On a dark windy night, a young stranger carefully made his way through the village of Little Hangleton unseen by its inhabitants. The young man in question was wearing a black skull t-shirt and black jeans, over which he wore a trench coat that had a hood and reached down to his ankles and was made from black dragon hide. He also wore a black face mask and black dragon hide boots.
The stranger now entered a narrow dirt track bordered by hedgerows. The path was crooked, rocky, potholed, sloping downhill and hedged into a patch of dark trees at the end of the hill. The stranger now stopped as his eyes flickered over a building half-hidden amongst the tangle of trunks. Slowly he walked over to the old door that had a snake nailed to it. The stranger then drew his wand and tapped the door before smiling under his facemask as he felt a faint rustle.
"Dobby" said the stranger as he eyed the snake on the door carefully, contemplating his next move. Soon enough there was a loud crack and the house elf appeared right next to the stranger and said "Master Harry summoned Dobby!"
"Yes I did Dobby, do you have it?"" asked Harry and the house elf nodded before handing him a sharpened fang mounted on a hilt, a basilisk fang to be exact. "Well done Dobby, you may leave now, I will handle things here!"
The house elf nodded before popping away as Harry turned his attention back to the mounted snake before speaking in pastletongne and saying "Open!"
The door did just that and creaked open showing, not a run down shack but instead a wooden room that looked like it had just been built yesterday. It was bare of furniture except for one simple wooden table on which a ring was placed, or rather displayed. Speaking in pastletongue again Harry ordered all the wards and traps to disarm themselves. Harry took a deep breath before he raised his wand. He was taking no chances with this, taking a step forward he saw his first challenge, a challenge which almost made his eyes pop out… A dementor was gliding towards him. Harry wondered how on earth Voldemort managed to get a dementor to guard the ring as he raised his wand and said "Expecto Patrolium!"
A beautiful Silver Stag burst from his wand and charged at the Dementor which caused it to stumble back as it tried to get away from the charm.
'Hang on, since when does a Dementor stumble' thought Harry before realization hit him like a brick 'A boggart, a filthy boggart!'
"Ridiculous!" Harry shouted as the Dementor immediately turned into Casper, which retreated at the sound of Harry's laughter. The Boy-Who-Lived smiled and prepared himself for the next challenge as he advanced onto the stone… there were none. Harry reached it and then stabbed the ring with the Basilisk dagger which Dobby had made from him. A huge scream was heard as Harry was blasted back and straight into the frame of the door.
The Horcrux had been destroyed, off that he had been sure, but there was no way he was going to walk back and claim the stone, so he raised his wand and said "Accio Stone!"
The resurrection stone flew straight into his outstretched hand and after a moment to take a deep breath he closed his eyes and twirled it 4 times in his hand. There was a faint rustle of the breeze before he Harry finally turned around and faced 3 individuals, a young man with flaming red hair who wore robes of red and gold, a beautiful blonde haired blue eyed women clad in robes of yellow and silver and a regal looking women with lushes black hair who wore robes of blue and bronze.
They were 3 of the founders of Hogwarts and probably amongst the most powerful witches and wizards to have ever lived. He had summoned them for a particular purpose, to request their aid to train him. But before he asked them if they were willing to do that, there was another more pressing question to ask them.
"Where is Salazar Slytherin?" he asked.
It was a very tired and completely new Harry Potter who woke up from his slumber, his 3 day slumber to be precise. The reason for this was simple, his Godfather Sirius Black had given him a very strict medical schedule to make up for the years of use and abuse the Dursleys had put him through (which Harry had to make him swear that he would not exact vengeance on them). The treatment itself was a combination of medical potions, healing magic, and unknown to the healers house-elf magic courtesy of Dobby, and he personally felt that the whole experience was completely horrible. To be fair the better part of his treatment was basically vanishing his bones while keeping him afloat and making him periodically swallow a cup of skele-grow, and even though he was in a magically induced coma during that time, but even the he could still feel his treatment taking effect. Still he knew that it would be counter-productive for him to complain considering that the whole thing was done, so he didn't.
