Chapter Three

"What do you mean you're not from this time?" Asked Sal looking at Harry with distrust as well as a bit of anger.

"I come from the future that's what I mean." said Harry, He knew Sal didn't like him very much but he also knew the feeling was mutual.

"Yeah, right and I'm a Cornish Pixie."

"Sal! He is telling the truth and you should listen to him." Scolded Rowena making Sal look down in embarrassment. "Go on Harry, explain to them what you told me."

"I come from the year 2009, I was on my way to Hogwarts, the school you four create. But I was attacked by that girl you guys saw in the forest. She cast a spell at the same time as me and then we ended up here. I apparated to where Hogwarts is supposed to be but couldn't find it and then I met Godric."

"Incredible."

"You're telling me Godric, so what do we do now?" Said Helga looking at Harry with shock from what he had just said.

"I told Harry that we would help him find a way home." Explained Rowena, she kept looking at Sal as he had barely moved since she had shouted at him.

"What about the future consequences with him being here?" Asked Sal finally looking up at the group

"I also told Harry that I would cast a forgetting spell on us when he left, so that nothing should happen to the future when he returns." The group looked at Harry and he just smiled and nodded to indicate that he was fine with this idea.

"Excellent, then I say we should get the introductions started then." Helga said happily before continuing. "I'm Helga Hufflepuff, I come from a non-magical family."

"You're muggleborn?"

"What is a muggle?"

"A normal person with no magic."

"Yes, then I am muggleborn but because of what I am my parents were afraid of me and tried to kill me but Rowena stopped them and we have lived together since that say she saved me." Helga explained, Harry could tell that she was afraid of what Harry must think of her being the only one with non-magic parents.

"I wouldn't worry about being muggleborn Helga. It's actually quite common where I'm from, in fact one of my best friends is muggleborn and she is the smartest witch of our year."

"Really?" Helga smiled as Harry nodded to her question. "Oh, I'm so happy to know that, does that mean muggleborn children go to our school as well? They aren't persecuted because they have magic."

"Nope, everyone is treated equally and fairly regardless of parentage."

"Out of curiosity Harry, what blood are you?" Asked Rowena, she wasn't sure if it was too personal a question but she really wanted to know.

"I'm half-blood. My father was full magical parentage while my mother was muggleborn." Rowena smiled, it made sense to her now that she knew what Helga's type was classed as.

"Thank you, as you know my name is Rowena Ravenclaw. I come from a long line of witches and wizards so I am like your father but I have also been named as the smartest witch of all time. I came up with the idea of the school, when I realised that the only reason people keep persecuting our kind is because they can't control their magic. I'm glad to know my idea is worth the risk."

"What do you mean by risk?"

"There is a war going on, people are trying to stop the development of the school we are trying to create."

"That's awful."

"Yes but like I said, I'm glad that it isn't for nothing."

"Well then, I guess I should introduce myself as you know I'm Godric Gryffindor. I'm exactly like you Harry, my mother is muggleborn while my father is a pureblood. My father rescued my mother when she was attacked by bandits and they fell in love, she didn't mind that he was a wizard either but because of the fact that I'm half-blood my father worries that I won't be able to perform spells like a pureblood and he kept pushing me to be the best and had the opposite effect, now I'm nothing but a bumbling idiot."

"That's not true, remember I mentioned that friend of mine that kept getting nervous and messing up all the time." When Godric nodded Harry continued with what he was going to say. "He helped me to save Hogwarts in the future and he was exactly how you are now."

"Then what should I do?"

"How about I teach you?"

"What? You can't be serious, from what you've said you're still in our school. How old are you anyway?" asked Sal not caring how rude he sounded saying it.

"I'm nineteen and it's true that I'm still in Hogwarts but that's because I missed my final year helping to get rid of Voldemort and just for the record it wasn't my idea to finish my final year. After all I learned everything I needed to in the year I was wasn't there anyway. Besides the adult wizard age is seventeen so I'm old enough to be working, also, I was teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts in my fifth year."

"Whatever, just don't go getting in our way." Sal said as he stormed off to one of the tents before going inside he turned back to the group who were staring at him. "I don't trust you and personally I hope you leave soon because I'm not going to let you endanger my friends."

