A/N: This story is the one my late twin brother and I have worked on, we have written different chapters so the main plot is almost worked out. We decided to write a fanfiction that was slightly AU, but with canon parings. You will be able to read a fuller plot description on my profile, but I will not deliver everything on a 'silver platter'. The reason as to why we began writing this fanfic, is because we felt kind of sorry for Harry and some of the other characters. Mainly how they were treated and how a certain person, who shall remain unnamed until the next chapter, seemed to...manipulate...I guess that is a good word, the surrounding for said persons benefit, seemingly not caring about the consequences that befell others. If you guess who this characters name is please write your guess in a review. I will update all of my stories at least twice a month, now that I have come over my depression of the loss of my brother.
In loving memory of my brother Martin, where ever you are, I hope you are having fun.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, but I sure wish I did.
Harry Potter - Heir of Magic
Prologue - The Beginning of a Legacy
Merlin was lying on his deathbed, waiting for his son, Godric, to come visit, before he moves on. Merlin had a lot to tell and explain Godric, both about Hogwarts and Merlin's Heir.
Merlin had done a lot of things as Guardian of Magic. He had helped Morgana LeFay destroy the wiliest creatures to ever exist, though a few of the soul eaters did manage to flee, taking Morgana's soul with them. Contrary to popular belief, was Morgana not evil, though she did have a temper.
He had looked into the future, to see what would befall his family and was choked to see, that one of his descendents, his Heir, was The Promised One from an ancient prophesy, that only he knew about. It was made around the time that Magic was born. When he saw what was to happen with his Heir, he took contact to The Ancient Ones and told them what was to happen with the magical world in a thousand years to come.
They were furious to hear what was to happen with the sacred power, but what the informed Merlin about his Heir, was surprising to say the least. Apparently his Heir, was the Heir of Magic.
They explained to Merlin, that while he was the Guardian of Magic, he could only protect the core Magic, while The Heir of Magic, would be able to bond and use Magic, The Heir would become all powerful and understand everything that had to do with Magic like no other living entity to have ever existed.
They had told him, that the core was sealed close to The Portal to Death, what Merlin called The Veil of Death, waiting patiently to bond with The Heir, the only one who would ever be able to enter it's sanctuary.
The Ancient Ones told Merlin many other things, that he was only to tell The Heir. They told him to help his son and his friends to build The Castle of Knowledge and Teachings, for the future of wizard kind and Magic. He was told to tell his son on his dying day, some of the secrets he had build in the Castle if he chose to, he was otherwise told to tell his son of the prophesy about The Heir and that the information was to go down through the family, until The Heir had heard it.
That was the reason he awaited his son to some, before he embarked on the next journey.
There was a knock on the door.
"Enter," said Merlin.
His son, Godric, entered and his eyes fell on his very old farther.
"Hoe fare you, Farther?" he asked concerned. He knew that Merlin's time on this earth was limited, but it hurt non the less.
"I'm ready to move on, my son, but before I do, I have some important things to say to you. You must promise me, that what I tell you, does not leave our family, the future depends on it. Most of it, is family matter, which I will tell you all about, but the other concerns your school. I will not tell you anything unless I have your word, it's a promise I made to The Ancient Ones. If you do not give me your word, I will depart from this world now," Merlin said while looking expectantly at his son.
Godric was in deep thought. He knew of his father's powers to see into the future of his family, so for him to demand this, and for The Ancient Ones to have made this demand of Merlin, there must have happened something big and possible catastrophic in the future. That and his family was involved was enough for Godric to come to a decision.
"You have my word, Father," he promised.
"Good. Now let me tell you - - -," but before Merlin could continue, he was interrupted by the arrival of The Ancient Ones. They were tall, beautiful entities, surrounded by a light aura, almost golden. They didn't look old, but their eyes held eons of power and wisdom. It was obvious to Godric, that they were on the Light side of Magic, since he could not trace any evil within them.
"We are neither good nor evil, young one," one of The Ancient Ones said. It was almost as if they could read Godrics mind, even though he had his occlumens shields up. And what was it with the 'young one'? he was almost a hundred years old. The other thing that bugged Godric, was their declaration to be neither good or evil, if they weren't that, what were they?
"To answer your questions, young one," the one who seemed to be the leader began. "We can read every things, be it human or other magical beings, mind. We can communicate with them as well. The reason we called you young one, is because, to us, you are but an infant in years and magic. True, you are powerful like your father, but you are nowhere near us. The reason we said, we are neither good nor evil, is because there is no good nor evil, there is only the intent behind the actions one makes, that deems us. Magic is Magic," The ancient One finished, as though that explained it all.
