AN:

Happy March!

Thanks to Bartholomeow for the advice. Sorry for consistency issues and what you thought was happening is definitely NOT what I wanted anyone to think, hope it was cleared up in chapter three. Also, Harry and Alyssa weren't paired at that point. Thanks again for the review!

CHAPTER 10:

Harry woke up, and for the first time, he was excited for Christmas. He went down the stairs and noticed that Alyssa had beaten him down there. She gave her bright smile that he had fallen in love with. For the first time in his life, He saw presents. Presents for him, and not the thirty-nine presents that Dudley had always gotten.

This wasn't entirely new to Alyssa, so she wasn't as affected. But Harry started crying with happiness and pulled Alyssa into a hug, and French kissing her until they were out of breath and broke apart gasping for air. "you know I've never gotten presents from anyone but you, right?" Alyssa nodded sadly. "but now you have a bunch of friends and loyal followers who remember and want to give you presents. Now, let's just open them already!"

Alyssa sat down on Harry's lap. First, he picked up the one from Daphne. It was a book from the Greengrass library about Dark Rituals to enhance strength. There were too many presents to count after that. He knew it was more than thirty-nine.

In the end, he got many books on Dark Magic, a flute from Fey, a book on Herbology from Neville, a book on Pureblood customs from Draco, and a book on magical history from Pansy, and many things that were from members of the Slytherin house that were clearly meant to gain his favor.

Finally, he took the present from Alyssa. "best for last, right?" Alyssa smiled sweetly. "just open it already!" Harry tore open the package. Inside was an ornate locket, with a picture of him on one side and on the other a picture of her. Harry teared up again. "Thank you, Alyssa" and after that, they spent a long time in each other's embrace. Alyssa had also gotten many presents, but not as many as Harry.

Harry had gotten her a beautiful crown that was white, but with red spots on it. It also had jewels encrusted in the tips. This had to be the day that Harry had seen Alyssa smile the most. She placed it on her head, and Harry thought she was more beautiful than ever.

The rest of the day passed in a blur. As soon as they knew it, it was already the end of the feast. Everyone had sat on one big round table. Anyone who had stayed at Hogwarts was there, including the teachers. They partied, joked, and laughed.

After the feast, Harry and Alyssa had met up with Lily. She had gotten leave to come up for Christmas to spend time with Harry.

"So, My Lord, why did you need me here?" Lily asked. "we overheard Snape and Quirrell talking about a stone hidden on the third-floor corridor. Apparently, Voldemort wants it badly enough to pose as Quirrell and steal it right under Dumbledore's nose. So, we thought that we would get it first. We decided that we could use your help with some of the obstacles. So, let's get going"

They walked back into the castle and up three flights of stairs. Then, they got to the corridor. They knew it was the right one as it was the only one with a locked door, but with a simple Alohamora, they were inside. Lily fumed. "If you are going to put something valuable inside a SCHOOL, then you at least put stronger locking charms on the door!"

They walked inside and heard a growling noise. They looked around in the darkness and jumped as they saw six glowing eyes. Harry took out a flute that Fey had given him and started playing. Without fail, the three headed dogs immediately fell asleep. Alyssa noticed a trap door right under where the dog's paw had been moments ago, so with Harry still playing, they crept to the door. Alyssa opened it, and Lily went down first.

"It's a soft landing! You can come down!" Alyssa jumped, and playing the flute until the last possible minute, jumped down. The dog started growling again as soon as the music stopped.

Harry felt the surface that he was standing on. It was soft and had a plant-like feel to it. Then, it started to wrap its arms around him and choking him. "relax your body! It's Devil's Snare! It's also afraid of light! INSENDIO!" Lily yelled, and the roots that had been covering Harry a second ago released him. He then dropped onto a hard dirt surface. He crouched down and yelled, "Lily! Alyssa!" they responded with "here, My Lord!" and "here, Harry!" Respectively. "let's continue walking!" Harry yelled, so they took a left and continued down the dirt passageway.

Next, they came across a large bronze door. They head a lot of wings beating inside. Another simple "Alohamora!" and the door opened. "too easy" Whispered Harry. They walked in, and walked to the other end of the room. There was another door, this one better locked. It was then that Harry noticed the brooms and the keys that were flapping their wings.

Instead of grabbing the brooms, Lily just said, "Accio small bronze key!" the key in question struggled all the way into Lily's waiting hand.

"Nice job, Lily" Harry said. "thank you, My Lord" Lily beamed at his praise. Harry was pleased at the effect his mere praise had on Lily.

They walked into the next room and saw a giant chess board. They were in a cavernous room, and the board covered the whole floor.

