(Author's Note - Hey guys, I really want to really want to start writing the thrid book because I got so many ideas that can make that story perfect. But first let's finish this story. like I said last time, this chapter will be shorter but I'll try to make it interesting than the last one. I'm still trying to make it good. As before, I don't own Harry Potter. Enjoy!)
Last Time: The party was boring for the Foursome Trio. Harry, Ron, Hermione amd Sophie didn't enjoy themselves as they wouldn't like. Then to make matters worse, something called the Chamber of Sercets has been opened with Mr Norris turning up Petrified. This year has taken a turn for the worst.
It has been a few days since the attack on Mrs Norris and it's the only thing that the school can talk about. Mr Filch has been seen pacing the spot where she was attacked, keeping it fresh in everyone's mind. When Mr Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was sulking red-eyed through the corriders, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in dentention for things like breathing loudly or looking happy. Ginny seemed very disturbed by Mrs Norris's fate. According to Ron, she was a great-cat-lover.
"But you hadn't really got to know Mrs Norris." Ron said bracingly. "Honestly, we're much better off without her." Ginny's lip trembled. "Stuff like this doesn't doesn't happen very often at Hogwarts." Ron assured her. "They'll catch the nutter who did it and have him out of here in no time. I just hope he's got time to petrify Filch before he's expelled. I'm only joking-" Ron added hastily, as Ginny blanched.
"Smooth, Ron." I said as I grabbed Ginny and took her outside the common room. She was shaking as hell. "Even though Ron said it in the most idiotic way, he does have a point. Whoever did this will be caught." I said to her.
"But what if they can't catch him? Will they be more attacks? Like Mrs Norrs?" Ginny asked.
"I hope not." I answered. "Even though I never knew her, She didn't deserve that."
"I'm scared for all the muggles-borns." She said.
"I'm scared too, but trust me as I say this. Whoever's doing this, they won't get away with this." I said. The attack had also had an effect on my best friend, Hermione. It was quite usual for her to spend a lot of reading but she was now doing almost nothing else. We couldn't get much of an response from her when me, Harry and Ron asked what she was up to. In potions, poor Harry was held back by Snape and was made to scrape tubeworns off the desk. I waited for him outside the classroom and he came out.
"Any reason why he decided to keep you back?" I asked.
"To clean the desks." He answered as we quickly bolted to the great hall.
"That's unfair." I said. "You did nothing this time."
"It's Snape." He added. "Everything I do is punishable in his eyes." After a hurried lunch, we went upstairs to meet Ron in the library and we saw Justin Finch-Fletchley, the Hufflepuff boy from Herbology, coming towards him. I had just opened my mouth to say hello but when Justin caught sight of Harry, turned abruptly and sped off in the opposite direction.
"What was that about?" I asked him.
"I have no idea." He answered. We found Ron at the back of the library, measuring his History of Magic homework. Professor Binns had asked for a three-foot long composition on 'The Medievil Assembly of European Wizards.'
"I don't believe it, I'm still eight inches short..." Ron said furiously, letting go of his parchment, which sprang back into a roll. "And Hermione's done four feet seven inches and her writing's tiny."
"Where is she?" Harry asked while grabbing the tape measure and unrolling his own homework.
"Somewhere over there," Ron said, pointing along the shelves. "Looking for another book. I think she's trying to read the entire library before Christmas." Ron then glanced down at my opened parchment. "When did you finish it?" He asked.
"Last Night." I answered.
"Can I copy off you?" He asked me.
"No you can't." I said.
"Oh, come on. I only need two more inches." He begged.
"Well, maybe if you stop leaving it until the last minute, you will not need to copy off someone else." I retorted at him. Harry then told Ron about Justin-Finch-Fletchley running away from him.
"Dunno why you care, I thought he was a bit of an idiot." Ron said, Scribbling away making his writing as large as possible. "All that rubbish about Lockhart being so great-" Hermione emerged from between the bookshelves. She looked irritable and at last seemed ready to talk to us.
"All the copies of 'Hogwarts, a History' have been taken." She said, taking a seat next to me. "And there's a two-week waiting list. I wish I haven't left my copy at home but I couldn't fit it in my trunk will all the Lockhart books."
"Oh, now you're saying his books are bad?" I asked her.
"NO!" She answered me. Well, more like shouted back at me.
"Why do you want it, anyway?" Harry asked her.
"The same reason everyone's else wants it, to read up on the legend of the Chamber of Secrets." She said.
"What's that?" Harry said quickly
"That's just it, I can't remember." She asnwered, biting her lip. "And I can't find the story anywhere else-"
"Hermione, let me read your composition." Ron said desperately, checking his watch.
"No, I won't." Hermione said, suddenly severe. "You've had ten days to finish it."
"I only need another two inches, go on..." The bell rang. Ron and Hermione led the way to History of Magic, bickering. History of Magic was the dullest on our timetable. Professor Binns, who taught it, was their only ghost teacher, and th most exciting thing that ever happened in his classes was his entering the room through the blackboard. Ancient and shrivelled, many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead. He had simply got up to teach one day and left his body behind him in a armchair in front of the staff-room fire, his routine had not varied in the sightest since. Today was as boring as ever. Professor Binns opened his notes and began to read in a flat drone like an old vacuum cleaner until nearly everyone in the class was in a deep stupor, occasionally coming around long enough to copy down a name or a date, then falling asleep again. The bell went again and we walk out of that class.
