A/N: Hey guys, thanks for all the reviews, I'm trying to take them on board and keep this going strong, I'm also trying to make longer chapters, but I'm still working on that one. Standard Disclaimer as always, I don't own this nor am I set to make any money out of this.

Chapter 3

Hogwarts. Wednesday 1st September 1993

It took a good few minutes, but Thorne was able to carry Harry down, the explosion he'd expected had happened and a few things in his office hadn't survived, not that there was a lot of stuff in there mostly things Professor Binns had left behind that Fronce hadn't taken down yet. "Harry" Thorne said, bringing both people in the room back out of their thoughts, "Harry, stay calm, don't reveal anything just yet, this is a chess game that Dumbledore is playing and we need to keep things hidden up our sleeves, as you are an heir to the founders I am sworn to protect you, just as much as I am sworn to protect Hogwarts, now listen carefully, tomorrow hopefully a resorting is going to occur, this will allow people to join the Guardian house and I strongly suggest you step forward to take part in it, by doing so we can protect you and train you, understand?" Harry nodded and Thorne let out a sigh of relief, another part of his own plan had fallen into place, and whilst he was nowhere near the manipulative person Dumbledore was Thorne was still a player in the game and as such he was having to move the pieces very carefully. "Ok so I'll take you back to the common rooms and see you tomorrow at Breakfast OK?" Thorne said before shepherding Harry out of the door, not waiting for an answer.

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"So how do you know the founders?"

Nova stopped in her tracks at the question, causing Susan to stop and turn to look at the older woman , her eyes demanding an answer. "Ok, it's complicated but understand there are ways of people being immortal, most of them aren't very nice, take Horcrux's, you split you soul, putting it into an object or a human, but that requires a correct ritual and a sacrifice of an innocent, or you can drain a Familiar bond, literally using your familiar to keep you immortal, so long as the familiar lasts of course." Nova stopped, "Both of those ways are painful to do and the way Thorne and I have achieved our state of 'immortality' is nowhere near as dark as that, although it is rather strange. But this is going off topic, and I'm sure we will explain at a later date. However the honest answer I can give at the moment is that we lived alongside them, do not ask any more questions however, as that'd be giving you an edge in our lesson plan. That is unless you've already covered the founders?"

Susan shook her head "No we've only covered Goblin Rebellions so far"

"Ah poor you" Nova replied, "They aren't particularly interesting to do, and they're fairly biased towards the wizards side, but anyway." Nova continued walking, "Come on, we're almost there. I'll give you one more clue for tomorrow Susan, apply yourself at Breakfast tomorrow, don't expect anything as heir to the founders, but we will accept you with the others." Finding themselves at the entrance to the Hufflepuff Common room Nova bade Susan good night, leaving the girl to ponder on the words Nova had spoken, before she moved off to the Headmasters office.

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Thorne met up with Nova after the two had delivered their charges to their common rooms, unsure what would happen inside the rooms with the news now out, but that was temporarily out of their hands. Now though they had to speak with Professor Dumbledore. Being the more cautious one Thorne shielded both their minds early, just in case of a mind attack that would mean they aided Dumbledore in his manipulations rather than stopped them.

Repeating the password to the gargoyle Thorne moved up the stairs to where Dumbledore sat behind his desk, standing up the Headmaster welcomed them, his grandfatherly figure and twinkle in his eye all but lost to the cold exteriors of the twins. "Aah welcome, come sit yourself down. The two of you most intrigue me."

"Oh" Thorne replied "and in which way is that? We can answer some questions now, other perhaps later and others will probably not be answered unless we can trust you like a brother. And no offence Headmaster, but that will take a long time."

"Of course I understand" Dumbledore replied, "My first question is how are you so ancient, yet you look so young. I can tell you're telling the truths when you say you've met the Founders yet you look no more than the peak age of a wizard."

"And there lies part of your answer." Nova replied this time, "Tell me Headmaster, what do you know of Greek myths and the Hunters of Artemis?"

"I know what most people do, they are a group of girls who serve the goddess Artemis and are in the eternal hunt, they do not age and can only die in battle."

