Authors Note: Thanks again for the reviews and everything else. I hope you'll like this chapter even though parts of it seem really rushed but there just wasn't much going on and I swear fourth year will be more detailed again.

Shadow Phoenix

Chapter 11

The chamber

Harry sighs looking at the teacher in front of him. For the first time, he regrets that Quirrell died at the end of the previous year. The first lesson hasn't even started, and Harry already hates his new Professor. Well at least the lesson part of the lesson hasn't started yet, all the man has done is introduce himself and talk about his smile. Still Harry already hates the man. He can sense that he's magically not very powerful and considering that he seems to be best in bragging, Harry doubts to learn anything during this class and hopes that the rumours that the Defence position is cursed is true. Quirrell seems to have been there for just that one year and it seems he's not the first to stop after just one year as Harry knows after living here since he's five. Most Professors just wanted to leave for private reasons after one year but there were some strange accidents making an extended stay impossible whenever they wanted to stay.

He watches how the idiot lets loose some pixies only to run off and leave the clean up to him, Ron and Hermione who are the last in the room. Draco was one of the first to run and Harry just sighs ready to unleash some magic to bind them when Hermione is spelling them immobile. "Nice one." Harry replies and starts to move them back into their cage.

The next few days he starts to talk about Lockhart with Ron and has a few discussions with Hermione about him as well. He doesn't believe that he did everything he claims to have done in his books. Partly because he didn't seem brave enough after running from the pixies and partly because some of the spells he claims to have used, need more magical energy then he has. But at least this year seems peaceful, at least until Halloween. Remembering the last feast and how it ended isn't helping to make him feel comfortable and once he told his friends why he wants to leave and includes the troll incident, Ron and Hermione choose to come with him. He's not far when hears something strange

A strange Voice seems to come from the walls and a magical energy is moving along it. The voice says "Kill, I want to kill!"

Harry pales "What's that?" he asks Ron and Hermione.

"What's what?" Ron asks.

"That voice!" Harry says and hurries after the voice trying to follow it with his own magic sense and sensing that something within the walls ahead of them but it's moving fast and taking a different way and getting further away. "It's in the walls, I've got to get there before something happens."

Harry rushes towards it followed by his friends and once around a corner he sees blood red writing on the wall saying 'The chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the hair, beware.' Harry just frowns towards it until he hears Hermione screech. Only after looking where her terrified gaze is caught does he see Miss Norris hang close to it. He quickly lets his magic ghost over it and mumbles, "Petrified."

A moment later most of the students from the great hall are there too and some teachers as well. They probably heard Hermione's screech. "You." Filch screams after seeing his cat and Harry standing a little closer to it than his friends, "You killed my cat."

"Stop it Argus." Albus orders and walks closer using his want to see what happened to the cat before he says, "She's not dead Argus, she's only petrified and I doubt a second-year could do it."

Harry doesn't point out that he does know a few ways to do it but neither of those was used. He doesn't think he ever felt this specific way of petrification before and wonders how it was done and more importantly who could have done it? And, unless it was a student this time or once again a teacher, how did the culprit get in? He frowns even more and looks around at the other children wondering if one of them could be the hair of Slytherin. He doesn't see Draco, he hadn't seen him during Dinner either and wonders what is wrong with him. He was gone a few times the last couple of days not even touching his necklace and thinking of him as he seems to be so found of doing that Harry wondered if he enjoys distracting Harry. To be honest, he hardly got to see him these days which isn't like him.

He keeps an eye on Draco the next few days to make sure he's okay but the talk about the chamber distracts him a little. He does notice that Draco is a little paler then usual recently though and not as vocal about Harry being with his friends as he usually is. He does still seem to be upset about it and Harry wonders if he is just growing up and learns to share his friend even if he doesn't like it.

A few days pass like that before Harry uses his magic when close enough to Draco to check on him and notices that he seems drained for some reason. He asks his dad to get Draco some pepper up and assumes he had a cold or something, and is glad that it doesn't seem anything worse that had changed his behaviour.

