Excaliber

Chapter Three: The Headmaster and the Gryffindors

When Harry and Ginny Potter made their way into Hogwart's that day after they got back from their training, they were lucky that they didn't run into anyone one their way up to the headmasters office. When they got to the Gargoyles, they thought a minute, then came up with a brilliant idea on how to get into the office area. With a nod from Harry, they disappeared and reappeared outside of the headmasters office. Harry was about to knock when they heard voices coming from the other side of the doorway. Harry raised his hand to Ginny to say 'let's listen'. So they put their ear to the door, and listened to what was going on in the office. What they heard was something that made them chuckle, but also feel sorry for the old man. "I think we should go in and relieve his stress right now. But maybe we should put our hoods up, so as to not have the others know who we are right away." Harry said this, and Ginny agreed and they put up their hoods before knocking on the door. When they heard the word enter, Harry opened the door, and they walked in hand in hand. Who they saw made them chuckle for a few minutes, then Albus spoke, which then shut them up quickly.

"May I help you two? I didn't think that I had an appointment with two people at this time, and we are in kind of a bind right now. So if you would kindly state your business and then leave." Albus looked like he might have said something else, but didn't want to be rude to the two apparent strangers that were standing in his doorway. He couldn't tell who they were, but he knew that they weren't death eaters for the school alarms didn't go off. He was worried when two of his best students just disappeared and reappeared without any kind of notice. He didn't know where they went, or if they were even the same people that they were supposed to be. He didn't see them before they left or after they came back, he just found out about it when two of his magical devices that indicated these things, went off then came back on. Harry Potter, and Ginny Weasley just disappeared and then reappeared without any notice from the face of the earth.

The taller of the two gave a slight chuckle, then said in a deep obviously masked voice, "can we speak to you alone Headmaster? This is a private matter, at least for the time being." He then chuckled at the looks of the other people in the room. Professor McGonagall looked like she was going to say something that was like 'who do you two think you are in asking such a thing.' Remus Lupin was there looking at them funny, for with his werewolf senses he had already sensed who they were, but didn't say anything because there was definitely something different about these two now. Mr and Mrs. Weasley were looking a bit put off, but didn't want to argue with them when they obviously had business to discuss with the headmaster. Professor Dumbledor just looked at them with a look of surprise, but nodded his head and asked the others to go down to lunch, and they would join them momentarily. They all nodded, and as they all made their way out of the room, the taller of the two strangers held Remus back with a hand on his shoulder, and then cast a strong silencing and locking charm on the room so that there wouldn't be any disturbances. "You might as well stay Remus, I can tell that you already know who we are." Harry and Ginny chuckled as they let down there hoods. "Hi guys, I guess we have a few things to discuss."

To say that the professor's were dumbstruck when they saw the two of them would have been an understatement. They definitely looked a bit older, but not much, and Harry was carrying a well known sword on his hip along with a Snake and a Phoenix on his shoulder. Ginny had a sword on her hip, and a bow on her back along with a Phoenix and a Ferret on her shoulder. The thing that struck them even more oddly was the rings on their fingers. "Is there something that you two need to tell me, or do I have to guess?" Dumbledore had his usual twinkle in his eyes when he said this, and was smiling.

"Well considering I don't think that you have ever heard of this prophecy Professor, I don't think that you would know where we have been. I know you had a disturbance saying that we were no longer on this earth, when in actuality, we never left the school grounds." Ginny said this, and saw the dumbstruck look they gave her and she went on to explain. "Have either of you heard the prophecy of Arthur and his descendant's?" When they shook their heads, she laughed a bit and went on. "Well when King Arthur was close to his death, he gave back the sword Excaliber to the Lady in the Lake and asked her to have Merlin Train one of his descendants when in a great time of need. I know that it is said that the wielder of Excaliber is supposed to be the King of Camelot, but they don't have to take that roll if they didn't want to. Well Harry it seems is the last surviving ancestor of Arthur himself. The Lady of the Lake, which resides in the schools lake by the way, came to Harry and gave him the sword, and took us to be trained by Merlin. We have actually been gone for over three years, even tho it only seems like we haven't been gone at all in this time. We went back to well before the time of the founders and trained on Avalon, where we have a small cottage by the way. We trained in both magical and non magical ways, plus I was trained in all kinds of magical and non magical healing and potions. We got married about two months ago, after we got done with our training. Don't worry, we are both of age, Harry is Nineteen and I am Eighteen. Harry asked me to marry him on my Eighteenth birthday, which was eight months ago. Our friends here our are familiars. The Phoenixes are a mated pair, and Harry has Snake and I have a ferret. We have also found out what are Ani-Magi forms are, Harry is a Black Panther and a Golden Phoenix, while I am a Silver Fox, and a Dragonette." She was smiling at the look that both the professors were giving them.

