The Return Of The Marauders Part I: Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone
Warnings: From here on and forward, Harry's title for Sirius changes, as he becomes his father, as the years they spent together now change things now. As he and Harry start acting like father and son, as year 5 changes things further as he's now acting like a real father here. To him as he and Harry developed a bond that would take his place with James as the years go by now.
Disclaimers: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner brothers.
Chapter 32: Talks, Start Of Term Notices And Gryffindor III
"Students, we will be there soon, so time to change into your robes, repeat, we will be there within the hour so time to change clothes." we heard over the intercom and we all nodded as the girls transfigured a screen between us and them so they could change, before the screen went down. Before we did the same then, and changed into our robes then as we arrived 45 minutes later and arrived at the train station in range of the school then.
As the older students opened the doors up for us, I heard Hagrid call out to us. "First years, come forward, come on first years don't be shy." he called out and we all assembled around him. "Hello Harry, Ron, Hermione." he said smiling and we smiled back at him. "Hiya Hagrid." we, Draco and Neville said together. "Alright all first years follow me, this way to the boats now." he said and we followed him as the 5 of us had a boat to ourselves as we got our first perfect view.
Then of the school, as we settled back then as he lead us into the entrance hall of the school then gently, before I looked up and saw Minerva then gently as she waited for us and we assembled in front of her gently. "Welcome to Hogwarts, now in a few minutes you will walk through these doors, and join your classmates. But before you do, you must be sorted into your houses, they are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin." she said and I saw it then.
That all the Slytherin boys were exchanging knowing smiles and I hid a shake of my head then. "Now while you are here, your house will be like your family, your triumphs will award you points, any rule breaking and you will lose points, wait here." she said and we nodded. "So it's true then, what they are saying on the train, Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts." I heard and turned to see the face of an arrogant boy, I knew in Hufflepuff, as he went further then gently.
"This is Justin and Ernie, and I'm Zacharias Smith." he said and Ron hid a chuckle and he looked at him then. "Think my name is funny do you, no need to ask your's: red hair, and a hand me down robe, you must be a Weasley." he said and I looked at him sternly then to that. "You will soon find out that some wizarding families are better then others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort." he said and looked at Ron, as he finished his remark then.
"I can help you there." he said and I looked at his hand and then crossed my arms as I said it sternly. "For the record if I thought some Slytherins were beyond arrogant, I just had my thoughts changing course here, as you're as bad as they are, Zach." I said and Draco hid a laugh at that remark. "Don't call me that, my name is Zacharias." he said and I smirked at that. "Well my name is Harold, but I prefer Harry." I said sternly and he looked at me then in disgust.
"Never considered that a Malfoy and a Potter could be friends?" I asked and he paled at that remark. "Well here we are actually, Draco's my best friend, my other is Ron Weasley, but we're brothers, and we're the best of friends, but before you start acting like a hotshot, and try now. To tease Neville, I suggest you watch it, you're only thinning any chance you have of gaining my respect, if you wanted it." I said and he swallowed hard as I looked at my friends then.
"Best tell him and the other hotshots who you really are, and how we got in so easily, since we got in on scholarship here." Mione said to me and I nodded. "Excuse me?" Zach repeated and I nodded. "Another thing in my world we do all the time, for students like yourselves, mummy and daddy gave you everything. Well the Order Of The Phoenix created an account to allow the muggle-borns and raised to get through school for free." I said and they all paled.
As I said it. "Hogwarts, who owns this castle, the family descension, my lady, our bond is enough to say it all, and long before we have said rumors now. In getting so far out of hand, I got to risk death to prove my innocence, to the ministry and the parents. Of our possible targets if the Chamber is opened now and who in descendants knows where Green Master's office is?" I asked and we heard a booming tone come off the castle in response to that question finally.
"The current owners of me, Master, are the Potter family, I belong to you now." it said and he paled at that news. "Who created you, as Hogwarts?" I asked and she said it gently. "I was created and owned by red and gold master, he is the true owner of me. And he passed me in name down in centuries, now, to your paternal family, Master. But you are the heir of red master by blood, and green by conquest, in truth here now."
"But green master's heir, his biological heir has contaminated the artifacts of the gold and blue's mistresses, and green master's locket. That is in your possession, to free me of these dangerous afflictions, time to take up. Now, your birthrite and claim me in your name now finally, Master." she said and I nodded as I smiled sternly at that. "You're the heir of Gryffindor?!" he said in shock and I nodded to him sternly as I answered him.
"I am, but I'm not as arrogant and naive as you may think, for the last 4 months since May, I have been living in our world and been in training here now. I know my way around the school, I know what the true grouping families are, but it's clear you got the same level of bigotry that the Death Eater spawn do. So as to that, I am only saying this once, but you insult me and my friends, you insult 3/4's of us, who don't believe in that tripe." I said and he swallowed hard.
"Zacharias, we're not doing this now, and start a fight, and you're getting kicked out long before the year even starts, but the castle belongs to me now. So with those words now, I will not tolerate bullying based on houses and money, after that little slight, is that clear." I said and he paled as he realized it, as he realized he insulted my in-laws, he insulted me. "Those Weasleys, as you call them are my in-laws, you arrogant fool." I said sternly and he went white then.
"You wonder why he's dressed in those robes right now?" Draco asked and he swallowed hard. "Finite incantatem!" Mione said and his clothes changed to a brand new robe and he paled at that remark shaking. "Helping out the family a bit, I gave the duo, and his brothers, all £100,000,000, as Percy was faking it his parents now have enough to be like you and every other bigoted pure-blood, but here's a key point, it's not about money or houses, but values now."