"Mostly true, however they do not have to participate in the Hunt, or rather I was a special exception." Nova replied, "They also do age but they will always look at their peak age, and mine was 30. And before you ask about Thorne, I'll just say that are twin bond is very strong, we can almost talk to each other telepathically."

"I see" was Dumbledore's reply, and I take it you were visited by the goddess on one of your travels?"

"Yes" Thorne replied, "It was around 1100, we were in the Byzantine Empire for a small period then, and let's just say we got Artemis out of a tricky spot with a whole load of werewolves. It was her way of thanks."

"Thank you for divulging in me that information" Dumbledore replied, "Now, my next question is more academic. What are you planning on teaching?"

"Well seeing as we've had little time to actually think about it" Thorne replied "I think we will stick with what we know best. A history of the Founders, from when they met up to when they set up Hogwarts onwards, probably something on The Purge of 1490, but I think mainly the history of Hogwarts and the British Isles, if that is OK with you?"

"Certainly" Dumbledore replied, "I wouldn't mind being in a couple of your lessons myself, I have a feeling you would be able to provide a unique insight into Hogwarts and its history."

"You are more than welcome Headmaster." Nova replied. "Now we have a request that we would like to run through with you. You see as our arrivals and the Sorting Hat pronounced there's a fifth house now in Hogwarts, and we'd like to be the head of it, as is our right as the two Guardians who set it up and so with all houses we'd like students in it."

"I see." Dumbledore replied, thinking for a few moments "What exactly are the requirements for the Guardian House? And who would you say should be re-sorted?"

"The requirements are fairly simple" Thorne replied "Balance, someone who balances two or more of the qualities any house asks for can be chosen to be in the Guardian House. We would say that Fourth Years and below would be re-sorted this time, but only if they choose to, as such we would like to suggest tomorrow breakfast to do this, we would talk to the students first so they knew what they were getting into of course, we would also then issue them an extra lesson of sorts that would potentially allow them to gain a 'Guardian Ability' as we call it, a mastery perfection over a single charm or spell, for example my guardian Ability is the Protego spell, I can use it in almost any capacity to protect me against almost anything, including mind attacks, so don't even try it." Thorne added on the last part as an afterthought, knowing that Dumbledore was a Legilmens.

"OK" Dumbledore replied, "But why Fourth years and below and why can this class only be taken by those in the Guardian house? Surely it would be better to open it to everyone?"

"Unfortunately you're wrong there Headmaster" Thorne replied, seeing the manipulations starting to come now, "We would offer it to fourth year and below purely because it takes a while to manifest this ability" Thorne stopped, clearing his throat allowing Nova to continue, "And the whole point of the fact that it is only taught to the Guardian House is because you need a mental balance to work this ability, hence why only the Guardian House can use it."

Dumbledore leaned forwards in his chair and started to chuckle "It seems to me like you're building an army with this."

"Oh and you're not building a weapon out of Harry Potter are you sir?" Thorne retorted back.

Dumbledore leaned back into his chair, beaten by Thorne this time, "No matter" he said, deciding to leave the issue for the time being, "I believe that it would be acceptable, of course we'd have to adjust the timetables of everyone who was re-sorted, but I believe that the House Points can start flowing, and a Quidditch team can be created for the extra-curricular side. Very well then, I will bring the sorting hat down tomorrow for Breakfast." 'This should be interesting' Dumbledore thought 'But no matter he may of won this round, but there is still a battle to be fought here and a war of wills to be won.'

After being dismissed Thorne and Nova headed back to their staff quarters, about halfway there Nova gave up the pretence of being all strict and everything and started chuckling, casting a Thorne looked at her, slightly confused as to what was going on. In reply Nova burst into laughter before controlling herself, "Really, was Hunters of Artemis the best you could come up with? Do you actually believe that Dumbledore believed it?"

Thorne shrugged, "Well it's better than your usual Twin-Bond act. Anyway it makes more sense so I don't see why Dumbledore wouldn't believe it, especially when they seem to believe in every type of god out there."

Nova smirked before nodding, realizing that Thorne had at least thrown Dumbledore off the right tracks, "Well at least there are no records on us since 1490 so he can't try and find anything put about us since before then."

