Hey guys… sorry for the long wait.

Oct 31st

Harry had been trying for weeks to find out more about Tom Riddle with almost nothing to show for it. So far all he knew about the wizard was that he got an award for Special Services to the School in 1943. That was it, didn't even say what he got the award for. Nor could he find out what house he was in.

Quirrell was a lot easier to get information from. He attended Hogwarts from 1981-1988 as a Ravenclaw. Got a high graded O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. in both Defense Against the Dark Arts and Muggle Studies, which he started teaching after he graduated.

This left Harry puzzled since there's no way Tom Riddle and Quirrell could have ever met before seeing as how the time between them is too great. This would have to take a back seat in his thoughts today as he had another more pressing problem to deal with.

Harry had been very busy looking into the lives of past students at Hogwarts that he had been spending little time with the current students of Hogwarts. Draco had used this to his advantage starting a rumor that Harry had been cheating on Parvati. Though almost nobody believed it at first until today that is.

Harry had left slightly ahead of the other Gryffindors from breakfast and was about to walk into Potions when he got stopped by Tracey Davis.

"Can I help you?" he asked with no reply coming. He waited for a bit she seemed embarrassed about something. Hearing the steps coming down the stairs he said to her, "If you want to talk later that would be fi…" he didn't get to finish. Tracey had pulled Harry into a kiss, shocking not just Harry, but also Parvati who had just come down the stairs. Tracey broke the kiss and left Harry stunned before realizing Parvati stood there, tears in her eyes. "Wait! Parvati I can explain!" he begged to no avail as she ran away from him.

Hours passed and now it was time for the Halloween Feast, and as Harry sat in his usual space, he couldn't help but notice the glares being given to him. The only ones who believed Harry were the twins and they were the only ones who sat next to Harry, trying to cheer him up.

"Where's Parvati?" Harry asked the twins.

"Her sister Padme had been trying to console her. She's been in the 2nd floor girl's lavatory crying," Fred answered.

Harry sat there feeling horrible, until he smelled something. He couldn't place what the smell was. He kept thinking of what it could be before Professor Quirrell ran in with the answer.

"Troll! In the dungeon! Troll in the dungeon!" he yelled out. Everyone stopped eating as he said, "Thought you would've known," before collapsing on the floor. All the students began to panic.

"Silence!" Dumbledore's voice yelled cutting through the screams of frightened students, who stopped and looked towards their headmaster. "Everyone will please not panic! Now, prefects will lead their house back to their dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeon."

As the Gryffindors passed up the stairs Harry remembered something. Parvati didn't know about the troll. He separated from his house and ran as fast as he could to the lavatory. He had gotten there too late as the Troll was apparently no longer in the dungeon as Quirrell had said but now was holding its club over Parvati about to smash her while her sister tried to think of any spell to hit the troll with. Harry fished his wand out of his pocket, but then quickly remembered that magic doesn't affect trolls as their skin ricochets any spell cast on it. Without thinking Harry quickly transformed into his Xeno form and leapt at the troll. The troll used his club and batted Harry away. 'Well a least the troll isn't attacking Parvati anymore,' Harry thought to himself. Parvati and Padme were too busy trying to process what had just happened to run away from the two battling monsters.

Using his enhanced speed, Harry dodged quicker than the troll could hit him landing a few good cuts along the troll's skin. After dodging another swing, he jumped onto the walls climbing around the troll before jumping on his back. The troll tried to crush Harry against the wall behind it, but Harry held strong, and used his tail to wrap around the troll causing it to fall face first on the bathroom floor. As the troll tried to get up from the floor Harry took the opportunity to line up his mouth with the trolls' head. His second mouth shot out leaving a gaping hole in the troll's head. The floor was covered in the troll's blood.

Harry realized it would not be okay if they were caught so he changed back and scourgified their robes before leading them down to the first floor and into the secret entrance to the Sanctum. Once inside Harry had them sit down in one of the chairs in the study. Almost as soon as he sat down Parvati seemed to snap back into reality.

"What the bloody hell was that?" she asked.

"Um, me saving you from a troll," Harry joked.

"No, not that, that thing you turned into," Padme clarified.

"It's uh, um…" Harry tried to answer, 'How am I going to explain this.'

"I didn't even know you were an animagus," Parvati said,

"I'm not an animagus."

"Then what are you?" Padme demanded.

"I'm a creature, and I've been trying to keep it hidden so please don't tell anyone."

"You have a lot of nerve asking for that after what you did!" Parvati said.

"I saved your life!"

"If you hadn't cheated on her, we wouldn't have even been in there in the first place!" Padme shouted.

"I didn't cheat on her!"

"Oh, then what was that I saw earlier?" Parvati asked.

"I didn't kiss her, she kissed me! If only I could show you what happened."

"There's a penseive in the closet behind the desk," Salazar spoke up, "Just take your wand and put to your head, focus on the memory and pull with your magic. Then watch."

"Thanks Salazar," Harry responded going to set up the penseive.

"Wait, Salazar Slytherin?" Padme asked.

"Yes?" Salazar responded.

"Where are we?" Parvati asked.

"Slytherin's Sanctum within the Chamber of Secrets," Harry responded.

"But that means that you're Slytherin's heir," Padme remarked.

"Look we can deal with that revelation in a bit, can I at least finish defending myself to my hopefully still girlfriend?" Harry pleaded with them. They nodded slowly and approached the penseive.