"Draco changed and he's my best friend, but this now." I said and he finished that remark. "It's to test said stigma, but times change, but you're as bad as I was, before I changed, Ron and Harry are my trio, and our quintet is us, Neville Longbottom and Mione Granger." he said and he swallowed hard. "New clothes, new life, a chance at happiness, the Weasleys are my in-laws, I'm engaged to his sister in truth." I said and he swallowed hard a second time then.
"Aside from being the head of Gryffindor, she's also the vice headmaster, Zach." I said sternly and he swallowed hard at that. "But she, Professor Snape, Professors Flitwick and Sprout, they do not tolerate the type of bullying you're trying to demonstrate right now. And with that, why am I friends with your trio, Draco, Millie Bulstrode, Tracy Davis and Daphne, well it's because in order to stop said stigma, it's changing the past." I said and he swallowed hard at that.
"How could I possibly know what's going their heads, I spent all summer training for a mission here, that involves Riddle himself in truth right now here. But in truth, Severus Snape is the best friend of our parents, sure he's tough but then he needs to be, to get us firsties to think." I said and I knew he was hiding a smile at the remark. "So think about it, really think hard, why would he be testing us on the first day in his class and his opening remarks to me now."
"Just what is he trying to say here?" he asked and he paled at that. "Well what he's saying is, with my father's best friend working here, we need to consider we got a more dangerous wolf running loose. And the herb meant to repel them happens to be the same plant as two others, or where would you look if he wanted you to find a bezoar?" I asked and I knew they were hearing the telling off through Mione then and I knew he was hiding a chuckle at the remark.
"And what are the main ingredients of the Draught of living death?" I asked and he paled and Ron hid a laugh. "Yeah there you see, you're never going to survive in class without repeated explosions, but your arrogance could get you killed, if we were normal, this is chemistry class. You need to pay attention or someone's going to get hurt." I said and he swallowed hard at that remark then as I could tell he was beyond irritated at the reprimand then as I went on.
"Werewolf?" he said and I nodded. "Yeah that's right said is the very wolf that turned him: Fenrir Greyback." I said and he paled. "You know how savage he is, but my uncle is a very kind and caring wolf, I just got him a life-time supply of his medicine and enough so he can work. And be safe every month now, but he's teaching History of Magic, she's got his class, once he's in charge in third year of Defense, which is where it gets more dangerous right now, in truth."
"But to me, the duo were my uncles, that's him and Sirius Black and don't say it, as the truth was in reverse all this time Zach, Pettigrew proved in truth here. He's capable of murder at the age of 15, so you insult my family, you insult me, is that clear." I said and he nodded swallowed hard at that. "But the little rat cost me 10 years with my godfather and uncle, he escapes I'm taking it out of him right now, but I had the truth in reverse, but really now here in truth."
"You got a family, you were never orphaned, who are you to talk about finding true friends, when you're as arrogant as the Death Eater Spawn?" I asked and he swallowed hard. "You really don't get it do you, who did you first think was the murderer that killed my parents. And the other 12 muggles with them?" I asked and he swallowed hard. "Sirius Black." he said and I crossed my arms and the girls all took a step back at that remark as I said it to him then sternly.
"And you never once considered it could be in reverse, that Peter Pettigrew could be the traitor and killed my family and these people?" I asked and he shook his head. "So tell me, are you going to keep calling him Black, or call him by his salutation, as a member. And of MLE and member of the Wizengamot?" I asked and he swallowed hard at that, and I nodded. "So to you, he's nothing but a back stabbing murderer, that it?" I asked and he broke out in a sweat at that.
"Were you aware that my mother was pregnant, when Riddle attacked us?" I said slowly and he started shaking in fear. "If I grew up normal, like you, not only do I have my real parents, but my sister is the same age as the Weasley boys sister, her best friend. And our new muggleborns, but no, my entire family is dead, because of a bloody prophecy. And a traitor, said traitor was a friend, and with said traitor is our current headmaster." I said and he started shaking at that.
"But Pettigrew..." he started to say and I snapped it off. "If he was innocent, you think anyone would want to spend twelve years as a common garden rat. In animagus form, because I sure as hades wouldn't right now, I would just get the hades out of this country. And then change back, no one the wiser, but the fact he stayed a rat all this time. Is that the act of an innocent man or a criminal?" Neville said sternly and he went as white as a ghost then shaking in fear.
"You one of the headmasters brain dead drones?" I asked sternly and he swallowed hard then and I nodded. "Then forget it, I don't care what you have to offer, if not Riddle and his offering my friends lives in change for my powers. Or the headmaster, ex headmaster, trying to blackmail me, by you trying to pretend my father's record is flawed, not listening. And you can send that back to him, and yeah I know you're listening to this, Dumbledore." I said and felt a flinch then.
Through Severus and Justin and Dean smiled sternly at the stern look on my face then as I said it sternly. "Because I am getting sick and tired of being manipulated, he wrecked my life for a prophecy, Peter further destroyed my life. He didn't care about the hundreds of lives he was destroying, all he cared about was his own hide, his own hide. His own ratty hide mattered more to him then my family and the hundreds of lives he destroyed." I said and he started shaking.
"But he…" he started to say and I lost my temper. "I don't want to hear it, Smith, he killed my parents, he's the reason they are dead." I snarled and he swallowed hard at that. 'Yeah cub is furious here right now.' I heard in response to that thought. 'He's hated Peter ever since the truth came out, but he's not stopping till he makes sure we all make it out alive in the fight, you and Dora never got together yet.' I heard in a gentle response then gently.
