A/N- HI my lovely reviewers!!!!! Thank you for all the lovely comments. Oh, and I'm sorry about the spelling error of Hannah's last name. Turns out it's Abbott not Abbot.

Disclaimer- I do not own HP, but Daniel is my character… no touchy.

"Marvolo!" Tom yelled as he stalked into the chamber. He was irate.

"It's good to see you too Tom," Marvolo greeted him in a tone that hinted that he had just been awakened.

"Who let you out?" Tom asked quickly.

"No one," the giant serpent answered confused.

"Don't lie to me. Nagini smelled you all over the attack site. Now tell me, who let you out?" he asked again with a dangerous edge to his voice.

"I do not know what you are talking about. I never left," Marvolo told him. Clearly he was not going to get anywhere with this line of questioning.

"What did you do last night?" Tom inquired softly, conversationally almost.

"Explored the tunnels for a good part of the time, then the boy came down for a little visit. I must have fallen asleep during the time because I do not remember him leaving," the snake reminisced.

"Danny was here?" he clarified.

"Yes, why?" Marvolo asked him. Sometimes humans could be a bit slow.

"Did he say anything?" Tom questioned, ignoring the Basilisk's question.

"Yes, but I do not know what. It was all in human speak," he answered.

"Thank you," Tom told him and left. That was helpful.

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"Did you hear the news?" Tom asked his son as he pulled up a chair in the library. Daniel just laughed a bit as he continued reading.

"Who didn't hear about the girl? It's a shame though, bit spooky too," he answered. He did not sound sincere in his response though.

"I just talked to Marvolo for obvious reasons. I understand that you went down there, what for?" he questioned.

"That's really none of your business. Allow me to put a bit of your fears to rest though. I did not allow him out. Whatever attacked the girl had to be human," Daniel corrected his father.

"Then how do you explain the writing on the wall?" Tom hissed angrily. Daniel fixed him with a curious look.

"What does that have to do with anything? It's probably just an overly proud Slytherin acting up. This could just be a practical joke from a student. Unless you know something I don't," he reasoned. Tom denied he knew anything and excused himself.

"Why don't you tell him Tommy," an eerie voice hissed from behind. It was a terrible, cold, haunting sound that sent chills down Tom's spine. He knew that voice all too well, but how was it possible? He spun around, not knowing what to expect, but only saw Daniel staring at him oddly. He sprinted away scared, hoping to forget his past.

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Hermione vigorously scrubbed at the spotless stone floor of her room. Sometimes muggle cleaning helped her blow off steam. She decided that mopping was just short of pointless, and started organizing the shelves on Tom's desk. Surprisingly, the put-together Tom Riddle was a closet slob. It was remarkable that he could find anything. She pulled out a stack of papers to restack them when a little black book fell onto the floor. She bent down to pick it up, but upon finding no title became curious and flipped it open. Pages upon pages of messy writing and sketches filled the worn paper. She turned back to the cover and found Tom's name in the lower right hand corner. Of course, it was his diary. She began reading random pages. There was the various anagrams he formed with his name, and random rants about everyone he knew. It was almost funny. She turned the page after reading about how stupid Malfoy was, to find a terrible sight. A drawing of a snake wrapped about a lightening bolt lay in the middle of the page with "Basic Divination, pg 87" next to it. She dropped the book and burst into Daniel's room, grabbing his old Divination book. Finding the page, she saw the symbol staring up at her.

"The Shanka- sign of evil comings or deception from an ally"

She put the book back and thought about the definition. Clearly evil was here, but what about the deception part. Who could be deceiving Daniel? After all, it was his dream the sign appeared in so clearly he was the one being deceived. This did not make sense though. Everyone loved him.

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"So what do we know?" Harry asked the group.

"The Chamber is hidden somewhere in this school, though know one seems to be able to find it," Eric offered.

"Ideas for where it could be?" he continued. Harry was really getting into this mystery.

"Below the school probably, with the entrance located somewhere completely obvious so that no one would think to look there," Alexander offered. Everyone seemed to agree with that.

"There is some monster inside that only the Heir can control," Taylor told them, "the Basilisk perhaps.'

"Again we still need to figure out how a giant snake got around the school, but I am leaning towards the Basilisk theory," Harry agreed. "So with that, who might the heir be?"

"Well it would have to be someone who could control a snake, a parseltongue," Ron thought aloud. One person came to mind.

"You don't think it was Professor Riddle do you?" Taylor asked them.

"Well look at him. He is head of Slytherin house and can talk to snakes," Draco pointed out. "Then again, he told me he was a half-blood. Possibly a hypocrite though."

"We should probably get proof though before telling the world about it," Alexander reasoned.

"Alright, then we should start researching the Riddle family," Harry decided.

"No, not Riddle. His father was a muggle, we need to look up his mother's bloodline," Draco corrected them.

"How are we supposed to do that? Do we have a name for her?" Eric piped in.

"There is always the process of elimination. We know that they were pure-bloods. That means we just narrowed it down to about twelve families. I know all about the people in my family and they are all accounted for. Only one person ran off with a muggleborn and that was Andromeda but she is too young. That narrows it down to only a few families," Draco explained.

"And my family is not related to anyone great so he's not a cousin of mine," Ron added. And so it was off to the library again.