A good Beginning (Harry Potter)

Chapter 14: Gryffindor and Merlin

A lot of people were surprised to see the new article in the Daily Prophet the next day; everyone would continuously ask Harry questions about how he knew that there was a death eater in Hogwarts. Percy looked very green when he read the article as it stated that Scabber's was the pet of Percy and Ronald Weasley; Ron, however, loved the fame and attention that it had brought him.

Ron made up several stories about how Pettigrew threatened the boy with his life if he didn't take him to Hogwarts so that he could try and kill Harry, this story was of course fake, so Harry had to use the sonorous charm at breakfast and tell everyone that Pettigrew was harmless and just hiding from Dumbledore.

One day, when Harry wanted to use the room of requirement to find extra knowledge on Nicholas Flamel, he only walked past the wall once; this made him very curious, but Harry still entered through the oak door. When Harry had entered, his jaw dropped, and his eyes widened.

Infront of him, he saw four statues, each one was a different founder of Hogwarts. Harry turned his attention to the Gryffindor statue and bowed at it.

'Hey very great gramps!' Harry said joyfully.

'Hello to you to!' A deep, smooth voice replied; Harry froze for a second before looking up to see the statues of Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor moving their faces and smiling at the child.

'You can talk to me?' Harry asked, worried that he was hallucinating, he blinked his eyes several times.

'Only our descendants' Rowena Ravenclaw replied

'So I'm your descendent to? Wow!'

'Yes, Godric and I's grand children married, they had a son whom they named Merlin. Merlin married Rowena's great grand daughter and had a daughter whom they named Selina; later on in life Selina would go onto marry a young man called Septimus Potter, making you, the heir of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.'

Harry was shocked to hear this news, but even more importantly, he had so many questions rushing around his head.

'So... does this mean I can control some things in the castle? I mean like make privacy wards? What else can I do? And why didn't Dad tell me about this?' He asked, excitement trilling through his voice.

'Your father was irresponsible when he was in Hogwarts, he was immature, and wasn't ready for the power which he could have held' Godric replied

'We can summon our heirlooms, you can speak to the castle, and when going to Dumbledore's office you don't have to say a password' Helena replied.

'What heirlooms would these be then?' Harry inquired; the statue of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff both looked at each with a smirk before a beautiful tiara and a small trophy appeared. Harry walked towards them, they began whispering words to Harry, kill suffer pain.

'Why are they whispering like that?' Harry asked

'They've been infested with dark magic my boy! It is essential that you take these to professor Dumbledore now. Tell him what you hear' Godric replied.

'We will be watching you Harry, stay strong, keep pure, keep kind' Helena said whilst Harry nodded and walked out of the room to deliver the news to the headmaster.

When he finally arrived at the Guardian gargoyle, Harry decided to test his powers as the heir to Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

'Guardian, as heir to Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, I ask you to stand aside!' Harry said; the gargoyle's eyes flickered towards the boy before a warm smile spread across its face. It nodded and bowed slightly before opening the passage way; the boy bolted up the stairs and entered the room. He greeted Fawkes in phoenix language before emptying a bag infront of Dumbledore's desk; when the diadem and the cup fell out, the old man's eyes twinkled, how on earth did the boy find these lost artifacts?

'Professor Al, I was going to the room of requirement but it opened when I approached the wall! I went inside the room and met Godric Gryffindor, Helena Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw and they said that I was their descendant! So they gave me this and said to give to you because it is filled with dark magic. It whispers to me, the same voice of Voldemort actually, I remember the night when everything change. Voldemort's voice is whispering to me, telling to kill, to cause pain' Harry was now out of breath but Dumbledore was beaming, the boy had already found 2 horcruxes!

'Thank you Harry, you may leave now' he replied calmly, trying to mask the admiration and excitement in his voice.