Peace at Last

AN: Well thankyou for all the reviews i really appreiciate them. You'll get Toms reaction to the prophecy later but this continues now the next few chapters are going to contain child abuse and mention of rape just warning in advance. anyway on with the story.

Chapter 10

He woke up slowly cherishing the peace and quiet until the events of last night caught up on him, he sprung out of bed reached for his wand and cast Tempus it was only 6:00am. He shrugged knowing nobody else should be up he decided on getting some training done. He picked up some loose fitting clothes and put them on he then took his wand and walked to the training room from and set an alarm to go off in forty-five minutes. He set the settings of the training dummies to low and started off curing them with each hit the automatically upped a power level, he decided to work out his frustration on them cursing himself for allowing anyone see his weaknesses, he was about to start using Parsel magic when his alarm went off stating that it 7:15am he decided to have a long shower to help him relax. He spent half an hour in the shower before deciding what to wear once he was suitably dressed he applied the glamour to hide his injuries and headed down to the dining room.

Just as he was sitting down Hedwig flew in through the window and settled down next to him, he took off the newspaper she was carrying and started to stroke her feathers, “Hey girl,” he said quietly, “had a good flight,” he chuckled at her when she hooted as if to say of course I did. She hooted softly to get his attention again, “I know girl I’m just worried, I hope everything is going to be Ok,” he shook his head and said, ”off you go to the owlery I’ll make sure the elves give you some extra treats,” she hooted softly and nibbled on his finger affectionately and flew out through the window.

He settled down to read the paper when he heard the door to the room open he looked up and saw Tom standing here he nodded to him and indicated him to have a seat, “breakfast will be here soon,” he said then called out, “Binky,” the elf popped in so he continued, “can you make sure everyone knows breakfast will be served in ten minutes please,” she nodded and popped back out.

Harry turned back to read the paper he got half way down the page when Tom cleared his throat, Harry looked up at him and waited, “Harry,” Tom began looking slightly uncomfortable, “what’s going to happen today, and when can we have a tour I’d love to see more of this place?” he questioned looking slightly enthusiastic.

Harry chuckled and was about to reply when they were interrupted by the door they both looked at it and saw Severus and Lucius standing there, Harry waved them in to have a seat, Hermione turned up straight after they sat down. She grinned at Harry and sat next to Tom saying a small good morning to him. They all looked towards the door when they heard a screech going off just down the hall, the braced themselves for an attack only to see Remus walking through the door shaking with laughter, they understood why when Sirius followed rather subdued, he now had yellow and black striped skin with green and silver hair with a red nose and bronze eyes, they all laughed except for Harry who shook his head and clicked his fingers for the food to appear, he poured himself a cup of black coffee and turned back to his newspaper. After twenty minutes everyone had finished eating and turned to Harry so he put the newspaper down.

“To answer your earlier question Tom we are going to finish talking now then after lunch we can have a tour of this place Ok?” he said looking around, he saw everyone nodding apart from Sirius who was sulking, “Siri you’ll be back to normal in a few minutes so don’t worry just don’t try and open anymore doors ye?” He stood up after receiving Sirius’s nod and indicated they should follow him.

He led them to the same room they were in last night but he sat on a single chair. Remus looked at Harry after ten minutes of waiting for him to speak but he looked deep in thought so he snuggled up to Sirius and waited after another ten minutes of nobody speaking Remus looked back at Harry and saw his eyes were glazed over and winced. Sirius looked at him after feeling him wince so he nodded towards Harry. Sirius upon seeing his eyes winced as well knowing that this wasn’t good. He got up slowly and moved towards him, he knelt down in front of Harry when he didn’t move he became extremely worried.

“Har,” he said softly and reached up slowly to touch his shoulder he withdrew it quickly upon seeing Harry flinch and seeing the widened eyes he began to talk to him, “your safe here pup, they can’t reach you here,” he repeated this when he saw Harry had calmed down he pulled him into a hug and felt his shoulder slowly getting wet, he rubbed Harry’s back and carried on whispering to him. The others in the room looked on in shock none of them had seen anything like this before, as Harry slowly calmed down Sirius picked him up and sat in the chair with him on his lap, he started to frown upon realising how light he felt.

