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Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai - 28 July 2025 EDT
Chapter Twelve: The Chamber of Secrets
Everyone was quick to start their daily schedule. Dumbledore left the Great Hall to start his day as well. He was followed by most of the teachers, leaving the students in the capable hands of the Heads of Houses and the Founders.
As the Heads of Houses started distributing the timetables, students started to disappear to their classes; in the end, only the Heads of Houses and the Founders were left in the Great Hall. Soon even that changed and Godric, Rowena and Helga left with Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout respectively; leaving Salazar alone with Professor Snape.
"So Professor, what subject do you teach?" Salazar initiated the conversation
"I teach potions to all years; however surprisingly I do not have any classes until after tea time today. So would you like to accompany me to the dungeons or would you prefer to do something else." Severus replied politely, wishing that Salazar would accompany him to the dungeon so that he could ask him as many questions as he wants.
However, Salazar had some other plans. He was planning on having a look at his chambers, and possibly brew some new potions.
"Thank you for you offer Professor, however, I must apologise to you as I would not be able to take you up on your offer this time. You see, last night I did not check the condition of my Chambers and as I had forbidden the house elves to clean the area I doubt that it would have stayed well after these many years." He paused for a moment, studying the other man. "Would you like to accompany me?"
Delight overcame Severus' initial feelings of disappointment when Salazar Slytherin invited him to visit the famous Chambers of Secret. He was about to reply positively when they were interrupted by Madam Pomfrey's assistant.
"Professor Snape, thank goodness you are still here. There has been an incident, apparently a few students had gotten into a duel and are now in the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey is attending to them but she needs the Burn Healing Salve, the standard nutrient potions, some pepper up potion and some dreamless sleep potion."
"It seems I must refuse your offer this time, I must tend to the students and provide the required potions for them. Perhaps I can join you at a later date?" Severus asked hopefully.
"Students must always come first for the teachers," the founder replied wisely. "We can chat later but please continue with your duties." Salazar nodded at the assistant and left the Great Hall.
After leaving the Great Hall, Salazar immediately made his way towards the second floor. Godric had informed him of his reasoning behind this brilliant idea of his to build a bathroom (a girls bathroom!) right on the entrance to Salazar's chambers. The reason he gave was that although they could not answer everyone's questions about Salazar being evil, they did not want anyone to find Salazar's chambers. Salazar felt touched by their gesture to protect his chambers even though they did not know whether or not they could trust him.
As he reached the second floor, he looked around to see if anyone was around, when he was sure that no one was looking, he entered the abandoned bathroom. He found that Myrtle was nowhere to be found (he was thankful for that). So he quickly opened the entrance and asked for the moving staircase and entered his chambers after closing the entrance behind him.
Just as he had expected, the entrance hall was damp and dark. Apparently the charm to keep the dampness out of the Chambers had worn off. That was not a surprise; he had expected that after these many years of neglect. He decided to start by going into the main hall and recharging the charm. That would not take long and it would ensure that the next job would be easier.
However as he went towards the main hall of his chambers, he started having a feeling that something bad was going to happen today. Hence he decided that after recharging the charms and doing the basic cleaning, the first potion he would brew would be to enhance his seer ability; he might not be a seer like Helga and his mother but he did inherit some of the gift and by mixing his blood in this potion he would be able to see the event clearly. He would usually get some nagging feeling and after taking the potion he would be able to see the event in the bowl.
As he passed the dark and damp tunnels to his Main Hall, he lit the torches interspersed on the walls. He also found a few basilisk skins of different lengths. He inspected each of them and was happy to find that all of them were useable for potions. He added this to his to do list and walked ahead.
As he reached the end of the tunnel, he was happy to see that the entrance to his main chambers was not too damp nor did it have any slime on it. Apparently not all of his spell work had worn off with time.
He looked into the eyes of the one of the two entwined serpents that were carved on the entrance wall, they were glinting emeralds (he always did love that colour). After reaching near the wall he spread his right palm and pressed it on a stone near the entrance; and as he did that the serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight.
As he entered the main hall, he found himself standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars entwined with more carved serpents rose to support a ceiling lost in darkness, casting long, black shadows through the odd, greenish gloom that filled the place.
