Chapter 9

Moaning Myrtle

The next day after lunch both Fred and I had to sneak up to the second floor and get into the girl's bathroom without been seen. To Fred this was easy. Without a moment of hesitation we both climbed the grand staircase and were a hallway away from the bathroom. We ran down the hallway and ran right into Peeves.

"Weasley and Evans! What are you doing in the second floor? Off to do a bit of snogging since you get the afternoon off?" Peeves said in a slick evil smile.

"No Peeves now butt out." Fred said.

"Oh Mr. All Funny became all Serious!" Peeves said.

"Peeves if you go away I'll give you a year supply of dung bombs." I told him. Peeves stopped flipping around in the air. His eyes became round and huge.

"It's a deal!" Peeves said in a now friendly smile.

"For your info were going to see another ghost." Fred said eying Peeves. Peeves put his hands on his cheek.

"Off to see Myrtle? Oh boy she's talking to Malfoy now."

"We know Peeves. He's in our group." I told him. This was the first time I talked to Peeves before and really I didn't like him so much. He was a troublemaker.

"Icky Malfoy working together with Evans and Weasley?"

"PEEVES YOU MADE A DEAL WITH AERIS!" Fred yelled at him. Peeves just stuck out his tongue and floated into a nearby classroom. We walked to see Draco standing near the bathroom.

"She better not throw any fits. If she does I'll throw my book bag at her." Draco said giving Fred a nasty look.

"Before we go in I'm going to make something clear now. Both of you." I pointed at both of them. "Are going to be nice to each other. You are my boyfriend. You are my best friend. I don't care if you hate each other. Send hate mail to each other later but when were together you say nothing nasty or start fighting. Got it?" I told them. They eyed each other but Fred just sighed.

"Fine." Fred said. We both looked a Draco.

"Fine." Draco said and crossed his arms. We all walked into the bathroom and put our bags by the door.

"Myrtle... Were here!" I said. We all heard a noise in a stall and Draco jumped. Myrtle appeared in the air and floated above us.

"I would expect you to come back later..." Myrtle said looking dreamily at Draco.

"Well we had the afternoons off." Fred said looking at her. Myrtle stared at him and smiled.

"Your the red hair guy." She said flipping and coming down to ground level to see Fred.

"Fred Weasley." He said smiling.

"Your Draco Malfoy." Myrtle said looking at him. Draco looked at her.

"Yeah. Aeris can we get this over with? Quidditch is on Saturday!" Draco said.

"What practicing so you can end up losing to us?" Fred snicked.

"I HEARD AERIS TOLD YOU BOTH NO FIGHTING." Myrtle screamed at him. Fred jumped back but Draco sneered. Myrtle must fancy Draco now. We all sat down in the middle of the bathroom.

"So if it's Slytherin's monster it has to be a snake." Fred said. Myrtle was floating next to Draco eying him.

"Well that means nothing. You gotta know what type of snake it is." Draco said holding a piece of parchment.

"Well what kind of snakes kill people when you look into the snakes eyes?" Fred asked him. I was looking through a snake book.

"Well... It could be a Basilisk..." I said and showed them a picture of a huge snake with yellow eyes. Myrtle screamed at the picture.

"THOSE EYES! I KNOW THOSE EYES!" Myrtle said still screaming.

"Well at least we know what type of snake it is." Fred said.

"It says here this snake is the King of Serpents and also has venomous fangs. Myrtle you died cause you looked into his eyes. It says here anyone who looks into their eyes suffers instant death. Spiders flee from the snake since it's their mortal enemy and the snakes flees from the crowing of a rooster which is fatal to the snake." I said.

"Well I heard Harry say something yesterday to Ron." Fred said.

"Well tell!" Draco said.

"He said the place where the writing on the wall is where he saw spiders in a line going out the window. Kinda funny since they were on the second floor but Harry said they looked like they were in a hurry." Fred said.

"Well the Chamber can't be far from here. Spiders flee from it. So how is the snake traveling through the school?" I asked all of them.

"Well I saw it on Halloween night but not his eyes. I heard it go into the pipes I think. I'm not sure if he went into the pipes but it sounded like he did." Myrtle said.

"That makes sense! He travels through the pipes around the school!" Draco said.

"Well Mrs. Norris must have looked into his eyes cause she's dead." Fred said looking at me.

"No she's not. She's been Petrified. Dumbledore told me." Draco said looking at the snake book.

"How? She saw his eyes!" Fred said.

"No Draco is right! She didn't look right at his eyes! There was water by the wall so she must have looked at it and saw the reflection of the snake's eyes!" I shouted. Myrtle smiled.

"Aeris is pretty smart. Your both lucky." She said. "Now that you know what it is it's time you found out where it hides." Myrtle said and floated back into her stall. We all quickly gathered our stuff and headed out of the bathroom.

"See ya Aeris." Draco said and went down into the dungeons. The rest of the day Fred and I sat in the courtyard reading books about Basilisks.

Saturday came pretty quickly to me. I wore Fred's old Quidditch robes as support. Lee wore Wood's old ones since he was a announcer. Lavender lent me a red ribbon and gold sparkles for my eyes.

"Looking good Aeris!" Oliver said as I sat down at the Gryffindor table for breakfast. He didn't look one bit nervous like Harry was.

"We better win." George said taking a bite out of his pancakes.

"Not to worry. Harry here will grab the snitch before Malfoy gets his dirty hands on it." Oliver said. After 20 minutes of eating and talking Oliver said we should head down to the field. Lee and I found our usual spots in the stadium and watched as the Gryffindor team checked the field and went over last minute routines.

"They gotta win or that fight will be worthless." Lee whispered as McGonagall came and sat down behind Lee.

