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Apparently telling the ministry it appeared that Harry Potter had turned back up, claiming he was Salazar Slytherin, with another wizard claiming he was Godric Gryffindor, made them act faster to confirm the facts then telling them about the disapearence of The-Boy-Who-Lived. This was seen by how the wizards who dealt with time (from the Department of Mysteries), Madam Amelia Bones, (there as Head of the Aurors and to administer the veritaserum), Alastor Moody, (who was retiring but decided to hang on a few hours to see this situation Albus had got himself into), Arthur Weasley, (who's son accidently caused the mess in the first place), Cornelius Fudge, (Minister of Magic) and Lucius Malfoy (who was discussing important matters with the Minister) all turned up an hour after the incident. To be fair, it should have taken about half that time but Madam Bones was busy chewing the Minister out for not informing the aurors of the situation in case it was more than just miscast magic and Dumbledore for not informing her about the chamber of secrets. Either way it was good reaction time for the ministry after the week it was going to take to investigate Harry's disappearance.
The students all sat at the house tables as Godric and the dark haired man, who-nobody-knew-what-to-call-as-they-didn't-know-which-was-better-or-worse-in-this-situation-and-what-did-he-want-to-be-called-anyway? sat in of the teachers table out the front in chairs, being stared at by curious students, teachers and mostly-ministry-officials. Godric was looking was looking around curiously at the differences he saw between times, while 'Whathisname' just had a small, soft smile on his face as he glanced around.
"Well..." announced Cornelius Fudge into the silence, "Well..."
"...Perhaps we should start with the questions?" Madam Bones said dryly, "there won't be a point in using veritaserum if they answer incorrectly. I believe Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger know him well, you two should have some information only Harry could answer correctly I believe?"
The two nodded. "Harry said that Hagrid, was the first to introduce him to the wizarding world," Hermione added.
"Thankyou, that should help as also. Now, Sir, may I ask as Harry Potter, what day you did your school shopping on an who can confirm this?"
"July 31st, Hagrid rescued me from the rock my family was staying at, wrote my acceptence letter and took me shopping. Obviously Hagrid can confirm this as well as all the customers at the Leaky Cauldron as I shook hands with them all, the goblins- Griphook too me to my vault; Draco Malfoy I met in Madam Malkins and I recieved my wand from Mr. Ollivander, who says he remembers every wand ever sold I presume he could confirm this as mine," Harry grinned as he answered the question, holding his wand up.
The adults blinked, they hadn't thought of that. Madam Bones sent Arthur Weasley to get Ollivander as she continued the non-veritaserum questioning, (after the first answer was accepted as true).
"Can you name significant people on all your trips to and from Hogwarts?"
"I met the Weasley's in first year, they helped me onto the Platform. Mrs Weasley, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny were there. Ron sat in my compartment, Fred and George visited. Malfoy, (Draco), Crabbe and Goyle dropped by, scabbers bit Goyle. Hermione and Neville came by looking for his toad, Neville came by twice. Going home I sat with Ron and Hermione. This year Ron and I drove a flying car to school because the barrier was closed. I think a house elf may have done that."
"Oh!" said Ron, "Harry only told the twins, Hermione and myself about the house elf."
"Mr. Potter?" asked Madam Bones.
He shrugged. "He was in my room when I was sent up..." he paused, thinking. "I don't recall everything he said, this was about twenty years ago for me.... but he didn't want me to go to Hogwarts, he said there was danger but did not involve He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named... He cried when I asked him to sit and was noisy. Uncle came up and yelled as he was disturbing their party.. his name was Dobby."
"Dobby?" Madam Bones asked, Harry nodded. "I believe you have a house elf with the name Dobby, Lucius?"
Lucius glared, nodded and called out, "Dobby!" and he appeared, looking very frightened. "Did you visit Harry Potter in the summer?" he asked. Dobby gave a shaky nod.
