Credit for the chamber of secrets part goes to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers since I took it almost directly from the movie.
The next morning at breakfast Abby was just nibbling at her toast when Dumbledore stood up to address the whole school. "Good morning children. Last night on the second-floor corridor something devastating happened," began Dumbledore. The students all went quiet and looked on at Dumbledore to continue. "Mr. Filchs' cat Mrs. Norris was Petrified." Hermione heard Abby let out a sigh of relief. "As such I must enforce that we all be careful until the culprit is caught," he finished. The entire hall burst into chatter all except for Ron, Hermione, Abby, Fred and George.
Over the next few days students went to the corridor to see the place where it happened and saw the chilling words. Abby on the other hand was avoiding the corridor at all costs even if that meant taking the long way to class and everywhere else. It was Thursday afternoon when they finally had Transfiguration. Hermione love this class while Ron had been struggling since he had to wait for his Christmas vacation to get a new wand. He was currently using Spello tape to hold his wand together. Walking into the classroom Abby sat down next to Draco while Ron and Hermione sat down in front of them. A few minutes later McGonagall walked into the classroom with a couple boxes levitating behind.
She set them down at her desk. "Could I have your attention please." The students all stopped talking and paid attention to her. There were two teachers in this school you didn't cross, and one was Snape the other was McGonagall. "Now, today we will be transforming animals into water goblets. So, if you will please form an orderly line and grab an animal from this crate." There was multiple scrapping of chairs as students got in line to grab a rat or a frog. Once everyone had returned to their seats McGonagall continued. "This is how we will turn them." She turned pulling out her wand tapped her animal three times with it. "Feraverto." The animal turned into a beautiful crystal water goblet.
"Now it's your turn. Well who would like to go first? Ah, Mr. Weasley, one-two-three- Feraverto."
Ron cleared his throat and tapped the rat three times "Feraverto." The rat transformed into a hairy goblet with a tail. Ron picked it up and looked disgusted by it. "That wand needs replacing Mr. Weasley." McGonagall walked away as the rest of the students tried to turn their animal into a water goblet. Hermione raised her hand and waited to be called on. "Yes, Miss Granger?" "Professor, I was wondering if you could tell us about The Chamber of Secrets," questioned Hermione. All the students stopped and looked at Professor McGonagall expectantly.
"Very well. Well you all know of course that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Now three of the founders coexisted quite harmoniously. One did not." Ron whispered to Abigail. "Three guesses who." Hermione smacked him as McGonagall continued. " Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed magical learning should be kept within all magic families. In other words, Pure-bloods. Unable to sway the others he decided to leave the school. Now according to legend Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in this castle known as the Chamber of Secrets. Though shortly before departing he sealed it until that time when his own true heir returned to the school. The heir alone would be able to open the chamber and unleash the horror within and by so doing purge the school of all those who in Slytherin's view were unworthy to study magic," finished McGonagall.
"Muggle-borns," muttered Abigail
"Well, naturally the school has been searched many times, but no such chamber has been found." McGonagall was walking back to her desk "Professor…" She turned around and looked at Hermione. "What exactly does legend tell us lies within the chamber?" she asked. "The chamber is said to be home to something that only the heir of Slytherin can control. It is said to be the home of a monster." The rest of the class continued in silence until the end of class. Out in the hall Ron was ranting.
"I always knew Slytherin was crazy, but who knew he started the Pure-blood stuff. I mean honestly I knew Slytherins were bad, but I didn't think they went back that far," said Ron. Hermione smacked him. "Ow..." He looked and saw Abby looking down and Draco looked uncomfortable. "Oh, guys I didn't mean you. You are different and so are a few others. I'm sorry." "It's fine, but let's go investigate maybe we can find some clues," said Abby. One the way they ran into Lily and Neville. Grabbing them they tagged along. Once there they saw not much had changed the words were still on the wall and glistening in the candlelight. "Abby you were the only one who saw this place before it was taken care of do you remember anything else?" asked Hermione. Lily and Neville looked up shocked. "You saw this place?" asked Lily. "Yes, I was the one who found it with Professor Snape." She leaned against the wall thinking. As much as she tried to block that night out she needed to remember. "Water. There was water on the floor. Where would that come from?"
"Moaning Myrtles Bathroom."
The six went farther down the corridor to find the girls bathroom. "I'm not going in there! My dad will kill me," said Draco. "Fine wait out here and stand guard then." Said Lily. The three girls went in to find Myrtle. She was easy to spot sitting more like floating by the window. "Myrtle…" said Lily carefully. She looked down and saw Lily, Abby, and Hermione. "Come to mock me and make fun of me," she moaned.
"No. We would never do that," said Abby. "Won't you please come down. We only want to talk." Myrtle looked at them before she floated down. Crossing her arms, she glared at them. "What do you want?" "Well we were wondering if you saw anyone suspicious skulking around the past few nights. "No not really only Lavender brown who came to make fun of me," she wailed. Myrtle went into her crying fit and the girls left. "Well that was pointless" said Hermione. The girls went out to hall to see a terrified Ron and Draco trying not to laugh while Neville was looking between both. "What happened here?"
"Ron is apparently afraid of spiders and after Draco pointed them fleeing out by the window sill he squeaked like a girl," said Neville. The girls had to look away trying not to laugh. "Well our talk with Myrtle was pointless. Let's go," said Abby. They all headed off to dinner trying to figure out a way to find more clues.
