This story is based on Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling
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The cannon things that i changed are the time of Morfin Gaunt's death and when wolfsbane potion is invented.
" - normal talking
' - Parseltongue
We arrived right outside the gates to Hogwarts and waited for a few minutes so they have time to notice us.
And not five minutes later we hear feet walking in this direction, must be the grounds keeper to see what we want.
He finally gets to us and a tall gruff looking man opens the gate and looks us over, "is anyone expecting you?"
Not the worst greeting i have ever had, good enough, "no, my son and I had a encounter with three students that come here most likely incoming 3rd years when the school year starts up again, we would like to talk to headmaster Dippet, and the head of house for gryffindor and ravenclaw if they are available" i smile and put my hand on tom's head, "my name is Hermione Featherwood-Riddle and this is my son Tom, pleased to meet you."
He gives a twitch smile, "ah, students getting into trouble again, sorry for the trouble, my name's Ogg, i'm the grounds keeper." He opens the gate wide enough for us to walk through, "headmaster should be free, you'll have to ask him about the heads of house."
"Of course, lead the way if you don't mind" i turn to tom, "want a piggyback ride to the castle?"
He gets an excited look on his face, guess being carried on my hip is slightly different then piggybacks, have to remember to try carrying him on my shoulders another time.
I kneel down and he moves to my back and climbs on me, i stand up and cross my arms under his butt to lift him a little then used my hands to hold up his legs as he wraps his arms around my shoulders as best he can.
I start following ogg in a hop-walk sort of way, putting a big hop in my step to bounce tom around, which actually pulls a giggle from him, looks like i'm doing somthing right, and even ogg looks entertained at my antics when he glances back.
When we walk inside the castle the first thing he notices is the moving portraits, he oohs and ahhs at all of them, and then he seems to remember something, "don't we have portraits in our vault that we forgot to get?"
Oh yea, and books too, "yea we will have to make sure we go get them today, remind me when we leave alright?"
He nods and goes back to looking at everything around us.
Not too much later we come to the gryffin statue guarding the entrance to the headmaster's office, ogg then whispered the password and the statue moved out of the way, which caused tom to ooh and ahh some more.
Ogg then lead us up the stairs and knocked on the door.
"Come in" said a man with an aged voice, i assume it is headmaster Dippet.
We walked inside and ogg explained the situation as best he could, "this is Hermione and Tom Featherwood-Riddle, they say that a few students were misbehaving, i don't know details just that she said the heads of gryffindor and ravenclaw should be here too if they aren't busy."
Dippet strokes his beard that looks remarkably like Dumbledore's from my time, dippet does look about as old as Dumbledore did in my time too. "Hmm" he says, "i see, i will summon the heads of house, why don't you give me the basics while we wait? You are free to go ogg."
I smile as best i can and we sit down in the available chairs, "it's not a complicated explanation, my son and I were shopping inside Flourish and Blotts for books and we split up for a few minutes to look around, i finish and search for tom, imagine my surprise when i see three Hogwarts students surrounding my son with his back to a shelf say all sorts of demeaning things, mostly along the lines of 'you don't look like you belong here' and 'we should show you where you belong' if i had not intervened when i did, it could have gotten very messy."
He just stares for a moment takeing in the story, when he finally seems like he processed it he askes, "what do you mean by messy? And which students?"
"Their bullying was getting my son angry, and when emotions are high accidental magic happens all the time especially in someone so young, my son is only 8 and i am not sure what could have happend just that those boys could have been hurt and it would have been messy" i say this as i run a hand through toms hair, he is still upset over the whole thing after all, "their names were Adam Johnson, Gerald Hornby, and Lucas Nott, two gryffindors and a ravenclaw that looked like they were going to be in third year coming up. They are old enough to know better than to pick on 8 year olds, they should be more mature then that."
