Published on: 4/10/20

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Hermione POV

"Is there a way for us to see everything you have gone through. That way you won't have to keep telling us since it is stressing you out," Ravenclaw asked me, seeing the effects of telling her of my first two years. I nodded at her and summoned the pensive that I had bought and sent here to me. I expanded it so they could come with me and started pouring memories of everything from third year and on. That is 11 years' worth of memories. When I finished, I looked at my watch and saw that it was nearly seven. I still had two hours to go back to the dorm.

We all went into the pensive and started watching my memories. I filed them in on what I knew about Sirius before I found out the truth about him at the end of my third year. As the memories of my third year went on, I filled in the black of what I wasn't a part of. By then of my third year memories, Rowena was happy about my studying habits, Helga was happy about my loyalties to my friends and Remus, Godric was furious about a member of his own house betraying his friends (Peter), and Salazar was happy about all the rule-breaking I did as well as when I punched the ferret for what he said.

Then we went on to see my fourth year. Rowena and Helga teased me about Viktor but dropped it after a while. Godric didn't like it so much that Ron acted like an idiot at the ball and Salazar was glad to see the dragons in the first task. Salazar was angry about what his descendant did to Cedric. Another thing is that they laughed when I showed them Harry's memory about the fake 'Mad-Eye' turning Draco into a ferret and they now understood why I called him that.

Then we moved on to my fifth year. When Umbridge came to the school and started taking over. Salazar was over joined at the number of rules I broke in just making the DA. And he became extremely happy about the twins' pranks. He didn't like that they were Gryffindors but went along with it since their pranks were still funny. All four got angry when Umbridge broke the wall to the Room of Requirement. They were happy when the centaurs took her captive. They looked at me with sympathy when they saw the Battle in the Department of Mysteries. They all noticed when my face started becoming more and more emotionless by every passing memory for then on to the time when we defeated Voldemort. They winced when they saw the days I was held in the dungeons at Malfoy Manor and the times I was tortured for information. They absorbed every bit of information that was spilled about Voldemort. Salazar looked more and more disgusted with every bit of information he heard. He especially didn't like the fact that Voldemort made Horcruxes by killing people. They were all very happy the day the light won.

And then the day when a death eater killed Harry came and they looked very saddened. They saw everything I went through to make sure someone I cared about, made it. They saw how much I sacrificed for the wizarding world and how those death eaters took from me. They saw my parents' dead bodies and knew they had been tortured before being killed. They saw everything I did to get ready to travel back in time and fix it all.

Then I decided to show them some happiness and showed them all the memories I had from my time here. Some emotion came back to my eyes at seeing everything I went through. All my happy memories made me feel again and some happiness came back into my eyes.

By the end of it, they all congratulated me on living through everything that I went through and living through it and said that I truly deserved the title of being their heir. They all disappeared one by one until Salazar was left. "I'm sorry that it was my descendant that did all of that to you. And to make it up to you, I will grant you one thing," I felt some of his magic rise and he lifted his right hand. "I, Salazar Slytherin, disown Tom Marvolo Riddle from the Slytherin family from now until the end of time. He will have no claim over anything that belongs to the Slytherin name. No access to my vault, no access to the homes that are owned by Slytherin blood, and he has no right to call himself my heir," he finished and the magic in his hand faded as what he said became true. "How does this help me bring him down?" I asked him and he smiled.

He conjured a small vial of blood, "This vial is a mixture of Godric's, Rowena's, Helga's and my blood. Since our types of blood don't coexist well, it is mixed with unicorn blood to act as a medium. I will inject this blood in you so you will be the heir to all our bloodlines," he said and conjured another vial with silver blood in it. He opened both vials and poured all the silver blood in the other vial and it turned a golden color. I summoned a needle so he could inject the blood in me. "This blood is given to you willingly. And since you will also have unicorn blood running through the veins, that has been given willingly, the curse that follows unicorn blood won't be applied to you," he said as he injected the blood in me. I blinding light surrounded me after that. When the light faded away, my hair changed a bit and my skin became paler. Salazar conjured a mirror and I looked at myself. I had my natural red hair but I also had noticeable black streaks of hair. This was a combination of my natural hair and the hair of my 'adopted family' since I have just been 'adopted' but still have my real parents, this is the result. The hair went well with my pale skin and I sensed something else that changed in me but I wouldn't know until I grew a bit older.

Then Salazar started disappearing and I went to the Founder's Door and used it to get to the Gryffindor common room. When I got there, I noticed that no one was there so I went in and made my way to my dorm. Everyone inside was sleeping so I changed quickly and let Mitsuki climb into his change while I left food for him to eat. I laid down on my bed and went to sleep.

The next morning, I woke up before the other girls and showered and changed before feeding Mitsuki and Nova. I then grabbed my map of the school and added everything I found out yesterday. I added the listening spells that I added in all the common rooms, Dumbledore's office, the teacher's lounge, the teacher's dorms, and doors that the Founder's Door showed me. After I finished with that, I let Mitsuki attach himself to my neck again before I left the dorm to go to breakfast. On my way out of the common room, I ran into James and Remus. "Hey, guys, where are the other two?" I asked them, completely forgetting the changes that happened yesterday.

