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The Chamber of Secrets

POV: Hermione Jean Granger

"So, Hagrid, tell us again why we're here when we are supposed to be in bed?"

All of us (Harry, Ron, Ruby and I) were sitting at the table in Hagrid's hut. He was bent over his fireplace, upon which there was a boiling kettle. "Jus' hold yer horses li'lle one." he mumbled. I tried leaning back in my chair to see what he was doing. I leaned back too far, though, and for a second I felt like I knew I was going to die.

Then I realized I had just leaned too far. Hagrid turned and layed a large egg-like object on the table. He then sat down opposite of me and explained that he had gotten it from a merchant in Diagon Alley. I looked up at him. "Did you...see who the merchant was?" he shook his head. "He was hooded, yeh see." I looked back at the egg.

Suddenly, it started to crack. Before long, the whole shell had broken away to reveal a tiny lizard-like creature. Then it hit me: Hagrid had bought a dragon egg and a dragon was hatching from it. Dear god. The dragon slowly dragged itself around the table and looked at Hagrid. "Norbert!" he said with glee, and the dragon coughed out a little puff of smoke that caused Ron to cough himself. Then the dragon bit Ron on the hand. I stood up, pushing in my chair. "Hagrid, you shouldn't have that! It's against wizard law!" He looked sadly from me to Norbert, then sighed. "I know. But where'll 'e go?"

I thought for a second. "Hey- Ron's brother Charlie could take him. He's studying Dragons in Romania, remember?" Reluctantly, he nodded.

"I could write to him and ask him." Ron said to Hagrid, glaring at Norbert. "Okay, but right now we need to get back to our dorms before someone notices we're gone." I turned to push open the door, but saw a pale, blond head duck beneath the window. Malfoy! "Oh no. Oh no no no no!" I grabbed Ruby, opening the door and yelling to the boys to follow and that Draco had seen us- and probably the dragon too!

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Sitting in the hard chair in front of McGonagall's desk was torture. I knew we'd get detention, just not what it would be.

"Well now, you kids know that you shall be punished for going out after hours. But what the punishment is shall be up to your head of house. Fortunately for you four," she pointed to Ruby, myself, Ron and Harry, "I am that person. But for Mr. Malfoy, Prof. Snape will be administering that."

She told us that we were to follow Mr. Filch to our detention tonight. Also, Draco was apparently serving it with us. Ron would not be, for his dragon bite had caused his hand to swell up.

That night, the four of us trudged behind Filch across the grounds, arriving in front of Hagrid and Fang, his dog. He told us to follow him, and we went off into the Forbidden Forest. "H-hey..wait! I thought the forest was Forbidden?" Draco stuttered, trying not to appear as scared as he was. Hagrid grunted in response. Sooner or later we were deep in the forest, and he turned to us. "Okay, now Im gonna split yeh up into two groups. Harry and Ruby, come with me. Draco 'n' Er-my-knee, go that way." he pointed the direction out. "Wait! I want the dog to come with us."

Fang looked at Draco with big eyes. "Well, okay. But jus' so yeh know, Fang's a big scaredy cat."

He told us to be on the lookout for unicorns. Specifically hurt ones. About 10 minutes of walking later, Draco looked around and turned to me. "I still don't see why the big oaf can't have done this himself! We're just kids. Wait till my father hears about this!" I rolled my eyes.

"Calm down Draco. It's better than detention with Filch...I think." I never had gotten detention before, really.

We walked for at least 30 minutes, him cowering behind me of course. Suddenly I heard a twig snap. Draco squealed and Fang started whimpering. "Stay right here." I told them as I descended down the short hill, wand at the ready. I saw...something I will never forget. A hooded figure- a vampire maybe?- leaning over the neck of a dead unicorn. Obviously, it was drinking the poor thing's blood.

Suddenly, my forehead started burning with a searing pain. My hand flew to it- my scar. The figure stood up, obviously seeing me now, and seemed to float over towards me. Backing away, I raised my wand, but just then a herd of centaurs arrived. The strange hooded thing fled the scene and my pain was relieved. "Who are you?" one of the beasts asked me. I stammered out my name and that I was with Hagrid. "Climb upon my back. I shall take you to him." I do so and soon we arrive in front of the whole group, including Draco and Fang.

