Hey all! Iv added a few photos in an album on my facebook profile about the faces who I envision being of the characters in the story. The link is in my profile.
And I realize I havent described many of the characters' facial features well. Creative readers need them to imagine the story in their minds. Really sorry about that! I hope these photos make up for that. meanwhile I will make sure the characters are better described onwards :)
Thankyou again for your support :)
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Orphaned No More
Chapter 6
A meeting had been called.
At a courtroom made out of marble walls that looked whiter than snow. Four grand portraits stood on the walls around a square platform, chairs painted in them.
All concerned entities were present in their respective portraits. Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravendclaw, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin.
Hogwarts was being questioned. She was surrounded by a barrier of higher magic within the square platform. Magic even beyond her power. The spirits of her creators had called and so she was bound to answer.
They had merged the life force of a dying witch with the sorting hat. Effectively making her a wandering spirit but one that retained its magic and her animagus form.
Overtime if any headmaster would add any enchantments to the castle, the witch's magic would grow as a result. She would seep bit by bit of the magic to grow more powerful.
The fact that the witch was Godric's daughter who had gotten fatally injured protecting her son from a pack of wolves was another matter entirely.
She had been sure to die if the enchantment had not been used to tie her to the Sorting Hat. Meanwhile her sacrifice caused another enchantment to then be passed on down the Gryffindor line. One that would be triggered whenever a mother in a family descending from Godric would sacrifice herself for her child's safety. Pure bravery and selfless sacrifice. Just like a Gryffindor.
She would be the castle's final line of defense if the castle came threateningly close to being destroyed. Or being damaged beyond repair.
Slytherin was angry as he was not well informed about the creation of this guardian. But he was quiet. Afterall he had kept the Chamber of Secrets a secret from them too. A basilisk was his idea of a final line of defense if muggles ever threatened to destroy the castle and endanger its inhabitants.
Another reason he was quiet was because it was one of his direct descendants who had done the deed.
"Gennaía" Godric addressed the being who was his daughter a millinea ago.
Gennaía Gynaika Gryffindor was startled at being called by her first name from her life back then after so long. The last person to call her that was her husband as she lay dying in his arms while he carried her to her father in hopes of saving her.
It was not a fond memory but it was as vivid as daylight.
FLASHBACK
Ignotus Peverell Gryffindor had his grandfather's knack for adventure and foolhardy courage that kept his mother Gennaía concerned quite a lot.
His older brothers had other traits qnd were unique in their own ways. And so was he.
It so happened that once while playing with a few friends in the neighbourhood he called home, he saw a few wizards and witches taunting and teasing a squib girl. Thus far they had only been upsetting the poor child with words but soon as she started retorting with hurt and angry words of her own did they start hexing her.
Ignotus intervened. He returned the bullies' hexes with hexes of his own. Since it was one against many, Ignotus stumbled and a misplaced wand movement and a bout of accidental magic made him cast an irreparable Obliviate on one of the witches.
As she fell back with a scream, one of the boys ran towards her and kneeled by her in agony. He was of the Prince family as Ignotus heard at that time.
They were engaged. And she could not recognize him anymore. Fearing that he had lost the love of his life as she would no longer remember him, the Prince boy proceeded towards Ignotus menancingly, tears streaming from his eyes as he cast a dangerously modified version of the cutting curse on the boy.
Rage muddled his aim and he hit a sheep passing by near Ignotus. The sheep's blood splattered all over him.
Before the duel could start anew, the bullies started apparating away in hopes of saving their friend's nemories with a healer's help. With a look of anguish in his eyes so did Prince.
Ignotus got dizzy from the sight of all that blood and took a wrong turn down the forest instead of heading home.
The squib girl had already run off to fetch her saviors' parents.
Gennaía was the only one home at the time and she rushed to her son's location by the beaconing of a locator charm she had put on his wand.
She froze when she saw the sight at hand. Her boy was surrounded by wolves who were about to pounce on him. The smell of sheep's blood had frenzied them and brought them upon the boy. She screamed in fear and ran towards the pack of wolves casting hexes and banishing charms at them.
Ignotus now back in his senses started firing spells at them too.
Mother and son together managed to scare off most of them but two made their way to her. One bit her wand arm making her drop her weapon and the other mangled her neck with its paws, giving her a fatal wound, right before a cutting hex from Ignotus could kill it.
He had not fired sooner worrying he might hit his mother.
His father reached there just then with the other villagers to find his wife covered in blood and son in a simillar disposition.
He began loosing his footing but tried to stay calm as he carried her and asked the villagers to escort his son to a healer. Ignotus disagreed and grabbed his father's arm soon as he was about to apparate away with his mother.
They apparated to right outside Hogwarts grounds and ran as fast as they could to her father.
Peverell did not know how he had managed to side along apparate two people with him but he could not care at the moment as he ran with his son in tow. He would later credit the feat to his magic responding to his sense of emergency.
Her father along with the other founders were the most powerful wizards of the age and would know how to save her.
As he barged into the grounds all four founders met him on the way to the castle gates having been alerted by the Castle's wards of people entering in a state of urgency.
Helga and Rowena began patching up Gennaía and Godric tried to calm his son in law down. Salazaar did help too. He put blood stopping charms on the dying woman's neck to try and save her. Meanwhile he could see that Ignotus knew what happened from the look on his face. He used Legillimency on the boy and as soon as he found out what had happened he angrily said:
"May the men in wretched Prince family never be happy with true love" the deed was done. A curse was put on the Prince family line there and then.
The rest is how it happened. Rowena devised keeping her friend's daughter alive by attaching her soul to the Sorting hat. Not like a Horcrux. Not a part of it. But the entire soul.
It was grimly agreed upon and the deed was thus done.
END FLASHBACK
"Gennaía,.child please listen to me" said Godric to his daughter. Breaking her out of her thoughts.
She had been known as Hogwarts for so long that the very name sent her down memory lane.
"Yes father" she replied calmly
"Why would you endanger yourself by coming forth now of all times?" Godric asked while the other founders looked at her with genuine concern.
Even Salazar respected her for her sacrifice.
She smiled and replied boldly "Those I care about were dying, I have done a simillar deed before and will surely do so again. I only regret not coming to help sooner"
Surprise caught the faces of all those present besides her and she watched warnly as the spirit of her father started tearing up with joy.
No other point was to be made that day.
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How was ir? :)
I know the Peverells hence the Potters didnt descend from Godric but I tweaked that part a bit for the sake of the story. I also confirmed Ignotus' time to be the 1200s and Godric and other founders being mega powerful wizards would have survived to see and know him since wizards live to be quite a lot over a century. Dumbledore willingly died early (115 or 113 ish) because he would have been killed by the cursed stone eventually.
P.S: Gennaía Gynaíka is greek for "Brave Woman"
I hope you liked this chapter. I wanted to give it a nice backstory and this chapter was intended to achieve just that.
Photos for the faces I see some of these characters in are in a link on my profile.
I disclaim all rights to those photos and to HP stuff.
