A Hope through time

Before the Christmas holidays had finished, Hope had talked more to Daphne about her life and told her about Luna as she didn't want to blindside her Mate. Daphne had asked Hope with her ice mask if she felt anything for Luna. Hope reassured her Mate, that Luna is like a little sister to her and that she enjoys her wit and humour, but she will never love Luna like she loves Daphne.

A sisterly love is the most Luna would ever receive from Hope, although Hope did mention that Luna wanted to meet Daphne. Hope asked Daphne to give her a chance and not to feel ignored when Luna stares off for a while as that means she's usually getting vision.

Hope also managed to convince Daphne to take up sword lessons with her, which Hope was pleasantly surprised when Daphne held her own, much better than Hope was expecting. Daphne blushed and mentioned how her father allowed her to take fencing lessons between the ages of 4 and 8. Hope had kissed the blonde telling her that she found it sexy that her Mate could protect herself, which caused Daphne to blush as she returned the kiss.

The girls also had a mock fight using only wandless magic. Daphne had taught herself some more tricks with her ice magic and how to apply it to herself for a better advantage. She figured out how to travel on icy ground easily and safely by forming small icicle spikes on the soles of her shoes.

The Greengrass Heiress learned how to use the ice walls as weapons and push them into her opponents while conjuring more ice walls for protection and offence. Daphne has also learnt how to alter the temperature on her skin to below freezing, so if anyone touches her the frost will travel through her opponent and freeze them solid.

Hope could overcome all the new spells and offences that Daphne has come up with but sometimes it took her more than one attempt to counter it, generally by using fire which only enticed Daphne to create new spells. Hope shivered in excitement at her Mate's crafty mind figuring out new ways to test Hope's abilities and powers.

Hope had spent some of her spare time at home making a painting for Luna, similar to her Astronomy drawings, painting Aquarius and Cygnus for Luna's birthday. Knowing that Luna doesn't have many momentos of her mother and could use another one.

Thankfully the attacks on the Hogwarts students had stopped, at least for a while. 4 months had passed before Hope heard that there was a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and another team. Hope can't remember. But she does recall the match is cancelled due to Hermione and the Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater being petrified.

Hope is staying far away from Harry and Ron for the first couple of days after Hermione's petrification as she remembers the boys go into the Forbidden Forest to talk to the Acromantulas.

Hope shivered violently. No thanks. Spiders suck. Especially HUGE spiders!

After a few more days Hope hears about how the Mandrake Draught will soon be ready and Hope stays in the Library until curfew for the next few days as she doesn't know what day Harry and Ron go down into the Chamber, so she keeps her ears peeled in the directions of the exit.

Finally she hears the Professors talking together out in a hallway and the words she had been waiting for.

"Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber Forever." Had left Professor McGonnagall's lips and Hope was already moving and hiding herself from sight as she made her way to the DADA room. She cancelled any and all of her sneaking spells before opening the door, seeing the hilarious sight of Lockhart with his hands raised in defeat against two 2nd year Gryffindors.

"Well as much as this entertains me. Perhaps we should find the Chamber and save the youngest Weasley, no?" Hope diverts the two boys' attention by holding the door open.

Ron looked utterly confused but didn't lower his wand, however Harry took the initiative and jabbed Lockhart in the side with his wand causing a squeak from the Professor. "You heard her, let's move. 2nd Floor Girls' Bathroom."

When Lockhart didn't move Harry took a fistful of robes in his small hand and pushed him towards the door.

They made their way to the bathroom in silence but once they arrived Harry looked around the bathroom stumped as he didn't know where the entrance was. After Myrtle had made her appearance and explained how she died to a yellow eye when looking at the mirror of the only sink that doesn't work.

Harry found a snake symbol on the tap and hissed at it in Parseltongue, on his second attempt, the sinks grinded open showing a large hole that looked like a sewer pipe and smelled like one too.

Hope casts a silent smell to cover her mouth and nose with an invisible barrier which filters out odours making it possible for Hope to be in the same room as a sewer due to her sensitive nose. Hope was ever so happy when she saw Harry and Ron push Lockhart down the pipe causing her to laugh which brought a short smile to both of the Gryffindors faces before it disappeared. The boys told Hope to inform a Professor but after the boys jumped down she called for a Hogwarts House Elf.