It still goes on however and Draco doesn't seem to improve but Harry once again gets distracted when at the start of November another victim is found petrified. This time it's a first year from Gryffindor. One that up to now had constantly tried to get a picture of Harry while Harry had learned to avoid him.

A little later the worst defence teacher ever to walk through Hogwarts is giving a duelling club and knowing who was asked to assist and how said person had been asked, Harry makes sure to have first row seats. He grins up at Lockhart who introduces Snape as his assistant promising not to harm him. Harry grins, Lockhart had promised his dad when asking him for this that he would go easy on him since, being a potions master, he probably doesn't have much experience with duelling himself.

Harry can't wait to see what happens when the blond stuck up idiot, who apparently believes to be more powerful than his dad, gets taught a lesson. Harry can see the frown on his dad's face and is expecting something good. He's not disappointed when he sees goldilocks fly on his ass and grins at Ron until the man starts to tell Harry's dad that the move was rather obvious. Severus just suggests to start with disarming an opponent and Lockhart agrees and asks to let two students try the spell. He calls Draco and Ron up and Harry sees how both look towards Harry before looking at the other and grinning, evilly.

With a sigh, Harry watches them stand in front of each other. Draco grins saying, "Scared, Weasel?"

"Why would I be." Ron grins, "I'll show you why I was with Harry when he needed back up."

'Great.' Harry thinks wondering why they can't just fight with a game of chess seeing that both love it.

They both walk a little back and Harry frowns seeing Draco cheat and attack early. Ron flies but just turns on Draco getting up again right away and sends a curse back that sends Draco flying. Harry is using his magic unnoticed by anyone to cushion his fall at least slightly. Harry himself is not even wondering why he's instinctively doing it for Draco but not Ron. He does however see Draco throw him a slightly surprised look meaning that one person must have noticed after all. Draco doesn't let it side-track him for long before he gets up and casts yet another spell towards Ron. This time summoning a viper that is slithering towards Ron saying, "Bite, hurt, kill." Harry stares at it surprised. He knows that Phoenixes translate all human speech but they do not translate magical creature's languages like Parsel. He knows for a fact that he should not understand what that snake is saying and yet, he does!

He is so distracted by his own surprise that he doesn't hear his father tell Ron to stand back and that he'll take care of the snake for him or that Lockhart interferes saying that he will do it instead. He does however see the snake fly up after a small explosion hits it and then land back down looking at a boy that is unfortunately standing right in front of the Snake. His name is Justin Finch-Fletchley and is standing next to Harry where Ron had been before he went up to fight Draco and from the snake's hisses, it wants to let out his anger on him. The snake is about to bite Justin when Harry moves his hand right between the teeth saying, "Stop."

The snake stops and everyone around Harry gasps. Harry just moves his eyes to look at the boy next to him and make sure he won't speak in parsel as he probably somehow just did and says, "Don't move Im trying to calm her and rather not get bitten for it." He looks at the still angry snake. Her hood is flared up, "Your poison won't harm me, I'm not like others, leave him and I'll make sure you won't be hurt again. Just calm down and move your head back!"

The snake does move back but her hood stays flared and she angrily hisses towards Harry, "What makes you think my venom won't kill you?"

"I'm a Phoenix!" Harry tells it, "I might not look like it now because I'm changed into my human form but I am and I will burn you alive should you dare to hurt anyone in this room. Now rein in your anger and lay down!"

The snake looks at him a moment longer and Harry just glares at it until it lowers its head and stops to flare its hood. Harry smiles at it and nods before looking at his dad, "She's calm now and I promised not to let her get hurt, can I keep her?"

Severus glares at his son and banishes the snake to its natural habitat. Seeing that Harry senses what kind of spell it is, he doesn't stop it and just pouts saying, "I'll take that is a no?"

"Students are not permitted any poisonous pets, Mister Potter." Snape glowers.

