Chapter 10: The Diary

Hermione's POV

I went to the library and tried to find any piece of information I could find on the Chamber of Secrets. I was sitting at a table, a stack of books about 2 feet tall, and my eyes feeling really heavy. I was about to drift when…

"Tired, Granger? Because I think that we can sneak into the kitchen and grab ourselves a Pumpkin Juice to wake you up." Cormac McLaggen said with a smirk.

I shook my head and looked down at my book. He cocked his head and turned around on his heel with a satisfied chuckle. I slammed the book shut, dissatisfied and dust flew in my face. I sneezed and he spun around quickly.

"Did you say something?" He asked a bit too eagerly… if you ask me.

"Um… no I don't believe I did."

"Ah, well then please start." He said sitting down at the table across from me. He moved the stack of books out of the way to get a better look.

"Cormac, if this is your way to please a girl… it's not working. Now, if you don't mind, I have work to do." I said moving the stack of books back in front of my face and grabbing one off the top. He scoffed and got up.

"Your loss." He muttered and walked away.

"I'm regretting every moment." I mumbled opening the book.

Ron's POV

I was sitting in the common room groaning over my Potions essay. Finally, I just gave up and banged my head on the table.

"Careful, Ron. You might damage something… wait…too late." Ginny smirked.

I lifted my head glaring at her. "Shut it, Ginevra."

Her eyes grew dark and she gave me the scariest look. "What. Did. You. Call. Me?"

"Uhh… GINNY! Ginny, just Ginny! I… I love that name! Never Ginevra… n-no, o-of course not." I stuttered in fear.

"That's what I thought." She said with a smirk.

I looked up to see Hermione coming into the common room. Wow she looked so cute when her hair flopped in her face like that… Wait what the bloody hell was I saying she is just my friend. Ron get a grip!

"I give up I have gone through every book I could think of and there is nothing on the Chamber of Secrets!" she said flopping down on the couch next to Ginny.

"Well maybe we just need to look harder." I suggested.

"Ronald, do you honestly think that I didn't tear through every one of those books? I read them three times each and I found NOTHING on the Chamber of Secrets!" she huffed.

"Sorry, just trying to help." She smiled at me.

"Sorry, Ron I'm just a little tired and temperamental right now." She breathed. "I think that I'm just going to head off to bed good night everyone."

"I'll come with you." Ginny said with a dazed look in her eyes, and they both headed upstairs.

Kristin's POV

Cedric and I were in the library studying for a Defense Against the Dark Arts exam. Cedric seemed a little… off today.

"Hey Ced are you ok you seem a little ...off?" I asked.

"Huh.. Yeah I'm fine." He said. We went back to studying. After a little while he said,

"Hey Kristin you're a girl."

"Yes, last time I checked I was." I answered.

"Well… I like this girl..."

"Mhm." My palms started to sweat and my heart started to race.

"Well…Um I really like her and I was wondering should I tell her how I feel or wait and see if she feels the same way?" He asked in a rush.

"Well us girls… We can be a bit hard to read sometimes, but if you don't tell her how you feel there is a chance that she might move on. So if I were you I would tell her how you feel."

Harry's POV

I hate polishing the trophies in the Trophy Room. Snape gave me detention for no reason. Well… I guess you could say I deserved it for calling him a git after he said the potion I made was a failure…

Finally, finished! I trudged back to the common room and on the way, I found the hallway completely flooded. I followed the water into the girls' lavatory. i walked into the lavatory to find a ghost moaning and weeping.

"Excuse me, are you alright?" she turned to me abruptly and shouted at me.

"No! I'm not alright. Why are people always so mean to me?"

"Well, what happened?"

"I don't know. I was just over there thinking about death, and it fell through the top of my head."

"What did?" She wailed and gestured to her left.

I walked over to a book and picked it up. I shook the water off it and looked at the back. Tom Marvolo Riddle was engraved on the back.

The next day…

Hermione's POV

We were sitting in Transfiguration class learning how to transform animals into water goblets. I couldn't seem to focus. All I had on my mind was the Chamber of Secrets. As Professor McGonagall was telling us about the spell, my hand shot up.

"Yes, Miss Granger?"

"Professor, I was wondering if you could tell us about the Chamber of Secrets?"

She hesitated and looked around the class. "Very well. Of course you know that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the greatest witches and wizards of that time. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Three of them could agree on decisions quite harmoniously. While on did not. Salazar Slytherin wanted to be selective about the students' admissions at Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within families that held magical power. But the others disagreed. So, he decided to leave the school. According to legend, Slytherin had built a secret chamber somewhere in the castle. Only the heir alone would be able to open the chamber and release the horror that lived inside it, and eliminate all of those who were unworthy to study magic."

"Muggle borns." I breathed.

"Well of course, the castle has been searched many times, but no such chamber has been discovered." She finished.

After class, we headed back to the common room and just sat there. We didn't say anything, just sat there.

"Do you… do you think that McGonagall believes there's no such thing?" Ron finally broke the silence.

"Of course not. Did you see the look on her face?" I said. "She's terrified."