This is my second story idea and the one I'm going to finish I do want to say I will be use a few story ideas for the wonderful work of Miranda Flairgold and can wait for her to finish. ~means thoughts~
This will have Slash so don't like don't read without further ado the story ( no I don't own Harry Potter)
AN: This has been Beta'd yay by the wonderful noirekitsune. We have manged to redone up to chapter four so it should read much better.
Satus Novus
Chapter one
The fire crackled and popped in the Room of Requirement where 16 year old Harry Potter sat staring into the flame. He had just come from the Hospital wing after checking on Dumbledore. Snape had sent him off the roof with a cutting curse that took his wand arm but people on the ground had slowed his fall, and quickly rushed him to Poppy. There Harry learned the truth about Dumbledore; he still had trouble believing it was true.
{flashback}
Harry slowly made his way to hospital wing where Dumbledore was recovering from Snape's attack on him. Harry hadn't gotten hit with any major spells so was not in Poppy's care, but still wanted to make sure Professor Dumbledore was okay. He was sneaking in to the room Dumbledore was in when he heard the Professor talking to someone. ~I should leave~ he thought, but as he turned to leave he heard Dumbledore's voice.
"The weak love potion you chose won't work for someone who can throw off the Imperius Curse; you'll have to get the strongest one or just chose an aphrodisiac, and the strongest aphrodisiac is the Sokolata potion".
"Are you sure that's the strongest one Professor?"
Harry whipped back around, ~Ginny!?~
"Yes, my dear, the strongest aphrodisiac is Sokolata and the strongest love potion is Amortentia, although you know that one already." Dumbledore answered her.
"I have a hard time finding them now that Snape isn't here. I don't have all of the ingredients to make Amortentia and I have a hard time getting away from my family to get the Sokolata in Knockturn Alley, Professor." Ginny replied, sounding frustrated.
"I have every faith you'll do fine, and then you'll be Mrs. Potter and soon after your first child you'll be poor widowed Ms. Potter with all his money." Harry listened in shock as they spelled out how to get his fortune and kill him after he finished Voldemort. Quickly turning away he ran, with tears that he refused to let fall, to the Room of Requirement.
{end flashback}
As Harry sat there staring at the fire he wished he had someone to turn to, that help him decide what the best thing to do was.
"So are you going to mope there all night, or what?" Whipping around with his wand drawn, Harry turned to face where the voice had come from. Stepping back in shock when he saw four people standing there in a older style of robe; the Founders of Hogwarts.
"What are you doing here?" Harry exclaimed in surprise.
"Well, my young lion, you asked us here," Godric replied, to Harry's shock.
"I don't understand."
" It's quiet simple Harry dear, what you wanted most right now in the Room was someone to give you good advice on what you should do," Helga said kindly, " We are here to give you that advise".
"Oh," Harry sat back on the chair he was in, "I guess that makes sense," he said quietly, "Can you help me? I don't want to marry Ginny or have my fortune go to Dumbledore and her."
"That's it, boy, don't want to live?" Salazar exclaimed in shock. Harry looked down in sadness.
"There's no way for me to live. I'll die when Voldemort does because Dumbledore let Snape attack my mind; causing my link with Voldemort to grow stronger, and even if that doesn't kill me Dumbledore will, so he can get his money."
"Hmm, let me look at you my dear," Rowena said, "I'll see what we can do for you." Rowena waved her wand over Harry a few times and a sheet of parchment appeared before her. She grabbed it and started reading, taking it over to Helga so they could look it over together. While the Ladies looked it over, the men went and conjured chairs to sit with him.
"Well young lion, you have a few options here," Godric told Harry, "You could stay here at Hogwarts or there are different schools to go to." Here Salazar spoke up "You don't have to go to a human realm school, there are schools in different realms but most of the students will not be human, or very sympatric to a lone human." He warned.
"I want to go to a school that will teach me how to fight and survive this war, and after, if I can" Harry finally said. Godric and Salazar looked at each other and smiled at him. "There are a few schools that will teach what you need to know but if you want to go there you'll have to study a little with us here first," Salazar said.
