=== September 6, 1997 ===
In their dorm room Gabrielle and Shannon get ready for the day. "It's Saturday you know." A female voice says.
"So?" Shannon as she looks over and sees one of the girls they share a room with moving in her bed. The covers still covering everything except the girl's head, her auburn hair sticking out every which way. Shannon uses that to identify her as Charlotte, or as she prefers Lotte.
"There's no need to play teacher's pet today." Lotte says.
"What do you mean?" Shannon asks.
"Isn't that what you two have been doing every morning?" Lotte asks.
Shannon shakes her head. "I'm friends with the Head Boy and Head Girl. They're married and have 5 children. We've been going to check and see if they need any help getting ready for the day."
"You're friends with Hermione Potter?" Elizabeth, or as she prefers Eliza asks as she sits up. Her auburn hair braided into twin pigtails, one tied off with red ribbon the other gold. She reaches to her nightstand and grabs her glasses then puts them on.
"She's like my second mother, and Harry is the closest thing I have to a father." Shannon answers.
"Then you can introduce me to her?" Eliza asks.
"Sure." Shannon says.
Eliza squeals. "I get to meet the only muggleborn mentioned in Hogwarts: A History!" She climbs out of bed and grabs some clothes from her trunk before heading to the shower.
Lotte rolls her eyes. "Do you mind if I come along too?"
"Only if you both hurry." Shannon says, causing Lotte to jump out of bed stark naked and run to the shower. Shannon blushes and looks away.
"We're all girls here, no need to be shy." Gabrielle says.
"Sorry," Shannon says. "I've never seen someone else our age naked."
"You'll get used to it." Gabrielle says.
"I take it you are?" Shannon asks
Gabrielle nods. "My sister and I frequented the nude beaches in France. So I've seen it all. You should come with us sometime." Shannon blushes heavily, obviously at a loss for words.
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Shannon walks down the hall, dressed in a light orange dress. Gabrielle walks beside her in a yellow dress that complements Shannon's. Behind them are Eliza, gripping a book in arms, her glasses accent her blue eyes, she has redone her braids as the ribbons were opposite, she wears a brown top, a red and gold tartan skirt, knee length socks one red one gold, and black Mary Janes. Lotte walks beside Eliza, her hair brushed so it frames her face, the contacts in her eyes make them appear lilac. She's wearing a Daft Punk t-shirt, jeans and trainers.
Shannon knocks on the door and Harry answers. "Hey, Shannon, is everything okay?" He asks.
Shannon nods. "These are the girls that we share the dorm with, they were hoping to meet you and Hermione."
"Hi there," Harry says with a smile. "Unfortunately Hermione is not here right now."
"I was really hoping to meet her too." Eliza says, dejectively.
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Hermione walks past the blank wall for the third time and the door to the Room of Requirement appears. She opens the door and steps into the room. There, directly ahead of her is the painting of the founders, the room is otherwise empty.
Hermione walks up to the painting. "Good morning, Grandmother."
"Good morning, Hermione." The painting of Rowena replies. "It has been a while since I've seen you."
"I apologize, between having triplets and schoolwork we were busy last year." Hermione says.
"That's understandable." Rowena says. "How can I help you today?"
"I need to know if there's a way to defeat Morgan le Fay without the Slytherin heir." Hermione answers. "We were forced to kill the last one last year."
"Unfortunately, we the founders built Hogwarts so that its true power could only be unleashed when we were all together." Rowena says. "I know of no other way to defeat Morgan le Fay."
Hermione nods curtly. "Very well."
"WAIT!" A male voice shouts.
Hermione turns around to see Salazar standing there. "You! You told Riddle about the servant's corridors, didn't you?"
"Yes."
The grimoire appears next to Hermione as she pulls her wand out. "Give me one reason I shouldn't burn you out of existence."
"She's my descendant Salazar, so you know she can do it." Rowena says.
"I offer a solution." Salazar says. "I knew there would be a day when one of our bloodlines was destroyed. Though I would have personally bet on it being Godric's." He clears his throat. "Anyway, I secured a sample of each of our blood and put it in stasis. With this blood you can perform a ritual to make someone my blood heir."
"Why would you tell me this now?" Hermione asks.
"Because he benefits from this as much as you do." Rowena answers for him.
"I might benefit more," Salazar admits, "the blood is stored in my infamous Chamber of Secrets. You will need to create a magical portrait I can go to so I can open the chamber."
Hermione nods. "Once inside?"
"There's a statue of me, inside is my workroom. In that is a secret compartment where we'll find the blood." Salazar explains.
"I'll let you know when we have it." Hermione says.
"You don't even know where the chamber is."
"Oh, we know." Hermione says, "in fact we've been there."
