All That We Hold Dear
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Harry Potter › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
2
Views:
1,009
Reviews:
4
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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All That We Hold Dear
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Prologue
1484-Present Day
“We, therefore, desiring, as is our duty, to remove all impediments by which in any way the said inquisitors are hindered in the exercise of their office, and to prevent the taint of heretical pravity and other like evils from spreading their infection to the ruin of others who are innocent…it shall be permitted to the said inquisitors in these regions to exercise their office of inquisition and to proceed to the correction, imprisonment and punishment of the aforesaid persons for their said offenses and crimes” Summis desiderantes affectibus of Pope Innocent VII (1484)
Romulus, head of the House of Marvullo, who loved his wife and daughters and himself being a wizard, decided to remove his family from Rome. Although it pained him to leave the country of his birth, the issuance of the Papal Bull assured that he and his family would come under the scrutiny of the Inquisitors as some point in time.
Through his regular correspondence he had heard of the tortures and burnings of families in Germany and France. The missives would leave him shaking his head in sorrow, for more often than not the burnings were of entirely innocent Muggle females who had happened to invoke the ire of some one or another.
While he believed that the Strega and Benandanti who populated the smaller villages through out Italy would be relatively safe, he could not in all wisdom believe the same of his family. sta stay in Rome and attempt to fight Pope Innocent and his Inquisitors would not only be futile, it would also assure the extinction of his great family.
So it was with heavy hearts Mar Marvullo’s removed themselves from their ancestral home and made for England. They had heard that there were some areas of that country where one could live in peace and provided that they take the precaution of not revealing their gifts, prosper.
Their journey was dangerous, and the family took their time in their travels. Breaking from the journey here and there for a respite. They had to travel as Muggles so as to not arouse the suspicions of the Inquisitors and citizens of the various towns they came to along the way. It seemed that in Germany the Inquisitors were everywhere, and that the Inquisition was spreading like the Plague into France and Spain.
They eventually reached London in the year 1534. The city was basking in the glow of the reign of their beloved Elizabeth after years of terror wrought at the hands of the now dead Mary. When Romulus heard of the death of Bloody Mary, who burned any heretic at the stake, he gathered his family once more and set off on the final part of the journey.
With the simple stoke of a quill, the name Marvullo became Marvolo and the family settled and prospered. Romulus died in peace and his eldest son Rudolph became the head of the family. He oversaw the various matches and marriages of the daughters to fellow wizards. All courting done in secret, for the wizarding world had gone underground.
The family trait of the blackest of hair and green eyes and uncommon beauty were merely fortuitous additions to the family’s status, for they were powerful witches and wizards. There were many offers of marriage and through time the Marvolo family flourished and prospered.
Antony Marvolo, wanted to make a name for himself in the world. As the youngest son of Roudolph he decided to take his family to the American Colonies.
There the family settled, surviving the witch-hunts and the Revolution. The Marvolo’s were Americitizitizens now. Through marriage the family grew and some branches settled in the Louisiana Territory. Inevitably some of the comely Marvolo witches and wizards were married into wealthy Muggle families in the pursuit of power and position in the world. The family grew in power and stature. Their numbers increasing through each marriage, family ties held them close and all of their blood whether magical or not took great pride in the name of Marvolo.
In England, the Marvolo family was prospering as well, but only through the advantageous marriages to other great wizarding families. Blood purity was the goal of the family, and eventually the distance of relations was not enough to guarantee powerful progeny. Squibs were murdered, as were children with the defects of birth. The mothers of these unfortunates did not protest, some out of fear of their own lives, some because they themselves were disguste the the lack of magic in their offsprin
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They eventually dwindled in numbers as pregnancies were fewer and fewer, and the British Marvolos existed, hidden from the Muggle world. Their fortune was moderate, but they relied on the dignity of their name for advantageous marriages. Then Carmela Marvolo fell in love with and married Tom Riddle, who was of a wealthy Muggle family. She was of course cast out of the Marvolo family, but was so much in love with the handsome Tom Riddle she did not mourn her estrangement.
Eventually she had to disclose her heritage and her husband, instead of being accepting of her gifts cast her aside and refused to acknowledge the child she carried as his. He accused her of conceiving it by the Devil and went as far as having the marriage annulled, thus reducing the status of the unborn child to that of bastard.
Carmela went into mourning and eventually gave birth to a son, whom she lived long enough to name Tom Marvolo Riddle. The Marvolo family of England was unaware of the birth of the child, and had they known would have done nothing to assist the now orphaned baby. The American Marvolo’s had long ago reduced their correspondence with their Englishatioations as they found the prejudices of that line intolerable. They too had remained unaware of the circumstances of their cousin Carmella, as her relations would not have talked about their now dead blood traitor.
Had the Marvolo’s of Louisiana known about Tom Riddle, they would have taken pity, and claimed the boy as a relation. They would have brought him into the bosom of the family and raised him as a son.
But they were unaware of the child’s existence, and so the boy grew up in an orphanage until he received his letter from Hogwarts and thus he began his journey on thurseurse he had chosen. A course that would bring the magical and Muggle world to the brink of war.
