Again thanks to my reviewers, I hope this story is keeping you entertained… any ideas you want to give me of anything you think should be changed, criticism is always welcome, just don't flame, I think its pointless to be honest. oh and the latin in this post means "Death Sleep" well, I got it from a translator so i dont know if its right!

Chapter 6: Who the hell…. is Nicholas Flamel?

The Slytherin dorm was woken early the next morning to the patter of an owl trying to get in

"Why didn't it come with morning post?" Draco groaned, finally getting out of bed to let the owl in, it flew straight through the drapes to Xavier's bed, Draco shrugged and looked at the clock on the wall, it told him to was still far too early, so he got back into bed, trying to ignore the cold in the room and get some sleep.

Xavier read the letter from his aunt Petunia and the 'letter' from his mother, he smirked in the darkness, at least this would get the Headmaster off his back for a little while, at least till he did something to warrant another meeting….


September melted into October and the boys found themselves getting used to Hogwarts, they also noticed that Neville Longbottom was having a hard time in Gryffindor and no-one was standing up for him, Xavier was furious at the lack of Gryffindors standing up for Neville and decided it was time he did something about it- not because he liked Neville, but because he new about the Prophecy, and he knew that Neville was the Prophecy Child…

The boys left their doom one morning to find some of the seventh year Slytherin students terrorising a first year Gryffindor

"… Please let me go" the boy whimpered "Ive done nothing to you" he added

"Useless spineless Gryffindor" one of the boys laughed "Engorgio!" he laughed, making the boy's slightly bucked teeth huge so the boy couldn't speak

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Xavier asked sharply, the boys turned round to glare at the person who interrupted their fun but paled at the sight of Xavier.

"Leave him alone" Dudley stepped forward "The boy has done nothing to you, now I suggest you take off that spell and get out of here" he snarled with much more ferocity than he actually felt, the Seventh years nodded mutely and ended the spell on the Gryffindor, the older students left the hallway and went towards the Great Hall

Dudley helped the boy up

"You okay?" he asked him

"Y-yes thank you" he stuttered

"Dudley Dursely-Evans, and you are?"

"N-Neville Longbottom" the boy stuttered

"Pleasure to meet you Neville" Dudley smiled, Neville saw Xavier behind him and shank back

"I b-better go," he stammered

"Whats the rush?" asked Xavier "Are you sure you're ok?" he asked him

"Y-yes I- will be" Neville told him "t-thanks for getting them to stop though, your Xavier aren't you?"

"Xavier Riddle yes" He replied, Neville nodded at him

"W-well thanks Xavier, I better go, I want to get some food before I fail at Potions…bye" Neville walked off towards the Great Hall when he heard a loud voice

"Oy Neville, associating with the enemy are we? Why don't you just get a transfer to Slytherin?" it was Ron Weasely

"Sh-shut up Ron" Neville said timidly
"What was that Neville? Defending Slytherin's are we?" He walked right up to the shaking boy

"I said shut up!" Neville said, a little louder than before "I was only thanking them because a bunch of seventh years were cursing me Ron! They stopped them for me! What else was I supposed to do?" he spat "At least they stood up for me, even if they are Slytherin's! Its much more than you would have done!"

"Don't you talk to me like that!" Ron snarled, towering over the boy "You should be ashamed of yourself! Associating with Slytherin's! You're a Gryffindor Neville! Its time you proved it!" he pushed the other boy slightly

Xavier turned to Dudley

"Duds I'll leave this to you, I need to go talk to Snape" he said

"Sure but you must eat before Potions Xavier" he nodded, Xavier just smirked and walked off back towards the Potions classroom…


Dudley and Draco walked up to Ron

"Well well Weasely, bullying others in your own house? Not very friendly!" Draco sneered

"Oh look Neville, your little snake friends have come to the rescue!" Ron shoved Neville towards Dudley, who stopped the boy from falling over

"Now listen here Weasel" Dudley pinned Ron to the nearest wall "I think its time you learnt some manners, you should be thanking us for helping Neville, not having a go at him, now ill give you a choice, either you leave him alone and I don't beat you within an inch of your life…. or I beat you within an inch of your life and you leave Neville alone…what's it to be?" he punched the boy hard in the gut to prove his point….


