The Founders Four - A HP Fic Last Part pg21 17/05/15 - Page 7

Chapter Fourteen: The Healing and OMG

Helga Hufflepuff was having a good day teaching one of her favourite subjects, Herbology with professor Sprout. They had three classes in the day and they were free after tea time. She was surprised when she did not find Salazar with Severus at lunch and had questioned Professor Snape about it. But Professor Snape told her that Salazar had left to inspect his chambers. She should have expected Salazar to run to his chamber and start restoring the wards and salvage all that he could. She always loved his chambers and used to go there to get some quiet time or to practise her elemental powers. She hoped that Salazar would restore the chambers to their former glory so that she could go there again and remember the halcyon days of her life as Helga Hufflepuff.

Once the tea time approached, Professor Sprout and Helga were walking towards the staff room when a Patronus suddenly landed in front of them and started taking the shape of half dragon and half phoenix. Professor Sprout screamed at the sight but relaxed when she felt Helga's hand on her shoulder.

Helga recognised the Patronus immediately as Salazar's and wondered what on earth had happened that would make Salazar send her a Patronus message. But before she could think anymore the Patronus started to speak in Salazar's voice.

"Hurry to the old extensive infirmary and bring along any Professors that are with you currently, as long as they do not have classes for another couple of hours."

With that the Patronus dissolved and Helga turned to Professor Sprout

"Professor you do not have any more classes to attend to today, do you?"

"No, Professor, I am done for the day, but who was that message from? I have never seen this method of communicating before."

"That was Salazar's message, I suppose we should hurry. By the way that was a way created by us to use as a safer method of communicating. But I suppose it was never passed over."

Whilst talking about that the two ladies moved quickly to the second floor, where they were met with Rowena Ravenclaw and Professor Flitwick.

"Row, I suppose you got Sal's message as well?"

"Yes, Helga I did, but I also received Ric's message not long after asking me to wait for Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall. Apparently they are on their way without Ric as I suppose Sal has asked him to do something before coming. Would you mind taking Professor Flitwick with you? I will join you as soon as Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall are here "

"Sure Row, come soon. Professor Flitwick, would you please come with us?"

"Of course Lady Hufflepuff, but where are we going? I thought we were going towards the infirmary?"

Helga had started walking towards Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, with Professors Sprout and Flitwick on her toes.

"Yes we are, but not the common school infirmary. We are going to Salazar's infirmary down in his Chambers."

"In the Chamber of Secrets? But why are we heading to Moaning Myrtles' bathroom? It is haunted and not used anymore."

"Yes we built this bathroom over Salazar's chambers' entrance to annoy him one day. And it is good that the toilets are not used as the entrance of Salazar's chambers is through these washrooms."

As they reached inside the bathroom, Helga gestured the Professors to stop and pressed her palm on a particular seemingly normal rock on the wall. As she did this the basins sank in the floor to give way to a staircase.

The staircase started moving as Helga approached the entrance. Giving a reassuring smile to the Professors, she motioned them to join her as she got onto the staircase.

The stairs carried them down deep within the bowels of Hogwarts. Reaching the bottom, Helga could see that Salazar had worked hard on his chambers during the day. The entrance hall looked almost the same as it did back in the day.

After the Professors joined her, she quickly led them through the welcoming main chambers into the infirmary.

Just as they entered the infirmary (which she could see was recently cleaned and sanitised) they saw Salazar entering with two stretchers and Remus, Molly, James and Lily on his heels. On the stretchers were Sirius and Arthur.

Everyone looked like they had just fought a battle and instantly the healer in her took charge of the situation.

Salazar had laid Sirius on the stone bed, which told her that Sirius needed some ritualistic healing but was under the static charm. After that Salazar moved her father in this life to another bed and started healing his injuries. This left her to go over to James, who seemed most injured from the remaining.

Just as she had finished healing James' legs and was starting to heal his other injuries by spells, Rowena entered the infirmary with the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall on her heels.

"Row, it's good that you are here, can you heal the minor injuries of the person here, I have already healed a deep gash on his chest and removed the static charm on him. But he needs some more healing. Meanwhile I will get some potions."

Rowena nodded and immediately took over casting the healing spells, but before Salazar could go and fetch the potions two things happened at the same time.

The Headmaster stopped him and asked what happened and the mirror buzzed. Hence Salazar turned the mirror on to see Godric's face in there.