I slid off the centaur's back, thanking him dearly. He simply smiled and bounded off to join his herd. I ignored all their questions and started walking back toward the school. Our detention was over.

After we had gone home, I was a little dazed and didn't do much besides read. Ruby was her ever-so excited self, and my parents were their own...parent-y selves. But sometimes, I'd lock myself in my room, telling them I was reading. I was really writing in a little book I bought when we were shopping for school items.

Summer flew by. Before I knew it, I was writing on a train, robes on, ignoring my sister chattering to Harry.

Of course, when we were shopping at Flourish and Blotts, we met Gilderoy Lockhart and Lucius Malfoy. I was shopping with the Weasley's of course. Molly got herself a signed copy of Lockhart's book, and Lucius simply had to insult her husband. Also, he insulted me. I expected Draco to join in with the taunting, but he didn't. Instead he looked at his father and said, "That isn't funny."

So, here I am, sitting on a train approaching Hogwarts. When we arrived, I was the last one out, right behind Ruby. When I sat at the table, Dumbledore was already speaking. I ate in silence, answering only to those who spoke directly at me.

That night, I was setting my books into a bag I carried around for classes. I put my time turner around my neck. After all, tomorrow classes start and I'd need them. I saw a strange book at the bottom of my box, and picked it up. I found no name on the front, but turning it over there was a tiny inscription on the bottom. "Tom Marvolo Riddle" I wondered who that was, and made a mental note to look him up.

I took out a quill and ink jar, for the book was empty. I figured it was a diary of some sort. I thought of what to write, and ink dripped from the quill tip onto the paper. Almost as soon as it did so, it disappeared. I flipped through the next couple pages, but it wasn't on them anymore. Curious...I got more ink and wrote in the middle of a page, My name is Hermione Granger. It disappeared, and I was just about to write more, but the diary seemed to respond, Hello, Hermione. My name is Tom Riddle. I talked more to the diary. I spilled my heart out to it, in fact.

That morning, though, I woke up less tired and even a little more chipper than usual. But as my friends and I walked down the hall together, the hall being unusually empty, we stopped when we saw Mrs. Norris...hanging on the wall. On the wall opposite, written in -what looked like- blood, was the words The Chamber is open. Also, the floor was flooded with water that was coming from Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

More people soon appeared, stopping when they saw the wall. Dumbledore and McGonagall were among a group of people, and soon Filch appeared too, as well as the rest of the teachers. "Oh..oh my.." McGonagall muttered. We were all ushered out of the halls, our classes to be canceled.

"Who do you think did it? Do you know Hermione? Huh? Do ya?" Ruby was bugging me as we descended the stairs to dinner. "No Ruby, I do not have a single clue in my mind." She could hear the annoyance in my voice, and she dropped the subject.

After dinner, I was walking back to the common room on my own, when I overheard arguing in the hall. It went something like this...

"I demand you tell me. If you don't I-I'll...throw you to the giant squid!" said one cold, sneering voice that could only belong to Draco.

"I told you- I haven't a clue! I promise! She's just my sister, I don't read her diary!" This, much to my surprise, was Ruby's voice. She sounded scared.

"You may as well start tonight. Because," I stepped closer to the corner, "if you don't find out, something bad may come to you." With that I heard Ruby scurry off toward the dorms. I finally turned the corner, acting like I hadn't heard a bit of that. My head down, I accidentally bumped into him. "Oh sorry I didn't...see.." I stopped the apology when I looked up. He had turned and was looking at me, not as much hatred as he usually had plastered on there. I swallowed, shutting my mouth and backing up. "Up a little late are we?" he asked, but softly. I cocked my head.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." I wasn't, really, but he sighed. "I...couldn't sleep." he lied. I accepted it, not wanting him to know of my eavesdropping. "Well, you better get back to bed. Filch is more alert now, since the petrification of his cat."

