The Great Hall was silence for a moment before Penelope stood up and started clapping. Then another Ravenclaw joined her, then another, and then the whole table joined in the applause. The Slytherin table then started clapping, and that broke the dam. Harry's smiled from ear to ear as he walked and sat next to Penelope.
"Welcome to Ravenclaw, Harry." Penelope grinned as she sat back down.
The sorting continued on until "Zabini, Blaise!" who was sorted into Slytherin. McGonagall took the hat and the stool away as Dumbledore stood.
"To our first years, welcome, to our old friends, welcome back. Just a few announcements, but is for later, Dig IN!" Dumbledore sat back in his throne like chair and tossed his long beard over one should, for food had appeared on every table.
"Good grief that is a lot of food." Harry stated the obvious as a few Ravenclaws snickered because that is what they also said in their first year here.
Harry noticed that the most popular dish on the Ravenclaw table was the kidney pot pie, so he grabbed one. The first bite Harry took, he groaned at the flavor and quality of the pot pie.
"This pot pie…is indescribable." Harry said as Penelope nodded.
"I can't agree more."
After the feast, Dumbledore stood and the remains of the feast vanished. "Well, now we have been feed, I believe it's time for those announcements. First years are not allowed to go to the Forbidden Forest. The corridor on the third floor is off limits as well…"
Harry at this point ignored the rest of the speech and turned to Penelope as he asked "What's so dangerous about the Forbidden Forest?"
Penelope started to give Harry a look of shock before she remembered that Harry had been trained by Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith, and Jedi Master Sheldia. Both Force users and were trained to the point where places like the Forbidden forest wouldn't even be that dangerous to them.
"For those of us that don't have a dad that is Sith and a Jedi for a mother, Harry, the Forbidden Forest holds many dangers that would kill anyone that wasn't one of them."
Harry nodded at the explanation. Then Harry heard "Ravenclaws follow me please."
Turning his head, Harry stood as he saw a boy at the end of the table with a badge on his chest, motion for the Ravenclaws to follow. Harry took Penelope's hand, remembering the lesson Jango told him 'Get a partner and stick close to him or her. If you don't, you will probably find yourself dead.' Penelope glanced at Harry before smiling as they followed the crowd of Ravens to, where ever they we're going.
Then they stood in front of a brass raven then it spoke "A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
Harry was shocked until he said "An egg…"
"Correct." The Raven cawed before a door appeared out of nowhere.
"Nice job, you beat me to the answer." The boy with the badge said with a smile.
"Names Jake, perfect of Ravenclaw."
"Harry, Harry Potter and I'm just a student here."
Jake nodded before he led the crowd of ravens to the center of the room.
"Ok," Jake called, "Boy dormitory's are of the left and girls are on the right."
Harry hugged Penelope before turning towards the boy dorms. "
Goodnight, Harry." Penelope said as Harry replied "You too, Penny."
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Albus Dumbledore sat in his office, milling over in his mind, his ruined plan. Tonight did not go as expected; he told the hat to sort Harry into Gryffindor, though the hat stubbornly told him that Harry will go where he is sorted not by someone telling him to sort a student into the house he or she didn't belong. This was supposed to go his way, not this mess.
'No matter, I'll get Harry to be what he needs to be for the Greater Good' Albus thought.
Tonight was going to be a long night for him.
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Harry sat up in his bed because he felt something in the Force.
"If I'm going to follow this, I might as well get Penny." Harry murmured as he got up and changed from his pajamas to his midnight black training suit.
Grabbing his lightsaber, Harry left the first year dorm and, with the help of the force, crawled along the wall like Spiderman to the fifth year girl dorms. What he didn't expect was to see Penelope walk out of said dorm.
"Harry?" She asked, "What are you doing on the ceiling?"
"I was coming to get you, I keep getting prodded by the Force to go somewhere, but I don't want to leave without some backup."
"Ok, ok, let me get something else on and wait for me in the common room." Penny sighed.
Harry smiled at her before he turned around and crawled his way to the common room. A few minutes later, Penelope came down the stairs in a suit like Harry's.
"Wait when did you get a training suit?" Harry asked Penny when she arrived.
"Your mother gave me it so we could train together with our magic." Was all that Penny said to him.
As they exited the common room and into the hall, Harry let the Force lead him and started sprinting to the right, Penny at his side. Harry then ran down a flight of stairs then stopped in front of a bathroom.
"A bathroom?" Harry asked himself as Penny looked for any sign of danger. Pushing open the door, Harry stepped into a puddle of water.
"Who's there?" A voice asked, making Harry freeze in his tracks.
Then a Ghost appeared from one of the stalls, she looked about a year older than Harry and had glasses.
"Hi, I'm Harry and this is Penelope," Harry introduced as Penny quietly closed the door, "And you are…"
The ghost's folded her arms across her chest as she sadly answered, "Myrtle but most people call me Moaning Myrtle."
Harry looked at her. "Myrtle, uh, would you mind if I asked you how you died? If it's alright with you, you don't need to tell us."
Myrtle gave the two a calculating look, "Will you laugh at me if you do?' Penny then said, "No, we won't laugh, we aren't that mean."
"Alright," Myrtle floated towards them and stood, as well as a ghost could, in front of them.