"Then that is confirmed," Madam Bones said. "If Dobby could stay, I may need to question him later. Now, Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger, perhaps you could ask questions your friend would know."
The two looked at each other. Ron grinned, "Why does Hermione need to sort her priorites out?"
Harry's lips twitched, "because the two of us could come up with more ideas to get us killed, or worse; expelled."
Hermione blushed red, but they nodded, it was the corret answer. It gave Hermione an idea though, "Nicholas Flammel."
"He's not very recent, being over six hundred and your version of 'a bit of 'light' reading' is worse than Rowena's. He created the Philosophers stone and we found the book he was in because I read Dumbledore's chocolate frog card on the train and then Neville gave me it again, causing me to remember."
"Professor Quirrel..." Ron started, not knowing the kind of question to ask adn Dumbledore made a gesture with his hand causing him to stop.
Harry didn't see that and probably wouldn't have care anyway, "he had Voldemort on the back of his head, under the turban," he grimaced in rememberance, "he tried to kill me in the first game. Professor... well, a Professor saved me, as well as Hermione. I don't think I should go into anymore detail with that... Quirrel was trying to get the Philosophers stone for Voldemort."
"How about the Mirror of Erised?"
"I found it in a spare room as I ran from Mr.Filch and Professor Snape as I was out after hours. I took you the next night. I continued going, you didn't think it was a good idea. The headmaster prevented me after a few weeks... ... It shows our most deepest desire. I saw my whole family, all around me.... The headmaster said he saw himself holding woolen socks as he wants those, not books," he grinned.
There were a few more qustions until: "How did you become Salazar Slytherin?" Madam Bones asked. As he had answered the questions correctly so far and they were things only he could know, they would presume him sane, especially after veritaserum, confirmation from Ollivander about the wand and perhaps seeing the Chamber of Secrets, (which was apparently just a hidden set of rooms, which while safer, a little.. disapointing considering all the rumors and mystery behind it).
"Ron, Hermione and I attended Nick's Deathday Party- oh, Happy Deathday, Sir Nicholas!- I heard a voice in the walls talking about killing, so I followed it... in hindsight, stupid, but all the teachers were at the feast. We came across Mrs Norris and the writing on the wall. Then the whole school turned up. Malfoy said Mudbloods would be next... and I would like to point out that I may call some muggleborns that as that is what magicals called them athousand years ago. Was a lot less obvious and showed the magical lines they needed to be taught. We were usually considered an odd kind of cult I suppose but not magical and despite what people spread about hardly any real magicals being caught they were wrong," Harry finished darkly. "But that is off topic, Malfoy said that and Ron reacted. They were then told off and Ron gestured rather violently at Malfoy sending a stream of light, he dodged, so it hit me and I... vanished I suppose. I'm not sure what it looked like to everyone else. Then I met him," Harry pointed at Godric.
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It was decided they'd use the Veritaserum to double-confirm and then Mr. Ollivander checked the wand. "Ah, yes," he said. "Holly and Phoenix, eleven inches. You were a tricky customer, Mr. Slytherin. Your name fits more now.."
"You seem confident he is Salazar Slytherin," Dumbledore questioned.
"He knows everyone as they walk in and knows all the wands he's sold. So have the rest of his family, I knew four Ollivanders in my- the other time." Salazar, (as we must now call him), stated.
"Indeed. I never forget. My whole family has been wand makers, since before we opened shops, and that was in 382BC, over 800 years before Hogwarts was opened. My family keeps track of what a family's magic looks like so we don't have to go through the entire shop. The Slytherin family has always been seen as 'odd' by my family since Salazar because the magic was so strange. A muggleborn, you see is the descendant of a squib as I am sure Mr. Gryffindor and Slytherin can confirm..."
The two nodded.
"Hmm. So, Mr. Potter had the magic from his mother, she had two types mixed from her anscetors which was then mixed with his fathers two (coming from his ancestors and mother). Mr. Potter is also the heir to his godfathers house, he made this certain by allowing his magic to mix. This gave Mr. Potter Potter magic mixed with Black, (James), two Blacks, (his godfather), and the magic from his mother- do you know it?"
