This is my longest first chapter ever on fanfiction. I'm starting this with Amelia because the last one ended with Riley two times in a row. Now a bit of Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Harry potter franchise. I only own these stories and anything original from them, like Debby. Without further ado, here's the begining of my second story.
Into the Chamber
Chapter 1
Debby's Warning
Amelia POV
Hello everyone, its Amelia here. You probably knew that by reading the top. You also probably have read the story of our first adventure. If you haven't, you should probably go and read it. If you have read it, welcome back. This story my sister Riley and I are about to tell you is the story of the first most dangerous adventure of our lives. I'm not joking; our lives were really on the line in this one, seeing as we're muggle-borns or mudbloods. This is also the story where we had a taste of what was up against us.
Let us start the story off on the day it all started. Riley and I were examining our scars. We've had them for a long time, but we barely remember how we got them. For Riley, it makes sense, she was only two. For me, I got mine when I was eight. All I remember, is walking home with Riley from school one day, holding hands like usual, probably talking about how we would always stick up for each other, when I felt a sharp pain in the top of my right arm. It hurt so much I collapsed. I clenched my arm; when I unclenched, I saw I was bleeding a lot through a hole in my sleeve. Riley then got me to the school office, since we were still pretty close.
Once in the office, they inspected my arm. It looked like someone had shot me in the arm, which made no sense since we lived in Canada. They wrapped my arm in bandages, but I still needed to be taken to the hospital. Once there, the doctors couldn't find a bullet, so we suspected someone had thrown a sharp rock. Now I know someone was trying to kill me, and it didn't work because my twin Riley, who loved me very much, was there and we had no idea what was going on, therefore we were innocent. Innocent twins, who would love and protect each other for as long as we both shall live, plus the connection to Harry had some of his mother's love protecting us.
For Riley, all she could remember was seeing me then having a searing pain in the back of her neck. Mom and Dad always thought some kids were tossing rocks, and one flew in a hit her in the neck. Why does everyone think it's rocks? Riley had a hole and a star shaped cut on the back of her neck, she had to go to the hospital as well. The same thing happened to us in the book, we always just dismissed it. People were trying to kill us, and they would have succeeded if the other one wasn't there.
These facts freaked us out. We kept wondering why people would want us dead in this world; is it because of our connection with Harry? How would people know that, and what would killing us accomplish? Harry's already won the war against Voldemort, right? Besides, we just have a connection to him, it's not like if we die, he dies.
While our scars confused us, the other thing that confused us was the fact that the Anonymous figure (who I took to calling Arthur Fedley) who sent us into the first book, was not sending a letter, telling us to go in the next one. It's been twenty-four days since we came out of the first book. After which, Riley said she would read the book to give us a break. It's been a week since she's finished it! It's now the beginning of September. Soon school will start back up, and we'll have no time to go in the book. We were hoping that Arthur would send a letter to us, telling us when it was the right time to go in the book, but we're not getting anything.
"Maybe they think we're still in the book," said Riley. "It was an option."
"I don't think so, Riley." I said. "He highly suggested we come out."
"Okay, maybe they think we don't need a letter to go in a book."
"That better be the reason," I said exuberated. "Because school starts this Tuesday; after that we'll be too busy with school work." Riley shook her head.
"No time passes when we enter the books."
"Still, how are we going to learn stuff in school if we keep learning stuff from another school?"
"We'll manage," said Riley smugly.
"You're acting like Ron." I said.
"You're acting like Hermione." She said back. We laughed.
"I think we should go in the book today," said Riley.
"Are you sure?" I questioned.
"You're the one who's worrying about school."
"Yeah, but you're still having nightmares from the last book." Ever since we came out of the first book, Riley keeps having the same nightmare about what happened in the chamber with Quirrell. She heard an eerie laugh while her scar erupted with pain. Some nights she cries or whimpers in her sleep, some nights she tosses and turns, the rest of the time she screams.
"I think I'll be okay, I just won't write on the forget-me-not sheet about my nightmares."
The forget-me-not sheet is something that Arthur gave us so we would not forget about the lives we had here in the world where we go to normal school.
"I don't think that would work, Riley, it's what happened to you in the other world that's causing your nightmares."
"Then maybe we should have a forget-me sheet, because having nightmares stink."