"Sal!" Rowena shouted but Sal had already turned and walked into the tent. "Don't worry about Sal, he's like that to everyone when he first meets them but usually he's not this aggressive."

"Harry?" Harry turned to look at Godric, he looked nervous about what he was going to say next. "If you did teach me, would you care if it took a while? I don't learn things quickly and all my other teachers left calling me a hopeless case."

"Godric, everyone learns at different speeds, if it takes a while then so be it. I will help you to become the bravest of all four founder that you are destined to become."

"Bravest?"

"Yeah, Gryffindor house is for those of the brave and courageous. In fact, in my time I'm in Gryffindor house and so were my parents and the previous headmaster of Hogwarts was as well. I will say this Godric, it was an honour to be put into Gryffindor house and I can see it in you."

"What?"

"The courage that is in your heart, I will bring that out after all we Gryffindors have to stick together."

"Thank you Harry that means a lot to me."

"Well I'm guessing that my house is for the smartest."

"Yeah, Helga's are for those who try the hardest and Salazar's house is for those with a cunning mind. My mum's best friend was in Slytherin and he was the bravest man I've ever met."

"Really Sal's house? but you said that Godric's house was for the brave."

"It is, but we can choose which house we would like to go in. When I first went to Hogwarts I was told that there was never a witch or wizard that didn't go bad in Slytherin house so I asked the Sorting Hat to put me in any house but Slytherin, turned out it was just bad rumours and stuff but I am glad that I was put in Gryffindor." Godric smiled at Harry's words, it was nice to hear that people like being in his house and he was going to show everyone that they should be proud to be in Gryffindor. "So what is Salazar's story?"

"Sal is a pureblood but he was betrayed by his non-magic friends and ever since then he has hated non-magical people and everything about them. They also made him distrustful of everyone, it took many years for him to trust the three of us." explained Rowena

"I get the feeling that he won't trust me at all."

"Probably not but do not let it worry you, he is like that with everyone."

"I feel bad for him being betrayed by his friends. I don't know what I'd do if my friends betrayed me."

"Indeed, but seeing as it's late, I suggest we all get a good nights sleep and we can start looking for a solution to your problem tomorrow Harry."

"Yeah, I can start teaching Godric tomorrow as well."

"Harry would it be too much trouble for me to join Godric tomorrow in training?" asked Helga quietly afraid the answer would be no.

"Of course. The more the merrier." Helga smiled and walked to her tent, turning she waved goodnight before going into the tent.

"Goodnight Harry, Godric." Rowena went to her tent before turning also. "Harry the tent you were in before is all yours, that will be your sleeping quarters from now on until we get you home." she too went into her tent for the night.

Harry turned towards the tent before turning back to Godric. "Goodnight Godric."

"Goodnight Harry." Harry turned and went into his tent, as soon as his head hit the pillow he was fast asleep.

X.X.X.X.X.

Harry awoke the next morning to someone calling his name, when he opened his eyes he saw a fuzzy image of Helga there and she sounded as though she had just gotten up herself.

"Harry, are you ready to teach us?"

"I was thinking later but seeing as I'm up now, why not. Why are you up so early anyway?"

"Godric woke me up, he told me to wake you up while he prepared some food."

"You do realise how early it is right? The sun isn't even up yet."

"Yes and I apologise but Godric wanted to start as early as possible with training."

"Ok, Ok. I'll be out in a minute I'm just gonna get some clothes out of my bag." Harry explained sitting up from his bed and felt around for his glasses. Once he had his glasses on he could see that Helga herself looked tired as well.

"I made you some robes last night while you were unconscious, I know that they're probably not what you're used to but seeing as you are in our time, I figured you might want to blend in although my first thought was because your clothes looked like you could do with new ones."

"Thank you. Do you mind if I call you Helga?"

"Of course not and you are most welcome. They are at the end of the cot, once you have them on meet us outside." Helga moved out of the tent to give him some privacy. Looking to the end of his bed he saw that Helga had placed scarlet coloured robes there.

Once he was dressed, he headed out of the tent to see Helga and Godric huddled closely together by the fire. He sat down opposite them watching them as they waited for their food to cook, when they noticed that he was watching them, they blushed and looked away.

"What is going on between you two anyway, are you a couple?"

"What's a couple?" asked Helga

"It just means that you like each other more than friends and are together."