Dippet looks troubled, "they have been known to be jokers, but i didn't think they did this outside of school, no other students have ever mentioned them doing anything like this, nor have i witnessed any" he continues to rub his chin, "am i right in assuming that you have a punishment in mind?"
I nod, "yes i was thinking of them getting hogsmead privileges taken away and maybe have them help the caretaker clean the castle, but i have thought of a better idea if you approve of it."
He waves a hand for me to continue, "i will have a green house on my property soon and a potions lab also, if it would be possible, once school starts, send them to my property over the weekend so that they can tend to my plants with me and maybe help me prepare potions ingredients, learning and labor is the best option i think."
He thinks it over, "i will have to confirm with the heads but i don't see a problem with it."
Just then there is a knock at the door signaling that the heads have arrived and dippet calls them in.
The first to enter is a man i don't recognize, i assume this is the ravenclaw head of house. The second is of course Albus Dumbledore being gryffindor head of house.
Headmaster Dippet waves them over, "this is our charms professor and ravenclaw head of house Victor Ivdus" he says as he introduces the unfamiliar man who walked in, "and this is Albus Dumbledore, Transfiguration professor, gryffindor head of house and deputy headmaster."
Of course even in this time he has too many titles to his name, "nice to meet you both, my name's Hermione Featherwood-Riddle and this is my son tom."
I saw recognition in Dumbledore's eyes as soon as i said riddle and when i said tom's name he looked over at him and i knew that they had met before, with or without tom's knowledge. I am not surprised that he kept tabs on him, it was hard to believe that he only visited tom once to tell him about hogwarts.
I'll be damned if i let Albus Dumbledore meddle in tom's life this time, i'll be watching him, especially when the time comes for tom to be at hogwarts and more accessible to Dumbledore, being his professor and all.
I put on a polite smile for professor Ivdus' sake but for the most part i keep my face neutral and listened to the headmaster repeat my story and my idea for their punishment.
"Well" professor Ivdus starts, "i am sorry that this caused you both such distress, those boys have always been pranksters but also mostly harmless, i don't know why this happened" he has a troubled and confused look on his face.
Dumbledore nods, "yes, this is not expected behavior for them, we will most definitely be having words with them and their parents." Up until this point he had been discreetly stareing at tom, probably takeing in his new features from the adoption and makeing observations, he might even be using Legilimency to figure out what happened since he last saw him, i wonder if i could teach tom some occlumency before his first year, it might be too hard for that age but it's worth a try.
I nodded at them, "i trust there are no issues with my idea for their punishment?"
Professor Ivdus thinks for a moment, "you won't feel uncomfortable with them in your home?"
I smirk, "i think my first impression on them took care of any misbehaving, i'll be able to handle them."
Ivdus chuckles at the possibilities, Dumbledore simply raises an eyebrow and says, "i see no issue with this plan, i'm sure their parents would agree with no problem also."
Ivdus nods in agreement and headmaster Dippet says, "alright thats settled, i will send notice to the students and their parents, i will send you an owl confirming when the first weekend will be."
We all say our goodbyes and me and tom are making our way down the path towards the gate.
Tom has a thoughtful look on his face, "that guy with the long beard Dumbledore? He gave me a weird feeling, kind of on the creepy side, it was like he was watching me for something specific like he was waiting for me to do something" he frowned.
I sigh and i feel so much older then i should, i pick him up and hold him to my side so that he is eye level with me, "yes he does give off that vibe doesn't he, you should always follow what your instincts tell you, within reason of course, so be cautious around him when we see him next and everything should turn out alright" i press a kiss to his forehead, and in a quick movement, toss him up so i can catch him under his arms and i start twirling around.
He squeals at the sudden change but soon starts giggleing and laughing along with me. And as i'm in my last spin around i glance up at the castle mid spin and i could have sworn i saw someone watching our antics from one of the tower windows, but i can't be sure.
After all of our spinning is done we continue on our way out, "so are you excited to see the gaunt vault before we forget again? It would be a good idea to get those portraits and books before going home, it shouldn't take too long so nagini and akasha should be fine until we get there."
