Notes

@Raven__Cho - Ravenclaw (History of Magic)

1. Griphook, Gornuk, Bogrod, Ragnok

2. Matthew Hopkins

3. Giants were once plentiful across the world, with at least a hundred different tribes. During the First Wizarding War, they allied with Lord Voldemort and were responsible for some of the War's worst atrocities against the Muggle community. Aurors from the Ministry of Magic targeted and killed many giants and forced them into hiding in remote regions of the world. All of this left a deep loathing and fear from the wizard community.

The remaining giants retreated into a remote mountainous region in Northern Europe, and being cramped in such areas resulted in them killing each other for the most trivial matters or sometimes for nothing but sheer violence, reducing their numbers to around eighty in total. Muggle mountaineers who approach the giants' colony would meet their demise at the hands of these fearsome beings, but it was always written off as climbing accidents. Wizard kind, however, seem to be satisfied with the giants out of their community as a whole and do not bother to monitor or exterminate them as long as they remain so. In 1995, following the return of Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore dispatched the Hogwarts gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid, accompanied by the headmistress of Beaxbatons, Olympe Maxime, to make an alliance with giants and deny their forces to Lord Voldemort when Cornelius Fudge refused to make an official approach on behalf of the Ministry of Magic. The pair traveled to a tribe north-east of Minsk to try and gain the friendship of the tribe. However, they were not alone in their efforts. Two Death Eaters, including Walden Macnair, had also arrived to try and convince the giants to rejoin Lord Voldemort's forces.

Hagrid and Maxime were doing well and were on good terms with Gurg Karkus. The Death Eaters, though, courted the favour of Golgomath and engineered an uprising. Golgomath killed Karkus, took his place as Gurg, and allied with the Death Eaters. Hagrid and Maxime were forced to retreat after being attacked by the giants.