Laurentia Gryffindor was brutally killed.
Rowena then sent a message to Godric, telling him to come back to Britain as soon as he could, while she took little Geraldine to a well-known healer of the time - Helga Hufflepuff. Although Geraldine was badly injured, Helga was able to save her life. Godric returned to find his wife dead and his only daughter wounded. Rage filled him in a way he had never felt before. He headed back to the village where his family had lived and slaughtered the Muggles; every single one of them. The village was a bloodbath, and no one would forget the sight of Godric Gryffindor holding a sword in one hand and a wand in the other, killing everyone he could find, magic radiating off of him in waves, his face in tears. If the Muggles wanted to see death so badly, he would show them what death really was.
Godric then spent his time raising his daughter. It was during this time that he had met his childhood acquaintance, Salazar Slytherin, who, Godric had heard, was in a similar predicament. Salazar's family too was murdered when he was just a child and he had grown up as an orphan, using his cunning nature to survive and manage his fortune. But unlike Godric, Salazar was more in control of his emotions and used his sly and cunning personality to win. He was not a battle mage like Godric but he was very knowledgeable in obscure magical arts. When Godric found himself very troubled with his past, Salazar taught him how to control his thoughts and emotions using Occlumency. Godric also taught Salazar many spells which he had learnt during his travels. It was during this time that their friendship deepened.
The two men realised that the witches and wizards were in grave danger, with the knowledge of magic dying in their beloved country. The Muggles seemed to have forgotten the time when King Arthur ruled their land hundreds of years ago when Britain's population of both magicals and Muggles coexisted peacefully. It was then that Rowena came up with the idea of a school. The idea was accepted by Godric, Salazar and Helga, who had by then become Rowena's friend.
They chose a remote location in Scotland, in the middle of a forest, away from prying eyes. They had to ensure that no one trespassed and attacked innocent children. They pooled all their money and constructed a large castle where they were to have the school. Having already befriended the Potter family who had constructed a castle with a heavy amount of protective enchantments and a stone fortress around it so that no one could enter their home and kill them in their sleep, Godric realised that their school had to be well protected. They collectively used their knowledge of magic to erect various wards around the place, to make the castle a magical fortress, something which Godric remembered the Potters had insisted was important. Once construction was complete, Helga named the school Hogwarts . The four then spread the message among the magical community so that parents would send their children to the newly constructed magical school. Godric personally went to Potter Castle to talk to them and soon, Alan Potter was among the first students enrolled at Hogwarts.
As knowledge of Hogwarts spread, many more parents sent their children to the school so that they could learn from the four learned witches and wizards. Godric specialised in Battle Magic and Transfiguration; Rowena focussed on Charms, Runes and spell crafting; Helga specialised in Healing and Potions, while Salazar specialised in Rituals and other obscure arts of magic. Rowena even developed an open ward which was so large that it could detect magical children born anywhere in the British Isles. It would later be known as the Book of Admittance of Hogwarts.
It was some years later that Godric found out that his daughter and Alan Potter were seeing each other. He was quite happy with the union, and with the blessings of their parents, the couple got married. Rowena too had a daughter named Helena who grew up at Hogwarts with her parents, as Rowena's husband shuffled between living at Hogwarts and going to Albania to take care of his family business. Helga had several children with her husband, who was the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts. Although he remained unmarried, Salazar too wanted children so he blood-adopted a young boy, who was also surprisingly a Parselmouth, and gave him his own name - Salazar Slytherin.
Godric had, however, years later, always suspected Salazar to have had a biological child of his own; a girl, whom Salazar was very fond of and also possessed the man's vibrant green eyes. Unfortunately, Godric never found out if the girl was indeed Salazar's daughter or not.
Salazar Junior grew up at Hogwarts raised by his father, but he tended to be very arrogant and treated everyone as his inferior. The boy also hated Godric with a passion, which annoyed his father as Salazar and Godric considered each other brothers in all but blood. The two men, of course, had their differences because of their clashing personalities as Godric was loud and brash while Salazar was calm and cunning, but they both counted on each other as family. This slowly created a rift between Salazar and his son. Several years later, when Salazar Junior did something unforgivable, the founder banished his son from Hogwarts, telling him to never come back ever again.
By this time, the founders were not their youthful selves. Rowena's husband had passed away, her daughter had disappeared and so had her diadem. While witches and wizards lived much longer than Muggles, emotional distress tended to make them age a lot faster in their later years rather than physical problems. Rowena was dying, and there was nothing Helga could do to prevent it. Even on her deathbed, the once proud woman craved and cried for her daughter, begging Godric to bring her back so that she could see her one final time before she died. But by the time Godric had found out that Helena Ravenclaw had been killed by the Baron, Rowena had breathed her last.
It had been a sorrowful time at Hogwarts after they lost Rowena. But the other three decided to move on and ensure that Rowena's name would live on at the school. After a span of a few years, whispers began to reach the school that Salazar Junior had started killing various witches, wizards and Muggles alike so as to become the ruler of Magical Britain. Salazar finally had enough of his son's actions, so he decided to go confront him and end his life once and for all. Godric had wanted to come along with him but Salazar refused, stating that this was an internal matter between father and son. Salazar left Hogwarts so as to stop his son from killing any more people, against Godric's advice. That was the last time Godric saw his friend. There was no news of his death but Godric had used an arcane spell to check if he was alive. Godric was devastated to find out that Salazar Slytherin had been killed by the latter's own son.
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