Thorne nodded, "Well the secrets safe for now, but I'm going to bet he's going to try again."

"Ten Galleons?" Nova questioned the amount, although that was the normal amount they put forwards for a fun bet like this.

"As always" Thorne replied, as the two shook on it before continuing along down the hallway to where they'd rest for the night.

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Breakfast, the next morning

Su Li was one of the last Ravenclaws into the Great Hall that breakfast time, it was the first time in her three years at Hogwarts that all students had been told to be at Breakfast for a particular time and there were many rumours flying around about it. The fact that the sorting hat was on its usual stool in the Great Hall didn't help the rumours and many speculated that the first years had been wrongly sorted. Su however felt that it had something to do with the Guardian House, as the fifth house had been called, she'd owled her parents last night as she remembered that somewhere in the family history the name The Guardians had appeared before. The Li's had not always been from England and in fact had only moved there from china three generations ago when the government became stricter on witches and wizards in the country. At a single flick of the wand from Albus Dumbledore the entire hall fell into silence, every snippet of chattering had stopped, and every face was turned to the front of the hall.

"Students" Dumbledore started "After a mysterious turn of events last night that led to our new History of Magic professors appearing a fifth house has been opened up, I'll leave it to Professor Thorne as joint head of this house to explain to you what is happening today in terms of this new house." This caused the mutterings again to commence and this time it was Professor Thorne who was now standing up to silence the Hall. "Thank you for this warm acceptance for my speech" Thorne started smiling, "As Professor Dumbledore has said, this new fifth house needs students in it, as you can already see, it I able to gain its own points" Thorne pointed up behind the students and most heads turned to see that a fifth hourglass had appeared for house points, this one was a dark grey against the four other colours. "And of course it needs its own Quidditch Team. Now, the Sorting Hat is here for those who wish to be sorted into the Guardian House, however there are some rules and regulations you must be aware of before you jump for it. First the point of the Guardian House is balance, without it you won't be accepted and you will be sorted back into your own house, what this means is that you need to embrace more than one house, Miss Granger would be a perfect example here, despite the courage she has that sorted her into Gryffindor she also holds a brain that could outsmart most of the Ravenclaw house." Thorne noted a few annoyed cries from the Ravenclaw house, and surprisingly the Gryffindors as well before continuing. "Of course it would be her own choice to make that decision. The Second thing to consider is your age, due to certain magics that being balanced can bring we can train you in a new style of magic whose teaching has been lost for just over 500 years, however it is impossible to teach you this magic straight away and technique and knowledge can take a long time to accumulate. As such it takes a minimum of four years to learn this magic and so we would ask that only Fourth Years and below try to gain entry into the Guardian House, and we will explain more on this once you have been sorted." Thorne stopped, reaching down for a sip of water. "Now to the Sorting, we'll start with the oldest first, Fourth Years, make a line."

It was only a few minutes later that 30 Guardians now sat at their new table having now been sorted, their robes now trimmed with a dark grey and showing the crest of two swords over a shield that symbolised the Guardians house. Thorne looked around, they all looked eager and he could now identify many of them from when they'd stepped up to be sorted, some stood out ot Thorne, like Katie Bell, one of two fourth years to be sorted in with the Guardians, whilst the majority of the house were first or second year students it was the third years that stood out the most to Thorne, some seemed happy to be out of their original house, including the three Slytherins from that year, others like Hermione Granger and Harry Potter spread discontent through both their own houses but also these choices seemed to annoy Dumbledore more than anything else, noting this Thorne vowed to look into that, it was even funnier when a call from the Guardian house echoed through the hall "We've got Potter now." That made the Slytherins burst into laughter and caused a large amount of grumbling in the Gryffindors that took Dumbledore several minutes to calm down. After silence once again spread through the hall as the re-sorting continued Dumbledore's eye sought out Thorne, the message clear in them, 'See me later'.