'Yeah cub take it easy, we get the point, you're not tolerating the bullying and I'm not the wolf that needs repelling right now.' we heard mentally in response and she closed her eyes as she tried to keep from laughing at his remark. 'Baby we got the point, and you're right, but you keep it up you're going to blow a window here, calm down baby.' I heard from Andy gently at that thought then as I looked at him then sternly as I said it sternly.
"I'm not a just returned first year wizard, I came back 4 months ago, and I've changed." I said sternly and said it with a stern growl. "Before you even try to start annoying us, I'm making this perfectly clear, I'm not interested in a repeater of what would have happened between me and Draco now. If he and I never had a chance to talk beforehand, but we, Justin, Michael, Susan, Ernie and others of our class, we gave it a shot, and we're the best of friends now here."
"I can just picture said next remark, but Justin and Ernie are already friends of mine, but why should I consider being friends with you, as you're ignorant. Rude and hot tempered, and for the record, before you can say the next remark, I can tell the wrong sort for myself thank you, but watch the attitude. She sees a fight break out, she will not take it well you're trying to make waves on the first day of school, but if you're not paying attention here right now."
"You won't survive this, but Professors Snape is mind reader and secondly, Mione left the door open, they, the entire faculty, heard the entire conversation. And through her to know who instigated this confrontation right now, so start with me. Or start picking on my friends, and they aren't going to like it." I said and heard a bemused tone answer that. "Is there a problem here students?" we heard sternly and Zach slowly straightened at that as he saw Minerva then.
"And speak of the devil." Ron said and she hid a chuckle at that as I saw the Professor right behind her then. "Just staying for another week, as this week is his ro-test in taking my place right now, but I'm warning you, if I have to keep breaking up these arguments, you're trying our patience." Professor Kettleburn said sternly and he quickly nodded shaking at that. "I take it the door was left open?" I asked and they both nodded to me, with Severus looking back at us then.
"Hey Professor." I said to the man right behind her gently and he smiled. "Just helping Hagrid with his first lesson, I'm watching things in his class till I retired, but I leave in two years after you hit 3rd year." he said to me. "Well it's been great." I said and Kettleburn smiled gently at that remark. "They were standing behind you all this time, as they listened to me saying this Zach, you're playing with fire here." I said and he crossed his arms as she said it firmly at that.
As Remus arrived then and spoke into her ear and she nodded, and I knew he was telling her about our conversation on the train then and he left. 'Yeah order business in the adult order just took on an entirely whole new meaning right now.' I thought as I watched him leave and headed for the teacher's entrance into the great hall. "So one vocal near physical and now we get another, and in two attempts my star pupil has to deflect?" she said and the quintet swallowed.
"Like I said Zach, you're playing with a fire, and you're going to get burned, but do you know what out of the frying pan and into the fire means?" I asked and he paled and we nodded. "What it means is your situation is bad and keeps getting worse, but you throw that punch, you're being expelled from this school. And before the year even starts, so tread carefully here right now." I said and they nodded in stern agreement as she said it for both of them at that.
"Indeed and I thank you for heading off said fight, Mr. Potter." she said as she tapped on his shoulder and he shot me an irritated look, as she watched him sternly at that as she turned to us then gently. "We are ready for you now, follow me." she said and we followed her through the door, and the start of term music went through me, as I heard her, Justin and Dean humming it and I tried to keep from laughing, as I look directly at Madam Marchbanks, who smiled at me.
"Hey guys look, Madam Marchbanks took the position of staying here for the year." I said softly and the ten turned and faced the table and smiled. "Nice, he can't get away with anything anymore now that you exposed the truth to us." Susan said smiling and I nodded. "Grandma's here to, looks like Grandma is playing headmistress, and Professor McGonagall's still it. Her position, so two years playing hero, then a quiet year." Neville said and I nodded in agreement.
"Anyone else feel that though going to different elementary schools, we're acting like we grew up together?" I asked and they nodded smiling. "And that fact is becoming more apparent by the minute right now as we all share one thing in common with each other. And said is we're all muggle born or raised and to us, we can still be ourselves with each other right now." Sally said to me smiling and Mione chuckled at that remark as Justin nudged her in the back with a smile.
"Whoa, check out the ceiling, it looks like there is no roof." I heard as she said it to one of the other members. "Makes a good way to stargaze or act like we're camping huh?" I asked and they nodded with a chuckle and she smiled. "How about spending the night in here when we got Pettigrew back on the loose, and we can stargaze, till we doze off here boys." she said and Draco, Ron, Neville and I nodded smiling as she said it to the Muggle-born that said that gently.
"It's not real the ceiling, it's just bewitched, to look like the night sky." she said and I nodded. "I read about it in Hogwarts, A History." we said together and the others tried to keep from laughing as she nudged me in the back then. "Wise guy, just wait and I'm going to give it to you later for that, brother." she said to me softly and I saw a slight smile, as I knew our teachers were considering us as twins, and she was getting playful with me, as the quintet hid a laugh.
"Hey, you're practically my twin, what do you expect, I can get away with teasing you, without fear of repercussions." I said to her and she smiled. "Yes, but keep it up and I will take the pillow to you, if you over do it, and guys start a pillow fight. And I will, now cool it, if there's a case of game exchanges, in the dormitory, so don't push it, boys." she said and we nodded as our counterparts tried to keep from laughing as our teachers nodded with an amused smile.
"If I didn't know any better I'd see you two as twins, that's fraternal twins." Susan said laughing and I nodded. "Yeah and it's a good thing too right now, so we don't have further problems, if I found her sooner, right now, it's our parents raised us together. And the ending results are they know we're like our fictional counterparts in said muggle preteen action show." I said and she nodded. "And take it easy on me 'Fire." I said to her and she smiled at the nickname then.
