garner their interests. But that is for now. Oggy has a lot of work to do.

One of the steps is to secure the family vaults, estates, and inheritances which is no problem. The goblins handle that. Despite the many goblin wars in history, the goblins keep immaculate records even back a thousand years which is why many wizards and witches find it difficult to insult goblins despite them being non-humans as they hold one of the strongest magic in terms of security, lineage, and the creation of dungeons – a term to describe the space goblins create where they keep, store and secure their treasures.

The other part is to understand the wizarding community. The Peverells are a pureblood family – one that has a much older lineage compared to the current ancient and noble families in Wizengamot. The Peverells have a seat in the Wizengamot but have remained empty and have no proxy for hundreds of years (A/N: In this story, it is assumed that the Wizengamot has been existing longer than the 1500s as canon). They also hold the seats of other houses that have long been vacant and abandoned which are the Pendragon, Morgans, and even the Ravenclaw (they are direct descendants of this house as an ancestor of theirs married one of the direct Ravenclaw descendants). They could have a claim to Slytherin if they wish but Oggy and Iggy have checked their family tree, the one who has a direct relation to it is from the second brother of the legendary Peverell brothers, not the first in which Oggy and Iggy are related to. Someone still has a potential claim for it. Someone named Tom Marvolo Riddle. The Potters are the last direct descendants of the Gryffindor seat and what surprised Oggy is why they have not claimed it. It is possible for a family to have more than one seat in the Wizengamot and this can give them more voting power, although most have to hire proxies as managing too many houses is not very easy to do alone. Having a seat is very very expensive.

The only person with a lot of voting power in Wizengamot is Dumbledore and this is mostly because he proxies a lot of houses which to Oggy felt like an imbalance. After all, this means the man has more say regarding the laws in the region and he is very light leaning so that makes him prefer more light-related laws and regulations which is bad as it is very important to have some balance between different forms of magic (at least in Oggy and Iggy's opinion).

The British wizards are also very divided. One is the faction that believed in blood purity and is against anyone whose blood status they deemed unworthy which are muggle-borns mainly, the other is the one who believed in the integration of muggles and magic. Most others are mixed. However, it was the light faction who were supportive of such an idea of integration that scared Oggy. This side does not believe in actually revealing magic to muggles but that they are more open to muggle-borns. The only issue here is that to accommodate them, lots of changes are made that have resulted in a loss of magical culture just because they were deemed too scary or difficult to accept by muggle-borns. While the American wizards are not exactly very open towards muggle-borns, they have some sort of acceptance to them as long as they don't breach the statute of secrecy, they also do not support most dark magic but they only made some of the aspects of dark magic illegal and still keep a lot of the important ones. This is because the Native American wizards and witches are ritualistic in their magic and rituals were considered dark magic. The Native American wizards and witches have a very high standing in the wizarding society in America than their muggle counterparts.