Author's Note:

So far it seems to be alright. Thank-you to those that have and/or are reading this.

As promised, this chapter contains the rest of old chapters 10 and 11.

These chapters were some of my absolute favourite works I have ever written. They are/this is just so silly and enjoyable – to me.

Disclaimer:

I Aslansphoenix declare that I do not own the Wizarding world, Hogwarts or any of the information, characters, ideas provided by the great J. K. Rowling. Or anything else that you may recognise. 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.

I promise that I am not making any money for or from this story; I am only writing it for enjoyment.

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Chapter Eleven – Names and Mottos.

After that Salazar felt things had gotten too fluffy and sickeningly sweet, Godric and Aurora being lost in each other's eyes. Eventually though, they returned to the castle with the girl in tow. She was to be apprenticed to a friend of Helga's as a nurse for the school, as healing was the skill Aurora had successfully mastered of her magic. Over time Aurora stepped out of her shell, she was always there to patch Godric up when he became injured, and then to scold him for being in a position to get injured, much to the enjoyment (relief) of his friends.

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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 ... Rowena took a deep breath. The lack of a name was basically the reason she was stressing out over everything. The other three all noticed and finally Godric managed to convince Rowena 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, Salazar and Godric had started throwing names around before Ro had returned from the village. Godric's ideas had grown more and more ridiculous as each one got rejected. Helga shook her head (again).

"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! Or any other so-called shortened versions!"

Salazar 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 as she heard his random interjection. Rowena and Salazar continued their over-lapping rants, neither of them noticing what the other two were doing "Godric?" He muttered to Helga a resonse with a grin. "Wait for it."

"Thank-you Salazar 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 ... Yeah ok Hogwarts!"

Rowena took a deep breath then glanced around at Helga and Godric who were beaming at each other excitedly. "What on earth are you two doing?" They turned their grins towards her. Salazar 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."

Salazar and Rowena gazed at them in total confusion.

Godric grinned at them and explained "The name for our school – Hogwarts."

Salazar 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, letting her amused smirk show as she explained "It's true – you were both speaking at the same time and using the words 'hog' and 'warts' with such perfect timing that it got into his head and voila."

Rowena blinked thoughtfully. "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, well I suppose that it certainly rolls of the tongue ... and I'm sure that no other building would have such a name."

Salazar groaned, but he had been sick of discussing potential names so he nodded "Very well 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."

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It was a week until the school would open and everything was sorted – the letters had been sent and returned, the castle was Helga-approved for safety. Rowena had finalised the sorting hat; and was refusing to let Godric see the finished product (Helga had been there when she had finished and Salazar had helped her hide from it from Godric). Godric himself was a ball of energy as he waited for the first day; only his time with Aurora did he seem to calm down.

Helga had to bite down her squeals when she overheard them talking about the future. For all that Godric already loved Hogwarts, Helga was pleased that he was thinking about one moving to live in a seperate part of the country - possible the Hallow he had spent most of his training with Sir Alex in. Helga thought that living close to the castle would be fine for Rowena and herself, but Godric would need time away to remember to live a life outside of the school.

The Hufflepuffs had moved to Hogsmeade where Henry's bakery business was booming and Helga's boys were loving the atmosphere. Richard Ravenclaw was of course going to be staying at Hogwarts with Rowena as a teacher. Salazar's family were visiting the castle for the opening, but would soon return to the Slytherin Chatau.

Salazar glanced around the room where all but Godric were situated. Rowena and Helga were talking quietly together (something they had been doing for the past fortnight, Salazar had a shrewd idea of what about but decided to wait for confirmation), Selena was sitting quietly sewing some embroidery with Serena napping by her side and Salvador was sitting reading a book. Salazar himself was sitting trying to outsmart himself in a game of chess.

Rowena suddenly got a look of horror on her face as a thought struck her "Oh thank Merlin" she whispered, Helga glanced at her in surprise "I am so pleased we decided to only invite the 11 year olds to Hogwarts." Helga tilted her head slightly in confusion. "You mean for another reason besides that it is fairer on everyone involved? And that if there were older students; it is doubtful that they would not actually be able to properly learn the work?"

Rowena nodded "If we had let all ages in, then the last year – the seventh year group – would be 17 or 18 ... the same age as Godric!"