"Will you wait along here, please?" she said and we carefully put ourselves into position then, before she said it gently "Now, before we begin, Headmistress Longbottom would like to say a few words." she said and we nodded as Madam Longbottom stood up gently, as I locked gazes with Severus and he nodded, as I nudged Mione and Ron. And as I saw Quirrell with his back turned to me and they and Neville all nodded as she gave her speech gently at this reaction.
"I have a few start of term notices I wish to announce, first off, the Dark Forest is off limits to all students, also, our care-taker, Mr. Filch." she said, pointing to the care-taker who had his cat standing in front of him. "Has asked me to remind that the third floor corridor on the right hand side is off limits to all of those who do not wish to die a painful death." she said and we nodded. 'Haphazard, how arrogant do these children think we are.' I saw in Severus's eyes.
'Tell me about it right now, we've done it so often, that we know what the hades is behind that door.' I thought back to him in response and he hid a nod. 'I know, but be careful, remember, two instances of close calls then we can all relax. The rest of the semester, but we want to enjoy this first semester.' he thought to me and I nodded to him. 'Hey Uncle Severus.' she, Draco and I thought together, and he hid a smile at the title then gently.
'Hello cubs, see you in class tomorrow.' he thought back to us, as she said it. "The Sorting ceremony shall begin now." Minerva said and we nodded as the hat started talking to us as he sang it. "Oh you may not think I'm pretty, but don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you can find, a smarter hat than me. You can keep your bowlers black, your top hats sleek and tall, for I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat and I can cap them all."
"There's nothing hidden in your head, the Sorting Hat can't see, so try me on and I will tell you, where you ought to be: You might belong in Gryffindor. In where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve, and chivalry, set Gryffindors apart, You might belong in Hufflepuff. Where they are just and loyal, those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil, or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind."
"Where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind, or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends, those cunning folks. Use any means, to achieve their ends, so put me on! Don't be afraid, and don't get in a flap!, you're in safe hands (though I have none). For I'm a Thinking Cap!" he sang out and the rest of the school started clapping as we relaxed smiling, as the 5 of us wanted to stay together now.
'Eat himself, that's going to be difficult.' I thought and Severus had a smile on his face and I knew heard that. 'I'll say, he's going to turn himself inside out if he does that right now.' Draco thought and I tried to keep from laughing. 'Get it together you wiseacre, come on you guys.' Mione said with a tone of laughter in her mental voice at that. 'Alright boys, baby settle down, focus, come on now.' Severus said to us with a gentle smile at that.
"Now, when I call your name, you will come forth, I shall place the Sorting Hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses. Hermione Granger!" she called out and I squeezed her hand and she smiled as she moved forward and took a seat then, as she waited. "Right, yes right, okay, Gryffindor!" he called out and she moved to our table. "Draco Malfoy." she called out and he took a seat and he said it gently at that in response then at that in response.
"Yes, want to be with real friends, but show you're as strong as you used to be, yes okay, Gryffindor!" he called out and Draco smiled in delight as he moved to our table and Mione hugged him and he hugged her tightly as we smiled in relief at that. "Susan Bones." she called out and she went next. "Let's see here, right, yes right, I know.., Hufflepuff." he called out and she got up and moved to their table with a smile, as we had 3 others and then Ron.
"Didn't you say there was the possibility of us getting a change in our houses, as the girls both went to the originals?" Tracy asked me and I nodded. "Yeah you can change the sorting if you really want to, I did in that version, before I remembered. And in what he said, after everyone considered I was Slytherin's heir now. But remember though I speak Parsel-tongue, doesn't mean anything, there are some decent wizards here that use it against the real Heir right now in truth."
"But since Draco and I gave it a second chance, he chose friendship over power and it put him in Gryffindor now, so Mione is the bravest, cleverest Lion. Now there is, and she's also like my mother, and Susan's loyalty to me and our friendship made her a perfect applicant for her house still, you want to switch. Now is a good time to show him your true feelings and he will take your feelings into consideration make changes accordlingly." I said and she and Daphne nodded then.
"Zach screwed up his real chances, and he's about to pay the price, as it puts him in his real house, the three of us are close friends, and you're brave. So you want to shed said skin of what you really wants before it kills you out of power lust, choose differently here, so Mione, Ron and me, Neville now. We all make Gryffindor, Justin, Ernie, Zach, Susan, Leanne Runcorn, Megan Jones and Hannah made Hufflepuff." I said as I went further as I named it off to them gently.
"Trevor Boot, Michael Corner, Kevin Entwhistle, Stephen Cornfoot, Anthony Goldstein, Morag MacDougal, Padma Patil, Lisa Turpin, Mandy Brocklehurst. And Su Li, they all made Ravenclaw and as for the Slytherins in our year now, they were all, aside from Draco, who switched sides and joined us now. And with them were Daphne and Millie, but Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson and you girls, but Slytherin's real girl snakes."
"They're all still suffering that bigotry of the old ways, you're an order member, so choose differently, and we could consider this a chance to change here. As make changes accordingly, others stay the same right now, so show him your true feelings you want to change and want to be free of the old ways. He capitulates to your request and puts you in a new house matched to whatever you're feeling over what he finds in your minds." I said and they nodded to me.
"I'd like to know here in how Gryffindor thought that up, if it takes your feelings into consideration here right now, to what he finds in our heads, but there it is. It's an invasion of privacy here, because this could be considered mind rape." Millie said to me and I nodded. "Tell me about it right now, but did he ever consider needing a bath before." I said and she chuckled and nodded as we ended the conversation as I saw the bemused smile on the hat at that remark.