Harry sat there quietly for a minute, thinking it over ~I want to stay here, but in all the years I've been here someone or something has tried to kill me. If I leave I could get better training than I get here with the Ministry of Magic breathing down my neck. I won't have to watch what Ginny tries to give me, and I could live after the war.~ Then looked them straight in the eyes and said, " I'll do it." They looked like the cats that caught the canary, and Harry suddenly felt like running. "Well if you want to go we had better get started so you don't embarrass us, for you will be going as the Heir of Hogwarts."
"You want me to go as the Heir of Hogwarts?" Harry asked them surprised. "Wait, does that mean that I'm related to all of you?" At that, both Salazar and Godric started laughing.
"No Harry, you are related to two of us though; Rowena and I, and you won the right to be Salazar's Heir by conquest." Godric informed him, after recovering his composure.
"What do you mean I won by conquest?"
"When Riddle killed your family and tried to kill you, you defeated him, and banished him from his body as the last of the line. He is no longer Salazar's heir, you are." Harry looked at him stunned. He gave a big smile, "I guess I really was the heir of Slytherin back in second year huh?" Godric and Salazar looked surprised at what Harry said, "Well how about that, you're right." Was Godric's reply, Salazar just looked smug. Just then Helga and Rowena came over to where the boys were sitting and conjured a love seat for the two of them to sit down with them. Rowena leaned forward with the parchment in hand.
"Harry, we've got it figured out." Rowena said excitedly, "It turns out you have number of blocks on your magic and body! We can remove them and you will have a better chance of living after you kill Riddle."
"Blocks, what do you mean blocks on my magic?" Harry asked, shocked. He looked away "He, I mean, Dumbledore didn't put them on," Harry said then asked in a quiet voice, "did he?"
Helga answered sadly, "He put on some of them but other people put some on too."
"Who?" Rowena looked down at the parchment for a moment then looked up at Harry, and handed the list over.
Harry James Potter
Block; Magic or Other
Magic Block: one hour old, James Potter
Note: Block was mostly destroyed and core is at 80 percent of full core.
Blood Block: two hours old, Lily Potter
Note: removing can change looks
Metamorphagus: two months old, Lily Potter
Note: this also blocks Animagus form/s till removed
Element- Fire and Lighting Block: 8 months old, James Potter and Lily Potter
Note: user very gifted, if removed take great caution gift will be out of user control for a time; get immediate training
Soul Block: Tom Riddle
Note: a soul block needs a master to remove, do not try by yourself
Magic Block: Fifteen months old, Albus Dumbledore
Note: Block is mostly destroyed and core is at 60 percent of the unblock core.
Healing Block: eleven years old, Albus Dumbledore
Note: as the Magic Blocks were breaking the magic started on this block, 50 percent removed
Mind Magic Block: fourteen years old, Albus Dumbledore
Note: the mind attacks from Severus Snape have weakened this block, 30 percent removed
Body damage
Malnutrition: from ages one year old to present time
Note: can be mostly fixed
Short-sighted: from malnutrition
Note: can be fixed
Stunted Height: from malnutrition
Note: can grow a few more inches if corrected now
Basilisk venom in blood
Note: the Phoenix tears are preventing it from poisoning the body, will be immune to most poisons
"Merlin," Harry said, in shock after reading the list of all the blocks and injures. Salazar and Godric didn't look much better. "How do I get the blocks off , I want all of them gone even the ones from my parents," he looked over and asked, "How could they but blocks on my magic so young and on so many things?"
"We don't know young lion but give us some time and we can get all of them off now." Godric looked over at Helga and Rowena, "What do we need to break or remove the blocks ladies."
Rowena looked over the list one more time, "We have what we need here. It will just take more time than we thought he was going to be in here that's all."
"More time? Not that I don't want to spend more time here, but how am I going to stay here for that long?" exclaimed Harry, " Dumbledore would know something's up and try to get me out of here before I'm ready wouldn't he?" a puzzled Harry asked.
