AN:
This might become the longest chapter I have ever written in my entire life and we are only at Day 3 of Harrenhal.
She woke up the next day and almost screamed for her guard.
"Cat, you almost gave me a heart attack. Why are you in my room?"
"I wanted to know what the prince wanted with you yesterday evening."
"Rhaegar? He just wanted to know if I was retiring for the night and said that it was a pity that I was retiring so soon. Why?"
"Was that all? Was that really everything the prince wanted to know?"
"Well, yeah. What else? Hold on... You're not thinking that he likes me or anything like that?"
"Well, you were the first female he approached by himself." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Cat I can assure you that the prince is most likely not interested in me in that way. Besides, he is married and way too old for me. He is at least ten years older than me. Anyway, enough about this. How did the tourney go yesterday?" She tried to switch the subject.
"Since you are asking there was a knight there that called himself The Knight of The Laughing tree and he utterly humiliated two of the kingsguards."
"I doubt The King was so happy about that."
"King Aerys sent prince Rhaegar to deal with knight and I heard the knight was dead now."
"Pity, but no can do. The King's orders are the King's orders. Anyway, can you get out now. I need to wash and get dressed." Catelyn walked away silently and looked back as if she wanted to say more and Lysa was glad she kept her mouth shut.
She put on a third dress that represented her house's colors. Lissa, her maid, braided her hair and decorated it with flowers.
"Thank you." She walked out from her room and asked her guard Sam if Edmure had already eaten breakfast.
Her guard told her that he hadn't and so she knocked on his door to check up on him. She could hear him being awake in his bed.
"Edmure, are you awake? Do you want to go and eat breakfast with me?"
After some noise the boy finally came out of his room looking all prim and proper.
"Yes, dear sister, I will."
They walked to The Hall of the Hundred Hearths and for some reason Lysa felt like there were more eyes on her than before. Could it have been because the prince talked for her for a brief moment? How childish could people be?
"Lady Lysa Tully, you seem to have gained quite a lot of attention." Petyr smugly approached. Sam had stopped him from getting closer but Lysa allowed him by walking towards the twat and taking his arm. "Walk with me Petyr. I have a feeling that you might have the best explanation out of everyone." She shared a look with Edmure who took the hint and walked behind them.
"So tell me, Baelish. What rumors have you heard?" It would be interesting what kind of lies and truths he had for her.
"The prince seemed to be interested in you. That's all I've heard. It seems that the cause of these rumours was when the prince saw you walking away and stopped dancing with Lady Cersei Lannister, and started walking towards you and stopping you." Ah, she could see the answer to her questions now.
"And do you know the reason why he approached me?"
"I was hoping you could explain it to me, my lady." Baelish looked at her.
"It seems that I was nothing but a scapegoat for the prince to use." Lysa chuckled amused. Edmure began to giggle as he began to understand what she was getting at.
"You suspect the prince used you to have reason not to continue dancing with Lady Lannister?"
"That's your speculation Baelish. I haven't said anything about Cersei Lannister."
She was mad, however, that the prince had used her as a scapegoat.
While she sat and ate breakfast, Selyse Florent approached and asked if they were meeting at the same time and place as yesterday. Lysa nodded to all her questions and the girl left satisfied.
"Lady Lysa Tully." Tyrion approached her with his brother Jaime.
"Lord Tyrion and Jaime Lannister." She stood up and curtsied.
"I was going to inform you that Jaime has decided to play the game with us. I suspect that it is the same time and place as before?"
"Oh, how fun. I'm glad you could join us."
"Same time and same place as before, right?"
"Yes."
"Good then we'll see you then."
"Could we get a sheet for my brother, so that we won't waste time on character building like last time?" Lysa nodded and told Lissa to go and get one of the sheets for them along with the different dice.
"So Lord Jaime, what made you want to participate in the game? Was the jousting boring?"
"Oh no, my lady. The tourney was fun to watch but I just felt like spending some time with my brother today."
"Ah, that's a good choice my Lord. You'll probably only notice this when you get older but spend as much time as you can with your family now. Otherwise you might regret it in the future." She looked at House Lannister's table and saw the blonde girl smirk and Lysa knew that Jaime was nothing but a spy for Cersei.
Lissa eventually came with the sheet and Lysa ordered her to deliver them to Tyrion Lannister and his brother.
In order to waste some time she walked in the gardens. Edmure had gone to watch the jousting and told her he would be in time for the game. Lysa didn't like watching such things and so she was currently walking alone in the garden.
"My lady," and she dearly hoped it wasn't that person.
"Your highness," She curtsied deeply to the prince and lightly to his guard Arthur. "I thought you were watching the jousting, your highness."
"Well, I was going there but then I saw a lone lady walking in the gardens and I thought that I should keep her company."
"I am thankful for your kind thoughts, your highness, but there really isn't a need to keep me company."
"Am I bothering you, Lady Lysa?"
