Disclaimer: I own only the obvious, the rest belongs to JK Rowling.
Author Note: Thanks for all the reviews. I hope that you'll like this chapter as much as the last one. And there's no connection between Harry and Salazar and Harry's vampire-blood in Time After Time. Now that that is said, on to the story.
-Chapter Seven-
There was a long silence in the group. Ron was just staring at the Vampire, Draco's mouth was opening and closing, making him look like a fish. Eminor had to sit down, and Dumbledore just blinked. Harry was the only one who was still looking the Vampire into the eyes, his own were glazed in concentration.
The Vampire could feel a gentle presence in his mind. Something that was looking through a thousand and more years of memories. It went back in time, further and further back, giving the Vampire flashes of memories he thought that he had forgotten.
In the end Harry smiled, stood up and nodded respectfully to the Vampire.
"It's an honour finally knowing your true identity," he said.
"The honour is all mine." The Vampire replied nodding back. "You knew that 'Raven' wasn't my true name? How?"
"Hey, they don't call me the Gamemaster for nothing you know. And besides, while we were going through Dracula's castle in search for your Dagger you seemed to know exactly where the traps were. And when we escaped and you opened the ground under the Death Eater's feet; well, no Vampire could've done that if he hadn't been an extremely powerful wizard before he was bitten." Harry explained. He waived his hand and the chair that had been shaped out of earth and stone, melted away.
"Never underestimate the Lord of the Light," Salazar Slytherin said more to himself than the others.
"This is incredible." Ron said. "Oh my God, I've got to be dreaming."
"Sir Slytherin," Draco had managed to put himself together. "What do you have in mind now? Still going to hang out with us, or stay at Hogwarts, or what?"
"I'm still going to hang out with you guys." Slytherin said. "I'm getting hooked on all those adventures. And please quit the 'sir', ether you can call me 'Salazar' or 'Raven', it's the same thing."
"I'm getting a headache." Eminor mumbled.
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Later that day Harry and Salazar had a long talk. Dumbledore had given them a room where they could be left alone. Somehow the news about Harry being the Lord of the Light and the Vampire being Salazar Slytherin had leaked out, now every student and Professor wanted to meet them. They couldn't get a moments peace.
"Now," Harry said. "You can begin the story when you want. There's no rush."
"I'll start after Hogwarts was built. I had nothing against Muggle-born people then, I still don't, but when I was changed into a Vampire we had to find a good excuse for me to leave. We didn't want the students hurt. In the end it was Helga's idea. That little, plump woman was one of the funniest people you would ever meet, but she had a terrible temper. Anyway, she suggested that I should pretend to hate Muggle-born students, fight with Godric on as many occasions as possible and just be the bad guy." The Founder stopped the tale for a second, lost in memories. "We built the Chamber of Secrets, so that we could meet after I had left the school. I made a basilisk inhabit it, giving it orders to guard the school. And it did so. But then we have the Voldemort-factor. I've got to admit it Harry, I'm not proud of him."
"I wonder what he would say if he knew that." Harry said in faint amusement. "Well, now I know why the Founders of Hogwarts parted. I had been wondering about that."
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Over the next few days, Harry, Ron, Draco, Eminor and Salazar worked to track down and find the future nurse Madame Poppy Pomfrey. In the end they found her in a little Hospital for Magic Injuries in Wales. They recommended her to Dumbledore and he sent her a letter.
Harry also wrote recommendations for James, Sirius, Remus, Lily and other students for the Ministry to consider them for the Auror Training. Shadow was happily helping out in the Care of Magical Creatures class, and Eminor was answering as many of the questions he could without telling some big secret. Draco and Ron still had their positions as Professor and School Nurse, and Salazar helped Harry in Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Dumbledore had managed to convince Harry to stay there until Halloween. He had many questions for Harry and the Founder, but they avoided his questions skilfully. In the end the old mage just gave up.
The other Professors where a bit shy towards Harry and Salazar at first, but that soon passed and they could talk like old friends again. Hagrid was particularly interested how Harry had become friends with a griffin.
It was with the Marauders as it had been with the other Professors. At first not even Sirius, who usually talked all the time, said anything around them, but when they came over the shy-part, the mischief-makers were full of questions. Lily wanted to know what kind of life people had led in the Founders time and how the idea of Hogwarts had come up. James and the rest of the gang wanted Salazar to show them every single secret passage in the whole castle. That alone took a week.