I put a hand on her shoulder. "You'll find a way to get past them." She smiled.
"Maybe we should go in today," I said.
"Let's get the box!" said Riley. The box is what held all we needed to go into the books: Slogans and sand. The Slogans represented the first part of the spell (last time it was 'the magic begins') the sand helped the spell work and made sure the book stuck in place. The other thing in the box was the first letter we got from Arthur, telling us to go into the books and how to do that. We kept it around to remind us this was all real.
We kept the box in our room, we were initially in the basement when this all started. We ran up the stairs until we made it to the top floor. When we opened the door to our room, we were shocked.
Jumping back and forth between our beds was a house elf. Ours mouths were agape.
"Dobby?" we both said in shock. The house elf looked at us.
"Not Dobby," said the house elf with a high, squeaky voice, which sounded like a girl.
"Winky?" I said.
"Not Winky either, Miss," said the female house elf.
"Then what is your name," asked Riley.
"It's-It's Debby, Miss." stammered the house elf.
"Debby, are you nervous?" I asked.
"Not nervous, Miss. Debby is frightened."
"Why are you frightened Debby?" asked Riley.
"Debby is crossing line with master. Master would not like Debby being here."
"Why not," I asked. "Who is your master?"
"Debby cannot say. That would be bad of Debby."
"Well, we don't want you to be bad. We don't want you to punish yourself," said Riley.
"Debby, do you know who we are?" I asked.
"Yes, you are the brave Amelia Thomson, and you are the daring Riley Thomson. Debby has heard so much of your first adventure."
"Debby, what are you doing here?" asked Riley.
"Debby has come to warn Amelia and Riley Thomson, they must not go in the second book."
"We have to," I said. "School's about to start soon; and we promised Arthur we would follow Harry on his adventures, we can't skip the second book, no matter how dangerous it is."
"What she means to say," said Riley, "is that we promised the Anonymous figure that we would go in every book, despite the danger."
"The Anonymous figure never said to go in, they never even sent a letter to Amelia and Riley Thomson." There was a pause, and then I put my hands to my head.
"Debby, there's only three ways you can know that: 1. you've been watching us, 2. you know Arthur, or 3. You stopped the letter from reaching us."
"Debby cannot say what she's done, but she was watching Amelia and Riley. She knew they were going back in the book, so she came to stop them, to warn them."
"Debby did you intercept a letter for us: yes or no?" said Riley. Debby shakily pulled an envelope out of her old pillow case she wore.
"Debby thought if Amelia and Riley did not receive letter, they would not go back into the book world."
"Give us that letter, Debby," I said, yanking it out of her hands. Sure enough, the letter was addressed to us, but it had no return address; anonymous. We would have to read it later; we had a house elf in our room at the moment.
"Debby, why are you going through this trouble to warn us?" said Riley.
"Yeah, we already know what's going to happen. A Basilisk set on killing mudbloods is going to be roaming the halls and the pipes, petrifying many people, we'll be dead if we look in it's eyes."
"That is not all," said Debby.
"What?" said Riley, "What do you mean that's not all?"
"Bad things are going to happen; dark things; things Debby is afraid to say."
"Debby how do you know this?" I asked. "Do you work for the bad people?"
"Debby's master is not bad. Debby's master is good. Debby knows this because of the connection Debby has to Dobby. Him knowing of what was to come affected Debby. Debby knows what's to come even if she doesn't have to overhear, Debby knows things so she can warn Amelia and Riley."
"Wait a minute," said Riley. "You have a connection to Dobby, like we have a connection to Harry?" Debby's eyes grew wide.
"Debby shouldn't have said that." Debby looked around frantically, probably for something to hit herself with. We don't have a lot of that in our room.
"Debby, don't hit yourself!" I cried out.
"Debby told a secret, Debby's been bad! Debby promised master she would not tell!"
"It's alright, Debby!" cried Riley. "We're the ones who pried at you."
"Debby should have kept mouth shut; Debby told why master chose Debby to be their house elf!"
"Your master knows about this too?" I cried.
"Debby shouldn't have said that!" Debby started strangling herself, and bopping herself on the head, and throwing herself against Riley's bed. Riley picked up Debby by the pillow sheet.
