(Dumbledore's pov)

It's been two months since the Gryffindor Scare, as the gender-changing prank has now been called. A counter-potion had not been found, but by the time the weekend was over all affected students had been put back to the way they were, albeit a bit shaken up in some cases.

I finally had the perfect plan to send Harry to the Stone. I will use the ever useful rumor mill to create an insatiable curiosity in my main targets. Of course I will need to put up a redirection ward in the corridor so the other students won't get hurt.

All I need now is to select Harry's team. Young Mr. Weasley is a given. Not only because he is a Gryffindor, but also because the Weasleys are a Light family that is firmly in my pocket. Also, if Harry was ever to find out how rich and powerful he is in our world, he will need the humility given from being close to the financially poor family belonging to Arthur and Molly.

But I still need a third member. A girl will be preferable to help steer Harry to Miss Weasley in the future. A clever girl, that can help the two boys solve the puzzles. Not only in this test but in the future as well.

Yes, with this task Harry will no doubt form close friendships with these two students that will help him here at school, and in his destiny.

I would choose Miss Greengrass, since Harry already knows her, but the Greengrasses have always been rather difficult when it comes to picking sides. While, as far as I am aware, her father is not in league with Tom, he is also not that fond of me.

No. I need a girl that is easily swayed to my side, who would fight for the Light.

Susan Bones could work as the third member. She is smart, and the Bones family have always been Light supporters.

But, she is too much under the control of her Aunt. Amelia Bones is the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and is not fond of me either.

I need a girl who would obey me without question.

There is Miss Granger. The new Ravenclaw girl is very smart. She can solve problems that the boy won't even notice. She is a muggleborn, so there is no one to dissuade her from me or the Light. She also has an unwavering loyalty to authoritative figures.

I can easily bring her to my side, since she has no doubt heard that I am a powerful voice for muggleborn rights.

Yes. She is the perfect addition to this trio.

Now that I have that problem solved, it's time to start the rumor. I stepped out of my office, taking a leisurely walk around the castle, hoping to run into a few students that I could use to start this rumor.

(Hermione's pov)

I have been watching the boy, Harry Potter, since the start of the school year.

When I got my Hogwarts letter I decided to learn everything I could about this new world. Especially recent history.

I have read many books that spoke of the night that Voldemort was finished off by a baby named Harry Potter on Halloween night in 1981. After that I knew that I had to meet him.

When I first laid my eyes on him, was when we were in the boats the night we first arrived to Hogwarts. His black hair shone in the moonlight, just like the water of the Black Lake.

Like everyone else, I was surprised that he had ended up in Slytherin. I had heard many people practically swear that he was a true Gryffindor. I had heard that children were often placed in the same house as their parents, and everyone knows that the Potters had all been Gryffindors.

He seems to be different than what everyone says a Slytherin is supposed to be. Then again, the first year Slytherins don't seem so bad, at least not the ones that Harry hangs out with. That Draco Malfoy wasn't like I had expected.

Ronald Weasley was the second boy I met on the train, and all he could talk about was the famous Harry Potter and the horrible snake Malfoy. I had asked if he had even met either boy and he said that he hadn't, but he just knew that Malfoy was the worst sort of wizard, because he was from a Death Eater family. He also stated that he just knew that he and Harry Potter were going to be best mates in Gryffindor.

I have seen some of the interactions between the two of them, and it was blatantly obvious that they were not 'best mates' nor were they even friends. In fact Harry didn't seem to be remotely interested in being friends with Weasley, not that I could blame him based on what I have seen on his unusual obsession with the Boy-Who-Lived.

I looked up when I heard the Ravenclaw gossip queen Cho Chang enter the room.

(Draco's pov)

I was sitting in the common room with Blaise, Daphne and Harry as we listened to Pansy prattle on about the latest gossip she heard.

"I heard from Su Li, who heard it from Susan Bones, who heard from Cedric Diggory who heard that Cho Chang overheard Dumbledore mumbling about the secret books of the founders that are apparently hidden in the school!" She exclaimed.

"Secret books?" Blaise asked, sounding like he didn't believe it.

"Yes. The journals of each of the founders, which hold their deepest darkest secrets."

"I doubt that these journals exist, and even if they do why would the old coot know that they are hidden in the castle?"

"Apparently he had recently found them, and that is why the third floor corridor is off limits to students! He doesn't want the students to know the truth about their house founders!"

(Harry's pov)

I stood in my potions lab, looking over my notes for a potion I plan on making in the future. Professor Snape told me that if I continued to do well in class, and I get an O for the Potions O.W.L, then during my 6th and 7th year I can work on getting my Mastery.

I felt like I could do a lot of good if I got a mastery in something, and potions is my favorite class. So I have begun to spend my evenings, if I don't have a lot of homework, going through all of my potions books, and various journals, looking for some possible projects that I can start when I gain my apprenticeship.

I know that I can't start on any unknown potions, not having the experience for that yet, but I can study the theories and look for something I can use, probably a disease or other problem in the magical community. I can take notes on what I learn.

My mind wandered as I went through all of my notes as well as my mother's notes. I knew that the rumor Dumbledore started was fake. Their journals aren't at Hogwarts. If they were the castle would've let me know. The founders wouldn't have wanted their true stories to be forgotten, nor the real reasons they built Hogwarts. The school had been built, not only for teaching young wizards and witches how to control and use their magic, but also as a refuge against those who would have hunted our kind at the time.

No. I know what is in the forbidden corridor, or truly, what should be in there. The question in my mind is what Dumbledores game is. It's obvious that he is trying to entice me onto the third floor, but why the rumor?

Doesn't he realize just how dangerous that is? All of the students are going to be curious, and that means that many of them will try to sneak into the room with the Cerberus, so they can find out what those 'deepest darkest secrets' are.

I sighed, there is no use thinking about that right now. Especially since the stone isn't even there anymore.