Harry Potter and the Unexpected Heir
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The Chamber of Secrets
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The Transfiguration lesson went by smoothly, in fact the rest of the day went by smoothly, with a moderate amount of boredom from Harry of course. Harry walked into his room after lessons were finished, he had a lot to do, he had his homework to do, Quidditch practise and then hours of training with Lillian as usual. He sat down at his desk and began his homework, his quill was writing for him, using information directly from his mind, when William burst into the room.
"Nice of you to finally join me, you are my bonded phoenix yet I only seem to see you when you are hungry and want food" Harry said
"I cant help if I am hungry and you are the most direct source to food and for your information I have been spending time with Penna and I was just with your mother, I was giving her some tears, since I don't know how long I will be gone, she might need them." the phoenix said
"I'm guessing you talked to Lillian then"
"Yes, I will be leaving in a few minutes, I just came to say goodbye" William said, getting closer to Harry.
"Behave yourself and make me proud William, don't take too long" Harry said, he hated goodbyes.
The phoenix nodded and with a burst of silver flames he disappeared. Harry continued with his homework and in twenty minutes he was finished with his potion's essay, and the transfiguration homework. He changed into his Quidditch robes and went to call Ron, he found him and Hermione cuddled together on the sofa.
"Sorry to interrupt love birds but we got Quidditch practise Ron" Harry said
Ron went to change and the two boys made their way to the Quidditch pitch. Hermione stayed behind because she had homework to do and apparently she had to start revising for the Final NEWTs exams, which were all the way in May.
The training went smoothly; they practised getting to know their new brooms. Harry set up a strong barrier so that outside eyes couldn't see the new Firebolts. Harry noticed a brownie owl watching the game from atop one of the watching stands. To anyone else it may look like a normal owl but Harry new those intelligent, delicate blue eyes. Lillian had come to watch him play! He pretended not to notice and carried on. The new brooms were amazing, the team was faster than ever and the coordination was the best because they were all at the same speed. The beaters needed a bit of work, which Harry had no trouble solving. Sirius had also come to see the game, but he came in person and waved up at Harry. After hours of practise they finally touched down on the ground and went to get cleaned up. They headed for dinner, Harry and Ron went to sit by Hermione.
"Your late, did you take that long practising?" Hermione asked
"Yeah but the brooms are amazing, I never felt so good during flying, ever!" Ron said, quickly kissing her.
Silence settled for a while, during the time the Trio were eating, Harry felt gazes on him looking up at Lillian he saw that she was looking over at the Ravenclaw table, not him as he expected. He could tell that she was using a powerful Notice-me-Not charm, but Harry, as her soulmate could see past her illusion charms. Her eyes were looking attentively at two girls in particular. They were pointing at him, and smiling, and planning something too.
"Lillian you know I only have eyes for you" Harry said through their mind link.
"I know my love but how would you feel if a guy was looking at me like those two are looking at you, it's like they are undressing you with their eyes" she replied.
"I would probably rip him to threads and make a nice jumper for Buckbeak using them, but still don't worry sweetheart" he said
He felt her mood lighten up through their link "Training is cancelled for today, can you bring Ron and Hermione to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom after dinner please?" Lillian asked
"Sure, but why may I ask" Harry enquired
"You shall see" and she retrieved to the back of Harry's mind, even though they may not always be talking to each other, mentally they always keep their connection open at the back of their minds so that they may feel the other's presence.
Harry saw his parents; Sirius, Remus and Lillian leave the teachers table early and head out the Great Hall. The trio finished their food and headed out too. It took them about two minutes to get there and they found the four teachers waiting for them. Sirius was looking between Harry and Lillian with a sly look. Harry approached Lillian.
"So what are we doing here?" he asked
"I'm surprised Myrtle is not here moaning at us" Ron said
"Myrtle has gone beyond to the Death Realm, she was stuck in this world too long, she needed peace" Lillian said.
"What you mean that annoying ghost was still here?" Sirius asked
"She used to start crying whenever Sirius and I hid here to avoid getting caught, terrible wailing she used to have" James said.
Remus and Harry nodded in agreement, Hermione rolled her eyes. Lillian was looking at the washing basins in the centre of the room; she tilted her head to the side "Open" she said with hissing sounds.
"What? We are going down there again? Why?" Ron asked
Lillian approached the opening of the tunnel "Stairs" she said in Parseltongue, and bricks from the tunnel moved around to make a flight of spiral stairs heading down towards the dark.
"Lillian what is going on?" Hermione asked, she looked over at the adults, they were heading towards Lillian.