Rowena smiled, "Normally you'd be right, but as the Founders of this school we can make the time in the room stop and be separate from the time of the world." Salazar suddenly stood up and started walking over to the wall where a cabinet appeared. Here he took out a number of potions, one black, one blue, and a gold one. He then turned walked over to Harry and gave them to him.
"Here drink these and we'll get started with those blocks and that malnutrition from those muggles." Harry looked at them, took a deep breath and swallowed the three potions one after the other. After taking them Harry fell deeply asleep and would remain so for the next two days.
~~~~~ Time skip two days ~~~~
When Harry woke up next he felt better than he ever had in his life. He could feel his magic moving in his core, bigger and thicker than ever. As Harry got up from the queen bed he was in, he got a view of himself in the full sized mirror resting by the door. Instead of a brown birds nest of bad hair it was pitch black with autumn and blond streaks that fell to his shoulder blades in waves. His skin was still tan but looked healthy and glowing, and instead of being 5'5" he was almost 6' tall. He was dressed in a long tunic and loose pants. He went over to the door and opened it to see the founders sitting at a table with food and tomes on top of it, talking quietly. Looking around he could see aspects of the Gryffindor common room plus some Slytherin accents, and features that didn't belong to either house. Rowena looked up and saw Harry standing there at the door way
"So you're awake! Now, how do you feel Harry?" She asked him
"Better than I have ever felt before." he answered frankly, as walked over to the table and sat down in the extra chair at the end.
"Here my dear, you need to eat. After all those blocks were removed you'll need to eat more until your body is used to having more to feed and you finish your last growth spurt," Helga mothered him as he reached for the feast on the table, most of his favorites were present along with lots of fresh fruits. Piling it on to his plate he started eating through a huge amount of food, when Salazar leaned forward and put a light green potion beside his plate.
Harry swallowed and asked, "What does this one do Salazar?" he pick it up, "Oh it's a nutrition potion for bones." He knocked it back, then paused and turned to the founders with wide eyes, "How did I know what that was?"
Here Rowena looked smug, "There was a spell we created, back before we started Hogwarts, that enabled us to learn as much as we could very quickly, before the people who had the knowledge died. They were very old and they gave us much of the money needed to have Hogwarts built. Our money was used to retrieve the children who were from far off muggle villages, and to supply the poorer children with necessities like clothes." Helga spoke up and continued, "This spell let us give you our own knowledge, plus what Hogwarts has learned over the years since we died."
Harry looked down at the table, overwhelmed with gratitude. "Thank you for all the help you've given me, I don't know what I would have done without it." Helga and Rowena both reached for him to give him a bone crushing hug.
"It's no problem to help you dearie, we don't mind at all." Helga was quick to reassure Harry of that fact. "Now let's look at the school options you have, a lot of the good schools for what you want are in the different realms, the best is-"
"Wait, what's this about different realms?" Harry asked, unintentionally interrupting. Helga took deep breath and sighed, disappointed at the lack of education these days. "The Realms are different dimentions, where different creatures escaped to after the wand-uses started to hunt and kill them, or tried to enslave them like they did with the house elves. They took a piece of land and altered it how they wanted and attached it to this realm."
Confused, Harry asked, "What do you mean enslaved the house elves? Weren't they always like that? No one's ever said."
"The beings you know of as house elves were once known as something else long before they were called house elves." Here, Harry made a 'go on' motion.
"Well the wizard that first enslaved them changed their form and started calling them 'house elves' so that he could claim that's what they were born as instead of being 'brownies', the people they started as. It's for this reason the Fae and Sidhe hate us so much." Harry tiled his head in quiet thought, not sure how a person could do that.
"So what is a brownie then?" as he asked, the knowledge came to the forefront of his mind. Brownies are helpful household spirits that look like small humans with wrinkly faces and curly brown hair that prefer to dress in brown with conical hats or a hood attached. The knowledge then faded to the back of his mind.
"So did that answer your question?" Helga asked smugly, knowing what had just happened.
"Yeah, but how do I get the knowledge to come when I want it?"