"That was a good sleep." I said, yawning. "What's next?"
"Transfiguration." Hermione said. Oh great. We walked down to the classroom and continue to take our usual seats. When the whole class was seated, Professor McGonagall spoke.
"May I have your attention, please?" She said. "Now today, we will be learning how to turn animal into Water Goblets. Like so." She then waved her wand three times and said "Vera Verto." The bird then turned into a goblet. Cool, looking foward to it. Minmie looked at me very scared at me. Oh no, you're not getting out of this one.
"Ahh, Mr Weasley." McGonagall said as she walked up to his desk. "Give it a try. One, Two, Three, Vera Verto." Ron cleared his voice, wave his wand three times and said.
"Vera Verto." Sparks flew out of his wand and his rat turned into a furry version of a water goblet, with a tail. Everyonw giggleed as he pick it up.
"That wand needs replacing, Mr Wealsey." She said as Hermione put her hand up. "Yes, Miss Granger?"
"Professor, I was wondering if you can tell us, about the chamber of secrets?" Hermione asked. McGonagall looked around the classroom and saw a lot of concern faces from the entire class. It was the only thing people can talk about.
"Very Well." She said, adjusting her glasses. "Well, you all know that Hogwarts was found by four of the greatest witches and wizards of the age. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. Now, they have built this caatle together. Three of the founders lived harmoniously, one did not."
"Three guesses who." Ron said.
"Salazar Slytherin wanted to be more selective of the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magic should be kept in all magical families, in other pure-bloods." McGonagall said. Me and Hermione looked at each other with a little of concern. "Unable to convince the other, he decided to leave the school. Now, according to legend, Salazar Slytherin built an hidden chamber in the castle. Though shortly before departing, he sealed it 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, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge of all who were unworthy to syudy magic.
"Muggleborns." Hermione added.
"Naturally, the school has been scearched many times." She added. "No such chamber has been found."
"Professor, what does legend tell us, lies within the Chamber?" Hermione asked again.
"It is said that it is something that only the heir can control." McGonagall said. "It is said to be the home of an monster." The entire class went silent. Hermione's face went from concern to scared while me and Ron looked back at Malfoy and he was smirking at us. I quenched my fist at him, readying to attack him. We raced out of the classroom after it was finished and we were flying down the corridor.
"Is it true?" Ron asked. "Do you think there is really is an chamber of secrets?"
"Yes, can't you tell?" I said.
"McGonagall's worried. All the teacners are." Hermione said.
"If there is really is an chamber of secrets and it's really has been opened..." Harry said.
"Then the heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts." Hermione finished for him. "Question is, who is it?" She asked.
"Let's think," Ron said in mock puzzlement. "Who do we know who thinks Muggle-borns were scum?" He asked as Malfoy walked past.
"If you're talking about Malfoy-" Hermione half-shouted.
"Of course, you heard him." Ron said. "You'll be next, Mudbloods."
"I've heard him, but Malfoy, the heir of Slytherin?" Hermione said sceptically.
"Maybe Ron's right, Hermione." I said.
"Look at his family, the whole of them have been in Slytherin, he's always boasting about it. They could easily be Slytherin's descendants. His father's definitely evil enough." Harry said.
"They could've had the key to the Chamber of Secrets for centuries." Ron said. "Handing it down, father to son..."
"Well, I suppose it's possible." Hermione said cautiously.
"But how do we prove it?" I said.
"There might be a way," Hermione said, stopping in the middle of the corridor. "Of course, it will be difficult. And dangerous, very dangerous. We'd be breaking about fifty school rules, I expect."
"If, in a month or so, you feel like explaining, you will let us know, won't you?" Ron said.
"All right." Hermione said coldly. "What we need to do is to get inside the Slytherin common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him realising it's us."
"But that's impossible." Harry said, as Me and Ron laughed.
"No, it's not.' Hermione said. "All we need is some Polyjuice Potion."
"What's that?" Harry and Ron said together.
"Snape mentioned it in class a few weeks ago-" Hermione started.
"D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listen to Snape?" I muttered.
"It transforms you into somebody else. Think about it!" Hermione said. "We could change into three of the Slytherins. No one would know it was us. Malfoy would probably tell us anything. He's probably boasting about it in the Slytherin common room right now, ioif only we could hear him now."
"This Polyjuice stuff sounds a bit dodgy to me," Ron said frowning. "What if we were stuck looking like three of the Slytherins for ever?"
"It wears off after a while," Hermione said, waving her hand impatiently, "but getting hold of the recipe will be very difficult. Snape said it was in a book called Moste Potente Potions and it's bound to be in the Restricted Section of the Library." Oh shit. There was only one way to get out a book from the Restricted Section: yoy needed a signed note of permission from a teacher.
"Hard to see why we'd want the book, really," Ron saif, if we weren't going to try and make one of the potions."
"I think," Hermione said. "That if we made it sound as though we were just interested in the theory, we might stand a chance..."
"Oh come on, no teacher's going to fall for that," Ron said. "They'd have to be really thick."
"No, Ron." I said with a smile on his face. "There is one..."
(Author's Note - Done and done. Alright, I have finished the chapter in book tense. I'm going to try not to stray too far into the movie because I think it's killing the flow of the story. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed that. Next chapter will be the Qudditch match. Any mistakes, please point it out and I'll fix it when I can. Like and review if you have any questions and until next time, Kizzard245 out!)