Chapter One: Whispers & Dreams Of Another Time

"All great changes are preceded by chaos." – Deepak Chopra

When Susan's eyes flew open the first thing she thought was I'm alive? She shouldn't have thought that but yet she did, as her eyes looked at the ceiling of the Hospital Wing. Her head pounded as voices not her own but familiar whispered in her ears. The voice called her Helga.

Helga... as in Helga Hufflepuff? Susan wanted to laugh, thinking that it must be some prank Hannah did to her. But even as that thought passed her mind, Susan knew that it wasn't. She felt it in her gut, her aunt always telling her that she had a strong sense of being right when Susan trusted her gut, no matter how weird that sounded to some people not to Susan Bones.

So why was she at the Hospital wing?

"Bones?" Susan turned to meet Draco Malfoy's grey eyes piercing into her brown eyes. He laid on the bed next to hers, a gauze wrapped around his head. "What happened to you?" She croaked out. Sweet Merlin, her voice sounded awful, like she just woke up from a hundred-year nap without drinking any water.

Draco inclined to his obvious injury. "Got hit by a quaffle during Quidditch practice. Apparently blacked out when they took me in here." He simply said. Susan eyed him. He sounded awfully un-Malfoy to her. But then again, ever since she knew Malfoy through meetings that the adults had, they seemed on neutral ground with one another. I-won't-bother-you-and-you-won't-bother-me stance that they've had that Susan knew very well.

"How about you?" He asked. Maybe he did get hit by that Quaffle really hard that his personality somehow changed? Susan blinked twice before answering. "I fainted during Herbology class. Think it must have been dehydration or something that I ate, not to sure."

Draco nodded. Silence filled the whole room as Susan was left with nothing to say.

Susan kept hearing the whispers of Helga. She closed her eyes and focused on them. They were whispers of names and places, some she caught mumbling like Godric, Rowena, and Salazar. A voice called out, "Helga we should never underestimate you. Because in the end, you Hufflepuff will be a big part in Hogwarts foundation. She didn't even know she was mumbling out loud when Draco interrupted her.

"Wha-?" She said looking quickly at Draco. He had a look on his face as he seemed to analyze her face as if trying to figure out a puzzle. "You said something."

Susan raised an eyebrow as Draco continued. "Something about Hogwarts foundation, about how Gryffindor told Helga Hufflepuff when things started spiraling out before Slytherin left." He said with a deep frown on his face. Susan didn't even stop him considering she hadn't even known who was talking to her in those whisper like dreams. She was more so stunned at the fact that Draco Malfoy even knew about this in the first place. Maybe when she fainted she hit her head really hard and it gave her weird hearing abilities?

But she knew that as Draco told her all this something clicked, the whispers in her ear told her another name.

"Helga?"

"Salazar." They both said at the same time before the door burst open with Madam Pomfrey walking in, behind her were Hannah and Pansy Parkinson. Susan spied Draco from the corner of her eye, he grimaced at the sight of Pansy.

"Ah, Miss Bones you are awake. How do you feel?" Madam Pomfrey looked her over. Susan nodded before speaking, "Good. Just a bit dehydrated Madam Pomfrey." She gestured towards her voice. The healer nodded before waving her wand, a pitcher of water and goblet in tow zoomed to her bedside. Susan thanked her before drinking the water.

Madam Pomfrey told her that she should be more careful and to keep drinking more water. She also said that Susan would have to stay overnight just to make sure she would be fine. Susan nodded and was relieved that Draco would also stay considering he still had a head injury since a day before. Hannah chatted with her for a bit before Pomfrey shooed both her and Pansy (much to the girl's annoyance) away to have the two students rest.

"Here's the homework you missed." Hannah dropped her voice low. "Don't let Malfoy annoy you. I'll see you tomorrow." Susan said her goodbyes to her best friend. Pansy left and Hanna followed headed the opposite way leaving the two teens in the infirmary.

Susan checked the books that Hannah had brought for her. Charms, Herbology, and Potions. "Do you want some help with Potions?" Draco called out to her. She noticed that he also had his fair share of homework, Susan spotted the DADA book that Professor Umbridge apparently said the ministry had for each student. Susan nodded, still trying to wrap her head around the fact that not only that Draco Malfoy was being nice but that he had the same apparent memories as her.

With each potions book opened, Draco led her down the steps of the homework Professor Snape assigned for them. While doing that they talked quietly about the memories. "So it's about the founders? But what does this mean, are we one of them?" Susan asked while scribbling the instructions Draco told her.