"Sal, I am in the Hospital Wing right now and have Professor Snape and the school nurse, Madam Pomfrey here with me. What happened and what do you need?"

"Ric, there was an attack on few of the professors who were out in Hogsmeade. I will explain more later, but we need to get on the healing first. Madam Pomfrey, do you have about six vials of blood replenishing potion, a couple of calming draughts, a bowl full of normal healing salve and about five pain relieving potions?"

"Yes, Lord Slytherin, however, I am afraid I have run out of calming draughts." Replied Madam Pomfrey quickly. not bothering to wait for a reply, she dashed off to get the supplies.

"I have five phials of Calming Draught with me right now; I can bring them with me." Severus supplied

"Good, come down as quickly as possible," Salazar replied briskly.

"We are on our way, should be there in a couple of minutes." Godric replied after Severus had gone off to help gather the required supplies.

As soon as Godric cut the connection, Salazar rushed to his potions store room.

Helga had just finished healing James and Lily and had moved on to Remus. She made Remus lie on one of the beds and asked James not to move too much for a couple of minutes. Whilst healing Remus she realised that he would need a dose of counter-silvering potion to counter the effects of having silver near his throat for a while.

Making the werewolf lie down, she asked Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore to make sure none of her patients left their beds.

Just as she was about to enter the potions lab, Salazar came out with a variety of potions and gave one to her for Remus. She thanked him and quickly moved over to give the potions to Remus.

After drinking it he regained the colour on his face and looked much better, so she allowed him to get up and sit on a couch.

Just then Godric rushed in with Severus and Madam Pomfrey on his heels and she helped the nurse to administer the potions and salves. She gave some calming draught to Molly, Lily, James, Remus and Arthur (who had by now woken up after being healed but still looked pale).

She further gave four vials blood replenishing potion, a vial of pain relieving potions to Arthur and James.

She also added a vial of pain relieving potion for Remus.

After doing that, she looked around and saw that everyone else was free and was either resting or seating on one of the couches or chairs around the infirmary, watching Salazar work. So she quickly went over to help Salazar.

She casted a diagnosis charm on Sirius and found that there was a static charm on him. She also found a number of small injuries and the one curse which made her gasp.

As Professor McGonagall entered the chambers with Lady Ravenclaw she was not only amazed at the fact that all founders knew the location of the chambers, but she was also amazed at how welcoming the main chamber looked even if it was decorated with some stone snakes.

But she could not spend much time there and had rushed off to a room that was an infirmary. When she had heard the Patronus message from Lord Slytherin, she did not know what to think, but then had rushed here to find out what had happened.

However, after entering the infirmary she found four of her colleagues and two of her Griffins, lying in the hospital bed and being treated by either Lord Slytherin or Lady Hufflepuff.

She did not know what to think and seemed to have lost her power of speech as she watched Lady Ravenclaw take over healing Mr Weasley from Lord Slytherin.

As she heard about a deep gash on the chest she knew the curse that had caused that, it was the same curse that had killed one of their Order Members, Edgar Bones, a couple of months ago. But she was relieved when she heard that the gash was healed.

However just as Lord Slytherin was about to leave through another door, Albus asked the question that was ringing in his mind since she entered the infirmary. But along with Albus' question there was also a low ringing voice that seemed to come from an empty frame on the wall.

She watched as Lord Slytherin walked up to the frame and Lord Gryffindor's face was made visible.

As Lord Slytherin explained the events briefly, she felt the blood leave her face, her Griffins were attacked and she was not there to help them!

But when Lady Hufflepuff asked her to watch over Remus and Lily she knew she had to get a control on herself. So she pulled herself to her full height and stood in between Remus and Lily's beds, not letting them get up unless Lady Hufflepuff allowed them.

However, Lady Hufflepuff returned soon after taking a potion from Lord Slytherin and gave it to Remus. She had not seen the potion before but it made the colour come back to Remus' face so that was a good thing she supposed.

But within minutes Lord Gryffindor was in there and Madam Pomfrey and Severus were with him. So she let herself settle down on one of the comfortable chairs available in the room. She was followed by Albus, Pomona and Filius as they were not doing anything and wanted to get out of the way and allow the others to do their jobs.

After a few moments, they were joined by Lord Gryffindor, Lady Ravenclaw, Madam Pomfrey and Severus.

She took the moment to look around and found Lord Slytherin working on a desk beside a stone bed. With a bolt of shock she realised that the person on the stone bed was none other than Sirius Black.

