Alright, it took some time but here is the second chapter!
And yeah, same as always, I am NOT the author of H.P.
It was not even seven a.m. when Arianne had woke up again and looked at her wristwatch.
Still feeling tired she slowly got out of bed and hurried to the adjacent bathroom. It would be her first school day as a student in this time and she wanted to at least look presentable before meeting the other students. After brushing her teeth and a hot bath, which she had to warm up herself with a spell, Arianne went out back to Godric's office and found him sitting on the same spot as last night. One arm still resting over his eyes he didn't bother to look up at her but instead only said "good morning Arianne." He heaved a tired sight and finally looked at her. "We better go to the great hall to get some breakfast first, I don't want to face Sal with an empty stomach." Arianne looked at him and gave a small nod. "I guess I would need to sit at the Slytherin table?"
"Well, as of now, you are an official Slytherin, so yes. It would be better for you to sit at their table, at least for the time being. We do not have a rule forcing the students to stay at their house tables all the time, they are only required to do this on special occasions like the opening ceremony and Samhain." Godric smiled at her encouragingly and stood up. "Now then, your school robe …" and with that he switched her clothes from Gryffindor colours to the green of Slytherin . Arianne looked at her tie and her scarf. Only that there was no tie anymore, just the striped scarf in green and white, but that was not the only change, the design of the uniform also had changed completely. She now wore a onepiece dress in green under her normal robes at that, she sighted quietly and looked at Godric with an annoyed expression. "Don't look at me like that Arianne." Godric grined at her; "you cannot walk around with such a short skirt, I take it in the future it is the standart uniform of Hogwarts but sadly not in my time" he winked at that, "and the green really suits you. I am pretty sure with your dark hair, your pale complexion and your emerald green eyes, you will make many heads turn around." Godric laughed a little. "But on a side note, would you like to be introduced with your real name, or do you want to change your name?" Arianne thought about this a while. Even if she kept her old name, it would not mean anything to the other students, as a matter of fact, her identity as Arianne Potter, the-girl-who-lived, will not be a problem for her, so she told Godric to introduce her with her real name. Godric beckoned for her to follow him. With a fast pace he led her to the great hall and without hesitation he opened the doors and side stepped for her to walk past him.
After Arianne stepped into the great hall, he walked to the teacher's table on the podium. Not knowing what to do, Arianne looked around her awkwardly and saw some students who were curiously looking at her. It was not eight a.m. yet so there were not many students. As inconspicuous as possible she walked to the Slytherin table which was the nearest one to the door and sat down on the first vacated seat she found. The students of the Slytherin house that were present, now all looked in her direction with a curious gaze. Arianne tried to ignore them but quickly though otherwise.
With a friendly smile, (at least she hoped that it looked friendly), she turned to them and greeted them with a slight inclination of her head. At the same time, Godric stood up from his seat and started to talk to the students in a loud voice. "May I have your attention students? As some of you may have noticed, we have a new student. As her head of house is not here, I will introduce her to you. Miss Arianne Potter, sorted into the house of Slytherin will be joining us as a transfer student." With that, he sat down again and started to eat his breakfast. Arianne was uncomfortably aware of all the stares from the other tables. With a glance to the teacher's table, Arianne saw, that Godric was grinning at her again. It must be funny for him to see her in distress; she thought it for the best to ignore his antics, gave him her best glare and decided to just eat her breakfast quietly and ignore the stares as good as she can.
Arianne just finished her breakfast when she sensed an uncomfortable and with the lack of a better word, kind of cold presence behind her. When she turned around she saw none other than Salazar Slytherin himself standing before her. And he looked royally pissed. Uhhh, this looks like trouble. Arianne thought. He's probably just angry because I got sorted into his house. We did not actually start our acquaintances on a good note.
Slytherin looked at her in disdain. "Follow me Potter, we need to talk." Arianne looked at him blankly. She knew that Godric had said something about talking to Slytherin later on, but it seemed like she had to talk to this guys on her own.
"Of course sir." The other students were turning their heads in Arianne direction once again, especially the Slytherins seemed quite interested by their little interaction. She quickly followed him, and how could it be otherwise, he forced a quick pace on her like last night, without so much as a gaze in her direction. What is with this guy? It must be a treat of all people who are in the Slytherin house. They just hate me. At least he is not making stupid comments like Snape or Malfo... yet. She was cursing all Slytherins in her mind without considering that now, she also was one of them. It took some time for her to notice that he was leading her to the dungeons. They stopped before the blank wall that led to the Slytherin common room, which she only knew, because Ron and her had infiltrated the Slytherin house in their second school year.
