Harry Potter: The Legacy Chronicles - Chronicle 1: Beginnings

Prologue: A Stranger Comes Calling

As the last rays of sunlight began to fade into the red, blue and amber hues of early twilight, evening began to draw its curtains around the sleepy English village of Godric's Hollow. Located in the West Country of England, it was a quaint little village; its streets lined with street lamps and quaint little cottages. Though it had a village square, a few retail shops, a small pub, a church and a post office, its streets were unusually quiet and empty for a late summer's night.

Ever since the village had been damaged in the Battle of Hogwarts nearly four months ago, buildings were still being rebuilt and new cottages and shops were being added, including a small wand shop. Near the square at the center of the village was a small inn known as the Three Lions Head Inn, which was owned by a Muggle innkeeper named Dorothea Windbellows and her wizard husband, Alexander Burr.

In a second floor bedroom of this inn, Harry Potter tried to fall asleep after a long day house hunting while his fiancée Ginny Weasley was away playing for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch Team. But the oppressive summer evening heat and the terrible memories of his past which seemed to haunt Harry's every waking moment refused to give him any comfort or peace of mind. Hanging in the open window of his bedroom there was a set of shimmering sliver wind chimes that had been infused with a special protective spell. This special protective spell caused the wind chimes to ring only when something or someone magical entered the room, an early warning sign to Harry if he needed to fight off something sinister or evil dark magic of some kind.

Out in the street beyond this inn the streets were silent and barren, with not a soul or creature in sight. Unbeknownst to Harry however, his restlessness was soon to become ever more restless when out on the street below Harry's shuttered window, a mysterious, pale and beautiful witch walked slowly up to the front of the Three Lions Head Inn. Dressed in her iridescent dark blue robes and holding her wand in her left hand, she continued to walk closer and closer to the inn silently. Suddenly in front of the inn, she stopped and then looked up towards Harry's bedroom window. She then lifted her wand over her head and spun it around, producing a brilliant streak of blue light in the air above her and encircled around her.

"Expecto...Patronum!" the woman uttered forcefully, as the streak of blue light transformed into the ethereal image of a wolf which started to howl and then run across the sky before entering into Harry's bedroom through the open shuttered window. As the woman's Patronus entered through Harry's bedroom window, the wind chimes ran out, causing Harry to leap up in his bed and grab up his wand from off the dresser nearby.

"What is it? Who's in here?" cried Harry, pointing his wand out in front of him and staring around nervously. From the vantage point of his bed, he began to look cautiously all around him and at the darkened space, seeing nothing but the wind chimes ringing and the four walls of his bedroom. Seeing and hearing nothing, Harry cautiously lay back down in his bed again but with his eyes and ears wide open and his wand held closely to his chest as if trying to listen for something or someone moving about in the darkness of his bedroom.

Harry had a nagging and biting suspicion that whatever magic had entered his bedroom wasn't there to engage in petty small talk. As Harry continued to listen cautiously and silently, the room began to get quieter and quieter and Harry became more and more cautious and alert. Then a distant howl entered Harry's ears as if it was coming from someplace very far off.

Harry then felt the compulsion to look down at the end of his bed and near his feet, where a misty cloud of blue light suddenly appeared out of thin air, transforming into the ethereal image of a wolf before leaping onto the end of Harry's bed. Harry leaped up in bed and began frantically backing himself up on his hands and wrists towards the wall behind him as the Patronus suddenly howled and charged towards Harry, enveloping Harry in shrouds of ethereal blue light.

Alarmed, Harry tried in vain to knock off the ghostly spectral as it continued to howl and run circles around him. Then after a few seconds more, the Patronus suddenly leapt off the bed and flew into the air, dancing around Harry's bed a couple times before flying out the window from which it came, howling sorrowfully and trailing wisps of ethereal blue light behind it as it left. Harry quickly got out of his bed and ran towards the open window, trying to see where the Patronus had gone.

With his hands firmly to the window sill Harry leaned out the open window and looked down at the street below, where his eyes soon met the eyes of the mysterious woman, who looked up at him mischievously and smirked. Without hesitation Harry quickly rushed out through the door to his bedroom and quickly ran down the second floor staircase, then out the front door of the inn.

Once out onto the street he began looking around intensely for any sign of the woman, but all he saw was an old hag pushing along a cart full of Wizard wares across the street and could hear nothing but a gentle breeze blowing and the wind chimes ringing softly in the window above him. The mysterious woman and her wolf Patronus were seen no more.