Meanwhile, Xavier was talking to Professor Snape

"………I just think it would be for the best" Xavier shrugged

"Xavier, I know why you think that, but I cannot change my attitude towards Gryffindors" Snape explained "But as it is you…. I'll give Weasely hell for this lesson and partner Dudley with Neville, see if he can help him"

"Thank you Sir" Xavier nodded "Normally I wouldn't care but Neville is the Prophecy Child, he's the one sworn to be able to kill my Father, I'd prefer to try to sway him away from Dumbledore- Lucius told me everything" he added, seeing Snape's shocked look

" I see. Well I'll inform your father of this development when I next get the chance to speak to him" said Snape "The chances of us getting him a body back soon aren't looking good at the moment, we need a Philosophers stone or something" Snape sighed "go on Xavier, you need breakfast before Potions, I don't want you passing out" Snape added, Xavier nodded to Snape and left the room


He joined Dudley and Draco at the Slytherin table a little later

"We need to watch out for Weasely," said Draco "he was having a right go at Neville, I mean, I wouldn't care but-"

"Weasely's an asshole" Dudley cut in, Draco nodded at him

"I know, Ive talked to Snape and sorted something out," said Xavier, taking some toast from the rack in front of him and beginning to put butter on.

When the boys got to Potions a little while later, they saw Neville sat alone, it seemed the incident with Ron had turned his house on him with the looks that he was getting from the other members of his house, apart from the Mudblood girl, who was trying to talk to him, Neville just ignored her.

"Hey Neville" Dudley called over "Why don't you come sit with us?"

"I-Iam allowed?" he asked timidly

"Sure c'mon" Dudley gave him a small smile "It'll be better than trying to do the potion alone because the Gryffindors wont help" He added

"O-okay then" Neville nodded, He grabbed his things and moved across to the Slytherin's side of the room.

This change of events angered the Gryffindors to no end, and loud whispers of "traitor" could be heard all through the room. Neville sighed and turned back to his cauldron, trying in vein to forget about what he could hear

"Ignore them Neville," said Dudley "Professor Snape's given us an easy potion to make, here, you chop the mandrake roots into little pieces and ill get on with sorting out the dragon scales" He gave the clumsy boy a reassuring smile and they got to work.

Neville was a surprisingly good person at Potions, once he didn't have Snape breathing down his neck and scaring the hell out of him, Dudley noticed he had a certain art to what he did

"You're really good at Potions you know," He said

"N-No I'm not" said Neville "I'm rubbish, everyone knows I'm one step away from being a Squib," he said dejectedly

"Don't be so hard on yourself" said Dudley "I had no idea I was a Pureblood Wizard until I got my Hogwarts letter! My mum kept it from me! So don't think you're so bad at it, Im probably worse!" Dudley smirked at him


After Potions was finished for the morning, Xavier went to get his books for Transfiguration from the Dungeons before he headed to dinner

"… I am well aware of that Minerva…but we will just have to see how this pans out" he heard the voice of Dumbledore

"But Albus…" the voice began, somewhat hesitantly "There's already been a break-in at Gringotts, luckily it wasn't there"

"We will simply keep an eye out… now let us go for some dinner" Dumbledore's tone made that the conversation was closed.

Xavier shrugged as he grabbed his things from his room, on his way back through the corridor to the great hall; he began to put a plan together in his mind about trying to help his father.

On his way towards Herbology, Xavier noticed the groundskeeper tending to some of the large pumpkins in their soil beds

"Morning 'arry!" the man waved, Xavier growled and didn't acknowledge him, although he did overhear some voices

"…. And he said it was something to do with someone called Nicholas Flamel, but I have no idea who he is" it was the voice of Weasely

"Yeah but what's this got to do with the break-in at Gringotts"

"I don't know, He just said it was between Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel," said Ron "C'mon we'll be late for Herbology at this rate"

Xavier ducked behind a low wall as the Gryffindors walked past, he didn't want them to notice him, yet Xavier had a funny feeling he had heard the name Flamel before….