"No, no, your highness. I just didn't want to stop you from enjoying the jousting."
"That is kind of you to think but I would rather keep you company than watch something I've watched several times before."
"You should be careful, your highness, or someone would mistake your words for romantic ones." She shared a glance with Arthur Dayne who was simply looking away.
"Then I beg for forgiveness beforehand if I cause you trouble. But the most important thing is that you don't misunderstand, right?" The smiling prince was just so annoying.
"I suppose so." Well, she could play whatever game he was playing right now.
They walked the gardens in silence and she hoped the silence would bore the prince to the point of wanting him to leave.
"I missed your singing this morning." Lysa froze. She hadn't had the time to remember everyone that had heard her singing. It surprised her that the prince had been listening. "You had a very lovely voice."
"Thank you, your highness, for your compliment."
"Please, call me Rhaegar." He took her right hand and brought it to his lips. The action had even seemed to surprise his guard.
This man was going to get her killed. If not by his wife or brother-in-law, Cersei Lannister and a ton of other girls would have her killed.
"Then please call me Lysa, Rhaegar." She brought her hand back and had to mentally stop herself from rubbing it against her dress.
"I suppose this is the start of a friendship." She smiled calmly while hoping that there was nothing else behind his actions.
"A long friendship, I hope." The prince's amethyst eyes seemed to sparkle as he smiled. Lysa could have almost sworn that he might have the protagonist of this story she was living in. He would have been the perfect protagonist. A handsome prince with purple eyes and good fighting skills.
Speaking of the story. She did know that whatever caused Robert's Rebellion was going to happen sometimes soon during the tourney and jousting. He was going to crown Lyanna Stark and a heck lot of chaos would happen afterwards. She didn't want to get too attached to him as she knew that Robert ended up as king after the Rebellion, which told her that Rhaegar would die in the end.
"By the way. I heard about The Knight of The Laughing Tree. Did you know the reason why he humiliated the men who served your father?" She saw the prince get more rigid and Arthur frowned.
"It turned out to have been for personal revenge." He answered her truthfully.
"I see. A pity that he died then." Rhaegar simply looked at her and she could tell from his gaze that that was not what happened. In other words, the knight was still alive. Although, Lysa could care less about it.
She saw that this awkward silence was her cue to leave.
"Your highness. It was wonderful walking in the gardens with you but I must leave now." She curtsied and tried to get away while he seemed like he was still reminiscing about something.
She walked quickly to the game room. She took a few moments to breathe before she began to rearrange the setting for the game. It took about an hour to complete. In order to waste some time she began reading a book until it was time.
"My lady, they are here." Lissa announced.
"Let them in." She got herself ready to receive her players.
"Welcome warriors and hero-," she stopped mid-sentence as she saw prince Rhaegar enter the room with his shadow Arthur Dayne behind him. "Your highness." She immediately stood up and curtsied calmly.
"Please, my lady, continue."
Lysa nodded.
"Are you spectating or joining, your highness?"
"For now, I'm spectating." That might mean that he was going to join their games in the future.
Lord, let that not happen!
"Well, then please everyone take a seat even you invisible spectators of the story." She looked at Rhaegar and Arthur who took a seat next to Stannis Baratheron.
"And so the story begins in Hogwarts, a place where wizards and witches learns spells. A young man named Harry Potter greets you in front of the castle." Lysa put on glasses and a wig along with a red and gold scarf. This earned a smiles and chuckles. "My name is Harry Potter." She tried speaking with a boy's voice with a British accent.
"Hello, Harry. I am Ser Asgard a mercenary. I used to be a knight until I slept with my king's wife the lovely Queen Arandella. And these are my companions." Edmure took the initiative to introduction.
"I'm Musa a green elf and a herb specialist."
"I'm Stannis a half-god and rule the oceans and waters."
"I'm Ren of Storm a dragon knight and this is my lovely dragon Val."
"I'm Lionel The Great, a magician like you but probably much better at magic."
Then everyone turned to Jaime Lannister.
"And I'm Kevin The Charmer. I'm a bard and I can charm any woman I want." They chuckled to his cheekiness.
"Welcome, Ser Asgard, Musa, Stannis, Ren of Storm, Lionel The Great and Kevin The Charmer. Welcome to Hogwarts. The headmaster made me sure that I came to greet the people who were here to help me. Hogwarts is under threat by a dark wizard named Voldemort who I'm destined to destroy. You see I'm part of a prophecy goes like this:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
My parents died because of the prophecy. Voldemort..." Lysa brought forward some tears which seemed to take them some by surprise. "He killed my parents Lily and James Potter. And on the night that he attacked them he had attacked me. But without knowing my mother had put a spell, a charm that was made out of her love for me to protect me in moments like this. Voldemort died that moment he attacked me or so people say. And ever since then I've been raised by my aunt and uncle who treated me like their slave and who let their son Dudley bully me. I've been abused and almost killed by the followers of Voldemort. And finally I've been enlightened?"