He nods, "lets make it quick, i like talking to nagini, you like her and akasha right?"
I smile a content smile, "of course i do, and ari too, can't forget about her."
He nods and we make our way to gringotts bank for our last stop.
_Tom P.O.V._
We arrive at Gringotts and i look around at everything, since i saw a goblin when they came to the house i wasn't really looking at them much, i mostly looked at the decorations and the flying paper planes everywhere.
Mia bends down and whispers to me, "the paper planes are their version of office memos if you were wondering" with a knowing smile, guess she noticed me looking.
We got up to the front and greeted the goblin at the main counter.
Mia smiles, "hello Kurgok, how are you?" Of course they have already met.
He gives a toothy grin, "good thank you, but it seems you aquired a new addition, i take it the adoption went well if your new features mean anything."
"Yes, this is my son tom, and that's why we are here, to look through the gaunt vault for a few items we are interested in."
"Of course, give me a few minutes and we will head to the vault" with that Kurgok got out from behind the counter and went to prepare something, what he is preparing, i have no idea.
Mia has a mischievous smile on her face, "just wait till you see the transportation to get there" she giggles, "i'm not a fan but everybody thinks differently about it."
This should be entertaining for at least one of us judgeing by her expression right now, i just sigh and wait, mia can be so silly.
Kurgok comes back and we follow him through a door, what we are walking to makes me wonder why wizards and witches are so weird, weird enough to make something similar to a Rollercoaster mixed with a mine car, yea, really weird.
Mia just giggles and helps me in, when it starts mia stops laughing and just holds onto the sides and me with a grimace, she wasn't lieing about not being a fan of this, and i don't hate it per say, but i would not be doing this for fun either.
A little less than 5 minutes later we finally arrived at the vault and i'm anxious to see who the portraits are of.
And just then Kurgok reached over and unlocked the door.
_Hermione P.O.V._
The massive vault door opened up and revealed the items inside.
I look over at Kurgok, "thank you, we should only be a few minutes."
Tom and i then start walking through the room looking at all the little items, none really catch our interest until tom stopped infront of something, "mia whats this?"
I look over and my breath catches for an instant before i compose myself, i walk over, "that is the gaunt family ring, usually worn by the head of the family, which is you" it's so weird to see the ring that would become one of tom's horcruxs in a different reality. The fact that Morfin Gaunt died early this time shows how much different this reality is to the one i came from, thats not even the only difference and i can't even say they are my fault since most things that are different happened before i got to this time.
Which brings an unpredictable element to this plan, not completely since the main things are still generally the same. But that means i can't just assume certain events will stay the same or even happen at all, i have to be prepared for anything, expected and unexpected.
I cast a modified version of specialis revelio to reveal any dark magic or curses on objects, the gaunt family was not friendly after all. I cast this on all the objects in our area and everything came back clear.
"Alright there is nothing harmful in this area, you can touch whatever you want, then we can move to another section and look through that" i tell tom and then reach over and pick up the box holding the ring, "we should probably take this with us too, if you see anything give it to me and i will put it in my bag" which i do with the ring after closing the lid.
He nods and walks up and down the area looking at the items, i spot some more jewelry and take a look, it is mostly necklaces and bracelets but there were a few rings that caught my eye and a thought came to mind, if tom was ever born and had his birth mother with him at least, one of the things he would have would be her old engagement ring or something to give to a future wife, i don't know how likely that would be but i want tom to have a life with open posibility and opportunities, if he ever wants to get married he should have that option, and him already haveing a ring will make it easier for him.
I scan the rings and i notice one that looked like it could work, it had a white gold band with two small diamonds on either side of an emerald of the same size, and engraved onto the outside of the band is a flower/vine design, this works.
But i continued to look for a second one, you never know, his future wife might have different taste, or it might turn out to not be a wife at all. I giggle, if that happens i get to see the look on his face when he realizes i had known all along, or just a posibility, he doesn't need to know that though.