"Flamel you say?" Draco raised an eyebrow

"That's what I heard him say," Xavier nodded as he sat on his bed in the dorm, the three boys had gone up there to talk

"Oh well, we better keep an eye on them, but I think its time we got some sleep, its Halloween tomorrow and according to my mum, the Feast is brilliant" Dudley muttered sleepily

"Hmm indeed, night Dudley" Draco got into bed, "Night Xavier"

"Goodnight Draco, Night Dudley" He muttered, fighting back a yawn.


The next morning, the trio had Transfiguration, Xavier walked into the classroom to see Neville sat with Blaise Zabini

"Morning Zabini" he nodded

"Morning Riddle" the Slytherin nodded

"Morning Longbottom" He nodded to the Gryffindor

"Hi" Neville replied nervously as Xavier slid into a chair beside him "thanks for letting me pair with Dudley in Potions"

"Its okay, Listen, tomorrow meet me out side the Potions Classroom" Xavier told him "okay" Neville nodded, Draco and Dudley said their hellos and sat down just before McGonagall walked in to start the lesson.


When the Slytherin's walked into the Great Hall that evening, they hardly recognised it. A thick dense fake fog surrounded the four house tables with tombstones running down the sides of the room, live bats chirruped and flew across the room, narrowly missing hitting the large carved pumpkins that were sat at the heads of each table, with one on each end of the Staff Table. Xavier turned round to Draco

"This is good" He nodded as they took their seats

"Yeah but I miss trick-or-treating" Dudley whined

"Trick-a-what?" Draco asked him

"Never mind, it's a Muggle past time" said Xavier "Kids dress up as Vampires or something and go knocking on peoples doors for sweets"

"Sounds degrading for Purebloods like us" Draco sniffed, seemingly rather affronted by the idea.

The boys hadn't even finished their puddings when Professor Quirrel ran into the Great Hall

"CHIMERA IN THE DUNGEONS!" he yelled before running out again, supposedly to his office

Students began to panic at the thought of a Chimera in the building

"Who would have set one on a School?" Draco asked

"Shh stop panicking" Xavier said sharply "Knowing Quirrel it is a diversion to get whatever is being held here, something to do with the break-in at Gringotts"

"Good point" said Dudley, as they were lead down the halls back to the Dungeons

On their way towards the dungeons, the Slytherin Students, who were being lead by the seventh years, saw the Chimera heading right for them as it turned a corner

"HOLY SALAZAR!" one of the prefects screamed, whipping out their wand "STUPEFY!" he cried, some of the sixth years tried with him, bit it had noeffect on the Chimera.Xavier pushed his way to the front

"Ill sort it" He took out his wand and shouted "mortalitas obdormio!"

A blue light flashed out of his wand and hit the Chimera in the face; it stopped in its tracks and fell to the floor with a grunt

"Nice one master Riddle" said a silky voice from beside him "fifty points to Slytherin for defending students in the face of danger" Xavier looked up to see Professor Snape looking at him, beside him was Dumbledore

"Yes Severus, but im intrigued to know how young Mister Riddle knows the Death Sleep curse"

"I don't have to answer that Question Dumbledore. Now shouldn't you be thanking me for saving your students?" Xavier hissed angrily

"We shall discuss this in the morning, students its time for bed" Dumbledore snapped, obviously angry at the situation.