Godric looked confused, everything he and the others had been teaching had not been right. When he thought about it, 'good' magic could be used to do evil deeds. Well it is too late now, he thought, you can't unlearn what you have learned from your upbringing.
Finally Merlin took pity on his son.
"Forgive me, Masters. It seems like in my old age, that I have forgotten my manners."
"It is forgiven, Wise One, for we knew, that you was to explain to your kin, the legacy of your family and was not expecting us. We only intruded to give your kin more information about The Heir, that The Creator, has given permission for us to tell," The Ancient One said while he inclined his head.
Merlin's eyes widened slightly.
"Masters, you told me, when we last met, that you were to meet with The Creator and tell of my findings, to see if anything could be done, since it concerned you as well. Forgive my boldness and eagerness, but I have little time left, have you come to tell me an answer?"
The Ancient Ones seemed to think about this, then stated, "Yes, The Creator has given us permission to interfere. What you saw happen is no longer to be. The Heir will be helped by us to resurrect it's parents, on that fateful night, but will have one year of darkness, before they can take The Heir as their own again. Do not worry, The Crown will see to it, that justice is given to those who do ill to it. Now, if you would please introduce us officially to your kin, we will proceed to tell him all he must know and deliver to his kin, when he deems them ready."
Merlin nodded and was relieved with this news, he then took an air of authority.
"My son, Godric Gryffindor, please meet and bow to The Ancient Ones, Watchers of Magic by the order of The Creator."
Godrics eyes got huge after that announcement, but remembered his noble manners and bowed deeply for The Ancient Ones.
"It is an honor to meet the masters of my Father and Magic," he said in greeting.
The Ancient Ones inclined their heads in a polite nod, as Godric got out of his bow.
"What we are about to tell you of your family's future, must only be told to your children, when you deem them ready, to hear it. Tell them only to tell their spouse of this, if they find them completely trustworthy. But know, no matter what, they will not be able to tell their spouse if we find them unworthy of knowing. They will never be able to tell their friends, only The Heir of Magic will ever be able to do that. Do you understand what has been declared of The Creator? If you give us your word and you are deemed truthful and honorable, we will bind you to your word. If not, you will not be able to remember what we tell you and will only know the day you depart from this world, when we come to tell your kin. The same will happen to your kin, should they not meet the requirements. Do you give us your word, knowing the consequences?" The Ancient One asked.
"I, Godric Gryffindor, gives my word to The Ancient Ones and by extension, The Creator, that I will not divulge anything there is to be said to me on this night, by my Father or The Ancient Ones, to anyone not in family."
The Ancient Ones lifted their right hand as in greeting and a soft golden glow surrounded Godric.
"Let it be done," they intoned as one.
"You are not to interrupt us, when we begin. When we are done you can ask questions, if you have any, if not, Merlin will need Gideon to tell him the information he will need, to help teach The Heir. After that we will depart. Gideon will then be able to tell you the most important information, that he will sense you need to know. Do you both accept?" The Ancient Ones Asked.
"I accept," Merlin said at once.
"I too, accept," Godric said.
"As you know, we Ancient Ones, have existed since the beginning of time, tasked by The Creator to watch Magic as it grew, like any other life force and see what it would do, once it became aware. We watched it grow and start bonding with plant life, in what we believe, was its search to stabilize and evolve. Evolve it did. It became more aware and curious as to why only some of the plant life was able to bond with it and evolve to other plants than its brothers and sisters. For thousands of years Magic studied plant life, both the plant life it bonded with and the 'normal' plant life. Magic didn't find any conclusive answers as to its questions and was beginning to feel, let's say restless. It had been stabilized for some time, but was beginning to leak it's powerful and dangerous powers and was slowly destroying little parts of The Earth.
It began to study a new young life force, that had appeared, to see, if maybe this animal life would be able stabilize it better then the plant life did, or maybe an combination of the two would be sufficient. Magic decided to put its theories to the test and found out that the combination of the two, helped Magic a great deal.
For hundreds of thousands years , the three life forces lived in harmony, but all good things must come to an end. Some of the animal life had evolved to far to quickly and they could not control themselves. We Ancient Ones, contacted The Creator, to see what could be done with the situation and The Creator decided to talk to Magic about what it felt we should do.
We all met and together, we decided to put an end to the creatures, who were out of control. Magic asked for a new animal species, that could evolve like it self did and over time, when it felt like they could handle it, bond with them little after little, so that situation would never happen again.
