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Chapter 3

Dumbledore walked Harry up to the door of the Burrow and knocked. Harry could hear shuffling from within and wondered who was there. Then suddenly he heard a crash and an exasperated yell. Harry laughed as he turned to Dumbledore "Is Tonks here as security sir?"

Dumbledore stared at Harry "No she isn't Harry. May I ask why you think she is here?"

Harry smiled "Sir if it had been one of the twins Mrs. Weasley would be yelling with anger. However this more tired as if it happens a lot. Which leads me to believe, that it Tonks is the one she is yelling at." Just as Harry finished saying this Mrs. Weasley opened the door.

"Oh Albus you told us not to expect you until tomorrow."

"Yes Molly; however Harry proved to be most helpful."

Harry looked around Mrs. Weasley to see Tonks sitting at the table. She looked like she had been crying. Harry pushed past Mrs. Weasley and sat down across from Tonks. He took her hands in his.

"Tonks you may know that I took over for the House of Black. Now I know that you and your mother were cast from the house but I will remedy that shortly. However in the meantime you are still family and I would like to know what is wrong." Tonks had raised her head at Harry as soon as he started speaking. Now she was staring at him with her mouth on the table.

Suddenly she snapped out of it. "Really Harry it's nothing. Just some relationship issues, or I should say the lack there of."

Harry smirked "Let me guess you have fallen hard and fast for some dashing young man. However he doesn't see you or refuses to except that you two have something between you."

Tonks nodded her head "I only have one thing to change in your assessment. He is not a young man. He is thirteen years older than me and declares that he is too old, poor and Dangerous." She gasped after she said that last one knowing that Harry would catch on to who she was talking about.

Harry was now holding his sides in laughter. "You mean to tell me that you fell for Lupin!" Tonks glared at him until he stopped laughing. "Look Tonks, Remus Lupin is a proud man with many flaws. He is most likely trying to protect you from losing your job and becoming the laughing stock of the wizarding world. You know the prejudices that our world holds on Werewolves. He cares for you but he doesn't wish to make your life difficult. However I will talk to him and see if I can get him to see reason. After all he might listen to the son of a Marauder better than one of the Order members. Now Tonks brighten up. It just isn't normal to see you without the bright colored hair."

Tonks smiled at him "Well Harry if you can get through that Werewolves thick skull than I would be eternally grateful." She then stood "I think it's time I take my leave Molly. I will see you all later. Goodnight Harry, Molly and you too Professor." She walked until the end of the wards and apparated away. Harry then heard Dumbledore say his goodbyes as well and he too apparated away.

Molly turned around and saw Harry sitting at the table. "Are you hungry Harry?"

"Yes I am."

Mrs. Weasley poured a bowl of soup and placed it on the table with some bread and butter. Harry dug into the soup with gusto. Enjoying how the hot onion soup would slide down his throat and made him feel warm and safe and loved. 'It's amazing what a simple bowl of soup could do for someone' Harry thought. About half way through the bowl he slowed and decided to start up a conversation with Mrs. Weasley.

"Hey Mrs. Weasley how is everyone? I haven't heard from them in a while."

Mrs. Weasley smiled at him "Everyone is doing well. Arthur got a promotion he's heading the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects. It's a big job; he's has ten people reporting to him now! There are a lot of people trying to make money off of people's fears."

Harry thought back to his second year and had to agree whole heartedly. Harry stifled a yawn and sat back in his chair a bit.

Mrs. Weasley noticed this. "Alright time for bed Harry. I fixed up the twins room for you. They spend all their time in their flat above their shop. So you have the room to yourself. Now why don't we get you up and settled? You can speak to everyone tomorrow."

Harry nodded his head sleepily and followed Mrs. Weasley upstairs. She stopped at a door that seemed to have been on fire once or twice. Some of the wood was charred even on the outside. Mrs. Weasley opened the door and let Harry in. "Get some sleep Harry. I will see you tomorrow." She then turned her head as they heard the crack of Apparation. "That would be Arthur. Goodnight Harry." Harry stripped down to his boxers and climbed into bed. Smiling to himself for the first time since summer began, Harry slipped off to sleep.

The next morning Harry lay awake in the quite of the early morning. Suddenly he heard the door open slowly and he turned to see the back of a vision walk into his room. She slowly closed the door and walked backwards into the room. Suddenly she tripped over one of the many boxes that littered the room. She fell directly on top of the bed and Harry. She gasped in surprise as her face was inches from his. Her hair flowing in a cascade around her face.

She started blushing as Harry smirked, "Hey Ginny. To what do I owe the pleasure of this beautiful wake-up call?"

She blushed even more so that her face now marched her hair "Hi yourself Harry. I just snuck in here to get away from our resident bookworm." Harry looked down at her and realized that Ginny was wearing a very thin nightgown and was lying directly on top of Harry's bare chest. When Harry saw this he panicked he grabbed the blanket and pulled it up between them so fast that Ginny rolled over to lie next to him on the bed.

Just then the door opened up yet again but this time there were two people. They were so engrossed with themselves that they didn't notice Harry and Ginny lying on the bed together. These two were snogging and Harry realized that his two best friends had finally seen what the rest of Hogwarts had. Harry and Ginny both shared a look and then burst out into raucous laughter. This stopped the snogging couple in the doorway. When Ron and Hermione noticed Harry and Ginny laughing at them they pulled apart very quickly. Hermione fell over one of boxes and Ron backed into the wall. Ron then went to help Hermione stand up.

