Hi everyone Clover here. And well I'm here with a new story Mirror image. This story is being coauthored by my friend and roommate Meggie182000 and DARKAMY1 over on deviant art. The original credit for the request for the story goes to DARKAMY1's friend Veronica. I'll link to both artists profiled below. Veronica doesn't have a deviant art account. I know I'm taking forever but it's for a good cause. Anyways Harry potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. Please enjoy.

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Chapter 1: The anomaly

Chaos and panic was thick in the air at Hogwarts this year. It all started when Filch's cat, Mrs Norris, was found petrified in the school corridors next to a message that said ''The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir... beware.'' written in blood only a few months after classes started, and by Hyacinth Potter and her crew no less, which aroused some suspicions from Snape and Filch, but no one else suspected any of them of doing it. Not long after, the history of Hogwart's Founders, especially that of Salazar Slytherin and the monster he supposedly hid in the castle was told and the Wind of panic picked up from there.

After words there was that fateful Quidditch match that got Young Hyacinth in the Hospital wing after being almost killed by a rogue Bludger, she didn't want to go but Lokhart's failed bone Healing spell gave her no choice, thank god miss Pomfrey didn't do a more Thorough examination of her body. It was also on that night that she learned that a Griffyndor muggleborn student, who was also a bit of a crazed fan of her named Colin Creevey, was found petrified by professor Dumbledore and McGonagall, creating more tension within the school staff and later on within the student body.

And lets not forget that disastrous first day of dueling club, where Hyacinth revealed herself to be a parseltongue, something even she didn't know she was, and there for suspect number 1 in being the heir of Slytherin and the one responsible for all the petrified victims. Poor Hyacinth, like she didn't had so much on her plate already, now they suspect her of being the next dark lord.

But fortunately after that, the school seems to have regain a somewhat beat of normalcy for a little while, no more incidents have happened and it seemed safe for everyone to relax again, tho some still flee at the sight of Hyacinth, but the girl didn't really care as she had other problems to deal with, like her failing health that caused her to have many episodes of vomiting, nausea, extreme fatigue and other such unpleasant symptoms, curtesy of her 'darling' aunt and her habits of forcing her niece to sleep with and use industrial cleaning chemicals for so many years.

But the temporary peace was short live as two 2 days ago, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick were found petrified in a corridor. Again they were found by Hyacinth, alone this time, and professor McGonagall had to send her to the Headmaster's office, where fortunately he was not in trouble, Dumbledore just wanted to make sure she was ok and such before sending her back to her dorm.

Now 2 days later, Hyacinth was half way through her school day when she had in other sickness episode in the corridors of the second floor. She was crouched over, coughing and vomiting on the floor, 'Dam it, why now?' Hyacinth thought while wiping her mouth on her sleeve. 'Why couldn't this have waited until after classes were over?' Hyacinth's thoughts continued while she waited for the nausea and dizziness to pass so she can get to her next class.

A few minutes later, Hyacinth straightened up, thinking the dizziness and nausea had completely passed, but she was wrong, a slightly stronger wave wreck through her body and the young half-blood vomited again, harder.

Then Hyacinth heard footsteps coming her way, for a moment she thought it was Filch, so she tried to get up and flee, but lost her footing and fell on the floor, "Hyacinth?" A familiar voice said, making Hyacinth turned around after hurriedly wiping her mouth on her sleeve.

"Oh, H-Hi Ginny, how are you?" Hyacinth asked the paler then normal redhead. "I'm alright, i'm still having those weird memory gaps though, but it's probably just school work stress." Ginny said, tucking a strand of loose hair behind her ear before she continued. "But the real question is are you okay Hyacinth? You don't look so good" Ginny said.

"Oh I'm fine, just on my way to class." Hyacinth said as she started to walk away from her best friend's sister, but was stopped by a hand grabbing her arm. "Oh really!? If you're really okay, then why were you vomiting in the corridor just before I found you?" Ginny said with a ''i don't believe what you just said'' look towards her. "Oh that vomit isn't mine, it was probably an owl or a cat!" Hyacinth said with a nervous smile.

'Really Hyacinth, that's the best you can do? How much more pathetic can you get' Hyacinth thought while realizing how obvious the lie is.

"Do you honestly think I'm that gullible Hyacinth?" Ginny said, annoyed that Hyacinth felt the need to lie to her. "Wh-what do you mean?" Hyacinth said while swallowing the rising bile in her throat. "Oh, so you do, don't you?" Ginny said, tightening the grip on Hyacinth's arm and frowning more deeply.

"No, of course not Ginny, i would never..." Hyacinth answered honestly, but was then cut off.