The Creator agreed on the condition, that Magic would allow The Creator to seal it on a lone Isle in the sea, that was the epicenter of The Earths life force. Earth and Magic would then be able to combine their energies and powers to sustain them, without destroying everything. It was well known, that Earth had, and still have, a fiery temper. Magic is the only entity, that will ever be able to calm her somewhat down. They both agreed to the plan.
The Creator then reached up into the sky and pulled a star down, to crash into the Earth, to stop the creatures that were out of control and to begin the slow building of the new race, that would be able to contain a small amount of Magic's power.
Magic was then told to feed the new race its powers little by little, as not all of them were meant to or could handle the powers. It was to study the race, then feed it a little of Magic's power and then study it again and with Earths help, see which would be able to contain and control the power and stop the feed altogether with those who couldn't or were unable to bind.
Before it was sealed on this island, The Creator told Magic, that in time, one, and only one, would be able to contain all of its power. It was told to give all of its powers to this one entity, if both this new species and Magic, was to evolve further. It would only be given that one chance, if Magic didn't bond with the entity, it would not be able to be more then it was now.
Magic asked for a little time to confer with Earth, since it also concerned her. The two discussed and Earth agreed, but only if the entity had a soul mate, that was like herself, so the entity would not be alone with this power.
The Creator agreed and told her to watch those with a caring nature, but with hair that matched their temper. When asked, The Creator did not know what The Heir would look like, but that they would feel the moment The Heir would be created. They both accepted and said, that they would study this great new species, they would one day be part of.
Magic was sealed in a place close to The Portal of Death, or as Merlin has called it, The Veil of Death.
As the years went by, they studied this new race, that called themselves human, and they were quite happy with how most conducted themselves. That was until some of Deaths collected humans, decided to revolt against Death and returned home through The Veil, but once they got through the gateway, they were no longer human.
They had lost everything that was human about them and they resented all living beings that had a soul, since they didn't have theirs. The new dark creatures soon found out how to survive, by sucking the happiness and soul out of their victims. The soul eaters found, that when they took a human soul, they could multiply their numbers.
It was Merlin and Morgana, that found a way to stop them. They defeated most of them, but a few escaped and took Morgana's soul with them.
Magic began to look closer on Merlin, because if he could defeat most of the soul eaters, then it was possible that he was related to The Heir.
Merlin taught his son, you, everything he knew, before he went on a journey, to find out what created Magic. He found us, or rather we let him find us, by the order of The Creator.
You see, we don't normally show ourselves. We talked to Merlin and taught him how to see into his family's future, in other words, he became our apprentice. When he departed from us, he was curious to see what would happen to his family in the future. What he saw angered him.
He did not know what his Heir had done to deserve the treatment he endured. Until we had permission from The Creator to intervene, Merlin's Heir would never have known his parents or family love in his first eleven years, don't worry, he would never had turned evil, but the actions of an manipulator stunned his magic capabilities so much, that The Heir would have never been able to bond with Magic, so Magic and humans would have been doomed to never evolve any further. But all that will be righted in due time.
Merlin gave us the information of his Heir and we discovered, that he is The Heir of Magic also. We knew then that we would have to talk to The Creator, to see if it was possible to stop that from happening. We told Merlin to help you and the other founders to build the school and prepare it for the arrival of The Heir.
We conferred with The Creator who, understandably, became furious, but we began to plot out and see what would happen to The Heir, if something different was to happen. Only one scenario worked out, so listen carefully for this has been set in the stars.
'The Ancient Ones are to help The Heir of Magic bring back his parents, the first time he meets The Great Evil, but The Heir will have to bee with his lesser good side of the family, in order to set the basic foundation for right and wrong. He will be there no longer then a year, before his will be saved by his parents and revenged by The Crown. The Heir of Magic will go through a series of test, for Magic to see, when The Heir is ready to bond. The Heir will be alone in his school house, that no one will know exist save Merlin, Hogwarts and Gideon; for a time, but his lieutenants will soon join him. The Heirs soul mate will also be alone when she joins the school, but at the same time she will not be alone. The Heir will save his soul mate at a young age in school from The Great Evil and their soul bond will be complete. They will meet at a young age and start the bonding process'. That is what The Creator said is to happen.
Just so you know, The Heir will have his own house and his lieutenants will join him, when Gideon says they have passed the test to be in said house. We will not tell you the name of the house. Hogwarts and Gideon will not tell you or any other authority figures at Hogwarts of its location or other secrets.
We give you a warning though, Godric. Your family will have to watch out for The Manipulator, he is on the light side, but will have lost his morals. Many will believe, and so will he, that The Manipulator, is Merlin's Heir. Yes, he will be related, but not to the same extent as The Heir of Magic, who will have Merlin's and all the founders blood, running through his veins.