"Hermione I don't know if you noticed but the kitchen at Grimmauld Place was getting quite crowded, over the past few months even more people have joined the Order" Lily began
"So we need a bigger space to have our meetings, Remus jokingly suggested the Chamber but Lillian took him seriously, so now we are here to modify the chamber so that it becomes humanly useful" Sirius finished.
"But you need to be a Parseltongue to get in" Ron said. James pointed at Lillian, she was concentration and her hand was on the marble sink closest to her, she was hissing so quietly that you could hardly listen to her.
Harry understood what she was doing; it was something that he himself wanted to learn soon. She was saying ancient Parseltongue spells, since no one else could speak to snakes in the school, Harry had no one to learn from, he actually never thought about the possibility that Lillian might be able to speak it too, stupid really since she could practically do anything. He listened attentively to her spell casting; she was undoing Slytherin's work.
"Reversium, revertus, redous, You will no longer need Parseltongue to grant passage"
"Reversium, revertus, redous, You will no longer need Parseltongue to grant passage"
"Reversium, revertus, redous, You will no longer need Parseltongue to grant passage"
She finished and her hand shone a blue and gold colour, the sinks shifted along with the marble, it shifted and moved taking the shape of an elegant archway, aligned with gold and at the top of the archway was a beautiful sculpture of a phoenix with its long wings spread out, welcoming the members, the toilets around it dissolved too, it became an empty circular room, with the moonlight shining through the windows, Lillian decided that the room was too bare and waved her hand in a circular motion around her, plants erupted from the grounds, some became buds of white, red and orange roses, other made their way up the walls all the way to the ceiling. Inside the dark passageway balls of lights appeared and stuck on the wall, illuminating the way down. Lillian looked behind her. Ron's month was hanging open, Sirius was quite stunned, and the Potters hid their amazement.
"Lillian if you can do this by your self why do you need us?" Sirius asked
"The Chamber is much larger, besides the more people helping the faster we will be done " she said.
"You have to teach me that Parseltongue magic sometime" Harry said to Lillian through their link.
"Sure" came back the answer. The group made their way down the tunnel, they noticed that the state of the tunnel was getting worse; Lillian's magic hadn't reached down here. They carried on until they met the fallen stones from the trio's second year. Lillian touched the stones, and they shifted back to their previous position with loud noises. After a minute their way was clear.
"It sure comes in handy being able to communicate with rocks" Sirius said.
They kept going until they came to the second opening, Lillian did the same thing as upstairs, and the hatch became a replica of the previous one with the same phoenix welcoming the people. They entered the actually chamber it self, Harry looked at Lillian and saw a small snake making it's way out of her sleeve, it uncurled itself from her arm and made its way into the tunnels. They explored the surroundings and some of the tunnels, finally after ten minutes of exploring they met in the centre of large room.
"It will take a lot of work but I think it will look splendid, we need to finish charming the entrance, vanish all the bones, clean the dust away, and the statues of the snakes have to go too, its too Slytherin, we can add a statue of each fonder later" Lillian began "Any more ideas?"
"Lillian do you mind if I take the snake skin and the basilisk to the dungeons, the teeth and eyes for example are expensive ingredients that are useful for more complicated potions" Lily said "I'm sure Professor Slughorn will appreciate it, I sometimes take some of his lessons and I know I would" she finished
"I don't see why not" Lillian said
"That man is too fond of you" James said quietly, Lily ignored him, she was used to this side of James.
"I was thinking, perhaps the tunnels could be put down and then the space could be used for private offices, we could have like mini-departments and such, like in the Ministry" Remus suggested
"Excellent idea Remus" Lillian replied.
"What about if we brought down the Slytherin's head carving, because the snake came out through his mouth meaning there has to be some space behind that too, we could move all the water from the chamber into this pool here and then carpet the floor with a long table in the centre" Harry said
Lillian pictured it in her head she took out her wand and created a magi-hologram in the centre, so everyone could see. A 3D image of the chamber appeared with everything they suggested with some new things added, like an enchanted ceiling and windows, portraits of the founders as well as statues. There was indeed more than enough space. The team got to work, they split up, Hermione and Ron went to take care of the entrance, Remus and Sirius took the tunnels on the left and James and Lily took the tunnels on the right. Lillian and Harry stayed in the centre.
"I realised I haven't kissed you yet" Harry said, kissing Lillian hard on the lips, he put his hands on her waist; Lillian wrapped her arms around his neck, caressing his black hair with her hands. They broke apart out of breath. They smiled to each other and got ready to work.
"So what am I learning today professor?" Harry asked, deviously.
"Well we will be blowing up Slytherin's head"
"Something I am looking forward too" Harry said
Wands at the ready they pointed them towards the large stone head. Lillian took Harry's hand.