"Debby, stop beating yourself up, we're not mad at you!" Debby stopped beating herself up at that moment, and looked at Riley.
"Master will be mad, Master will know I told Amelia and Riley, and Master knows how perceptive Riley and Amelia are." There was only one person who knew us that well.
"Debby, is your master Arthur Fedley?" I asked.
"That is not Debby's master; Debby has no master by that name." Well, there goes my guess.
"What she means to ask Debby," said Riley. "Is your master the Anonymous figure?"
"Debby cannot say who Debby's master is."
"Good enough for us," said Riley, as she put Debby down.
"Debby, our Dad's outside right now, mowing the lawn. If he comes inside and sees a house elf, he'll freak," I said.
"Debby will leave, only if Amelia and Riley Thomson promise Debby that they will not go into the book world again, and let Debby take their package with her." We couldn't believe what Debby was saying, as much as we tried to.
"Sorry Debby," said Riley, "but we have to go back in the book world."
"Then you leave Debby no choice." What was Debby going to do? Debby snapped her fingers and the box appeared in her arms.
"Don't take the box!" I cried. "We need that box!"
Debby smiled. "Debby's not taking the box, Debby's letting Amelia and Riley keep the box." Debby opened the box.
"No, don't take what's in it either!" cried Riley. Debby smiled again.
"Debby's not taking what's in the box. If Debby did that, Anonymous figure would just send more." We breathed a sigh of relief. Debby continued looking in the box and frowned.
"Debby is seeing the books are not kept in the box."
"Of course not," I said. "Why would we? They're our Mom's books. She's a fan too. Her books are a rare edition; you can barely find them anymore. We keep them in the basement in chronological order."
"Good to know," said Debby. She poofed away in a crack of a whip; I was shocked with what I just did.
"Why didn't you stop me?" I said to Riley.
"I didn't know you'd say that." Just then, in a crack of a whip, Debby poofed back; she had six of the seven books, she had two-seven; she must have left the first book because we were done that one. Whatever she was doing with those books, it wasn't a good thing.
"Don't Debby," pleaded Riley. "Forget the book-jumping thing, if anything happens to those books, our Mother will kill us!"
"Promise Debby you will not go back in the books, and give Debby the box."
"No Debby," I said. "We promised Arthur."
"Debby does not know who Arthur is, and Debby has no choice." Debby snapped her fingers. The window vanished and the books started levitating out the window. We could hear dad mowing the lawn outside. We shoved Debby out of the way and looked out the window. There was Dad, mowing the lawn. The books were floating to a place where the lawn mower would surely run them over. I screamed. We were helpless! There was nothing we could do to stop the books! Riley started to pull on her hair. We looked at Debby for one last plea. She snapped her fingers; we quickly turned and saw the books falling to their doom. We screamed. Debby snapped her fingers and the window was back, except it was open. Debby snapped her fingers again, and she was gone.
We heard Dad stop the mower, and then we heard "GIRLS!" We were in trouble.
We ran onto the lawn, where we saw Dad fuming next to a stopped mower and a pile of books.
"The books!" Riley cried, "They're alright!" She went to go hug them, but Dad stopped us.
"You girls should be considered lucky that I stopped the mower before I could run them over. What were you thinking, throwing them out the window?"
"Dad," I started, "You know we would never-"
"Then who threw them out the window?"
"Uh," we both said. We can't exactly say a house elf did, he won't believe us. Dad was fuming.
"If your mother was here, you would be in so much trouble! You know she loves these books!"
"We do too, Dad," said Riley.
"Then why would you throw them out the window to where I was mowing the lawn?!"
We were silent.
"Fine, don't tell me. You still have to be punished."
"NOOOOO!" We cried as we saw dad locking the books away.
"Don't lock the books away!" I pleaded.
"I'm sorry, girls, but obviously you can't be trusted with them."
"We'll be good, we won't do it again!" pleaded Riley.
"No girls, these books are staying locked away until you can prove that you can be responsible with them."
"How can we do that if they're locked away?" I cried.
"I'm not changing my mind. I've already called your mother and she thinks it's a good idea. My decision's final."
We were reading the letter sent to us from Arthur. Then Riley piped up, "We have no time to prove we're responsible! This letter was sent a week ago, and it says 'you've waited long enough, it's time to back in the book.'"