"Enlightened? Explain." Edmure took the initiative while Selyse seemed to be sobbing at the sad story.
"You see, my maester and I found out that Voldemort had done the most evil deed you could have ever done."
"And what is possibly the most evil deed you can commit?" Stannis asked.
Lysa looked dead serious into his eyes.
"By using dark magic he created Horcruxes which are cursed objects. Voldemort split his soul. He split his soul into seven pieces and put them into different objects, in other words those objects become Horcruxes. In order to create Horcruxes you would have to kill innocent people. Because every time you kill your soul splits. And when Voldemort killed while doing a dark ritual his soul ended up in an object. Since he split his soul seven times there are seven Horcruxes. And you six need to help me find those seven Horcruxes and destroy them. Only then can we finally destroy Lord Voldemort completely."
"So let it just be clear." Stannis had even taken some notes. "Voldemort did not die when he attacked you because of a charm and spell your mother put on you but people think he died while attacking you."
"Yes, the charm my mother had put on me made the spell Voldemort used bounce back unto him and he supposedly died from it and people thought that since he disappeared from then on he must have been completely defeated but that wasn't the truth."
"And how do you know whether he is back or not. Like you said he disappeared." Stannis was practically an interrogator at this point.
"BECAUSE I WAS THERE!" Lysa raised her voice dramatically while pretending to hold back her tears as she almost said quietly. "I am the reason why Voldemort is back."
"Harry potter, I see that you are upset have a 'calm potion'." Selyse pretended to hand a potion and Lysa made a gesture of drinking and then rolled a dice.
"The potion is effective and Harry calms down." She said in her usual narrative voice before switching back to being Harry Potter.
"Thank you, beautiful elf. It was exactly what I needed. Anyway, where was I. Yes. It happened at the end of my citadel year. We were having a competition at Hogwarts. Two other citadels came. There were supposed to only be three participants. Cedric Diggory was the one representing Hogwarts and one from the other two citadels. I wasn't supposed to be in and yet I became the fourth competitor. By the end of the last challenge it was my friend who competed for Hogwarts. The other two had lost the last challenge. My friend was also going to lose the challenge but I saved him. I was so stupid I should have let him lose. But I only wanted us to win together and when we touched the reward which was a golden cup we were teleported to a graveyard."
"What is teleported?" Jaime asked.
"Teleportation is when you are transported from one place to another in a blink of an eye." Edmure began to explain while showing with his hands. "Let's say we have two mirrors one mirror is here and another here. Teleportation would then be for example that you go through this mirror and end up going through this mirror and come to this side. Of course, you don't need two things for teleportation. It seems that in this case the golden cup was this mirror but it didn't need another cup to teleport them. Instead it teleported Harry and Cedric by itself."
"Yes, and we ended up in a graveyard. We were both confused from just having been teleported and we didn't have enough time to think. Suddenly a spell hit Cedric and he died. I was knocked out and when I woke up I was tied to a grave statue. And the man who had betrayed my parents and the only reason why Voldemort had found my parents in the first place was drawing blood from me. And by using my blood he resurrected Voldemort."
"How did you escape?" Stannis was skeptical to the story and probably found Harry Potter guilty.
"By accidental magic."
"Accidental magic?" Stannis raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, when a wizard or a witch are too emotional their magic can run around uncontrollably. In this case, my accidental magic saved me and I escaped just as the ceremony was being finished. I used the cup and teleported my dead friend Cedric to Hogwarts. Everyone had thought that I had killed Cedric and I kept trying and trying to explain that it wasn't me who had killed him but no one believed me. They wanted to send me to the dungeons of Azkaban which is guarded by dementors. Horrible dark creatures that suck every joy and happy memory out of you. Maester Dumbledore who have hired you was the one who spoke for me and hence why I'm still free from punishment but not for too long. I need to find all the Horcruxes. Destroy them and kill Voldemort. Will you help me or not?"
"Well, we're here now, we might as well continue." Tyrion said.
"I think we should help poor Harry Potter. It sounds like he has been through a lot." Selyse was still crying.
"I still think something is suspicious about Harry Potter." Stannis was being the party pooper like always. But he was correct about one thing. Harry Potter was hiding one truth from them.
"Oh, come on Stannis. Don't you want to find out whether Harry is speaking the truth or not?" Renly tried to encourage him. "Because you'll only find out the truth if we continue this journey."
Stannis contemplated.
"Fine."
"Great, so my dear heroes, where do you want to start looking for clues about the Horcruxes?"
"I think we should start with Hogwarts. I would like to ask Maester Dumbledore a few questions." Stannis was going full interrogator mode.
Rhaegar couldn't help but praise Stannis for observant skills. Rhaegar too would have chosen to speak with Dumbledore as he is mentioned several times in the story.
"Great, then I'll go around the Castle to see if I can randomly just find a Horcrux or a clue to one." Renly said.