Sooner than expected Halloween was over them. Madame Pomfrey had arrived and was already making herself comfortable in the Hospital Wing. Dumbledore had managed to get hold of a new Potion Master and a new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. So now Harry and the rest of them spent their time in the Hogwarts Library, reading up on things. Harry checked if the red book he had found in his own time was here now. He couldn't find it. He had been through the shelves in the Restricted Section with a fine tooth comb several times, yet he found nothing. After that he began to search through the other likely places it could have been placed in the rest of the huge Library. It took him a whole week just to finish the first floor, even if he had used magic.
Then one day Dumbledore told Harry that the current Minister of Magic, Wolak Wieringo, and the Vice-Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, were coming on Halloween. Harry brought the message to his friends.
"Wolak Wieringo? What kind of name is that?!" Draco asked. "Are you sure Dumbledore didn't say Wolak Weirdo?"
"They here most likely to get our support." Harry said ignoring Draco's joke. "They would be pretty strong with a Founder, the Lord of the Light and their friends behind them."
"But we aren't going to give them our support... are we?" Ron asked. "Imagine what they would say if they knew that an Elf is here too."
"They probably know already," Eminor replied. "Everyone of the children here have written home, so the whole world knows by know. Say, is that Skeeter-woman working now or what?"
"I don't even want to think about it." Harry groaned. "Okay people, we need a few plans on how to handle the Ministers."
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When the two Ministers arrived Harry, Ron, Draco, Eminor and Salazar were coming from the Quidditch Pitch, with Shadow happily trotting after them. Hagrid was spoiling the griffin completely. Shadow had wowed that when they got back to their own time, he would go straight to Hagrid and never move again. That had caused laughter, bit it stopped when they spotted the two Ministers.
The two Ministers had spotted the group and where coming towards them with about a dozen Aurors following at a respectful distance. The two men stopped a few yards away from Harry's group, not daring to come closer because of the griffin.
Wolak Wieringo was a thin, old man with grey hair. His robes were unnecessary big and overly done with embroideries. He was wearing lots of big gold and silver chains, rings necklaces and bracelets. To tell the truth he looked like a spoiled prince from a fairytale.
Fudge didn't look too different except that he was much younger, and still had some hair left on the top of his head. He was still wearing a large top- hat and a weird jacket.
"Shoot me now," Harry mumbled to the rest of the group, before turning to the Ministers that where waiting. "May we help you?" he asked.
"I am Vice-Minister Cornelius Fudge, and this is the Minister of Magic himself, Wolak Wieringo." Fudge presented them, he was about to say something else when he was cut off.
"Mr Fudge," Salazar said in an oily tone. "I'm sure that the Minister can speak for himself."
The young Fudge looked a bit putout at this. He reminded Harry of Percy Weasley, well, that was before Voldemort had returned. Now Percy was working to get the other Ministries of Magic in the world to cooperate. A very hard task, as some of them had been enemies for hundreds of years.
"I'm here to speak with the Lord of the Light," Wieringo said, his tone betrayed him, letting Harry and the rest know that he thought everything that had happened at Hogwarts the last two months was hogwash, and not worthy his attention. "Do you know where he is?"
//Okay, that guy's beginning to really get on my nerves.// Draco growled telepathically. //It's no wonder my father went over to Voldemort if this guy was Minister in this time. Heck, I would've gone too!//
//Calm down Draco,// Harry replied. //The idiot's only been here a couple of minutes.//
"You, Scarhead," Wieringo said, pointing to Harry. "Go get the Headmaster of this school. I have to talk to him about admitting monsters on the school grounds." He said while mentioning to Salazar, Eminor and Shadow.
//Ok, someone better restrain me!// Harry growled. "Mr Wieringo, that there is Salazar Slytherin, Ohrelli Chaser and Shadow." Harry said in a cold, calm tone. "And I'm Harry Hunter, the Lord of the Light." The two Ministers where shocked and Wieringo chose that moment to promptly faint. Harry just raised an eyebrow at the Minister. "Don't play with me Minister," he growled. "And besides people that faint always fall forwards." Harry turned and left with his friends following.
"People that faint don't always fall forward. It's a 50/50 chance." Ron said when they were out of hearing-range.
"I know," Harry said, a grin creeping over his face. "Just needed something to bug him with, and to let him know not to try his games with us."
"You know Harry, you are down right evil." Eminor said, and a second later the group burst out laughing.
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That's all for now folks. Hope you like it. Please review and tell me what you think.
I want to thank TatraMegami, Miranda Flairgold, Pampered Tigeress, bill weasly, Tinabina87, Jenny, Lily Evans, krystaldragon, Mistress Cresacre, Jeah, Arizosa, King Crimson Fan On a Mac, Jorj Car'Das, Lai, libertygrl413 and iuvat equus for reviewing.
