Chapter 10-The writing on the wall

1 week after Harry had yelled at Dumbledore, Harry and his friends returned to their classes: with Harry, Hermione and Ron becoming the top students in second year and Ginny the top student of first year, as Halloween started everyone except Harry was looking forward to stuff their faces with candy, ice cream and having common room Halloween party, while Harry had gotten detention from Snape (the former was accused of cheating) and was forced to serve it with Lockhart. As classes became more challenging for the students except Harry, Hermione and Ginny they decided to start to help Ron catch up with the rest of the class and confine him to the library every break in class.

After class the night of Harrys detention, Harry said goodnight to his friends and left the dorm room with Ron who also had detention from throttling Malfoy at the beginning of the year, at the floor that leads to the Defense corridor, Harry said seeya to Ron and headed for the defense classroom, wondering why Snape isn't doing the detention himself, which got him thinking that Lockhart probly made sure that all of Harrys detention were served with him and that got thinking about how did Snape respond to that, definitely not well and may try to hurt him soon - though he would not care if he was hurt then Lockhart won't pull him to the front of class every defense class, after making his way threw the door, Lockhart looked up, saw Harry and said, "Ah Harry, you'll helping me answer my fan mail," that sentence made Harry give the look of unmistakable of horror, but there was nothing he could do about it so he got to work.

As Harry wrote a reply after reply to Lockharts fan girls, he became even further aware that Lockhart has no idea what he is doing, as all the info in the books are contradicting each other and no one seems to notice, after finishing the fan mail Harry was excused from the classroom and not wasting time with goodbyes he left the class, headed for the stairs and Gryffindor tower. After passing the fifth level, Harry notice that the floor was wet and had puddles forming, 'Odd I could've sworn that the floor was dry when I went down to detention, hmmm lets see why,' he thought, as he entered the hall and notice it was darker than it should be so he thought, 'Shadownine defensive feature and Pyronite offensive feature on,' then as Harrys body temp, rose and shadow matter formed around him making him appear bigger, he creating a limb of shadows and made a ball of fire appear in the palm of that shadow limb. As Harry walked threw the corridors, he stumbled upon a sign written in a crimson substance that looked like blood and it read: [The chamber of secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir beware.] slightly panicking Harry looked around, before his eyes locked onto Filch's cat, dangling by her tail and stiff as a board on a lamp fixture. It took Harry 10 minutes to calm down, realizing that the cat was petrified remove her from the fixture which at that point the omnitrix mechanical voice said, "Genetic and physical damage detected," then after a pause continued, "Repairing now," as a green light glowed and formed around the cat. 2 seconds later and the glow faded away, leaving a much younger looking Mrs. Norris looking up at Harry, whom was thinking, 'Werecat language feature on,' then he says in a cat like growl, "Mrs. Norris, are you okay?" the cat looked shocked, but was able to answer with a timid pur, "I'm fine Mr. Potter! though you should be in bed," then with a shudder Harry responded, "Just finishing up my detention with Lockhart," just as Mrs. Norris shuddered, Harry continued, "I was heading back to the Gryffindor common room when I found this floor flooded and then you dangling by your tail on that lamp fixture," pointing the fixture in question, but as then Mrs. Norris informed, "I had been patrolling for stragglers, when suddenly it went dark and then I woke up with you staring at me."

After 20 minutes of talking to Mrs. Norris, Harry was told to get moving to Gryffindor tower and in to bed by Mrs. Norris. While trying to sleep, Harry started to think about what Mrs. Norris said about her assailant, more specifically the gold reptilian eyes and the fact that she also has no clue on how she got on the lamp fixture. (Dumbledore also came around and saw the writing on the wall, asked a few questions and that was Harry was sent to bed.)