Author's note: I have the end of this story all set out perfectly in my mind – but I can't write it until I get the middle part of this story written.

Some parts are purposefully supposed to not make complete sense.

Anyway, I do not own Harry Potter or anything to do with it. Well I do own all the characters that you don't recognise, but they belong to the Harry Potter world so they don't really count.

This is a story of the Four Founders – a tale which talks of their decisions and the reasons behind them. This is the story of Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Godric Gryffindor.

Chapter Ten – Hogwarts.

Godric beamed around the room at the other two and Sir Alex leaned back in his seat comfortably, he then stated in a very casual voice "so Helga and I were talking before we came here and she told me somevery interesting stories about your journey – tell me Godric what is Aurora like?"

The father and son laughed good-naturedly as Godric's face turned redder than his cloak at that.

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After two days of relaxation (aside from Helga mock-regretting telling her twins tales of Godric's adventures; as they were both running around pretending to be him, fake swords and all.) the four friends arrived at the castle and the innovations of the school began. The world seemed to blur through time as they worked, because even though they were using magic for most of the work all of them wanted to be thorough.

Somehow word had gotten out about the location of the school and numerous witches and wizards had turned up, some offered to help the four, a few were reporters or historians but most of the others were trying to profit from all the hype about this 'new idea', most had set up some kind of shop in the old village that resided close by the castle.

Sal hated all this unnecessary (in his opinion) publicity and secluded himself in the castle – working on the interior designs of the dungeons and lower levels (and a certain secret chamber he could go to be alone). Helga and Rowena didn't mind all the people around but both mostly kept to the castle – Helga working on the ground levels and kitchen area, as well as making sure things were child-safe. Ro had her library and was working one most of the towers (using her Animagus form to help).

Godric however loved all the attention everything was getting, and when he wasn't busy working on (exploring) the grounds and the castle or actually doing work on the rest of said castle – mainly the great hall and the tower he had claimed, he would go and socialise with the people of the village. He would also provide the village with a great amount of profit by buying things there – much to the displeasure of Sal, and the amusement of Helga. One such thing Godric came back with was a large hat – a muggle version of a wizard's hat that the young knight had bought from an 'odd-bods' stall. Ro and Sal had attempted to reason with Godric about it, but Helga told them that give him a few days and he would get bored with it.

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Rowena tapped her quill against the table in irritation; Sal and Helga were at the meeting (set in a little room just off the Great Hall), but Godric was late - admittedly only by two minutes but still! The door from the Great Hall opened to reveal a tall figure in a red cloak with a wide brimmed pointy hat "Man you guys wouldn't believe how many pigs there are out there!"

Ro rolled her eyes "there called warthogs, Godric-"

"Yeah, that bar is calling itself the 'Hogshead' you guys have got to come down there one day! They have great stuff called Butterbeer, don't worry Helga it's non-alcoholic and ..." "You're late." Godric stopped babbling and gave Rowena a hurt look and she had to work hard to keep her face stern – which became very difficult when he muttered sombrely "sorry Rowena" and took his seat; perhaps a little bit more dejectedly than necessary.

"Thank-you, now that we are all here, we can start this meeting, last week we decided that I will teach Charms and Transfiguration, Sal will teach Potions and Arithmancy, Helga – Herbology and Runes, Godric will take Defence and Care of Magical Creatures and my husband Richard has offered to teach History and Astrology. We still have to name the school; Godric is still wearing his ridiculous hat-" "It is NOT ridiculous!" "AND we need to talk about the students. Obviously students will need to be enthusiastic about education ..."

Sal interrupted her "enthusiastic about education? No students enjoy education, no what we need is those of pure-blood and ..." Godric forgot about his pouting at the insults to his hat and his sorrow at making Ro mad, and joined in the argument "Don't be silly Sal – we're inviting everyone; but they are going to have to be brave – to survive at school" he beamed at the thought and Helga shook her head "would you listen to yourselves?

Arguing over what kind of students we will teach, for shame on all of you ... I will take the lot and teach them everything I know - be they brave, smart or cunning." She nodded to each of the others as she said the last bit, Godric jumped up from his seat at her words "Helga that's it – you're a genius!" the others gave him wary looks; whenever Godric had an idea – he had an idea, always an over-the-top grand idea.

"We'll separate the kids into four groups – houses! The Slytherin house for the cunning and ambitious! The Ravenclaw house for the highly intelligence! The Gryffindor house for the brave and courageous!" Sal groaned at the thought of many people with Gryffindor personalities and Helga smiled in amusement at Godric "and what of the Hufflepuff house? Do we just get the leftovers?" Godric shook his head; still beaming "nope, Helga you get the best of the best – loyal, hardworking, fair and the best cooks in the entire world."

Helga laughed "oh Sweetie, I don't think all those in my house will be great cooks." Godric frowned but his blue eyes twinkled merrily at his idea. Sal looked rapidly between the two of them "Wow, wow, wow are we actually going to make these 'houses'?" a glance went around the four and Godric let out an excited "yep!" Helga smiled affirmative and Ro nodded thoughtfully, Sal smirked "fine but I'm not organising it."

Ro smiled "oh please as if I'd let you deal with something like that. I will organise the class schedules and ..." she trailed off "how are we going to sort them? Because we cannot just look at them and choose who we have, and what happens after we die? And we have to find a fair way otherwise everything will be ... will not work" she ended with wide-eye desperation, and everyone looked at Godric; because despite Ro being the intelligent one; all of them had to admit that it was Godric who came up with the best and most creative ideas, and he didn't disappoint.