They looked at me in shock and I returned a questioning look. "What?" I asked them. "What happened to your hair?" Remus asked. It took me a while to realize what they were talking about. When I did, I realized that I had forgotten to hide the change. I shrugged it off and said, "I don't know. I woke up with my hair like this. I don't mind it," I said and they nodded, believing the story I told them. "Well, it looks good on you. Now, come on, we have to get to breakfast," James said and we went to the Great Hall.

We ate breakfast together and then I went to the library. I wanted to go to the Founder's Hall but I knew that if I spent the day without being seen again, Lily would get suspicious and would want to follow me. I wasn't ready to show her the Hall since she could tell one of the girls in our dorm and I didn't know them enough to show them my hideaway. As I looked for books on spells that I still had to work on, Lady Ravenclaw showed up in front of me. "Lady Ravenclaw, what are you doing here?" I asked while whispering since I didn't want Madame Prince to get angry at me. "Well, for one, be careful when you speak with me, or any of the founders, because only you can see us and I'm here to help you with the spells you still need to learn," she said and I nodded. She helped me pick out books and answered my questions when I didn't understand something about the spell. Lily and Severus came by a few hours later and started reading as well. We would all talk about what we read after a while and then continue. At 12, we went to lunch and after that, we went our separate ways. I went to sit under the tree that is by the Lake since that was the tree Harry, Ron, and I liked to hang around. I miss them, but I knew what I was doing was worth it. I would see them again one day. I just had to do this right and everything will go my way. Right now, the only thing I can do is collect the Horcruxes until I can destroy them without Voldemort knowing what I'm doing. For that, I need to build up my physical body and also build up my magic power so I could do the spells that would disable the protective spells on the Horcruxes.

At two in the afternoon, I decided to go to the room of requirement and train a bit. When I got in, I started practicing hand-to-hand combat moves. "Need a partner?" I heard a voice behind me. I turned around and saw Lord Gryffindor behind me. "Lord Gryffindor, you want to train with me?" I asked him, surprised. He smiled at me "That would be more productive for you. This way, I could teach you some things," he said and I smiled. I nodded at him and we got into position to start sparing. We spent the next five hours sparing with small breaks in between to rest. "You're good. Keep that up and you might be able to bring down a full-grown werewolf," he said and I smiled brightly. Bringing down Greyback is one of my goals right after killing Bellatrix Lestrange.

I might leave Rodolphus and Rabastan alive since they also switched sides when the death eaters rose up again. They were good allies. Sad day for me when they died since I got close to them. They admitted to me many of their secrets. I promised myself to save them this time around, no matter what.

"Well, I should be getting back to the common room. Can't have my sister angry at me again for being late," I said and Lord Gryffindor nodded at me. He pulled me in for a hug before pulling away "I'm proud that you ended up in my house, daughter," he said and I smiled remembering that I have the founder's blood running through my veins. "Thank you, father," I said and left the RR. I went to the common room and saw Lily there talking to the girls from our dorm and I saw the Marauders on the other side talking. I sighed and went to my sister. "Hey, Lils," I said and she smiled at me. "Hey, 'Mione. Are you going to sit with us today?" she asked and I nodded. I sat beside her and listened to what everything the girls were talking about. I added a few things when I wanted but overall I just listened. "Mione, why don't you play a song for us right now? It's been a while since we last heard you play," I smiled at her and nodded. I went to my dorm, dropped off Mitsuki, fed him and Nova, and then grabbed my guitar. I started thinking of a song to play while tuning my guitar. After I finished, I started playing.


Dancing in the kitchen
You singing my favorite songs
Swinging on the front porch
Just laughing at the dogs
How you swear you love me more
When you're whispering goodnight
All those little moments
Are every reason why

I'm homesick
This feeling that I'm feeling no it don't quit
It's like half of me is missing, heaven knows it
That all I wanna do is be alone with
Your brown eyes all tangled up just holding
Onto you tonight until the morning
Baby, that's the damn truth
If home is where the heart is
I'm homesick for you

Well it says my name on a sign with a line out the door
Sold out some little town I've never been before
Yeah, they're screaming my name
This is what we dreamed about
But out here singing 'bout you baby
All I'm thinking 'bout is how

I'm homesick
This feeling that I'm feeling no it don't quit
It's like half of me is missing, heaven knows it
That all I wanna do is be alone with
Your brown eyes all tangled up just holding
Onto you tonight until the morning
Baby, that's the damn truth
If home is where the heart is
I'm homesick for you
Homesick for you, yeah yeah

I'm homesick
This feeling that I'm feeling no it don't quit
It's like half of me is missing, heaven knows it
That all I wanna do is be alone with
Your brown eyes all tangled up just holding
Onto you tonight until morning
Baby that's the damn truth
If home is where the heart is
I'm homesick for you
I'm homesick for you, yeah yeah


By the end of the song, I saw that everyone that was in the common room was listening to me. I smiled shyly and looked down in embarrassment. Lily hugged me tightly and laughed "You have to play more often," she said and I nodded at her. "Fine," I said as everyone in the common room started clapping. At nine, we all went to our dorms and went to sleep.