"Yes, we wanted family to teach the ...muggleborns. I created a linage potion. I would say it's lost, forgotten or no longer in use as it requires Basilisk venom."
"You can't drink...!"
"I know," Harry cut Lucius Malfoy off. "It just needs a drop of blood. The venom in the potion separates the blood line out because basically it's 'killing' the blood. The rest of the ingredients react to give a nice list. I made quite a number of family trees that way, including the Blacks, Princes, Malfoys and Weasleys. My son (adopted son), and I were looking for a way to update it... I hope he continued working on that. -But yes, Mother was related to the Princes and Shafiq family."
"Yes, that was the magic. It was most amusing she entered with a Prince to recieve her wand-"
"Excuse me for interupting," Hermione said, "But if a muggleborn has magic from two ancestors and a pureblood from their parents, what about a halfblood?" Muttering arose;
"There are more than one reason that muggles aren't liked. That is one, which is why families get insulted when one marries them." Harry explained. "I think it has been exaggerated over the years, as obviously it is muggleborns not liked now. However, there is nothing wrong with marrying a muggle, it can boost previous ancestral magic leading to magic not used for centuries to become avaliable again, sometimes it does nothing, the child just get their grandparents magic. The trouble comes when a halfblood marries a muggle, their childs magic will be fine, but when that child has children the magic doesn't accept the other parents completely.They will have mainly the halfblood parents magic. If this child marries a non-magical, magic can die out; it will re-appear in a muggleborn in the distant future, but for now, it's gone. Magicals always focused on the future rather than there only been on muggle in the family, of course we don't like muggles also because they're out to kill us all and we have to hide our magic in fear of the children who cannot magic themselves out of a situation.
Of course the opposite can happen. If you marry pure magical, magical, magical; magic will become stagnant again. A squib being born means that the magic has gone stagnant, it needs new blood. Marrying a muggleborn, as their magic hasn't been around for a while or a muggle will help it continue. Magic doesn't go all at once, so a squib in the family doesn't mean the end, it's a warning. It may seem bad talking about powering up magic through marriage, but people often marry for power. Really though, if you choose your partner because you like them, it's more likely to be a better match. It also means you don't arrange to marry the same sort of family's again again. Magicals enjoy connecting family's for status, even a thousand years ago, this is a dangerous practise though. I predicted a rise in the muggleborns in the future because of this; I was looking at my year while making my point in the past, while diminished because of war, there were far more mugleborns and a great loss in tradition."
"Mr. Slytherin is correct," Ollivander spoke, heard by everyone despite the noise that arose from that declaration. Pureblood and Halfbloods a little, (or more), insulted and Muggleborns whispering excitedly as they thought about being related to a great magical family. "But, as I was saying, Mr. Potter magic mixed with his wifes and would create his son with five mixes because Black magic was so prominet, however there was six. Five was unusual enough, however that was passed away as a future thing, which it was -a godfather making their godson heir was mostly unheard of due to the large familys, as such the ritual did not exist. Six however was odd, I believe I understand it, but as I have divulged such personal information, I would prefer that part in private."
"Thankyou," said Salazar.
"Does that mean you can tell us who's related to the other founders?" called out a Ravenclaw "I mean we know that-"
"That the Dark Lord, who goes by Voldemort, if my direct heir or not is disowned from the family line, cut from the magics and eliminated from the House?" Salazar said and a magic rose around him making his words true. The Ravenclaw looked shocked. "What? after everything he did, some in my name, you expect me to allow him in my family?" Salazar questioned. "And with the other's, I'm sure Mr. Ollivander does know, but that is private information. But, I would appreciate if you could confirm this is Godric, if you are able."
"He is," Ollivander determined, after looking at the wand. "Cypress and Gryffin feather, 8 and a half inches."