"I'll go around and speak to the different people working at this citadel." Tyrion said.
"I'll do the same as Renly, and go around to look if I can randomly find a Horcrux." Selyse said.
"I'll go and mingle with the people in the castle. I might hear something useful." Jaime said.
"I'll go and talk with ghosts to see if they can help me find these Horcruxes." Edmure said.
"In other words, you all split up?" Lysa asked the players and they nodded. "Alright, your choice."
"Why what's going to happen?" Selyse suddenly felt like she would regret this decision.
"You'll see." Lysa smirked evily. "Stannis the half-god walked into the citadel together with Harry..." Lysa split the castle open so that the players could see inside of it (almost like opening a doll house). Everyone looked at the impressive details of the dolls and the rooms. "Harry leads Stannis to Headmaester Dumbledore's room. Meanwhile, Ren of Storm walks blindly in the hallways of Hogwarts. You see paintings and portraits move as if they are alive. One of the portraits looks at you." Lysa took of her Harry Potter custom and put on a Black wig. "It is a lady about the age of ten and eight sitting on chair. She has black hair and green eyes and she wears an elegant dark green dress. She says...," Lysa did her best impression of a flirting American Southern belle. "Hello good ser. Merlin, you are just the most handsomest man I have ever seen walking these halls. Well, there are some pupils but they are too young for me to lust for." The accent made them laugh.
"Hello, beautiful Lady." Renly began so sweetly. "I am in search of a Horcrux."
"A Horcrux? Here in Hogwarts. Don't be ridiculous. There is no way that such a vile and evil thing can have entered the sacred Hogwarts."
"Are you sure, my lady, that you haven't seen a Horcrux or anything suspicious?" Stannis interfered.
"Stannis you're not there." Lysa reminded him in her normal voice. "Remember, you have all split up so all of you are in different places. Anyway...," she paused to find her Southern Belle accent. "Hogwarts was created by four of the most powerful wizards and witches of the land. Their protection spells would have alarmed anyone if something as evil as a Horcrux got in unless..." She looked at Renly meaningfully.
"Unless what my lady?" Renly took the hint. The boy was attentive even if he was so young.
"Unless the Horcrux was created inside of Hogwarts or if the Headmaester Dumbledore allowed it to enter."
"I knew that something was suspicious with the Headmaester!" Stannis interrupted.
"Stannis shut up, you're not in the same place as Renly's character." Edmure silenced him.
"What do you mean my lady?" Renly took the cue.
"Well, if the Horcrux you would have to do a ritual which would include killing a living human being and Hogwarts is a citadel for promising young wizards and witches. Anyone would have smelled the stench of dark magic unless the ritual was done in a secret place like Salazar's Secret Chamber or The Room of Forgotten Books."
"I would like to go to Salazar's Secret Chamber."
"The entrance is in the girls' bathroom. Trust me you can't miss it. Also say hi to Myrtle for me. Such a shame that the girl died so young." Lysa took off her long black wig.
"So I go to the girl's bathroom." Renly made gestures as if he was walking
"Ren of Storm heads for the girl's bathroom. Meanwhile, Musa is wandering around the citadel and you bump into a young red-haired girl and she drops a black book."
"Oh, I'm sorry, my Lady, I say. And I help picking up her black book." Selyse said and Lysa made a hand gesture for her to shut up.
"Watch where you are going elf. Who is your master?" Lysa said with a condescending tone.
"I serve no one, my Lady?" Selyse said meekly and felt intimidated by Lysa's gaze. Stannis was going to open his mouth but Renly covered his mouth with his hands.
"Of course you do, you're an elf. There's no such thing as a free elf in the world of wizards of witches. All elves are slaves. Tell me are you trying to run away from your master? No, don't tell me that you are one of the kitchen elves. Maester Flinch! Maester Flinch! An elf is trying to run away." Lysa quitened down. "The red-headed girl runs away to get someone to deal with Musa. What are you going to do?"
"I stay. I haven't done anything wrong." The rest of the group except for Tyrion gave her the approval for doing the strong thing.
"The girl comes back with an bald-headed man that only have a few strands of white hair sticking out. He has a crooked nose and a wart beside his mouth. He puts you in magic shackles." Lysa tried to make her voice sound more old and manly. "Running away from the kitchen are you. How dare you try to run away!"
"Please, maester. I'm not any of your slaves. I try to convince him that I'm not a slave".
"Roll the die for persuasion."
"Ah, seven hells." Selyse swore as she got a meek two.
"Silence!" Lysa intimidates Selyse to be quiet as she acts. "I'll show you what it means to disobey us wizards." Lysa returns to her normal narrative voice. "Musa is being taken away to Hogwarts dungeons to be punished for a crime she never committed."
"Can anyone help me?" Selyse looks at Lysa.
"Musa yells and yells for help and her call for help is heard by Lionel The Great who is a nearby." And Lysa nodded towards Tyrion as it was his turn.
