

When the Four Founders of Hogwarts choose you to save the world from impending doom, you know it ain't gonna be a normal year...
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My dear readers, what you are about to read is a collection of instances wherein our lovely Founders narrowly escape certain death with the help of magic, each other, and a bit of dumb luck.

History speaks to us of four friends, a school they together founded, and a division that still echoes through the stone halls of Hogwarts today. Yet, that great castle was never truly the beginning, and most certainly wasn't the end. Maybe, it's time to find out what the history books didn't tell you.
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They were the four greatest witches and wizards of their time, with a shared vision. But their friendship couldn't overcome everything. This is their story.
“So,” said Harry, “the diary. . .the ring. . The cup, the locket, the snake. . . and something that was once Ravenclaw’s or Gryffindor’s.“
“An admirably succinct and accurate summary, yes,” said Dumbledore, bowing his head. (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, p. 507, American Edition.)
Six items-famed for being the vessels of Voldemort’s soul. Set in eight vignettes across ten centuries, this is their stories before their fates were sealed.
The living and lingering of Helena Ravenclaw
In a remote Scottish glen, a castle stands, a castle that has seen a thousand different Christmases. But even those thousand years seem fleeting to the mountains themselves, for they stood before the castle was built and will last after the towers have crumbled.
Her mother wanted her to marry the Baron, desperate for the Ravenclaw bloodline to continue. But she didn't know about the girl from the green grass meadow whose very name meant happy and carefree.
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The final battle had taken place, the castle was in ruins. But within the rubble, a truth is revealed about the past.

Emotion gripped him as it had not done before, as his hand graced up her nearly cold arm. She was supposed to react to his touch, but there wasn’t a movement. His grip tightened around her as he choked back a sob.
When a strange creature delivers a strange letter to a boy in Single Level Complex 6, he and his best friend embark on a great adventure through time and space, meeting many strange people on the alien planet, Earth. With only the creature to guide them, the eleven year old Doctor searches for a wand to choose him.
Written for the Extraordinary Sci-Fi Crossover Challenge