"Right I forgot, you're on duty and in Professor mode, should I ask again later tonight when your off duty?" Harry questions but the glower only gets worse and he says, "I guess I better not."

"You think?" The professor says, "But don't bother to go to Gryffindor tonight, the second I'm off duty as you put it I'll be going to drag my son's sorry ass to his room and ground him to make sure he learns to NEVER put any of his body parts into the mouth of a poisonous snake again!"

Harry just sighs and grumbles pointing to Justin, "It would have killed him."

"It could have killed you!" Severus complains.

"Nope." Harry says, "Snakes don't kill a Parselmouth unless another Parselmouth ordered them to and while I have NO idea how I can do this I did hear it talk before I did that and while I was surprised I could, I knew what it meant and that it wouldn't bite me, meaning I was the only one that could save Justin that way."

"Do you honestly want to show me how little you regret your actions?" His father asks him sounding angry.

Harry watches his father's face and considers his options before saying in a monotonous voice, "I'm so very sorry I temporarily forgot to mind my own safety and will make sure not to repeat it please forgive me for worrying you dad. I will do my level best not to worry you again!"

"You seriously need to work on your acting skills." Severus grumbles, "And you really need to learn to MEAN what you just said."

Harry just rolls his eyes while Snape sends everyone out of the room since he insists that it was enough for the day. Harry goes after Draco and says, "Did you have to cheat?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Draco replies innocently.

"Hexing Ron before you counted to ten!" Harry replies, "I honestly should have let you fall on your ass unprotected for that."

"Why didn't you?" Draco questions.

"Don't know." Harry shrugs, "Didn't think about it I guess. And now tell me why on earth you cheated. That's not fair!"

"First, life's never fair!" Draco points out, "Secondly, I didn't cheat. We were told that we are supposed to count to ten, turn and start, right? I thought it he meant with "to ten" that you count you know one, two and when you would say ten you hex already and I did after nine! Not my fault the teacher left room for interpretation!"

"Yeah right!" Harry grumbles, "Like your father wouldn't have made perfectly sure that you know how to do it proper AND how to talk your way out of it after cheating!"

Draco just grins since Harry was absolutely right but he just says, "Prove it, and now calm down, no one got hurt and I promise not to cheat in such a way again when you're around!"

"Meaning you'll cheat in other ways when I'm around and just like that when I'm not there?" Harry questions.

"I didn't say that." Draco defends himself.

"You didn't deny it either." Harry sighs "Can't you just be fair?"

"We're back to firstly, life is never fair Harry!" Draco grins, "But I've got to go. Blaise and I are meeting to do our Potions homework."

"You know, you're always busy now days. Are you avoiding me?" Harry wonders.

"Don't be silly, why would I avoid you?" Draco questions. "I just got some friends in my house too and like you spend time with your housemates I do the same with mine and I never know when you want to spend time with me so I can't keep that time open."

"I'm sorry if you felt like I had to little time for you." Harry mumbles.

"Don't be silly." Draco sighs, "It's fine really, just I got friends too. And you wouldn't have time anyway because your dad will kill you if you don't get your sorry ass down before he's off duty and force him to hunt you down!"

"Yeah, you're probably right." Harry grumbles.

"I'll see you around Harry." Draco says "And don't worry, you're still my best friend!"

"Always." Harry smiles.

"And forever." Draco adds and gives him a hug. "And do be more careful, I got scared seeing your hand in that snake's mouth too!"

Harry just rolls his eyes before running off to his father's private rooms. "Why pray tell did it take you so long to get here?" His father asks the second Harry comes in.

"I had to talk to Draco for a moment." Harry sighs, "I was worried he might be mad about something because he hadn't talked to me all week."

"It's Thursday." Severus says, "That means he hadn't talked for a little more than three whole days including the better part of this day and you already are worried?"

"He used to talk to me every day last year." Harry whines, "It's getting less and less this year, I just don't want to lose him because of the different house."