Author Note: Thanks for all the reviews. I hope that you'll like this chapter as much as the last one. And there's no connection between Harry and Salazar and Harry's vampire-blood in Time After Time. Now that that is said, on to the story.
-Chapter Seven-
There was a long silence in the group. Ron was just staring at the Vampire, Draco's mouth was opening and closing, making him look like a fish. Eminor had to sit down, and Dumbledore just blinked. Harry was the only one who was still looking the Vampire into the eyes, his own were glazed in concentration.
The Vampire could feel a gentle presence in his mind. Something that was looking through a thousand and more years of memories. It went back in time, further and further back, giving the Vampire flashes of memories he thought that he had forgotten.
In the end Harry smiled, stood up and nodded respectfully to the Vampire.
"It's an honour finally knowing your true identity," he said.
"The honour is all mine." The Vampire replied nodding back. "You knew that 'Raven' wasn't my true name? How?"
"Hey, they don't call me the Gamemaster for nothing you know. And besides, while we were going through Dracula's castle in search for your Dagger you seemed to know exactly where the traps were. And when we escaped and you opened the ground under the Death Eater's feet; well, no Vampire could've done that if he hadn't been an extremely powerful wizard before he was bitten." Harry explained. He waived his hand and the chair that had been shaped out of earth and stone, melted away.
"Never underestimate the Lord of the Light," Salazar Slytherin said more to himself than the others.
"This is incredible." Ron said. "Oh my God, I've got to be dreaming."
"Sir Slytherin," Draco had managed to put himself together. "What do you have in mind now? Still going to hang out with us, or stay at Hogwarts, or what?"
"I'm still going to hang out with you guys." Slytherin said. "I'm getting hooked on all those adventures. And please quit the 'sir', ether you can call me 'Salazar' or 'Raven', it's the same thing."
"I'm getting a headache." Eminor mumbled.
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Later that day Harry and Salazar had a long talk. Dumbledore had given them a room where they could be left alone. Somehow the news about Harry being the Lord of the Light and the Vampire being Salazar Slytherin had leaked out, now every student and Professor wanted to meet them. They couldn't get a moments peace.
"Now," Harry said. "You can begin the story when you want. There's no rush."
"I'll start after Hogwarts was built. I had nothing against Muggle-born people then, I still don't, but when I was changed into a Vampire we had to find a good excuse for me to leave. We didn't want the students hurt. In the end it was Helga's idea. That little, plump woman was one of the funniest people you would ever meet, but she had a terrible temper. Anyway, she suggested that I should pretend to hate Muggle-born students, fight with Godric on as many occasions as possible and just be the bad guy." The Founder stopped the tale for a second, lost in memories. "We built the Chamber of Secrets, so that we could meet after I had left the school. I made a basilisk inhabit it, giving it orders to guard the school. And it did so. But then we have the Voldemort-factor. I've got to admit it Harry, I'm not proud of him."
"I wonder what he would say if he knew that." Harry said in faint amusement. "Well, now I know why the Founders of Hogwarts parted. I had been wondering about that."
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Over the next few days, Harry, Ron, Draco, Eminor and Salazar worked to track down and find the future nurse Madame Poppy Pomfrey. In the end they found her in a little Hospital for Magic Injuries in Wales. They recommended her to Dumbledore and he sent her a letter.
Harry also wrote recommendations for James, Sirius, Remus, Lily and other students for the Ministry to consider them for the Auror Training. Shadow was happily helping out in the Care of Magical Creatures class, and Eminor was answering as many of the questions he could without telling some big secret. Draco and Ron still had their positions as Professor and School Nurse, and Salazar helped Harry in Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Dumbledore had managed to convince Harry to stay there until Halloween. He had many questions for Harry and the Founder, but they avoided his questions skilfully. In the end the old mage just gave up.
The other Professors where a bit shy towards Harry and Salazar at first, but that soon passed and they could talk like old friends again. Hagrid was particularly interested how Harry had become friends with a griffin.
It was with the Marauders as it had been with the other Professors. At first not even Sirius, who usually talked all the time, said anything around them, but when they came over the shy-part, the mischief-makers were full of questions. Lily wanted to know what kind of life people had led in the Founders time and how the idea of Hogwarts had come up. James and the rest of the gang wanted Salazar to show them every single secret passage in the whole castle. That alone took a week.
