The Founders and House Unity
Summary: Harry has come back to Hogwarts for his sixth year. Albus has explained the prophecy and Harry is mad at him. He is upset and Sirius' death and doesn't want to become a murderer. The founders appear with some odd news.
Length: 3,958 Words
Warnings: Language, Creature!Fic, Smut (Later Chapters)
Things To Note: Albus is evil
/Parseltounge/ Speech
Chapter One ~ Founders Appearing / An Angry Harry Potter
"To our new students welcome and to our older students welcome back to Hogwarts. This year..." Harry tuned out Dumbledore for the umpteenth time. He was still angry for the stunt he pulled after the ministry. He couldn't believe what Dumbledore had done for the 'greater good'. Sirius was dead and it was all... well, Harry's fault, as well as Dumbledore's, it was more so Dumbledore's. His attention was drawn back to the front of the room where Dumbledore was looking positively murderous as he stared at the four ghosts that had appeared and now stood before him. Hermione was whispering to Ron and Harry about something but Harry focused on the feeling he got watching the four ghosts. He felt a connection to them. He shook his head. They weren't Sirius. He watched the ghosts none the less. He did not know where they came from or who they were but he found it funny that Dumbledore was pissed the twinkle in his eyes were gone and that made Harry smile.
Out of the four ghosts half were female and half where male. Harry thought they looked familiar but shook it off instead listening for when they would speak. One of the males stepped forward. "I am Godric Gryffindor. I welcome all of the students to Hogwarts. We," He motioned to all of the others. "...Are the ghosts of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He looked to the others and they nodded. "Behind me stand Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff." Each of the other founders waved or nodded as their names were called. "Now I must ask did any of you listen to the sorting hat these last few years? Listen and understood I meant." Godric asked. Hermione's hand shot in the air, Harry and Ron's followed it. No one else raised their hands. Harry felt awkward as he held his hand up. Salazar came floating over to them and smiled.
Godric nodded at Salazar and he came floating back. "Now the hat has been warning that we need house unity to survive the upcoming war. Therefore, we, the founders, have decided to arrive here and start a new way of creating house unity, as we hate to see our houses fighting."
Rowena placed a hand on Godric's shoulder and stepped forward as Godric stepped back. "We believe the best way to start house unity is to choose three students from our house." She stepped back and gave Helga the spotlight.
"Each student will be paired with a person or another house. As such the three Hufflepuffs chosen will be paired off with a Ravenclaw, a Slytherin, and a Gryffindor." Salazar took her place before eyeing the students to see who would wilt under his stare.
"We will only have same sex pairs as you will literally be chained to your partner. You will share dorms, classes and you will have a chance to visit the others home." Salazar bowed to the student body and stepped back. As Godric moved back into the front Harry took his eyes off the ghosts for a moment to see Dumbledore looking like he was going to wring someone's neck. Harry knew that to everyone else he looked the kindly old man but Harry knew him better than most.
"The process will now start. If those chosen will please head up to the head table and stand in front of it so that we may pair you after." Each ghost moved to their house. Harry watched Salazar float over the Draco Malfoy and send him, Zabini, and Parkinson up to the front. Helga sent up three from her house and Ravenclaw sent up two people that Harry did not know and Luna. He smiled and didn't realize that a question was being asked of him. Hermione's sharp jab into his stomach had him paying attention again.
"Err... I'm sorry what was it you were saying?" Harry asked softly, he was slightly embarrassed but did not show it as he had been practicing that all summer... He had a little internal shiver then focused of what Godric was saying.
"You were the one to pull my sword form the hat three years ago, according to the talk around the table when I asked the question." Godric smiled at him. Harry stood his eyes on the table. Salazar moved up behind Godric.
"Are you also the one who found my Chamber and opened it, as well as you are able to speak parseltongue?" Salazar asked and with Harry's quick nod he smirked. /Are you sure? / He asked startling everyone but the ghosts and Harry.
Harry sighed and looked Salazar in the eyes. He thought for a moment before replying. /I am in fact a parselmouth and I speak it fluently and often as I have a snake familiar. Also your beast of the Chamber is dead by his sword. / Harry told him waving to Godric. /Oh and before I forget I am destined to kill your so called Heir of Slytherin Tom Maravolo Riddle, or as he is now know Lord Voldemort./ Harry stood still as Godric smirked between the two. Salazar nodded and left to join his students still in shock that Godric had known what they were talking about.
"Harry Potter, will you, Hermione Granger, and Ronald Weasley make your way up to the front?" Godric asked Harry moved away and Hermione stood quickly pulling Ron with her up to where Harry was walking. Ron was taking forever to move so Hermione hit him "This is an honor Ronald so get moving." She hissed before she grabbed Harry's arm with her free hand and pulled them up to the front and turned to face their table.