Helga's eyes widened and Rowena continued speaking "Meaning that the students properly wouldn't respect him!"

Helga smiled comfortingly "Ro, this is Godric you're talking about – people can't help but respect him; but I do see your point and I do agree that it is better that he will always be at least five years older than any students of Hogwarts."

Rowena took a deep breath and calmed down as she thought about the truth in Helga's words. She faced her friend with a worried look "Are we doing the right thing? Letting Godric teach?" Helga blinked then nodded "Yes, I know that he is ... young and energetic, but we aren't that much older than him and I think it will be good for him maybe help him calm down a bit." Rowena nodded; that was her thought as well, she just needed it to be confirmed.

Helga grinned "Besides; we get to claim this as his which means Godric will have to deal with what we don't want to; paperwork, publicity, interferring parents. With his strong sense of duty, he'll definitely take care of those situations."

Rowena smiled "Yes, whatever else may be said about Godric, he is mature when it comes to his responsibilities."

Of course it had to happen that just as they were saying nice things about a mature Godric Gryffindor, that Godric behaving like his usual energetic self burst through the door. "Guess what!" Salvador glanced up from his book at the loud noise "I just finished putting up the last painting – the one of Sir Cadogan!" Everyone else groaned and Godric glared at them.

"Hey, he is situated in the north tower to be out of your way and he's my friend – so he stays." As Salazar rolled his eyes and began to throw some sarcastic comments at Godric, Salvador slipped away from his seat and stood by the window and no-one saw the small smirk flicker across his face before he turned and drew the attention.

"Father, what is that smoke rising from that lump, on that hill just over there?"

Everyone conversed on the window and sure enough smoke was rising from a hill fairly close the school. Salazar frowned, not wanting his suspicions to be true "Some foolish busybody setting rubbish alight?" Rowena frowned "the trees get in the way of seeing clearly, maybe I should fly over-"

Helga interrupted her quietly "Oh no you don't - we have no idea what will happen and I'm not risking anything." Salazar raised an eye-brow and thought they were lucky that Godric was searching in his robes for something and didn't see them.

"Aha got it!" The knight exclaimed pulling out a telescope. Salazar scowled at the muggle artefact, but he couldn't complain about it as the others had outvoted him so that they were included for Astronomy ... it didn't mean he had to like it.

"It is probably nothing, just a ..." Godric said as he held up his telescope and gazed through the lens. The others watched as his expression took one of awe and let out a slow breath "... dragon."

Salazar scowled, Rowena gaped and Helga stared at Godric before starting to freak out "A DRAGON! This close to the school! This close to the village! What are we going to do! This is bad this is very bad! Oh no there is smoke what if it lights the whole hill ablaze? What if-"

Godric placed his hand over her mouth; cutting her off mid-tirade "Helga calm down" she stared at him.

"Godric there's a dragon out there."

"I know, and I'm going to go deal with it."

"What? No!" Helga exclaimed and both Rowena and Salazar nodded in agreement . Godric stared at them with stubborn eyes "Do you guys want to go and try and get rid of it? How would you go about doing so anyway? If we attack it, we won't get the dragon away it'll just fight back. There is no time to look up and learn spells to face down a dragon. The only way is to get it to leave, I'm sure I can do that – without causing anyone or thing to be damaged."

Godric didn't finish his sentence with 'of course if it is a female dragon then I'm screwed.' As he didn't think Helga could take hearing that, and he was secretly pleased that he was the only one of the four to have studied dragons in depth (it was one topic Rowena always managed to get side-tracked from).

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The dragon was asleep he (it was a male welsh green) had found this nice warm spot to rest and was having comfortable sleep, unaware that he was blowing smoke out of his nostrils. There was a sound and smell of a human approaching, he open one of his eyes into a slit in time to see and tall figure leap in front of him - he would admit to being surprised, this human must have been a hunter himself, to be so good at sneaking around that he managed to get so close to him without detection.

"Be gone great dragon! You cannot rest here!"

The dragon snorted. This human; though did have a sense of immense power about him, and he was holding one of those weapons that many of his breathen had been injured by ... but he posed no threat to him. Clearly just a child who attacked front on, if the human wanted to injure him he should have already done so. He yawned and turned his head away drifting back to sleep and paying the human no more attention – he wasn't worth it.

