Founders Heir
Summary: Not everything is as it seems. Someone is hiding the truth in order to conceal the most powerful witch ever born. The founders' heir is descended from the four founders of Hogwarts and holds hidden powers that forever alter the future. JP/LE, SB/RL, SS/OC
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter if then Snape, Sirius and Remus would not have died. If possible then James and Lily would also be alive and the Longbottoms would not have suffered their fate.
Chapter One: Innocence and Ignorance
A/N: Everything written in italics is spoken in parseltounge except the name revealed by the potion (it will make sense once you read it) and everything underlined and in italics is a flashback. Visions will be written in bold though there are none in this chapter. Also anything in quotations is made up quote from a made up book.
The thunder rattles the house and I jump slightly before sighing and sliding out of bed; of all the things to be scared of my biggest fear is thunder and lighting. Quietly I walk to the door and head towards my parent's room. Raised voices in the study draw my attention as I scurry to the door.
"She shouldn't have had that vision Albus swore that aspect of her powers would be blocked. Her natural appearance doesn't resemble either of us and I think she is suspicions. I don't care what you do you need to deal with this before she realises she isn't our daughter." My mother - apparently not yells.
"Clearly the potions had no effect maybe her powers know something is wrong and prevented the potions from taking affect. We could try the blood adoption potion again but we can't lock her powers now that she has displaced her seer abilities." My dad shouts back.
The news stuns me and I return to my room, fear of the storm forgotten. Unsure what to do I grab my bear and burrow down under my covers. My mind returns to the events two days ago and I remember with a stunning clarity the shock displayed by my parents.
Two days ago
Mum and I were sitting at the kitchen table; dad was tossing pancakes onto a large plate. Despite being magical my parents enjoy using muggle means occasionally and cooking is a particular hobby of my dad. He is a muggleborn and my mum is a pure blood (a blood traitor as well) and both provide me the best of both worlds.
Suddenly I felt distant from the scene in the kitchen and in the blink of an eye I was stood outside a house in the countryside on a full moon. A muggle mailbox with the name Lupin stood at the end of the path. A man stood by the door having just knocked, a young boy about six (the same age as me) opened the door.
The moon came out from behind the clouds and the man transformed into a werewolf with little warning he bit the tawny hair boy and disappeared into the night. Instinctively I run over to the distraught family, a woman likely the boy's mother is crying for the boy, Remus, to wake up and reassuring him that it would be ok.
Suddenly I am back in my room lying on my bed with my parents and an unfamiliar woman. "Sweetie do you know why you passed out?" the woman asks in a sickly sweet voice.
"I saw a man, he became a wolf and a…att….attacked this boy, and he was about my age. His mother she was so distraught." I ramble.
After about ten minute and a calming potion later I am able to tell them everything I saw. "My dear it is nothing to worry about it appears you may be a level one seer. The full moon is tomorrow night if this event occurs then you will need to go to Hogwarts to be trained by their divination teacher. She is a level four seer but it is the best we can do for now." The woman explains.
Present time
I insisted on going with the aurors to the Lupin's house that day (the man was a werewolf named Greyback and was wanted by the ministry). The family where shocked to hear this but unsurprised as Mr Lupin had insulted Greyback who had swore revenge.
Mrs Lupin was determined not to believe me after all I had never had a vision before so 'how can anyone know the brat is a real seer'. Sadly I was right. The next night Remus was turned into a werewolf – a fact my parents are trying to used to stop me from hang out with him but really who cares one night a month he is forced to become something else it isn't his fault and I fail to uphold the belief that all werewolves should be killed.
For now Remus is in 's where there is little they can do for him. Tomorrow I am going to Diagon Alley to find books on seers as very little has been explained to me and I am especially curious about this whole level thing that everyone seems to mention as Mrs Lupin was shocked when they mentioned I was a suspected level one seer.
From what I have been told the first vision a seer has is usually highly significant and involves family, friends, partners and most rare soulmates. So I have been trying to figure the significance of the Lupin family to my life. As far as I am aware since the vision centres on Remus and without knowledge of my family (since clearly the family I have grown up in isn't my real family) I have nowhere to start. My last thought before I fall asleep is that this isn't my first vision or it is looking like Remus is my soulmate.
The next morning my parents explain they think I got my ability from a distant great great aunt of mine who was a seer but they don't know of which level. When I ask they refuse to elaborate of anything even the level part. After breakfast I change into Wizarding robes and grab my bag – containing my purse with my entire allowance in it – dad and I floo to the leaky cauldron.
