Chapter Two: The Impossible Is Rightfully Possible

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland

When they were finally let out of the Hospital Wing, Draco Malfoy sent letters anonymously to Susan. He did not want suspicion to arise that he was suddenly talking to the Hufflepuff let alone if word got back to his father. That was the last things Draco needed were a letter from either of his parents and one he wanted to avoid.

Still they tried to find some clues as to who could be the other two reincarnated founders of Hogwarts. It obviously had to be a student of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor but it was harder considering the bad blood Slytherin had with almost any student these days. Susan helped, which was nice but it still did not get them any farther in trying to find the other two until a clue smacked right in front of him.

Potter. Draco could tell something was off because he was looking at the Slytherin almost every single day and doing a poor attempt at hiding it. So was Padma Patil but she usually was looking at the Hufflepuff table and doing a better job at hiding it than Potter was. He told Susan of his suspicions and she had a hunch as well.

"Maybe they could be Ravenclaw and Gryffindor?" Draco groaned. The last thing he needed was that Harry bloody Potter was Godric Gryffindor reincarnated. Still, Susan and he followed Potter and Patil when Susan overheard a conversation in the library. They were talking in whispers and promised to meet up in the fifth corridor. Draco hoped that she was right and they weren't about to stumble upon Potter and Patil in a makeout session. Bleh!

They walked a couple feet behind them and as they turned the corner to an empty wall so did they. Draco thought they didn't notice them until Potter had his wand wiped out pointing it at Draco. He pulled out his as well ready to counter-attack whatever spell Potter was about to send his way.

Susan and Padma were just trying to calm down the fight. "Why are you following us Malfoy?"

"I'd ask the same question about why you and Patil are sneaking around?"

"Are you Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw?" Susan blurt out. Draco wanted to facepalm himself or silence Susan's mouth from revealing too much stuff. He was half expecting them to start laughing in their faces and call them mad.

"You're Hufflepuff and Slytherin, I take it?" Padma asked to which Susan nodded. Draco looked at Potter who seemed to be trying to ask the same question he had in his mind. "How are you sure?"

Padma looked at him with a serious expression. "I don't know but... I just do. It's an instinct like how I know that your Gryffindor. I know that their Slytherin and Hufflepuff."

"Your Gryffindor?" Draco asked. Potter nodded, "And I'm guessing your Slytherin? Great." The last part he said with a deadpanned voice. Draco rolled his eyes.

"So now that we've got that mystery figured out here's the next one. Why are the founders reincarnated?" Draco asked. Padma and Potter exchanged looks toward one another before Potter answered. "What? What is it" He barked at them. He just wanted someone to give him answers, he was tired of guessing.

Potter sighed, waving at them to come forward. "Come on, we'll explain when we're inside the room."

They followed them, Susan voicing the same thought Draco had in his brain. "Wait, what room?"

The room of requirement was something Draco had never seen before and it was amazing. They all sat down on the couches and Padma started the explanation as to why the Hogwarts founders were in the 21st century.

"So," Draco drawled. "Hogwarts is in danger and by us being the founders, we can somehow unify the castle from the inside? Thus defeating the enemy?"

All of this was impossible, wasn't it?

They knew who the threat was, that part was easy to see from the getgo. Getting her out... well.

Dolores Umbridge was a vile woman one that even Draco had to admit was trying to ruin Hogwarts from within. Still, he did not see the worst of her until Susan came back from detention late at night. On Monday.

Draco and Padma both decided to research on whatever they could find about the founders. Padma wanted to talk to some of the ghosts like the Fat Friar but Draco advised her that it would not be a good time with Umbridge snooping around, so Padma reluctantly postponed the idea.

Susan and Harry came in right after detention, both looking pale. Draco knew something was off because Susan wasn't being, well Susan. "What happened?" He saw Harry and Susan look at each other, Potter hiding his right hand. Alarm bells were already ringing in his ears. Susan finally allowed him to look at her hand.

Draco felt sick.

I will not talk back, was carved on her hand, blood staining part of her sleeve. Padma already snatched Potter's wrist, his hand also had words carved in blood. Draco squinted and saw I will not tell lies carved into his hand as well, just like Susan.

"She used Blood Quills," He hissed. "She's using these things on students!"

How could someone with the Minister's authority do something illegal and harm children? It just didn't make sense. That's when Draco started thinking a lot. He's been doing that recently ever since the blood quill fiasco. He gave a healing ointment to Susan and passed one along to Padma to give to Potter a few days later.

"Just tell him that I didn't poison it. If Susan has it then he's safe, only doing it cause it will get infected if it's not treated properly," and before Padma could say anything he turned, walking away from the conversation.