Sooner than expected Halloween was over them. Madame Pomfrey had arrived and was already making herself comfortable in the Hospital Wing. Dumbledore had managed to get hold of a new Potion Master and a new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. So now Harry and the rest of them spent their time in the Hogwarts Library, reading up on things. Harry checked if the red book he had found in his own time was here now. He couldn't find it. He had been through the shelves in the Restricted Section with a fine tooth comb several times, yet he found nothing. After that he began to search through the other likely places it could have been placed in the rest of the huge Library. It took him a whole week just to finish the first floor, even if he had used magic.
Then one day Dumbledore told Harry that the current Minister of Magic, Wolak Wieringo, and the Vice-Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, were coming on Halloween. Harry brought the message to his friends.
"Wolak Wieringo? What kind of name is that?!" Draco asked. "Are you sure Dumbledore didn't say Wolak Weirdo?"
"They here most likely to get our support." Harry said ignoring Draco's joke. "They would be pretty strong with a Founder, the Lord of the Light and their friends behind them."
"But we aren't going to give them our support... are we?" Ron asked. "Imagine what they would say if they knew that an Elf is here too."
"They probably know already," Eminor replied. "Everyone of the children here have written home, so the whole world knows by know. Say, is that Skeeter-woman working now or what?"
"I don't even want to think about it." Harry groaned. "Okay people, we need a few plans on how to handle the Ministers."
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When the two Ministers arrived Harry, Ron, Draco, Eminor and Salazar were coming from the Quidditch Pitch, with Shadow happily trotting after them. Hagrid was spoiling the griffin completely. Shadow had wowed that when they got back to their own time, he would go straight to Hagrid and never move again. That had caused laughter, bit it stopped when they spotted the two Ministers.
The two Ministers had spotted the group and where coming towards them with about a dozen Aurors following at a respectful distance. The two men stopped a few yards away from Harry's group, not daring to come closer because of the griffin.
Wolak Wieringo was a thin, old man with grey hair. His robes were unnecessary big and overly done with embroideries. He was wearing lots of big gold and silver chains, rings necklaces and bracelets. To tell the truth he looked like a spoiled prince from a fairytale.
Fudge didn't look too different except that he was much younger, and still had some hair left on the top of his head. He was still wearing a large top- hat and a weird jacket.
"Shoot me now," Harry mumbled to the rest of the group, before turning to the Ministers that where waiting. "May we help you?" he asked.
"I am Vice-Minister Cornelius Fudge, and this is the Minister of Magic himself, Wolak Wieringo." Fudge presented them, he was about to say something else when he was cut off.
"Mr Fudge," Salazar said in an oily tone. "I'm sure that the Minister can speak for himself."
The young Fudge looked a bit putout at this. He reminded Harry of Percy Weasley, well, that was before Voldemort had returned. Now Percy was working to get the other Ministries of Magic in the world to cooperate. A very hard task, as some of them had been enemies for hundreds of years.
"I'm here to speak with the Lord of the Light," Wieringo said, his tone betrayed him, letting Harry and the rest know that he thought everything that had happened at Hogwarts the last two months was hogwash, and not worthy his attention. "Do you know where he is?"
//Okay, that guy's beginning to really get on my nerves.// Draco growled telepathically. //It's no wonder my father went over to Voldemort if this guy was Minister in this time. Heck, I would've gone too!//
//Calm down Draco,// Harry replied. //The idiot's only been here a couple of minutes.//
"You, Scarhead," Wieringo said, pointing to Harry. "Go get the Headmaster of this school. I have to talk to him about admitting monsters on the school grounds." He said while mentioning to Salazar, Eminor and Shadow.
//Ok, someone better restrain me!// Harry growled. "Mr Wieringo, that there is Salazar Slytherin, Ohrelli Chaser and Shadow." Harry said in a cold, calm tone. "And I'm Harry Hunter, the Lord of the Light." The two Ministers where shocked and Wieringo chose that moment to promptly faint. Harry just raised an eyebrow at the Minister. "Don't play with me Minister," he growled. "And besides people that faint always fall forwards." Harry turned and left with his friends following.
"People that faint don't always fall forward. It's a 50/50 chance." Ron said when they were out of hearing-range.
"I know," Harry said, a grin creeping over his face. "Just needed something to bug him with, and to let him know not to try his games with us."
"You know Harry, you are down right evil." Eminor said, and a second later the group burst out laughing.
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That's all for now folks. Hope you like it. Please review and tell me what you think.
I want to thank TatraMegami, Miranda Flairgold, Pampered Tigeress, bill weasly, Tinabina87, Jenny, Lily Evans, krystaldragon, Mistress Cresacre, Jeah, Arizosa, King Crimson Fan On a Mac, Jorj Car'Das, Lai, libertygrl413 and iuvat equus for reviewing.