Published on: 4/5/20
Words: 2,920
Sorry about the delay. This was supposed to be posted on the 3rd but my computer stopped working. Hope you enjoy!
Hermione POV
"Oh, dear," Salazar said. "You people are all noble and never break the bloody rules," he threw his arms up in defeat and walked away, but he didn't get far. I put her hands on my hips, "That's actually not true, the best troublemakers around have come from Gryffindor house. And if it helps, I've probably broken more school rules than the Marauders and twins combined, not to mention all the laws I like to pretend don't exist." I said. "Also, the hat did say I would fit in all the houses." I could literally feel Slytherin's interest perk up again as he turned around. "Interesting, laws as well as rules eh?" he said. "Ah yes, I remember now, you've broken the time travel rules -" I cut him off.
"Those ones I didn't actually break...Merlin's Box allows me to come back without any paradoxes," "Of course it did," he said, dripping with incredulity. "No really, it did. I could tell you-" someone else interrupted this time. "Salazar, you're not supposed to be here unless she needed your help," A male's voice said from behind me. Out of instinct, I turned around quickly with my wand out and cast a body binding spell in the direction of the voice
I didn't hear a body fall so I assume the man either dodged it or he countered it. "You've got good reflexes. A worthy heir," he said. The man came into view. The man in front of me had wavy red hair that looked like a lion's mane and a beard to match. He was tall and it was easy to see that he once had a lot of muscle. He had wrinkles on his face to show his age but we looked to be about mid-fifties. "Great, now I'm talking to two dead guys. I'm just getting crazier and crazier," I said to myself but it looks like both men heard me. "And what would your name be, young lady?" Gryffindor asked me. I recognized him from the portrait in Dumbledore's office. "Hermione Evans, sir," I said and slightly bowed my head. "Godric Gryffindor," he said and slightly bowed his head as well. "Yea, I recognize you from the portrait in the Headmaster's office," I said and he smiled kindly at me.
"Now, Salazar, what are you doing here?" he asked Slytherin. "Getting to know the heir, of course. She was about to tell me about the days being captured. It seems to be a very long story," Salazar said and he was a very good liar since we had moved on from that topic. "Well, then. I would like to hear this story too," Gryffindor said and went to sit down on a Gryffindor colored couch while Slytherin sat in a Slytherin colored one. "If you two are there, then we shall join you as well," I heard a woman's voice this time. Out of nowhere, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw showed up in front of me. They also sat in their house colored couches and watched me.
I smiled at them, trying to hide my nervousness. "You want the story from the very beginning or from where it got shitty?" I asked them. "The very beginning would be nice, dear," Hufflepuff said and I nodded. "Well, first let's establish that I come from a different future and so I'm here to change it. You'll find out why when I finish telling the story," I said and they nodded. "Well, one day, in the year 1980, a boy named Harry Potter was born. A Dark Lord, known as Voldemort was at large and a few months before Harry's birth, a prophecy was made. 'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies'. A year after Harry was born, on Halloween night, Voldemort came to the Potter's house because the Secret Keeper had betrayed them and sold the Potters out. Harry's dad dies first as his mom takes him upstairs. Harry's mom died for Harry, granting him the ultimate protection. Voldemort couldn't touch him. Voldemort, not knowing about the protection, turns his wand at Harry and casts the Killing Curse. The curse rebounded and hit Voldemort, unknowingly transferring some of his power inside baby Harry as Voldemort was no more, for a while only," I said and saw that they were paying close attention.
