The Founders Four

Chapter 19: Unanticipated Revelations.

The four founders and the Headmaster had immediately turned around to see four people appearing in the office, as the invisibility charms they had placed on themselves was deactivated.

"Sirius, Remus, James and Lily," Dumbledore said with a serene look on his face. "What brings you to my office under such … extraordinary circumstances?"

The wheels inside Dumbledore's minds were churning, he had been thinking since the incident where Salazar saved Sirius. He had a feeling that The Marauders might accept Salazar as Harry and that the inhibitions that the dimension travellers were having could be overcome. He also felt that if the parents of these travellers were to know of their true identity then they would do anything to help them in the war and that would be a great advantage to the light side.

He knew that the travellers felt that they might not accept them and/or might not allow them to fight in the war, however having spent years with the parents in question, Dumbledore knew that it might not be the case as he was sure that if these parents accepted these individuals as their children and founder's reincarnation then rather than stopping them from fighting they will ask the 'Founders' to teach them battle techniques. As after all the Founders were known as the best warriors in history! And after the incident with the Death Eaters and the aftermath he was sure that they will accept these travellers.

However, the problem was to make the dimension travellers to let go of their inhibitions. So far he had been unsuccessful in trying to come up with something that might work and not point fingers at him. But this incident might just work.

"Professor, we knew of this meeting and were anxious that the Minister might bring some guard and try to harm Lord Slytherin due to the fact that he is thought of as a dark wizard. After what he did to save Sirius, we did not want Lord Slytherin to face such possibility without having us as his backup. But we knew that you or the Minister will not allow us to be in this meeting so we decided to disillusion ourselves. But before we could reveal ourselves to you after the meeting we got curious with your conversation and decided to listen in before Sirius decided that he could no longer be quiet and decided to speak up." Remus explained, being the only sensible male in the group.

However the surprises did not end here for the occupants of the room.

"Well it seems that we were not the only ones to decide on being there for the Founders when they met with the Minister"

Turning around again everyone found two more people appearing in the room, being led by Professor McGonagall who had spoken up.

"Minerva! Severus! Well I suppose I should say welcome to my office then. I didn't realise that other professors can enter my office without my knowledge, or perhaps it's just old age getting to me." Albus replied, a light rebuke in his voice.

"I think that you need to answer Sirius' question Albus. How is it that a seventeen year old and very much alive Salazar Slytherin and his friends know how he died and about the infamous split between the founders? Just who are these people, if they are not the Founders, Albus and how long have you known about this?" Professor McGonagall asked sternly.

Seeing no way around it, Albus looked at the four dimension travellers, silently asking their permission. Only to see them nodding in the direction of his Pensieve.

Getting their hidden meaning and their consent, Albus nodded his head slightly in acknowledgement and went ahead to retrieve his Pensieve.

"You are right of course, Minerva. But perhaps it is easier if I could show you the memory of the time when I found out the truth. Would that be sufficient?" Albus looked over his glasses and directly into Minerva's eyes.