"How may Fluny help the young Master?" The little voice asked her.

"Can you please inform the Professors that the Chamber of Secrets is located in the 2nd Floor Girls' Lavoritry?" Hope asked the little Elf but was side-tracked as she heard the sinks start grinding again.

"Oh hell no!" Hope growled out as she jumped down the pipe before the entrance locked itself behind her.

She slid down the pipe and landed on piles of bones, crunching them under her weight.

"Well isn't this cheery?" Hope remarked to herself.

"What am I doing? I need to catch up to Harry." She scolded herself as she listened and heard Lockhart threatened the boys by erasing their memories.

Hope ran off in the direction of Lockhart's voice, arriving just as Lockhart finished gloating and cast 'Obliviate' using Ron's broken wand. Hope rushed forth to tackle Harry away from the falling rocks and towards the next snake lock.

"Hope!?" Harry exclaimed in shock. "What are you doing here? I asked you to get help."

Hope huffed out a breath as she rose to her feet brushing at her robes. "One, I did ask for help before I came down. Two, the damn entrance sealed itself as I was jumping in, I'm the only back-up you had. Three, I just saved you from falling rocks. You should be nicer to me."

Harry's jaw clicked. "Thanks. But you really shouldn't have come."

Hope waved a dismissive hand. "Pfft. Without me during your last extravagant adventure, you would be dead. That shade killed you. I brought you back."

Hope was about to walk off before she remembered Ron and Lockhart.

"Are you two still alive?" Hope called out loudly facing the rockslide.

"Yeah. Although Lockhart hit his head and can't remember a single thing, not even his name." Ron replied through the rocks. "What about Harry?"

"I'm here Ron. Can you shift some of these rocks so that we can get back through after saving Ginny?" Harry answered his friend before looking at Hope. "Hope and I will go on ahead."

When the Gryffindor boy and Slytherin girl made it to the next door Harry asked. "Why did you save me last year?"

Hope considered her answer, she had said too much and had to think of a plausible response. One that would satisfy Harry but keep her secrets. "Because I know what it feels like to die. I was unconscious, most likely dead a few years ago. I saw my mother on the Other Side. I wanted to be with her… But I also didn't want her sacrifice to be in vain. So I decided to live. My father performed CPR on me to bring me back."

Hope let out a shuddering breath before staring into Harry's emerald eyes.

"I know bits and pieces about your life, but not everything. I don't believe your mother or father would want you to die so early in life, like mine didn't. So I saved you by restarting your heart." Hope explained, emotions of grief, loss, sadness, acceptance and determination crossed Hope's face in the matter of seconds.

Harry felt like an ass after Hope told him something so personal about her family as well as how his own parents would feel with his early death. "I'm sorry Hope."

"You didn't know." Hope said sadly as she looked at the door.

"Would you mind opening that?" Hope asked, wishing to face the damn Basilisk instead of talking about her parents with Harry. She isn't close enough to him to be sharing her secrets, which made her uncomfortable.

"Okay." Harry said quietly as he moved up to the door and hissed at it.

Harry turned around as the door was opening.

"You're not scared of Parseltongue? Even Ron shivers when I do it." He mentions to the auburn haired girl wishing to change the subject.

Hope looked at Harry and answered with a shrug. "No. It's nothing to be frightened of. It's a type of magic and is completely natural in some Wizards."

Harry raised his eyebrows at her in question.

Hope sighed as she explained. "There's a tribe of Wizards in India who work with Parselmagic. They have made some of the best and riveting advances in Healing magics and their work in Wards are unmatched. The only reason it's so taboo here in England is because of Voldemort."

Harry noticed that Hope didn't flinch or stutter at Voldemorts' name which made him oddly proud.

After they climbed down the ladder they rushed down to the other end of the Chamber to Ginny's unconscious body, Harry dropped his wand as he skidded to a crouch beside Ginny. Harry kept trying to wake Ginny while Hope was keeping watch over the Chamber as a spiritual entity calmly walked out from behind a hidden wall.