"Tyrion save me!" Selyse begs him.
"What's that? I think I heard Musa for a moment. I must be growing so old that I am hallucinating. I decide to go the opposite way of where Musa is being taken." Tyrion turns a blind eye to the situation with Selyse's character.
"Tyrion stop being such a dick." Renly frowned at him.
"See I told you we should have let him die, the last time." Stannis shook his head at that wasted oppurtunity.
"Tyrion, please!" Selyse begged him.
"Tyrion," even Jaime was frowning at him.
"Alright fine. I let my conscience take over and I turn around and decide to help Musa."
"As Lionel The Great approaches Musa who is being taken away by Maester Flinch you notice a black book that Musa is holding and because you are a great magician you see the dark and evil magic that is leaking from the book." Lysa narrated.
"Finally we found a Horcrux!" Renly shouted out in cheer.
"I walk towards Maester Flinch and I greet him as an old friend." Tyrion narrated.
"Maester Flinch is confused, he does not know you." Lysa responded accordingly.
"I introduce myself as Lionel The Great."
"Lionel The Great!" Lysa says in her Maester Flinch voice. "Is that really you?"
"Yes, it is."
"Maester Flinch falls unto his knees and say: 'I am your biggest follower. I can't believe that I'm seeing Lionel The Great. The Greatest Magician, besides Merlin, here in flesh. May I touch your feet your highness?'"
"Can someone explain to me what is happening right now?" Selyse was getting lost.
"It seems that Lionel The Great is practically a god in the world of wizards and witches." Edmure analyzed correctly.
"I don't let Maester Flinch touch me and I tell him to release my slave, Musa."
"Since when did I become your slave?" Selyse glared at him.
"Maester Flinch gladly releases Musa for you and he invites you for some tea."
"I say no and I tell him to go away."
"Maester Flinch walks away in joy and cheer but slight disappointment. Meanwhile, the read-headed girl stares at you in disbelief."
"I tell the girl to go away."
"The red-headed girl walks away with a blush in her face and now it is only you and Musa along with the black book, Horcrux. Meanwhile in another part of the castle Kevin the bard is surrounded by young witches who are enchanted by his looks and musical talents. One of the girls has bushy brown hair and teeth like a rabbit. And she's grinning from ear to ear by just looking at you."
"I greet the girl, because she seems important." Jaime narrated. "I say: 'Hello, my fair lady. May I know your name?"
"My name is Hermione Granger," Lysa says while pretending to be shy teenager who is infatuated.
"'Lovely to meet you, Lady Hermione, I'm Kevin the bard' I say and I kiss her hand."
"Hermione is flattered and says 'You must forgive me for my silliness. I've never met anyone as handsome as you before. Handsome guys rarely speak with girls like me."
"Surely you jape, my lady. How in the world could anyone ignore such a beauty like yours."
"Hermione Granger blushes and then switches subjects before she dies of flatter. "Why are you here Kevin the bard?'"
"Well, I'm here looking for Horcruxes."Jaime just said honestly.
"Horcruxes? Then you must be here because of Harry. I'm Harry's best friend so I know what is going on. Can we go somewhere more private to speak?"
"If that's what you want my lady."
"Hermione leads you to the gardens and you two sit at a bench near a fountain. You notice Hermione's sad eyes as she watches the fountain."
"I ask her what is wrong."
"And she answers, 'I feel guilty. I feel guilty for betraying Harry'".
"What do you mean my lady?"
"When Harry returned with Cedric Diggory's body I had thought like everyone else that Harry had ended up killing him. You see, the reason why I thought that was because Harry was in love with Cho Chang, Cedric's lover."
"Oh, this story is just getting better and better," Tyrion said.
"See, I told you all that something was suspicious with Harry. For all we know he might have killed Cedric and put the blame on Voldemort," Stannis just had to feel like he was right all the time.
Lysa ignored them and continued.
"And I remember that Cedric and Harry had a large argument the day before the last challenge of the Triwizard competition. I saw them fighting."
"What was the fighting about?" Jaime was now getting more interested in the story.
Rhaegar and Arthur were drawn into the story and even they seemed to try and puzzle the bits and pieces they've learned together.
"I'm not sure but it seemed that they were fighting over Cedric's lover, Cho Chang. But I don't think Harry could have ever killed Cedric. Harry admired him from the bottom of his heart. Cedric was like the big brother he never had." Lysa pretended to sigh. "I need to go now. I have lessons. Maybe I'll see you around the citadel later. Hermione goes away and you are left alone in the garden." Lysa turns towards Edmure. "Meanwhile, Ser Asgard is going around and speaking with ghosts. Eventually you meet a beautiful ghost."
"Good day my Lady,"
"And what brings you here knight?" She said with an eery and a voice devoid of emotions.