"In honorem et gloriam" Slytherin said and turned to her. "Remember that password. If you forget it, you would probably have to wait for another student to come by and I assure you, you do not want that." Arianne looked at him with her left brow slightly raised. He walked into the common room and Arianne followed him. The room looked similar to the one she remembered from the future. It was big, the floor and the walls were all made out of dark stone and there were almost no windows, just two. Through them came a pale green light which casted a strange pattern to the wall behind her. There was a big fireplace in the wall to her right. Throughout the room were big soft looking velveteen couches and armchairs in dark green. Some tables with chairs were on the left side of the room. And between the windows were two large bookshelves filled with books.
Slytherin turned to her and pointed to the left side of the room. There was a big door beside the fireplace. "We are a house with lesser students then the other ones, moreover, we are also the only house which resides in the dungeons. It gives us the advantage of having more space. This door leads you to the girl's dormitories. You will find a door with your name plate on it. It leads you to your private room. I had originally decided that own rooms are given only to the older students who have shown exceptional grades and who have petitioned for a room in order to study in private. Of course there are students with parents who have enough galleons to rent a room for their children. After all, most of them are used to having their own room" he said with a blank face. "Godric has asked me to give you a private room. As a matter of fact he also told me, that he decided to be your guardian for the time being." Slytherin looked with an unreadable expression at her and after a while, turned to the blank space beside the door, on the right wall.
Open he hissed in parseltongue and Arianne slightly shivered at that. She had never heard another person beside Voldemort and her speaking in parseltongue. It felt…extremely intimidate. No, that is not quite right she corrected herself, it was as if she should not have heard him. What is with this stupid thought! She scolded herself. Parseltongue was a bloodline inheritance from the aristocratic line of Slytherin. There were no other known families who had the same ability as the knew, there were some other noble bloodlines in Europe who also had a special ability of their own, but not in Britain.
Slytherin looked inquisitive at her and entered the room that had been behind the blank wall. She followed him and without a sound, the door closed behind her.
It seemed to be an office and like with Godric's office, it had doors which led to other rooms. Salazar walked behind his desk and gracefully sat himself down on the big chair behind it. He motioned for her to take the seat in front of the desk, so she did. After a moment of silence he asked; "You have not heard of the abilitiy that runs in my family?" Arianne looked up at him in surprise but quickly dropped her gaze again.
"I do know that parseltongue runs in the Slytherin family. I was just surprised to actually hear it" He did not say anything to this. But he somehow felt that the girl was not telling him the whole truth. She had not seemed surprised. He also did not sense the blatant discomfort from other people who had heard his family and him talking in parseltongue. But saving this thought for another time he continued to talk to Arianne. "Godric explained to me last night that you are from the future due to some…special wish. And it came to my understanding that you had been a student of Hogwarts, a Gryffindor no less. So do tell me, why did you end up in my house?" The last sentence was spat out like it was her fault for being sorted into Slytherin.
"Godric did not tell you? Well, he kind of…found it interesting to sort me anew and he seemed even more pleased at me getting sorted into your house. In the future the sorting hat would have put me in Slytherin anyway if I didn't ask him to not put me there." Slytherin looked at her with what seemed like concealed animosity.
"You refused to go to Slytherin before, but now you decide to let yourself be placed into my house, with me, the founder no less, still being here? You must be out of your mind. I am still not convinced of your innocence and even if I do accept that you are from the future, it is hard to believe that you do not want to use this opportunity to mess around with the current timeline. After all, no sane person would wish upon a dubious crystal orb. So in trying to clear my suspicions you persuaded the sorting hat and joined my house. Either that or you have an inte…Never mind that. That option would seem too farfetched and I do not even want to think of the possibility" he stated blankly.
Arianne looked at him in disbelief. He wanted to say interest right? Like, an interest in him? Me? Interested in Salazar? "Do not flatter yourself Lord Slytherin. If it were not for Godric, I would not have let the hat place me in your house. You are just an arrogant, spoiled aristocrat who happens to be my head of house and which whom I need to deal with. I did not mind being sorted into Slytherin this time because I have to prove to you that I am not a suspicious person. Rather than looking at it from the point of me trying to deceive you, why don't you look at it from my point of view? What better way for you to keep an eye on me, then having me in your own house? You will see that I am indeed innocent of all said accusations from you and also from the unsaid one." She stared at him pointedly at this point. Really now, she could handle any accusation from him, just not being interested in him. If she had a choice, she would have run miles away from him. "I heard from Godric that you guys prefer to teach the students of your house yourself. So, be my guest. You may watch as long as you want, but I am just a simple student who accidently wished upon an orb to get to another place. I just never thought I would end up here however."