"Well we could always hold an elaborate test that will point out what characteristics they have – We could have this huge awesome course and..." Helga placed a hand firmly on Godric's shoulder "Sweetie they are going to be eleven year old children, we are not putting them through an obstacle course – especially on their first day." Godric shrugged undeterred "fair enough" they all fell into a thoughtful silence for a few moments before Godric started to grin again.

"I have it!" he pulled off his hat and sat on the table in between the four of them, the other three stared at him and the hat in confusion which caused the young knight to grin even more broadly "in the muggle world they use this trick where they put names into a hat and pull them out to organise them." Sal raised an eye-brow "you expect us to use a muggle trick?" "Well not exactly; I say we enchant this hat to be alive and know that mind-reading thing you can do Sal-"

"You mean legillmency?" "Yeah that, and then the hat can decide where they go" he beamed but everyone else was still staring at him in shock "what?" Rowena was staring at Godric as though he was insane "What! What! Do you know what you're asking! You want us to make an inanimate object sentient! To teach it legillmency! How to talk! Do you even comprehend the magnanimous task this would be? It is completely improbable!"

She collapsed back onto her seat; exhausted from her 'freak-out'. But Godric continued to grin "but not impossible right?" Ro gaped at him "Godric Gryffindor, are you completely serious in this?" he nodded "come on Ro – you're the smartest person ever! If anyone can do it – you can, and Sal can teach it how to look into the minds of everyone, and Helga can teach it how to be fair, it could work – we just won't know until we try. Please."

Ro sighed; neither she nor Sal had ever worked out how to say no to Godric when he said please like that (big innocent eyes with a hopeful smile), Helga could but only because she had very cute but very mischievous twins – however much to the other's slight irritation; Helga did not usually disagree with Godric or his ideas. And now that she was over her initial 'freak-out' and was once again thinking calmly, Ro had to admit that she was looking forward to the challenge.

"Alright then, let us see what we can do."

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It was almost the end of June and Rowena was starting to freak out – they had everything sorted; except for the name and without the name they would not be able to send out the acceptance letters and therefore the students would not know to come and ... she took a deep breath, it was basically the reason she was stressing out over everything, something that the other three all noticed and finally Godric managed to convince Ro to go into the village and just relax for a day and when she came back they would work until they had discovered the perfect name.

Helga, Sal and Godric had started throwing names around before Ro had returned from the village and Godric's ideas had grown more and more ridiculous as each one got rejected, Helga shook her head "Godric, we are NOT calling the school 'Godric Gryffindor's Great, Gigantic and Helga Hufflepuff's Happy Hauling and Rowena Ravenclaw's Royally Rich and Salazar Slytherin's Stupendous School of Sorcery! Nor are we calling G-G-G-G-H-H-H-H-R-R-R-R-S-S-S-S-S!"

Sal nodded "indeed Godric that name is just ridiculous and it is not even the craziest name you have come up with, this whole thing is a load of hog-"

"WARTS!" "-wash it is ... Lady Ravenclaw what is matter?" Sal and Helga stared at a very angry Rowena, none of them noticing Godric sitting upright with a very excited look of awe on his face.

"Everything was going so well, I actually had enjoyed my day off and was feeling very relaxed and was waiting in the line to buy a new quill and then this little girl comes up and starts talking to me, which is all fine and dandy but then when she finds out I'm a witch she has the gall to ask if I'm covering up my WARTS because apparently all withes have warts!

I got out of there before I did anything, but really do I look like I have -"

"That's just a load of Hog-"

"Warts? I mean really it should be clearly quite obvious that I don't have-"

"-Wash nobody in their right mind would or should think that witches have-"

"Hog"

"Warts!"

Helga glanced at Godric in confusion Ro and Sal continued their over-lapping rants, neither of them noticing what the other two were doing "Godric?" "Wait for it"

"Thank-you Sal I am glad that you understand and you are completely right, it is a load of-"

"Witches and wizards are perfectly capable of using magic to make sure that they don't have-"

"Hog-" "-Warts"

"Hogwarts."

"Hog-warts?"

"Hogwarts!"

"-wash, completely and utterly stupid."

"You might as well say that a witch is like warthogs-"

"Warthogs – Hogwarts."

"Hogwarts"

Ro took a deep breath then glanced around at Helga and Godric who were grinning at each other excitedly "what on earth are you two doing?" they grinned at her and Sal finally noticed that nobody was actually listening to him and stared at the others. Helga and Godric shared a glance and then turned and spoke one word "Hogwarts" Sal and Ro gazed at them in total confusion.

Godric grinned at them "the name for our school – Hogwarts" Sal raised an eye-brow "hog-warts? That is actually one of the tamest ideas you have come up with" Helga nodded in agreement and Godric just continued to grin "that's because I didn't come up with it – you guys did" Helga nodded again "it's true – because you were both speaking at the same time and using the words 'hog' and 'warts' at the perfect timing it got into his head and voila"

Ro blinked thoughtfully "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, well it certainly rolls of the tongue ... and I'm sure that no other building would have such a name." Sal nodded "so then I guess we are calling the school Hogwarts." Helga smiled warmly around the room "Hogwarts" Ro gave a small laugh of relief "Hogwarts." Godric beamed around the room and held out his sword in a salute to the castle itself "Hogwarts."

AN – And So the school was named ... in this version anyway.

Thank-you for your patience, if anyone is enjoying this story that is.

Anyway will up-date when I can.

Finished 23-04-2012