It was a young man in black and white almost like he walked out of an old TV station, he had a haircut from the 50's and the young man was quite attractive, tall and lean. He looked like someone her Aunt Rebekah would most likely flirt with, Hope hypothosised.

The Slytherin robed boy came next to them, bent down to collect Harry's wand and placed it into his robes.

The ghost of Tom Riddle questioned Harry, asking how a 1 year old baby could have defeated 'him'. When Harry just stared at the boy in confusion mentioning that Voldemort was after his time.

The young man explained his story of being born to a muggle man and a near Squib of a mother, telling Harry and Hope that he was a Half-Blood, named after his father Tom Riddle Sr. The young man, Tom groaned as he pulled out Harry's wand and held it by the tip of the handle, Tom wrote out his full name in fire writing 'TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE' in large letters.

Harry looked at the name with a frown on his face, while Hope finally spoke for the first time since the Horcrux began monologuing. "It's an anagram."

She stated as she pulled out her own wand and swished it in the air, changing the letters around to show. 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'.

A Phoenix call echoed through the Chamber as Dumbledore's Phoenix flew in carrying a parcel interrupting Riddle's speech and confusion that a girl figured out his identity quicker than he expected. Fawkes dropped the parcel into Harry's hands before heading back to the entrance of the Chamber, supposedly leaving.

Harry unwrapped the parcel to reveal the sorting hat which Harry looked crestfallen at, while Tom laughed at the boy. "So Dumbledore sends an old song bird and a hat to face the greatest Wizard of all time."

Memory Riddle gave the other child beside Harry a curious look, assessing her while giving her a slow clap.

"Well done…" Tom veers off deliberately, silently demanding her to give him her name.

"None of your business, Tom." Hope replied with an eye roll.

"Now just go back to monologuing, would you? It's all you're good at." Hope snarked with her mother's glare echoing in her eyes.

"You insolent little girl! You will pay for your arrogance." He growled at her then turned his body to the large head of Salazar Slytherin and hissed at the face. Causing the giant stone jaw to slowly grind down into the water, opening Salazar's mouth wide open.

"Close your eyes! The monster is a Basilisk! Its glare can kill, so don't look at it!" Harry called out to Hope as he grabbed her arm to drag her after him.

Harry and Hope didn't get very far as the giant snake slithered up right behind them and was about to strike. The hairs on the back of Hope's neck stood up as she felt danger incredibly close to her.

"Dimiterre." Hope called out suddenly and shoving her hand behind her in a waving motion.

Both students heard a loud crack and the crumbling of stone as well as the large snake falling into the water with a large splash.

"How the hell did she do that?" Hope hears Riddle mutter in thinly veiled curiosity, wishing to get this powerful Witch to join his cause.

Hope ignores him and looks at Harry after he drags Hope behind a snake statue. Harry peeked around the statue to see where the Basilisk was and kept his eyes downcast, however when Harry scanned the area his eyes were drawn to a massive crack in the wall.

"Whoa." Harry exclaimed in awe, turning back to look at Hope.

"Ignore that." Hope demanded as she could guess what Harry was going to say.

Hope held out her hand, "Pass me the Hat would you?"

The sloshing of water brought a look of fear on Harry's face as he thrusted the hat into Hope's hands. "Here. Take this. Stay hidden. I'll draw it away. You help Ginny, okay?"

Just as Harry was about to run out from behind the stone snake until he heard a Phoenix cry and Fawkes came back into the Chamber, to start clawing at the Basilisk's scales.

Hope heard the Basilisk's screeches as it thrashed around trying to bite the red and yellow Phoenix. Hope could hear that Fawkes was having trouble trying to claw the Basilisk's eyes as Fawkes had to act as the distraction and also the attacker making it near impossible.

'Myrddin?' Hope mentally called out.

'Yes little wolf?' Myrddin replies instantly.

'Is something wrong?' He asks curiously.

'Could you please flame to the Chamber of Secrets? Fawkes is having trouble battling the Basilisk here. He could use your help.' Hope requested while mentally showing the Phoenix an image of the Chamber so he can safely flame travel to her.

A flash of hot fire appeared above Salazar Slytherin's stone head and another Phoenix cry joined the exhausted cry of Fawkes, this startled the large snake and gazed towards the sound of the cry.