Lady Hufflepuff soon joined Lord Slytherin and cast few diagnosis charms on Sirius. She could not understand what the different colours meant but when she heard Lady Hufflepuff gasp and look at Lord Slytherin with eyes and mouth wide; she knew that Sirius' condition was very bad.

But what she head next was not something she was expecting to hear.

"Sal, sicco curse? You are not doing what I think you are going to do, are you?"

This question of Lady Hufflepuff made Lord Gryffindor and Lady Ravenclaw get up from their seats while yelling "what".

This reaction and the name of the curse caused Minerva to lose what little colour was left on her face.

She knew that there was no cure for the sicco curse. That curse literally leaves the victim with only skin. Although that's the only thing that is known about the curse, as whatever causes this reaction, does not leave behind any symptom or evidence as to where the bones and other organs of the body disappeared. The only known way to identify the curse is the effects of the curse on the victim. The victim keeps screaming for about half an hour before he is left with only his skin and nothing else. It was one of the most painful ways of dying. But if Sirius was hit with that curse then why was he not screaming? And what was Lord Slytherin doing? And why were the other founders screaming at Lord Slytherin?

Salazar was so relieved to see Rowena take over healing of Arthur from him and after the quick explanation and instructions to Snape, Madam Pomfrey and Godric, he quickly left to collect some potions required for the ritual to heal Sirius. He also grabbed the potion for Remus to counter the effects of silver dagger and came back in the main infirmary. Where he handed Remus' potion to Helga and quickly conjured a stone work station and started working on starting the ritual.

After sometime Helga joined him and cast a diagnosis charm on Sirius and got the same result that he already knew. He knew that Helga would know what he was about to do and would not agree with it but he had to do it.

"Sal, the sicco curse? You are not doing what I think you are going to do are you?"

He heard Helga scream but did not look away from his work, and continued to mix the healing salve with burn calming paste. After that he added a few drops of Phoenix tears to a potion nearby and stirred it.

But before he could do anything else, Rowena and Godric joined Helga and started shouting his name loudly.

"SAL, YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT AGAIN, DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT"

"SAL BE REASONABLE"

He looked up from his work with pain filled eyes and looked straight into Rowena's eyes

"Be reasonable? I should be reasonable Row? He is dying over there"

He knew that others were watching so he opened the telepathic link with all founders and continued telepathically.

"I will not lose him again, Hermione. This time I can save Sirius and if it means that I have to bear that pain then so be it. I was willing to die for Sirius back in our fifth year and I will do it again. BUT I WILL NOT LOSE MY GODFATHER AGAIN."

He looked in to the eyes of each founder and continued out loud

"I am not going to sit there and watch him die when I know I can save him, I refuse to do that. I can and will heal him and do not try to stop me from doing that"

"I would do anything to save him." He finished telepathically, as he watched tears roll down the eyes of two females. Godric too had moisture in his eyes. But they nodded.

Salazar went back to filling the vials and then took the ritual dagger from the desk and sliced his palm and let his blood flow in the potion.

After the required amount of blood was in the potion he touched the cut with the blade again and the cut healed itself.

Rowena and Godric moved back to join the others but Helga refused to move from Salazar's side.

Rowena and Godric quietly explained about the "sicco curse" to the others present.

"The sicco curse does seem incurable but that is because the people that are hit with it cannot tell others how it feels exactly and thus it is not known how to counter that. The sicco curse is a kind of fire curse that increases the heat of the blood and thus melts the internal organs." Godric explained to the horror of the listening audience

"There is no way to detect it as well, so no Healer would be able to know if you are hit with the curse unless a static charm is placed on the victim to stop the curse from spreading. After half an hour the effect starts. But luckily Sal must have seen the curse being cast and was able to put the static charm. Thus he captured the curse in its place. We will now have to remove the curse before the static charm wears off. After that Sirius should be healthy as a horse." Rowena continued with the explanation

Everyone turned their attention back to Salazar. He was mixing his own blood with some water in a bowl. After doing that he ran a diagnosis charm on Sirius. Satisfied with the results, he handed the potion vials and the bowl filled with a paste to Helga.

"Two vials before and three after" Helga who by then had finished healing other injuries of Sirius, nodded and took the vials and salve from Salazar.

Then Salazar left his wand on the working station and went to stand by Sirius' bedside. He spread his hands to position them a few centimetres above Sirius' unconscious form. His palms were facing Sirius.

