(' ' Thoughts)
WooHoo yay me I have actually posted another chapter after having that new strain of Flu over here in Australia. Bloody month in bed with nothing to do.
Anyway I hope you guys enjoy what I have do with this chapter and will have more of this story and others updated again very soon.
Last Chapter
Harrys eyes widened, "Salazar Slytherin." He whispered in disbelief.
Snape spat out the mouthful of drink that he had across the table at the mention of the Founder of the Slytherin house, "Impossible." He choked out.
Salazar turned his eyes to Snape, "Nothing is impossible with magic Severus, many things can be accomplished."
"Are you in every sense alive?" Harry asked.
Salazar nodded, "Aye, that I am. When my heir came into power I would be reborn, you are my only heir Harry, the only one that I have had in century. It will be another century before I have another."
Dumbledore cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, "So with every heir you are reborn?"
Salazar smiled smugly, "Yes I am."
Snape let out an amused snort, "Trust a Slytherin to cheat death."
"Of course, that is what we Slytherins aspire to Severus, I'm sure you have looked for a way to find it."
"Who bloody hasn't."
"Why do you wish to look for immortality?" Legolas asked curiously, drawing the tables attention to him.
"Who wouldn't want to live for ever?"
"It is not all that you think it is, as you age, you may not grow old but you watch mortal friends die, is that what you look forward to?"
"How would you know this?" Salazar asked with a sneer.
"For I am immortal, as are my elvin kin." Stares of shock were all he got in return, Legolas blushed at the attention he was getting from saying that he was/is immortal.
"You have got to be kidding, no one is that lucky."
"I don't believe you." Harry commented, "You can't be that old and still look they way you do." He said trying not to blush.
"Well this can all be fixed with a simple age spell." Dumbledore said jovially, his bright blue eyes twinkling brightly and he waved his wand over Legolas and his age appeared in red writing.
"Well there you are children, Legolas did indeed speak the truth." Dumbledore said smiling jovially and returned to his seat.
"How long will you be staying Salazar?" Harry asked.
"Until you have properly utilised your Parseltongue magic and then I shall be leaving you to return to my family."
Harry scowled at the snake founder, "Why did you have to come into being the way you did, I throw up enough without having 'inside' help at doing it." He grumbled.
Salazar twitched, "I know that it is not a conventional way of coming into being but that is the draw back of the spell I imagine, I didn't know that I would come to you in that way." He explained as he seated himself properly and a plate came before him.
"Now tell me of what has been happening since I and the others had passed on." He requested as he began to eat his meal.
"Obviously the school is just that, a school. Minerva is the Head of Gryffindor Transfiguration teacher, Severus the Head of Slytherin and Potions Master, Fillius Flitwick the Head of Ravenclaw and Charms teacher and Pomona Sprout the Head of Hufflepuff and teacher of Herbology.
Harry is entering his 6th year as heir of the Potter and Black families, the last living of both with no other relatives. He is staying with Severus at the moment.
We have a range of classes, most probably changed from when you first built the school, we have Potions, Herbology, Astronomy, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Flying for the younger years as well as Quidditch, Arithimacy and Ancient Runes." Dumbledore explained in full animation about the school.
Salazar smiled at the enthusiasm on the Headmasters face as he explained everything that they did at the school, "You don't have a duelling club?" he asked.
The teachers winced at the mention and Harry chocked on his potato chip, "We tried it a couple of years ago but the teacher was a total…" Harry was trying to look for the right word with out it sounding horrible.
"I believe the word you are looking for Mr. Potter is ponce." Severus spoke up having no such reservations at using the words.
Harry nodded, "What he said. He believed that he was all that like the King of us all, that type of attitude. That is until he knocked himself unconscious with Rons broken wand after he tried to attack us." He explained, "Kinda a pity the ponce didn't die." He muttered under his breath.
"Harry Potter." Minerva scolded the young wizard.
Harry gulped, "Sorry." He squeaked and leaned over to Salazar, "She is a very formidable woman." He whispered dramatically at the laughing wizard.
Harry let out a yawn as he fell to the sofa in Severus' room, dinner had been amusing to say the least, and he hadn't been able to eat anything more since he threw up Salazar.
"Are you alright Harry?" Severus asked taking a seat in the recliner with a tumbler of fire whiskey.
Harry nodded tiredly, "Yea I'm ok. Hungry but I don't think that I could eat anything at the moment." He explained.
"I have a nutrient potion if you would like to have it."
"Yes please sir, that would be great." Severus got up from his chair and went to his potion store and grabbed a little crimson bottle and brought it back for Harry.
"Here you are Harry, take this, go have a bath and then go to bed. You can read more of your book in the morning."
Harry took the potion and gulped it down and slowly stood up, "That's a good idea, where is the bathroom?"
"There is one attached to your room so that neither of us is waiting for the other to finish. Now go Harry and I'll see you in the morning." He said ushering Harry off to his room.
"Thanks Sev." Harry mumbled as he shuffled into his room and disappeared behind the oak.
Aragorn looked around the quarters that he and his friends were given for the duration of their stay at the castle, there were 5 other doors leading he presumed to their bedrooms, 'Then where is the bathroom situated?', He thought and headed for the closest room.
"Where do we get to sleep?" Merry asked looking around.