"I am not a knight, my lady. I am a mercenary. Although, I used to be a knight. I have been hired by Headmaester Dumbledore to vanquish evil objects called Horcruxes."
"You?" Lysa snorted and gave him the looks. "And what makes you think that a human knight can destroy Horcruxes? You are more likely bound to die. Even the best of wizards die while trying to destroy Horcruxes. I know of one of them. He died as an unknown hero. No one knew except for his slave elf. He died while trying to destroy a locket which that evil Tom Riddle or as people know him Voldemort had made a Horcrux out of."
Stannis wrote down some notes.
"And who is this unnamed hero? I shall pay my tribute to him after I've finished my quest."
"His name was Regulus Black. He was the younger brother of Sirius Black who was also known as James Potter's best friend and also Harry Potter's godfather. But Regulus' death was tragic as he died in slow and excruciating pain. Hence why I suggest that you turn around mercenary before the same thing happens to you."
"I fear no pain my lady," Edmure tried to smolder while saying with a deep voice, which made everyone snort and tried their best to hold back their laughter. "Pain is nothing compared to doing what's right. Besides, I am not alone. Lionel The Great is with me. And if he can't destroy a Horcrux then may Stannis the half-god can do it. My companions are strong enough to destroy Horcruxes, trust me."
"I see. I've heard about Lionel The Great. They say that he is the second Merlin and many revere him as a god. I suppose if my mother, Rowena Ravenclaw was still alive she would have used love potions and anything to seduce Lionel The Great and have his child." Tyrion shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "If you claim to have him as a companion then go to The Room of Forgotten Books. There you will find my mother's diadem in which that bastard killed an innocent four-year-old child in order to turn it into a Horcrux."
"I thank the ghost and leave for The Room of Forgotten Books." Edmure finished.
"Stannis the half-god enters the study room of Headmaester Dumbledore who is an old man with long white hair and a long beard." Lysa puts on a fake white wig and a fake white beard along with a wizard hat. Everyone tried to hold back from laughing at her. "Ah, the legendary Stannis. What an honor it is to finally meet you."
"I greet the old man and use my perception skill to survey the room to find anything odd." Lysa handed him a twelve die to roll. He hit sixteen.
"The room is just like any other study room you have seen. Books and shelves. Nothing out of the ordinary, however, you wonder why Headmaester Dumbledore is wearing a black glove on his right hand."
"I tell him to remove his glove."
"He doesn't want to."
"I persuade him."
"Roll the same die." Stannis hit ten.
"You don't manage to persuade the Headmaester and he asks you to leave."
"I don't leave and force him to take off the glove."
"Headmaester Dumbledore throws a spell on you. What's your defence points?"
"Two tens."
Lysa rolls her die and the points were not enough.
"Headmaester Dumbledore's spell has no effect on you."
"Good. I take the Dragon Slayer and chop off his hand." Lysa told him to roll the die and he had enough points.
"Stannis there is no need to be so cruel," Selyse chastized him.
"Well, if only he had listened to me." Stannis smirked.
"The hand with the glove on falls down while Headmaester Dumbledore screams in excruciating pain." Lysa pretended that her hand had been chopped off. "I was a fool for hiring you!"
"Well, better luck next time I tell the old wizard. I leave the old man to deal with his pain and take off the glove of the bloody hand."
"And you see a that the hand have almost turned completely black." Lysa continued Stannis narration. "You see that the cause of it is the ring on the middle finger."
"I suspect it is a Horcrux and wrap it around a cloth and then I go and look for Lionel The Great." Stannis finished.
"Meanwhile, Musa and Lionel The Great are inspecting the black book. There are only blank pages in the book and nothing is written in it." Lysa narrated.
"I don't care and ask Lionel The Great to destroy the book as soon as possible." Selyse said.
"Hold on a second. I write something in the book with a quill that I summon from nowhere." Tyrion said.
"The writing disappears and blood-red letters appears and it says: 'Hello, I'm Tom Riddle. This is my diary. Who are you?'"
"Tom Riddle was Voldemort wasn't he? I still suggest that we destroy the book." Selyse really wanted to get this over with.
"Wait a moment. We might be able to extort more information from this Tom Riddle." Tyrion let his curiosity take over. "I take my time befriending Tom Riddle for more information."
"Please roll the die." And the lucky bugger just got enough points for the truth.