"I can assure you Harry, you won't." Severus promises his son, "He is still very fond of you but he's growing just like you do and the older you two will get the bigger both of your worlds will become. You'll meet new people and grow to like more and do more individually. That doesn't change that you two are good friends."

Harry just sighs and nods before he sits down to do his homework before his father can complain anymore. Severus watches him and once Harry is done Severus pulls his son into his arms saying, "I'm nearly happy you misbehaved, that way I have you here a little more again."

With a grin, Harry looks up, "You could just ask me to come more often. You don't have to ground me for that!"

Severus grins back, "I didn't ground you for that and you know it. Harry I don't want to see you get hurt and even if I can cure you, should you get poisoned, doesn't mean you have to provoke it!"

"I know dad." Harry replies, "I'm sorry I had you worried. I just don't want to see others get hurt either."

Severus sighs, "I know, but who's going to protect them when you're withering in pain?"

Harry just about manages not to role his eyes considering that seeing that he's a parselmouth the snake wouldn't have bitten him. Which is proven by the point that it didn't!

It seems however that to fight about it is useless and Harry just accepts that his dad will always be a little over protective.

The next day wasn't good since soon after rumours started that since Salazar was a parselmouth, the only parselmouth in school must be his heir.

It didn't help Harry that he was grounded and no-where near Justin the day after the duelling club, when the boy and Nearly Headless Nick the Gryffindor ghost were the next victims found that day. On the contrary. Ever since that incident, most consider the rumour that Harry is the heir of Slytherin as proven. The upside is that since apart from Ron and Hermione everyone is avoiding him, he is left with plenty of time to spend some of that time with Draco every day and Harry soon notices that his friend seems to be getting better after the cold he must have gotten at the start of term.

The more Harry forces Draco to go outside for some fresh air or to fly, the more colour he gets. Harry is surprised when during one of their times flying Draco mentions that he hadn't even tried out for Slytherin as he initially had planned since he refused to constantly get his ass kicked by Harry. Even though Harry is a little sad he can't play against his friend he is glad to at least be able to still fly with Draco, and by now even on a broom since Draco is allowed to bring his since he is a second year and Draco even did get a Nimbus 2001. Still Harry is faster on his old Nimbus 2000. Draco has no idea how Harry manages to get that much out of his broom or why he himself can't fly as fast as Harry had when he borrowed a strangers Nimbus 2001 during their time in Spain.

The flying outside seems to help Draco a lot, and everything is going great by the time the students are going home for Christmas. Harry and his dad plan to leave Hogwarts for a day to visit the Malfoys which seems to help Draco further. It does worry Harry after that stay that during their stay their fathers had talked in private a lot and spent hours in the Malfoy library frantically searching something but refusing to say what was missing.

Still, once back at Hogwarts, Harry quickly forgets about whatever they were searching for and still is trying to spend as much time with Draco as he can and make sure he stays healthy this time around. Eventually however practise for the next Quidditch game and his remaining Gryffindor friends make it impossible to spend as much time with his best friend and since he seems healthy again it doesn't seem as urgent as the upcoming game. Harry still tried but the Quidditch training on top of his class time and homework, cut him down on his time a lot and sharing his remaining time still meant that there were days he barely saw Draco across the room in the great hall. Draco still seemed fine at first but eventually he seemed to get paler again and Harry starts to wonder what he is doing when they aren't together. Something must be going on for Draco to get sick every time Harry is too busy.

Harry is about to confront Draco once the next game is over but right before the game could start, it is cancelled and Harry and Ron are led by McGonagall right from the pitch towards the Hospital wing where the two boys find Hermione lying petrified in a bed.

Professor McGonagall told them that they had found a mirror with her and if they knew why she had it but neither had an answer for her. All they knew was that she wasn't alone. There was once again a second victim, a girl named Penelope Clearwater was found with Hermione.

The day after that attack, Harry and Ron want to Hagrid since Draco had mentioned over Christmas once that all he knew about the chamber is that it had been opened about 50 years ago and Harry and Ron want to ask the half giant if he was already at Hogwarts at the time to find out if he knows anything.