There was one good thing about his magical induced coma. It gave him plenty of time to think or rather reflect on what the other founders had told him about Slytherin, and though reluctant to admit it at first, they were actually rather similar. From the tale that the founders told him, Slytherin's earliest memory was watching his parents getting burnt to death thanks to the medieval witch hunts. He then spent the rest of his childhood taken under a wing of a dark lord and trained in the ways of the Dark Arts, however despite this he managed to escape from his adoptive father's clutches from time to time and make friends with several kids who were much older than him, the most notable of whom were Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.
It was those friends that eventually rose up to challenge the dark lord forcing Slytherin to make a choice, forsake his friends and completely embrace the dark arts or join his friends and do the latter and according to the founders, Slytherin chose the latter without hesitation and fought and defeated his father ushering a new era of peace and it was thanks to that era that the 4 friends were able to start their life long dream, a school wherein all witches and wizards would be safe. They spent the next 3 years teaching all those that came to them until Rowena, who was a seer, saw a vision off the future, a vision which started a severe argument between the 4 friends on how they would handle it until Slytherin's argument won out and the others acted on it. Journeying into the newly built Chamber of Secrets, they sealed Slytherin's body in a cryogenic sleep, with his mind wired into Hogwarts so he would no miss out on the major events that played out. His body still laid there waiting to be released by the prophesied one… the one who possessed the mark of a lightning bolt that contained a portion of the soul of his heir.
Harry smirked, unlike the prophesy regarding him, that one was pretty specific, and he was planning to release Slytherin once he returned back to the castle, which he would later today when he went to pick up his wand. His old one had been burnt to a crisp when Fleur went berserk on that Death Eater who was foolish enough to attack him. He actually wondered who the poor sob was and considering that Fleur had only left broken bones after her assault he probably would never know. Wizards had apparently never heard about dental record after all.
"Dobby!" Harry said
CRACK! The house elf popped right in front of him and said "Master Harry, how Dobby may help you?"
"Where is Sirius?" Harry asked as he smiled thinking that the house elf English was getting better… sort off.
"Master Doggy is having breakfast in the kitchen" Dobby replied "Does master Harry want to go to him?"
Harry nodded and Dobby grabbed on to him and popped him into a seat in the kitchen that was facing Sirius put down his newspaper and said "Hey Pup, feeling better?"
"Yeah loads Sirius!" Harry replied "Thinking of going to Hogwarts today and getting myself a wand considering that my old one was burnt to a crisp!"
"Why Hogwarts?" asked Sirius "Wouldn't Ollivanders be better?"
"Where did you get your wand from Sirius?" Harry said sarcastically, causing Sirius to look at him for a few moments before saying "Touché."
Harry smirked at that before proceeding to dig into the breakfast which Dobby had brought for him while Sirius proceeded to finish his own. Just when the were both done Sirius remarked "You know I still can't believe that Hermione came with the Weasleys for the cup, considering the falling out she and Ron had during your last term."
"She came as Ginny guest, not Ron's!" replied Harry "They spent most off their time with each other and away from Ron… for different reasons of course."
Those reasons being that Hermione had absolutely no wish to be near Ronald Weasley considering that their fight from last year had still not been resolved and Ginny wanted to spend as much time with her new friends as possible as she had spent eleven years with only her brothers and Luna as company.
"That makes sense, I guess" Sirius replied as Harry finished his cup of tea, "Anyway, Dobby has a request which…"
"Let me guess Winky right?" interrupted Harry "If you don't mind Sirius, I would like her to be one of my house-elves."
"Then go right ahead" said Sirius and Harry summoned the disgraced house elf and did just that.
"Hey Harry" said Hermione.
"Hi Hermione" said Harry "How are you!"
"I am fine thank you, though it should be me asking you that considering what happened during the quidditch world cup" she replied. Harry and Hermione now were currently sitting inside a Hogwarts train compartment as it headed towards Hogwarts. Hermione was surprised to see that Ron wasn't in the compartment when she entered though considering their current relationship she was glad because of it, after all she had been having really vivid dreams of making red-haired soup and with him so close it wouldn't be easy to resist.
"Perfectly fine Hermione, healers patched me up real good" he replied "By the way, you look like something is bothering you, so care to share?"
"Where is Ron" said Hermione before adding quickly "Not that I am not glad that he is not here because I am, but I though that he would be here."
"I have no idea why he isn't" lied harry through his teeth. He of course knew perfectly well why Ron wasn't there, after all it only took a little convincing to make Dobby create a repeat of their second years trip to the barrier and just like last time Ron was the last to try to enter s only he would be left out.
