Chapter 4 – Dear Diary

Ginerva Weasley was always a quiet girl. She lived in the shadows of her brothers and her parents did nothing to raise her to be a proud, likeable girl. They were too busy with her brothers. That was why she was so glad when she was able to finally come to Hogwarts. She had been sorted into Gryffindor, and at the moment she was walking up to the common room. School had been in session for two weeks. She found her diary, which she had not yet begun to write in, and found some ink and a quill.

Dear Diary!

Today was the last day of my second week here at Hogwarts. My brother Ron and his would be girlfriend is still quite quiet, seeing as they have yet to get over the loss of their beloved Neville, Dumbledore's would be boy-who-lived. Harry Potter was, apparently, announced traitor by my very own brother for being sorted into Slytherin. Oh, I have yet to tell some facts about me, haven't I? Well, my name is Ginny Weasley, and I'm eleven years old. I come from a family of self announced blood traitors. My Hogwarts house is Gryffindor, although I had to convince the hat to not put me in Slytherin.

I love the stories about Harry Potter, as I love him. To this day, I doubt he has even noticed my existence. I want Harry Potter, his fame and money. I shall be the one who carries the name of Mrs. Potter. But I know it will take the cunning of a Slytherin to do so. But I already have that, don't I? I act as a quiet, shy girl living in the shadows of her brothers. But truly, I'm mature beyond years. They will never understand what drives me to act the way I do, and I shall have my price. But it's late, so I must go to sleep.

Inside the diary, the person who truly owned the book was thinking about these revelations. Tom Marvolo Riddle knew he would have to wait until later before he could use her as his vessel to get him back to life… oh yes, he remembered the actions that had made him live from this book. She was plotting of catching her prey, Harry Potter. Tom knew he was supposed to hate him, but silently he thought back to the night Lily and James Potter had died. He hadn't known who Lily truly was, but as he had looked closely into her eyes, he saw his own staring back at him. She had his emerald eyes, as had her son, and that could only mean they were related by blood. Tom thought back to the affair he had had with Elladore Black. She might have had a child without telling him…

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Harry woke up, and got dressed. He saw it was way too early to get to breakfast, so he went for a walk through the halls of Hogwarts. Unconsciously he went to the girl's bathroom on the second floor that was mostly out of use. He knew he'd only fall into thoughts on the way, and not care about anyone he might meet. As he walked up to one of the two entrances to the Chamber of Secrets, he thought back at the first time he found it.

Flashback

Harry walked into the girl's bathroom on the second floor, in search for the ghost of a young woman, who died in her fourth year at Hogwarts. At the time, she was hiding from another girl, who always teased her about her glasses and appearance. She had heard a sound she had no idea of what was, 

but she realized the one making the sound was a boy, so she went out of her toilet, and as she was going to tell him to get away, she had died.

Oh yeah, Harry knew his back information. The girl was now only known as Moaning Myrtle, a girl who had died when the Chamber of Secrets had been opened fifty years ago, and Salazar Slytherins pet Basilisk had been set loose. The Heir had framed Rubeus Hagrid of the action, as the Heir at the time had the unofficial title of Teachers Pet, and never broke any rules. Hagrid, on the other hand, got in fights and kept illegal creatures for breeding in the castle, and had on many occasions almost been expelled.

To frame Hagrid, the Heir only had to find his pet Acromantula Aragog and let it be seen by teachers as it was fleeing, and Tom Riddle, the Heir, said it was the monster of the Chamber of Secrets, seeing as nothing else known to wizard kind rested within the Castle. Hagrid was at the time a third year, and due to his action, or believed to be actions to be correct, was expelled, and the only thing keeping him from going to Azkaban, was the word of Albus Dumbledore, who swore he was innocent of the crime.

Harry opened the entrance and slid down the pipes before he cast cleaning charm on his robes, and walked up to the door leading in to the Chamber of Secrets. Entering it, Harry saw the stone face of Salazar Slytherin, looking as the lord he was. Walking up to it, Harry hissed "Speak to me Slytherin, Greatest of Hogwarts four" Which was the password to open the door into the basilisks room, and entrance to the personal room of Salazar Slytherin.

Out came the two greatest basilisks, which had a few basilisk eggs that had yet to hatch. These eggs may be given to Heirs deemed worthy of having such a snake as his or hers Familiar. Of course, before that was a topic, they had to know if the heir was worthy, ergo having to talk to them and know them well.

"Who dare interrupt our sleep?" One of them asked. This was the female, named Nyx, after the Goddess of darkness and night.

"I do. I am Harry Potter, a Parselmouth very fascinated by your previous owner, Salazar Slytherin, and his fellow Founders. As I am a Parselmouth I may be an heir of Slytherin, and therefore I will return to this chamber when I want to see you. But if I may ask, who was the last Parselmouth to enter the chamber, and when was it?" Asked Harry, since he curious about the chamber.

"His name was Tom Marvolo Riddle, and it was almost fifty years ago. Later on, he crafted himself another name, which was Lord Voldemort. Last time we saw him, he was just about to graduate." This answer came from the male basilisk, which was named Erebus, after the god of darkness and shadow.

