Disclaimer: I own nothing. Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians belongs to Rick Riordan.

A/N: Okay I can't believe I have to say this, but please if you're going to review constructive criticism only. Or you know legitimate questions about the story. Don't do what that one guest reviewer did please. Because if I get any more reviews like that I'm just going to assume people don't like the story and delete it.

Harry sat down across from Ron after he'd made it back to common room. He already had his homework completed, even the essay Snape had assigned. So he figured he might as well play a game or two of chess with Ron.

He noticed out of the corner of his eye that Neville was watching him pretty closely. Though the shy boy was doing a good job of disguising his watching with that book of his. From what Harry could tell of the cover it looked like something on herbology. But that wasn't what interested Harry, it was more the look in Neville's eye that caught Harry's interest. A look that he'd seen in the mirror, as well as on Daphne. The look of someone searching for answers.

For now he'd wait a little while and see if Neville approached him. If not he'd eventually go and talk to his dorm-mate. After all no one said those immune to his powers had to take all of the initiative. That was, if he wasn't off on his guess. Something though told him that he was right.

Thankfully seems around the school had seemed to calm down a bit. Other then the storm during the first quidditch match, which thankfully no one got hurt in, nothing major had happened. However it seemed that was just the calm before the storm, so to speak. For a week later another two attacks took place. The first being on a Gryffindor by the name of Collin Creevey, a boy in Ginny's year who seemed obsessed with Harry. The film in Creevey's camera had been melted by something, the teachers found when they went to check if he had perhaps gotten a picture of the attacker. The second attack had been on another muggleborn student, this time from Hufflepuff and in Harry's own year, as well as Nearly Headless Nick the ghost of Gryffindor house. Many people were stunned that even ghosts didn't seem to be safe from whatever was attacking people.

Harry sighed as Hermione dragged both he and Ron to the library to research what could be doing it. "Remind me again why we aren't leaving this to the teachers?" He asked Ron nodding beside him. Though Harry was sure that was because Ron disliked studying of any kind. Almost to the point of having an allergic reaction to it.

"We are going to leave it to the teachers, I just figured that it wouldn't hurt to help them find more information. After all the legends on the Chamber of Secrets were a dead end except for the fact that it was some kind of monster. Now are you going to help me or not?" Hermione said grabbing several different books on deadly creatures.

"Alright we'll help you. Don't go shouting at us here, I'd like to keep my library privileges thank you very much." Harry said taking some of the books from Hermione and walking over to one of the larger tables.

Meanwhile in a shop in America that sold various magical odds and ends there was a certain object that had begone to move. This object was kept in a hidden room in the back of the store that only the owner knew about. It was a rather odd object, that seemed to be an open grandfather clock with an hourglass that was tilted to the side where the pendulum should normally go. However as the hands on the clock face began to move the hourglass tilted until it was right side up the dust in it slowly starting to fall.

The clock however wouldn't be noticed by it's owner yet. As the woman who owned the store had other duties to attend to. When it was noticed though it would cause an uproar, as well as many headaches for more then one person. After all things like this always seemed to cause headaches, although the owner of the store had warned that this would eventually happen.

Back at Hogwarts Daphne Greengrass had found an abandoned classroom that she could use for her experiments. Thanks to her Family grimoire as well as some other books her parents had sent her she had an idea of how to start trying to figure out her powers. There were a few exercises that she could try that should help her bring the powers forth. It was definitely a better idea then throwing herself in harms way as far as she was concerned.

What the grimoire and other books had failed to mention however was how exhausting this process was. They had also failed to mention that it was meant for someone with a more developed and stable core then preteens tended to have. Thankfully it wouldn't cause any lasting damage and Daphne simply ended up passing out with rings of frost surrounding her. There was also frost on the desks and book shelves. This was something that would stump the prefects that found her as well as the teachers.

The house elves however seemed to understand where the frost had come from. Though they weren't explaining it to anyone. Other then magical suffering from magical exhaustion though it seemed Daphne would be fine, which the teachers were thankful for.

Harry smirked when he heard the rumors the next day. While the dusting of frost wasn't an actual full display or scope of what Greengrass could do it was a start. It seemed she had found a safer way to practice her powers after all even if it wasn't very efficient. Though given time perhaps she would be able to actually develop them.