"I wish it were that way. Me and Godric love each other very much but with the war going on we can't really act upon our feelings for fear of the enemy finding out. If they were to find out it could prove fatal for us."

"I see, well you don't have to hide it from me and personally I think you two are great together."

"Thank you Harry, is there anyone in your time that you love?"

"I wouldn't say love exactly but there is this one girl I like, she's my best friend's sister but she is the most beautiful woman I have ever met. She smart and funny and really knows how to make me feel better. But I would say that I am well on my way to loving her."

"She sounds lovely, what is her name?"

"Ginny."

"You miss all your friends, don't you?"

"Yeah, they're the only family I have left besides my aunt and uncle but I haven't had contact with them in two years and my cousin and I are barely have time to see one another."

"You like your cousin then, but not your aunt and uncle?"

"Sort of, I mean me and my cousin barely got along in the past, in fact we didn't but when we were attacked by a pair of Dementors when we were fifteen, we came to respect one another and after I left I thought I'd never see him again but he turned up near where I get my things for school and we sat down and talked to one another. We decided to try and meet up when we weren't busy with our own stuff but we have only ever met once after that."

"What happened to your parents?"

"My parents died when I was only one, they were murdered by a man named Lord Voldemort. There was a prophecy about me that had him scared so one night he came to our house and tried to kill me but my mother tried to stop him from killing me and because the curse rebounded on him he was stopped but the curse was too powerful for it to not do any damage and that's why I have a a scar on my forehead."

"I was meaning to ask about that last night." Came Rowena's voice from behind Harry, he turned to see her walking towards the fire. "It must have been a powerful curse if it left a scar that is visible, have you ever thought of getting rid of it with magic? I could get rid of it if you like?"

"Thanks for the offer Rowena but I'd rather it stay, it helps me to remind me of the fact that my parents loved me enough to die for me and that I was loved."

"Very well, so when are you starting with their training?"

"Soon as we've had breakfast."

Breakfast consisted of a porridge like substance that tasted really sweet, but Harry enjoyed it anyway as it was a change to the usual cereal he had. When Godric and Helga had finished, he stood up and looked around the camp.

"What are you looking for?" Asked Helga, she was looking in the direction that he was trying to see if she could see what he was looking for.

"We need an open area to practice and we can't do that here with all the tents."

"There is a training area just beyond the bushes to the west of the camp, we can train there without destroying anything in the camp."

X.X.X.X.X.

The training ground was a much bigger area than what they had used for Defence Against the Dark Arts in the Room of Requirements. It had a tent in the corner that Harry knew would be for training when the weather was bad, but right now the weather was good if a bit chilly.

"Ok so I'm going to do what I did four years ago and teach you the disarming spell. Expelliarmus. Is that alright with you two?"

"That's fine."

"Ok then, well seeing as there are three of us I think I should show you how to do it and then you can practice against one another and don't worry about not getting it right straight away, none of us are perfect."

"Except Rowena." Mumbled Godric under his breath.

"Rowena may be smart but she is not perfect, I mean what about yesterday when she thought I was mugging you." Godric smiled when Harry pointed out what had happened yesterday and realised that Harry was right.

X.X.X.X.X.

Training was going well, Helga picked up everything fast making it easy for Harry to go onto advanced spells, however Harry paid more attention to Godric more than anything saying words of encouragement when he was feeling down or just giving pointers when he was really struggling.

"Godric you doing well but you really need to put everything into it."

"I am trying but every time I think about it all I can think about is how my father would be displeased of my performance."

"Godric. You need to stop trying to please others and do things for yourself. Now imagine I'm the enemy and I'm about to cast a spell at Helga."

"Expelliarmus!" The next thing Harry knew was that he was flying across the clearing with his wand going in the opposite direction of him. Godric and Helga were running to him with worried looks on their faces. "Harry are you alright? I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that so hard but I did what you asked and the next thing was, you were flying across the clearing."

"Don't apologise Godric, that was great. I told you you could do it." Harry said standing wobbly to his feet, Helga moved to his left to make sure that he didn't fall over while Godric went to his right to ensure the same thing. "I think we should take a break and have lunch though, give us more energy."

"I agree."

"Me too."

X.X.X.X.X.