He frowned at this. He had expected this as he had visited this area in his own universe as Harry, but now he remembered the way this area was supposed to look and was not happy at the eerie feeling that it gave. This hall was supposed to have a welcoming feeling and the ceiling was not supposed to be lost in darkness, in fact it was supposed to depict the weather outside. This room was loved by all the founders and was a place where all four founders used to practice their elemental powers.
Salazar took a deep breath and took out his Ash wand and walked to the centre of the Hall. He raised both his hands and directed them towards the ceiling. After that he closed his eyes and started chanting in Parseltongue. He always found that the spells casted with Parseltongue had more power and tended to last longer than if they were casted in any other languages. Rowena was very miffed about this when she found out and this was what motivated her to create spells using Latin and ancient Greek that lasted a long time.
After about an hour, he was satisfied with the spell work. He conjured a comfortable couch and sat on it to rest for a while. A quick Tempus spell showed that it was already lunch time. He didn't want to go to the Great Hall so he summoned a house elf and asked for some pumpkin juice and a couple of sandwiches, in the chamber itself. The elf was as always happy to serve and popped in with the requested food. After thanking the elf (the elf squeaked excitedly and popped out after starting to clap in joy at being thanked by the notorious wizard; all Salazar could do was smile and shake his head at the antics of the elf.) and having his food; Salazar wandered into some of the other rooms.
These rooms were charmed to only appear only if Salazar or any of the other founders laid their hand on the designated stone whilst entering the main hall. If someone used a password the doors to the main hall will open but that person will not be able to see the other rooms in the Chamber. This feature was added as an extra security to ensure that no unwanted Parselmouth could access Salazar's belongings even if he had managed to enter his chambers.
Salazar decided to check out his medical ward first. They had set up a mini infirmary in his chambers. This was set up to attend to any wizard or witch who was seriously injured in the war. There was a shortcut from this chamber which opened at the edge of Hogsmeade village. In the ancient times, that ground was usually used to fight off any battles around Hogwarts was the battleground of Hogwarts and thus anyone seriously injured or anyone who needed to be healed by ancient magic or blood magic would be brought here by the Founders.
As he entered the infirmary, he found that the dampness was gone but the beds were in bad shape and the odour was not fully gone. So he started by casting the spells to dispel the odour, replacing it with the scent of freesia and jasmine. After that, he banished the beds and the side tables, and then went on to vanish the dust and slime that had gathered in the room over the years.
Finished with that, he summoned a house elf to sanitize the room, specifically ordering it to stay in the infirmary and return to the kitchens after it was done.
Salazar then set off to inspect his potions lab and the store. This was accessed from a password protected portrait of his aunt who taught him a lot about potions and magical rituals from a very early age in the infirmary.
The portrait was happy to see Salazar after such a long time. Before it swung open, it warned him that the lab was in a bit of a mess. Entering the lab, Salazar couldn't help but think that the portrait had made a massive understatement.
The lab smelled awful. The whole room was covered in slime, some of the potions had leaked from their vials and mixed with other potions. Unfortunately the result was some sort of an explosion. He remembered that he was trying to make some potions which could be used in battle but he never had a chance to show them to the other founders as he had completed the potion on the day of their argument that had led to him leaving the castle for the last time.
He sighed at the memory and wished for the umpteenth time that he could have shown the potion to the others. But they were not ready to listen to him at all. In fact, Godric had started shouting at him the moment he had mentioned using potions against the Muggles in battle, starting off the row.
He shook himself out of his memories and started cleaning the lab. This took a little more than an hour and after banishing more than half of his things, he had managed to salvage some of his better quality cauldrons, some vials, and other basic equipments. It was not much, but luckily all the basic equipments required for brewing the intuition potion were available.
After this he checked the storage area. This area was heavily warded and it also had a permanent static charm on it; thus it had escaped any damage including the damp smell. This was a relief to Salazar as it would mean that all the rare ingredients he had collected and every potion that he had brewed in his past life could still be used. He had brewed some very rare dark potions that can be used for ritualistic healing to counter the effects of dark curses that otherwise could not be cured.
Satisfied that all the potions and salves were unspoiled, Salazar collected the required ingredients for the Seer Ability Enhancing Potion and moved back to the lab and started brewing it. The potion would only take about fifteen minutes to mix the ingredients and then a further half an hour to be ready to use.
