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The Founders Return
by blackrhino
Chapter 3
An hour later and the argument in Dumbledore's office was still raging. Albus, James, Sirius, Remus and Lily were sat in the circular room. The only thing they could talk about was the four strangers.
"They must be the Founders!" yelled James.
"But the snake said they have other names!" howled Sirius
"They call each other by the Founder's names!" shrieked James. "Ric is short for Godric, Rena must be short for Rowena and Sal has to be short for Salazar!"
"They can't be! It's impossible!" snarled Sirius, glaring daggers at James.
Lily was desperately trying to calm down the two men, Albus was sat at his desk, and Remus was sat in a corner with a piece of parchment across his lap. It was very rare that James and Sirius ever fought.
"Albus?" questioned Remus.
"Yes my dear boy?"
"I think you should see this…"
"What is it?"
"It's a map of the school. It shows everyone on here. You can see Poppy in her office, but the beds with our guests in are empty. They don't show up on the map."
"That's not possible. The map shows everyone on it. Unless…" started James.
"Unless what?" said Albus with a questioning look.
"Unless they're dead… Or they simply don't exist."
"Or, they're finally clever enough to hide them selves from the charm that makes the map work!" finished Sirius with a smile on his face. "I've got to ask them how they do that!" he squealed like an excited child "and then murder them for being so darn clever!" he added on the end.
Dumbledore stared amazed. Not even he had found a way to deceive the infamous Marauder's Map. These four travellers must be extremely clever. Not to mention powerful! The Slytherin boy's power levels were off Albus' scale! (Albus has a special talent for assessing people and their power). These four people must be the Founders! Albus thought. They must be remarkable individuals! He found himself so excited that he couldn't wait until they woke up. He had so many questions to ask them! And, if he played his cards right, he could stop Slytherin from turning bad.
"Albus!" a voice called from the fireplace.
"Yes Poppy?" Albus asked.
"Three of the travellers are awake. They seem to be rested, even after so short a time." Poppy replied before disappearing.
"Are you coming?" Albus questioned the four professors that sat in his room. They all nodded and followed Albus through the fireplace.
As the five entered the hospital wing, they were met by excited chatter. The three conscious travellers were sitting on the bed next to their friend. They immediately stopped talking as they saw Dumbledore stood in front of them.
The 3 travellers looked gobsmacked.
"Hello travellers. My name is Albus Dumbledore and I am the headmaster of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry."
"Umm, hello Headmaster. We're very sorry for intruding like this" started Ravenclaw.
"Not to worry. In fact, I'm quite interested about a couple of things…"
"I think this can wait until we are all awake. Don't you think?" politely asked Gryffindor.
"Then you're going to have to wait a while" Poppy said. "He's going to be out for ages. He was badly hurt."
Ravenclaw and Gryffindor turned back to their friend while the others stood in an awkward silence. A sudden groan from the bed broke it instantly.
"He shouldn't be awake!" gasped Poppy. She hurried to his side. "He shouldn't be awake. He shouldn't! He should be out for a couple of weeks! This is crazy!" she muttered.
The boy started to sit up, only to fall back down with a wince.
"Ouch" he said emotionlessly. Hufflepuff jumped onto his bed.
"That's the first time you've admitted that you're in pain for a long time" she started.
"Really? When was the last? My memory doesn't extend back that far…"
"In the chamber, when that basilisk fang pierced right through you're shoulder." answered Hufflepuff
"Yeah well, that hurt. A lot!" playfully snapped Slytherin.
"Well, now that you've admitted you're in pain, will you let the medi-witch help you?" asked Ravenclaw.
"Who said I was in pain?" said the raven haired teen, with a smirk that would rival Malfoy's.
"Urgh! You infuriating, incorrigible…"
"How you doing mate?" butted in Gryffindor.
"Been better, but I'm not complaining" Slytherin answered, ignoring the fuming Hufflepuff next to him.
"Sorry to break up you're little chat, but I'd like to ask you some questions" asked Albus, "starting with, how did you get here?"
"Ask Rena. She's the expert." replied the burly red-head.
"Well," started Rowena "I found this spell that lets you travel through time and space. You just say the spell, think of the people you want to take, direct the spell to a powerful power source coughSalcough and voila! You end up somewhere completely different!" finished the brown haired teen.
"It would be good if you could control where you were going though." muttered Salazar.
"We come over in two groups. Me and my three friends here come over first, make sure everything is OK. Then a couple of days later, the rest of our party turn up. It's safer for them that way." explained Rowena.
"So there are more of you?" questioned Lily.
"Only three more people though. Our familiars travel in the second party as well" Godric added.
"Right, second question. You all bear the crests of the Founders. Are you the Founders?" Albus asked.
"Err… In a way."
"Yeah. We're sort of the… rein-carnations of the Founders"
"We have all their memories and skills"
"Yet, we were other people before hand" finished the four.
"Really? That's quite interesting…" exclaimed Albus
"But what were your names before? You must remember them" questioned James.
"We remember them, we just don't use them that often." said Helga.
"I take it you travelled from a parallel universe. Not the past." started Albus.
"That's correct." Rowena said.
"So what are your real names?" questioned Remus, who had stayed silent the whole time.
"They can't be that bad!" exclaimed Sirius at the four's apprehensive looks.
"If you really must know… My name is Ron Weasley."
"Ginny Weasley"
"Hermione Granger"
"Harry Potter"
A/N: Woo! Chapter 3! Sorry it took so long. It may be the holidays, but I'm still insanly busy. And I lost my notebook (which didn't help!) Thank-you for everyone who's reviewed. All 15 of you! I've started chapter 4 and it should be out soon. I'm writing another story as well, but it won't be out for a while. Thank-you for reading, and please keep on reveiwing!
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