Chapter 7
"FAmily Affair"
"What exactly happened last night?" Professor Dumbeldore asked Zanna while inside his office.
"I was asleep, but I heard a voice, it was saying things, some I couldn't understand, but it was also calling my name."
"Are you sure your mind wasn't playing any tricks at you, Salzanna?" Professor Snape asked.
"No sir, I really did hear it."
"Very well, we will examine it more closely Salzanna," DUmbeldore assured.
"What did the voice say?" Snape asked.
"It said my name, it told me to come, and it also said 'kill'. Then it said some more things in but it was unclear. It said something about the Chamber of Secrets and opening it. Then it told me to come to it and open it."
Both Snape and Dumbeldore looked struck.
"I guess it's a bad thing, isn't it?" Zanna guessed.
"Nothing to worry about Salzanna, you can leave now," Dumbeldore said.
Zanna knew what that meant; though she was unsure of it. It was possible that she was the heir. But she had to find out the truth.
She walked down Diagon Alley on the cold Sunday. She was wearing her beige trench coat and brown leather riding boots with mini heels on them.
She was going to meet her parents and her grandmother for Sunday lunch at a restaurant near Diagon Alley. It was sort of their tradition to go out every Sunday for lunch. But since she was in Hogwarts, it happened not so often anymore.
She entered the restaurant and found her parents and grandmother already seated.
She approached them and sat down.
Her parents greeted her and she greeted them back, but she still couldn't get her mind out of the voices she heard. It seemed to repeat inside her head.
They ordered food, and once the waiter left, her mother spoke.
"How's Hogwarts, dear?" she asked in her motherly voice. Her mother was in a brown coat with boots identical to hers. They'd gotten them from Gucci the year before. Her mother's jet black hair was down and flat. Her white Vuitton speedy was placed on the vacant seat beside her.
"Fine, but, there's something I'd want to ask you. It's about the Chamber of Secrets."
Her parents looked at her as if she were crazy but her grandmother seemed struck.
"Agnes, do you know anything about it?" she asked.
Agnes Quay was her grandmother, a woman with chestnut hair that was glowing up to now with the help of her hairdresser, Mary-Anne.
"Agnes, please tell me something's happening," she begged.
"Zanna, it would be better if you'd explain what happened first," he father suggested.
David Quay was wearing a shirt that didn't match his slacks and his shoes. He didn't mind.
"Well, last night I heard a voice," Zanna began.
"Not a good sign," injected Agnes.
"Indeed," her mother said.
"Anyway, I followed it, I couldn't understand everything, it was sometimes just gibberish, but I followed the voice, or at least I tried to. Snape caught me. the voice was saying 'kill' and it told me to open the Chamber of Secrets."
Agnes let out a gasp. She placed her hands on her temples, rubbing them.
"What's wrong, mum?" David asked.
Zanna saw that her grandmother had tears in her eyes.
"He's back," she murmured.
"What do you mean, who's back?" David asked.
"Your father," she said in a whisper to David.
"What about my father? He's dead, mum, he died before I was born," David explained, trying to be rational with his mother.
"Yes, he did, but he's back," Agnes said, now with tears in her eyes.
"What do you mean, Agnes?" Her mum, Chris, asked.
"David, your father is back. He could never die."
"Mum, please," David begged.
People were now looking at Agnes.
"We cannot talk about this here," Agnes whispered. "But I'll tell you somewhere else, some other time. Zanna," she said, looking at her granddaughter," Be careful, and be strong. The Dark Lord is back."
Agnes's voice was almost inaudible, but she heard her clearly and her words stuck to her. Voldemort was back, and something involved her. if only she knew what the hell was going on.