"Well first Salazar is going to teach you the right way to practice occlumency, what Snape did was horrid but made it a lot easier to take that block off." Helga told him, "Some of the advantages of practicing occlumency are having better recall and a well-organized mind; you will be able to walk through your own mind and find the things you need to know."
"Okay, since I'm finished eating, let's start." Harry said bravely.
"It won't be like when Snape did it, we have to start from the beginning. You need to learn to meditate first, come." With that, Salazar walked away from the table and went to a dark green colored door. He opened it while Harry was still getting up and rushing over to follow. Through the door was a Slytherin paradise. The stone walls were covered with emerald and silver silk and the floor was covered with thick rugs in Slytherin colors.
"Here, come sit and we will start." Salazar's voice came from under a curtain over by the far wall. Quickly crossing the room Harry sat across from him on a bench hidden by the curtain, looking at him attentively.
"You can get the knowledge of what to do from your mind easily enough, you just have to practice it to be proficient, let's start." What came next was hours of work before Harry could sink into a meditative state and once that happened they worked on his occlumency to the peak of his ability; building and strengthening shields, organizing memories, and basically working to make his mind a well-ordered and impenetrable fortress.
"Well done Harry, you don't have much more to learn here. We'll get you battle ready before we send you out but for now let's get you dinner."
"Great, I'm starving." Harry and Salazar made their way back to the dining room, and the other founders came out from the other colored doors that appeared. The table was piled high with food again as they quickly sat down and Harry started reaching for food. With his plate piled high with the warm food, he quickly started making his way through it.
"We been looking through the best schools for you to go to and we've narrowed it down to three. But the best are not located in this realm and their rules are different for magic and various other things. We don't know too much yet, but before we send you Godric will get you in better shape to fight and use the sword that you pulled out of the sorting hat second year."
"Okay, are we starting tomorrow morning then?" Harry asked halfway through his plate, then he looked up, "Can I have the books for the different schools and some about the realms they're in?"
"Of course you can dearie, here you go. I'll have to get some more books, there are only a few about the realms, and you'll need more." With that Helga pushed a large stack of tomes over to Harry's side of the table, "The only books on subjects we don't have that would help you are about the different people and races you'll meet over there, you'll have to buy them yourself." She let Harry know.
"That's okay, if you did have any it would be a bit out of date and I couldn't take it with me, could I?"
"Don't worry about that, we'll make you a copy of all the good books here and put them in a trunk for you with some new clothes, you'll need them now that you've grown out of all the rags you wore before." Rowena told him with a grin.
"Well we'd better get working on that once you finish eating and start on those books. Don't forget to sleep, you'll need it." With that, the founders got up and headed for their rooms. Harry was already looking through the books.
"Okay" Harry replied distracted with the books with information on the schools. The three schools were; Eriniko in the realm of Elpida, the school to learn how to fight with minimal bloodshed. Tiradwr In the realm of Glyndwr, which taught how to fight from the background and never be seen.
Last but not least was Proelium Academy in the realm of Aghimitra, and this school looked to be the hardest of all of them, they promised to make the best they could of you or you'd died trying. ~ I think Proelium would be the best one for me. They'll make me stronger than the other two would even if they are great schools.~ Harry grabbed the books on the realms, making sure he had the one on Aghimitra so he knew what would happen when he went to school there, while heading over to the door he came out of this morning. Walking in, he piled the books on the bed and started reading the one on the realm of Aghimitra. A few hours later when Godric and Salazar checked in on Harry they found him asleep amidst a sea of books. With indulgent smiles, they moved the books to a desk and covered Harry with a blanket. Looking around one more time they left Harry to his rest.