Suddenly he turned to the bed "So Potter, why are you in bed with my sister?"

"Well Ron that is a funny story actually. You see Ginny snuck in here to get away from Hermione's study habits. However she like Hermione didn't see a box and fell over that one there. She landed on top of the bed and rolled over so that she was next to me. Then you two walked in and that is that."

Just then Harry heard a strange sound coming from his discarded jacket. He reached for it and pulled out a box. He recognized the box to be the one from Gringotts. Harry tried to open the box but it wouldn't open. Hermione walked over and tried an 'Alohomora' charm but that didn't work either. Then Hermione reached out with one of her hands. The top popped open and three rings flew out. One to land on Ginny, Ron and Hermione's fingers. Harry stared stunned for a minute at his friends. He knew that he was supposed to find the other heirs but he didn't realize he would find three at once or that those three would be such close friends.

"Harry mate, what just happened?"

"Well I got a letter from Gringotts about my inheritance." Harry told them all about his trip to Gringotts and what happened with the box. "Ragnock told me to take the box with me to find the other heirs. Well I think that we just found three more. Now what symbols do your rings each have?"

Hermione was the first one to realize what hers was. "I…can't believe…it! This is impossible! How can I, a muggleborn, be the heir of Ravenclaw?"

Harry smiled at her "Well Hermione my mother is the reason I am the heir of Slytherin maybe there are just squibs in your family. That would make you the first magical female in your family. That would allow you to claim the title."

Hermione nodded her head still speechless. "Well I am just as shocked as you are Hermione but for a totally different reason. I am the youngest boy in the family. You would think that Bill would inherit this not me."

Harry turned his head towards his best mate. "Ron I don't know why you got it over Bill. But think about it this way. You always wanted something to have something that would set you apart from your older brothers. Now you have it. Think about it, your brothers have all been popular, head boys and prefects but you are the heir of Godric Gryffindor himself. Now if my memory serves me right that leaves Ginny to be the heir of Hufflepuff."

She nodded her head as a response. "Well now you have something that only you and Ginny could have in your family. If Slytherins memories are to be believed than to gain Gryffindors title you had to be one year older than your sister. So what you guys need to do now is sit down. When I got Slytherins ring I also got his memories. So you will need to meditate and think on the person that you are the heir of."

Ron, Hermione and Ginny all sat down in a circle to meditate. Harry sat down with his friends to work on his Occumelency. Two hours later Harry heard Mrs. Weasley calling them all down for lunch. Harry and his friends all walked down stairs lost in their own thoughts about what had happened in Harry's bedroom. When they reached the kitchen they sat down quietly at the table. Mrs. Weasley placed a plate of sandwiches on the table and looked worriedly at the children.

"You lot are awfully quiet today. Is something wrong?"

"No mum we were just studying and so we are just thinking about what we learned. Sorry if we worried you."

"Oh very well dears. Now eat up and then I think it would do you all good to go outside for a little while." They only nodded their heads as they began to eat the sandwiches.

Once outside Harry had his friends sit around him in a circle "Ok who would like to go first?"

Hermione was naturally the first to go. "Well I figured out quite a bit. First off Rowena was a muggleborn as well. That's were her thirst for knowledge came into play. However like my family they didn't have any problems with her being a witch. That's why when Salazar brought up the fact of muggleborn's not being safe in their homes the rest of us didn't believe him. I watched as Salazar left for no reason one day and the argument that she had with Godric later the same day. I now know why Salazar left and the promising relationship she had with Godric went down the tubes. Then I saw a few other memories up until the day she died. One of them was weird she had a small child that was a bastard child. Rowena was on her death bed and sent for the girl's mother by sending the father. I never saw what happened as neither one showed up before Rowena died."

Ginny smiled "Helga lived a little longer. It appears that the father lost his temper and killed Rowena's daughter. Then when he realized what he had done he killed himself. They are actually at Hogwarts as ghosts. The Bloody Baron and the Grey Lady."

Hermione nodded her head in thanks.

"Now as for Helga's life it was very simple. The youngest in a large family and the only girl. They were not very wealthy but had enough to get by on. It wasn't until her family was killed in a fire did her and Godric strike out on their own. Then they met up with Salazar as he had run away from home. Together the three of them put together their money to get a small flat in a ranch home. That's where they met Rowena. The four of them became close friends and decided to build the school. They pooled all of their gold together and started the school. Her memories from there are similar to that of Rowena's. However she was never informed why her love left the school. So she thought that it was something that she had done. She died at the school with only one child. She died believing that she had driven her true love from her."

Ron hung his head "I know that it wasn't me personally but I still feel responsible for it. But I have the same memories as Helga however some of Godric's memories are his guilt ridden ones after the disastrous relationship with Rowena. He felt that he should have dealt with things better. That is why he told his sons the false version of Salazar leaving. The one we have today. He wanted history to reveal him in a good light. He too died at Hogwarts but he went before either woman. So some of their memories he never got."

"Well guys that's a great start. Now we just need to work on your Occumelency so that you can sort through all of the memories in details." They all nodded their heads as they headed in for dinner. That night they would sleep and tomorrow they would begin on finding the other heirs identities.