Myrddin wasted no time and flew directly at the Basilisk with his claws outstretched, aiming at the Basilisks' right eye as the snake turned its head to face the sculpture of Salazar.

Myrddin's aim was true as he ripped out one of the Basilisks' eyes in one fell swoop, causing the Basilisk to cry in pain and try to strike at the newcomer. But Myrddin was too fast, flying past the stone snakes that act like pillars leading from the entrance to the giant stone head.

Myrddin opened his claw as he flew past Harry and Hope, dropping parts of the Basilisks' eye in front of them.

Hope rolled her eyes and replied in a deadpan. "Really Myrddin? Must you drop snake parts in front of me?"

Myrddin thrilled in laughter at Hope's annoyance as he turned around to distract the snake as Fawkes was able to use the distraction to peck out the Basilisk's left eye causing another screech of pain as the blinded Basilisk shook its head to shake off the birds.

Memory Tom called out, "Ignore the birds, attack the kids!"

He then hisses loudly at the snake to control it.

The large reptile let out a roaring hiss as it moved slowly towards the entrance and Harry shot out from behind the statue and ran to the side where another pipe was. Harry's footsteps attracted the Basilisks' attention and it followed him down the pipe.

Hope groaned as the Basilisk followed Harry.

"And Lizzie calls me a martyr." Hope mutters under her breath as she walks towards Ginny.

Myrddin flew down to land on Hope's right shoulder, his claws staining Hope's robes with blood and the fluids from the Basilisks' eye. "Thanks Myrddin. I really needed another set of robes dirtied with snake eyes."

Myrddin thrills low in his throat letting out a huff of acknowledgement and bumping his head against her cheek in amusement.

Hope rolls her eyes at the Phoenix and places the hat on her head. 'Hello again Hat. It has been awhile.'

'Ah. The complicated Tribrid. It is good to talk to again. I'm glad that you have finally come clean with your Mate.' The Hat huffed out in amusement.

'Sorry to be an ass. But I need Gryffindor's Sword. Do you mind relinquishing it to me so Harry and I can save Hogwarts from Slytherin's Basilisk?' Hope requested then added sadly, '… Sorry Salazar.'

The Hat sighed remorsefully.

'Thank you. I apologise for my Basilisk running rampant and hurting students. Arwyn was only supposed to protect the school. I'm ashamed that the tosser called Voldemort was able to manipulate my poor Basilisk.' Salazar replied, speaking through the Sorting Hat.

Godric's voice took over the Hat next. 'I'll give you my sword as Hogwarts Champion to help battle the Basilisk. Just remember to give my Sword back to the Goblins.'

Hope nodded her head in agreement.

"Wait! Don't you dare drop that Sword on my head or I will burn you to ash. Understand?" Hope threatened aloud as she ducked her head in anticipation causing Tom to look at her strangely.

The Hat chuffed in laughter. 'Noted. Take me off your head and I'll give you the sword. Be careful.'

Hope scoffed. 'As if I could actually die. Besides, I'm going to get Harry to kill the Basilisk, so I can't make a claim on the Sword by using it. Also technically Harry would be the one that needs the 'be careful' speech.' She pulled the Hat off her head and held it in her off hand.

A silver hilt encrusted with red jewels appeared in the Hat. Hope took a grip of the hilt and faced Riddle as she pulled out the Sword of Gryffindor, levelling the blade at Tom whose eyes became wide at the fabled Sword facing him. Hope then places the Hat back on her head and requests it to be quiet while she deals with Riddle.

"How interesting." Memorymort said with a tilt of his head.

"You would make an excellent ally. You found Gryffindors' Sword as a Slytherin, you have a Phoenix under your command and you banished a 60 foot Basilisk without a wand. That's incredible." It says with an evil grin.

Hope waved the Sword in a wand motion and called out, "Expelliarmus."

Harry's wand shot out of Riddle's hand and into Hope's left hand.

Memorymort was surprised when he lost Harry's wand to the young Slytherin girl, who disarmed him with a spell casted from a sword of all things.