"Harry was then sent to live with his muggle aunt who mistreated him. Poor boy didn't know his name until he was five since his aunt and uncle only called him 'boy'. He couldn't live with a magical family because he was now famous. The-boy-who-lived. Everyone knew about Harry Potter, but he grew up believing that his parents died in a car crash. Eleven years after his birth, his Hogwarts letter came along but he couldn't read it. His aunt and uncle always took the letters and burned them or threw them away. It got to the point where they moved to an island and the Gatekeeper of Hogwarts had to deliver the letter. That is where he found out the truth about himself and his parents," I paused for a moment before continuing. "Soon enough, the first day of school came along and he met the Weasley family. Helping him get past the border and he boarded the train. Ron Weasley, the youngest and last son in the Weasley family, was also starting that year and the two became quick friends. I met them soon after because I was helping another student find his missing toad. We exchanged a few words before I moved again to look for the toad. I met them again in the entrance hall. Ron, Harry, and I were sorted into Gryffindor. I didn't become friends with them until Halloween that same year. Ron had said something awful about me and I heard him. I went to the girl's restroom and cried. I didn't go to the feast that night so I didn't know that a full-grown mountain troll was loose. Harry and Ron found me as the troll had gone in the girl's bathroom and started destroying it. If it wasn't for them, who knocked out the troll with his own club, then I wouldn't be here today." I then proceeded to tell them about everything else that happened during that year.
I told them about us thinking that it was Snape and how it turned out to be Quirrell. I told them about what happened in the Forbidden Forest and then the dragon, the three-headed dog, and going through tests that all the teachers had left before going to the stone and how everything ended. "Then came the second year. A few weeks before class started, Harry was visited by a house-elf named Dobby, who came over to tell him not to come to school that year because terrible things were to happen again. Dobby made a little mischief and got Harry into trouble, hoping to keep him safe for the year. Mind you, that same elf had intercepted all the letters that Ron and I had been sending to him making Harry believe that we had forgotten about him. Anyway, on Harry's birthday, Ron and his brothers, Fred and George, flew their dad's enchanted car to Harry and set him free from his 'prison'. Harry then spent the rest of the summer with the Weasleys before getting his supply letter from Hogwarts and we met up at Diagon Alley. We were all in Flourish and Blotts getting our books and we also found out that the person who wrote all the books we were going to use for Defense Against the Dark Arts was also our DADA teacher. He was a fraud though, he had interviewed all the wizards and witches that did the things he wrote in the books and then erased their memories so no one would say anything about it. We found this out at the end of the year. Anyway, in the book store, we met up with Draco Malfoy, the ferret, as I like to call him. We started picking a fight but his father came along and stopped it from happening. The Malfoys are prejudice pure-bloods, and they hated the Weasleys because they hung around Muggles. The Weasley's were called blood-traitors." I stopped to think about what happened next.
"Mr. Malfoy then grabbed Ginny Weasley's books from her cauldron and stated about the fact that the books were second-hand. What we didn't notice at the time was that when he put the books back, he had placed Voldemort's cursed diary inside as well. When the day to board the train came along, everyone got in except Harry and Ron because Dobby had stopped the wall from letting them through. They, once again, used Mr. Weasley's flying car and drove it all the way to Hogwarts. They crashed it in the Whopping Willow and after throwing out Harry, Ron, the animals, and their luggage, it drove into the Forbidden Forest. They got a month's worth of detention for that. On the last day of their detention, Ron had to clean, by hand, the Trophy room where he found a trophy set for Tom Riddle. Harry, on the other hand, had to spend his detention helping out DADA professor with his fan mail. After dinner, Ron and I went to look for Harry since he had missed it. We found him and he said he was hearing things within the walls of Hogwarts. He ran and we followed him until we reached a flooded corridor. We walked along the corridor and found the caretaker's cat hanging on one of the torches and a message written in blood right next to her. It said: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware. The cat had been petrified. After that, Harry, Ron, and I came up with a plan to see if Draco Malfoy was the heir since he was as prejudiced as Slytherin was perceived to be. Seeing as Harry and Ron were in enough trouble as it was and I had a clean record, I snuck into Snape's private office and grabbed the ingredients I needed for a polyjuice potion." I said and looked at Slytherin with a smirk on my face.