Harry and Hermione were eventually joined by Neville and after a few locking charms by the brightest witch of their year their compartment was completely secure and it was quite amusing to watch Malfoy and his two goons try, and fail to enter. Soon enough they reached the castle and then made their way up to the great hall where walked to their table and took their seats and sat through the sorting… and Harry had to suppress the vicious urge to smile as the entertainment was soon about to end.
"Stop Minerva" bellowed the sorting hat as she moved to take him away "We have one more student to sort out, a forth year to be exact.
"And who might that be?" asked the head of Gryffindor as the staff, including Dumbledore, decided to stare at the sorting hat at this unexpected turn of events.
"Salazar Slytherin" the hat bellowed causing the hall to go quiet before the doors burst open and a fifteen year old boy with long black hair tied in a ponytail and black eyes, walked into the deathly silent hall. Said boy was wearing a basilisk cape that was floating around him due to the sheer power that he radiated, under which he wore a black dragon hide tunic which had the symbol of Slytherin embodied on the entire torso and basilisk pants with black dragon hide boots.
"What joke is this?" bellowed Dumbledore as he stood up and glared at the approaching boy.
"I assure you that this is no joke Headmaster Dumbledore" said Salazar menacingly as he continued to walk "Now Sit Down"
Before Dumbledore could even move he was suddenly thrust back into the chair where it seemed like someone had applied a sticking charm to him. He opened his mouth to speak but no sound came out signaling that he had been silenced. That in itself told him all he needed to know. That – man – that was walking to straight at them was able to do this both wandlessly and silently which in itself was a feat that he could never hope to accomplish and yet that – man – hardly looked winded, and from his long years of experience he could tell exactly who cast the spells on him so he knew for a fact that this was no joke.
Slytherin walked up to the stool and sat down before looking up at the still shell shocked head of Gryffindor and said "Well, are you not going to place Hameln on my head?"
"Of – of course" she said shakily as she quickly proceeded to place the hat on his head. The hall proceeded to watch as the expression on the founders face grew more and more enraged until he finally bellowed "SO WHAT YOU MEAN TO SAY IS THAT A MASTER IS FORBIDDEN FROM ENTERING HIS OWN HOUSE!"
Lighting cracked in the ceiling and wind howled until Slytherin finally took a deep breath and said grimly "Very well then Hameln, place me in the house that you think that I am most suited for…"
"No drive to learn… though that is a given considering how much you already know" said the hat "and though you are very loyal to you allies, I am afraid that one trait stands out above the rest… w-well then, it better be Gryffindor!"
If the school was shocked before then there was no telling how it felt now as Slytherin made a face before whipping off the hat from his head and placing it in his new head of house's hands. Before taking out his wand and whipping it over his tunic. The Slytherin symbol disappeared and the crest of house Gryffindor appeared over his heart as he quickly made his way over to the house's dining table and took a seat beside Harry.
"W-well then" stammered Dumbledore as he was the first one to recover, from both the shock and from the charms placed on him, "I give a hearty welcome to all of you, and now without further ado, tuck in."
The empty plates filled with food, though with the exception of the muggle-born first years, Salazar and Harry no one proceeded to eat as they were too shocked by the return of the one of the founders of Hogwarts, as two ghosts glided towards the Gryffindor table
"Lo-Lord Sly-Slytherin" stammered the ghost of Helena Ravenclaw who's face was akin to someone who had just seen a ghost, which was ironic considering that she herself was a ghost "H-How are y-you here?"
Salazar put down his spoon of mashed potatoes as he looked at the ghost "Rowena…? No, you're not her. Could you be little Helena?"
"Yes, she is my lord" said the ghost next to her in a smooth voice though his face betrayed what his voice tried to portray.
"From your face I'd say that you are William" said Salazar "and from what I know you are the ghost of my house so you will have to be the one to tell me how my house strayed so far from what I envisioned"
"Mr. S-Slytherin" said a shaky voice causing Harry to turn his face and look at his best friend who he had never heard speak like that "W-what do you mean?"
"Miss Granger is it?" he said causing her to nod her head in agreement "The House which I established, no the house which I had created was suppose to always be pure of heart not pure of blood. According to Hameln my very creation has become a breeding ground for the thing which I despise the most and my own heir thinks that he is fulfilling my last wish by eradicating my own people."