"I was 12 when I died in this bathroom, I think it was 50 years ago, I was hiding from Olive Hornby who was making fun of my glasses. I then hear someone talking, I told whoever it was to go away, but the person ignored me." Myrtle paused to see if they would laugh, but Harry and Penelope motioned her to continue her tale.
"I peeked from my stall at see a boy talking in a made up language to the sink. I got my courage up to tell him to get out and when I walked out of the stall, I saw two big yellow eyes and I died."
Harry looked at Myrtle before he said, "Myrtle, you shouldn't have died that way; you were too young to die."
Myrtle nodded before she pointed at the sink, "After I died, the sink broke and I heard weird sounds coming from the pipes."
"Thanks Myrtle, you're a great help to us." Penelope gave the ghost a smile before all three moved towards the sink.
Harry noticed that one of the handles that turned on the water had snakes on it. Harry then said "OPEN."
And after he said that, the sink started to sink into the floor.
"That was the language the boy spoke." Myrtle squeaked in fright, pointing at Harry.
Harry looked at the two girls, "All I said was open."
"Harry, Penelope said slowly, "We didn't hear the word open, all we heard was a rasping hiss."
Harry stood stock still at what Penelope had just said.
Harry then looked at the hole in the bathroom floor before he said "STAIRS" and stairs appeared along the tunnel.
"I'll go first and then Penny and Myrtle do you want to come with us?" Myrtle nodded and the trio walked down the passageway.
"Bit dark in here," Penny whispered as she took her wand out, "Lumos."
Penny's wand tip lit up the dark passage.
"Thanks for the light." Harry said as they continued down the stairs.
After what felt like hours, though it had only been three minutes, the trio made it to the bottom of the tunnel and they walked into a massive chamber.
"One thing they forget to tell the staff is that they have a massive basement in the girl's bathroom." Harry said jokingly as Penny and Myrtle giggled.
Harry felt the Force pulling on him, so he followed until they found a door with snakes covering it.
"Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?" Myrtle moaned, "I hate snakes."
Harry said open once more and the door opened towards them.
The chamber beyond was massive compared to the cavern they just came from. At the far end was a massive face and along the path to get to the statue face were snakes with gaping maws that made the statues look ready to strike.
"Creepy place." Penelope noted as the trio moved towards the face.
That was when a female voice hissed "WHO dares enter the Chamber of Salazar Slytherin?!"
Harry looked at his companions asking with his eye's if they hear the voice.
"Harry, where did that hissing come from?" Penny whispered as Harry turned back to the massive face of who he assumed was Salazar Slytherin.
"Um, I'm Harry and I'm wondering who I am speaking to?" Harry said, and then the mouth of Salazar opened wide.
A serpentine form slithered from the gaping mouth just as Harry heard Myrtle squeak "Cover your eyes!"
Before harry could though, a massive head erupted from the water before them.
Harry was frozen to the spot, as he gazed upon the massive snake. The reptile then opened its eyes and looked directly into Harry's emerald ones. "How are you not dead yet from my gaze?"
The snake asked Harry, now knew the snake was female, as he said "I don't know, but could you not kill my friends? I don't think they are immune to your stare."
The female snake nodded once before she closed her eyes and opened them again, as Harry saw that her eye's where not yellow but bright green.
"Penny, Myrtle, you can look now." Harry said as the two girls looked at the female snake.
"Harry, that's a Basilisk, King of snakes." Penelope said as she looked up and down the Basilisk.
"Make that Queen of snakes, this basilisk is female." Harry spoke before the Basilisk hissed "I never did tell you my name, did I?" Harry shook his head and the Basilisk hissed "I am Ishmael, Guardian of Salazar Slytherin's chamber."
"Why Ishmael? Isn't that a boys name?"
"Yesss but I'm supposed to be the 'King of Serpents', so I got stuck with that name." The massive serpent whined, must of not been very happy about her name being questioned.
Harry felt the force thundering that he should touch Ishmael, so Harry took a step forward and then another, Penny started to ask "Harry what are you do…"
At that moment, Harry's hand touched Ishmael's scales and a flash of light exploded from the point of contact.
Time Skip: 1 hour later
Harry woke up on the wet floor of the first floor bathroom.
"Harry, you're awake, you gave us a fright when the Basilisk vanished and you started screaming in pain."
Penelope helped Harry into a sitting position, before Harry hissed in pain as he felt his back burn.
"Master? What's wrong?"
Harry heard Ishmael's voice in his head as the pain in his back vanished and a 30 foot long snake wrapped around his legs. Penelope squeaked in surprise at the sudden appearance of the snake.
"Ishmael?" Harry groaned and to his shock, the snake nodded.
"Harry, I think you found yourself a familiar." Penelope said as she edged closer to him.
"A what now?" Harry asked, rubbing his head from where he hit the path, he guessed.
"A familiar, Harry. Familiars are animals that a witch or wizards have bonded with and before you ask, they are not pets." Penelope explained as she helped Harry up to a standing position, Ishmael uncoiling herself from his legs and slithering up his body and wrapping herself, lightly, around Harry and placed her head on Harry's shoulder.
Harry then said, "My life just gets better and better, doesn't it?"
Penny just smiled at Harry before she helped him get back to the Ravenclaws dorms.