The Tribrid laughed at the Horcrux. "I've heard what happens to your 'allies'. I want absolutely nothing to do with you. In fact I'm going to enjoy killing you and your Horcruxes." Hope replies with a feral grin and Riddle somehow managed to pale further even though he was already in monotone colours.

"How do you know about that?" Riddle yelled at her.

Hope smirked at Tom. "Wouldn't you like to know."

Thankfully their conversation was cut off as Harry made his reappearance and immediately started climbing Salazars' massive face.

'Oi! Get him off of my head!' Salazar's voice erupted in her head and Hope pursed her lips trying not to laugh.

'After he kills the snake. Then I'll tell him off. Maybe.' Hope tried to appease the Founder.

She heard laughter in her head from 2 women and Godric as Salazar moaned in contemptment, Hope snorted at the Founder's antics. However, the sound of Salazars' Basilisk, Arwyn smashing into some of Salazars' stone hair, crumbling stone falling down his face drowning out the sound Hope made. The snake reared back and growled as it posed to strike again.

The snake struck a few more times, barely missing Harry as he was finally able to make it to the top of Salazars' head and Harry stabilised himself.

"Harry!" Hope called out, grabbing his attention. "Pick up a rock. So I can switch it with something that can help."

Harry scrambled around looking for a rock to pick up but there was nothing there. The Basilisk struck near Harry again and broke some more stones from Salazars' statue. Harry quickly snatched a piece up.

"Alright I got one." He shouted down to the Slytherin girl.

Riddle looked at Hope curiously. "What are you planning?" He asked in resentment.

Hope ignored the Horcrux and muttered the switching spell under her breath, "Mutatis mutandi."

Simultaneously the Sword of Gryffindor left Hope's hand and was replaced with a jagged stone while Harry exclaimed with wide eyes. "Whoa. You gave me a Sword. What am I going to do with a Sword?"

"Kill it?" Hope replied nonchalantly with a shrug.

"Real helpful Hope." Harry complained quietly as he swung the Sword with sloppy swings trying to hit the Basilisk.

The Basilisk knocked Harry over as it swung its head blindly at Harry making the young Gryffindor lose his grip on the Sword making it clang on Salazar's forehead, tethering slightly over the edge. The large snake baited its prey, opening its mouth in front of Harry and he heard metal sliding against the stone as it began to slip down Salazars' face.

Harry lunged at the Sword, he managed to grab the hilt of the Sword before it could fall and manoeuvred the Sword so it faced the giant snake.

Arwyn struck forward with its mouth open, the snake impaled itself on the Sword Harry was holding. The Sword of Gryffindor went through the roof of the Basilisk mouth piercing the snake's brain and venomous gland. Harry groaned in pain as a Basilisk Fang embedded itself in his arm.

The snake screamed in agony as it swung its head around in dissociated movements as it slowly began to lose its energy. When the snake lost its consciousness it fell heavily to the stone floor with a thud. Dead.

Harry dizzily made his way off of the statue and walked disoriented over to Ginny's unconscious body pulling the Basilisk Fang out of his arm.

"You're too late. She's almost gone and soon I will be reborn." Memorymort gloated.

Harry took Ginny's hand, "How sweet." Riddle mocked.

Instead of holding Ginny's hand Harry took the Diary and opened it to a random page.

"What are you doing?" Tom asked with fear coating his voice.

Harry just glared at the memory as he lifted the Basilisk Fang above the Diary and stabbed it., causing Memorymort to scream out in agony.

"Fawkes. We need your help." Hope called out in the Chamber.

Unsurprisingly a Phoenix song came from the entrance as he swooped in on Harry's arm and started to cry. Harry dropped to the side as the Basilisk Venom was affecting Harry too much and was unable to stay conscious.

Hope took over for Harry and removed the Fang from the Diary before facing Tom with a white hole in his chest and erecting a privacy ward around the 2 of them.

"Funny thing I should mention before you die. I'm a Muggleborn Witch and I'm also a Tribrid. A mixture of a Witch, Werewolf and Vampire. I'm everything you despise." Hope remarks with a grin at Memorymort's shell shocked face.

"I'm going to send every piece of you to hell. Goodbye parasite." Hope shut the Diary and sunk the Fang through the entire book and out the other side cracking the stone floor with her super strength.