Once the potion reached the stage where it needed to be left for a while, Salazar decided to check on the progress of the sanitisation of the infirmary. He was happy to see that the elf had completed his job and the infirmary was ready to be used. He would have to buy some new furniture but for now he conjured a few beds and other furniture. He also conjured a stone bed, used for the ritualistic healing, and some chairs and couches.
After all this, he relaxed on the couches for a while and then checked the time. The potion was almost done, so he went back to the lab and prepared to use the potion. After the potion was ready, he took some in a smaller bowl and made a small cut on his finger by a ritualistic knife. He let few drops of his blood fall into the potion and after the required amount of blood was mixed in the potion the cut healed itself.
The potion immediately turned transparent after the blood was mixed and Salazar could see the view of Hogsmeade village. The place was just a few feet away from the secret entrance to his infirmary, just outside of Hogshead pub. There were about twelve Death Eaters surrounding a group of six people. Salazar could identify all of the Death Eaters and he realised that they were all best duellers Voldemort had in his ranks. There was no way he would be able to out duel them without harming the six non-combatants. So he focused on the position of the victims and the time. He quickly realised that the victims were none other than the Marauders with Lily and Mr and Mrs Weasley. He could see that all other villagers were either running around or were lying on the ground. None of the victims had their wands and Sirius, James, Remus and the Weasleys had some gashes and bruises on their bodies and faces. It didn't seem too serious but Salazar knew that when people like Bellatrix were around, it would not take long before things took a turn for the worse. He looked around for the wands of the victims and found that they were held by Bellatrix in her pocket.
After assessing the situation he checked the time, but quickly realised that this event was happening at the same time. A plan started to form in his head as he left to help the Marauders, Lily and the Weasleys. He did not have time to contact the others and thus decided to deal with the situation himself.
Chapter Thirteen: The Attack
As Salazar exited the secret passage way leading to the edge of Hogsmeade he cast a disillusionment charm on himself. Reassessing the situation, he saw at least fifteen Death Eaters surrounding his parents, Sirius, Remus, and the Weasleys. Just as he had seen in the bowl, they were all unarmed and held at wand-point by the Death Eaters who were laughing at their pain. Salazar took a moment to look for injuries in case anyone needed urgent medical attention.
Sirius and Mr Weasley seemed worst off.
Sirius had a big cut on his right arm, which was profusely bleeding and his leg was bleeding as well. He had several small injuries on his face and other parts of his body.
Mr Weasley had a big gash on his chest and several small injuries on his arms. However he seemed to be losing a lot of blood and would need a blood replenishing potion soon. But it seemed that he would be ok for a few more minutes.
His father was on the ground, evidently under the effects of a full body-bind, his legs bleeding. Salazar could see the man's eyes were wide open in panic as he watched his attackers.
Remus had several small bruises on his hands, legs and face but nothing serious. A Death Eater held a silver knife near his throat, preventing the werewolf from moving.
Mrs Weasley was not harmed much as far as he could see but she was scared and looked as though she would need a calming draught soon. She also seemed thinner than his world, but that could be due to the loss of her two youngest children.
Lily was also relatively unharmed with a few bruises on her face but Bellatrix was currently focusing on her. It seemed that Bellatrix was content to just torment her with words.
Salazar moved to position himself. However before he could cast any spell, Bellatrix raised her wand, the incantation of the Killing curse on her lips. However, Sirius who was near Lily, was quicker, kicking Bellatrix's hand out of the way before the Death Eater could fire the deadly curse.
The Death Eaters stopped laughing at this point.
There was a tense silence broken by Antonin Dolohov, who pointed his wand at Sirius and shouted "adolebit penitus sicco!"
To Salazar it seemed as if he was losing his Godfather again in this world and his fury reached his peak.
The Death Eaters were caught completely unawares by the sudden explosion of borderline dark spells sent their way by an angry Salazar Slytherin.
Lucius, the two Lestranges, and Dolohov were taken out first. With a powerful banishing charm, Salazar sent them flying several feet into a copse of trees as he simultaneously summoned the stolen wands from Bellatrix and sent a stasis charm at Sirius to halt the effects of the curse.
