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"The Room." Regal wrote. "Is not Hogwarts' creation. It is Hogwarts' inheritance."
The centaurs presented another fascinating connection.
Popular fan theory in his previous reality had long suggested that centaurs possessed unusual levels of magical sophistication - they required no wands, their astronomical magic seemed to operate according to principles different from formal wizardry, and they maintained a deliberate distance from human magical society despite their obvious capabilities.
In Regal's unified mythology, this wasn't coincidental.
The centaurs were direct descendants of those wise beings who had once roamed under the stars of Narnia, beings who had possessed magical knowledge that predated the Separation.
When the boundaries between realms closed, a small number of these creatures had been caught on the human side of the divide, gradually adapting to existence in the new magical order.
But they had never fully assimilated into wizarding society because they retained genetic memories of a time when magic operated according to different, older, more primal principles.
This explained their mysterious foresight - they weren't predicting the future through supernatural means, but rather perceiving patterns that those with deeper magical ancestry could naturally detect.
Their skepticism toward human wizarding institutions wasn't arrogance but the measured caution of beings who remembered when human magical knowledge was still primitive and unreliable.
….
"So they are the Hogwarts Founders…."
Thomas understood the bigger picture, and where the story is being led too.
Regal had determined that all four Founders possessed direct ancestral connections to Narnia - not as inhabitants of that realm, but as the descendants of humans who had lived in Narnia and returned to England carrying knowledge of that world's magical principles.
Some of the Founders' bloodlines had mixed with magical beings displaced by the Separation Event.
Godric Gryffindor descended from warriors trained in ancient combat magic.
Helga Hufflepuff came from a line of healers and preservers who had maintained Dryadic knowledge.
Rowena Ravenclaw inherited the intellectual traditions of the Centaur scholars.
Even Salazar Slytherin, often portrayed as the villain in Hogwarts' history, possessed ancestry connected to the more ambitious and pragmatic magical practitioners who had sought to preserve and advance magical knowledge regardless of its origins or cost.
The schism that eventually led to Slytherin leaving Hogwarts wasn't simply about prejudice against Muggleborns.
It was about fundamentally different philosophies regarding how magical knowledge should be transmitted and controlled.
Slytherin believed that Narnia's fall had occurred because magical knowledge had been too freely distributed, that the loss of hierarchical control had weakened the wizarding world.
The other Founders believed that knowledge's survival depended on its careful dissemination across different family lines.
This recontextualization meant that Slytherin wasn't inherently evil - his philosophy was simply incompatible with the democratic approach to magical education that the other Founders had chosen.
His descendants' later prejudices represented a corruption of his original principles rather than their inevitable consequence.
….
Perhaps the most crucial element of Regal's framework involved establishing a timeline that was absolutely consistent with both established Harry Potter canon and the mythological history he was constructing.
He positioned Narnia's events - the Pevensies' arrival, their battles against the White Witch, their rule as High Kings and Queens, their eventual return to England - in an ancient past so distant that it predated recorded human history.
The Separation Event he placed approximately 1,500 to 2,000 years before Harry's birth, corresponding roughly to the early medieval period in England.
The Hogwarts Founders' era he positioned around 600 years before Harry's time, creating a significant historical gap between the Separation Event and the formalization of wizarding education.
This gap was crucial - it represented the period during which fragments of Narnia's knowledge were scattered, lost, recovered, and gradually integrated into human magical practice.
This timeline meant that Godric Gryffindor and his contemporaries weren't creating something entirely new.
They were systematizing and formalizing knowledge that had existed in fragmentary form for over a thousand years.
They were establishing a stable institution that would preserve and transmit ancient magical principles in an increasingly hostile world where such knowledge was deliberately being forgotten and suppressed.
The timeline also created space for the gradual development of the purely human magical traditions that would eventually characterize Hogwarts.
Spellwork, wandlore, potion-making - these weren't Narnian innovations but human discoveries that emerged from trying to reliably recreate results that magical beings had achieved through instinct and inherited knowledge.
….
As Regal and Thomas continued working late into the night, they had become aware of the deeper symbolism embedded throughout the Harry Potter narrative.
Symbols that suddenly made sense when viewed through the lens of Narnia.
The Sorting Hat itself could be reimagined.
What if it wasn't simply a magical object created by the Founders?
What if it was an artifact containing the consciousness or influence of Aslan's judgment itself - a device that could perceive not just intelligence and courage, but the deeper magical affinities that determined where students truly belonged?
The Hat's tendency to insist on individual choice, to ask students "Where do you belong?" rather than simply assigning them, reflected Aslan's fundamental emphasis on individual agency and choice.
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The most profound connection involved the fundamental concept of magical rules and their enforcement.
In Narnia, the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time represented laws so fundamental they couldn't be broken - the magical equivalents of physical laws in the muggle world.