What's different about you? They asked.

Something changed with them, look at so and so, they whispered.

That's how the whole body of Hogwarts was looking at them. They were glad to keep feigning ignorance, keeping their group apart only in the dead of night would they meet up. But they stood by in two.

A Slytherin and a Hufflepuff.

A Ravenclaw and a Gryffindor.

This drew out Draco's paranoia at times, something none of them knew about Draco, granted they knew nothing about each other.

Draco nearly got a heart attack when Professor Dumbledor awarded him and Susan house point for showing an "alliance between different houses," not before winking at them like it was an inside joke they were all sharing, walking away. Susan had to stop Draco from going on a rant to the others about how the headmaster at Hogwarts knew they were the reincarnated founders.

Potter called him paranoid. "Well one of us has to be, it might as well be the house that's always been interpreted as the bad house!" None of them talked afterward and when they left the Room of Requirments, nobody uttered a goodbye, each leading to the direction of their common room.

They had tempers, some coming to a boiling point (Draco and Harry) other simmering but trying to find solutions (Susan and Padma), still, the whispers, talks, rumors and looks that were given by their fellow students was unnerving considering how Umbridge was closely watching Harry and Susan. She tried to make jabs at whatever could make one of them tick, usually Harry being the one to take the bait. Susan almost took one before a desk conveniently caught on fire causing mayhem to erupt in the class.

Susan thanked Draco afterward with a chocolate muffin from the kitchens when they went to the Room of Requirements that night.

"I'm sorry." Draco had to make sure he was hearing things correctly.

Potter tracked him down at the Owlery and had asked him if he had a few minutes to spare. Draco gave him nonverbal answer in the form of a short nod which meant a yes for Potter, meaning he could talk.

He apologized for calling him paranoid but he had asked a question after the apology. "Are you on our side? That you think Umbridge was sent here on the orders of the Ministry?" Draco nodded.

He had a lot to think about over what happened to him this whole week. That he might actually care for this group of people and that there could be a possibility that his father was about to do something stupid. He could practically hear the conversation Lucius Malfoy had with Narcissa, a week before Draco went back to school. It was about some guests that would be hiding with them for a while. Whoever these guests were, his mother didn't believe him and told him "if you let them come, they could hurt Draco. Rodolphus, Rabastam, Bellatrix-Lucius, they were in Azkaban for a reason!"

There was also the fact that he had another aunt, one that his mother never talked about and one that Draco was curious. Who was she and how did she get herself kicked out of the Black family? Maybe she could help him? It sounded like a dumb idea by just thinking it.

"Yes. I'm on your side Potter." The dark haired boy seemed satisfied with his answer but stayed put next to Draco. "You've got something else on your mind?"

He did. "You don't understand what it's like to be a Slytherin, do you? Here, when you go into my house, the other three houses see exactly one thing-evil. Admit it, you thought it too along with the others before this shit happened. Slytherins have always been ostracized from the others, at times we just mold ourselves to what the world sees us that way we can survive longer. Maybe that's how You-Know-Who survived before you blew him up and it's been working for his followers but for us students, we just barricade ourselves, never letting in the others. Because once we do, someone's heart will break and it will probably be our fault. It's always Slytherin's fault eventually."

"Well, why don't we show them Slytherin isn't the stereotype we other houses think it is," Potter said. Draco raised an eyebrow, not believing in what he was hearing. "That's impossible. If the old Gryffindor and Slytherin were once friends, why not us?" It sounded foolish but then again, everything that Draco's been doing has been perceived by his housemates as foolish as well. Might as well start with this.

His hand was outstretched, offering Draco what words cannot describe. A peace offering, trust and maybe even friendship. A memory echoed in Draco's ears.

You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.

Draco took it, shaking his hand.

It was hard for them to try an hide what was happening under the surface, that is until Padma told them that they weren't meeting in the Room this time. They were going to seek out some information about this.

"It took me this long, god I'm such an idiot," Padma said out loud. "You aren't an idiot, you're smarter than any of us," Harry said which made Padma blush. Susan nudged Draco who smirked. It wasn't hard to look that Padma and Potter liked one another, even a blind person could notice it.

"So who are we going for information Padma? The Fat Friar?" Susan asked as they walked out of the Room and to the corridor. Padma had a gleam in her eye like wherever they were going was such a brilliant idea.

"Nope. My house's ghost, Helen Ravenclaw."

NOTES: Here is chapter two! Hope people like it, comment below and what you liked, what you did not like or if you just want to say hi. I'll be happy to reply folks!

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