He looked at Harry and said, “pup will you drop the glamour for me please I need to see what those things did to you,” Harry shook his head so he carried on; “it was worse this summer wasn’t it?”

Harry didn’t answer him so Hermione did, “The Order threatened his family at the train station before they left, they told them that you had died and they would be watching them.”

Remus growled and snapped, “Those idiots, don’t they know the only thing that was stopping them from hurting Harry was the threat of Sirius. Cub please drop the glamour,” he growled again when he heard Harry whimper,” Cub look you need to drop the glamour please,” he knew he was pleading but he didn’t care.

When Harry just shook his head Sirius decided to try, “please pup I need to know, I can tell they haven’t been feeding you as your lighter than you were so please just drop the glamour.” Harry sighed knowing he had to drop the glamour, so he did. Sirius and the others were shocked to see the damage that was on his body, Harry’s right eye was bruised as was his cheek, he had cuts littering his left cheek and purple bruising around his neck from where someone had attempted to strangle him, they all knew that the rest of his body was going to be similar to this.

“Har, where are your potions? Have you had them this morning?” Sirius said attempting to gain control of his anger so he didn’t scare Harry any more than he was already.

“They’re in my trunk,” Harry answered quietly, “and no I haven’t had any this morning I forgot about them. I’ll ask an elf to fetch them for me,” he clicked his fingers and an elf appeared could you fetch me two blue potions and a green ad red one please from the second compartment of my trunk please, the elf popped away nodding furiously, only to reappear a few seconds later with them.

Tom cleared his throat and everyone turned to him so he spoke, “I believe we should have you healed up,” he said, “and then you can tell us what happened before we talk about anything else.”

“We agree,” the portrait said, Harry groaned upon hearing that voice, whilst the others turned towards the portrait that was empty only seeing it filled with people dressed in fine robes, “and you had better not leave anything out either.”

“Sal there is more important things to talk about than what has happened to me like the war,” Harry said to the person in the portrait who spoke.

“My dearest heir, while the war is important. You are more important to us than that,” Salazar hissed, “now drink those potions and introduce us. Then you can tell us what happened so we can plan to get revenge.”

Harry thought it not wise to argue with him so he drunk his potions not even grimacing at the tastes and ordered tea for everyone then he began the introductions, “Sirius, Remus, Hermione, Tom, Mr Malfoy, Professor these are the Founders of Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw,” he said pointing each out in turn, “Sal, ‘Ric, Helga, Row these are Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Hermione Riddle or Granger, Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape.” Having finished speaking he sat back with amusement watching their faces turn from shock to awe to finally looking at them with a multitude of questions.

They never got to ask any of them however as Salazar started to speak to Harry, “now then heir are you going to tell us or am I going to ask the Potions Master to dose you up with Veritasium?” he asked.

Harry glared at him which Salazar just raised an eye-brow to, Godric started to snicker at the familiar gestures when they both turned to him with identical glares on their faces, his eyes widened and he paled rather quickly, when they were sure he wasn’t going to say anything they turned back to each other. When Salazar just looked back at Harry with an eye-brow raised Harry sighed knowing he would have to talk. He got up poured himself a cup of tea and sat down in the armchair opposite the portrait, Salazar recognising the position gave a small nod. Harry sighed and pulled out the other calming draught and poured it into his tea, he missed the looks the others shot him at that but Salazar didn’t he shook his head to prevent any questions and looked back at Harry, Harry looked at Salazar and said, “what do you want to know Sal?” it became obvious to everyone else that Salazar would ask the questions and didn’t ask any questions.

“Start at the beginning youngling,” Salazar said in a voice that no one had heard before it was so full of calmness, compassion, wariness and understanding, “take your time OK.” Harry nodded head and seemed to be in deep thought.


AN: Ok now you'll hear all about what happend in the summer hope you like.