An hour into the trip dad allows me to go into Flourish and Blots with the promise I'll remain there till he comes to collect me. I get a couple of books on Hogwarts and several on seers and still end up with 12 gallons to spare. Sighing I run to the apocrathy and ask about a potion to reveal ones ancestral history.
The potion costs me ten gallons but I am beyond caring about money I just want the truth. Thankfully I make it back to Flourish and Blots and hide in my favourite corner for reading (I am sad I totally know where it is easy to read undisturbed in a book shop) just as my dad arrives.
Grateful for my enlarged bag with all my purchases inside I am glad dad doesn't question where I've been. When we return home I am granted a few hours in my room before I have to pack for Hogwarts even though I don't leave for a week. Mum has explained because of their jobs they won't be coming with me and that I will be under the care of Professor Dawn and Professor McGonagall.
I thought my parents would have wanted to spend every second with me before I floo to Hogwarts but they seem content to follow our normal routine. Carefully I remove a fresh sheet of parchment and take a new quill setting it on my desk next to the parchment; I pick up a pin and prick my finger drawing blood. Adding five drops to the orange liquid it turns red and I know I've done it right.
Taking the quill I dip it into the liquid and allow is to drip onto the parchment dead in the center than at the bottom and the center. Placing the quill on the desk I watch as the liquid begins to form words. At the bottom of the page my full birth name forms (the man in the apocrathy explained the potion to me and agreed not to tell anyone) 'Nadia Rowena Helga Gryffindor Slytherin Riddle' shocked I follow the family tree right back to the four founders of Hogwarts.
Further inspection of my family tree shows that I am related to a Minerva McGonagall. Surprised by this revelation I begin to create theories as to if she knows or not and if there are any other members of my family alive. Continuing to follow the branches I find that I am related to the Peverell brothers and that Mr Lupin is descended from one of them as well.
Well that answers one question but now I am left with a dozen more. Do they know we're family? Who else is involved in hiding my heritage? What does Albus Dumbledore have to do with this? Who is behind this? And what am I going to do now that I know?
Hiding the parchment in my bag I begin to pack my things into the new trunks that dad bought. My parents have decided that it is best for me to remain at Hogwarts for an undecided amount of time. Sadness begins to fill me as I think of all the things Lily and I were planning on doing this summer before we began our second year at muggle primary school.
Maybe I'll be back before then and maybe I'll have a better idea of what is going on. A sudden thought hits me and I suddenly panic. Albus Dumbledore is a fairly competent Legilimens and is bound to find out I know. Maybe I can find some way to occlude my mind and keep my secrets.
Having finished packing all my books and things I pack most of my clothes and leave enough out to last a week as well as a couple of spares. Tired I change into comfortable pajamas and place my bag in the drawer in my bedside table before snuggling into the warmth of my bed.
The next day after breakfast mum takes me to my cousins so that she and dad can go to work. Lily greets us before we have a chance to knock the door and lets me inside. Tuney takes us to the park while their mum does the housework so we'll be there for a couple of hours.
After my vision I had spent the next day with my cousins after going to the Lupin household and had relayed all the information about my vision to Lily because she is a witch like me. We were both happily talking about it and how it is weird that I am so powerful (I am also a metamorphous as well as a seer) and how Lily thinks it would be cool to be able to change appearances at will.
Looking around I make my hair the same length and colour as Lily's while laughing at Tuney's disgust. Shaking my head I return my hair to my normal long blond hair like my mother's (since she isn't my family I have decided to no longer call her mum when I'm thinking) which is when I notice movement is the bushes across from us.
Walking calmly over centering myself incase the need to use magic occurs I head towards the bushes. A silver snake slithered from the bushes and Tuney's screams ring across the deserted playground. "Hello my name is Nadia. What are you doing here and what kind of snake are you I don't remember seeing any like you at the zoo?" I ask.
"I am Serafina and I don't know what a zoo is but I am a Silver Serpent though most magical folk refer to my name in Latin or Celtic. I am over six hundred years old." The snake answers.
Wait I'm talking to a snake. "You can understand me?" I state well question.
"Yes child you are a speaker though again most magical folk use a different name. Perhaps you have heard mentioned an ability known as parseltongue" the snake responds.
"I have heard of it, Salazar Slytherin was a parseltounge." I reply.
"Nadia come on that thing might be dangerous." Tuney shouts.
"I don't think it is. One second I'll ask." I respond.
