HP :: OotP addition
Harry entered the main 'hall' of the chamber of secrets – enormous room with two rows of columns near the center line holding rather high ceiling. The chamber also had enormous stone face on the wall opposite the entrance and a statue of Salazar Slytherin a bit to the right of it. The boy stopped at the center of the chamber and closed his eyes: he progressed much, but it was still hard to speak parseltongue without visual...
"Come to me, Shasa." He finally hissed. For several moments nothing happened, but then an enormous greenish-gray snake with her eyes destroyed slitted into the chamber through the mouth of the stone face.
"You called for me, young master?" Shasa the basilisk hissed to Harry and then yawned. As her mouth was open, it was possible to see a scar on the roof of her mouth as well as the difference between her fangs: one was much shorter than the other.
"Yes, Shasa..." The boy replied as the basilisk coiled around him lovingly... Well, as much as six feet thick forty meters long snake can coil around single and not so big teenager. "...I found the way to repair your sight. You might not be able to petrify or kill this way anymore, but at least you'll be able to see again." Harry liked Shasa, she always kept his company when he needed it most... A little more than a year ago, just a little after his name appeared from the goblet of fire, he tried to hide from the people here, and found that the basilisk of the chamber of secrets was alive – but then again, who would believe that a single wound from a sword through the mouth would be enough to kill thousand years old serpent? - Shasa bonded to him there and made him her new master and from that moment their friendship grew... Harry concentrated and, with some difficulty, conjured new eyes for Shasa.
"Thank you, master." The basilisk hissed. She looked at her master. "You seem to be troubled, young master." Shasa observed with her new eyes watching dark-haired teenager.
"True. After the events of that stupid tournament ministry is trying to make me look like I'm insane. They've sent their agent to Hogwarts as a teacher and she turns my life into nightmare. Many people think that I'm either insane or just dangerous..." The mighty serpent uncoiled from her master and slitted a bit towards the entrance of the chamber.
"Shall I teach them not to anger you, master?" The basilisk asked.
"No. You'll be discovered and they'll hunt you down. You're my friend, Shasa, and I don't want to see you harmed." Harry hissed, trying to stop her from going on killing spree.
"What shall I do then, young master?"
"Right now... Just keep my company, Shasa..." There was a short pause. "Tell me more about Salazar and other founders, will you?" The basilisk nodded and returned to her master, before starting her tale.
Several hours later Harry entered great hall. His eyes went along staff table and passed by toad-like Umbridge woman, reminding him that no matter how good story teller his Shasa was, the storied were just that, stories. Reality was a different thing...