Since walking around alone is forbidden they are using Harry's invisibility cloak and are surprised to see Hagrid open the door with a crossbow in his hand. He lets them in but seems scared of something.

He's still offering tea to them while Harry carefully asks if he'd already been in Hogwarts when the chamber had been opened 50 years ago.

"Yes." Hagrid sighs, "I was there. It was terrible. Severn kids petrified and one died. They were about to close the school."

"What happened then? Did they ever find out who did it?" Harry questions.

Hagrid looks nervous but before he can say anything a knock on the door interrupts them. Hagrid loses what little colour he had when Harry and Ron arrived and tells both boys to hide.

Once Harry and Ron disappear under the cloak in a corner of the room, Hagrid opens the door and a moment later, Dumbledore and Fudge enter the hut and Harry and Ron are shocked to hear that Fudge wants to take Hagrid into custody for opening the chamber of Secrets again. Dumbledore tells him that he's certain that it wasn't Hagrid either time but it's no use. Hagrid is about to be lead away when he says that one would only have to follow the spiders to find out more and that someone needs to feed fang and Harry nearly laughs at the confused look on Fudges face while Dumbledore knew the whole time they were there since he could sense Harry's magic as easily as Harry sensed Dumbledore's.

"It had to be spiders?" Ron whines as soon as they left and all the way into the forest where Harry drags him in to find some answers. They quickly find a lot of spiders going in a single line along the forest floor. They follow the seemingly endless row of spiders further and further and eventually enter a clearing covered in spider web and a huge spider is standing before them. "Who is there?" The spider asks.

"We're, friends of Hagrid's." Harry says watching the huge spider while Ron is holding on to him for dear life. "We came because we have some questions."

"Hagrid has never sent a visitor to us." The spider replies. "I am Aragog."

"Nice to meet you, Aragog." Harry says letting his magic move around him and sensing the other spiders that are slowly getting closer and are trying to trap them while Ron makes a scared sound, probably seeing them by now. Still Harry stays calm and asks "Do you know anything about the monster in the Chamber of secrets?"

"Harry," Ron whines.

"Not now." Harry grumbles. "Just trust me a little."

"We do not talk about it." Aragog replies, "All we know is that Hagrid was blamed to have opened it when people found me. I could escape but it wasn't me that had harmed the girl. She was killed in a bathroom and I had never left the broom cupboard where Hagrid kept me."

"Harry!" Ron mumbles pulling on the arm of Harry's that he's clinging to.

"Later," Harry frowns feeling the spiders close in on them. He knows he has to hurry if he wants to get as much information as possible before it's too late. "Can't you at least give us a hint? They think it was Hagrid again and we want to help him."

"I can't tell you more." Aragog replies, "And you won't be able to help Hagrid anyway."

"Why not?" Harry asks hoping for a hint why that monster is supposedly stronger than them.

"Harry." Ron mumbles and points up where Harry knows the spiders, that are all only a little smaller then Aragog and that for still huge, are closing in quickly!

"My Children don't harm Hagrid or go close to the castle on my orders, but I can't deny them fresh meat when it comes so willingly towards us!" Aragog says.

"Good bye, friends of Hagrid."

"Good bye." Harry grumbles and right before the first smaller spider can pounce on them, he flashes away with Ron who is still clinging to him. They reappear in Hagrid's hut. "You're okay Ron?"

"You flashed without turning!" Ron mumbles.

"I know." Harry shrugs, "Was the easiest way out."

Ron just takes a deep breath and slumps to the ground, "Follow the spiders. Follow the spiders! Is he CRAZY?"

"Probably." Harry calmly replies before taking Ron's hand and dragging him back towards the castle.

On their way, Professor McGonagall stops them and asks them what they are doing. Harry regrets that he forgot to use the invisibility cloak again but since they were close to the Hospital wing he just lies saying, "We wanted to visit Hermione. I know it's not allowed to go around alone but we had to see her!"