Meanwhile, the other Death Eaters had regained their wits. Seeing various curses headed his way, Salazar quickly Disapparated silently. Appearing behind them, he silently sent hexes, curses and jinxes at Voldemort's men, catching a few of them by surprise. Not giving his enemies another chance to regroup, Salazar Apparated to another spot, keeping the Death Eaters on the defensive as he appeared and disappeared randomly, giving the impression that there was more than one person casting spells.
In short order, the remaining Death Eaters were nursing numerous burns and cuts while several of them had broken bones.
Assuming that they were outnumbered, the beleaguered group of attackers called for a retreat. Those that were able grabbed their fallen comrades as they Disapparated.
Lily couldn't believe that the Founders had arrived in this time. Although she was not against any founder as a school girl, she despised anyone regularly using dark arts after losing her son. Hence she was not very happy at the arrival of the notorious Salazar Slytherin. However she chose to ignore him and decided that as long as he did not pose any threat to her family and students she would not judge him.
After breakfast, she could not help but notice how Slytherin answered most of the questions and how he seemed to be the leader of the founders. It irked her a little to see that the famous witches and wizards of all times were allowing a dark wizard to lead them. But, she told herself that they were still friends and it seems that the other three founders had not yet realised the true evil nature of the notorious fourth founder.
Once the question and answer session finished, she quickly followed the Headmaster out of the Great Hall, with her husband and two best friends. The four of them went to her and her husband's quarters where they sat around the fire absorbing recent events. They had their lunch there and were thankful to Professor McGonagall for excusing them from any classes that day.
When it was almost tea time, they all left the castle quietly to meet the Weasleys at the Hogshead, completely forgetting to inform anyone in the castle of where they were going.
Having lost two of her youngest children to the war, the overprotective Weasley matriarch had predictably panicked upon hearing that Salazar Slytherin was residing in Hogwarts. However, with the help of the Potters and their friends, her calmer husband managed to assuage her fears somewhat.
It was then that they heard a commotion outside. Concerned, the six drew their wands and cautiously headed out.
Outside the Hogshead they saw at least fifteen Death Eaters all from Voldemort's inner circle.
When Molly saw Antonin Dolohov and Bellatrix Lestrange in the group, she started to lose her nerve and Lily had to stay with her to protect her from harm. The four men in the group went out to save the villagers.
After few minutes someone entered the pub and Lily felt relief wash over her, as she thought that it was either one of the Marauders or Arthur for them. But as she came out of hiding with Molly, she was faced with the Death Eaters.
The Death Eaters quickly disarmed the women and dragged them out where they found, James under a full body bind curse. Sirius and Arthur were standing next to the downed man, both sporting several injuries with open bleeding wounds. Remus was the farthest one and he was held by two Death Eaters and had a silver knife at his throat.
The Death Eaters threw Lily and Molly between Sirius and James.
"So we finally have the full group now" Bellatrix Lestrange cackled triumphantly from the middle of the Death Eaters.
"Aww did the wig boys here think that the tiny winy babies were not old enough to fight? Or were they too scared of the big bad Death Eaters who killed their precious little babies" Bellatrix continued to taunt them.
Lily could see that Molly was on the verge of tears and she knew the reason behind it. Bellatrix and the Lestrange brothers were the ones to kill young Ronald and Ginerva along with Molly's brothers Fabian and Gideon.
However, Lily refused to be intimidated by Bellatrix and glared at her for taunting them like that.
"Ohhh mummy save me the big red headed woman is scaring me …" Bellatrix mocked her before laughing loudly along with the other Death Eaters. One of the Death Eaters backhanded her, knocking her down. Holding a hand up, Lily could feel blood oozing from her lips as her cheek throbbed. The Death Eaters laughed more at her pain, and Bellatrix came closer to her.
"What are you going to do huh? Going to hurt me? Do you want to kill me?" Bellatrix continued in her baby voice in midst of the laughter
"You know it's a pity that you all don't have any more kids, it would have been so much fun to kill them, maybe this time we would torture them first and let you hear their screams before killing them in front of your eyes. Do you think you would be able to do anything to us if we did that? Huh?" Bellatrix asked in a crazy voice abandoning her mocking baby voice.