Then again Harry wasn't really one to talk. Other then using his powers in battle twice and once to have a private conversation he hadn't really practiced with his powers much. After all there had to be more that he could do then just stop timing. Oddly though he didn't feel that Hogwarts was the best place to be learning what all he could do with his time based powers.

"What are you smiling about?" Hermione asked sounding a bit put out, though he didn't really blame her since they'd found nothing that actually fit during their research.

"Oh just the fact that some people think that what happened to Greengrass is connected to the monster. Despite the fact she's a pure blood and frost wasn't found anywhere else. Not to mention she's not petrified. I just found it amusing that so many people can miss the details." He answered half honestly. After all there were some that thought it was another attack. Despite the teachers not seeming worried of the same.

Classes would resume like normal though more people were now on edge. Not that Harry could say he blamed them. After all some faceless person or monster was petrifying people. Even if there had only been three attacks so far there were bound to be more. Harry was a bit on edge though for a different reason then everyone else. He had a sinking feeling that he was going to have to be the one to solve this like with the Philosopher's Stone last year.

Things seemed to calm down a bit as it got closer to the winter holidays. Though this only served to put some more on edge. Harry for example was waiting for the other shoe to drop. He was growing more restless the longer something bad didn't happen. Other people were starting to take notice of this, though perhaps that had to do with the fact that there seemed to be a few other students that couldn't seem to hold still.

Surprising many in her house Daphne was one of the students that was growing increasingly restless. Something, she wasn't sure what, but something just didn't feel right. It was like her very instincts were screaming at her trying to warn her of a threat that she couldn't even see. To try and calm her nerves she turned to the exercises she'd been using. Though she was careful not to exhaust herself this time. She had at least managed to summon a few small crystals of ice though it was slow going.

Neville who was normally a bundle of nerves seemed to have only gotten worse. Jumping at the smallest noises behind him. It had actually gotten so bad that he had been taken to the hospital wing no less then five times from accidents in potions. Unknown to the teachers or other students Neville was having the same problem as Harry and Daphne. His instincts knew there was something dangerous, they just couldn't decide whether it should be a response to fight the unseen foe, or run as far as possible. Luckily for everyone else though Neville's powers seemed to be internalized at the moment.

Neither Harry nor the students that had been immune to his powers knew it yet, but very soon they would be drawn together. Even now the threads of fate were drawing them together in subtle ways. The beast that had been sleeping below the school after all was too dangerous to fight alone. Although it had been done in other offshoots of the timeline it had always been a close thing. Something that the forces that be couldn't have in this timeline.

Over Christmas break Harry started to discreetly searching for places that could be the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. After all if the teachers were told where the entrance was maybe this mess could be resolved. Though he had a feeling it wouldn't be that easy, after all nothing in his life had been that easy. Harry decided to start looking in empty classrooms and other abandoned area of the castle first. Harry was surprised how many secrets hadn't been found about the castle, at least by the students or staff. Though so far he had yet to find the Chamber of Secrets.

"You know it's called the Chamber of Secrets for a reason right?" Daphne asked Harry after approaching him in one of the hallways. It hadn't taken much effort to figure out what he was doing. "If it was easy to find it wouldn't be much of a secret."

"Yeah you have a point there Greengrass." Harry said sighing. "Want to help me look for it?" He asked.

Daphne shook her head before answering. "Fine I'll help you, but only because I want to see the secrets in this chamber of the founder of my house."

"Even though it means we might face the monster?" Harry asked grinning.

"It means I'll get to test out how far I've come with this." Daphne said forming a snowflake.

"Or it will jump start your powers into actually being usable in a combat situation." Harry said smirking. Daphne just rolled her eyes at him.

"You know it might help if we search where the cat was found first." Daphne suggested. Harry nodded at that having intended to look there when he was done with the more out of way places.

A/N: Okay gonna stop here because while I could keep going I like leaving a little suspense. Also because I'm trying to decide if just Neville should join them or if it should be a group of four that goes to fight the basilisk. Either way they will fight it before the end of the year. The diary will be discovered sometime after they fight the Basilisk.