The founders gathered together murmuring about the students before they nodded and moved back to their students. "This is how it will work. We will call out a name and that person will step forward. The other name we call will be their partner and you will be chained together and then we will ask you to move to the side." Salazar told the twelve students gathered there. Godric leaned over to Hermione and whispered something to her. At her enthusiastic nod he turned to Harry and whispered "Join me in the Entrance Hall after dinner as we have something to speak of to you." Harry nodded and started to pay attention to the pairings. Ron had already been called up and paired with a Hufflepuff. They pulled uncomfortably at the chain before they moved to the side.
"Hermione Granger." Rowena called. Harry watched her walk up barely containing her excitement. "Luna Lovegood." Luna moved dreamily across to Hermione and smiled at her as they were tied together. Harry stood alone watching as the crowd of twelve thinned down to himself, Malfoy, Parkinson, and a Hufflepuff girl. Harry sighed. It was just his luck to get paired with the one student in Hogwarts who hated him as much as Snape.
"Harry Potter," Harry moved to stand next to Godric who gave him an encouraging smile. "Draco Malfoy." The other boy groaned at muttered something to Parkinson before moving to stand next to Harry.
"Potter, How perfect, why must you ruin my year?" He sneered at Harry. Sighing to him Harry ignored him and focused on the spell they cast at the chains. They would not be able to remove them unless the caster removed it. Harry cursed his luck and stared instead at the floor. He did not want to fight with Malfoy but if he had to he would. He just wanted one year where he could relax and not have to worry about whether he would live or die, or if Voldemort would kill or capture someone close to him, and the such. It was nice though to know that Remus had been brought in as the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher this year. He wondered if Remus knew all that Dumbledore had done to Harry throughout the years. Harry would never trust the man again not that any of the teachers would listen to him about the abuse he suffered. Dumbledore called him a liar in public and then in private told him to stop whining about it and let it build his strength. All Harry knew was that he wanted to kill the Dursleys and Dumbledore and anyone else who called him a liar from now on. He shook his head to get rid of the morbid thoughts and focused on Godric who was now speaking.
"Tonight you will be staying in personal dorms as to let you get to know one another. You will have a week to get settled into classes and into the personal dorm before you start spending time in each other's dorms. We will have a list up on when we would like you to venture to your dorm. We will allow you to be with your friends in the dorm. If they are paired with others then you will be a big group of how ever many. Now we must ask our forgiveness from our esteemed Headmaster and give him his job back. Let us sit pairs." Godric walked with Hermione and Harry to the table each dragging along their partners.
"Potter, why don't we go and sit at the Slytherin table?" Malfoy asked with a sneer, seeing that Salazar was over there. Harry looked back at Malfoy and nodded to Godric, Malfoy nodded and sat beside him with a sigh. Harry had to laugh. The snake was in with the lions now. Or at least mostly lions, there was a raven and a part snake there as well. Harry looked at Godric who sat next to him. Godric had seemed to taken a liking to Harry as well as Salazar apparently as Salazar had just sat next to Hermione who was across from Harry. Luna sat on her other side across from Malfoy.
Malfoy stayed silent as Salazar sat with them. Godric and Salazar talked in low tones and Dumbledore finished his speech and waved food onto the tables.
/Thank god, the old fool is done speaking. / Harry heard Salazar hiss. He looked up at the ghost and raised an eyebrow.
/You do not approve of Dumbledore? / Harry asked him with a smile. /I do not trust the old coot anymore as he betrayed my trust. / Harry told him with a smirk before tucking in and eating with his free right hand. It seemed Malfoy ate with his right hand as well, and Harry let his arm be guided slightly by the chain not really caring about it at the moment.
Harry started piling a ton of food onto his plate. This was the place he could eat as much as he wanted without having to sneak it away and then clean up the crumbs as soon as it was safe. /Mr. Potter how was your summer? / Salazar asked. Harry looked up at him with a sigh. Salazar, it seemed, wanted to test his ability in speaking parseltongue. He guessed the rest of the student body better get used to it.
/It was one of my better summers and my guardian's house. / Harry replied ignoring everybody's flinch at the conversation that the two were having. Harry wondered if Salazar had test Voldemort on it as well or if this was his first conversation with another parselmouth.
/What do you mean by that my boy? / Salazar asked. Harry flinched at the tile of boy or my boy. Glaring up at Salazar from his food he hissed, a plain hiss with no words, before replying.