"We were going to make ourselves look like Slytherins for a while until we knew if the ferret was the heir or not and make the ones we were turning into disappear for a few hours with a muffin made with a sleeping drought that I also made, to give us the time we needed. The plan went on as it should have and I wasn't caught for it. The ferret wasn't the heir. Another reason that Harry and Ron wanted to prove that it was the ferret was that he had called me a mudblood," I said and Hufflepuff interrupted me "What's a mudblood?" she asked. "Mudblood is a term used by prejudiced pure-bloods. It refers to someone with no magic parents. Someone that has dirty blood and is no better than the dirt on the floor. Half-bloods are treated better because they have at least one magical parent," I said and they all have grim expressions on their faces. "After that, as the months went by, more students had been petrified. Colin Creevy, Justin Finch-Fletchley, and Sir Nicholas, he is a ghost. All the ones petrified were muggle-borns. I had figured out what it was that was petrifying everyone. As I was leaving the library, I found one of the Gryffindor prefects and she was also a muggle-born. I gave her a mirror and told her to look through it by every corner. I did the same. While looking through one of the corners of the school, I was also petrified. My Head of House teacher found me and I was taken to the hospital wing."
"They found me with the mirror in my hand but no one knew why it was there. What they didn't know was that I had the answers to what was happening in my other hand which they failed to check. That was in March, and there was a Quidditch game planned but it was canceled. A few weeks later, Ginny was taken to the chamber to die. That night, Harry and Ron had finally found the paper in my hand. The paper was from one of the books in the library that had information about the monster in the chamber. It was a basilisk. They connected all the dots. Harry had noticed that after every petrification, a row of spiders would be crawling away from the body. Spiders fear basilisk. And a basilisk's eye contact kills the victim. We had all been petrified because we saw its reflection. The cat saw it through the water on the floor, Colin had seen it through his camera, Justin had seen it through Sir Nick, and Sir Nick looked at it but was only petrified for a moment because he's already dead, he can't die again. I saw it through the mirror and so did the prefect. The messages on the walls that were written in blood, was blood from rosters, which the sound of their crowing is fatal to them. Another thing I answered was how it went around the school. Everyone would have noticed a fifty feet long serpent slithering around the castle, but the basilisk was moving along the castle's pipelines. Same as it did 30 years ago. Except 30 ago, a girl was killed. She's still living in the place that she died, which was the girl's bathroom on the third floor. Harry had found out where the chamber was and went with the DADA professor and Ron. The DADA professor ended up erasing his own memory on accident since he tried to use Ron's messed up wand, and a pile of rock separated him and Harry," I said and noticed how Gryffindor was glaring at Slytherin.
"Harry moved on to the chamber and found Ginny on the ground, bleeding. The diary of Tom Riddle next to her. Tom had taken Harry's wand and wrote in the air his full name: Tom Marvolo Riddle. He rearranged it and it spelled: I am Lord Voldemort. Harry found out that Voldemort is Slytherin's last descendant. Voldemort sent out the basilisk after Harry, Dumbledore's phoenix came and blinded the basilisk, and by the end of the fight, Harry had killed the basilisk. Stabbing the Gryffindor's sword through the roof of its head. Harry had come out of that fight with a fang embedded in his arm. Harry used the basilisk fang and stabbed the diary and it made that version of Voldemort die. Ginny woke up and Fawkes the Phoenix carried everyone out of the chamber and brought them to the Headmaster's office. Mr. Malfoy came in, caused a scene and before he left the castle, Harry followed him with the diary in his hand. Harry had put a sock in the pages of the book and handed it to Ferret senior, confronting him about putting the book in Ginny's cauldron. Mr. Malfoy gave the book to Dobby since the Malfoys were the family that he served. Harry told him to open it and he saw the sock, effectively freeing him. Malfoy got mad, threatened Harry and Dobby used his magic to throw Malfoy away. After everyone had woken up with the mandrake potion, there was a celebration, and to my displeasure, exams were canceled that year." I said finishing the story about my second year.
"Question. What happened with our lines?" Hufflepuff asked me while pointing at Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and herself. "Well," I said and got up. I went to the desk and opened the first drawer. I pulled out the three keys that were inside and showed it to them. "The only line around is Salazar Slytherin's. The Gryffindor and Hufflepuff line went on a few generations after your deaths before your last descendants were killed before they could have children. As for Ravenclaw's line, it died with your daughter, Helena. The Bloody Baron killed her when she refused to come back with him and in his grief when he realized that he killed the one he loved, he killed himself. Both of them are ghosts in the castle," I said and looked down. They gave me back the keys and I put them in the drawer.