I find the second ring soon after, this band also made of white gold, but instead of a solid band it twists around in a variation of a celtic knot, and in the center is a round moon stone, perfect if i do say so myself.
I then hear tom call me over to him, i put the rings into my bag and walk over, he look up at me and says, "since i get a ring saying i am the head of the gaunt family you should have something too" it seems he stopped infront of some jewelry too, he reaches out a picks up a necklace, "how about this?"
And i get another surprise today as i see tom holding up the one and only slytherin locket. Another thing that changed since i'm pretty sure in my time he didn't find it until he started working at borgin and burkes. I find it very ironic that we are finding all of these items that i saw as horcruxs before i came here, and that he is giving me one of them is silly enough to make me giggle which confuses him.
I stop giggling and say, "that is slytherin's locket, did you get to the part about slytherin in hogwarts a history yet?"
He gets excited, " yes! This is slytherin's locket?" I nod and he grins at me, "its perfect then, i get the gaunt ring and you get the slytherin locket, both a part of the family line" he then reaches up his hands holding the necklace and i pick him up to make it easier for him to put it on, "see? You make it look prettier."
"Aww! So sweet!" I lean forward and give him a loud, wet kiss to his forehead.
He scrunches up his face, "eww! Mia!" He wipes at his forehead with a disgusted expression on his face, though you could see in his eyes that he enjoys my silly behavior and the 'so sweet' compliment.
I giggle, "come on lets keep looking, we have books and portraits to find" we walk from section to section scaning the items for dark magic and curses, so far not finding anything else interesting.
"How much longer?" Tom yawns next to me, guess we have been in here for awhile.
"Shouldn't be much longer, there is only a few more sections i think" we move to the next section and i started scanning, nothing comes back cursed so we start looking around.
A few minutes later tom calls out, "i found some books!"
I walk over and sure enough there is a pile of them some are textbooks and some look like fiction and then there were ones that looked like leather bound journals, looks like someone in the family did some writing, maybe it's more of slytherin's stuff that didn't end up staying in the chamber of secrets.
Searching through them for an owners name we did find a few by slytherin, but the rest of them were not, one was by marvolo gaunt, tom's grandfather and the other was by merope gaunt, tom's mom.
"Tom look, this one was written by your mom" i hand him the journal and he just holds it and looks at it for awhile.
"You don't have to read it now, not until you are ready, there is no shame in not wanting to read it yet" i ruffle his hair and take the journals and the books to put them in my bag, "it will be on the bookcase in our office waiting until then."
He nods and hugs me from the side and we continue to the next section. I scan and then we look around, and as i am walking but one of the tables i hear a muffled noise, like someone is trying to talk but they have a pillow on their face and you are across the room. I look down towards the noise and see frames, they are partially covered so i could have missed them easily.
"Tom come here, i found the portraits" he runs over and i pull them out so that they are leaning on the table faceing us and i uncover them and spread them out.
The first, second and third one are men that i don't recognize, the first has black hair and grey eyes, the second has black hair and brown eyes, the third has brown hair and brown eyes, they all have similar features so they were probably related in some way to eachother. The fourth and final one i do recognize as the famous salazar slytherin.
Oh the possibilities, but enough of that one of the strangers has started talking, "ah, someone has finally uncovered us, how long has it been? I can't remember" it was the third one with a whimsical voice and before anyone else said anything a voice earily similar to an annoyed professor snape said, "who are you" sounding more like a statement than a question, i look over and see slytherin waiting for an answer.
I pull tom against my side and put on a polite smile while tom kept his stoic expression, "Hermione and Tom Featherwood-Riddle, i know you are Salazar Slytherin" i look at the other three, "but i do not recognize you three."
The second one sighs, "not surprised, i would be surprised if anyone did, it's been so long" his voice makes him sound tired and he looks tired too, not a needing sleep kind of tired but an emotional tiredness that i am not a stranger to.