"Your own people?" blurted Ron "I thought you never wanted muggle-born's to come to Hogwarts."
Slytherin snorted "That would make me a hypocrite considering that I am, as you call it, a muggle-born."
That caused the Gryffindor's, well those at least who had broken out of their stupor, to start a whirlwind of whispers. Salazar Slytherin was a muggle-born.
"Bu-but what about the Chamber of Secrets?" asked Hermione "Wasn't that in your words made to get rid of all those of us who are unfit to learn magic"
"Yes and your words ring true more than you know" he replied "The chamber was created in order to do just that, to get rid of those unfit to learn magic." (The air around him started cackling with lightning as he spoke his next words) "Those who would sell out others for their own lives, those who would betray our school and doom all those who live in it simply to benefit from it have no right to live, and they certainly had no right to ever roam within these walls."
"You forget that flame-freezing-charms were invented much later and that those charms are highly complex" said Harry as he looked at the onlookers confused looks "In their time almost all young witches and wizards are persecuted when they start showing signs of magic, even when they do no harm. Many are insulted, attacked, driven away and then hunted down and burnt alive by those who fear what they could do. Entire families were torn apart, kids were ripped from their families to be burnt while their family members were all brutally slaughtered. Yet there were some amongst the magical population who practically engineered this fate to one another and, in order to prevent that from happening here at Hogwarts the chamber of secrets was created as a last defensive measure."
"The other founders both knew and approved of what I did" Salazar added "In fact they themselves added me in creating the chamber and helped us prevent any betrayers from ever entering the castle. But do not miss understand what I am saying, we never killed if we could help it, usually capture and erase their memories before transporting them far far away. But should we have ever had to deal the final blow then none of us would have hesitated to do so. And the chamber proved instrumental in insuring the safety of the school. However if our enemies ever found the chamber than the reverse could also happen and so in order to guard it I placed my familiar in it."
"However there would also be a time when its services would not be needed and order to free it when that time came Salazar bound it to heed the words of his heir never considering for one moment that his own heir might be a danger to those he sought to protect" added Harry
"I gross miscalculation on my part which resulted in a student's death" said Salazar "Her blood is on my hand just as much as it is on my heirs… In either case I seem to be done with my meal, would anyone volunteer to take me up to my new dorm"
"Allow me" said Harry and both students stood up at the same time. "There was a flash of fire and as soon as the Phoenix appeared, Harry and Salazar caught on to its tail and disappeared in a brilliant flash of flames. And reappearing inside the 4th years Gryffindor boys dormitory where there was an added bed with Salazar Slytherin's name on it.
"Quite a show you put on out there tonight" said Harry as the founder fell face first onto the bed, groaning before replying "My magic is completely gone and any longer and I am afraid that I would have fallen face first into the stew."
"And as amusing as that would be, that would have destroyed the effect that we wanted to produce tonight" Harry said "Rest now Salazar, I'll draw up some protections around your bed."
And Harry did just that before taking a shower and going to bed himself.
Once a prodigy of his age and recognized as the apprentice to one of the darkest wizards to have ever lived as well as one of the 4 people solely responsible for his defeat Salazar Slytherin sat at the edge of the astronomy tower watching the sun rise and marveling at how his greatest achievement stood proud and strong 900 years after he and his friends had created it. He smiled as he recalling the day they had finished creating this grand masterpiece before he sat in a meditative pose, closed his eyes and concentrated.
Occulemency was a difficult branch of magic even during the time of the founders, a time where wandless and soundless magic was common, though finding who could do both was pretty uncommon though that was beside the point. Occulemency was about much more than simply putting up mental barriers to protect against a mental assault and besides, anyone of Salazar's caliber he wouldn't need to mediate to do that. You see during his time in the chamber of secrets his mind was hooked up to the castle and for lack of a better description he was basically an invisible mute ghost trapped within its walls and as a result of that he basically had nine-hundred years worth of memories all jumbled within the confines of what was known as Salazar Slytherin's mind.
What few people knew was that a Master of Occulemency, a true master of Occulemency not only had the ability to guard his mind from an external attack but was even able to resist against truth serums and organize his memories and sort out the knowledge within those memories.