Professor McGonagall seemed to understand that and walked them to the Hospital wing and tells them that she will pick them up again later and to wait for her no matter what happens. The two boys just sit on either side of Hermione's bed in silence until Ron sighs. "I wish she was up. She might be able to figure it out."

"Maybe." Harry replies deep in thought and trying to remember all the facts he heard about the Monster. He watches Hermione's face while he's thinking and starts to move his magic over her to find out how exactly she was petrified since so far, he only knows some ways that weren't used. He even moves his hand over her hand in the hope to sense more about it when his skin touches her skin.

It doesn't help his magical sense but he finds some paper in her hand. He removes it and opens it to read a page from a Book and says, "Ron, she did find out about it. It's a Basilisk."

"A what?" Ron asks scared and walks around her to look over Harry's shoulder. "But Harry he must be huge, how could he get around?"

"Pipes." Harry says pointing on the word Hermione had written on the paper. "It makes sense that's why I heard it."

"But if it can kill with a look alone, why is no one dead?" Ron questions scared.

"They didn't look directly, Hermione looked through the mirror as did Penelope." Harry explains "Colin was, as always, looking through his camera and Justin through the ghost, Nick got it all but he's dead already."

"And Miss Noris?" Ron questions. "How did she survive? I doubt she's as fond of pictures as Collin."

"The ground was wet." Harry replies thoughtfully before asking, "Didn't Hermione once take a detour when she needed to use the girls room because one was haunted? I mean Aragog said that the girl died in a bathroom, what if she never left?"

"Yeah, I heard there is one on the first floor I think." Ron replies.

He just finished the sentence when they hear McGonagall's voice boom though the castle, "All students to their common rooms. All teachers to the first floor!"

Ron and Harry exchange one look and run to the first floor. They are just around the corner when they hear the teachers mumble "Albus, please tell me it's not true!" Harry hears his dad's voice.

"I fear it is." Albus sighs, "I don't know what to do either or how to tell Harry or Mister and Misses Malfoy."

"What do you mean?" Pomona asks.

"A new message." Minerva replies and Harry and Ron peek around the corner to look at the wall and read 'His bones will rot in the chamber for ever!' "A student was taken."

"Did I miss anything." The happy voice of Lockhart is heard and Harry wants to hit that man for his cheerful mood in such a moment.

"Yes." Severus drawls "It seems your moment has come. A boy was taken to the chamber and since you recently bragged to know all about it and having figured out exactly where it is you should go and save him. After all, your deeds are legendary already, aren't they?"

"I, well, I shall go and prepare." Lockhart says reluctantly and walks away again.

"Who was taken?" Pomfray asks.

"Draco Malfoy." Minerva replies and Ron looks at Harry who, instead of looking shocked as Ron had assumed, starts to look positively murderous. Ron can't see it for long though since Harry just flashed away! But right now, Ron isn't sure if he's more worried about his friend or about whoever took Draco and will have to face the enraged young wizard that might hide god knows how many abilities that Ron has no idea about.

Harry reappears in a huge room facing a stone face and a student he had never seen before next to him while Draco is at his feet. "How." The student asks surprised. Harry just glares at him and moves his magic around him. It feels off and it takes a moment until harry knows why.

"Draco is mine!" Harry glares at the not truly alive but not truly dead older boy who is draining Draco of his live energy through some connection that Harry is still trying to find.

"Not for long." The boy says clearly getting over his surprise. "Harry Potter. I'm honoured to meet you."

"Who are you and what do you want." Harry growls. Feeding Draco some of his own energy to make sure he stays alive even if that boy is drawing from him. "And make it quick, because I will kill you if you don't stop this soon!"

"I'm Tom Marvollo Riddle." The boy says and uses Draco's wand that is in his hand to write his full name into the air and then moves the letters around with a swish of Draco's wand which is only aggravating Harry more. How dare he using Draco's wand? "And I think you know what I want."