The next morning Harry came out and after eating breakfast he and Godric started his physical training. For the next few weeks Harry worked with Godric to get his hand to hand, sword and knife fighting skills up to par. He had all the knowledge, he just needed to get his body trim and develop the muscle memory for it. In his down time Salazar helped him with potions, and with a patient teacher Harry finally learned how to make great potions. There were a number of potions that could only be made by a parselmouth, the finished work Salazar put in a trunk for Harry. Salazar also worked on his parselmagic with him, but told Harry he should get a snake familiar to help channel it. It turns out parselmagic is one of the strongest magics in the area of healing, and while it does run in families, it can't be given away or transferred like Dumbledore had tried to tell Harry in second year. Harry's parselmagic was injured protecting him from the killing curse, so while his magic was missing bits of information, Salazar had given him the missing pieces from his magic when they did the knowledge spell.
Time passed quickly in the room, and soon Harry was as ready to go as the founders could make him. Harry now had three trunks full of different books, clothes, potions and other things given to him from the founders. Harry was standing at the door that lead outside the room of requirement, in his old form thanks to a few potions and glamours.
"So I guess this is it, huh?" Harry turned back to the founders and smiled, "Thanks for all the help, I wouldn't have been able to this without you." then turned around to open the door.
"Harry don't forget to get your sword, you'll need it." and with that the founders disappeared back to the magic that called them. Harry opened the door and walked through, making his way to the girl's bathroom on the third floor, and the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Once inside, he quickly made his way over to the corpse of the basilisk, stripping it down to the bones and even taking those. He then looked over to where Salazar had said there was another hidden chamber with more books for him to have, hissing the password Harry shrunk all the books down and put them in his new trunk complete with a large library. Making his way out of the Chamber he grabbed the shed basilisk skins as well. Coming up, back into the bathroom, he shut the entrance to the chamber and started making his way up to the tower. Harry had two more days to stay in Hogwarts until he could leave, and those days passed slowly. Ginny tried seventeen times to give Harry food laced with potions. Ron was a prat those days because Harry was getting rid of whatever Ginny gave him, making Harry wonder if he knew about the potions. Finally, the day to get on the Hogwarts Express came. After looking back at the castle one last time, Harry boarded the train and soon found an empty compartment. Putting a caged Hedwig down, he sealed the compartment door and pulled out one of the books from the Chamber and started reading. The trip flew by and soon he was at the train station. Coming out of the doorway between platforms nine and ten, he spotted his uncle standing over by his car
"Come on boy, if you made me late to pick up Marge you won't eat for a week." Vernon threatened him. Harry quickly got his trunk and Hedwig in the car. Waiting until they were away from King's Cross and deciding it was time, Harry leaned forward to his uncle.
"What would you say if I could leave and never come back?" Harry asked him. Vernon whipped around to look at Harry, surprise written over his face.
"What kind of game are you playing at here boy, that other freak said you had to come to our house."
"If you take me to Charing Cross Road I'll leave and never come back." Harry promised him.
"Hmph, so all I have to do is drop you off and you never come back right?"
"Yep, all you have to lose is a little time."
"Alright boy but don't ever come back."
"Not a problem Vernon." Turning Vernon pulled up near the Leaky Cauldron.
"Here, boy, get out." Harry got out his trunk and Hedwig's cage and had barely got the door shut when Vernon took off back into traffic. Harry slipped into an alley, and changed his appearance back to his new look. He let Hedwig out then shrunk his trunk and her cage, so glad that the Founders had taken off the trace on his wand, then put a small glamour over her so nobody would recognize her obvious white feathers and walked into the Leaky Cauldron. Going over to where Tom was washing the counter, Harry stopped in front of him
"Can I have a room for a few days?" Tom looked him over
"That'd be three sickles a day, which comes with breakfast or dinner too."
"That's fine, here's your money for today." Harry set the coins down and grabbed the key Tom held out for him.
"That's room seven, have a nice stay sir." Harry walked up the stairs to the room he'd be staying in the next few days, until he got everything in order.
"Well Hedwig this is home for a little bit ok girl?" Hedwig hooted and nipped his ear before winging off to the perch by the window. Harry smiled at her and went to the bed to lay down. ~Have to start early tomorrow and send a letter to Proelium, go to Gringott's and see about the wills that Sirius and my parents left , and look for a soul healer and find more books about other realms… ~ Harry quickly fell asleep planning for tomorrow.