The first one takes it upon himself to introduce them, "i am Antioch Peverell and they are my brothers Cadmus Peverell and Ignotus Peverell" compared to the other two his voice was loud and obnoxious.
I had forgotten that the Peverell family was related to tom along with slytherin, must have slipped my mind while i was busy thinking of other things. "Oh thats right, the owners of the deathly hallows" i look down at tom, "thats one of the stories in the book i got you, the tales of beedle the bard, have you read it yet?"
He shakes his head, "no, i figured Hogwarts a history was more important" as he said the name of the book slytherin perked up a little, since they have been in here for so long they probably don't know much about the world right now, but i could have sworn that slytherin has a portrait connected inside hogwarts, i'll have to ask him later.
"Yes it is more important, we will have to read it together later then" i look at the portraits, "do you have any blank portraits that you are connected to in here?"
Ignotus nods, "we have two blank ones each" perfect, that means they can move room to room once we get them to the house.
"Perfect, i will pack all of you up and then i will get the blanks" i then walk over to Antioch and pull the mouth of my bag open wide enough for the top of the frame to fit, and then pull it over his frame which caused him to let out a startled sound, i giggle, "sorry, probably should have warned you" i repeat the process with the rest and tom and i started looking for the blank frames, which were not that far away.
Once packed we headed to the vault entrance, "sorry for taking so long Kurgok, hope you weren't too bored."
"Not at all, if you have found everything lets get going" we walk over to the car and get in, me bracing myself as we go back up to the main building.
We wave to Kurgok on the way out and i say, "have a nice day Kurgok, see you next time" we step outside and walk to the closest apparation point.
"You ready tom?" He nods and grips me in a hug, "alright here we go" and i apparate us home.
Once we are inside we are greeted by akasha and nagini, 'you are late, we were going to send ari' nagini hissed at us as soon as we saw them.
Akasha wines up my body until he is coiled around me with his head on my shoulder, 'why did you take more than an hour? We worried' he then tightens his hold on me until there is no way he would fall off and he rubs his head over all the spots he can reach without leaving my shoulder.
'I'm sorry you guys' i hissed, 'we had to pick things up from the vault after hogwarts and it took longer than we thought' i give a sigh and relish in the comfort of my familiar as he rubs his head under my chin, tom getting similar treatment from nagini.
Tom hisses to nagini, 'we found some people that you guys should meet, portraits from the vault.'
I nod, 'yes lets go to the office and hang them up' we walk up the stairs and to the office where we greet ari.
I open my bag wide and accio the 4 main portraits, they fly out and i pick up slytherin first and i place him on the section of wall behind and to the side of my desk that isn't covered by a book case and the Peverell brothers are put in the larger wall space behind tom's desk, 'meeting them can wait till later i think, tom why don't you go rest with nagini while i heat up the last of the leftovers.'
Slytherin is stareing at me and akasha, it probably sounds weird hearing another Parselmouth talk when all he has known was his own and the snakes, i wave at all of them and go back down stairs.
I take the eight blank frames out of the bag and hang four in the livingroom and the other four in the kitchen near the table. I then heat up the last of the japanese takeout we still had.
"Tom! Time to eat!" He comes down the stairs a moment later and we sit down to eat.
Tom ends up spending most of his time telling nagini things about his past and his life in the magical world so far.
'Time for bed, go get ready while i clean up' i kiss tom on the forehead and nagini on top of her head.
I finish cleaning the dishes and walk up stairs to check on tom and get ready myself.
I see them talking on the bed and i walk over and put them under the covers, 'goodnight you two' i give both of them another kiss and turn off the light before closing the door.
I get ready for bed and get under my covers with akasha, as i lay there in the peaceful environment, wrapped in my familiar, i give a tired sigh and i deflate, surrounded by comfort and in a private area, i finally let stray tears i have held back for so long finally flow down my face.