"You find out that Tom Riddle was an orphan boy. His mother was a witch and his father was a normal human. You find out that his mother had used a loved potion on his father that made him fall in love with her and when the potions' effects wore off his father left his mother. His mother died during childbirth and he ended up in an orphanage. There he killed his bully Billy with magic while he was still only nine-years-old. Tom Riddle was a perfect pupil on the outside. Handsome, charismatic and skilled in magic but his heart was filled with anger towards the world and he desired to rule the world which he knew might take hundreds of years and he might get assassinated so he desired to become immortal. He found out that he could become immortal by Horcruxes as they allowed him to never truly die. His first Horcrux was this diary. He killed Myrtle by using a Basilisk, a giant snake that can kill by only having you look into its eyes. She was crying in the girls' bathroom when she was unfortunate to look into the basilisk's eyes. The second Horcrux was his grandfather's, Marvolo Gaunt's ring. He had killed his grandfather to turn that ring into a Horcrux and he framed Morfin Gaunt, his uncle, for the murder. The third Horcrux was Helga Hufflepuff's Cup Salazar Slytherin's locket which he stole alongside Salazar Slytherin's locket from Hepzibah Smith who claimed to be the descendant of Helga Hufflepuff. He killed Hepzibah Smith during the creation of his third Horcrux. The fourth Horcrux was Salazar Slytherin's locket and he killed a whore for it. The fifth Horcrux was Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, to which he had kidnapped a four year old child who was the daughter of Tom Riddle's father with another woman. These five were the known Horcruxes to Tom Riddle's diary."
"That was a lot of killing but then again given his childhood it's understandable," Tyrion sighed as he wrote down some notes.
"Just because his childhood was difficult it doesn't excuse his deeds." Selyse Florent also wrote down some notes.
"I never said it excused his horrible deeds. I only said that I can understand Tom Riddle. I mean his mother practically raped his father and when his father regained consciousness again he abandoned Tom's mother who died in childbirth. Tom had nothing and no one important in his life to teach him right from wrong. And if you add a little magic to a boy who has no one and nothing he would definitely try to become someone that everyone remembered whether it was good or bad memories." Tyrion explained which made Jaime become a bit concerned about his brother.
Lysa continued the story.
"As Tom Riddle's diary spills information, Stannis the half-god has found you. Meanwhile, Ren of Storm enters the girl's bathroom where you meet Myrtle." Lysa narrated while putting on her Myrtle costume. "I thought for a moment you were Harry Potter."
"Harry Potter goes to girls' bathrooms?" Renly showed a disgusted face.
"Usually because no girl wants to be here since I am here. They don't like the thought of a ghost watching them doing their bodily needs." At that moment everyone shivered at the thought that a ghost might be watching them.
"So what is Harry Potter doing here again?"
Lysa has a cheshire smile.
"He was secretly meeting his lover here."
"Cho Chang?" Renly asked and Lysa shook her head while smiling and the truth dawned upon Rhaegar and Arthur as their mouths dropped for a slight second. "Hermione Granger? Another girl? Who was his lover?"
Lysa kept quiet and the rest began to understand. Everyone else but Renly understood until Stannis whispered in his ear.
"You mean he was secretly meeting a guy. That is disgusting." Renly grimaced and Rhaegar smiled a little as he wondered how his friend and brother-in-law would have reacted.
"Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory started out as love rivals and did everything they could to gain Cho Chang's love. Eventually Cho Chang chose Cedric Diggory and I can't blame her for that. The boy was simply too handsome not to be chosen. Eventually along the line Cedric and Harry got into a fist fight here in the bathroom and the fight eventually led to them both passionately kissing each other and they realized that all this time they had been in love with each other."
"Oh, I think I'm going to be sick." Renly fake puked.
"However, Cedric Diggory was the heir to House Diggory and his father would not be happy to hear that his son was sword swallower. Hence why they kept their relationship a secret."
"Too much information. I ask Myrtle about Salazar's chamber or whatever it is called."
"Myrtle shows you the entrance which is a hidden door on the floor but she also tells you that you can only enter it by saying the right word in front of it."
"Meh, takes too long. I call upon my dragon Val who breaks through the walls of Hogwarts and I tell Val to break the entrance open."
"Roll the die for attack." Renly was lucky. "Your dragon breaks the entrance open and it is revealed to be a giant tunnel leading into darkness. Big enough for your dragon to go through."
"I go through it together with my dragon and I use a torch to find my way through the darkness."
"The tunnel leads you to a round door decorated with snakes."
"I make Val destroy the door." Renly rolled the dice and hit enough points. The boy was on a roll.
"You enter a large sewage hall with your dragon Val and at the end of the hall you see a giant Basilisk sleeping. The Basilisk is opening its eyes and you have no time to close your eyes. What's your defence points?"
"Ten and three. Seven Hells!" Renly swore and was chastised by Stannis for doing so. "No, no. Lysa, please don't do this to me. I can't die now." Renly cried.
"Ren of Storm falls down with eyes wide open. The dragon Val cries over your dead body and starts fighting with the basilisk in a rage. The fight is echoed and the rest of your team can hear it." Lysa turned to gesture for Jaime.
"I follow the noise." Jaime said.
"Me too." Selyse said.
"Me three." Tyrion said.
"I go too. Someone has to bury his body," Stannis calmly said while earning a glare from his younger brother.
"I'll continue to get the Horcrux in The Room of Forgotten Books."