"Well, how can we do that now?" I asked. "The books are locked up in Dad's cabinet."
"Well, there's only one thing we can do," said Riley, rubbing her hands maliciously.
"What's that?" I questioned.
"We bust the books out of there, like they did with Harry in the book," she said excitedly.
"You want us to rip the door off Dad's cabinet?"
"No, Dad would never forgive us if we did. Of course, I do know where he keeps the key." She said grinning.
We pulled out the forget-me-not sheet, which was also kept in the box. We had to write down what just happened, so we can expect Debby if she ever tries to 'save us', and so we can know to be quiet once we come back out. You can forget a lot in a year.
Riley was doing the writing, mostly because she got to it first. Although, her writing is not the best, I wonder if I'll remember the wrong thing, like a mouse shelf named Dobby, and the fact that we are in treble, broke the books out of Bad's cabihet, and we said the spell in middle of hight. I shouldn't doubt her though, she did a little writing last time and I remembered everything perfectly.
There was something that caught my eye that interested me. Riley was holding a gold and scarlet pen, which had 'Gryffindor' written on the side in gold as well, beside that, was a picture of a lion. The pen was writing in gold ink.
"Riley, where'd you get that pen?" I asked with a bit of interest, it looked cool. Riley stopped writing for a moment to take a look at the pen.
"This? I got it from the city when we went shopping for back to school stuff. I thought it was cool, so I got it."
"Where did they sell those?"
"Mom's not taking us back to the city."
"I'm just wondering; if she did, I might want one too. Probably Hufflepufff or Ravenclaw, you know, so we can tell whose pen is whose." Riley chuckled.
"I got it from Chapters."
"Makes sense," I said.
In the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, I woke up Riley; apparently though, she was already awake. We crept out of bed, and tiptoed through the halls. We slid down the stairs slowly, because that makes the least amount of noise. Once on the middle floor, we walked to the basement steps, and then slowly walked down.
We put the box down there earlier so we didn't have the trouble of getting it out of our closet in the dark, even though we brought our emergency flashlight/lamp. Once in the basement, I whispered to Riley.
"Where's the key kept?"
"It's in his office, in the junk cupboard," she whispered back.
"The same room as the cabinet, why am I surprised?" I whispered.
"I also thought it would be more complicated than that, maybe it's a messy junk cupboard."
"Who would organize a junk cupboard?"
"I would," whispered Riley.
"Your way of organizing something messy is just memorizing where everything is."
"It works, doesn't it?"
We walked to his office, which was remarkably on the same floor. This may seem easy, that is just because our parents never expected us to break the rules, especially in the middle of the night. Riley opened the junk cupboard, and there was the key, sitting right there.
Riley grabbed it, and we went to the cabinet in the corner of the room. I held the light up to the lock. Riley inserted the key, turned it and removed the lock (yes, it was one of those old fashioned ones). We opened the cabinet door, and there were the books. It's like I could hear their little cheers, 'Yay, we're free!' Of course, we could only take the second book; we had to put everything back when we were done, this would be faster.
Riley grabbed the second, and then we went to the main room of the basement. We placed the book flat on the table. We opened the box, and looked for the appropriate slogan. I found it.
"The slogan for this book is 'Something Evil Has Returned to Hogwarts," I whispered. "The opposite of this slogan is 'The Evil has been driven from Hogwarts.'"
Riley wrote the opposite on the forget-me-not sheet with her new pen, knowing we'd have to remember it. We put the slogan over the name J.K Rowling, sprinkled sand on the book, and put our hands on the book once the sand had disappeared.
"Ready," I asked Riley.
"Ready as I'll ever be," said Riley. Then we said the spell at the same time.
"Something Evil has returned to Hogwarts, Intro Libra!"
We waited a bit, and then the magic happened.
Harry on the cover looked in our direction, and waved. We would have waved back, but our hands were stuck. Hedwig started to flap her wings, and we heard the engine of the Ford Angelia. The room started to shake, and then the car burst out of the cover. I was stuck on the roof, while Riley was stuck on the bottom. I didn't panic because this has happened before. The car's headlights turned on, then we blacked out.
How was that for a chapter? So many questions to be answered, which I might answer later. You have to stay tuned to find out, plus tell me what you think in reviews. R&R, -Admiring
