I was still in the book but I was getting stronger as the days flew by. Ginny would feed me little tidbits like Harry things and how much she didn't like Lockhart. Lately her worries were becoming more and more about what I was doing, which was alarming but I knew she wasn't accusing me of doing it because she thought I was nothing more than a book, a diary she could write in. Soon I would become my old self again… no, not my old self but my new self. I had no intention in following his footsteps. I was much better than that scum.
While Ginny wasn't looking in the diary I would practice using the magic in my mind to create things like a lamp and a bed and I would also practice keeping my thoughts to myself while I also wrote on the page when the book was shut. I didn't need her reading into my thoughts and my thoughts were popping up on the page every now and then. I really didn't need that happening or she would stop trusting me and I would be left in here. I, dare I say it, need her presence.
I was doing such a thing when I noticed the book was opening. I quickly took what I had written off the page to keep it clean of ink. She made a blot on the page in her eagerness and I removed the blot from the page for her.
'Dear Tom, I think I might be the culprit of the attack on Ms. Norris! Please tell me I'm wrong! I don't even know what a Chamber Of Secrets is! Everyone in the school is talking about it! They think that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin! I might be getting Harry in danger but I know for a fact I couldn't possibly be an heir of Slytherin! What is an Heir Of Slytherin! Isn't he dead? How could he have an heir? What's the monster in the chamber? I have tried asking my teachers but none of them will tell me! I'm scared Tom! Please help me!' I picked up my quill and began to write back. This reminds me something of Morse code.
'Dear Ginny, please calm down. You are not the Heir Of Slytherin. You would have to be in Slytherin to be so. You are a Gryffindor. Or that is what you told me. You are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Has Harry shown anything that might indicate that he is the Heir?' They think a Gryffindor like him is the heir? Surely Dumbledore knew better… but he does know better! He could tell there was something 'wrong' with me when I was going to school. So why does he let the school think that Harry is the heir? Does he not care?
'Tom, do you know anything about the chamber of secrets? Or what the monster is?'
'The chamber can only be opened by the heir. Now the tricky part is that Salazar Slytherin made the chamber so therefore he would have made sure no one could find it. He didn't want the other three to go snooping around.'
'So it does exist?'
'Shall I tell you the story of the chamber Ginny?' I sat back. I know I can't tell her too much but I can spread the lore. They wouldn't tell her so it was my job then since she was so desperate. I could scare her and get more power from doing so.
'Yes, please?' I sat up and began to write.
'Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four founders, the greatest witches and wizards of their era. The four school Houses are named after them: Salazar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was back when Muggles were conducting witch hunts. For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out children who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated. Three of the founders coexisted harmoniously. One did not. Disagreements sprang up between them. A rift began to grow between Salazar and the others. Salazar wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within Purebloods. He disliked taking Mudblood students, believing them to be untrustworthy. After a while, there was a serious argument on the subject between Salazar and Godric. Unable to sway the others, he decided to leave the school. However, before Salazar left the castle, he built a hidden chamber in the castle, the other founders knew nothing of it. Salazar sealed the Chamber Of Secrets so that none would be able to open it until his own true heir arrived at the school. The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber Of Secrets, unleashing the horror within that only the Heir Of Slytherin can control, and use it to purge the school of all those who were unworthy to study magic. Though the school has been searched many times over for evidence of this secret chamber but there is no such luck, it does, indeed, not exist.'
'Wow. Then what does the writing on the wall mean?'
'Someone trying to scare the school. There was one man who was blamed for the opening of the chamber. You know how people work. When something is wrong they look for two things: someone to help them and someone to blame. It just the way they work and there is nothing you can do about it. Even those who tend to blame themselves for their mistakes look for those two things when things go down hill.'
'Who exactly opened the chamber? Or was blamed for it?' Dumbledore. I smirked. That would be funny. In a sick twisted kind of way.
'Rubeus Hagrid.' She slammed the book closed. Damn it. I could feel the power flowing through the book still. She was probably hugging the book. She was indeed scared. What a feeble mind she has. It would be too easy to break her so I have to be gentle.