That is all we have to say, do you have any questions Godric?" The Ancient Ones asked.
Godric's mind was reeling from everything he had been told. To think that a member of his family would have to go through so much and be so powerful was unheard of. But at the same time, the power The Heir would be receiving was something Godric considered a great honor to his family and wizard kind. The Heir would no doubt do everything wandlessly, without any troubles at all.
The only questions he had was concerning Hogwarts, but Gideon would be able to answer most of them in time.
"I have no question, Masters. I do, however have an idea concerning the location of The Veil and the place where Magic is sealed," Godric said.
"What do you suggest?" The Ancient Ones asked.
"I am currently working with the King to organize a government for the wizards in this country, so we have an better idea how many we are and, should things become difficult in the future, they will be able to hide themselves from the muggles. We have seen over the last decade, that some of the muggles are beginning to call some of us evil or demons. It's not many that are speaking up at the moment, but in time, I fear that they might revolt against wizards. If we start a government now, then, with the aid of The Crown, we will be prepared for the worst," Godric concluded.
"It's a sound idea. We will collect all the other Guardians, so that Magic is always protected until The Heir bonds with it," The Ancient Ones said.
"Have the other founders help you with it, my son," Merlin rasped, "alas my time here is coming to an end. Give me your sorting hat, Godric."
Godric gave Gideon to Merlin.
"Ah, Master Merlin, you will be glad to know, the Hogwarts has finished what you asked of her. How may I serve you?" Gideon said in Merlin's mind.
"thank you, Gideon. I know you heard everything The Ancient Ones told us, so there's no need for me to repeat. I'm about to tell you the name of The Heir and give you a few orders, you will need to comply," Merlin answered back in his mind, while giving Gideon all the information he would need.
"I see, Master Merlin, I will only tell him of my origins, everyone else will believe I was Godric's hat. No Headmaster will ever know my secrets, since I have bonded with Hogwarts, we will only grow stronger with the many charges that will pass through the halls and the energy from Magic and Earth to feed us. Do not fear, my old friend, Fawkes will be released, when your Heir groves closer to coming. He will be gathering information from The Manipulator and protect your Heir. By the way, Hogwarts will create your picture and The Four Founders, so you can teach The Heir personally when he arrives at Hogwarts. Goodbye and have a fair trip, Master Merlin," Gideon thought to Merlin, before the hat disappeared in flames, to go back to Hogwarts.
The temperature dropped suddenly and Merlin looked relieved.
"So, you have finally come to escort me to the next place, my old friend? Why don't you show yourself, just this once," Merlin said with a small smile, to seemingly no one.
Death appeared from a cloud of dark mist.
"Yes, Wise One. I have come to gather you with the rest of The Ancient Ones, to meet The Creator. But not before I leave my gift to The Heir," Death said in his low dark voice.
"In three generations from now, I will 'accidently' meet three of your descendents and offer them a gift each. One gift will stay in the family, all the way down to The Heir. The two others will travel and gather knowledge that can only be accessed by their true Master, The Heir of Magic. The two will join the third in his school years and he will be granted the same powers that I have, but he will be my Master in powers alone, since he will bond with Magic before all the Hallows have hound him. He will then have the powers to stop The Great Evil for good. Rise my friend and leave your body behind," Death said.
Both Merlin and Godric knew, that for Death to get involved, something truly horrible was to happen in the wizzarding world, if not the whole world.
Merlin stood out from his body and greeted Death as an old friend. He looked over at his son, who stood proudly watch over his fathers body. The Ancient Ones went to stand next to Death, but the last one stopped in front of Godric.
"Know that we will give three warnings of The Heirs arrival in form of prophesies. The first will be given when Fawkes discovers The Manipulator. The second will be given three months before The Heir birth. The third and final, will be given seven weeks after The Great Evil is reincarnated. All prophesies will be given to The Manipulator and Fawkes, when they are alone with the medium we will use."
The Ancient One that was talking, went over to the others and as Godric bowed farewell, they disappeared in a soft golden light.
Godric looked back down at his fathers peaceful face one last time, before draping the body in a soft cloth. Now he had plans to make, so that everything would be ready for when The Heir arrived.
1000 years later, Merlin watched two great muggle wars and two great wizard wars happen within a century. The second wizard war ended suddenly, when The Great Evil was stopped by The Heir and he saw the purest gold light save The Heirs parents.
Merlin looked at the power scale The Ancient ones used to measure magical cores. This one had no limit. Merlin was stunned, then slowly a small grin appeared on his face. The wizarding world was in the beginning process of evolving to the next level of existence. And judging by the decay he has watched in the years, it desperately needed it.