"Impossible." Salazar says.
"My husband is a parselmouth." Hermione informs Salazar. "A shade of your heir showed him the way, and tried to kill him with your basilisk."
Rowena laughs. "Looks like you're stuck with us."
Salazar sighs. "At least it's just you two."
Hermione grins as she sends a message to Harry. 'We need to get Hannah up here to awaken Helga.'
'I've got a young lady here that wants to meet you.' Harry replies.
'Really?' Hermione asks, shocked.
'I think she's hugging your favorite book.' Harry replies.
'Make room for me.' Hermione urges
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Harry smiles. "Move to the side ladies, Hermione's coming."
They move and Hermione appears next to Harry. "Hi there."
Eliza and Lotte stare at her. "How did you do that?" Lotte asks.
"Apparation." Hermione answers. "Now, I understand one of you wanted to meet me?"
Eliza steps forward. "You are the Hermione mentioned in Hogwarts: A History, right? The one that figured out where the Chamber of Secrets is?"
"I am." Hermione answers.
"You're the first muggleborn ever mentioned in it!" Eliza says excitedly. Then holds out the book she's been hugging. "Would you sign my copy?"
"I'd be honored." Hermione says as she pulls out a pen and signs it.
"You carry a regular pen?" Lotte asks, surprised.
"Magical fountain pen." Hermione answers
"Cool." Lotte says. "Where can I get one?"
"I enchant them myself." Hermione answers. "Here, you can have this one." She hands the pen over. Just don't use it in class."
"Thank you." Lotte says. "It was great meeting you!"
"Thanks for the autograph." Eliza says.
"Thanks for this." Shannon says and the four of them head off.
"How can I ever thank you, Shannon?" Eliza asks as they walk away.
"I'd like it if we could be friends." Shannon says.
"I'd like that too." Eliza says.
"Me too." Lotte says.
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Harry and watch them leave. "Well, you officially have a fan."
Hermione nods. "Is this how being famous feels?"
"Pretty much." Harry answers.
"Come on, I still want to get Hannah up to the painting." Hermione says.
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Hannah waits while Hermione makes the room appear again. "So, what is it you want me to do again?" Hannah asks as Hermione opens the door.
"I want you to touch this picture frame." Hermione says, indicating the only one in the room. "You'll get cut, but that will wake up the portrait of Helga Hufflepuff."
Hannah nods, then walks to the painting. She brushes her hand along the frame, quickly drawing it back when the frame cuts her. "Thank you." Helga says.
Hannah smiles. "You are very welcome."
"What's your name?" Helga asks.
"Hannah Abbott Longbottom nee Sprout."
"Well met, Missus Longbottom." Helga says.
"Please, call me Hannah."
"Only if you call me Grandmother." Helga replies and Hannah nods.
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Later that evening, with their friends watching their children, Harry and Hermione walk towards the bathroom Myrtle used to haunt. Harry runs his hand over Myrtle's plaque as they enter the bathroom.
"Anyone in here?" Hermione asks. Thankfully all she gets in return is silence.
Harry steps up to the sink and says in parseltongue. "Open." The sink moves, revealing the entrance to the chamber. "Shall we, my dear?"
Hermione smiles. "Not this time." The grimoire appears in her hand, already opened. She mutters a spell and stairs appear. "See? So much easier."
Harry chuckles as he follows her down. They enter the chamber proper, the corpse of the basilisk long gone. They continue right into the statue and the study inside. "Did Slytherin happen to mention where the compartment is?" Harry asks.
Hermione shakes her head. "Try your glasses."
Harry nods as he taps the frame of his glasses, the enchanted glass glows as it lets him see hidden things. "There's something over there." He points to the wall that has a non-magical painting of Salazar. "Open." He hisses in parseltongue.
When nothing happens Hermione levitates the painting out of the way and summons the grimoire. Within seconds Hermione has four vials of blood in her hand. "Looks like we need to plan a ritual."
=== September 22, 1997 ===
The autumnal equinox, a perfect day for a ritual. The group of parents drops their children off at Daycare and proceeds to the Room of Requirement instead of classes. They walk up to where the door to the Room of Requirement appears. The others stop as Hermione paces back and forth until the door appears.
They enter the room and find it configured aa a perfect circle. The cardinal directions are etched into the floor along with a pentacle oriented to the north. Ron, Lavender, Neville, Hannah and Amanda each stand at one of the points of the pentacle.
Hermione, Harry and Draco walk into the center of the pentacle. Hermione starts talking: "Mother magic, we gather here to ask for your favor. Here before you we have Draco Malfoy, the hero of Slytherin. We wish to make him the heir of Slytherin." She pulls out a vial stopped up with green wax. "Here I have the blood of Salazar Slytherin." She opens the vial and pours some of the blood on the floor.