"Kevin the bard, Musa, Lionel The Great and Stannis the half-god enters the Chambers of Secrets and you see Val fighting vigourously with the basilisk. Meanwhile, Ren of Storm lies on the floor as if he was sleeping with eyes wide awake."
"I go and cry over his body," Selyse said.
"Is there no way to revive Ren of Storm?" Jaime asks.
"Well, his soul has already passed on. You could use a revival spell but you would only have his body revived and not his soul. He might as well just be an empty person."
"So it is useless," Tyrion said in a matter of fact.
"Rest in peace brother. You have done a splendid job until now." Stannis put his hand on Renly's shoulder.
"The dragon Val is losing against the basilisk and has been bitten so many times that the basilisk's venom is spreading faster and faster throughout its body. Val eventually dies. Meanwhile the Basilisk is slowly turning towards you."
"I close my eyes!" Selyse said quickly.
"I quickly cast a protection spell over my eyes." Tyrion quickly said as he had a feeling how this would go.
"Roll the die." He was truly lucky. "The protection spell works. The Basilisk eyes won't harm you. Stannis, what do you do?"
"I avoid looking into its eyes and I run and attack the giant snake with Dragon Slayer."
"Tough choice. You'll need a twenty or higher." Stannis was really lucky.
"You manage to dodge the basilisk's attack and you get close enough to strike it and there is an opening. How do you strike it?"
"I first take my sword Dragon Slayer and I jump up unto the top of the snake's head and I stab it right through its head."
"Please roll the die for damage." His luck had finally run out.
"The basilisk manages to avoid your sword and headbutts you into a wall." Lysa rolls for damage. "You only get bruised." She turned her head to Selyse.
The rest of the battle went pretty awkwardly as Stannis kept getting beaten up by the Basilisk because his attacks were failing miserably. Lionel The Great ended up saving the day by using magic to break its neck. Meanwhile, Ser Asgard found the Horcrux in The Room of Forgotten Books. They had managed to get three Horcruxes in total. The diary, Rowena's diadem, Gaunt's ring. However, since no one knew how to destroy them they made it Selyse's task to find out.
"Alright, you've managed to get three Horcruxes so far. How about having some food now and we'll continue the adventure later?"
Lysa got up and stretched as she did that she just remembered that she was in front of a prince and immediately put down her arms.
"Your highness, what did you think about the game?" She asked him not at all eager to hear what he has to say.
"I was so drawn to the story that I forgot that it was a game."
"So you liked it?"
"I loved it."
"Then perhaps you might want to join the game. Ser Arthur Dayne, do you also wish to join the game?" Both of them told her that they might consider the thought but she knew that they never were going to play the game. The game even if it was exciting it was still very childish and Rhaegar had to uphold his reputation after all.
They went down to the dining hall and she ate until she got full. She waited for Edmure to finish eating his food and then they would go out to the garden and have a walk and some fresh air before returning to play the game. While walking in the garden she spotted Elia Martell along with her and Rhaegar's daughter.
"Lady Tully," The princess Elia Martell called.
"Your highness," Lysa curtsied.
"I heard that my husband has taken a liking to a game you play. Perhaps I should drop by and see for myself what the game is all about."
"I would be honoured, your highness."
"Please, call me Elia. A friend of my husband is a friend of mine." Lysa simply nodded and then excused herself to go back to the others.
Lysa was glad that Rhaegar had decided to participate in the tourney rather than be with them again. Rhaegar really made her feel uncomfortable. She thought that it could be because she knew that he was going to die and yet she wasn't going to do anything about that. She was after all just a bystander anyway. Bystanders usually didn't have much power. Besides who is not to say that things would have been better with Rhaegar being alive.
As the game continued the players found all of the Horcruxes and they were heartbroken when they found out that they had to kill Harry Potter before they killed Voldemort, since he was the last Horcrux. Some of them had gotten very close to Harry Potter and didn't want to kill him but during the vote the few who wanted him to live lost. The story was supposed to end with Harry Potter being buried and Edmure paying tribute to Regulus Black. However, surprisingly out of nowhere Selyse decided to throw wildfire on Hogwarts as revenge for how elves were being treated as slaves in their society. Hogwarts burned to the ground along with all the witches and wizards and elves working there who didn't manage to get out of there. It was a good thing that all of this was just in their imagination and not in real life, because certainly the innocent lives lost in that fire would plague anyone's mind.
During dinner Rhaegar sang yet another sad song again and she again had to deal with the noise of crying and sobbing women blowing their noses from time to time. Lysa had concluded that Rhaegar Targaryen might have been the most depressing person she had ever met. Perfect on the outside but so much daddy issues on the inside. However, because he was depressed and probably tired of life he was pretty popular among women, and Rhaegar would have been a popular musician if he had lived in Cinderella's world. People in Cinderella's world were into depressing songs just like they were in Lysa's.
Lysa would pray for the depressing prince to become happy in the future. Even if he was a depressing person he too deserved happiness and love.