"Bombarda Maximuss!" The two lovers said. The spell was much stronger than Harry expected, as soulmates he figured that together their power was stronger when they were physically linked. The head was blasted to pieces, revealing another large chamber behind it, at Lillian's command the rocks disappeared and the wall was completely vanished. The other chamber was covered with moss and the floor was littered with skeletons. The two got to work removing the moss, they heard explosion from behind them, the others were getting to work too, for the next twenty minutes they cleaned moss, snake waste, and skeletons from the chamber, along with more explosions of course. They admired their work; they began to clean the rest of the dirty chamber too. Lillian focused on the all the water around her and strands of water steadily began to make its way towards her, leaving the floor and walls dry. It congregated over her head and she directed it to the pool with her hand. For the next two hours the whole team cleaned and then cleaned some more.
At the entrance Ron and Hermione were doing quite good, they shrunk the snake skin and conjured a jar to keep it in; they vanished the dust and levitated rocks out of the way. Thanks to Hermione's wide knowledge of spells, they managed to duplicate the light balls from the passage way and use them in the antechamber. They carpeted the floor in red with mini Hogwarts crests in gold. This took both of them, and so used up a lot of energy. They wanted to create some flowers but they realised they would disappear when they left so they would wait until Lillian could work her charm, also another thing they weren't able to do was the preservation charms since not even Hermione knew them yet.
On the left side of the chamber work was going fairly well for Remus and Lupin, Remus had an idea where they could made some rooms for people to sleep in if they wanted, they communicated their idea with Lily and James through Mindspeech and they both agreed, the left would be living accommodations with some offices and the right would be only offices. In the end they made about fifteen average sized rooms with bunk beds, two desks and a large enchanted window, and three small wardrobes in each. They also managed to make ten offices with desks, shelves, chairs etc. They were exhausted at the end and both decided to sit down for while after performing the preservation spells to keep the place dust-free.
Lily and James did pretty much the same as Remus and Sirius, except they made about twenty Offices, they made a larger room which they intended to turn into a library, they also made bathrooms and showers. They also left off a large area about the size of a Quidditch pitch, where they could train and exercise, hopefully they could get exercising equipment in there. They performed silencing charms, preservation spells and self-cleaning enchantments in each room. After they were done they made their way to the main chamber, but it didn't look anything like it did four hours ago. Harry and Lillian had made a brilliant job. In the centre was a large long, dark wooden table which shined with the light from the enchanted ceiling. Aligning the walls elegantly decorated fireplaces already gave the room a warm atmosphere. The floor was covered with red carpet, they made their way to the end of the chamber, the stone head of Slytherin was no longer there, instead there was an enormous stone phoenix on the wall, under his left wing there were two fairly large portraits of Slytherin and Hufflepuff, under the right wing there was a portrait of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. The four founders smiled down at the team, but under the phoenix's feet there was a portrait of Dumbledore, he too smiling down at the observers. A metal sign said "In Honour of Our First Leader Albus Dumbledore"
Lillian was just adding the final plants on the floor and flowerpots when the rest of the team came back. Hermione waved back at Dumbledore, the old man smiled back with the usual twinkle in his eye.
"Ok so where are we at?" Lillian asked
"We made offices and we decided to make some sleeping accommodations if anyone needed to spend the night" Sirius explained.
"We made offices, bathrooms, toilets and we left out a large room for a possible library or just storage space and made a fairly large training area" James said
"We did the best we can at the entrance but we couldn't do the preservation charms and the plant work, we were hoping you might be able to do that" Hermione said.
Lillian nodded with a smile "Sounds wonderful shall we see for ourselves?" she asked.
They spent the next half hour going around, adding plants; extra needed spells or transfigurations, or any changes really. Lillian equipped the training area with every exercising machine imaginable, she made them appear from god knows where. In the end they were completely exhausted, all except Lillian and Harry, who was getting used to recovering from magical exhaustion from his training with Lillian. They made their way up the stairs and into the ex-bathroom and out the door.
"This is now the Headquarters so I think it is better if we stop calling it Chamber of Secrets, I think it may scare some people" Lillian suggested "Tomorrow at four there will be a whole Order meeting so please be here on tim"
The others agreed and went their separate ways, biding each other goodnight. The trio and Lillian made their way to their tower, Ron and Hermione went to their rooms while Harry followed Lillian up the gargoyle spiralled stairs. The two soulmates took a shower together and dried each other off; they ended up lying of the bed, wrapped in each other arms, right under the moonlight. In the Head Common room, in Ron's room to be precise, Ron and Hermione ended up pretty much in the same situation.
Neither couple knew that the following few months would bring changes in their lives…