Three dark shadows walked quickly over the dew wet grass of the Hogwarts grounds. The castle before them lit up magnificently, as through it was displaying itself properly for its visitors, welcoming them back home with a warm greeting. In fact, that is exactly what the castle was doing. Most did not know that Hogwarts was truly sentient although some believed that the castle may have aspects of sentiency. The castle however was different. She was made from love and determination. She was born from care and comfort and she grew with laughter and happiness. However it was the magic that the student did within her walls that kept her alive until those of her true family walked her halls again in their true forms.
She knew that her mother and father, brother and sister were within her nephew's rooms beneath the castle but they would not emerge until her nephew returned home. She had waited for hundreds of years until that time and it was now when he had decided to emerge. He was finally coming home. He was coming to Hogwarts and he was going to see his family for the first time in a long while. This meant that Hogwarts would also see her family for the first time since they went down in to Silas's rooms. She had missed them terribly since they had left. The laughter and love had gone from the halls and the school stood as just that…a school. It was no longer home to almost all of its inhabitants and many sought to use it for their own means. It was her family who would keep her safe from harm and she knew that she must do all to protect it.
Hogwarts began to immediately transfer the wards from the crooked head master and placed them on young Silas, whom she knew would not abuse the power. He had grown up once in her halls and she knew that he had retained all of his memories. She had known it when Salazar had first given the boy the potion. It was one of the reasons why she gave Salazar the cold shoulder for six months before they went in to hiding. The teenager before her was powerful; more powerful than his parents or grandparents. Even if you combined them together, their power would not be comparable to young Silas, even if he did not know this himself.
Hogwarts decided to leave Silas be, knowing his task in to the chamber would be quite hard without any extra burdens of an excited castle. However she did turn to the company that Silas had brought with him. She knew the two immediately and if she could have smiled, she would have. Sachiel, Sac to his friends and family, was Helga's great grandson and had looked for Helga for a long time due to a promise from his father. Even when she had disappeared without a trace, Sac still kept looking despite the hopelessness of the situation. Hogwarts recognised Sac as family to Silas and knew he was good company.
The other presence however left her undecided. She remembered Tom Marvollo Riddle from his Hogwarts days and knew he was an indirect descendent of Helga. However he was also the boy who had claimed to be the heir of Slytherin due to his parselmouth abilities and put a curse on Salazar to attack muggle born students within her halls which she had been powerless to stop as her wards would not be able to stop one of her creators. She knew that Salazar did not want to do what he was told to do by the Riddle boy and he tried his hardest to stop death and instead caused petrifaction. She also knew that this boy grew up to be the 'Lord Voldemort' that her students were scared of. However she knew that if Silas was keeping him as company then he must not be as bad as was made out and must be trusted by Silas in order to accompany him down to his private quarters. Hogwarts also knew the reason for Riddle's insanity. He wasn't insane for no reason you know. He just was born at the wrong time and had to wait for something special to happy.
Hogwarts mentally sighed as she watched the three males walk briskly to the castle, keeping to the shadows in order to hide from detection, and with sheer determination on their faces.
Silas walked briskly towards the castle with a bounce in his step. He could not wait until he saw his father. The suspense was killing him and he quickly sped up in order to reach his destination faster which caused his companions to let out a small groan before they too matched his pace.
"Silas," Voldemort started as the neared the entrance hall, "Where exactly is the main entrance to your rooms?"
Silas chuckled. He had been asked that many times the first time round as no one ever saw him leave dinner to reach his rooms and he was always at breakfast before everyone else. It was originally only his father who knew the entrance to his rooms. However, due to the accidents in his experiments, it was suggested that a few others learnt of their location also. Just in case his father was not there if anything went wrong.
"Not too far away," Silas replied casually as the walked in to the entrance hall of the castle. "In fact, it was one of the reasons why we had to get Dumbledork out of his office."
"Is your entrance in there?" Voldemort enquired.
"No. Well, there is an entrance there. But it is not the one we are going to use." Silas explained, still not answering Voldemort's first question.
"So, how exactly do we get there?"
"It's just through those doors." Silas explained, pointing towards the Great Hall.
Voldemort looked confused.
"But that's just the great hall…"
"Yes, and that is were the entrance is that we are going to use." Silas explained patiently as he briskly walked towards the Great Hall.