Salazar closed his eyes and started chanting, and Helga started putting drops of the blood replenishing potion in Sirius' mouth and making him swallow it.

After a few moments a bright orange ball of light came out from Sirius and started floating in the air.

Sal opened his eyes and watched the ball of light intently. Helga started applying the salve at the place on Sirius' chest from where the ball of light had come out.

Rowena went ahead and picked up the bowl that was filled with potion that was mixed with Salazar's blood and gave it to Salazar. After taking the bowl Salazar started to chase the ball of light. The ball had started moving ahead and had reached a empty space a little away from the people gathered in the room. The professors tried to go after Salazar but Godric stopped them and silently asked them to watch.

As they were watching this Sirius woke up and Helga had moved to stand by Godric and Rowena in front of the others. Sirius remembered having the sicco curse cast on him and was confused at how he was still alive. He looked around to find some answers but found everyone watching Slytherin and curiously watched what was happening.

Salazar on the other hand was focused solely on the ball of light and after a few moments. He threw the mixture in his hands on the ball. Once the mixture touched the ball it started expanding and moved towards Salazar threateningly. Salazar closed his eyes and welcomed the light with open arms. Slowly the light engulfed Salazar completely to the horror of the witnessing crowd. As the light of the curse faded everyone could see Salazar's skin had turned red. But before anyone could make a move Salazar's body caught fire and a terrible scream left Salazar's mouth.

The on looking crowd was frozen in horror. But after a few moments the fire subsidised and Salazar's unconscious form fell on the floor

Helga ran to Salazar and magically floated his unconscious form on another stone bed that was conjured by Rowena. She handed the potion Salazar gave her to Rowena and herself started applying the healing salve on Salazar's palms, toes and forehead. Godric joined her and helped her to apply the salve on his legs and his chest.

After a few minutes two vials of the potion and salve was finished and everyone waited for Salazar to wake up.

Meanwhile, the Professors of Hogwarts were hugging Sirius (or in case of Severus just nodding at him) and updating him on what happened.

After that everyone was watching Salazar with wide eyes, whilst the Headmaster sent a quick message via Fawkes to Professor Sinistra to inform the students that all the afternoon classes were cancelled except Astronomy.

Chapter fifteen – Don't do that to us!

"Hel, is he alright? Why is he not opening his eyes?"

Rowena could not help but ask this question after few hours had passed by and Salazar had yet to wake up.

History always portrayed Rowena Ravenclaw as a strict woman, whose only love was books and who would never let her hair loose. But that was far from reality. While Rowena did like her books and always put more emphasis on logic, she loved her friends to death and could not take it if any of them were hurt.

She could, of course, heal some minor wounds and brew some basic potions, but she was not an expert at healing magic or rituals. This was the reason that she was not sure how long it might take for Salazar to wake up. But she did remember the last time he had taken the curse upon himself and had collapsed; it only took him a couple of minutes to wake up. Although he had suffered with some after effects - he was weak for about a month and could not eat much. At that time he was physically exhausted from a battle and had taken the curse that was meant for Godric.

However, what worried her the most, was that as Hermione, she knew that Harry's body had never taken such a dark curse on itself and was worried if he would survive it and if so how much damage would he sustain. Her worries were growing by each passing moment and she felt as if she was losing Salazar again. And she was unable to do anything to help him.

On the other side Helga who was a healer in her own right was a novice when it came to ritualistic healing (Salazar had not taught her that!). Whilst she could assist Salazar and follow his orders she had no idea how things worked and when Salazar would open his eyes.

She knew how protective Rowena can get about her friends and can only imagine the distress and helplessness she might be feeling by her inability to help Salazar.

However the only reply she could give to Rowena's question was a very simple and short one: one that neither Rowena not Godric was going to like.

"I don't know Row, I don't know."

"What do you mean by that? You are supposed to be the healer here and you are telling us that you don't know when our friend would wake up? Can you at least tell us if he is alright?"

"Ric, I know how you are feeling but I am not an expert on the ritualistic healing and you know that. Till now I was only following Sal's instructions and he did not tell me anything more than that! And I cannot even cast the spell to know if he is alright or not! Because I remember Salazar telling me that casting such spells would be more harmful than anything. So, I don't know what to do Ric… I can only wait and see … when he will wake up ... and he better wake up soon… or ... or I ... I will bring him back from the dead and hex every inch of him badly."