Harry walked up and asked the black king, "so we have to take the places of your pieces and beat the white pieces to cross?" the black king nodded. "this is stupid" Harry said. "lets just take the brooms and fly across" his mother and Alyssa nodded. They went back into the room of keys and took a broom each. They simply flew across to the other end.

The white king and queen turned around and looked angry and cheated, but they couldn't move off there squares. "BOMBARDA!" yelled Harry, and the door blasted open. The next room was empty except for a long table, and a roll of parchment posted on the wall.

The parchment read:

"Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onwards neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight."

"ah, Severus. You always were a man of logic. Most wizards and witches don't have an ounce of logic, but if you do, the riddle is simple. The one on the far right takes you back, and the one in the middle lets you go forward. It looks like there is only enough for two people to go forward, so if it is acceptable for you, My Lord, I could go back and meet you outside?" Harry nodded. Alyssa took the first gulp, and Harry took the second. Together they walked through the flames and into a room that smelled terrible.

It was nothing that Harry hadn't smelled before, though. It was a troll. Harry did the same thing he did with the last one, and made the club smash into the troll's head, at least knocking it out. Harry didn't bother to see weather or not it was alive.

They continued forward onto the last obstacle, Dumbledore's. it was an empty room, except for a mirror. the mirror was engraved with the words, 'erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi' Harry investigated it.

He looked deep and hard, until he saw him and Alyssa arm in arm standing over the ruins of what looked like a government building. Harry was giving a speech to a crowd of a million people. He noticed that Harry and Alyssa had matching wedding rings, and he blushed at this.

Then, he saw Alyssa take a red stone out of her pocket and put it in Harry's. At the same moment, Harry felt the weight of a stone plop into his own pocket. He took out whatever was inside, and when he pulled it out, he saw a glowing red stone.

"It's the sorcerer's stone!" Alyssa exclaimed. "the what?" Harry asked, confused. Alyssa said excitedly, "I read about it in a book. Apparently, it can turn anything into pure gold and creates the Elixir of Life, which when drunk, makes the drinker IMMORTAL!" Harry smiled. No wonder Voldemort wanted it so badly.

'This was way too easy' thought Harry. They had gotten the most powerful stone in existence without dropping a sweat. They started to walk back out of the forbidden corridor. Now they needed someone to frame it on. He had just the person in mind.

Harry and Alyssa walked together into Quirrell's tutoring session. They saw him, and quickly cast two stunners. Then they dragged him to the third-floor corridor. There will be one very happy Cerberus tonight, thought Harry.

As Quirrell was being eaten, Harry and Alyssa were already far away from the scene of the crime, but a shade of a head soared out of Quirrell's head and flew out of Hogwarts.

A couple of days later, Severus Snape went to check on the stone. When he found the mirror empty, he rushed back to tell Dumbledore and then Voldemort, as it was probably him who did it.

"HEDMASTER!" he yelled, sprinting into Dumbledore's office. "the stone is gone!" Dumbledore looked at him in shock for a second. "what do you mean, 'gone'?" "I mean gone, gone! The stone is no longer in the mirror!" Dumbledore stood up quickly and rushed to see for himself. Sure enough, the stone was gone. "what have I done?! Now Voldemort has the stone, and Quirrell is surely miles away from here"

"well, the only thing we can do now is hire a new Defense Professor. Good thing Lily Potter already applied; we'll have the contract ready for her by the start of the new term. I'll ask McGonagall to owl her and tell her that her offer has been accepted. Severus, are you OK?" Snape had started furiously blushing.

Snape stuttered. "yes headmaster, of course. Will her family be coming as well?" Dumbledore replied, "that's up to her" Snape palled.

SLYTHERIN DORM

Alyssa and Harry sat on Harry's bed. They were going to test out weather or not this thing worked.

Harry took the stone and touched a small pin with it. Sure enough, it turned into gold! They had done it! Now Harry had a failsafe way to fund his empire. Their next task was to figure out how to create the elixir. They probably wouldn't start until they had reached a ripe age, but Harry did want to keep his mother at this age, and not have her become old.

They were waiting in Hogsmeade for the Hogwarts Express to arrive and drop off their friends.

As the train screeched to a halt, students started flowing out. Harry caught sight of their friends and waved them over. "Hello, My Lord and Lady! How are you doing today?" Asked Daphne, overjoyed to see them. "did you get my present, My Lord?" "yes, I did, Daphne. It was exactly what I wanted. How many strings did you have to pull to get that book?" "oh, not many" Daphne giggled. "only had to tell them that it was for a lord and they said yes immediately" "well nevertheless, thank you, all of you for your gifts" They all smiled. Harry and Alyssa walked arm in arm with their crew back to the castle.

AN: sorry for the shorter chapter. Didn't seem like there was much more to fit in.

Still in need of a beta!

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