Salazar had the same unreadable look on his face he already showed her in the common room. She knew he didn't like her, but that was a mutual feeling between them. What concerned her more, was the fact that she also knew that he wasn't satisfied with her explanation of why she was here. He wanted to know the whole truth probably, but that would include telling him that she was supposedly the savior of the wizarding world against a dark lord, and that the expectation on her, may it be from the followers of Voldemort who want her to get killed or the majority of the population wanting her to kill Voldemort so that they can live in peace again. But both sides didn't care about what she would like to do. She didn't want to die, but she also didn't want to kill anybody. But it seemed like, Voldemort and his followers will not stop until Voldemort's hurt pride at failing to kill her so many times, is restored again. Most important thing would probably be, Voldemort being one of his family's descendants, not a kind of trouble that Arianne would like to get herself into if she had a saying in it.
"First off, a normal student would have never made such a strange are no valid objections on that statement. They may have wished for fame, riches, or even a way out from their current problems like you. But I don't think they would have made it under such an imprecise condition. You need an answer to your problems? You could have just thought about them in your own time, do you not? Furthermore, do you not think that your family and your friends would be sad by knowing that you do not want to confide in them? Instead, you chose to run away from them out of selfishness. They are probably worried about you by now."
Arianne knew he was trying to bait her into telling him the whole story by infusing her with guilt. She smiled remorsefully to herself. Well, he was right of course. A normal student would not have made such a stupid condition to the orb, but as he thought, he did not know the whole story behind it. Her family was dead and her friends were crushing her with their overly meddlesome personalities. Of course she knew they were nosy because they care about her but it just became too much.
Arianne finally looked up into Salazar's eyes and what she told him shocked her immensely.
"I'll say this much Sir, you are not that off. I surely am not someone you would say to have a normal life, since birth. And with the years, after I entered Hogwarts, it became more complicated from year to year. The fact that I ended up in the past, doesn't change my desire for a little time to think and to get myself together." Arianne paused for a moment then continued;
"I cannot tell you the my specific circumstances in the future out of fear, that I would be interfering too much with the timeline, after all, I do not know, what would happen if I were to tell you about the future. You may change actions you would have been doing if it weren't for my appearance or maybe you would just ignore about what I could tell you about the future. But it is too unpredictable. I only ask you to at least believe me, when I say, that I had a good reason for wanting to get away, even just for a little bit."
Arianne was angry at herself that she had tried to reason with this man. She had wanted to give him an annoyed look and tell him that it wasn't his business for what reason she had wished to get away. What was I thinking? Nothing probably. She instead had told him that she was indeed not a normal student and that her life has been a complicated one, at least she hadn't told him about what kind of complications she had, she scoffed at herself.
Slytherin looked thoughtfully at her, especially at the scar on her forehead and nodded once.
"I see. As long as you do not bring any chaos to my students and this school, I will bear with your presence at my house. Also, as a student of the house of Slytherin you may not do any stupid deeds that will bring shame to Slytherin. If by chance you still manage to do something shamefully, I will personally see to it, that you are accordingly punished."
Arianne gave him a cautious glance, as in…detention and such?" He smirked at her and tilted his head slightly to the side, which gave him a mischievous look. "Well…sort of. I do not know how punishment is handled in the future, but at the moment, the head of house will decide how one of their students is punished. Too bad for you that you were not sorted into Hufflepuff, Helga is the most lenient one of us. But do not worry, as long as you do not give me a reason to be angry at you, I will just simply ignore your very being. Now then, here is your class schedule. Even thought the school just opened up two years ago, we already have a surprising number of students for each year except for the sixth and seventh year. Well, I guess most families are of the opinion, sending their children to school for just two years isn't that much different than home schooling them all the way to their seventeenth birthday. You will find just a handful of sixth and seventh year's students at Hogwarts right now. So my friends and I decided to teach those two years together until they graduate. As you can see, you will be taking classes of Defense against the dark Arts, Runes, and Arithmancy with me. The other subjects will be teached by the other heads of houses. "
Arianne looked at him surprised, "are there other teachers beside the heads of houses?"