"Then why did you try such an obvious lie when there are two critical details that can debunk it?" Ginny asked the second year. "Oh really, and what are these details exactly?" Hyacinth asked, worry melting away to be replaced by frustration, cause honestly, Ginny is acting more like in inquisitor interrogating a prisoner then a friend worrying about a friend, in Hyacinth's eyes at least.

"Well for one, that vomit there is clearly human vomit and two, there are several huge vomit stains on your sleeve." Ginny pointed out to Hyacinth "That's ridiculous-" Hyacinth began to say, but cut herself off mid-sentence when she vomited again. Ginny immediately stepped back to avoid getting splattered.

"Okay, that's it, I'm taking you to the hospital wing." Ginny said as Hyacinth wiped her mouth. "No ne-ed, I-I'm fine Ginny. I just need to get to class." Hyacinth said before starting to walk away, but Ginny grabbed her arm again.

"Oh no you don't, you're sick and I'm taking you to Madam Pomfrey." Ginny said while trying to pull her friend in the opposite direction, but Hyacinth managed to pull her arm out of Ginny's grip. "Enough Ginny, i'm telling you that I'm fine." Hyacinth said, growing even more frustrated.

"You're not fine Hyacinth, you need to at least let Madam Pomfrey examine you before you go to class." Ginny insisted. Its about then that Hyacinth snapped. "I told you I'm fine! I don't need you breathing down my neck about my health!" Hyacinth yelled, making several students that were passing by stop and stare at the scene.

But then, without warning, several Windows cracked, then shattered with enough force to send the shards both inside and outside the corridor. Those who were in the corridor screamed and ran, shielding themselves with their bags and books from the falling glass. Ginny was able to avoid harm by throwing herself sideways as some of the glass shards came towards her.

As for Hyacinth, she took advantage of the chaos and got to transfiguration on time, not even wondering once about with happened in the corridor.

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"Alright students, today we'll be transfigurating glass figurines into wooden ones. Watch me demonstrate " Mcgonagall said as she took out the glass figurine of a Snowman and put it on her desk, then she twirled her wand twice around it before touching the snowman's hat with the tip and said :lignum:, turning the glass to wood to the awe of all students present.

Then the professor passed out several figurines and they all began the exercise.

Hermione Granger of course, succeeded on her first try along with a couple of other students.

Most of the class struggled to turn the glass to wood, but they all succeeded eventually, even Ron was able to complete it before the class was over.

Only Hyacinth has not succeeded in turning her cat Figurine into wood, and class was almost over, if she didn't finish her work by then, she well get a failing grade and she was not in the mood for a fail today.

She tried again and again to turn the glass into wood, fallowing the instructions to a T, but makes some small changes in wand movement and spell prononciation when the last tries proved ineffective, but no matter what she tried, glass won't turn to wood. Now Hyacinth was really getting frustrated to the point that she threw her wand on the floor and pulled at her hair, what the hell is it going to take to turn that glass figurine into wood damn it.

Suddenly, several figurines near her burst into flames, forcing the students who has them to back away from the flames, but fortunately Professor McGonagall put out the flames before they spread. But soon after, several books from a nearby shelve flew off and hit several students hard, but fortunately they were mainly Slytherins.

"Dear lord, Is everyone alright?!" Mcgonagall asked immediately before setting the books back on the shelves with her magic and made sure the students that got hit were alright.

"Yes professor, everyone else is ok from what i can see'' Hermione said before turning to Hyacinth, who seemed ok, but looked unusually pale, ''Hyacinth, are you al-." Hermione whispered, but was cut off sentence by a harsh glare from her friend.

''Yes Hermione, like i kept telling Ginny, i'm just fine so please leave me alone.'' Hyacinth said harshly while she picked up her wand and tried the spell again, ignoring her worried best friend and the reprimanding voice of her teacher, who just heard the whole thing.

But before Hyacinth could try the spell again, she felt a nasty wave of nausea hit her and she vomited on the table before slipping sideways off her seat and fell on the floor unconscious. "Hyacinth/Miss Potter!' Ron, Hermione and McGonagall all yelled in concern.

Mcgonagall immediately went by her side and conjured a stretcher to put her on and rushed to the infirmary.

Meanwhile, most of the class, minus the Slytherins, gathered around the center of the class and all whispered to each other about what happened: The figurines burning without reason, the books flying off the shelves on their own and most importantly, Hyacinth suddenly becoming extremely ill, because while most were afraid of her for possibly being the Heir of Slytherin, no one really wanted her hurt or sick like this.

But while they were gossiping, they were still unaware of a now possessed Ginny, who has been spying on the class sense it started and witness everything that happened.

