"Again? You mean the Chamber of Secrets has been opened before?" Hermione asked as the quartet sat in the girls bathroom
"Of course don't you see?" Ron replied "Lucius Malfoy must have opened it when he was at school here and now he's taught Draco how to do it"
"Maybe" Hermione stated "We'll have to wait for the Polyjuice potion to know for sure"
"Enlighten me" Ariel spoke but did not look up from her book she was reading "Why are we brewing this potion in broad daylight in the middle of the girls' lavatory?"
"Don't you think we'll get caught?" Harry continued
"No, no one ever comes in here"
"Why?" Ron asked
"Moaning Myrtle" was the curly haired girls reply
"The what now?" Ariel asked only for her eyes to widen at said Mytle
"Who?" Ron question "Whose Moaning Myrtle"
"I'm Moaning Myrtle" the ghost yelled at Ron "I wouldn't expect you to know me, who would ever talk about ugly, miserable, moping Moaning Myrtle" she whined before letting out a shrill cry and flying into a toilet
"She's a little sensitive"
"A little? Hermione that was not little" Ariel said "We should head to Defence against the loser Lockhart class or we will be late"
"I completely agree" Harry cheered
"What with being late?" Ron asked
"No with him being a loser" the trio laughed except for Hermione who scowled and scolded them until they got to said class
"Gather round!" Lockhart called from one side of the duelling arena "can everybody see me?"
"Everyone can see you…bloody blockhead" Ariel muttered angrily from beside Draco
"Why do you hate him so much?" he asked
"Well he did make all the bones in my brother's arm disappear" she shrugged
"And he did nothing to help get rid of those pixies so I guess your anger is warranted"
"In light of the dark events of recent weeks professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this Duelling Club to train you all up in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions…for full details see my publish works" he pulled off his cape and threw it into the crowd, Ariel snatched it and gave it to Hermione who squealed and hugged her before heading back to Harry and Ron
"Now why in the world did you do that?"
"Because I like being nice to people Dragon"
"Let me introduce my assistant Professor Snape" he raised his hand and watched as Professor Snape walked in like he did not want to be here "He has sportingly agreed to help with a short demonstration, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry, you'll still have your potions master when I'm through with him, never fear" the two teachers walked so they were close to each other before bowing and stepping away "one, two, three"
"Expelliarmus!" Snap yelled before flicking his wand and making Lockhart fly
"Do you think he's alright?" a girl asked
"Who cares!?" Ari spoke between her laughing, she had to hold onto Draco's shoulder to keep herslef steady
"An excellent idea to show them that Professor Snape but if you don't mind me saying, it was obvious what you were about to do" Lockhart said as he walked over to Snape "If I had wanted to stop you it would have been only too easy"
"Perhaps it would have be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells, professor" Snape offered with distain
"An excellent suggestion Professor Snape, lets have a volunteer pair, Potter, Weasley how about you?" Lockhart suggested
"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells, we'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox" Ron looked away in embarrassment "Might I suggest my own house?" Snape shrugged "Malfoy perhaps"
"Careful Dragon, hurt my brother and I shall do worse"
"Don't worry Ari I will try not to hurt him too much" Draco ruffled her hair and stepped onto the platform, Draco and Harry followed what the professors did and bowed towards each other before stepping away and raising their wands
"On the count of three… cast your charms to disarm your opponent, only to disarm one two"
"Everte Statum!" Draco shouted, Harry went flying across the platform
"Harry…" Ariel muttered in fear
"Rictumsempra!" Draco yelped as he too went flying, Snape dragged him up on his feet and shoved him towards Harry
"Serpensortia!" Draco shouted and out came a snake from his wand, it slithered across the stage hissing at everyone it thought was a threat
"Shit shit shit shit shit" Ariel chanted
"Don't move Potter I'll get rid of it for you" Snape pushed Draco away
"Allow me Professor Snape Alarte Ascendare!" Lockhart shot a spell towards the snake but all it did was make it fly up and get angrier
"Saiahasashe" Harry whispered towards the snake that turned to Justin, a Hufflepuff student "Saiahasieth" the snake continued to look at Justin, Ariel looked on with narrowed eyes "Saiahasieth" the snake turned and looked at Harry, Ariel snuck up onto the stage and over to the snake
"Mrs snake" Ariel called sweetly, the snake turned around to look at the female Potter "Please come over her Mrs snake so you won't be harmed" the snake slithered over to Ariel and up her arm
"What do you think you're doing Potter" Snape asked, fearing that the snake would hurt the girl
"I am sending the snake back sir" she replied and she waved her hand and made the snake disappear "The Serpensortia spell is not a creation spell but a teleport spell sir, Draco took her away from her home sir so I had to return her"
"And why would you do that?"
"Because I noticed she was pregnant sir so I did not want any harm to befall her, sir" she replied
"Excellent thinking Miss Potter, ten points to Slytherin" the class joined in on the clapping but continued to look weary of Harry
"You're a Parselmouth? Why didn't you tell us?" Ron asked in shock as they raced into the common room followed by Ariel
"I'm a what?"