Rowena watched as the three walked into the camp after a morning of training, Harry looked as though he had been tumbling in the dirt, she knew Helga had a natural talent for spells but she more curious as to how Godric had done.

"How did it go?"

"Excellent, Helga picked up the spell naturally and Godric seems to have got the hang of it before we decided to have some lunch."

"Really? Godric has nearly mastered the spell in the space of a few hours. Now that I'd like to see." Came Sal's voice from behind Rowena. He exited Rowena's tent holding a book, he had decided that he would help Rowena find a way to get Harry back to his own time so that he didn't have to deal with the boy anymore.

"He was amazing, he just concentrated on what Harry had told him and then Harry went flying across the clearing."

"Oh he did did he? I don't suppose Godric did any damage did he?" Asked Sal with hope in his voice

"Sal! I have had enough of this. Harry has done nothing wrong to you so I suggest you either get over whatever issues you have with him or you can leave the camp until he is gone!" Godric Shouted stunning everyone. "Harry saved my life and I owe him a debt that I will probably never be able to paid so until we can get him to his own time I suggest you get along."

Sal looked to Godric as though he had just been slapped in the face, he would have expected Helga to say something like that to him but not Godric, since he had known Godric he knew that Godric would be timid and never raise his voice to anyone but since Harry had been there, he had slowly become a bit less timid.

"I apologise Harry. It seems you are helping Godric. More than I ever could." With that said Sal turned and walked back into the tent. Rowena moved to the camp fire and began making a lunch for everyone but she kept looking towards Godric as though he had grown another head.

"I feel like I should go talk to him. He may not like me but I think you may have been a little harsh back there Godric."

"Harry, Sal is just jealous because I'm actually making progress with you when I wasn't with him."

"You mean he was one of your teachers?"

"Yeah, but he had discussed finding someone else because he couldn't take it anymore."

"Oh, well I think I should talk to him more now. Do any of you mind?" Harry looked to see the others reactions but they were all agreeing with his decision.

X.X.X.X.X.

Sal sat on the floor ready through another book trying to find a way to send Harry home when said person entered the tent.

"Godric was out of line before when he said those things. I mean I know you must feel like I'm taking your friends away but that's not true. I actually just want to get home, I miss my friends but I won't forget everything that happened here and I certainly won't be able to forget you guys, in fact I hope I never do because then I would forget how awesome and strong you guys are and that includes you Salazar."

Sal looked like he was about to reply when they were both distracted by screams coming from outside the tent, quickly making a decision they both ran out of the tent. The encampment was under attack, people were running and screaming everywhere, Harry could see that Rowena and Helga were the main line of defence as they were stunning enemies from all different directions.

Godric seemed to be trying to use some spells but all that was coming out of his wand were red sparks that were harmless. Harry moved to where Godric was so that Godric wasn't defenceless and he knew that Sal was right behind him.

Both were sending spells at the enemy as well, Godric was trying his hardest to make any of his spells work but Harry had a plan to help him concentrate.

"Godric, Helga needs you to concentrate otherwise she'll focus on protecting you and that will make her vulnerable to enemy attack, think about training before and how you managed to knock me down and trust me you'll be able to do something."

Godric listened to what Harry had say before moving to where Helga was, a rider was heading straight for her and it seemed like she would not be able to fight off the rider by herself, luckily she didn't have to because before she could even cast a spell towards him he was sent backwards off his horse from a spell cast by none other than Godric himself.

Seeing one of their leaders defeated the rest of the enemy retreated from the encampment, making Helga relax a little before turning to face Godric.

"Godric you were incredible, you saved my life."

"I wouldn't say that, I was just protecting the love of my life. Besides Harry said that I should protect you so that I wasn't a hindrance to the rest of the group. Isn't that right Harry?" Godric turned around to see that both Harry and Sal were missing. Rowena walked to where they had been standing only a few minutes ago before turning to the rest of the group.

"Based on the footprints and things, I would say that Harry and Sal were taken by the bandits."

To Be Continued...

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So what did you think? I wanted the background stories for each of the Founders and I hope you liked what I did with Godric and Helga.

Also I would like to mention that I am basing this after the last Harry Potter book and therefore Harry gets with Ginny. So I don't want anyone asking for another pairing because I am basing this on the book. Period!

Again hope you liked it and I'll try and get the next chapter up ASAP.