He sighed before answering looking at Susan. "Probably but what are the chances really? If we are them, then where are Gryffindor and Ravenclaw?"

Now that, Susan thought, was a good question. Where were Gryffindor and Ravenclaw?

In another part of the castle, Harry Potter was having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, this new teacher Umbridge was already causing rumors to swirl around along with the added fact that Malfoy has ended up in the hospital wing for a head injury ("maybe his ego finally gave him a migraine or something." Ron said over breakfast) but it was something else.

He's been hearing voices of different people, that he did not recognize. It was going on since the middle of summer before the Dementors came to suck his soul, where he was hearing himself call out to the Hogwarts Founders. It sounded crazy but then came the dreams. Harry was called 'Godric' as he assumed that it was Godric Gryffindor. The other people were Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff themselves. They were different dreams each night until it somehow clicked in Harry, even though it sounded crazy to others but maybe he was Godric Gryffindor's next life?

Harry seemed to be correct later on when he got back to Hogwarts and a mysterious letter was mailed to him via an owl on his third day. It said to meet at the owlery at night. So, Harry being one to not let rules stand in the way went alone when everyone was asleep, wearing the cloak and using the mauraders map.

There he noticed P. Patil on the map. His first thought was Parvati but when he got there it was Padma.

They seemed to stare at one another before she blurted out. "Which house was Morgana Le Fay sorted into?" That was something that caught Harry off guard until he remembered the dream he had about Morgana. Why nobody in the history books had her taken off and hidden, Harry knew. "Ravenclaw. She was sorted into Ravenclaw, your house." Harry knew exactly who Padma Patil was and she knew who he was.

"Hello Godric"

"Hello Rowena"

After that, they tried their best not to bring up suspicion around the reason why they spent time together. They decided, in the end, to use a cover story, with Harry being tutored by Padma.

"It's for potions Mione." He told his best friend. They were curious as to why Harry seemed to spend his time with the Ravenclaw girl, someone that Harry barely knew anything about except that her sister was in Gryffindor.

They whispered about the dreams that kept them up at night, the ones where the four founders were planning on starting the school and talking about their students. Padma called it intriguing while Harry just called it plain madness. They both poured over any book that held the slightest information about how this could happen but nothing held close to what they were searching for.

"This is crazy Padma." He told her during one of their 'study sessions'. They decided to move it to another location, which Padma had found a few days ago. Harry needed the distraction considering he had detention soon with Umbridge. Apparently, he wasn't the only one, rumors spread that Susan Bones got one as well for talking back to Umbridge. Finally, they stopped at an empty wall, Padma walked back and forth in front of it. Harry was about to ask why she was doing that when the answer appeared.

A door that was never there appeared.

They entered it, seeing bookshelves, a blackboard, and a couple of couches. "This," Padma announced with her arms spread wide open. "Is the room of requirement. Only appears when someone needs it."

The only thing that Harry could say was, "Cool." At that moment he loved Hogwarts.

Padma wrote something on the board as Harry sat down still in awe. "What are you writing?"

"Our plan," Padma said, her back facing him. Harry only saw her long brown hair which was set loose unlike Parvati's who always kept hers in a braid. "A plan for what?"

Padma finally turned after finishing her writing. Her dark eyes glimmered with the determination that reminded Harry of Hermione when she was about to go off on a tangent. "A plan to find the other two founders, Slytherin and Hufflepuff. If we are the reincarnated versions of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor then there should be the other two founders as well. I'm guessing that it may be in our class as well, so we'll have to look at each Slytherin and Hufflepuff classmates of ours until we see some sign."

Harry scratched his head making his unruly hair more unruly. "As long as it's not Malfoy who's the reincarnated Slytherin then," Harry looked at Padma, as he the doubt started creeping into his brain. "But why us? Why now?"

"It's just like the Sorting Hat said, Harry. The houses must unite and I think us, the founders, coming back means that the Houses have to unite once more or-"

"Hogwarts will crumble from within." Padma nodded. "Exactly. So whoever is Slytherin and Hufflepuff, we'll be needing them on our side to somehow unite the houses."

"You know this is madness right? People won't believe that we're somehow the reincarnated founders of Hogwarts without them sending us to an asylum?" Harry said, skepticism sinking into his tone. Padma rolled her eyes at the comment. She looked smug as if she just figured the key to the universe right now as he looked at him. "Then we won't tell them. We'll take this secret to the grave."

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