The pain of a Mother and the plea of a Daughter.

Hogwarts is more than a stone castle that has been standing for more than a millennium. It's more than a school where young witches and sorcerers go to learn. It is a home and refuge for all who pass through its doors.

Once it was the safest place in England and many will dare to say, one of the sites –if not the safest– of the magical world in its entirety. Built by four powerful, wise, gentle and wonderful wizards whom the castle called ´Masters´; Hogwarts is pure magic seated in the form of a fortress.

However, with the loss of her masters and mistress, things changed. She became a prey of the misuse of her power by the ones she called Directors and the passage of centuries Hogwarts was relegated to a simple construction. With no mind and no conscience until it happened.

A dead student inside her grounds.

The grief that this caused made her roar with rage. How dare he?! One of her own students, one of the children she welcomed as her own, dared to betray her and assassinate one of his classmates. And if that was not enough, he had used the name of one of their masters to commit such an atrocity!

Hogwarts cursed that young man, Tom Riddle, but when she was about to destroy him she realized. The soul of that young man was broken.

Even if she killed him, she would not fix anything. This man was dangerous. Hogwarts could recognize a Dark Wizard when she saw one. After all, one of the four founders was one of the greatest that ever existed in history, but she knows. She knows that Tom is not like Salazar, who occupied his knowledge for the welfare of others. No, Tom is the type of Dark Lord who used his power to cause misery, pain and death.

That such a young one is so rotten as to use that magic...

It is something terrible. Something that needs a solution, but she had observed, even if not with the attention she would like and all the wizards who have passed through her corridors and classrooms, and she knows it, there is not one who can face that monster.

So she lets him go.

And she focus on future generations, on the hope that in the future there will be someone who can face him and do everything in her power to protect her children and prevent something like what Tom did from repeating itself.

Nearly thirty years pass until she hears his name again within her walls. Voldemort, they whisper with fear the houses of the Lion, the Raven and the Badger, while the Serpents pronounce it with devotion.

It happened what she feared. Tom returned strong and powerful, threatening her students in an unprecedented way. Forcing their hands on those who wanted change and misinterpreted Slytherin's wishes to attack and hurt those who rightly opposed his takeover.

Hogwarts saw how the war that was carried out of her walls and infiltrated in these. She saw her children tremble with fear even though she would not allow anything to happen to them.

She saw a generation choose on opposite sides even before leaving her lands and she could not take it anymore. She had promised Godric that she would never take the parchment he and the other three left behind, but the situation required it.

She needed her masters.

Hogwarts chose very carefully who would be the parents of her masters and mistress within the couples who were already existed.

Lily Evans and James Potter (She loved all her children, but James, Remus, Peter and Sirius, were special to her. They were her little marauders, whom she cared for and had adored during the seven years they wandered in their halls), they would be the parents of Salazar.

Lily was a descendant of Salazar from one of his sisters and James was a descendant of the Peverells. They were good people, loyal and capable of loving until the last consequences. They would be good parents and Merlin knew that Salazar needed parents that loved him.

Alice and Frank would be Helga's parents. Both loyal, brave and gentle. They were perfect for her mistress and surely she would be very happy by his side.

Lucius and Narcissa would be Godric's parents. Narcissa would love Godric more than anything in the world and would do everything possible to make him happy, that was something his brave Master deserved after all he had suffered in his previous life. It didn't matter if they were Slytherin, their son will be the Gryffindor more Gryffindor of all.

And finally, Merida and Thomas, they would be Rowena's parents. Merida was a seer, one with limited abilities, but one after the other, it was something hereditary and with some luck her Mistress would have her gift in this life. But that was not the only reason he had chosen them, no, she saw a deep love between them and knew that both would love their children equally.

The ritual was done.

Her children graduated and left the safety of their walls to enter a war. It was not until a year or two after he heard them again from the mouth of the incompetent idiot who called himself director, Albus Dumbledore.

Pain. Sadness. Sorrow. Anger.

James, Lily, Alice, Frank, Remus, Sirius, Peter. All lost. All prey of evil Tom and his followers unleashed, along with the stupid things that Albus planted in their minds.

Salazar (Harry) and Helga (Neville) had left without of parents. Her masters were alone in the world and she could not do anything!

Just wait.

Wait until they reach the age of eleven and return home.

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Tonight, her four masters have finally returned. It was a long wait, but without a doubt one that was worth it.

Salazar, Godric and Helga arrived the previous year. It was painful to see that what she had wanted for them had not come true.

Harry had had a life full of sadness and pain. Battered and abused by the Muggles who were supposed to take care of him. One more proof that Dumbledore was an old idiot. Seriously, his life was so similar to Salazar's in some ways, that Hogwarts cried for him and did everything in his power to make the boy feel loved and protected. She guided and cared for him during each of his misadventures.

Draco, on the other hand, was loved by his mother, but ignored by his father. It was very sad to see that the little boy had changed everything to try to get a single word of approval.

And Neville, his gentle, but proud and strong mistress, was reduced to a young man full of insecurities caused by his abusive family members.

None of them went to the house they were destined to go because of their pasts. Sebastian, the selection hat, that was an intrinsic part and at the same time independent of her, only looked at them with sorrow before sending them to the houses where the little ones thought they should be.

Obviously this decision not only benefits us, but it caused more damage, more wounds to add to those who already carried

She had wanted to wake them up as soon as they set a foot on her grounds, but Sebastian reminded her that the four of them had to be there before she could help them. She had very reluctantly let them go through the year, watching hers little ones with great attention, cursing and growling at the pathetic machinations of Tom and Albus.

As soon as they woke up, their masters would teach them.

And today, at their second welcome banquet they were together.

Luna, who was perhaps the only one of her teachers who had a happy childhood, had finally returned home.

Hogwarts received them singing with joy, their magic surrounded their souls and murmured a «Welcome».

That night, the banquet was the best anyone could remember. The music resounded in their hearts and made them feel loved, for the first time in centuries Hogwarts danced and sang for their inhabitants.

Her founders had returned.

And there was going to be a hell to pay for all those who damaged what is theirs.

Hogwarts laughs openly because neither Tom nor Albus knows what awaits them. But above all, because once again Salazar, Godric, Rowena and Helga will be able to walk through its corridors and their laughter will fill her heart again.