"Certain areas are changed, others do not Mr. Potter, but indeed you are correct, there are attributes I take into consideration and pairing it next to now. In truth of the attitude I hear, and I hear the anger still, but Slytherins Death Eaters are not the only dangerous ones here, as you learned here now. In the last four months since you returned to our world, as Peter Pettigrew, would he stick to his house or turn on his friends for power, point proven, he is a murderer."
"Bartemis Crouch junior was born to a pure-blood family who are all about loyalty and he shows his true colors at the age of 21, so keep those in mind now. As there are some good Slytherin families in the bunch, as friendship overcomes power at times." he said and the rest of the first years nodded to the lesson. "And that is a very wise observation here now in truth, but you are correct on every count." Madam Longbottom said sternly and I nodded as I crossed my arms.
"Were you listening to the conversation through the door?" Ron said for me and they nodded. "Yes and we're not surprised he's not letting it go with Peter Pettigrew, as that proves it, and like Sirius would say for all of us, a true friend would risk death to save a friend or loved one. The fact he cost the lives of a few hundred people to save his own hide says he's willing to sacrifice the lives of others for power." Remus said to that and I looked into his eyes gently then.
"You're my father wolf, you know I would go against the whole to keep from losing all of you anyway, I would never stop till I was sure we all make it out alive." I said and he nodded. "We do and he's turned said flame on himself, but if this is you now, what's going to happen five years down the line now." Andy said to that and I nodded. "We can wait to find out, but let's finish up." I said and she nodded as we resumed it then as we ended the conversation at that.
"Well another Weasley, I know just what to do with you..., Gryffindor!" he shouted out and Ron smiled as he moved to them and she smiled as she hugged him and he smiled as he pressed his forehead to her's gently as we waited for the blow back on this, 'Well that's 4 of us right now, and I'm next followed by Neville.' I thought gently as she said it then. "Zacharias Smith!" she called out then and he moved forward and sat down as he said it firmly then.
"Yes, cunning, willing to use any means to achieve ends and wanting to find real friends, slight arrogance, right, yes right, okay, Slytherin!" he shouted out and he looked up in shock and we knew he was about to start arguing as his robes acquired the green trim some of the arrogant young wizards hated. "I was born of a long line of Hufflepuffs, I should go there." he said and he said it. "Times change, young man." he said sternly and she nodded.
"Times change in where this is no longer about being Pure-blood, Half-blood, or Muggle-born, the bigotry was abolished in this castle. And from the second that Gryffindor created me to choose for them now, but your attitude says the direction you take in your life now. And where it leads, but as the owner of this castle has said, you carry the arrogance of a true Slytherin, so I put you there, now my decision is final."
"Your attitude has changed you into this, simply because you're one of the 28 families of true Pure-bloods in our world, so there-fore now. In truth, you pride yourself on being a pure-blood, and only true pure-bloods know the direction that arrogance leads, and for a Half-blood. There is only one fate if you don't change your behavior, and now, and that road leads right to Azkaban." he said sternly and Severus nodded sternly.
"Did you do this Potter?!" Zach shouted out at me in shock and I shoved Daphne, Tracy and Millie right behind me quickly at that and Severus nodded. "Harry, don't, don't try it, to protect us is fine, but get into a fight physically you're going to be expelled here, don't say it." Daphne said into my ear and I nodded. "I call that desperate he wants to change things back, but there is no chance of, the hat made it's decision, we go to Gryffindor, he goes to Slytherin now."
"There is no use arguing over houses, and where that leads to, as Dora went to Hufflepuff, and while Draco goes to Gryffindor as well now." Tracy said to me softly. "Where do you girls want to go?" I asked her softly and she said it to me. "We want to be with you, Draco and the others, you're more our friends then Pansy ever was, we want real friends and be seen for us, not a group of stuck up rich wizarding children." she said to me and I nodded gently to that news.
As she pressed her forehead to mine, and I knew the faculty smiled softly at that response. "Sister." I said and she smiled. "Brother." she said in response. "You girls look up to Dora and me?" Andy asked and the trio all nodded. "We do Professor, we wanted to be seen as more then being pure-bloods, make real friends, be seen for us, and not our familial backgrounds, besides we are order members, best join our friends." Tracy said and she nodded to her then.
"And attack me, or the girls, and you're expelled Zach, make a move you seal your fate." I said sternly as Tracy and Daphne gripped my upper arms. "Indeed, Harry Potter doesn't have control of that hat, that hat is sentient, and he has made his decision, but the days in where being pure-bloods are at an end. The Pure-blood family bigotry is coming to an end, now the decision is final, to your house, boy!" Ted said sternly and Severus nodded in stern agreement then.
"Indeed times change, at times, before you become gold again, you must endure the pain of being in over your head in water, now move to the table, Mr. Smith." Severus said sternly and he looked down and did as he was told then. "Harry Potter!" she called out and I moved forward then. "Hmm, difficult, very difficult, plenty of courage I see, not a bad mind either, there's talent as well, and a gentle thirst to prove you are not how everyone sees."
"But where to put you..." he said and I said it. 'I wish to remain with my friends, my brothers and sisters, I want to be with my friends.' I thought gently and he said it. "Not Slytherin huh, are you sure, you could be great you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on your way to greatness, there is no doubt about that." he said and I said it gently as I answered him then gently at that remark then as I said it to him.