Harry just glares at him and says "Let's get this show on the road so I can kill you again before you can harm my Draco any further!"

"In such a hurry to die yourself?" Tom grins and then looks at the stone face and starts talking, or rather calling the Basilisk forth. The mouth opens and the giant snake slithers out.

Unafraid Harry looks right at it and the snake seems surprised that he doesn't drop dead while Harry just grins and turns into his Phoenix form to cry for his friends' help. After that he turns again right away and grins towards Tom, "Didn't know that, did you?"

"I wouldn't have thought you kept something like that from our dear Draco." Tom says, "He seems to believe that you'll be really his one day."

Harry just grins, "You really think he would tell YOU my secrets. He knew alright. And I am his, just like he is mine. We're best friends after all."

Tom just laughs before he orders the Basilisk to attack. The four older Phoenixes attack the snake and poke his eyes out to render it blind while the talking hat is dropped before Harry with the order to look inside.

Harry, trusting the hyper Phoenix, looks into it and pulls out a huge sword. He moves it experimentally in his hand and grins. "Thanks mate." He says before climbing the stone face while the Phoenixes are still distracting that stupid snake. "I'm here" He screams when the Basilisk seems to listen for him.

The huge snake moves towards the boy that stands there and Harry just pushes the sword right through the open mouth into its brain, not minding the tooth that gets stuck in his own arm. The snake is dead nearly instantly and Harry climbs down and runs towards Draco who still is lying motionless there. Harry starts to feel with his magic again to find the connection now that the basilisk is dead.

Tom just grins towards Harry, "I have no idea how you did it. But it doesn't matter, Draco's life is nearly over and once he is gone, I'll be fully back. By the way, how does it feel? The venom works fast, doesn't it? I hope to hear you scream in pain before you die from it!"

While Tom laughs Harry finally finds the connection. A small book in Draco's hand. He takes it and opens it to a random page before pulling out the tooth that is still in his arm. "You forget something. A Phoenix is just as immune to a Basilisk's venom as we are to its eyes." Tom stares at him but before he can ask what Harry is doing, Harry pushes the tooth into what seems to be a diary and Tom screams. Harry closes it again before stabbing the bloody thing again.

Tom, or rather Voldemort even though he did feel rather different from the parasitic form Harry has seen last time, screams and disappears before a grasp can be heard and Draco is up. Harry stares at him and jumps to cling to his friend, "You stupid, stupid idiot! How dare you write to some book instead of talking to me? I'm your friend, I can deal with you making other friends but a bloody book filled with dark magic? I thought you're supposed to be smart!"

"I'm sorry." Draco sounds miserably. "It was during the summer and you weren't there! You had just left and it was before Spain and I thought you'd never come with because I'd never be important enough to you or good enough and then I found that thing and it talked back and encouraged me and it felt good. I stopped writing again when you came to Spain with me but started again when we came back and you were grounded. And once we came here you had less, and less time for me and then the chamber was opened and I couldn't remember what I had done and I was scared and tried to stay away because I feared you'd notice something was wrong but then you suddenly were scared that I didn't like you and made me spend time and I nearly forgot about the book but then you were so busy with Quidditch and I remembered it and I had no idea it had anything to do with this bloody chambers but isn't this place cool?"

"Cool? You could have bloody died!" Harry grumbles holding him tighter. "Never EVER, talk to something when you don't know exactly how it talks."

"I suck at biology so I have no idea how you are talking." Draco points out with a cheeky grin and earns himself a slap to the back of his head before Draco adds, "All right, I promise not to talk to books again."

"Or anything else that isn't human." Harry grumbles.

"Or anything else that is neither human or a Phoenix." Draco grins, "Happy now?"

"Kind of." Harry replies but then sighs, "We should go. I bet Ron is freaking out that I just left him. I just hope he didn't tell dad."