Riddle shrieked as he burst into light, exploding out of existence.

A gasp from Ginny startled Hope but Ginny ignored the Slytherin girl with a glare as she focused on Harry, 'Oh great, another Weasley that automatically hates me. Just great.' Hope thought.

A snort echoed through her head as Myrddin and the Hat laughed at her.

'Assholes.' Hope quickly replied.

Harry groaned as he woke after Fawkes' Tears healed the wound and neutralised the poison in his blood. Harry managed to get to his feet and pulled Ginny up with him. Harry placed Ginny's arm over his shoulder so he could steady her and help her walk to the entrance of the Chamber. Hope noticed the Sword and Diary, knowing that both of these items were mentioned in the future she moved to pick up the Diary.

The Tribrid shivered as she picked up the Diary.

"Well that feels utterly unpleasant." She remarked silently as Harry and Ginny had made it halfway down the walkway.

"But not as bad as when I was possessed by the Hollow. That was just shit." Hope pocketed the Diary in her robes since these ones are already destroyed.

Hope then moved over to Arwyn's mouth. "Sorry Salazar."

A sound from the Hat hummed sadly.

Hope reached for the jewel encrusted hilt. Gripped it tightly then yanked out the Sword with a strong pull, freeing it easily from the Basilisk's mouth. She held the Sword of Gryffindor loosely in her right hand as she caught up to the two Gryffindors.

Hope raised her left hand to stroke the black Phoenix on her shoulder.

"Well Myrddin. This was a hell of a night… Sorry to be a pain in the ass but I'm going to need some help getting out of this Chamber. I don't think Fawkes likes me much." Hope mentioned as she watched Fawkes glare at her from Harry's shoulder.

'More like Dumbledore doesn't trust you and Fawkes Familiar Bond forces a certain mindset on him.' Myrddin answered.

'Wait… How exactly am I helping you leave here?' Myrddin asked with a skeptic tone.

"Carrying me and possibly another out of here. It'll probably be Lockhart… The utter piece of crap… Actually I prefer Luna's name for him, 'The foolish fabricator' wasn't it?" Hope questioned the Phoenix quietly.

Myrddin nodded against Hope's hand.

After Harry opened the Chamber door again, Hope trailed behind Harry and Ginny, staying quiet by talking to the Hat mentally. Hope had a wonderful chat with the Hat and the Founders as the two Gryffindors were moving slowly giving Hope plenty of time to talk to everyone in the Hat.

'You know, I'm surprised that your Wolf and Vampire haven't mentioned this since it will help your situation with Daphne.' The Hat mentioned randomly causing Hope to falter in her steps.

'What!? There's a way to legally be with Daphne?' Hope asked in curiosity as she internally yelled at her other sides.

'Apparently you have already come across the answer in your political books. In fact, according to your Wolf, she knew how to be with Daphne before you even arrived at Hogwarts.' The Hat remarked before continuing, knowing if the Hat didn't explain to the girl, she would most likely rip the Hat into strips.

'Basically, since you are from a Legendary House, you outrank all other Houses. Because of this and the fact that you are Mated to the young Heiress of a Most Ancient and Noble House. You have a legal claim to date, marry or even own your Mate regardless of gender, age or race. Before you rip me to shreds, I know that you would never 'own' a person much less your Mate, so calm down.' The Hat explained calmly as Hope's eyes glowed under the brim of the Hat.

'Due to your Legendary Status you can be with Daphne and not even the Wizengamot can stop you. Show your Emrys ring to the Head of the Greengrass family. If you can make a Vow to promise to protect, cherish and love them. The Emrys ring will glow and flash after the Vow, it will verify your words. Magic will bind both you and Daphne together forever.'

'However if you plan on doing this. You will either need to stay in this universe or Daphne will need to go with you to your universe. Wherever one of you is, the other will most likely have to follow. You will be bound together for life.' Hope took in the Hat's words with a thoughtful look.

'Does that mean that one day I will have to change Daphne into an immortal or a Vampire to make sure we are bound for life?' Hope asked as she joined Ron and Lockhart.

'I don't know.' The Hat replied honestly.