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Founders Through Time

By: slygriff21
folder Harry Potter › Het - Male/Female › Snape/Hermione
Rating: Adult ++
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Chapter 11

Summary: What if there was a different reason for Salazar leaving? Hermione and Severus are swept up in a story of love, betrayal and mistakes. Can the two of them correct a mistake that Helga and Godric made or are they doomed to suffer the same fate as Rowena and Salazar? R/R

Chapter 11

When Hermione entered the Great Hall for breakfast, she could feel something was different. She had awakened with the strangest feeling. A feeling that there was someone inside her body wanting to break free. The students and Professors were all gathered in the hall. Fudge, Rita Skeeter, and the governors were seated at the staff table. Fudge looked rather smug. Hermione held her head high as she sat at Gryffindor table with Harry.

“Um, Hermione,” Ron said sheepishly.

“Yes?” Hermione asked.

“I’m…I’m sorry. I guess I over reacted. Like always. Harry helped me realize I was a complete jerk. If you want to see Snape, that’s your choice. I’ll support you and wish you two the best of luck,” Ron replied.

“Well, I guess I can forgive you,” Hermione smiled.

Ron returned the smile as she leaned over and hugged him. The rest of Gryffindor began giving their support as well. Apparently, Harry and Ginny had given the house one hell of a speech the night before that made them reevaluate their feelings.

“May I have everyone’s attention,” Albus said. The hall fell silent. “The Minister has something he wishes to address,” he stated with an angry expression.

Fudge go to his feet. “Thank you Albus. Now, everyone here knows that there is an investigation going on involving Professor Severus Snape and Head Girl, Hermione Granger. I see no reason to keep you out of the loop.

“I have been given some rather…outlandish evidence that supposedly explains how this inappropriate affair began. After looking over the evidence, I feel it is nothing more than a well or castrated hoax.

“I have come to a decision. At the conclusion of breakfast, Professor Snape will be taken to the Ministry where he will be tried by the Wizengamot. As for Miss Granger, she will be allowed to continue her studies, seeing as how she was obviously manipulated by Professor Snape,”

The hall erupted, but not in Fudge’s favor. The students from all four houses began yelling in protest, along with the professors. Fudge suddenly looked very scared. He reminded Hermione of a deer caught in headlights.

Suddenly, four bright lights filled the hall, causing the room to fall silent. The lights were surrounding Harry, Hermione, Severus, and Susan. Harry was engulfed in red, Hermione in blue, Severus in green and Susan in yellow. The four of them were lifted into the air and floated to the center of the hall. The students backed away in shock.

As the lights faded, they began to take on a human form. Hermione, Severus, Harry, and Susan blinked their eyes as if coming out of some kind of trance and gasped. Standing in front of them were none other than Godric, Helga, Rowena, and Salazar.

“You pathetic wizard. You are making a foolhardy and completely boneheaded mistake,” Godric growled at Fudge.

“You were given proof of what was happening and you just dismiss it. No wonder you are going to go down in history as the worst Minister of Magic in all of Britain,” Helga added.

“How are you here?” Albus asked.

“We are here because this idiot was about to repeat history,” Salazar said.

“We can no longer allow Hogwarts to suffer for our mistakes. Helga and I were wrong in keeping Salazar and Rowena apart That one event caused a chain reaction that has led to this. Voldemort, the war, all of it,” Godric explained.

“Why did you choose me and Hermione?” Severus questioned as he pulled Hermione into his arms.

“Because you reminded Salazar and I of us when we fell in love, Plus the two of you are perhaps more powerful than us. If anyone could unify this school, it is you,” Rowena smiled.

“And Harry and I?” Susan added.

“As mine and Helga’s heirs, Hermione and Severus would need your loyalty to help correct our mistake,” Helga answered.

“This…this is impossible! The founders are dead!” Fudge yelled.

“You are a fool. You refuse to see the truth even when it’s staring you in the face. It’s time for change Fudge. Not just at Hogwarts, but at the Ministry as well,” Lucius hissed.

And so, the spirits of the founders not only told the true story, but showed it as well. Once the truth was told, the founders faced the two couples before them.

“You four are everything we could have hoped for. Now that our job is done, yours must now begin,” Godric said.

“Remember the values in which Hogwarts was founded, Helga smiled.

“Severus, you have a wonderful gift. Cherish her. There is nothing more worth living for than the love of your soul mate,” Salazar stated to Severus, who smiled down at Hermione.

“Hermione, just as you complete Severus, he completes you. Love him and stand by him. The love you share is unbreakable,” Rowena beamed.

Hermione nodded as she laid her head against Severus’s chest. With a bow, the four founders began glowing. The four lights once more surrounded Hermione, Severus, Susan, and Harry, then faded.

“Looks like you’re going to have some things to answer for. Both of you,” Albus said to Fudge and Rita. The two stood in complete shock at what they had just seen and heard.

Everyone was now staring at Severus and Hermione, waiting to see what they would do. Severus looked around at the sea of faces, watching him and Hermione.

“Oh what the hell,” he sighed.

He then swept Hermione into his arms and kissed her passionately. The hall filled with a roar of applause and cat calls.

“Marry me,” Severus said once they parted for air.

“Yes,” Hermione beamed.

The applause started all over again as the newly engaged couple kissed once more. Albus looked down at the couple with a bright smile. “Now that’s a fitting ending,”

“No Albus, a fitting beginning,” Lucius added.

T.B.C
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