I started to leave myself, but he layed a hand on my shoulder. "Hey- wait. You wouldn't happen to have any idea who did it?" I shook my head. "No. Do you?" "Well, no. But I think that maybe the heir of Slytherin could've opened it. Only that person can, y'know." I nodded, and faked a yawn. With that, he let me go and I hurried into the common room, then up to my dormitory.

The next afternoon, during History of Magic class, I raised my hand. Professor Bins stopped talking and asked what I had to say. "Professor..could you tell us about the Chamber?"

He looked shocked that I'd asked, but told us. "Long before you children were around, the four original heads of houses -Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin- all created this school. Now, after some time, Salazar wanted only pure bloods in Hogwarts. They had a falling out, and Slytherin left. But before departing Hogwarts, he constructed a secret chamber beneath the castle. Henceforth, the Chamber could only be opened by his true heir, and it is believed to contain a monster that would assist in purging all but pure-blooded Wizards from the school." I wondered if there was more, but he continued teaching.

Later, I was walking alone and saw Nearly-Headless Nick floating above...a body? I walked over to him and saw he was petrified, as well as the student; Colin Creevey. I dropped my books, screaming. His camera was in front of his face still. I quickly alerted the nearest teacher, Professor Snape, and he went to get Madam Pomfrey. More students got petrified, including Ruby. When I heard the knews, Harry, Ron and I rushed into the hospital wing. She had a mirror in her hand and it was pointing to her. Her left hand was also balled around something, and while the boys were asking Madam Pomfrey questions, I slipped it out and into my pocket.

That night, I slipped into the boy's dorm's and woke them up. Down into the common room we went, were I showed the note to them. It turns out, Ruby had found out that some monster called a "Basilisk" could easily go through the piping. She had written in her messy handwriting, Basilisk=petrification. It made sense. The students were accidentally seeing the thing's eyes, but not directly, as looking on in it's eyes was fatal.

A few hours passed, and I tossed and turned in my bed, unable to sleep. How could I, when my sister was petrified? It didn't seem right. Why her? It seemed as if her perfect, innocent face, filled with shock, was burned into my mind. I rolled over and stood up, grabbing my shoes. I tried not to look at Ruby's empty bed, and exited the dorm silently, trying not to awake anyone. I silently opened the common room door, and headed down the stairs, into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She didn't appear, thank god. I looked at the bottoms of every sink till I found one with a snake on it. This sink in particular did not work, and nobody knew why. I whispered, "Open." Of course, I did not expect the sink to start moving. But it did, the whole column did.

There was a large, square opening in the floor now, I peered down into it and was about to simply leave it be, but unfortunately, I slipped and fell into it. Biting my lip I tried to not scream as I slipped through the metal slide-like thing.

Soon, I fell from it into a basement-looking room. Standing up, I head a crunching noise beneath my feet. Turns out, I was standing on bones. Lots of them. Running as fast as I could, in no particular direction, I soon came across a door. It was large and marble. I whispered for it to open again and a marble snake slithered up it, and soon opened slowly, to reveal a long, narrow walkway. Around it was water. I saw something move at the end of it, and saw...Ginny Weasley? I ran, careful not to slip, and kneeled down beside her. "Ginny, Ginny, can you hear me?" Just then I heard a dark laugh from above me. I looked up and gasped. I don't know why, it just made the man laugh more. He had pale skin, dark eyes, and was obviously very handsome. Also, he looked around 16.

"What did you do to her? Who are you?" I half yelled at him. He discontinued the laughter. "Me? Why, I am Tom Riddle. I believe we've met...in writing. You truly have a very interesting life, Miss Granger." I growled in response.

"Oh, don't worry about the girl. She's not dead...yet." I asked him what he meant by that. I would not let Ginny die! Ron would kill me (That is, if I made it out of here alive myself). "You see, she had the diary before you," I noticed that cursed diary in Ginny's cold hands, "and did just what you did. Only, I managed to take over her. It was her that wrote the messages. Only, she knew not of the fact she was."

This made no sense. Ginny wrote the messages? That's ridiculous.

"But she figured it must've been her, nobody else had done it. So, in effort to rid of the book, she threw it away. Somehow, though, it ended up in your care."

