Chapter 10

At around 2am, Harry woke up to the sound of Hope crying. So he got up and held her close as he went downstairs to sit by the warm fire. In the fire light, Harry looked around the room and really took everything in. next to the fire place was a large portrait with the four founders sitting and watching him. He blinked and opened his mouth but the lady in Yellow stopped him "don't wake the sleeping child" she admonished in a warm pleasant voice.

"Helga, that was rude even by my standards" rasped the green cloaked man. He was tall with a black pointed beard and deep green almond shaped eyes. The lady in yellow, was plump with a warm open face and deep piercing brown eyes. Her hair was artfully arranged and she held a cup in one hand.

The other two people were bickering amongst themselves. The second lady was taller than Slytherin with deep raven black hair and sharp blue eyes. She wore a diadem on her head that sparkled with sapphires, and her dress was corseted and old fashioned.

The man with her was about six inches shorter than her with a big bushy beard that rivaled Hagrid's. one of his eyes was green, the other was blue. He wore a scarlet cloak and a brown shirt and brown trousers. He had a sword at his waist.

The four Founders of the school all watched Harry and they blinked. "pardon me, but why are you in my chambers?" Gryffindor asked curiously. The other three all looked interested and so Harry told them of his life so far. When he finished, he found that the sun was just rising and Hope needed a nappy change. After begging the founders pardons he went upstairs to his room and quickly dressed, then dressed Hope in a nice Green day dress.

After getting his book bag ready for classes that day, Harry went across the hall and asked the fat lady whom he now knew was Godric's daughter, lady Elspeth if he could enter the common room. He smiled as she swung open and he quickly scrambled in. he called an elf to come and asked the kind elf to fetch Lily and Damian.

The elf bowed low and then popped away silently, returning a minutes later with both twins dressed and ready to go. After greeting each other and hugging carefully, the small family headed down to breakfast, with Harry telling the twins all about the secret passages and trick steps. He even told them how to avoid the staircase moving on them and preventing them from getting too lost or late for class.

They sat down at the Gryffindor table and Harry piled two plates with Bacon, eggs, sausage and hash brown, while he had a bowl of oatmeal and fruit. As they were some of the first students down, they had the great hall pretty much to themselves. After the twins struggled to eat the whole serving, Harry announced that they would be visiting the Hospital ward after getting their timetables.

Most of the other students came down to breakfast at 7:30, with classes to start at 9am. Professor McGonagall handed them their timetables and Harry noticed that the twins had history of magic, then charms then lunch. He had double potions then a break until lunch.

He packed some fruit in the twins bags for when they got hungry in History and then they all headed to the Hospital wing. Along the way, the passed Ron who was sloppily dressed and in a hurry to get to the great hall. "hey mate, you weren't in the dorm last night, how come?" he asked as he ran by. Harry stopped, turned and said "keep running, breakfast is nearly over!". Ron looked torn. On one hand he wanted to know where Harry slept last night so he could tell the headmaster, but on the other hand, food! Food won out in the end and so he continued running.

The small family arrived at the hospital wing and harry introduced the twins to Madam Pomphrey. She looked at Harry. "well Mr Potter? What injury have you sustained this time?" she asked with a smile on her lips, as Harry pouted "it's only the first day!" he replied "but we are not here for me, for once. No this little one, needs a checkup" he explained as he revealed Hope to the stunned Medi-witch. She gaped at him for a moment then snapped out of her trance. "well give her here so I can give her all the potions she needs" Madam Pomphrey held out her hands and smiled at Hope as she was gently placed in her arms.

After pronouncing Hope "fit and ready for the day" Harry motioned to the twins who hadn't left yet. "can you check for signs of abuse?" he asked. The Medi-witch baulked at this, and so Harry explained his relationship with them and how he had found them. "I plan to blood adopt them if they'll have me?" he said looking at the twins., whose eyes widened and they smiled.

"well Mr Potter, it seems you were right. They are malnourished and they are too thin. This is a list of potions that will help them become the weight, height and size they should be at 11 years of age. They must take a potion with every meal for three months." Pomphrey explained. "as you have potions first you may leave her with me. she will be safe here" she told him.

It was 8:55 and so Harry and the twins raced to history, where he dropped them off then he ran to potions. He made it just as the bell rang.

Harry walked into potions and sat down at his normal table and was surprised to see that Ron and Hermione were there. Ron was Holding a letter in his hand "hey mate, whys Bill writing to you? You're not his friend, he hasn't even met you" Ron asked furiously, Harry glared at him. "so that makes it ok for you to read my private mail?" he snapped as he snatched the letter from Ron's grip.

Seeing as the teacher was not in the classroom yet, Harry stood and moved his stuff to the only empty seat in the room, which happened to be by the Slytherin student Daphne Greengrass. "hi, do you mind if I sit here? I want to be better at potions this year" he explained as she nodded the affirmative to sit. "so why has the golden trio broken up?" she arched an eyebrow at his expression. "please don't call us that, I hate that name" he murmured as the teacher waddled in.

Harry put the letter from Bill in his bag and got out both his text book and the book of notes written by his mother, that he'd found in the family vault at Gringotts. The book was ordered by year and potion, so Harry flipped to the first potion in the sixth year section of his mother's book and got ready.