Helga's reply made Rowena and Godric wrap their arms around Helga to comfort her, as they knew how hard it must have been for her to see Salazar in this state.

Godric held Helga's shoulders and made her look at him.

"I am sorry for lashing out on you like that earlier"

"He will wake up soon won't he? I … I swear I will listen to whatever he says and never threaten him or ... or fight with him but I can't lose him Ric, I … I just can't lose him"
She hugged her brother and started weeping as the past memories of Salazar leaving her alone resurfaced in her mind; and every part of her was scared to face that again.

Godric held his sister in a tight embrace and with wet eyes prayed to whatever deity that was up there to just bring his friend back.

Rowena too could not control her tears but she decided not to come in between the two siblings and went near Salazar's bed and held his hand in hers as she sat on a wooden chair that she had just conjured.

In one corner of the room the other occupants of the infirmary were also anxiously waiting for Salazar to wake up.

Professors Flitwick, Sprout, Snape and McGonagall had gone back to take care of the things in the school (although Snape was very reluctant to do so but the Headmaster reminded him that he was needed back in the school, and so he went);the Weasleys had also gone back to The Burrow so that Mr Weasley could get some rest.

However the Marauders and Lily could not find it in themselves to leave the man who had (as it seemed) risked his life to save Sirius; and go back to their lives. They were in shock to know that the notorious Salazar Slytherin had gone out of his way and not only protected them from the Death Eaters but had also taken a deadly curse on himself. They also knew that Salazar Slytherin knew the result of such an action – if the reaction of other founders, before Salazar went through with his plan, was anything to go by. Begrudgingly all their previous prejudices against the notorious founder were gone and they had grown to respect the person that he was. They were also very worried for him and confused. They didn't know why but as they saw Salazar lying on the bed, pale and weak, they felt as if someone very dear to them was lying there.

This was the emotion that confused them the most, but they reasoned that it was because Salazar had saved one of them, that they felt so bad; and they refused to think about anything else as they watched the founder of Hufflepuff house have a break down at the thought of losing Slytherin.

The Headmaster was also sitting on one of the fluffy armchairs that he had transfigured (and it was surprisingly plain without the usual outrageous design on it). Although he appeared to be relaxed in his seat, he was very worried for the health of the young man currently laying on one the beds.

He knew that the Sicco curse kills and was intrigued when he learnt that Salazar was going to save Sirius. He of course knew that as Harry he must have been close to Sirius but was surprised at the emotion behind his voice when he told the other founders how he would not allow Sirius to die when there was something he can do about it.

Now as he sat there and observed the Marauders and Lily's reaction to the young man he wondered if he should let them know about the reality of the four (supposed) founders. He wondered if after knowing the truth they will accept the young Salazar as their son.

As he mulled over the idea while observing the Marauders and Lily he could see that their hatred for the man was gone and that they were seeing him for what the man really was rather than being blinded by the notoriety of name of Salazar Slytherin.

If he was to admit the truth to himself, he was also a bit wary of the notorious founder. However, after learning and being convinced that they were not the founders but their reincarnations, he had observed the interactions between the four. What he saw there was that even after the supposed historic fight between the two male founders, Salazar Slytherin was still the spokesperson of the group and Godric Gryffindor did not seem to mind that in the least or have any enmity against Slytherin.

This suggested that the history was not entirely correct and there certainly was something that was missing. His theory was proven correct by the day's events and young Harry's actions.

Now he only hoped that Salazar would wake up and recover soon so that he could get to know the person better and also discuss the situation of Voldemort with him.

Another thing that proved that the history books were inaccurate was the reactions of the other founders. He could see from the way that the other three founders were crying (or had moist eyes in Godric's case) that they must be reliving the time when Slytherin had left them. But the question was why had he done so? Was there really a fight between the two founders? If so, was it really big enough for Slytherin to desert his friends, his wife (and possibly his children) as well? He didn't think so. Then what had prompted the history books to write about Slytherin's departure and the fight? He also wondered that if the history books were wrong about that, then, what else were they wrong about? Was Salazar Slytherin a dark wizard? Or was that also a creation of the history writers?

So many similar thoughts were going around in the mind of the Headmaster and he finally decided that time will only tell what was right but he was sure to get to know the Slytherin founder more closely.

While the Headmaster was busy observing the reactions of the other founders and mulling over the character of Salazar Slytherin, Helga had stopped crying and was now sitting near Salazar's bed and holding his free hand, while Godric was standing behind her and offering her silent support whilst waiting for his friend to wake up.