Salazar opened his eyes and looked at the sight before him for he what he saw wasn't the beautiful scenery that the ledge of the astronomy offered but instead a Library that bore great resemblance to Hogwarts and yet was even greater that the said Library of Hogwarts. He was looking at what could be considered the pinnacle of Occulemency, his mindscape.
Salazar got to his feet and started to walk through the library smirking at the thought that this was something that Rowena would have created and not himself, though considering how much knowledge his mind possessed he didn't have many options in the first place. Pausing for a moment he took out a book and opened it. Said book glowed for a moment before sucking him in like a pensive memory where he watched the last memory he had with his friends.
Flashback.
7 people stood in a circle inside a room made completely from marble, at the centre of which was a large hole with a winding staircase leading into its depts. There was a creek and the door leading into the room opened and Salazar Slytherin walked inside. The first people he greeted were Nicolas and Penelope Flammel and their 5 year old son William Flammel
"You two were my favorite students you know, and my best." said Salazar "And I have no doubt that you two will become the best alchemist (he nodded at Nicolas) and the best enchantress (he nodded at Penelope) to have ever lived."
"And you are the best teacher we had and ever will have" replied Nickolas "Of that I have no doubt, even if I had doubted you when I first found out I would be taught by a ten year old kid"
"Too true my love" said Penelope before she embraced Salazar and said "We will miss you, you know!"
"I do" he replied before he walked over to a slim and beautiful blonde haired and blue eyed woman who was dressed in robes of Black and Gold.
"You were my first friend Helga, and the most loyal of them" said Salazar as he hugged her before pulling back and saying "I will miss having you by my side"
"I could say the same about you" she replied "Promise me that you will take care of yourself when you awake?"
"I promise Helga, I promise" said Salazar before he walked over to a regal looking woman dressed in robes of deep blue and wearing ornaments made of bronze save for a Silver Diadem in the shape of a raven which had a Sapphire mounted in the centre of it.
"I trust you, you know" he said "Always have always will, and even if I remain frozen forever, even if he will never know who his father was, it will have been all worth is simply to prove my trust in you"
"I know Salazar, believe me I know" she said before she rubbed her belly "And don't worry, he will know exactly who you are and what you strived for"
"Have you chosen a name yet?" he asked and she nodded and replied "Myrddin, Myrddin Emrys"
"It sounds beautiful" he said with a smile as he now knew that even if the world would never know his real families true name, his son… and his love would. "It's a shame I couldn't speak to little Helena before I descended but perhaps it is better this way!"
"Perhaps it is" she agreed before he embraced her, kissed her on the lips, and walked away towards his best friend and his brother in arms. "Promise me you will protect them Godric, them and this school, promise me?"
"I will" said the sandy haired man who was dressed in robes of fine red and gold and had a sword strapped around his back "I give you my word Salazar, I will!"
Salazar Slytherin nodded and held out his hand with Godric Gryffindor clasped and firmly shook. Finally Salazar walked over to the entrance of the chamber and turned around to say goodbye one last time before he descended into it, hissing in pastletongue to activate the wards and seal it off.
Flashback end
Salazar closed the book placed it back on the shelves and sighed. He had many regrets, not being there for his sons life, not being there to see the girl who was his daughter in everything but blood grow up to be a beautiful woman. He never got to spend time with the woman that he loved with all his heart, nor was he there beside his friends when they needed him the most. Yes Salazar was a man of a lot of regrets.
Suddenly a book a hundred shelves away caught his eye and with a simple crack he disappeared and reappeared right next to it and took it out and viewed the memory that it contained before his eyebrow rose and he said to himself "That explains quite a few things though it is certainly anticlimactic, still I wonder how I can use this to my advantage?"
Harry got up bright and early on the next day and took a couple of rounds around the black take before heading back to the dorm room to have a shower and freshen out before getting dressed into his school robes and making his way down to the great hall where he sat beside a lone Gryffindor who's housemates were giving a wide birth. With a smile he took a plate of pancakes before saying "Good morning Salazar, I trust that you are set for the day?"
The founder smiled as he recognized that his friend was asking him if he was prepared for the confrontation that was sure to occur later on in the day "As ready as you are I suspect."
'Translation; I trust that you will be accompanying me' though Harry before replying "True enough, though I wonder why our head of house is heading over here?"
