I am uncomprehendably sorry for the short chapter and my lack of writing recently. I am going to try and make this one the longest yet. If any of you think there is anything I could improve on please let me know in the reviews.
"It's nice to be back," Salazar said as he rested his head against the wall in his and Helga's living room, "How are you doing, Lady Hogwarts?"
Although not many were aware of it; Hogwarts had picked up so much ambient magic over the years of tutoring that it had developed a life essence and was as alive - or more so in the case of some - as the students.
In response to his question he felt a humming sensation in the back of his mind: a welcome back gesture. Salazar had always seemed to have the stronngest bond with the castle - maybe because he had spent so much of his time developing the wards on the castle and ensuring that they all stayed healthy and were maintained by the pure ambient magic that radiated off of Hogwarts like a tap gives out water.
Salazar merely chuckled as his wife stepped into the room after finally having finished getting ready for the day ahead. Acompanying her were Rowena and Godric who had appeared at some point in the early morning.
"Come along, Godric! Hurry up! We've got Charms first today and we don't want to be late!" Rowena's voice echoed around the large circular room, "We'll already have to miss breakfast!"
The sheer look on Godric's face was indication to anyone that this had been the right thing to say. His eyes had widened in their sockets and his mouth had twisted to form a look of horror at missing the 'most important meal of the day'. Although Helga usually would not condone the look adorning the mighty lion's face, and usually would have told him he was overreacting, she too looked worried as she glanced at the clock on the wall. Classes would start in two minutes: there was no time to run.
Rowena firmly gripped Godric's hand as they disapparated in a pop. Salazar - following his friend's lead - also grabbed his wife's hand before feeling the strange sensation of being sqeeezed very forceffuly through a very tight rubber tube.
They appeared mere seconds after Rowena and Godric had, much to the shock of all the Charms students, directly outside the classroom. Rowena merely smirked - glad to have been able to show off her power.
Professor Flitwick who - until the four had a appeared with a pop and a slight distortion in the air - had been lecturing a poor first year who had come early about the wards that prevented apparition and disapparition inside the borders of Hogwarts, merely gave a disgruntled squeak and walked away from the confused looking boy and up to his desk.
As he called the register he stopped quite visibly at four names - noticeably 'Hermione Granger' more so than 'Harry Potter', 'Ronald Weasley' or 'Ginevra Weasley' (it seemed that even the second lesson in he was still rather shocked about their presence). Class continued after that to be quite uneventful - except for the point at which Salazar charmed his teacup to, instead of walking, jump up and down in front of Rowena whenever she attempted to cast the spell; effectively minimising her success rate - and by the end of it all four of the prestigious founders of Hogwarts were thoroughly bored.
Transfiguration followed a similar path: Salazar transfiguring things and then charming them to annoy Rowena, Helga teasing Rowena that for once she couldn't get something right, and Godric looking extremely disheartened when he discovered that he could not perform a simple first year stunning spell (a lesser variant of the stupefy spell). By the end of the day (for none could disagree) each of them felt like they could sleep for a decade. When they recieved an invitation to Dumbledore's office, however, they all felt extremely curious. It was not until they opened the door that they realised the true extent of the problem for which they had been summoned.