"You better wake up soon Salazar Slytherin. You cannot leave us like this. See what you have done. You have made Helga cry. How could you? Do you know how she might be feeling to see you like this? How we all are feeling? How could you make us go through this? We told you not to do that! But no, you just cannot listen now can you, Salazar Slytherin? You just have to go ahead and do what you want to. You never think about us do you? You never think about our feelings when you put yourself in danger like this. Did you even think for a second about Helga or Ric or even me before you decided to play with your life like that? Did you think what would happen to us if … if something happened to you? Did you…"

However Rowena's speech was interrupted by a low voice coming from the young man on the bed

"Relax Row, one measly little curse cannot kill me. You should know that better than anyone."

This little sentence from Salazar was enough to get everyone in the room on their feet. But before anyone could do anything Salazar was engulfed into a tight embrace by a tearful Rowena.

"Don't you ever do that to us again Sal, we can't lose you again I can't lose my best friend and honorary brother again."

She came out of hug and said the next sentence with a scowl on her face "do you understand that Salazar Slytherin?" although her wet eyes ruined the effect of it

"Yes ma'am" Salazar immediately agreed to it as he knew that arguing with her now was futile.

However just as he agreed to it he felt Godric and Rowena smack both his shoulders from either side.

"Oww! What was that for? Is that how you treat a sick person?"

"That was for making Helga cry!" was the only angry response he got from Godric

This made Salazar turn to Helga. The sight of her fearful wet eyes and messy hair made Salazar's heart twist in agony and he motioned her to come closer.

It was as if that was all she needed and she threw herself at him and hugged him as if her life depended on it. Tears of relief were pouring out of her eyes.

Salazar held her for some time and kept whispering sweet nothings in her ears.

After a while she came out of the embrace and cast some diagnosis charms on him. After being satisfied of his health she gave him a few health potions and told him that he needs to rest for the day and keep taking the potions for the rest of the week.

He agreed to all of it without any protests as he knew how much this incident had affected her and all his friends.

The Marauders, Lily and Dumbledore felt relief wash over them as they saw that Salazar had finally opened his eyes. However the next incident surprised them the most, they always thought that Salazar was the least liked member of the four and that the two ladies were more attached to the founder of Gryffindor house rather than Slytherin house. It wasn't as if they had seen them for the first time but believe it or not they had met them less than 24 hours before and the shock of having the Founders between them was too much for them to notice anything else before this. But the sight of Lady Ravenclaw and not Lady Hufflepuff (who was Salazar's wife) being the first one to hug Salazar to death broke their misconception of Gryffindor being the ladies' man.

They did not hear what Lady Ravenclaw told Salazar but they did see her trying to intimidate him after she broke apart and they all had a soft smile on their face at the display of their true friendship.

After a while, when Lady Hufflepuff broke their embrace, the five people from this dimension started approaching the young founders.

As they approached Dumbledore took the lead

"It is good to see that you are awake, Lord Slytherin, How are you feeling."

"Headmaster," Salazar said with a nod. "I am fine, thank you. I hope your professor is not hurt, I am sorry I did not catch your name Professor?"

Saying so Salazar looked at Sirius,

"Black, Professor Sirius Black, Lord Slytherin, and thank you… thank you so much for saving my life I don't know what else to say. I mean … I … Are you ok?"

Salazar smiled softly

"I am fine …"

"Define 'fine'"

Salazar looked at Godric after his question and smirked slightly whilst replying

"I stand corrected. I have been better but nothing bad to worry about. I should be back to normal by tomorrow morning. Then Godric you can test me and see I am telling the truth or not."

"I will take you up on that then Sal"

Dumbledore was watching this conversation with some amusement

"It is good to see you well after the curse you took on yourself Lord Slytherin, and I would like it very much if you could share the events of the night with me. However, I would not ask that of you for now. As for now you need to take some rest."

"Of course Professor, shall we meet in your office after breakfast tomorrow?"

"That is acceptable, thank you. We shall allow you to rest now. However, I am afraid that we would have to ask one of you to escort us out"

"Of course, Headmaster I will escort you to the main door."

"Thank you Lord Gryffindor."

Saying that Godric escorted the Headmaster, Marauders and Lily out of the Chambers whilst the two witches made sure that Salazar took some rest, much to Salazar's dismay.