"One more thing, as you can see, we pretty much look like ourselves, just a little bit older, but we could probably explain that. You said that everyone was going down to lunch, we want to go down there without anyone knowing what happened, and see who figures it out first. We will discuss our living arrangements, and what we want to do about school afterwards. We would like to, if possible, take our NEWTS, and Ginny would like to take her OWLS as soon as possible, then we would like to offer are abilities as Professors in anything that you might need us to do. We are quite well trained sir, so you don't have to worry about us not being ready for them. We were trained by one of the Greatest Wizards of all time as you know." Harry was smiling as he said this.

Remus gave a loud chuckle when he heard this, and looked at the two of them with glee. "You two are serious aren't you, you're going to go down there, and see how long it takes them to figure out something is amiss. Well I will give Hermoine five minutes, but then there's Ron, he probably won't figure it out until Hermoine tells him, and then he still won't know what is going on. Now for your parents, I would say that they will see right through you, and the rest of the Gryffindors will probably be split down the middle on which ones notice something different. But if you want to pull this off, you need to keep your familiars here, and hide your weapons." Remus was chuckling right then, but he just nodded that he wouldn't say a word.

"I agree with Remus on this one, but I wish you the best of luck on this. Shall we go down to lunch then you two, and if someone asks before everyone finds out, what shall we refer to you as? We can't just go around calling you Mr and Mrs. Potter now. I guess Harry and Ginny will just have to do. You might want to hide the rings until you are found out tho." He gave a chuckle as Harry and Ginny just smiled at each other, and cast a cloaking charm on the weapons and the rings. "Congratulations to both of you, and especially to you Harry on being accepted by Excaliber as it's newest wielder. That is also one thing that you might want to disguise whenever you use it, is that it is the legendary Excaliber." He smiled and they walked down to the Great Hall for lunch with the rest of the staff and students.

When they walked into the great hall, Harry and Ginny walked to their usual seats at the Gryffindor table next to Ron and Hermoine. "Hey guys, sorry we're late, we were talking for a few minutes with the headmaster. Can you pass the potatoes please Ron?" Harry bent over and grabbed the potatoes from Ron when he passed them and looked him straight in the eyes.

"Where are your glasses Mate, I thought that you needed them or you would be as blind as a bat."

Harry let out a groan at that, and just mumbled something about them being broken, and that his eyesight wasn't that bad. He piled his plate and Ginny's high with food, and they ate like they haven't in a few days. They looked up at the head table and smiled at the Headmaster when no one had noticed yet.

"So Harry, Ginny how has your day been, and why are your parents here Ginny?" Hermoine was getting a bit nosy with her questions they thought, but she couldn't have figured out that something was up yet, could she?

"It's been great Moine, we have been talking and walking around the lake for most of the day, except when we were up talking to the headmaster just recently. As for my parent's, I have no idea why there here." Which for once was the truth, or st least parrly.

The rest of lunch went pretty well until they let something slip about the last few years. Ron and Hermoine looked at them and then it clicked. "You two look older it seems. What happened?"

With that the two of them let the cloaking charm down, and everyone could see that they were now bristling with weapons, and the wedding bands on their fingers. "Well Moine, that's a question that will take a while to answer, and let's finish lunch first before we explain about the last three years of our lives. We will tell you everything, then you can ask questions or yell or whatever." At that they finished their lunch and went up to the front of the great hall to talk to the whole school. "Well this is an interesting story, you might want to be sitting when I tell you this. It all started when I was approached by the Lady of the Lake..."

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