'I have the powers yes, I know how powerful my predecessor was and is, but loyalty to my family, wisdom and true bravery are what I am. The cunning, loyalty, bravery and wisdom are mastered only from within, I know that. I love my family even more then power, I wish to remain with them. My family in my extended family and in-laws are where I want to be, I wish to remain with them.' I thought and that did it with him.
And as he answered me. "No, well if you're sure, better be..., Gryffindor!" he shouted out and I smiled in relief and delight as I moved to my friends and they hugged me tightly as I sat down and looked at my mentors then who were all smiling at me then gently as Dumbledore lifted his goblet then and I smiled at him then firmly. "Well, another born of the family house, plenty of courage, trustworthy and caring, cunning and not a bad mind either, like your counterpart."
"So where to put you?" he asked and I knew he thought what I was thinking as I heard the same question twice then. "Are you sure, you could be great you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on to greatness, there is no doubt about that." he said and I knew he made his choice."No, well if you're sure, better be..., Gryffindor!" he shouted out and I smiled in relief and delight, as the four of us exchanged smile of happiness.
"Mione, Harry, I need a list of you and your peers in your class right now, so we know who's who here." Oliver said and I nodded. "Idea." I said and she and Ron nodded, as I thought it over. "We use our counterparts, Daniel, Emma and Rupert, as a way to do photos, so from now to Charlie's age." I said and she nodded to that. "So first names and then our photos next to them, we carry these with us at all times." she said in response and I nodded in agreement.
"These are what we call in the muggle world as Student Identification Cards, we use these when living in a boarding school like this, so we don't have it now. We can't leave the school, like no permission slip to go to Hogsmeade, no visiting the village." I said and he and Ron nodded to the remark. "Issues in the en loco parentis." Sarah said as she was sitting on my left and I nodded. "Exactly." Mione said to her and I nodded in agreement as I called out to the teachers.
"Sir, Professors, I got another idea that can prevent anymore doppelgangers from breaking into the opposite dorms here." I asked and they nodded then. "With this being our last year in the 40 of us, we need to know who's who in your class, to head off said fights. With us in charge when the duo are not in the dormitory, but keep it under control." Charlie said and Dora, her Ravenclaw counterpart and Slytherin 8th year Adrian Madison nodded in agreement
"But as you saw our doubles, you know what we look like at our current age, so our I.D.'s have our picture aging with each year now, and said lead to here. In truth another big problem that resulted in Percy getting in trouble, before he revealed he's a ministry plant. As he didn't even know who we were pretending to be." I said and Minerva nodded. "What's your position in the school?" Draco asked and he smiled. "We're school counselors." Dora said to him then gently.
"Like summer camp, us 10 to 15, we're campers, then from 17 to 20, they're counselors, they're in charge of said cabin, or in this case dormitory. Charlie and Christina are our dorm counselors, so when the R.A.'s or Professor McGonagall are not around they're in charge." I said and they nodded gently. "You guys need to control your impulses now, but let's keep this year under control, before things get more hectic shall we." Dora said from her position behind me then.
"So we got another way to be acting like a muggle boarding school to protect you cubs now?" Cunningham asked me and I nodded to her. "Like you gave the order, no permission slip, no visiting the village well this got added on to it, so you don't have your I.D., you're not leaving campus. And without an adult, adult supervision here, as when on school hours, you're responsible for us here right now." I said and she and Minerva nodded to the idea, Severus smiled then.
"Yeah I think he took being a cub auror too far here, Minerva." Kingsley said to Minerva said and she hid a chuckle and nodded. "Indeed and this is very wise idea to protect your peers right now." Madam Longbottom said and Minerva nodded in agreement. "This also covers a case of something a certain someone forgot, he's 16, but to you..." I said and they all nodded. "Though a prefect, he's still a student, a child still." she said and Percy nodded, with humility then gently.
"Just because you wear these patches, doesn't mean anything, you're still a student, and our responsibility, do I make myself perfectly clear?" Severus said sternly and Percy nodded, shaking in pretend fear at that. "Now I may have changed, but that doesn't mean I don't take safety precautions certainly in class, I am still your Potions Master, clear?" he asked and the eldest four age groups nodded gently. "Nice touch Uncle Sev." I called out and he smiled gently at me.
"Uncle?" we heard from 50 voices all over the room and he nodded. "I'm the best friend of his mother and Ms. Granger's father." he said and they nodded in shock to that news. "Well we never saw that coming in why he's acting like a son with his father's best friend or just his mentor." Roger Davies said to him and he nodded. "It's the maternal side actually, Mr. Davies." he said and he nodded. "As for Jim, we buried the hatchet now." he said and they all nodded smiling.
"Well the first year list is meant to help out the Prefects and Headboy and Girl." I said and the faculty all nodded. "While we know you and your name immediately right now, and that's very wise thinking so we don't have a repeater of another attempted breaking into the dorm. Or getting caught outside when you never got your permission slip signed right now, and the cloak is a stand by only here." Minerva said to me and I nodded as the team smiled gently then.
"Well this was my idea to get names Professor, so I can manage this in my dorm, but the cubs are my responsibility here." Oliver said to her and she nodded. "Nice thinking Oliver, that really works well in preventing a break in or whatever, and this works as it's going all over houses here." Remus said to him and he nodded. "Well just remember prefect over captain here." she added and he nodded. "I know Professor, Harry's my responsibility." he said and she nodded then.
"Harry, Mione after you're done with that, we need that at the other tables, but first you, then us and then Claire and Luke at Ravenclaw." Jack Hatchison said and I nodded to the request. "Does this remind you of anything?" Mione asked and I nodded. "Yeah it does, and it's making sure we got everyone, such as Maggie and Kathy, let alone Whoopi, making sure they got everyone in the choir here." Sarah said smiling and I nodded as I looked between the girls then.