Nova stood up to speak "Thank you for coming up those who did, to those who are now seated at our table well done, I will take you to our new wing after breakfast." Nova stopped as a faint rumbling was felt all throughout the hall "Thank you Hogwarts" Nova continued, "That was Hogwarts breaking the last of the bonds that made the north wing inaccessible before." Ignoring the looks of awe from the students Nova continued, "Now, I believe you have until Monday off due to the re-sorting of the time tables so may I be the first person to wish you well for the rest of the week and that all homework that I'm sure many of you forgot about over the summer could be completed in that time, Thank you." Nova bowed and sat down again, starting to enjoy his breakfast.

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Thorne had a slight bounce in his step as he repeated the password Dumbledore had given him as he headed to the Headmasters office, almost feeling like a naughty student who'd stolen too much food out of the kitchen Thorne walked in and sat down. "So Headmaster, what is it that's troubling you?" Thorne asked, faking innocence.

"Thorne you must know that Harry Potter needs to stay in Gryffindor to complete his education, we can't have him corrupted by Slytherin." Dumbledore started his rant but Thorne cut him off before he got any further. "You mean you're afraid of the Slytherins. Oh come now Headmaster, I thought you of all people could of gotten over petty House rivalries by now." Thorne replied with a smirk, "Besides they're hardly Slytherin anymore are they?"

"That maybe but they still could corrupt him and we need him on the light" Albus hit his desk to prove his point, annoyed at the casual manner that Thorne was taking to this.

"Oh come on, you honestly think that they can 'corrupt' him just because they're Slytherin, or are you forgetting the piece of Voldemort stuck inside his head?" at Dumbledore's surprise Thorne smirked, "Yes I know of that and I have every intention of helping him get rid of it."

"You can't" Dumbledore replied indigently "He MUST be a sacrifice for good, we can't have it any other way, besides everything else is just as evil as what put it there in the first place."

"Oh come now you seriously think that?" Thorne questioned, "You forget who you're talking to Professor, I'm fairly certain I know of a way, but not now, not until he's of age."

"But by then it'll be too late" Dumbledore exclaimed, "He must die before he reaches of age, it must happen Thorne for the greater good."

"Oh come on, you're sprouting the same stuff over again, 'for the greater good'? There's no such thing. This world isn't black and white old man there's a grey in there as well, remember that. But anyway what do you mean it'll be too late? Unless you're helping Voldemort come back into this world in a real body? It'd be such a shame If you were, imagine the Daily Prophet 'Dumbledore Actually a Death Eater' the media would have you for breakfast."

"Are you threatening me?" Dumbledore roared "I could have your head for this"

Thorne yawned "Oh come on, if you'd looked into your ancient books last night you'd know you're in no position to do that, and for the record no, I'm not threatening you I was merely asking a question that you seem to have answered. So do you want me to talk to Rita Skeeter about this revelation?"

"No, I'm sorry I went too far" Dumbledore sighed, "You should know I have no intention of helping Voldemort, but the plans are set in motion. We mortals can't do anything about it."

"And we immortals?" Thorne asked smiling at Dumbledore's wording of it.

"I don't know, now begone."

Thorne did a mocking bow before heading out "Of course Headmaster." He said sarcastically, only waiting until he was out of the office before punching the air, not only had he scored one up on Dumbledore he'd also kept Harry in with the Guardian by forcing the old man off topic, it was a shame Dumbledore's brain wasn't more active, else Thorne would of loved to debate with him on the finer points of life.

A/N: Hey again, couple of points to make out here, Yes Hermione is in the Guardians house I just didn't mention it there, Su Li is going to become a more main character, we'll just have to see how she pans out. What do you guys think of a Harry/Hermione/Katie relationship? been thinking about that one but want to see what people think. Breakfast scene here was hard for me to write, however I hope I've made up for it with the Office scene afterwards, it's the first of many. One more scene needs to be written before we hit the story proper and everything.
Finally keep up the reviews, I'm glad people are liking this.

A/N (2): Redone parts of the chapter that I was uncomfortable with/didn't like, redone the sorting scene and added another bit in after the first meeting with Dumbledore, I'm not going to reveal how they're immortal just yet. Also thanks for the thoughts on the pairings, I think I'm going to have Harry/Hermione and Daphne/Katie, would never of thought of the second pairing but I like it now that someone has suggested it.