"I suppose that we choose a room to stay in. But where the bathroom is I do not know." Legolas replied and headed for the room opposite to where Aragorn entered.
Gandalf watched as everyone chose a room, "I shall go and ask Albus about the bathroom and I shall see you all in a moment." And with that he disappeared leaving them all to settle in.
Gandalf appeared next to his brother on the balcony of the astronomy tower, "We are having quiet a problem Albus, where is the bathroom in my companions rooms?" he asked.
Albus looked to his brother, "For tonight do not worry about it, I shall take care of it tomorrow, I will have some one show them how to use it in the morning. So don't be surprised by an early morning arrival."
"Of course Albus, I shall see you in the morning." He said good bye and popped put of the room.
Harry sighed as he rolled over, snuggling down further into the blankets before he opened his foggy green eyes and looked at the wizard clock, the burred numbers read 6:15 am. Harry let out a groan and rolled away from the clock toward the door, he looked to see Snapes blurry head half inside.
"So you are awake. Good morning."
Harry stretched and sighed, "Morning." He yawned and got out of bed, slipping his feet into the slippers at the side of his bed. He shuffled from the room to join Snape for breakfast.
"What are we going to do today sir?"
"The Headmaster has asked that you go up to our guest's rooms and show them how to use the bathroom, their world is rather primitive to our way of life." Snape explained as he served Harry his breakfast.
Harry shovelled the eggs into his mouth and put the bacon on a slice of toast and made a sandwich that he happily munched on, "Alright I suppose. It's gonna be funny to explain though. I'll just go and get dressed and head on up." He commented finishing his bacon sandwich and headed for his bedroom to change.
Legolas, Aragorn, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf and Gimli waited in the sitting room for some one to come and show them how to use the bathroom so that they could all have a bath. They were startled by a loud knock on their entrance.
The door swang opened and a raven coloured head popped in, green eyes blinked around the room, "Morning." He mumbled coming into the room and closing the portrait behind him.
"What are ye doin' 'ere lad?" Gimli asked.
"I'm here to show you how to use the bathroom." Harry told them with a large yawn.
"Did you not get much sleep last night?" Aragorn asked of Harry.
Harry snorted, "I never do." He replied, "So where is your bathroom?" he asked.
"I believe that they are attached to our rooms." Gandalf replied.
Harry nodded and scratched the back of his head and beckoned them to follow him to the first room, Aragorns, to use the bathroom, "Okay, once you know how to use it it's pretty simple, you'll feel like an idiot for not figuring it out."
"If it was so simple then we would have figured it out before this morning." Gimli retorted.
Harry let out a growl and turned on Gimli, his green eyes flashing, "Keep doing that every time I am around and I will feed you to the squid."
"You have a squid?" Merry asked excited.
The green light from Harry's eyes disappeared as he turned his attention to Merry, a smile on his lips, "Yes we do, out in the lake, he is mild tempered but when one of his children is hurt or threatened he becomes the monster he is categorised as." Harry explained as he stopped by a porcelain sink.
"This is the basin, you brush your teeth and hands here or if you had a bath earlier in the day and just need to wash your face you do it here." Harry moved his hands over to the silver knobs, "These turn the water on and off, the one on the right is the cold water." He explained and twisted the knob so that water would come out and into the sink.
"So that is cold water, how cold is it?" Legolas asked.
Harry grabbed Legolas' hand and put it under the water, shocking the elf, at the hold and at the water, "The cold water depends on the temperature of the day out side sometimes." Harry explained.
"Then what is the other one?" Pippin asked.
"This one is the hot water." He said turning off the cold and turning on the hot, "I'd advise you that you do not put your hand under this one, it gets to pretty much boiling temperature."
He turned the tap off and went over to the larger tub, "This is the bath tub, and here next to it is the shower. It causes water to spray down on you, like rain the same principal applies with the turning on and off of the knobs but it only comes out of the one spot instead of two spouts.
The shower is used when you need to get some where in a hurry ad the bath when you want to relax. Have you all got that?" he asked.
He received nods in response, "The where do we do our business?" Aragorn asked.
Harry walked over to the porcelain seat, "This is the toilet, this is where you do your business."
Merry and Pippin looked at the toilet, "Where is the collection pit?" they asked.
Harry blinked at them stupidly, "Collection pit?" he asked, "Like an out door dunny, a pit?" he asked.
"If that is what you call it, then yes." Gandalf nodded.
Harry smiled brightly, "We have gone beyond that in this world, this little silver knob here, Pippin, press down on it please." He asked the Hobbit who did as he was asked, jumping back in shock when water came out like a waterfall.
"The force of the flush and the water flowing takes any evidence of what you had done and leaves it looking sparkley clean."
Pippin walked back over to the toilet and flushed it again, "Wonderful." He cheered.
Harry nodded, "No you can all go and do what you didn't get to do last night and I shall see you all in the great hall in about an hour for breakfast."
"Even when you have already eaten Harry?" Gandalf asked with an amused twinkle in his eye.
Harry smiled impishly, "Of course, I am a growing boy you know, one meal is never enough."
"Here, here." Merry and Pippin cheered.
Harry looked at the Hobbits, "I'll show you where the kitchens are later if you would like, and give you all a tour of the castle after breakfast." He explained and then left through the portrait and left the Fellowship to their business.