"May I ask if you know if there is any passage ways out of the chamber, other than the one leading to the bathroom on the second floor? It would be much easier for me to enter the chamber without having to go up there to find an entrance." Harry said, looking at the magnificent snakes in front of him with a loving look. He had always loved snakes, and these were gorgeous.

"There is one that leads out to the forest, which we use to go hunting for food, and two others. One of them is the one you used to get here today, through the bathroom, and the other one is one near 

the Slytherin Common Room, according to Salazar. The last one is only for human use, as it has doors and such things to prevent us from entering the dungeons, where students of Slytherin roam. The password to go out, from this side, is Salazar, in our language, and to get in is it Open." Nyx answered.

"Thank you honored Snakes of the Great Slytherin. I must leave now, or I might be missed. I will visit you later on, and bring you any news I believe you might find interesting. But, one last thing; is Salazar's library down here?" Harry just had to ask, seeing as the library of the Slytherin family was legendary, and was to contain a lot of books filled with knowledge frowned upon.

"Though the mouth and past our room, there is a door leading into the living room. From there it is several doors leading into rooms like the library, Salazar's Potions Lab, his bedroom and the bathroom." Erebus said, before they both said good bye for the time being.

End Flashback

Harry saw Mytle enter her toilet, as he came into the bathroom. He thought he was lucky to be able to avoid her and her whining today. "Open." He said, and stood back as the entrance opened.

After a few minutes, he was standing in the Chamber of Secrets, calling out the basilisks. The two basilisks were lying coiled all over the other, with a place for Harry to sit on their bodies as they spoke together. "I'm Salazar's Heir, along with the other founders'." Harry revealed to them. "I'm also the grandchild of Dark Lord Voldemort. Heaven knows, I had never thought it was possible for being heir of so many famous and powerful witches and wizards. Hell, even Merlin and Morgana le Fay! I wonder what would happen when that is revealed."

The two snakes just hissed their laugher, as Harry was too shocked to connect all thoughts to the present. "Oh, I almost forgot. My grandfather will return this year, I was told. He was going to use a diary, which was his when he went to school, to possess and kill a student to be able to return. I hope you may tell me who it is, in case he will need my help in any of it." This was the only place Harry allowed himself to let go of his Slytherin mask, seeing as he had to be untouchable elsewhere on the school. Not even Draco, Blaise and Daphne were allowed to see him without the mask.

The three of them continued talking for a while about everything and nothing, until Harry had to get back to the Common Room before his friends got up and ready to get to breakfast.

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Harry arrived back in the Common Room just in the to see Draco, Blaise and Theodore Nott walk down from the boy's dorm, and Daphne together with Pansy Parkinson, Nora Moon, Tracey Davis and Millicent Bulstrode coming down from the girl's dorm. After a few seconds he could see the forms of Crabbe and Goyle. It was quite surprising how well their year got together, seeing as usually in Slytherin students divided into groups of a few friends. They all got along fairly well, but usually Harry, Draco, Blaise and Daphne was the core group, with the others following the road they took. Harry was the unofficial leader, with Draco as his right hand, if such a thing existed in their group.

All together they walked up to the Great Hall and claimed seats near the middle as they had yet to be able to take the position as leader of the House.



"What was that assignment in Charms again?" Nora asked, looking around at the others.

"Three feet on the Engorgement Charm, due on Monday," said Blaise, who often got teased for being a closed know-it-all. But in reality everyone in their group, except Crabbe and Goyle were smart enough to be able to answer any questions the teachers might have, because none of them wanted to show off, and later be teased for it.

They went to the Herbology class later on, where they got an introduction to Mandrakes. It was quite amusing for the Slytherins to watch as one of Gryffindorks passed out because he hadn't done good enough work with the tools needed.

After that class, it was time to get to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which in reality was a class to laugh at. Lockhart had no idea what he was to teach, and used all classes to boast about his famous actions, which was written in the course book for the year. The Slytherins had long since decided to rely on independent study in DADA this year, as they had done last year, seeing as the professor was incompetent.

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For a few first year Gryffindors, it was possible to notice that their resident red haired witch were getting a bit distant, although no one really thought about it. The only one noticing was Colin Creevey, which was her best friend at the time being. One could also notice that she had taken to the hobby of carrying her diary with her as she no longer felt it was right to leave it behind.

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Friday at the last lesson, which was Potions with Gryffindors, they were working on a Swelling Potion, and true to Gryffindor's reputation, one of them managed to blow up the potion. Seamus Finnegan, apparently had not listened to the instructions, and blew up the whole potion.

Just as the class ended, a silkily voice broke through the quiet talking of the students.

"Mr. Potter, please stay behind." Professor Snape said.

Harry looked up at his face, barely concealing a smirk as he did. So it was time to confess what he had discovered, was it?

Authors Note:

I have the next few chapters planned, for most part, but I have a little problem with time to write them. And on second note, anyone who could help me with writing conversations? I suck at that, to be honest…

Anyway, still love reviews, maybe put in a few ideas of pranks as well? I plan to make Harry and his crew of mini-marauders a bit like the real Marauders.

Lady Evans Potter