"Wait a second you'll ask what the heck do you mean?" Tuney screams.
"I'm a parseltongue which means I can speak to snakes." I reply.
"Could you be any more of a freak?" Tuney sneers.
"Probably I mean I have four rare magical abilities so yeah I guess I could be." I tease.
"Are you dangerous?" I quiz
"Not to those who do not wish me harm. I am known for my ability with potions, charms, transfiguration and defense against the dark arts. Those who become my students learn a vast amount from me." Serafina replies.
"Do you know what a level one seer is?" I question.
"A level one seer is a seer who has the highest ability to see the future their visions are clear and unlike all other kind of seer they do not speak when they have a vision. Their visions again unlike the others are only one possible future the events can be altered even prevented. Their visions include all the senses and they are able to induce visions and even focus on a specific thing to see outcomes and possible futures." Serafina replies.
"Would you like to come with us it might be unwise for a magical creature to roam a muggle area?" I ask.
"Mosssst defiantly young sspeaker." Serafina replies.
I lower my arm and allow the snake to wind her way around my neck. "Serafina would you like to remain with me for now." I ask.
"Yesssss, if you like I could teach you the subtle arts of magic when you reach the age when you will travel to Hogwarts. Indeed I believe that I have not found you by coincidence and that I am likely you familiar." Serafina replies.
"Serafina believes that she may be my familiar and therefore she stays with me." I smile as Tuney backs away. "Don't worry she is perfectly safe unless you decide to attack her." I add. Then I fill them in on what Serafina has said so far.
"May I touch her?" Lily asks.
"Of course." I reply.
Lily reaches out and runs her hand over the smooth head of the snake, "Your friend is a powerful young witch I believe she will excel at charms when she goes to Hogwarts." Serafina hisses.
"Lily, Serafina believes that you are a powerful young witch and that when we go to Hogwarts you will excel at charms." I translate.
"Please tell Serafina that I am honored to hear that she thinks so highly of me as she must have met many powerful witches and wizards." Lily replies.
I translate this to Serafina.
"Your friend has a deep magic within her that comes from her capacity to love and this is what sets her apart from many others her heart is open and she is not predisposition to the prejudices of our world. This separates her from everyone else I've met." Serafina replies.
Again I translate and Tuney gives up on making us leave as her mum wouldn't be happy about us returning early.
Lily sits on the swings going as high as she can before letting go and flying round the park. I laugh as I watch sitting on the second swig. Megan (my aunt) freaks out about Serafina and insists that I'll have to talk to my mother but she doubts that I'll be aloud to keep her. Right now though I am aloud to keep Serafina as long as she stays on me at all times.
Late afternoon my mother comes to pick me up and apparates us home. Neither of my parents are in any way happy about me speaking parseltounge and having a snake familiar, especially as they are both Gryffindors. Dad shows me how to activate the spells mother put on the trunks to shrink and restore them and I continue to pack my clothes; the family house elf bring my clean clothes and leaving them on my bed for me to pack.
Having nothing else to do I take one of the books I bought on seers: 'A Beginners Guide to Seers and Divination' is a thick leather bound tomb in a green colour with the title written in silver (Slytherin colours surprisingly). The first chapter is all about the different levels of seers. The section of information on level one seers reads:
'Level one seers are seers who enter a deep vision trance and pass out, unlike other levels of seers their visions are theirs alone as they do not speak during a vision and are unresponsive to stimuli out with their vision as such are often mistaken for being unconscious. Their visions include all their senses and a detailed image of the future event they are witnessing is built.
As a result a level one seer is often able to alter or prevent events. Further differences include the length of visions; while this does increase slightly going up the levels it is greatest and most varied at level one. Normal visions (visions about one event or incident) can last up to 15 minutes while series visions (visions which pass over a long duration of time and include several events or incidents) can last up to half an hour, though one seer had a vision which lasted for 45 minutes and remains the longest recorded vision.'
Most of this Serafina told me earlier and some of it I could have told you from having had a vision. Still it's still scary to know just how powerful I am. After dinner I go to bed wondering how I am going to hide my knowledge from Dumbledore and dream of a shallow faced woman with long black hair that looks slightly greasy (yet somehow I know it is from brewing potions all day) and her son who looks very similar in appearance though his eyes are an endless black.
A/N: That's chapter one done, I've been writing this for weeks. Also Serafina is a completely made up snake as far as I'm aware anyway there are no silver snakes in mythology though I may be wrong since I'm no expert in that kind of thing. Anyway please review and let me know what you think.