It was a completely rhetorical question and they both knew it as Professor McGonagal walked over to them and calmly asked them, or rather Salazar, to go to the headmaster's cabin in ten minutes. Said founder said agreed to go before continuing with his breakfast and smiling at a green eyed seeker. So far things had gone just as they had predicted though they both knew that they had to be careful, it was just the opening move of the game after all.
That being said they both finished their breakfast and made their way to the Headmaster's cabin. As they were moving Salazar cast a privacy charm around them and started speaking
"Harry, what I want you to understand is that alchemy and wand-lore are extremely similar, just like warding and curse breaking and enchanting and rituals" said Salazar "And considering your ability to craft wands I feel that it's a fair bet that you would be able to excel at alchemy as well."
"Perhaps but the rune basis are completely different!" replied Harry "In order to learn alchemy I will have to learn a completely different language!"
"Oh, would you care to elaborate on that statement?" Salazar said
"Warding and Rituals are concentrated on Latin, though the latter is still pretty effective when spoken in English," Harry responded "Alchemist and Enchanters, both of whom are rare I might add, are entirely depended on Elder Fulcrum where as Curse-Breaking and Wand-Lore are based on Egyptian Runes."
Salazar raised his eyebrow as he responded "Does that mean that I am to assume that the runes on your wand are Egyptian?"
"No of course not, their…" Harry suddenly stopped as he realized what the founder was trying to tell him "Am I to assume that Alchemy can be used in pastle-tongue as well?"
"Not just Alchemy my friend" Salazar stated "All pastle-tongue runes are equably applicable and equally effective. And though the mechanics are a little different, I am sure that you will be able to."
"I see" said Harry "So you intend to teach me Alchemy?"
"Not just Alchemy my friend" Salazar replied "I intend to turn you into a Rune Master!"
If there was one thing that Harry was completely useless at, it was history. He knew that Rune Master was something significant though what exactly it was eluded him and he didn't get the chance to ask as they had arrived at the Stone Gargoyle and though they didn't have the password it turned that they didn't need to as the stone gargoyle immediately recognized Salazar Slytherin as one of the people who had founded Hogwarts and had immediately jumped aside and Harry had privately come to the conclusion that being a founder had a lot of perks.
Moments before Salazar knocked on the headmaster's door voice from inside said enter "Enter"
The two off them did so without any hesitation on their part, though the delegate that was awaiting them threw them off balance for a moment. Inside Dumbledore's office, was man himself sitting behind his desk, and on his left stood the resident Potions Master Severus Snape and the immortal couple as they had come to be known for the past six-hundred years. On the headmasters other side stood what seemed to be a delegation from the ministry. Barty Crouch the head of the Department of Magical Co-Operation, Ludo Bagman the head of the Department o Magical Sports and Games, Amelia Bones the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and of course the bumbling Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge who was accompanied by his under-secretary the detestable Delores Umbridge.
This was the opening move for Dumbledore and Salazar knew it, instead of meeting him in private like he and Harry suspected, Dumbledore would do he surrounded himself with a delegate of politically and/or magically powerful people in order to throw him off balance and have him carted away to Azkaban should the slightest opportunity present himself. It was a brilliant move of that here was no doubt, but still just the opening move of long and hard game and both Salazar and Dumbledore knew it.
Notes 1:
Ok not to make excuses, well technically I guess I am, but I was in a rather bad accident almost 2 weeks ago and it resulted in me getting stuck in a hospital for some time though I am out now and I am well on my way to recovery, however during said accident I had lost quite a few things including a notebook where I had written my Ideas for this story so unfortunately that means I am going to have to continue it with only a vague outline of how I originally wanted it to go
Also term is has started for me so I will unfortunately have to hit the books so I will not be able to update as often as I like though I am planning to at least put out one chapter per month.
Also any Ideas about how I should twist the story out and comments on what you think of it so far would certainly be appreciated...
Thanks you all for your support
Notes 2:
Hey Guys, listen I had to expand this chapter because it was really to short for my taste and I hope that you guys like the added part, Also I re edited the other chapters to take out a few mistakes here and there...
Anyways if anyone has any suggestions for the storyline I am completely open to them...
Also can someone please PM me bout how a bet reader is suppose to work and are there any volunteers to do so for this story...
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