When Edmund betrayed his siblings, the White Witch claimed him according to the Deep Magic's ancient law that treachery required payment in blood.
In Harry Potter, similar immutable magical laws existed - laws that even the most powerful wizards couldn't break.
Love magic protected Harry from Voldemort in ways that defied all conventional magical logic.
The Elder Wand's rule about the previous owner could be temporarily bent but never truly broken.
Horcruxes functioned according to magical principles that existed beyond any wizard's ability to fully control or understand.
These weren't quirks of magical existence.
They were remnants of the Deep Magic itself - principles so fundamental to reality that even in a world where direct access to Narnia had been severed, these laws continued to govern magical practice. They represented the bedrock upon which all subsequent magical knowledge had been built.
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As writing continued deep into the night, they allowed their imagination to extend even further.
What would happen when the Wizarding World itself eventually faded, as all magical ages seemed destined to do?
Would new mythologies emerge? Would the bloodlines of magic persist in transformed form?
"In the age after Hogwarts fades into legend." They wrote carefully, underlining the words twice. "When the veil of dragons and wizards has thinned, and mundane forces rule unchallenged, the world will remember magic in another form. The age of thrones and fire. Of blood magic and family dynasties. Of ancient swords and forgotten gods."
They paused looking at each other considering whether this was too audacious.
But the note remained - a seed planted for possibilities he wouldn't explore but that future creative minds might someday develop.
A hint that just as Narnia had given way to Hogwarts, Hogwarts might eventually give way to something else.
Not a crossover or direct connection, but a continuation of the same mythological bloodline - magic transformed and adapted for a new age, its origins forgotten but its essential patterns persisting.
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As midnight deepened into the earliest hours of morning, Regal leaned back and allowed himself to truly grasp what he had accomplished.
Finally, he had constructed a coherent, internally consistent mythology for Thomas to follow and understand to assist him co-write the series.
- Preserved every established element of the Harry Potter canon.
- Created historical depth that enriched rather than contradicted existing narratives.
- Provided plausible explanations for mysteries that had always seemed slightly inconsistent.
- Connected abstract magical principles to specific objects and locations.
- Maintained perfect timeline consistency across thousands of years of fictional history.
- Established logical hierarchies of magical knowledge and power.
- Created a framework where seemingly arbitrary details suddenly possessed profound significance.
"Good. These should be helpful for now." Thomas was satisfied.
"I believe so." Regal nodded confidently.
Regal already understood Thomas' capabilities when he was assisting Regal for the 5th volume, and only when he was confident did he ask on board for [The Chronicles of Narnia].
Honestly, if the first volume came out without any hinges, he is planning to let Thomas continue the whole [The Chronicles of Narnia] series.
….
Anyway, once that was finished.
Regal and Thomas reread the complete manuscript one final time, following the threads of connection from the Sword of Gryffindor to its Narnian origins, from the Room of Requirement to the Wood Between the Worlds, from the centaurs' mysterious foresight to their position as last remnants of Narnia's elder races/
Luckily, there were no contradictions or logical gaps.
They avoided forced connections that strained credibility.
The Wardrobe hadn't just been a door to Narnia.
It was the ancestor of every Vanishing Cabinet, every Portkey, every Floo connection in wizarding history. It represented the original principle of transportation magic, the first bridge between worlds.
And when Hogwarts' enchanted doors opened for the very first time - when the first students walked through those ancient halls and the institution that would preserve magical knowledge for centuries began its work - it wasn't the beginning of magic.
It was its return.
Magic comes home after a long exile, transformed by its time in the hidden places of human civilization, ready to survive and flourish through careful preservation and systematic study rather than direct cosmic authority.
When they finally set down laptops, the brass clock near the window showed 3:47 AM.
They both leaned back in their chairs, exhausted but satisfied, a tired but proud smile crossing their faces.
Tonight, Regal once again marked the beginning of something he always wished for.
He hadn't simply written another Harry Potter book. He hadn't even just theorized about potential connections between fictional universes.
He had made an old fan theory real. He had unified two mythologies.
He had given readers - those who cared to look deeply enough - an entirely new way of understanding the foundations of the wizarding world.
In this alternate Earth where [The Chronicles of Narnia] had never existed as published literature, he had recreated its essence and woven it so thoroughly into Harry Potter's fabric that future readers would find the connections and never know that they represented something that had only existed in one man's knowledge of a world that never was.
The Lost Chronicles of Magic had become real, hidden in plain sight within the pages of the wizarding world's expanding mythology.
"This manuscript." Thomas said, looking at their work. "It's going to change how people read Harry Potter forever."
"For those who care to look deeply enough." Regal agreed. "The Lost Chronicles of Magic. Hidden in plain sight."
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[To be continued…]
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