"You wouldn't know anything about loving your own child Bellatrix, now would you? But I suppose that you are not even worth calling yourself a human, let alone being a mother of an innocent child." Lily snarled at Bellatrix defiantly.
Bellatrix's face twisted into an ugly look. Snarling, the mad witch raised her wand, the killing curse on her lips. Just when Lily thought it was over, Sirius kicked the Death Eater's wand away.
Lily did not even get a moment to realise what happened before Sirius was felled by a nasty curse sent by Antonin Dolohov in retaliation.
Lily's scream was stuck in her throat as she saw Sirius fall on the ground. But before she could come out of her shock or do something, help came.
It seemed as though the teachers of Hogwarts had come to their rescue. She looked around to see who had come but could not see anyone and the spells seemed to be coming from everywhere.
Lily watched with glee as Lucius, Dolohov and the Lestranges were blasted off their feet. She felt vindictive joy upon seeing the other Death Eaters being mercilessly battered by spells that seemed to come from everywhere. Within a few moments all Death Eaters had fled the scene to her relief.
As the last of Death Eaters Disapparated, she looked around to see Salazar Slytherin shimmering into view, no doubt lifting the disillusionment charm he had placed on himself. A known Dark Slytherin had saved them from the Death Eaters? That too Salazar Slytherin himself? That didn't make sense, how can the notoriously dark wizard who did not even spare a single thought before burning down an entire village full of people save them from other dark wizards?
She looked around to see if the other founders were there as well. It would make sense for Slytherin to save them whilst the other founders were also present, as then he would have to put on a mask of being a light wizard.
But no one else seemed to appear around them. When she looked back to find Slytherin, she saw him lifting the full body bind on James and handing them their wands back. After that Slytherin moved to Arthur and had a look at the gash on his chest and put a mild stasis charm on him and conjured stretcher for him and gently laid him on that next to the other conjured stretcher he had placed Sirius on. Lily's insides felt numb as she looked at the pale visage of her friend as Slytherin levitated both the men and started moving towards the school. She strongly doubted that there was anything that could be done for Sirius.
James placed an arm around her and started following the founder, hobbling along despite his wounded legs. He was shortly joined by a dazed Molly, who was being helped along by Remus.
As they followed Slytherin, Remus noticed that Slytherin created three Patronuses that looked like a cross between a dragon and a phoenix and sent them to towards the castle before going towards path that led to the forbidden forest.
He was about to question Slytherin on this route when Slytherin opened a passage way and was about to go in.
"Where does this passageway go?" Remus asked half suspicious and half curious. James and Lily were in shock and were holding onto each other, and Molly was also very anxious about Arthur's condition. Thus it seemed that he was the only one who had to keep his head in this situation. Even Remus was very worried for Sirius as there was no known spell or potion that can cure the curse cast on Sirius but Remus kept his emotions in check in order to protect the remaining of his friends.
Remus braced himself, expecting the founder to attack him, when he turned to look at Remus. But what Slytherin did shocked Remus to no end. Salazar turned towards Remus before giving him a small smile
"This tunnel is a short cut to the infirmary." The founder said not unkindly. "You all need healing and the other teachers are on their way."
Saying so, Salazar continued to walk into the passage with Sirius and Arthur floating behind him. With a feeling of trepidation, Remus entered the passage after James Lily and Molly.
The passage was wide enough for four to five people to walk side by side. As Remus walked in, the door behind him slid back into its place, locking the occupants in the passage. The passage was long and well lit. Whilst walking through it, Remus wondered how the Marauders had never found this passage into the castle. If Slytherin was right, and this path did lead to the hospital wing, then it would be invaluable in the event they had to shift the wounded from Hogsmeade, should Voldemort attack the village.
Remus was surprised when they reached the end of the tunnel. This was not the Hogwarts hospital wing! But before he could say anything else, he saw Helga Hufflepuff in the room with Pomona Sprout and Filius Flitwick, and sighed in relief and allowed himself to relax on a nearby couch. They were safe now.
AN: So that was the most awaited battle scene, what will happen next? Will Sirius survive or will Salazar (Harry) lose his Godfather again in this world as well.
Keep reading to know more…
Originally posted by: KS_Shreya
Wow you're so good and fast. I don't finish reading one part and the next part is up!
Will read soon. Today I've got to take a break and update my own FF. 😆
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