"You can talk to snakes" Hermione clarified
"I know I accidently set a python on my cousin Dudley at the zoo once, besides Ariel talked to it too"
"That's because she is a nature wizard she can talk to all creatures and they can understand her, being a Parselmouth is not a very common gift, Harry" Hermione muttered
"This is bad" Ariel whined
"What's bad? If I hadn't told that snake not to attack Justin-"
"That's what you said to it" Ron cried, thinking Harry was doing the opposite
"You were there, you heard me"
"I understood what you were saying Harry but to anyone else they would only hear snake language" Ariel clarified
"I spoke a different language?" the others nodded "but I didn't realise-how can I speak a language without knowing I can?"
"I don't know but it sounded like you were egging the snake on or something" Hermione said nervously "Harry there's a reason the symbol of Slytherin house is a serpent, Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth, he could talk to snakes too"
"Exactly" Ron continued "Now the whole school's gonna think you're his great-great-great grandson"
"But I'm not" Harry defended "I can't be"
"He lived a thousand years ago" Hermione stated "For all we know, you could be"
"How about you both leave and let me talk to my brother, that isn't something anyone wants to hear" Ariel growled, the other two looked at her sadly and walked away "Harry-"
"What am I?"
"Excuse me?" Ariel looked at her brother with a frown
"What am I, who am I? I can suddenly talk to snakes and I can hear voices and I have dreams of things I don't understand-"
"Hey hey hey calm down Harry its ok" Ariel raced up and hugged her brother as he began to panic "I have the exact same things happen to me, Harry you are my brother, my twin brother and no one can tell you any different" she gently pushed him back so she could look at him "We will get to the bottom of this ok? Together"
"Thanks Ari" Ari smiled and pulled him back into a hug
Everyone wouldn't stop talking about what happened in DADA class, people would either avoid Harry like the plague or look at him like he was something with two heads. Ari was treated like the hero even though she didn't want to be treated like that, others would try to walk with her or talk to her but she just didn't care. She walked in an empty hallway in hopes of hiding from her new followers when she heard that dark voice whisper in her head
I want blood she froze and her skin became covered with Goosebumps
they all must die she walked over to the wall and followed it slowly
Kill!
Kill!
Kill!
Time to kill the voice continued its vile chant
"Ariel?" she turned around to face her brother "you hear it too?"
"Yeah" they both nodded to each other and began following the voice "Oh no" they both looked up to see a petrified ghost and…Justin
"Caught in the act" Filch sneered "I'll have you out this time, Potters, Mark my words"
"No Mr Filch! You don't understand-" Harry words fell on deaf ears
McGonagall had arrived and told the Potters to follow her, they walked through the halls of the school until they stopped at a bird statue "Professor Dumbledore will be waiting for you" the twins nodded and stepped into the statue "Sherbet Lemon" she uttered the password and watched as the birds wings stretched out and it twirled as it rose and created stairs
"I hope we don't get in trouble" Ariel muttered as they ascended the stairs, once they were at the top they walked to the headmasters door and opened it slowly
"Professor Dumbledore?" Harry called out
"Bee in your bonnet, Potter?" Ariel and Harry jerked their heads around to look at the talking hat
"I was just wondering if you put me in the right house" Harry asked
"Yes you were particularly difficult to place but I stand by what I said last year" it replied
"What about me? Was I in the right house?"
"Yes I already knew what house to put you in the moment I was placed on your head"
"That's great and all but I just saw candy and I'm going to go eat it" she gave the hat a smile before racing over to the bowl of candy
"You and food" Harry muttered jokingly
"Yeah didn't you know, were married though I really do hate our long distance relationship" she sighed dramatically but continued to stuff her face full of candy, she was almost finished eating when she saw flames erupt from beside her
"Harry, Ariel?" the twins stopped what they were doing to look at the headmaster
"Professor, your bird…there was nothing I could do"
"He just caught fire" Ariel continued for her twin
"And about time too"
"Headmaster say what?" Ariel looked at him strangely
"He's been looking dreadful for days" the headmaster continued as he walked down the stairs "pity you had to see him on a burning day"
"I do not understand?"
"Fawkes is a phoenix, Ariel" Dumbledore clarified "They burst into flame when it is time for them to die, and then they are reborn from the ashes" he stopped beside where Fawkes' ashes lay and pointed towards it, soon enough a small bird appeared from within
"And I'm in paradise" Ariel whispered as she began to pet the little Phoenix's head
"Fascinating creatures Phoenix's, they can carry immensely heavy loads" he whispered as he stared at the little bird "Their tears have healing powers"
"Professor Dumbledore, sir!" Hagrid suddenly yelled as he slammed the door open "Wait! Listen" he rushed up the stairs and looked at the headmaster "It wasn't Ariel or Harry sir"
"Hagrid, relax" the headmaster spoke softly "I do not believe that Harry or Ariel attacked anyone"
"Of course you don't-" he stopped to think for a moment before continuing "Right, well, I'll…I'll just wait outside, then" Hagrid looked at the door and walked away awkwardly
"You don't think it was us Professor" Harry asked in shock, all the evidence pointed to them though?
"No Harry, I do not think it was either of you" he replied "But I must ask you…is there something you wish to tell me?" the twins looked at each other before looking back at the headmaster
"No, sir" Harry replied but from the look on the headmasters face he knew they did not believe him
"Very well, then" Dumbledore muttered "Off you go"
"Thank you professor" Ariel smiled and dragged her brother away