'Interesting, I was right to take control when I did.' Tom thought since he had full control over Ginny at the moment. 'I'll let my little friend have a false memory, so that way if she gets caught she'll have an excuse. There's no way I'm sitting through another mind numbing detection.' Tom thought as he placed a false memory of Ginny asking to use the restroom and hearing the commotion on her way back and wanted to see if anything was wrong so she pulled the door open slightly to reveal the scene inside.

'Alright Ginny, back to class with you, i've seen enough.' Tom thought while slipping back in the diary after planting one last thought in her head. 'I wonder if if Potter's frustration caused her to get sick and caused the chaos in the classroom. If so, then how? I've sensed no magic powerful enough to cause this being used. I'll have to look into this a bit more closely once Potter is released from the hospital wing.' Tom thought before being completely silent, leaving Ginny to come out of her possessed state and walk back to class.

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"Professor Mcgonagall!" Madam Pomfrey exclaimed when she saw the head of Gryffindor house enter the infirmary with Hyacinth on a stretcher. "Oh no please, don't tell me there's been another attack!" Madam Pomfrey said worried. "No, but the situation is no less alarming. Miss Potter has started vomiting in my class for no reason, then suddenly lost consciousness." Mcgonagall explained, making Madam Pomfrey act quickly and helped Mcgonagall place Hyacinth on a bed.

"Is she going to be alright?" Mcgonagall asked as Madam Pomfrey scanned the girl with her wand.

"She'll be fine, according to these scans, she's just suffering from a bit of stress, its no wonder with all the homework on top of Quidditch practice and everything else that's been happening, anyone would get sick." Madam Pomfrey said, keeping the truth from Mcgonagall about her condition.

The truth is that Madam Pomfrey had found several unknown toxins in Hyacinth's blood stream. Those Toxins were doing quit a bit of damage to the poor girl's body, especially the brain apparently, sense her scans also detected something in there that she can't identify properly, but is sure that it was the toxins doing this.

"Don't you worry, I'll have her back on her feet in a few days time and i'll talk to Professor Dumbledore about what to do to reduce the stress levels." Madam Pomfrey said.

"Oh thank you, Pomfrey." Mcgonagall said, breathing a sigh of relief as she made the stretcher disappear and left the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey bad about lying to her as she put Hyacinth in a magical coma in order to avoid the illness from getting worse, but it was necessary as to not worry her or the rest of the school to much, there was enough of that with those mysterious attacks.

A few hours passed and classes let out, giving the chance to Ron and Hermione to run to the hospital wing. When they arrived they were panting and gasping like they had just ran a marathon.

"Goodness, are you two alright?" Madam Pomfrey asked as she finished checking on the petrified students and Mrs. Norris. after having treated Hyacinth for the past few hours and decided to take a small brake.

"We're fine Madam Pomfrey." Ron gasped out. "W-We just wanted to see how Hyacinth was doing." Hermione said, her voice wheezing from running and clutching Hyacinth's wand the whole time.

"Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with her. While I was scanning her with my wand I found several toxins in her blood stream, affecting her entire body, even her brain." Madam Pomfrey said, choosing to not lie to these 2 for some reason.

"Bloody hell." Ron whispered worriedly while Hermione gasps in shock before turning to her friend lying on the hospital bed.

She appeared to be sleeping peacefully, but the 2 friends could see that something was seriously wrong with her, with her unhealthily pale complexion, the sweat coming down her forehead and the remains of vomit on her lips.

Ron grabbed a couple of handkerchiefs from the medical table and went over to gently removed the vomit from her lips and the sweat from her forehead. "Here, that should be a bit better." Ron said, smiling at bit.

Then Ginny entered the hospital wing and rushed to her brother and Hermione. "I just heard from some of my hufflepuff friends that Hyacinth passed out during Transfiguration, is she gonna be okay?" Ginny said worried while her brother gave her a comforting hug. "She'll be fine Ginny. Madam Pomfrey well give her the treatment that she needs and she'll be fine" Ron explained to his sister.

All 3 then gathered around Hyacith's bed for a bit in silence, hoping she can feel there presence so she would know how worried they are for her and that there here for her as well.

"Alright everyone. Its time for you to leave, Professor Dumbledore well be arriving soon and i must speak to him about Hyacinth's condition in private." Madam Pomfrey came to say after in hour, making the 3 nod relanctently and left, promising to return tomorrow.

Not long after, Dumbledore, and surprisingly Snape as well, came into the hospital wing. "Madam Pomfrey." Dumbledore said, greeting the healer. "Professor Dumbledore. Thank you for coming. By why are you here Professor Snape?" Madam Pomfrey asked the potion master.