I'd had enough. Standing up and grabbing my wand, I said to him rather menacingly, "How dare you, taking my friend like that! And now she's almost dead. I command you t-" but I never finished what I was saying.

A large snakelike creature suddenly slithered through the cave in front of me. I looked down at once, for I knew it was the basilisk. Tom laughed and said, "Now, Granger, you will meet your end as well. For, how dare you live, when you should have died those 11 years ago!" I had no clue how he knew of that, but I ran from the beast. I heard a musical noise from above, and when I looked, I saw Fawkes flying with something in her beak.

Dropping it down to me, I felt something hard inside of it. How did Fawkes find me, I will never tell, but I couldn't linger on that, for the Basilisk had started it's way over to me. For something so large, that thing was so fast. Curving backwards I jumped upon the stone statue-like object that the monster had emerged from. It, being too large to quickly turn, tried to hit me with it's large tail.

Suddenly, a sword fell from the hat. Picking it up, I examined it for a mere 5 seconds before the beast had cried out. Looking up I realized the horrible thing had gotten it's eyes picked by Fawkes. I smiled, for it could not see me. But, slipping off and falling in front of the cave, I chose to ran into it instead of savoring the justice.

"After her!" Tom cried at the beast. It could still hear me and was hot on my trail. After a few twists and turns, I ran a corner only to find myself at a dead end. The basilisk almost passed me, but stuck it's large nose into the air I was in, sniffing the air and listening intently. I quietly picked up a rock, and threw it in front of the beast, away from me. It's head turned and it slithered away, giving me the opportunity to run back to Ginny.

Tom stopped me dead in my tracks. "Come here you wretched girl." I obliged but felt very insulted. He wrote his name in the air, and started switching them around. Soon it read, instead of Tom Marvolo Riddle, "I am Lord Voldemort." He then turned to me, seeing my shocked expression. "What? You think I'd keep my muggle father's name? Of course not. I wanted a name, a name that would soon strike fear into every wizard and witch's heart, a name that people would never want to speak."

Just then the basilisk appeared – again- and I ran to the top of the statue once more, dodging its attacks. Soon, I was at the top and face to face with the horrible creature. It lunged, and I stuck the sword up the roof of its mouth. It stopped moving, but my arm had been struck by one of it's horrible, yellow teeth. Sharp buggers they are. But as I retrieved the blade from its mouth, the monster fell to the ground, dead. "NO! MY BASILISK!" Tom – I mean, Voldemort – screamed at me. I gracefully slid down the statue and raced to Ginny, unaware of the basilisk tooth actually in my arm. But when I got there, kneeling in front of her, I noticed the searing pain.

Yanking it from my arm, I grabbed the diary. Voldemort started to head toward me, to tackle me, but I jabbed it into the cover.

It started to kind of bleed ink, and I jabbed it more. Tom seemed to..blow up. He started to get holes in him, to have light stream through his body. I opened the book and jabbed it more. Soon, the book had died and so did Voldemort (Or so I thought of course) and Ginny sat up, gasping. "Hermione! Oh Hermione I'm so shocked- it was the diary. The diary was telling me to do th-" I stopped her.

"I know. But, the diary is gone now." She sighed in relief, and then gasped again. "Hermione! Your arm!" I ripped off my sleeve, and saw the gaping wound. Just then, Fawkes flew over and leaned her head over my arm. I felt so...weak. Of course, the venom was simply killing me. But, the bird cried her tears and as they landed softly on my skin, the wound healed right up. Soon, I could feel no pain.

"That's right! Phoenix tears have healing powers. Now, c'mon, let's get back where we belong!"

-oOo-

We made it back, just in time for dinner. Dumbledore was just saying that the petrification victims had been fully healed when we burst through the doors. All eyes fell on me and Ginny.

"GINNY! HERMIONE!" Ron shouted, getting up and running to hug us. Everybody clapped. We feasted and laughed and had a great dinner, not once thinking of the events that went down earlier.

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I KNOW IT'S LONG =D 3,505 words to be exact. Please review and R&R (what does that stand for anyhow?)
Just for the record, this took FOREVER to write. Like, I started at 3:01 this morning and now it's -glares at computer clock- 5:56.

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