Harry Potter and the Ways of the Jedi

A/N:
Another chapter. Summary and disclaimer are in chapter 1.

Chapter 3: Discoveries

Harry woke up feeling well rested despite his visit from Voldemort the night before. He looked around him not recognizing his surroundings at first, then it all came back to him. Snape, the time turner, Yoda, the Force and the fact he hadn't finished his discussion with his friends. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny woke to the sounds of Harry pottering about getting ready for the day, and they decided that they, too, would do the same. After various morning rituals were completed, the four friends sat down to continue their discussion.

"Harry? What did you mean when you said you'd received memories from a past life?" Hermione asked, a tinge of worry entering her voice.

"Well, for some wizards or witches, when they reach the age of majority, their souls regain memories from a past life. Depending on the amount of magic the wizard or witch has available to them, they regain either a partial recollection, or they have what's known as a mergeing." Ron supplied as his friends and sister looked on in amazement.

"how did you?" Hermione managed to sputter out.

"I asked dad about magical maturation before I went through mine last year." Ron stated, cutting Hermione off gently.

"I believe I went through a 'mergeing'." Harry tentatively offered.

"Who's memories did you gain?" Ginny asked, placing her small hand in Harry's offering comfort, should the conversation go south. She had a shrude idea, but wanted him to tell them all.

"S-SSalazar S-Slytherin." Harry stammered out. This was it, it was all over now, his friends would abandon him to his fate, running away screaming that he was an evil wizard. To his utter shock, it was Ron that broke the uncomfortable silence first.

"Cool! It's about time you showed up little brother! It's bloody lonely ya know!" then he said in a softer, yet contrite voice,

"Can you forgive me Sal? Forgive us? We, all of us, were fools! To think so little of you and you of us. We betrayed you, threw you to the dogs, cast you out in your darkest hour, and yet you're here, still my best friend after a thousand years. I don't believe it! And if I'm right, Row and Helga are here too!"

"G-G-G-Godrick? It's really you? I, you, it," This was all too much for Harry and he broke down. Soul wracking sobs burst from him as a thousand years of hurt, guilt, anger at himself, regret for the loss of his friends, and loved ones finally took their toll.

"Shh little brother, it is us that should be sorry, we wronged you and it is up to us to pay for it, in blood if necissary." Hermione spoke soothingly, while the trio held him and offered comfort and appologies. No sooner had the words left her mouth, did her eyes go wide.

"Ah. Sister, ever the, Ravenclaw." Harry's newly sharpened tongue distributing the friendly barb.

"There'll be no need for a blood oath. I'm too damned trusting for my own good, even though I was supposed to be the cunning and ambitious one." Harry offered up with a gentle barb at himself.

"My dear, sweet, Sal, ever the voice of reason." Ginny countered, warmth in her voice.

"Helga? but, how?" Harry was floored, he, and his friends had become the reincarnation of the founders of their much beloved Hogwarts!

After much talking, and speculations as to how Ginny had gone through her maturation early, and the reason all of them had undergone a 'mergeing', the subject came up of Harry's various power transfers. Harry had postulated, and the others seemed to agree, that in order for the mergeing to occur, Harry needed the equivalent of Slytherin's power. This however, begged the question as to how the Head Master, his parents and Sirius knew. Hermione seemed to think that they may never have known, and just offered their power to him on the day of his majority, on account of the prophecy. At this declaration, Harry's eyes widened and he suddenly remembered.

"That's it exactly! I remember now. All I could hear was: 'And he shall have a power the Dark Lord knows not.' being chanted over and over again by the four of them."

"Well, I'll be damned..." Ron said weakly.

"I don't envy you one iota. You've got to destroy your heir. bugger." Ron's last word summed it up neatly.

"Bugger; indeed." said Harry,

"However, Riddle was born to the bastard line of Gaunt, he was the bastard child of Tom Riddle and Marope Gaunt, and thus has no claim to the Slytherin line. in creating his first horcrux, he destroyed any hope of ever being the heir of Slytherin!" Harry informed his friends.

"But but, that would mean;" Hermione choked out,

"Ah. I see our resident Ravenclaw has come to the right conclusion. Yes Hermione, I am, in fact, the true heir of Salazar Slytherin. The bulk of Hogwarts's students, had the right of it, but, for the wrong reasons." Harry smirked.

"You pulled more than my sword out of the hat didn't you." It was not a question, but a statement.

"indeed; I did. My own blade was stored in there too, so I extracted it at the same time." Harry smirked again, his eyes dancing with mischief.

"Damnable snake." Ron shot back.

After a few pillow fights, playful insults, and much laughter was enjoyed by the four, they all headed out in search of Ron's second love, food. They had just entered the mess hall when Yoda hobbled up to them.

"Awake you are, well rested I hope, and, what's this? at peace you are? Your story you will tell me. but first, come, eat we must, hungry am I, eat a hippogriph I could hmm? Hm hm hm hm hm!" Yoda chuckled the four sniggering behind their hands.

"Humph! younglings you act like, but know better I do. old your spirits are. Stood the test of time your friendship has." Yoda grumbled while they all went off in search of food.

A/N:
Ok folks, Training begins next chapter. I wanted to address the slight reference I made to power transfers and the regaining of memories I made in chapter 1. This will play a part in future chapters. if it is at all possible, I'd like a beta for this fic. I don't always find the errors, and being blind, I need someone with a pair of eyes to ensure the layout is something you can all stand.
thanks for reading!
blind-phoenix