"You forget that I'm certified healer as well as a Potion Master Poppey. When you called professor Dumbledore about Miss Potter's condition, he in turn called me for help." Professor Snape said, making Madam Pomfrey nod as he was right, she well need his help even tho she is hesitant to let him come near the girl, with how he tends to treat her and her friends...

But that was not important right now, right now they needed to tent to miss Potter, so Pomfrey walked them over to Hyacinth bed. "How is she?" Professor Dumbledore asked while looking at the young girl with worry.

"Well I managed to stabilize her vitals, but I'm having some trouble flushing the toxins out." Madam Pomfrey said while adjusting the I.V., which was dripping a pale blue potion into her arm.

"I did a scan on her earlier, but I don't recognize any of the toxins in her blood Stream and if i can't identify them, the treatment may take longer to perform. But maybe one of you can tell what these toxin are." Madam Pomfrey said while handing over a written report of Hyacinth's scans to Dumbledore and Snape.

Now Dumbledore didn't recognize any of the listed toxins, but Snape did, and what he's reading slowly replaced his scornful and stoic frown for a concern and horrified one.

The toxins on this list all belong to chemical formulas Muggle use in their cleaning products, but 10 times more potent then regular cleaning products should be, and the large quantity of it in Hyacinth's system would indicate that she was exposed to those highly toxic products for a very long time, years maybe. But how the hell was Miss Potter exposed to such strong chemicals in the first place?

"Professor Dumbledore, after reading this report carefully, I think we need to do an inquiry into Ms. Potter's home life." Snape said while eying the list in disgust.

"Why Severus? do you think she was exposed to something toxic at home?" Dumbledore asked concered. "I believe so. All these toxins are from Industrially potent Muggle cleaning chemicals, which can be toxic if exposed to for extended periods of time." Snape said before he looked at the scan again to see if he missed something, that's when he noticed the anomaly in Hyacinth's brain. "What on earth... Poppey, what is that in her brain? It sounds like a large brain Tumor." Snape asked, concern yet disbelieving of what he's reading.

"I'm not sure Severus, it appears to be a tumor, but its not causing any cerebro or neuro damage, its just there for no reason at all, i'm not even completely sure if the toxins or involved in its creation of if it just formed on its own. I'm terribly sorry, but i just don't know." Madam Pomfrey, said feeling a bit uneasy since she knew that she was expected to have answers, but this not she has none.

"It's quit fine Madam, not even the best Healers have the answer to every medical questions after all. But if you well allow me, I would like to try something that could shed some light on the origin of Miss Potter's situation." Dumbledore said after staying silent for the past few minutes.

"What are you going to do Professor that needs me to give you permission?" Madam Pomfrey asked the headmaster, who looked a bit worried and regretful for some reason. "I'm going to use Legillimency." Dumbledore finally said, shocking Snape and Pomfrey.

"Legillimency on someone in a magical coma?! Absolutely not, you may cause her more harm then good." Pomfrey said with shock and disapproval of his plan.

"Madam Pomfrey is right Professor, its dangerous enough to do it to a conscious underage witch, but one put in a magical coma, i cannot count the number of ways that could go wrong: Accidental destruction of important memories that could gratelly damages her psyche, the awakening of traumatic memories that can cause similar damages, Neuro Damages that could lead to her becoming lobotimized, and that's only the beginning. " Snape explained angrily, furious that Dumbledore would even consider this for any student.

Dumbledore let out a sigh of course, they were right, but he was also hoping they would accept and understand why he suggested it, oh well, its probably for the best.

"Your both right, I apologize for the suggestion." Dumbledore said with sadness and regret, which softed Pompey and Snape angered faces. "I know you want to help her professor, but It is simply way to risky, well just have to wait tell she wakes up to get information from her. In the mean time, Severus, do you think you can, using the list of Toxins that's in her body, brew more effective purging potions for her treatments. " Madam Pomfrey asked the Potion Master while she refilled the potion in Hyacinth's I.V. drip.

"I will don't worry." Snape said 'I made a promise after all and I plan to keep it, for her sake.' Snape thought as Pomfrey handed him a copy of the list of toxins in her system.

"And while you both handle Miss Potter's condition, I'll send an owl to the ministry so they can perform an inquiry into Ms. Potter's home life.'' Dumbledore announced, and was about to leave to do just then when he thought of something ''Oh and dear Madam Pomfrey, could you please send an owl to Saint Mungo's requesting a healer be brought in to take a look at the tumor." Professor Dumbledore asked, making Madam Pomfrey nod and both teachers left, to let her do her job.