Godric frowned – the dragon wasn't paying him any attention ... and he was sure that he had laughed at him! Of course Godric would never dare to attack an opponent with their back turned, or eyes closed. He poked the creature – nothing, he tried to wake the dragon up by threatening him. When that didn't work he tried asking nicely, clanging his shield against his armour and then singing. Surprisingly it was only his singing that managed to get a reaction, though it seemed like the dragon was laughing at him more than ever.

At a safe distance the other three were also laughing. "Only Godric would be soo lucky as to find a dragon that doesn't pay him any attention." Sighed Helga, she, Rowena and Salazar were all on standby ready to cast protective charms around Godric. But at the moment Salazar was busy laughing as the Knight was pretending to ignore the dragon by polishing his sword – blinding the watchers as it caught the sunlight.

Finally Godric sat and stared at the shimmering scales of the sleeping dragon and he reached forward (he was far too close to the dragon's mouth for Helga's liking) and then he started to ... Rowena's jaw dropped and she asked weakly "Is he ... is he tickling the dragon?"

Salazar nodded, speechless and Helga groaned into her hands.

The dragon was really asleep, he had been ignoring the strange but amusing human and had been lulled into a slumber when he felt something just under his nose ... it was light and soft and not really touching ... and pushing air up his nostrils.

Helga let out a silent scream as the Dragon sneezed up a ball of fire – right where Godric was sitting. Fortunately Godric had an excellent reaction time and managed to jump out of the way of the flame, he then was forced to do a dance similar to the highland fling as the Welsh Green continued to sneeze up fire.

But it did have the benefit of causing the dragon to lift up from the ground and start to fly away, Godric was celebrating when as the dragon was right overhead the tail swept out and hit the young knight flat off his feet and caused his view to go black.

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White light – how weird, Godric had been sure that he had been watching something green ... it wasn't light – it was a room, and he wasn't on grass he was on a bed. Godric groaned s he realised what room he was in. The Hospital Wing; his least favourite room in the whole castle. Even though he loved being with Aurora, he hated having to stay there while he 'healed' especially when he was fine! No matter that the others always disagreed with his own conclusion of 'being fine'.

"So you're awake are you?"

Blue eyes met and Godric smiled sappily at his golden-haired girl. "Aurora you're looking beautiful as always." She crossed her arms "Flattery will not get you out of staying here." Godric wrinkled his nose then sighed "Oh well, it was worth a try. How long have I been here anyway?"

"About seven hours. You just had to go try and deal with a dragon didn't you. you are lucky that you got a knock to the head. And naturally you never do things half-way do you - when you are knocked-out you remain out for a good while."

"Eh It was just an accident." Godric lowered his hand at Aurora's pleading eyes.

"Godric, please don't do that again – you got lucky with that dragon, but I don't think I or any of us could stand it if something major happened to you."

Godric gently took her hands "Aurora, I cannot promise that I won't be injured and if there is any danger to anyone, to this school, to anything and I could put a stop to it; then I will try my hardest to stop the danger. But I promise you this – I will always come back to you, no matter what has happened I will find a way I promise."

She smiled at him, knowing it was the best she could get from him. Godric smiled softly back then his grin became less serious and more mischievous "So can I leave now?" She snapped immediately into nurse mode.

"Oh no you don't Godric Gryffindor; you are going to stay the night"

"But I'm fine"

"You always say that – I have learned not to trust your judgement when it comes to your health." Godric pouted and sighed; it never occurred to him to sneak out when Aurora wasn't around, it just wasn't his style and besides she would just subject him to another night in there if he did.

As Aurora started to walk away she paused and said "By the way the others have come up with a school motto - Draco Dormiens Nunqam Titillandus."

Godric smirked as he sank back into the bed "Never tickle a sleeping dragon – best advice I've ever heard."

OLD AN – I just couldn't make the Dragon bad, I love dragons. Though my favourite out of J. K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is of course the NZ Antipodean Opaleye.

End of Chapter Eleven.

Author's Note:

Here this chapter ends.

One of the many things I love about the 'Harry Potter' fandom is that we all agree that the Hogwarts motto came from Godric tickling a sleeping dragon, rather than just being good advice.

If you have read this, then thank-you.

I will update whenever I update.

Thursday 2nd November 2017.