"Of course there are. It's just that most of us preferred to mainly teach the older students. Helga does not mind teaching the younger years but the rest of us are not used to having young children as students who would rather pull a prank than learn something useful. So in order to get used to them, we do not have many classes with the first and second year students. But anyway, we are not expecting an increase of enrolling new students of drastic numbers in the following years. We still have to make a name for our school. So keeping this arrangement is currently the best way."
Arianne looked at her class schedule. Other classes she had were, Herbology and Potions with Helga Hufflepuff, charms and astronomy with Rowena Ravenclaw and Transfiguration and War Arts with Godric.
"Who chose my subjects and what is War Arts? Is it a subject where we train magical duels?"
Salazar gave her a fake sweet smile. "Godric chose your subjects and no. It's not only about magical duels. He is of the opinion, that wizards and witches should also learn the way of fighting like a… muggle, in case we ever get into a situation where we could not reach our wands. It can be quite, tedious. Even for boys, more so for a girl, so not many students have or even want to choose this subject." And with a shrug he said "he even managed to force me to train with him. It is quite acceptable after you get used to it, at least you will be getting some exercise by doing this, I even heard a female student talking about weight loss after some weeks, but…" he looked at her scrutinizingly and Arianne felt like hitting him now wouldn't be that bad of an idea, even if it meant getting a detention later. But it was not worth it right now. She had decided to try to get along with him. So, with a glare she folded her arms in front of her chest and asked "Would you stop that! I am not fat, if that was your concern!"
He seemed a little annoyed at that, which gave Arianne a slight satisfaction. "I would not call you fat, in fact not even close to a lady whatnot with how scrawny you are. Looking at you, people could easily confuse you with a boy Miss Potter, if it were not for your long hair. I do not know about future preferences, but being that skinny is quite unsightly. I do not want for people to say, that students of my house need to starve" he said with a raised brow. Arianne could not move for a moment. Did he just call her flat?! Moreover, looking like a boy? She may not be the type to stand in front of the mirror for hours before going down to the great hall for breakfast like Lavender or Parvati, but calling her a boy… The nerve! It was imminent he was being rude on purpose. "Do pardon my imprudent words, I am still figuring out how to talk to you in a civil way so that we may get along, but let us postpone that matter to another time. Classes are starting soon, and coincidentally your first two classes are with me Miss Potter, Defense against the dark Arts and after that Arithmancy." Arianne groaned. Lady luck was never on her side when she really wished for it, to start out a day with this prick of a man, in the first lesson no less. Well, at least it's not with Snape she thought and trailed behind her new head of house, kind-of-enemy and teacher.
But before they could reach the door that leads out into the corridor he turned around once more and looked at her seemingly bored. "Before I do forget this matter altogether… and if I may, an advice from me. Do not call Godric by his first name around other people, especially not around students. He may have given you his permission but you do not seem like the type who would like to have unwanted rumors about you two spreading around with him being your guardian and all… Calling him by his first name in public seems quite… intimate. Do refrain from it if you please. Rumors about you will bounce back to the house of Slytherin and as such, it will mean trouble for you" he said with a foreboding glint in his eyes. And as fast as he had turned around to tell her this, he also went on his way again seemingly unconcerned with her unresponsive silence.
Arianne was trying to process the partial warning - or threat, in her head. True, it was not normal at all to call a teacher by his first name, less a lord who also is coincidentally a founder of Hogwarts. God! That had been stupid of her, while she was talking to Slytherin she had always thought and talked of the head of Griffindor as Godric without realization. She kind of went along with it when Godric allowed her to call him by his first name. It was probably due to his easy going appearance that he displayed. But retrospectively and logically speaking, she cannot do that in public, and it seemed like she would have to ask him about the matter of him being her guardian, if it had any significant meaning to it. As it goes since she arrived, she had been more careless with her surroundings than in the future. With a look at Slytherin's back came the thought that she really does not want to end up alone again with that… man, getting along with him seemed to get farther away than it had before. What have I gotten myself into this time?
Yay for the update! Sadly this chapter is shorter than the last one, but the next one will be longer! (that is if you are still interested in reading this story xD
I know, it is all over the place and my friend told me not to be so narrow minded and actually get my head out of the gutter and to start structuring this story but remember, I am still a novice at writing, not an english native so yeah, my english is kind of bad T_T and most important, I am only writing this story for fun ^^
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