"Oh please I know about that fight Lee." McGonagall said. Lee's face was drained of color and he smiled weakly at McGonagall.

"I heard you gave the Slytherins a taste of their own medicine." McGonagall said smiling at us.

"Yep! Aeris kicked Crabbe!" Lee said.

"Well serves him right for trying to knock her out." McGonagall said. Little by little the rest of the school came in with either red painted faces or green painted ones. Lee spotted Percy who had his face painted half red and half gold.

"Percy takes this game seriously. He made a bet with Flint." Lee said.

"What was the bet?" I asked him.

"If Percy wins then he can change the H on Flint's badge to a B." Lee said.

"B for butthead." I said and we both laughed. Lee saw Madame Hooch come in and he quickly got the mic set up.

"Alright welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first Quidditch game of the year! Slytherin vs. Gryffindor!" Lee said into the mic. The stadium burst into cheers. A small rumble of thunder was heard.

"Slytherin having faster brooms this year thanks to Mr. Malfoy." Lee said and a burst of cheers from the green side of the stadium inturpted Lee. "But Gryffindor has better people on the brooms."

"JORDAN!" McGonagall said.

"I'm not sorry about that." Lee told me cupping the mic so no one could hear him.

"I wouldn't be either." I said. The Gryffindor team appeared and the Red and Gold side started to cheer.

"Alright! We got Wood, Johnson, Bell, Weasley, Potter, Spinnet, and Weasley! Who's girlfriend is sitting right next to me and-"

"JORDAN!"

"THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW PROFESSOR! THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW!"

"I DON'T CARE STAY ON QUIDDITCH NOT FRED'S LOVE LIFE!"

"And here comes Slytherin." Lee said in a bored voice as the Slytherin team appeared.

"I want a nice game you two!" Madame Hooch said giving Oliver and Flint a dark look.

"Three. Two. One. AND THEIR OFF! Bell grabs the Quaffle and passes to Johnson but ah drops it and Higgs grabs it." Lee announced. I watched as Fred and George were knocking away a Bludger from Harry but the thing kept coming back to him.

"Alright Harry?" Fred yelled as he went down to help Angelina. George rode by Harry making sure the Black Bludger wasn't going to hit him. Draco was laughing so hard he almost fell off his broom. Why did he have to be such a ass to my brother? The Bludger came right towards Harry again and this time Fred and George were on either side of him. Oliver called for a time out.

"And time out Gryffindor!" Lee shouted. Gryffindor was getting crushed right now since Slytherin's brooms were really fast. It started to rain and McGonagall cursed.

"And were back to playing! Is that Bludger ever going to leave Harry alone?" Lee demanded. The Bludger again tried to knock Harry off course and Draco was laughing at him even harder. Then Harry saw it. The Snitch was inches above Draco's ear. Harry zoomed towards Draco and he let out a scream of panic and flew out of the way. The Bludger though finally attacked Harry and smashed his elbow.

"Yikes that's gotta hurt!" Lee said. Harry though snatched the Snitch and fell off his broom and landed with a thud on the muddy ground.

"GRYFFINDOR WINS!" Lee screamed and the Gryffindor side let out a huge scream of joy. Harry looked at the Snitch and fainted. McGonagall panicked and ran out of the box. Fred flew over to us and held out his hand.

"He's your brother." Fred said. I grabbed his hand and sat in the back of his broom. I wrapped my arms around his stomach and he flew towards Harry.

"Don't worry I'll take care of this!" Loony Lockhart said. Both Fred and I moaned. George was wrestling the Bludger back into the crate. Colin came rushing onto the field with his camera ready.

"No pictures Colin." Harry said.

"Please! Take all the pictures you like Colin!" Lockhart said as he sat next to Harry. Colin started clicking away.

"I think Harry should be taken to Madame Pomfrey." Oliver said with a smile on his face. "Best catch ever Potter."

"Now now I'll fix this!" Lockhart said. He touched Harry's arm with his wand and gave a look of disgust.

"Well ah I must have said the wrong spell." Lockhart said.

Loony Lockhart didn't fix Harry's broken bone. He removed all of them from his arm.

After Fred was finished laughing at Draco after Flint yelled at him for having the Snitch right next to him and not noticing we all went to visit Harry. We brought treats for him so he'll his mind off the pain now that he has to regrow 33 bones. We weren't there long since Madame Pomfrey kicked us out. After a long dinner in the Great Hall (Fred and Oliver fought about Broomsticks) we all went back to the common room to celebrate the win for Gryffindor.

"Cheers!" Fred said and everyone raised their glasses of Butterbeer. Colin quickly drank his down and stood up. He went upstairs and came back a few moments later carrying his camera and a bowl of grapes.

"I'm going to see Harry before he goes to sleep." Colin said and skipped out of the common room. After a hour passed people started heading out of the room to bed. Hermione and Ron finished their game of Wizard Chess and both went to bed. The last three people were Percy, Fred, and I. Percy was writing to his parents about the win. He still had some gold on his face which looked pretty weird. Fred and I were sitting on the couch reading more Snake books. After two hours I started to get queasy. Colin should have been back by now.

"Hey I'm going to see if Colin came back from visiting Harry. He's been gone for awhile." I said and walked out. Fred was right behind me and we both went down the staircase to get stopped by McGonagall. She looked pale and shocked.

"Professor? What's wrong?" Fred asked.

"Where you two on your way to see if Colin was alright?" She asked shaking.

"Yeah but Professor did something happen to him?" I asked.

"There has been another attack. Colin was found on the stairs that lead to the hospital. There was a bowl of grapes next to him as well. Aeris, Fred, Colin is Petrified. The monster even burned all of his film." McGonagall said.