Once both boys are standing Harry takes the tooth, the sword and the diary before he takes Draco's hand too and flashes towards his dad. He instinctively moves his sword after feeling a spell move towards him and the metal reflects the memory charm that was, for reasons he didn't yet understand, going right his way and now hits Lockhart who must have cast it. Harry turns to look where it was going since it might already been cast when he came. He sees his father turn right before the backfired spell hits Lockhart and Harry asks, "What did you do to him that he tried to make you forget your own name?"

"I told him that I'd tell the whole bloody world that he's a scared little cry-baby unless he stops running and saves you and Draco after Mister Weasley informed me that someone listened in and flashed away probably to save his friend from a giant snake that kills with a look alone." Severus glowers. "How long do I have to ground you to get it into your bloody mind to stay safe?"

Sighing Harry says, "I'm sorry for scaring you but I couldn't take anyone because as you pointed out there was a snake that kills with a look alone but, as you probably don't even know since I think no one but a few Phoenixes know this, their eyes don't effect Phoenixes, neither does its venom which is good but I'd still like to have a healing potions since my own tears aren't working on me either." Harry shows him the wound the tooth left. "but don't worry the snake is dead and if you don't ground me I'll flash you down to let you have a look around and take from it whatever you want. Oh, and my Phoenix friend suggests to have a look around since apparently there is a hidden room with Salazar's books!"

In that moment, Lockhart, who had been pushed back by the force of the spell and was down, is getting back up. "Where am I?"

"Just stay quiet." Harry grumbles before he looks at Severus, "I was safe, safer than anyone else would have been and I was the only one who could find Draco because I can flash to persons." After that he glares to Draco, "And next time you're in trouble you tell me sooner."

"I couldn't." Draco blushes, "I was, I don't know hypnotised? I don't even remember doing anything!"

"Possessed." Harry sighs, "Not hypnotised."

"By whom?" Severus asks worriedly.

"By this." Harry grumbles holding up the book. "Which means I found what you and his father were looking for during Christmas, right? What was it doing there? Why hadn't he given it to Dumbledore?"

"Albus knew that he had it and they had agreed to leave it where it was so Lucius could pretend to be a spy." Severus explains. "If Lucius just hands it over without explanation how it disappeared there'd be hell to pay."

"We should get to Albus." Harry grumbles.

"Would someone care to tell me where I am, who all of you are and…Who am I?" Lockhart asks.

"Sadly, you're here, we're we and you're an idiot!" Harry replies angrily before leaving to explain to the old idiot who apparently didn't even check what kind of dark magic he left of Voldemort's just lying around somewhere and later will give Lucius a hell of a talking to as punishment that he didn't at least bloody warn his son to stay the hell away from certain books or to bloody keep them a safe distance from a minor!

Authors Note: Next chapter will show you everything that happens in Harry's third year. It's going to be a bit longer than this one since it will have a bit more parts detailed but the Holidays will be covered too but that is shorter even though the amount of grounding during that time will be much less then after second year. The big question though is, will Severus ever stop being overprotective of Harry and how will Harry recover from having to rescue Draco from nearly dying and him having gotten into that because he had missed his Harry? Will Harry become as overprotective as his dad or just grumble about Draco having been an idiot every chance he gets to remind him to never ever do something like that again? Also, this time you'll see a little about their Christmas together during that year and you can all guess what either of them are going to get! And will Severus finally complain about Harry holding back in class? So far, he can pretend that he doesn't know shit about class material and the rest of the spells due to the Phoenixes teachings and nothing about his power being that much bigger already. Will he manage to keep that up or not? And what will Severus do when he finds out? Ground him like usual? And why does he always ground him instead of taking the broom or something. But most of all, will Remus and Sirius be around? Will Harry get the marauders map? Will he find Peter Pettigrew? Will Peter escape and help Voldemort or will Harry with his little tricks be able to get the rat and keep it safe to free his godfather. If his godfather will be freed what will happen between him and Sirius? Will Sirius be able to pull himself together and be there for Harry or alienate him by being mean to Severus?