Moaning Myrtles Crush
Myrtles thoughts at the end of the Chamber of Secrets
I heard footsteps in my bathroom, coming closer and closer – I was sitting on the cistern of the very last toilet you see, so it would take a little while for them to reach me. Why would nobody leave me alone? Always making fun of me, always taunting me – Miserable Moaning Myrtle, I thought that Olive Hornby was bad, but these awful breathers are the worst. I wanted to see Harry, I admitted to myself, I missed him – he hadn't been to visit for ages and I wished the frizzy haired cat-girl would hurry up and make another potion – then I would see him. He just needs an excuse I thought. So people won't be suspicious, that's it. After all he was so nice to me after that horrid person threw the book at me.
Then, to my delight his head popped round the door of my cubicle "Oh, it's you" I said, then noticing the others I added "what do you want this time?"
"To ask you how you died" he said gently. He was asking me a personal question! He wanted to know more about me! He cared!
"Ooooh, it was dreadful, It happened right in here. I died in this very cubicle. I remember it so well. I'd hidden because Olive Hornby was teasing me about my glasses. The door was locked, and I was crying, and then I heard some-body come in. They said something funny. A different language, I think it must have been. Anyway, what really got me was that it was a boy speaking. So I unlocked the door, to tell him to go and use his own toilet, and then – I died."
It was important to be honest; the best relationships are all about trust and honesty. He understood me. So I told him all of it, every last little detail.
"How?"
"No idea, I just remember seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away … And then I came back again. I was determined to haunt Olive Hornby, you see. Oh, she was sorry she'd ever laughed at my glasses."
"Where exactly did you see the eyes?" he asked – obviously caring about anything to do with me
"Somewhere there," I pointed over at the sinks and Harry and the red-haired boy Dom? Went over to look closer. Harry tried to turn a tap and so I helped him (we were going to be great together)
"That tap has never worked"
The boys started talking then, about something or other, but I got the gist – they were investigating how I died – Harry was going to avenge me!(How romantic.) I watched as the sink opened up and they jumped in one by one.
A terrible thought struck me then – what if Harry died? What would I do? But then I realised that we would be able to be together – FOREVER! How amazing, we would live in the toilet together, and talk and he would tell me how pretty I am, and we could go to the parties together and everything! I sat waiting for his ghost to come back to me from avenging my death.
After a while I heard noises and whoosh Harry was holding onto a Phoenix's tail being pulled up the tunnel, Dom was clutching his robes and another girl with shiny red hair was holding onto his hand. Lockhart was staring around oddly as if he'd never been here before.
"You're alive," I stated staring at Harry
"There's no need to sound so disappointed" he replied and I blushed before letting him know that I didn,t want him gone.
"Oh, well … I'd just been thinking. If you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet." I smiled and they started to leave.
But he'll be back, oh yes. We belong together.
What do you think? It was supposed to be funny, but im not so good at funny ...