The next morning, Xavier met Neville outside the Potions Classroom

"Neville you came" Xavier smirked at the Gryffindor

"An-Anything to get out of Gryffindor Tower" Neville replied

"Well if I have my way you wont have to go back to that Tower…. c'mon we have a meeting with Professor Snape and Dumbledore" he told him, Heled Neville up to the Headmasters Office

"Why are we going up here?" asked Neville

"Im getting you transferred to Slytherin, as Gryffindor wont allow you to stay there" Xavier told him "The Hogwarts Charter states that a Student can change houses if the other students of their house refuse to take them in"

"Oh I see…." Neville muttered as Xavier knocked on the Headmasters door

"Enter" came the loud voice of Dumbledore, Xavier walked in with his head held high, whilst Neville walked in after him, and Neville saw that his head of house was there, as well as Professor Snape

"Ah Xavier, your on time" Dumbledore smiled at him

"Yes Dumbledore ill keep this brief" Xavier said sternly "I wish for Neville to be transferred to Slytherin" he stated, Dumbledore looked shocked

"Im sorry Xavier, but that's not possible. Neville is a Gryffindor," he said after a few minutes

"As Section 32 of the Hogwarts Charter, paragraph 3 point two states; a Student in any one house can transfer of their own free will if their own house does not take them in for any un-given reason" Xavier told him harshly "and if you hadn't noticed, Ron Weasely and his little lap-dogs have turned Gryffindor house on Neville, and He's unhappy there"

"Is this true Neville?" Dumbledore turned to Neville

"Y-Yes Headmaster sir" Neville nodded "Ron and everyone make me feel awful being there, Xavier and Malfoy and Dudley are the only Slytherin's who took any notice of me and took a look-out for me, Dudley helps me with my Potions and I've not melted a cauldron since my first lesson and even Professor Snape would say my makes have improved" he got more confident with each sentence

"Is this true Severus?" asked Dumbledore

"Yes headmaster, Longbottom has improved considerably, the Slytherin's have taken him in better than any Gryffindors would" said Snape

"I don't know…."Dumbledore began "What do you think Minerva" he turned to the Gryffindor head of house

"I don't know Albus, but if Neville is uncomfortable there, then if he would feel better in Slytherin then so be it, it's out of our hands, the Charter-"

"Damn the Charter Minerva!" Dumbledore frowned " Neville is better off in Gryffindor where he should be!"

"BUT IM UNHAPPY THERE!" Neville yelled at the headmaster in a surge of panic

"I think" Snape cut in before the headmaster could react "Neville should try on the Sorting hat again, see if anything has changed"

Dumbledore, beaten, retrieved the Sorting Hat from its place on the shelf and sat it on Neville's head

Ahh, mister Longbottom, nice to see you again, what seems to be the problem? Asked the hat in his ear

"Well", Said Neville "The Gryffindors have disowned me and I get on better with Slytherin's so im hoping you can Re-Sort me? Id feel much happier in the Slytherin dorms even though you seem to think im a Gryffindor"

I see, and you're sure you want to go to the Snake house? Asked the Sorting Hat

"Yes" said Neville "they're the only ones in the whole school who don't pick on me or hate me for being friendly with them, id do better there than Gryffindor"

"Well if you're sure…" Said the hat in his ear. It then shouted the answer for the room "SLYTHERIN!"

It was harder to say who was more shocked, Dumbledore, McGonagall or Snape. Neville took the Sorting Hat off his head and watched as his Gryffindor Shield on his robes became the Slytherin crest, the red hem of his School robes became silver

"Well I think that's done, im sure you will find your things in the Slytherin Dorm this evening, if mister Riddle doesn't mind sharing with 3 boys?" Dumbledore seemed to snap back to reality

"That will be fine Dumbledore," said Xavier "Now if you don't mind, I need to show Neville the way to his new House and get him acquainted with his new housemates"

On their way to the Dungeons, Neville looked at his new robes

"Your right, I look better in Green" Neville grinned at Xavier

"Yes Neville you do" he replied with a small smile, "Here we go here is the dorm entrance, the password is Cognatus Castitas, which is Latin for Pureblood" Xavier explained as they walked through into the Common room and Xavier sent a loud crack from his wand to gain silence.

