The day had come when Harry and his husband, Luna and Susan would make their presence known at the school. Dumbledore had played God too long and it was time to bring him down a notch. Harry found himself again in crown and Gryffindor robes, sword in place, his husband and the girls the same as well.
"How are we to get there?" Harry asked. "Surely the second we try to enter the wards he'll stop us."
Severus smiled. "You forget that we are now heads of the school. The castle and its wards answer to us and to us alone."
Luna gave a dazzling smile. "The castle will allow us to apparate and disapparate in and out of not only the grounds but parts of the castle as well."
Harry smiled. "Sounds handy. You know I have missed that school a bit."
Severus smiled. "I would love to get my hands on my potions store and my books there."
Harry turned to his husband. "How do you know that Albus had not had them destroyed since you died?"
Severus smirked. "I bet he tried but I put my own wards up around then. My courters and my potions lab he won't have been able to touch."
Susan turned to look at Harry. "Will you be returning to school once we oust Professor Dumbledore?"
Luna and Susan were again being covered for by their heads of house this weekend. Harry turned to Severus. "I'm not sure how that's going to work."
Severus shrugged. "We may be staying there from time to time. You can study with the classes then. Otherwise you will be home schooled."
The fact was the way the war was going it was just not plausible for Harry to return full time to his studies. Though there was now four heirs and the weight of the war no longer was on his shoulders alone, he was still their leader and that meant he had more to handle. He was also an emancipated adult which allowed him for now to forego his studies as needed, while for Susan and Luna it was not.
Harry turned to his husband and smiled. "Ready to do this?"
Severus nodded and took his hand. "I have been waiting for this for a long time."
Susan and Luna came close to them and the both confirmed they were ready. They apparated into the main entrance of the school, knowing that the students and teachers would be in the great hall for dinner. The castle seemed to sing to Harry's ears as they entered. The castle was greeting its new lords.
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Dumbledore sat at the head table watching as his students and the teachers were eating their dinner that Sunday. The hair on the back of his neck was sticking up and something did not seem right at all. He wasn't sure what was bothering him.
He turned to look down at the other teachers either way but no one seemed bothered. He looked at Minerva. "Do you notice something out of place?"
Minerva looked up. "Everything seems normal Albus. You're not one to be jumping at shadows." And returned to her meat pie. He missed her slight smile.
He was about to turn back to his food for he was hungry when the doors of the great hall banged open and four figures advanced across the room. Every eye turned to them and Dumbledore dropped his fork. They glimmered like gods from afar and looked like the painting of the founders at the very entrance of the school.
He stood up. "Who are you and how do you dare to enter my school?"
A cool sharp voice he could barely recognize cut through the room. "Your school old man, this is our school and we have come to reclaim it."
Dumbledore was shaking in rage. "Show yourself without these glamours and tell us who you are, immediately."
The one who was garbed in Ravenclaw colors stepped forward. "I am Lady Luna Ravenclaw, heir of Rowena, and head of the house of Ravenclaw."
The one in yellow stepped forward. "I am Lady Susan Hufflepuff, heir of Helga and head of the house of Hufflepuff."
Dumbledore almost passed out in shock as Severus Snape stood forward. The man was dead. "I am Lord Severus Slytherin Snape, of house Prince. Heir of Salazar and head of the house of Slytherin."
The last came forward. "I am Lord Harry Gryffindor Potter Black-Snape, lord of the houses of Potter and Black, heir of Godric, head of Gryffindor and headmaster by right of lineage of Hogwarts."
Dumbledore was not sure what shocked him more, the knowledge Severus was alive, the knowledge he was married to Harry or the fact that they had learned of their heritage and had some how claimed their rights. He had known of course but he believed it a secret all of this time. Only Riddle had known of his heritage.
"I will not have this. You can not play your little games and expect us to follow along." Dumbledore demanded.
Harry smirked. "You are nothing here old man. You will leave or this castle with disperse of you itself. You have abused your powers too long. This is my school."
Dumbledore came down from the high table. "You have no right. You have to perform a ritual to be able to claim your place. You can't have done it."
Harry laughed. "You mean because we needed the sword of Gryffindor. It seems you have a fake in your office for years." Harry said as he drew the sword out.
Severus moved towards him. "You will leave these grounds immediately or you will face the consequences old man. Your days here are done."
Albus turned to the teachers for support but found none, except in the form of Burbage and Vector as well as Professor Binns.Minerva had been his last hope but she sneered down at him as well.
Harry smiled at her. "As we are busy and can not run the school, I ask you Professor Minerva McGonagall to serve as my headmistress of the school in my absence."
Minerva bowed to him. "It would be my honour and privilege Lord Gryffindor Potter Black-Snape to serve as head of the school in your name,"
Albus was staring in shock at the woman. "You? You too? You've betrayed me with the rest of them?"
Minerva smiled and nodded her head. "Albus you have been a fool way to long. You'll soon learn just how few allies you have. Now get out of the school."
Albus was finally escorted in shock from the school grounds and once he was passed the gates, the four heirs erected new wards to make sure that he was never able to come onto the ground again. Harry had to hide a smile as he watched the old man walking off to Hogsmeade to see his brother.
Severus watched him go. "He may be defeated now but this is one battle in the war. We have not seen the last of him."
Harry knew. "We have done what we need to for now and we will be prepared when he comes back. We've just knocked another leg out from under him."
The four of them walked back into the school where they met Minerva up in the headmaster's office. They were surprised to find Fawkes still there and learned the bird was loyal to the head of the school and that he now served Harry. Harry had always been fascinated by the power and grace of the phoenix and would be proud to have the bird by his side though he preferred his owl.
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Later that night Harry was down in the dungeon courters of his husband. They would only be spending a few days before they would retreat to one of their other properties again. Luna and Susan would remain at school. They would only come when the power of all four was required. Severus had been right and his rooms had remained untouched and Harry smiled in glee as he watched his husband once again in his own element.
"You found everything you will need?" Harry asked.
Severus nodded to the bags he had shrunk that were on the table. "Along with those books you picked up for me, I should be set."
Harry leaned back into his arms. "Where are we going now that the school is settled with Minerva at the helm?"
Severus wasn't sure. "One of the houses with a good potions lab. The only ones I'm sure about would be Prince Manor, Spinner's end or Grimmauld."
Harry wondered about the countless other properties but had no desire to go searching them out. "I would like to see Prince Manor. It has a potions lab?"
He nodded. "My grandfather was a potions master. He had been angry when my mother gave up becoming one, to marry a muggle."
"How did you ever end up with the Prince lands any ways?" Harry asked.
Severus kissed him. "Granddad was angry but it was Grandmother that disowned my mum. Grandfather wrote in his will that if my mother's elder brother died without heir, she and her children were still in line to inherit. My Uncle died childless, so I inherited."
They decided that in two days when they were ready to leave they would make for Prince Manor. Harry would take potions with him, and Remus who would be returning would work with him on charms and transfiguration while they could both help him with DADA. Harry didn't need to worry about NEWTS like a normal student, right now they needed to make sure he could master and control the powers he was starting to come into since he claimed his heritage.