Sac and Voldemort shared a look before Sac just shrugged with in a confused manner showing Voldemort that he too had no idea what Silas was talking about.
The Great Hall doors swung open before Silas and he paced proudly in to the Great Hall, taking note of the differences of the room since he was last there. The head table looked ridiculous. The set up resembled a king and his court with the Headmasters throne taking the place of the kings and the teachers as his court. To say that Silas was disgusted would be an understatement. The four tables separated students in to select categories and it was no wonder that house rivalry had come about.
He knew his father, aunt and grandparents would not be happy with what happened to their school at all.
Silas knew that the school was also separated in to the houses and he knew that it would become a point of anger for those he was about to see. Shaking his head at the thought, Silas walked swiftly to the house table. Standing directly in front of what seemed to be the Headmasters chair; Silas hissed his secret password to the miniscule snake emblem on the steps below.
He waited for the stone slab on the floor in front of him to move, revealing the entrance to his private rooms, while his two companions caught up with him.
Sac looked shocked by the gapping hole in the middle of the hall. The he laughed. He laughed harder than he had for years.
"Oh Silas, that is how you got to the hall before everyone else. How did no one notice?" Sac questioned through his laughter.
"Their idiots?" Silas supplied, laughing along with his cousin.
"What ever do you mean?" Voldemort asked, looking at the two who were bordering in to hysterical laughter.
"When I was younger, the first time round, everyone used to wonder where my rooms were but I waited until everyone left before opening them and I came in before everyone else for breakfast so no one ever found out. Even if they did have speculations," Silas explained through his tears of laughter.
"My, my, you really are a Slytherin aren't you?" Voldemort smirked.
"Didn't I prove that?" Silas questioned with a returning smirk.
"Well, shall we?" Voldemort asked, ignoring Silas's question.
Silas, noticing how close he now was to his father, descended in to the hole quite rapidly, eager to see with his father once again.
"Hiss close to shut it Voldie!" Silas called through the tunnel as he ran down the corridor towards his rooms.
"My name is not VOLDIE!" A voice shouted back to him but he heard the rumbling of the stone closing anyway.
Silas quickly reached the end of the corridor and whispered his second password to the door which allowed him access and all those following. Leaving the door open, Silas sprinted through his lounging area and in to his potions room which contained the entrance to his preservation chamber.
Silas, not noticing the latest models and new stock that had been put in the room, headed for the preservation chamber and quickly hissed the password and opened the door with a creak. What sat in front of him caused his fact to light up with a smile that had not been seen since the past. There in front of Silas sat a large basilisk of green, a Black Raven on its perch, a large lion with its wings folded around him and a yellow and black shimmering scaled dragon.
The two behind him were quick on his heals, trying to catch up to their guide, they ran in through the door which caused them to halt immediately in shock.
The room was perfect for any Slytherin. It was done in greens, black, silver and gold with the Slytherin emblem over the black marble fireplace. Black leather couches, tables, and lamps were dotted around the room, looking as though they had just been bought. There was a large multimedia system, including a television, DVD player, numerous games consoles, HI-FI and surround sound. It was all new and all seemed to be working normally if it could be taken by the stand-by lights that were all currently on red. It didn't make any sense to them. They both knew that it was muggle equipment and it was very recent and that was what confused them. Silas said that no one else could enter these rooms and that he himself had not been down here since he had been thrown through time by his father. But then how could it have gotten here. Voldemort and Sac looked to each other for answers but they could not divulge each other as neither had any answers that would be either true or settle their confusion. Instead of following Silas to the potions room, they decided to remain in the lounge and took seats of black leather, looking around the room cautiously in an effort to find their own answers.
A/N
Sachiel is Sac's real name and it is of Hebrew origin. It is the name of the archangel that watches out for people born under the sign of Sagittarius. I thought it would be fitting for a Vampire who was also born under the sign.
I had a review asking me what Helga's animagus form would be as their last names were taken from their animagus forms. Slytherin from Snake, Ravenclaw from Raven, Gryffindor from the griffon type animal that Godric can turn in to. He is not an exact griffon but he is close enough to call it that as he can retract his wings. Helga is a dragon and there will be a story behind why she is called Hufflepuff other than the fact that dragons puff out fire. The story will most likely be in the next chapter.