"Anyone expecting our summer tour conversation to land back on this table?" I asked and they nodded. "Which one?" Katie said and I looked at her bemused and Pomona hid a laugh at that remark. "Alright don't press your luck and keep it up and I'm going to let you have it." I said and Oliver chuckled at that. "Cubs you want to go at it do it in the dorms, but not right now." Minerva said to us and we nodded as everyone started laughing at that remark then gently at that.
"We're cubs, rather then snakes." Draco said and I nodded. "Yeah we're lions and us lions are a pride." Oliver said and he nodded smiling. "Whoever starts the who started it this time debate is asking for a pillow to the head later right now." Sarah Baker said and we nodded. "And to answer your question here on which one, it's back on the chamber right now, but think over what you know on me, my family was 30 generations good wizard." I said and they nodded then.
"So think it over, why would I change over night from how you know me as into a cold blooded killer?" I asked and every pure-blood all froze up at that news. "That's for all of you Sacred 28 now people, you ought to know this, my name is not even listed under the said list, but no need if it's not this, what does it leave?" I asked and they swallowed hard at that. "But think it over, where my cloak come from, there's only one in existence." I said and they all paled at that.
"Could this be the reason or is it because my family is directly descended from Godric himself?" I asked and they all swallowed hard at that. "Also think on this, if it was me, wouldn't I just attack one of you, rather then attack a muggle-born, or the cat?" I asked and they all swallowed hard a second time. "Also think on the fact, every time the duo and I were in Myrtle's bathroom, I'm barely 15 to 20 feet away from the chamber itself, so what's desperation do for the heir."
"Wouldn't the heir decided to release the bloody snake now, to prevent exposure, and my best friend/twin sister is also muggle-born?" I asked and they went white in shock at that remark. "But think about it, if I was the heir, wouldn't I, instead of attacking muggle-borns, I'd attack one of you for antagonizing me?" I asked and every pure-blood all paled as I knew they never considered that thought at that remark shaking and the muggle-borns all crossed their arms.
"And then if I was the heir, do an outright murder to keep from getting exposed?" I asked and they swallowed hard at that remark shaking. "There thank you, if he was the heir, wouldn't he just attack her now and be done with it, as instead of pretrifications, it's murder. And Mione is the smartest witch of her age group as she covers the clues, and he puts it all together, she and he are unstoppable when they put their heads together?" Severus said and they swallowed.
And hard at that news then. "We all know this, and did the tour not say a thing to you, as pure-blood born?" Pomona said sternly and they all swallowed hard. "So if not 'im, then who does that leave, as the headmaster was working here at the time the chamber was opened, and that was why I was expelled now. It was the chamber, it always was, 50 years ago, Myrtle, I am 63, so consensus." Hagrid asked and they all paled in shock at that remark and I nodded sternly.
"Riddle is 66 years old, he is three years older then Hagrid." Ron said and they all went white in shock. "And that was 50 years ago, and this was when the headmaster was still in Professor Mcgonagall's position as the Transfiguration teacher." I said and they all swallowed hard at that remark. "Never see that, and why, it always falling back to the very same thing, and I'm a half-blood, but so is Riddle." I said and Percy swallowed hard as the faculty nodded sternly then.
"Stop him from coming back by getting to the stone first, and then it seems strange that he would start attacking muggle-borns left and right, doesn't it now?" Poppy said and they swallowed hard. "Friend to all kinds, but most of all, he's loyal to his own kind now, and said are all muggle-borns now in total truth here. So it seems vaguely odd, to have him change over a year from how we know him into a cold blooded murderer." Minerva said sternly at that remark then.
"Did this thought ever occur to you, that he and Mione were always in there, if he was the heir, wouldn't he just attack her right there and then and be done?" Flitwick asked sternly and they all paled at that remark. "What you children never saw, we do and we saw it immediately, the fact he risked a broken arm to protect the others. And till he has Dobby arriving that night, directly after the attack on Colin Creevey, what more is there to be said here, it's not him now."
"We know and knew Harry was awake listening to the entire conversation, and we were waiting for him to turn to us, at the realization we found him like this." Poppy said and they all swallowed hard at that remark. "So Harry is injured and laid up in there already, and he heard it again, and knowing we were bringing the latest patient in. Before we get Lucius Malfoy's house-elf showing up next, before then we're waiting for him to turn to us, to question in what happened."
"And now, and then he gets hit with a single sentence, again, meaning this chamber was opened up 50 years ago, and though I look dangerous, I am not. However Tom Riddle doesn't and he is, and Tom is 'him'." Hagrid said and they all paled, and I knew they never considered that thought then. "This pure-blood bigotry is the very reason, he ended up in the Muggle world and lost the chance to grow up in our's false assumptions and Barty and Cornelius are fixing this."
"It's not about looks, or by the family, the house, it's the individual, you can be from a good family, and still turn into a murderer." Minerva said and they all looked down in shame at that, realizing they never looked at that part before. "And only us of both age groups in the parents to grandparents know this too well, he'd never do this, and why would he, he's a good boy and very great man, he's the future I leave behind." Dumbledore said and I knew that did it then.
"Why did he and I decide to work as one, every time he has a chance to talk to me, he comes right to me, and he's in training by me so he has all the facts. So question, if he was really the heir, just why wouldn't he attack his own best friend, or, release the snake now and to save himself exposure right now?" he said and they all swallowed hard. "But look at me, I look old and weak, but am I?" he asked and they quickly shook their heads and Severus nodded sternly then.