"Fellow Slytherin's. It is my honour to introduce to you, a new Slytherin, Neville Longbottom! I trust you will take care of him as you would do anyone else in this house-that is all"

After that, Xavier and Neville took their places with Draco and Dudley

"Xavier we've found out who Flamel is!" Dudley grinned

"And who is he?" he asked quickly

"He's the maker of the Philosophers stone" Neville told them "he's made the only one in existence, Gran said it was being hidden at Hogwarts because You-know-who maybe after it"

"Neville you're a genius!" Dudley slapped him on the back, making the other boy flinch a little

"Why?" he asked

"That's what's here? No wonder…. Yes it would make sense, I better owl my Father" Draco was muttering

"Yes Draco, Owl Lucius tomorrow please, I need to know what we will do"

"What would?" asked Neville "And what do you mean what will we do?"

"That is a conversation best left till later Neville" said Dudley, looking at the other students in the common room


Once all the other students had gone to bed and the fires were burning low, the three turned to the new Slytherin, who was eagerly reading a copy of Moste Potente Potions

"Neville there are things you need to know…" Xavier closed his eyes for a long moment "do you know who my Father is?"

"I don't… sorry" Neville replied, putting the book down

"My Father is Lord Voldemort" Xavier said somewhat proudly, Neville stared at him for a few seconds

"Oh…" he said

"At the moment Draco's father is trying to find a way for him to re-gain a body so I can live with him, and your knowledge of the Stone has helped generously"

"I suppose it did" Neville was shaking and looking at the wall as though he could burn a hole in it with his eyes

"What's wrong Neville?" Dudley asked after a long silence, "I know it's a big thing to find out but you'll be okay, Xavier likes you and his father wont hurt you or your family"

"Its not that Dudley okay?" Neville stood up angrily "his father is the reason I have no parents!" he pointed accusingly to Xavier

"My father-?" Xavier asked

"Bellatrix Lestrange, one of your fathers most loyal Death Eaters cast the Crucio curse on my mum and dad so much they went insane! They now live in St. Mungo's and have no idea who I am! have you any idea what it feels like to go and visit your parents when they have no idea who you are or even what day it is!" Neville rounded on Xavier and punched him so hard he flew into the wall at the other side of the room.

Neville stared at what he had done

"Oh my god...Xavier I'm so sorry… I just lost it-" he began to try to explain

"Don't worry about it, I had no idea about it Neville i really didn't, Once my father is well again ill see if he can do anything to restore your parents minds, but I need to know something" Xavier looked at him

"Go on" Neville asked

"Would you take my own Dark Mark? It would shield you and your family from Dumbledore, it would make you immune to Veritaserum and you will be taken care of"

"I don't know, Id need time to think about it…" Neville muttered

"I need to know, otherwise I will have to Obliviate you" said Xavier,

Neville paced the floor by the fire for a few minutes

"W-when would I have to take the Mark?" Neville asked

"Once I consider you ready…. it wont be for a while yet as my design isn't finished"

"And you promise I wouldn't be harmed?"

"I promise. But I think there's something else you need to know, do you know why Dumbledore was adamant to keep you away from me and in Gryffindor?"

"Err no" Neville replied

"Because before we were born, there was a Prophecy made, I don't know it exactly, but Draco's father told me that it states you are the one chosen to kill my father" Xavier told him stonily "And that is why he wants to keep you on his side, to make you into his little pawn and mould you into a fighting machine against my father, as you hold the power to kill him" he explained,

There was a long silence until Neville spoke up

"Well fuck Dumbledore!" He spat "he wanted to keep me in Gryffindor where I was unhappy, Id tried asking him to let me change houses ever since that first fight with Ron but he wouldn't let me" he sat down again

"Then can we say you're one of us?" asked Draco

"Definitely, I just need to break it to my Gran that im not a Gryffindor anymore, my parents were Gryffindors you see… this might anger her"

"Just tell her not to send you a Howler at the dinner table, if she wants to send you one, she can send it during the evening" said Xavier "now I think its time we went to bed, don't you?" he stifled and yawn and the three boys showed Neville to their dorm.