Chapter 4
Last Time:
"It's going to kill" Alex tells him as they run down the stairs to the first floor corridor.
As they run down the corridor, they reach the corner and are shocked to see Harry, Ron and Hermione, and a cat hanging from a torch. Alex looks on the ground to see water.
The three 12 year olds look at Justin and Alex. Alex sees a black book and picks it up, hiding it in her pocket, since the others were more focus on each other than her.
Just then Alex hears the slithering leave.
"Let's go Justin" Alex whispers and starts to pull Justin away, "I think I know what is going on, but I need your help" as Alex and Justin leaves, Dumbledore and students and teachers arrive. Filch goes all panicky and Dumbledore tells him that Ms. Norris, the cat, will be perfectly fine since she is just petrified.
Now:
Alex and Justin arrive back at the common room and Alex sits down in the corner with him at the table. Alex pulls out the book and lays it on the table.
"I don't know why, but I'm starting to think this is the same thing that dad and I predicted in the crystal ball the day before he died" Alex explains to Justin.
"What happened?" Justin asks.
"That black haired idiot is going to go under the school, where the snake and a guy are. Then there is going to be a girl there with this book" Alex points at the book, "Dad told me that place under the school is called the Chamber of Secrets. But I gave it a different name. The Chamber of Death"
"Why the Chamber of Death and is it happening?" Alex bites her lip.
"I named it that because more than one person or snake is going to die"
"Second question needs to be answered" Alex sighs and looks Justin in the eye.
"The chamber is opened"
"How do you know?"
"I'm not who you think I am Justin. Our parents are not even our real parents. We were put in their care because our real parents are dead... or so we think"
"What are you telling me?" Justin knew Jerry and Theresa are not their real parents. One they told him and two, he and Alex look nothing like them.
"I already know, you know" Justin nods with a smile.
"I know. But I don't know who our real parents are"
"Neither do I"
"We will figure it out"
"I know we will" Alex stands up and picks up the black book before going to her room for the rest of the night.
~H&A~
The next morning, Alex has awakened at 3am because the stupid book kept entering her mind. Alex sits down on the couch next to the fire and pulls her knees up to her chest. She puts the book on her knees and looks into the book to see it blank. She grabs her quill and ink and writes in it.
(Alex, Unknown)
Hello Tom Riddle. How are you?
Nice to finally hear from you Ms. Alex Russo. You are seriously like your father.
Alex stares in shocked. What does Tom Riddle know about her father?
Why are you attacking the school? Is it to come back to power and kill all 'blood traitors' and muggleborns?
Will you stop sounding like you know everything? You don't!
Wow. You're getting mad at a little twelve year old girl. I was just asking a question. Sheesh! You are one crabby old dude.
...
Crabby old fart!
Alex chuckles to herself but then the unexpected happens. The book begins to glow and Alex disappears.
~A&H~
Alex walks down the corridor and sees Tom Riddle.
"Hey Tom!" Alex greets. She leans against the wall and sees people walk by her and a girl's arm dangle from the stretcher, "ya, ya, ya. I know that the snake killed that girl. It's Moaning Myrtle"
Alex sees Dumbledore stand at the top of the stairs.
"Why are you here Tom?" Dumbledore asks.
"I needed to see if the rumours are true" Tom answers. Alex looks at Tom and accepts that he is kinda cute.
"There are. Now head off to bed" Tom nods and begins to make his way to the Slytherin common room, but makes a detour. Alex follows every move he makes. Soon she is standing in front of a door and sees the idiot there.
"Idiot?" the famous twelve year old turns and sees Alex.
"Alex?"
"What are you doing here?" they ask at the same time.
"You have the diary/book too. Don't you?" Alex asks.
"Ya. You have one?"
"Yup"
"So you know about the Chamber of Secret being opened?"
"I knew that ever since I saw that cat..."
"Ms. Norris"
"Whatever. When she was attacked. I know the creature in the chamber. I know what is going to happen. The creature that lies in the chamber is going to try and kill all muggleborns"
Harry's eyes grow wide in shock.
"Hermione..." Harry bites his lip, now getting scared as Alex plays it cool.
"Go tell Dumbledore today after classes. Got it?" Harry nods, "good. Now this part is all a lie. It's Tom Riddle that's the controller not your friend"
Alex turns away as the door opens and Alex sees a spider run by her. She smiles at the spider knowing the spider is what saves the day, pretty much.
~H&A~
Harry is sitting at the table in his common room in Gryffindor tower. He hears footsteps and Ron and Hermione walk down rubbing their eyes.
"We heard you. What's going on?" Hermione asks as Ron and Hermione sits down next to him at the table.
"I saw Alex. She knows what's going on, before it happened. The creature in the Chamber of Secrets is going to try and kill all muggleborns" Harry looks at Hermione, "you are a target Hermione. I'm scared for you" Hermione takes a breath and calms herself.
"Does she know what the creature is?"
"I bet she does, but I don't" Hermione bites her lip.
"Maybe we could all try and become her friend. She only has her brother..."
"And Fred, George and Lee" Ron puts in. Harry and Hermione looks at Ron weirdly, "what? According to them, that Alex girl beat the crap out of Malfoy on the train ride here" Harry's eyes widen as does Hermione's.
"How do you know?" Harry asks.
"They told me" Ron shrugs his shoulders, "so what do you know about the chamber?"
"Well, a creature hides within and is going to try and kill all muggleborns. Oh, and Alex told me that Tom Riddle aka, Voldemort, is the controller. Alex even has the diary/book thing too. But she knows a lot more then I do"
Hermione nods as Ron sits there looking tired and bored. After all, it is 4:30am.
"Well, Alex IS smarter then she appears to be. And she is American" Hermione smiles nervously, "I wonder how she knows a lot about this..."
~A&H~
Alex is sitting on the couch again and sees Justin next to her.
"So?" Justin asks.
"Tom Riddle is the controller of the snake. The spider that, that Hagrid guy, is in the forest, where Harry, Ron and Hermione can get the answers about the snake. And at the same time, the snake killed Moaning Myrtle. And Harry was there" Justin's eyes widen is surprise.
"Harry was there?"
"Yup. He has this book too. Maybe we can communicate with him...?" Justin sighs.
"What did you tell him?"
"Just that Hermione is on the list of victims that the snake owns"
"Ahh, she's a muggleborn?"
"Yup" Alex pops the 'p'.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Harry is supposed to go to Dumbledore today to inform him. We should inform him of what we know"
"You mean what dad filled you in on?"
"That too. But somehow, the answers just slip out of my mouth and I dunno how I know them" Justin looks at Alex and nods.
"Maybe Dumbledore has the answer?"
"Maybe..."
"Let's go to bed" Alex nods and both she and Justin go back to bed. But Alex's mind doesn't turn off. She doesn't know how she has the answers or why.
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