Prologue
1484-Present Day
“We, therefore, desiring, as is our duty, to remove all impediments by which in any way the said inquisitors are hindered in the exercise of their office, and to prevent the taint of heretical pravity and other like evils from spreading their infection to the ruin of others who are innocent…it shall be permitted to the said inquisitors in these regions to exercise their office of inquisition and to proceed to the correction, imprisonment and punishment of the aforesaid persons for their said offenses and crimes” Summis desiderantes affectibus of Pope Innocent VII (1484)
Romulus, head of the House of Marvullo, who loved his wife and daughters and himself being a wizard, decided to remove his family from Rome. Although it pained him to leave the country of his birth, the issuance of the Papal Bull assured that he and his family would come under the scrutiny of the Inquisitors as some point in time.
Through his regular correspondence he had heard of the tortures and burnings of families in Germany and France. The missives would leave him shaking his head in sorrow, for more often than not the burnings were of entirely innocent Muggle females who had happened to invoke the ire of some one or another.
While he believed that the Strega and Benandanti who populated the smaller villages through out Italy would be relatively safe, he could not in all wisdom believe the same of his family. sta stay in Rome and attempt to fight Pope Innocent and his Inquisitors would not only be futile, it would also assure the extinction of his great family.
So it was with heavy hearts Mar Marvullo’s removed themselves from their ancestral home and made for England. They had heard that there were some areas of that country where one could live in peace and provided that they take the precaution of not revealing their gifts, prosper.
Their journey was dangerous, and the family took their time in their travels. Breaking from the journey here and there for a respite. They had to travel as Muggles so as to not arouse the suspicions of the Inquisitors and citizens of the various towns they came to along the way. It seemed that in Germany the Inquisitors were everywhere, and that the Inquisition was spreading like the Plague into France and Spain.
They eventually reached London in the year 1534. The city was basking in the glow of the reign of their beloved Elizabeth after years of terror wrought at the hands of the now dead Mary. When Romulus heard of the death of Bloody Mary, who burned any heretic at the stake, he gathered his family once more and set off on the final part of the journey.
With the simple stoke of a quill, the name Marvullo became Marvolo and the family settled and prospered. Romulus died in peace and his eldest son Rudolph became the head of the family. He oversaw the various matches and marriages of the daughters to fellow wizards. All courting done in secret, for the wizarding world had gone underground.
The family trait of the blackest of hair and green eyes and uncommon beauty were merely fortuitous additions to the family’s status, for they were powerful witches and wizards. There were many offers of marriage and through time the Marvolo family flourished and prospered.
Antony Marvolo, wanted to make a name for himself in the world. As the youngest son of Roudolph he decided to take his family to the American Colonies.
There the family settled, surviving the witch-hunts and the Revolution. The Marvolo’s were Americitizitizens now. Through marriage the family grew and some branches settled in the Louisiana Territory. Inevitably some of the comely Marvolo witches and wizards were married into wealthy Muggle families in the pursuit of power and position in the world. The family grew in power and stature. Their numbers increasing through each marriage, family ties held them close and all of their blood whether magical or not took great pride in the name of Marvolo.
In England, the Marvolo family was prospering as well, but only through the advantageous marriages to other great wizarding families. Blood purity was the goal of the family, and eventually the distance of relations was not enough to guarantee powerful progeny. Squibs were murdered, as were children with the defects of birth. The mothers of these unfortunates did not protest, some out of fear of their own lives, some because they themselves were disguste the the lack of magic in their offsprin
Th
They eventually dwindled in numbers as pregnancies were fewer and fewer, and the British Marvolos existed, hidden from the Muggle world. Their fortune was moderate, but they relied on the dignity of their name for advantageous marriages. Then Carmela Marvolo fell in love with and married Tom Riddle, who was of a wealthy Muggle family. She was of course cast out of the Marvolo family, but was so much in love with the handsome Tom Riddle she did not mourn her estrangement.
Eventually she had to disclose her heritage and her husband, instead of being accepting of her gifts cast her aside and refused to acknowledge the child she carried as his. He accused her of conceiving it by the Devil and went as far as having the marriage annulled, thus reducing the status of the unborn child to that of bastard.
Carmela went into mourning and eventually gave birth to a son, whom she lived long enough to name Tom Marvolo Riddle. The Marvolo family of England was unaware of the birth of the child, and had they known would have done nothing to assist the now orphaned baby. The American Marvolo’s had long ago reduced their correspondence with their Englishatioations as they found the prejudices of that line intolerable. They too had remained unaware of the circumstances of their cousin Carmella, as her relations would not have talked about their now dead blood traitor.
Had the Marvolo’s of Louisiana known about Tom Riddle, they would have taken pity, and claimed the boy as a relation. They would have brought him into the bosom of the family and raised him as a son.
But they were unaware of the child’s existence, and so the boy grew up in an orphanage until he received his letter from Hogwarts and thus he began his journey on thurseurse he had chosen. A course that would bring the magical and Muggle world to the brink of war.