/ Call me Harry, Jamie, Potter, or Black but never call me boy or my boy. / Harry hissed at Salazar, he was angry at Salazar because it reminded him of Vernon and Dumbledore. /My guardians are the muggles that hate anything that is different. And I am seen as a freak to them. My uncle calls me boy before he hits me. / Harry stated before ignoring everyone's stare as well as Salazar's gasp. Harry turned to his food and started to eat. He was no longer hungry as he realized what he had spilled and to Salazar Slytherin none the less. He knew that the founder of Slytherin would use it against him at a later time. Harry had some Slytherin after him and after having an enemy that was a former Slytherin one did pick up their traits.
/They what? / Salazar hissed. Harry knew he would have to answer him but he did not feel like it at the moment. He met Salazar's eyes and gave a sharp shake of his head telling him the conversation was over. /I will get my answer Harry. But you will have to speak with me later. / And that was the most exciting thing that happened at the table that evening. As dinner progressed Harry pulled out a book he had brought with him disguised as another so no one would know what he was actually reading. The book was one was on the how the purebloods were supposed to act. Now that Harry was Lord Black-Potter, though no-one else knew at the moment, he would have to act and dress accordingly. The news of him becoming a lord of both houses would be on the front page of the Prophet, he knew because he himself had sent in the article. Harry smiled to himself as Hermione talked to Godric.
At the end of the feast Hermione, Luna, Harry, and Malfoy stood out in the Entrance Hall, Zabini and his Ravenclaw stood with them as well. Parkinson and Ron moved over with their Hufflepuff companions. Harry nodded to Ron before turning and facing Godric.
"There are a few things I would like to bring to your attention. There will be no Quittich this year. We will instead have competitions against the pairs to see if they will be able to work with one another." He looked at all the pairs as the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw had joined them. "Those that were asked to stay please move into this room." Godric said motioning to the door that Helga and Salazar were on either side of. Harry, Hermione, Luna, Malfoy, and the other two Slytherins moved into the room. The door clicked shut behind them and the Slytherins started to try to pick a fight with Harry and Hermione.
"I should have known I would have gotten paired with an incompetent fool like you Potter. Now I have to hang around you and your Mudblood friend." Malfoy growled. Harry looked at Hermione and shook his head.
At least she understood, she stayed silent about the insults and tried to talk to Harry. Harry shook his head again and pulled out the book once more as he sat. He used his right hand to hold the book as Malfoy had started pulling at the chain to annoy Harry. Harry set the book on his lap giving up reading for the moment. He looked at Hermione.
"How was your summer 'Mione? Did you go to Egypt like you wanted to?" He asked trying to act like he was interested; ever since Sirius had died he just couldn't work up any enthusiasm for anything, including flying. He focused on what 'Mione was saying.
"…Oh and the history in all the tombs was amazing. I loved being able to read what was written!" She gushed before looking properly at Harry. He was pale and had black rings under his eyes. "How was your summer?" She asked reaching out a hand. Harry flinched momentarily before he regained his composure and allowed her to touch his face.
"It was the best summer yet. They didn't get to rough this year." He whispered to her, looking over he saw the Slytherins had started talking amongst themselves Malfoy as far away from Harry as the chain would allow. Luna was off in her own little world reading the Quibbler. "Vernon was afraid of me this year, so he translated that into much harsher beatings between longer periods of time." He pulled down his shirt collar to show a glamoured bruise to 'Mione. It covered most of his chest side and stomach. It was from his uncle kicking him up against the wall then dragging him up the stairs and beating him in Harry's room so there was not blood elsewhere. "I got away to Grimmauld when I could since it will now only allow me in. I got some neat books as well." He told her letting his robes and shirt move back into place. Just in time it seemed as the heads of houses and the founders entered. They were followed by a very irate looking Dumbledore.
Godric looked over the group. "Some of you will not be able to hear me after I wave my hand. If you cannot you will not be a part of this conversation." The group nodded to show understanding. It seemed that the Ravenclaw attached to Zabini and Parkinson could not hear. Godric nodded to Rowena to explain.
"Now that we are more or less alone we have something to tell you. Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger please stand." When they stood she looked at them both. You are both my descendants. Luna through her mother and Hermione through your father, yes, I know he is a muggle but you had to have magical blood in your line to get your magic." She smiled at the girls and motioned for them to sit back. Helga took her place.
"Jenny Oaks please stand. You are my descendant. From your mother's side, she is a pureblood, even if your father is not." Helga told her before stepping back to allow Salazar to stand in front of the group.
"Blaise Zabini and Draco Malfoy, you already know you are my descendants so sit and relax." He said to them before turning away to let Godric take his place. Godric smiled at Harry before motioning him to stand.