"I suggest you think hard on that next year, once someone releases this snake and opens that chamber right now, the bloody thinking is getting around. And by use of the pipes themselves, so sneaking around the school in range of every attack, and he's a parsel-mouth tracing the bloody thing through the walls." Minerva said to them. "But look at him, and then look at me, do I look dangerous?" Severus asked and they all swallowed hard as they got the message.
"But like me, he looks dangerous and he's not, Lucius doesn't look dangerous and he is, that's a double standard in my muggle life now, case in point now. Is the reason this conversation even got brought up, and said is because of this." Severus said, holding up the book and every pure-blood nodded shaking. "One side of the cast of this book is based in, to your point of view, the wrong side of the tracks, and the other is like him and me before he got some new clothes."
"Look dangerous and they're not, while the well dressed and supposed rich kids are vicious mindless little monsters, attacking the poor boys out of fun now. And do you know what caused a member on both sides to be killed here right now?" he asked and they swallowed. "It's because someone crossed the line, out of crazed jealousy and drinking and tried to drown the narrator, and his best friend killed the one that tried it, so a case of misconceptions results in a murder."
"Never see that coming because of prejudice, students?" Severus asked sternly and Percy swallowed hard at that shaking, realizing he got it wrong at that remark, shaking. "Yes he's a parsel-mouth, but that doesn't mean anything and unless we stop with the jump first into the dark arts rubbish conceptions now. And we are never going to get out of the dark ages right now, which is what muggles called Merlin's time at the time." he said and they all nodded quickly.
"You never see what Severus and I see, to know that every time something happens he and the duo just can't help getting involved in a mystery here now. So to us, we leave them be, to crack the code, and he does the rest in said confrontation, but this time, he's leader of the cub order, so answer this now. If it was him, would he be attacking anyone out of antagonizing him right now?" she asked and they quickly nodded as they got the point as Flitwick changed the topic.
"Well that's a very wise idea, we know who's a death eater and who is not, but even death eater supporters and want to be's are so arrogant they now here. In truth never see it coming that their own cub sibling are pretending to be said Death Eater spawn, that's cleverness that rivals even a battle strategy, Harry." Flitwick said to me smiling and Minerva nodded. "Like the hat said, the best traits of every house in the school here." Severus said smiling proudly at that then.
"As like I said, plenty of courage I see, not a bad mind either, there is a talent and a thirst to prove himself, though said prove himself now. Is to erase past now, in predispositions, to get passed the so called legend and come into his own, but though he wants to be great now finally. And as who he is instead of his title as everything claimed to be, he's being who our world wants him to be." the hat said and the faculty nodded.
"Cunning, loyalty, bravery and cleverness, you have the best traits of every house in the school to know how we see this right now, in truth, Mr. Potter. So with that, 10 points at preventing an impostor from trying to masquerade as a member of the other house, in prevention of injury here now." Dumbledore said and I smiled as everyone in all three houses all smiled. "And that just goes to show that you need to very good to spot it." Kingsley said with a gentle chuckle.
"We know who's who in our students, as we know you by name calling you by name, this helps, so our newly activated prefects know who's who here now. And with them the head-boy and girl as Charlie and Dora were last year's and we got Ms. Jennifer Wainscott and David Patterson as this year's." she said and I nodded. "Want for a better word, you're asking for trouble if they never grab the I.D. with the hairs if someone tries that twice." I said and she smiled then.
"Trying to go undercover in the dorms, after pulling the same stunt you and Ronald did in that book, young man?" Professor Addams asked me and I nodded. "Yes and there is no need to now, as we know he's hexed someone to let the blasted thing loose here right now." I said and he nodded in agreement. "Well this has you knowing if they don't know the password or code to get in, they're a fake here, in playing with the potion." Ron added and he chuckled then.
"And anyone else tries that, you're losing 50 points and a week's worth of detentions students, don't try it here." Severus said and my class and the second years all nodded. "Nice reminder, but if that's not humiliating after you realize someone used an animal hair instead of human here, then nothing is, case in point. Said was me, as you realized there was a potions blunder right now, that got messed up." Mione said and he and Madam Pomphrey nodded gently.
"You're my father wolf, you know I would go against the whole to keep from losing all of you anyway, I would never stop till I was sure we all make it out alive." I said and he nodded. "We do and he's turned flame on himself, but if this is you now, what's going to happen five years down the line now." Andy said to that and I nodded. "We can wait to find out, but let's finish up." I said and she nodded as we resumed it then as we ended the conversation at that remark.
"Whoever of you muggle-borns came up with that idea, we can set that up in the morning, but I heard that." Ted said to that remark with a slight smile and Minerva tried to keep from laughing at his remark. "With you as the faculty knowing who each of us is, it's the prefects you need this for, as for some after running into said doppelganger, of said students, and he never knew the names of said students, said junior aurors are pretending to be, so dead give away."
"We need this, but there you go." I said and he and Andy nodded to me. "I happen to be a school prefect, come on please, can you be anymore arrogant right now, you maybe a prefect, but you're still a student." Fred said sternly and Percy pretended to look down and they nodded. "Just one decision humbles you, and it's by us exposing you for the fraud you are, by exposing everyone, recklessly to danger by holding back intel they need." Ron said sternly and I nodded.
"But how the mighty have fallen." Cedric said sternly and he pretended to swallow hard. "Hey Cedric, between now and the tournament, how about we train together, though you're my counterpart seeker, and we're both athletes." I said and he smiled and nodded. "I'd be honored little brother." he said and I nodded as he patted my back gently as Pomona and Minerva smiled at the brotherly bonds and comradely between our houses as friends gently at that remark then.