"Now, we provide you the blood of Draco Malfoy, so you may determine if he is worthy of this gift." Hermione says. Harry pulls out a silver dagger and slices the palm of Draco's hand.
Draco carefully lets his blood fall on top of Salazar's. "My blood to his, his blood to mine." Draco says.
The lines of the pentacle start to glow a soft white. The blood on the floor glows, then lifts up and goes into Draco's hand. After a few minutes the blood is all gone and the cut on Draco's hand is healed. "Magic has deemed you worthy." Hermione says as the lines of the pentacle fade.
"How do you feel?" Harry hisses in parseltongue.
"No different." Draco hisses back.
Harry grins. "You should feel different, you just spoke parseltongue." Everyone laughs.
=== October 31, 1997 ===
Hermione leads the way down to the dungeons. "Now, why are we doing this tonight?" Ron asks.
"Have you ever noticed how on certain days it is easier to do some of the more complex spells than others?" Hermione asks.
"Yeah," Ron says. "That's why we held the ritual to make Malfoy Slytherin's heir on the equinox."
Hermione nods. "Halloween is one of those days, it's one often called Samhain. According to everything I've read tonight the spirit world and the living world are the closest to each other."
"So, it should be easier to force a spirit that's lingering in our world over." Amanda says.
"Exactly!" Hermione says as they reach a door marked with the symbols from all four Hogwarts houses. Hermione summons Hugin and pricks her finger with it, then spreads the blood on Ravenclaw's eagle. The eagle glows softly as Harry takes the dagger and pricks his finger then runs it on the Gryffindor lion, causing it to glow.
Hannah summons Mujina as a small knife and pricks her finger, rubbing the blood on the Hufflepuff badger, it glows as the others do. They all look at Draco. "I don't have a fancy knife like the rest of you."
"I do." Amanda says as she pulls out an ornamental knife from her robes. The handle is shaped like a snake with a small blade coming out of its mouth.
Draco takes the knife and pricks his finger, then runs the blood on Slytherin's snake. The sesl glows brightly and the door opens. Inside the room sits a large ward stone, four chairs are carved into the stone. Each chair is carved so the house animal looks down upon whomever is sitting in the chair.
Wordlessly the four heirs go to their respective seats. As the last of them sit the ward stone glows brightly and they all gasp.
"Hannah?" Neville asks, obviously worried.
"It's okay, Neville." Hannah replies. "I just received a rush of magic, I imagine the rest did too."
"We are ready." Hermione says.
Neville nods. "Come on, we know our job.'" Neville heads out of the room followed by Amanda, Ron and Lavender. He leads them to the spirit cage holding Morgan le Fay.
"Who are you?" Morgan le Fay asks them.
"We are here to free you, Morgana" Lavender says as she takes Ron's hand in one hand and Neville's in the other.
Amanda takes Ron's other hand as she and Neville pull out their wands. They both point their wands at the lock and says while turning their wand counter-clockwise: "Alohomora!"
A loud click is heard as the door unlocks and swings open. Morgana floats out of the cage. "I shall reward you four once I have a body back."
"Good luck with that." Amanda says as the four of the dart from the room.
Morgana goes to follow them but finds the wards adjusted so she can't leave the room, or go back to her cell. "Morgan le Fay." Hermione's voice echoes through the room. "It's time for you to go to the other side."
"No, I will not!" She shouts.
The wall behind her begins to shimmer not unlike the Veil in the Department of Mysteries. "Give my regards to my parents and Sirius." Harry says as they use the wards to push her closer and closer to the wall until they push her through.
The wall returns to normal and the wards reset. "It is done." Hermione says as the four of them get up from their chairs and walk out into the hallway where they found the others.
Neville hugs Hannah. "Are you okay?" He asks.
Hannah nods. "Just a little tired.*
"I think we all are." Hermione says.
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Morgan le Fay appears on a piece of peaceful looking English countryside.
"Welcome, Mother." Rowena says as she walks over to her and puts her hand on her shoulder.
"Rowena?" Morgana looks at her shocked. "It can't be."
"Morgana, it is." A male voice says.
Morgana looks over and sees an old man, with a long flowing white beard, and blue eyes. He's dressed in a blue robe adorned with stars, complete with matching pointed hat. "Merlin?"
"Aye, it is I."
"You've here for me?"
"Of course, my wife" Merlin says as he holds out a hand and Morgana takes it. "Come on, I'll show you around."
Morgana nods. "Do you happen to know the Potters?"
"There are several Potters here " Merlin says
"They have a living son named Harry."
"James and Lily, yes I know them."
"Can you introduce me?" Morgana asks. "I have much I need to tell them."