"Albus would rather keep this from you but we believe you deserve to know." Harry nodded to let Godric continue. The other founders came around him and smiled at him. "You are a descendant of all of the founders. You are the rightful owner of all our properties and fortunes, as well as Hogwarts." He told him. Harry backed away slowly he pressed himself against the wall that was behind the bench he had been sitting in. He took in the information before letting out a breath.
"That is a surprise to say the least." Harry said before swallowing and turning to Dumbledore. He was even angrier than he had been about the prophecy and Sirius. "YOU WANTED TO KEEP THIS FROM ME! WHAT ELSE HAS A POOR OLD MAN KEPT A SECRET?" Harry yelled his temper getting the best of him at the moment. "HOW CAN YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRRIOR KNOWING YOU KILLED PADFOOT? KEEPING SECRETS TO KEEP ME SAFE FRO VOLDEMORT? THIS IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THAT. I WILL NEVER TRUST YOU AGAIN ALBUS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU HAVE PUT ME THROUGH? DURSLEY TOLD ME EVERYTHING AND YOU ARE SO DAMN PROUD OF YOURSELF AREN'T YOU? I AM NO LONGER YOUR GOLDEN BOY SO LEAVE ME ALONE UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER SECRET YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPILL!" At this point Harry's chest was heaving and he could feel 'Mione's hand on his shoulder she was trying to calm him down before he hit something. He pulled away from her and turned to the wall hitting it, hard. Harry felt his hand crack and he laughed. He had enough of the bull people kept pilling on him.
/I want you to know Salazar that the reason I got hit was because of the old bastard right there. This fucker can't trust anyone because he is so afraid of losing his power. / Harry's temper was in check and 'Mione pulled him into a hug. He sat on her lap dragging Malfoy along with him as he moved position. Harry curled into 'Mione slightly before he decided he didn't want to look at Dumbledore's face.
"Get out of here Albus before I lose my temper again." Dumbledore stood tall and moved over to Harry.
"My dear boy, why do you continue to lie to yourself and your friends? I know that you are treated well in your home. Your Aunt and Uncle love you dearly." Harry growled as Dumbledore continued calling him a liar in more words. He stood dropping 'Mione's hands from his waist.
"Why don't you just say it Albus?" He whispered lethally. "Just call me a liar and get it over with so I can prove you wrong."
"Harry, my boy, you are a chronic liar. I know this from your checkup last year."
"What checkup Albus? I certainly don't remember going to Madame Pomfrey or St. Mungo's for a checkup. I remember having to wear and damn collar and getting my bones broken. I remember coughing up blood and being belittled while put in a god damn dog house. I remember Vernon getting off on hurting me and making me no better than a FUCKING HOUSEELF!" Harry told him his voice raising each word until he was yelling. Harry pulled out his wand and the staff flinched back. 'Mione had a hand on his shoulder again as he cut through his robes to show his chest, stomach and side. "What's this from Albus? Did I do this to myself?" Harry asked his voice falling back to a deadly calm voice. "Did I fucking beat myself so that I could have proof of so called 'abuse' at my guardian's home? Does it make you feel better knowing that all the times you told me to suck it up and use it to strengthen me up allow me to do this?" Harry swung his wand to face him and started to use a cutting curse on his arm. 'Mione cried out, the rest sat in shock. More so the people who could not hear them. "Is this what you wanted me to be able to do Albus? Be able to cut myself without feeling pain or anything else from it? Being alone all the time because I am certain that someone will decide to hit me again. Did you want me to be so dead to feeling that I could kill without feeling remorse?" Harry growled allowing his voice to rise again as the blood crept down his arm to the floor. "DID YOU WANT ME TO BE ABLE TO STAND UP AGAINST YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO FUCKING PAYED THEM OFF TO TREAT ME LIKE SHIT? DID YOU KNOW THEY PUT A FUCKING SHOCK COLLAR ON ME BEFORE KICKING ME OUT OF THE RANGE OF THE DAMN THING JUST SO IT WOULD SHOCK ME UNTIL I COULDN'T FIGHT ANYMORE? IS THIS WHAT YOU FUCKING WANTED OF ME? BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU GOT ISN'T IT ALBUS. NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I GO THOUGH ON MY THREAT!" Harry yelled before turning to 'Mione and holding out his arm. "Can you please heal this? I'll let you get at the others ones after." He told her with a pleading voice. Harry knew that he had left the others shell-shocked and that he needed sleep letting out all the pent up rage he had felt over the summer felt good. As 'Mione began to heal him Harry felt his legs go out from under him and he passed out.
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