Harry POV:
I heard a rasp voice, Come here… Come here, I want to kill you.
When we got out of Transfiguration, Ron, Hermione, Emmett and I ran up to the Gryffindor tower. Alice or Edward wasn't in there, but Fred and George were.
"Have you seen Alice? Or Edward?" Emmett asked quickly.
"Uhh yeah, Alice muttered something about the Hospital Wing when she ran in here…" Fred stated.
"And before we could ask her anything, she ran off." George said, finishing Fred's thought.
"Hospital Wing?" I asked making sure that was where we needed to go.
"Ya, but Madam Pomfrey might not like all of you going together." Fred said looking over towards us again. "She is a picky old woman."
Hermione and Ron nodded, they remembered the time that Ron was bit by Norbert and after I defeated Quirell and was unconscious for three days, she was impatient about visitors.
"Well we should have Rosalie and Emmett go, Emmett is Jasper's brother and Rose is Alice's sister. They can report back to us." Hermione said, deep in thought.
I nodded, it was usually easier to go along with Hermione then argue with her.
Emmett nodded and ran out of the room, to get Rosalie who was probably in the library, she disliked being in the Slytherin Common Room.
Bella POV:
The school was in a panic, first Ms. Norris, (err, no one cared that she was petrified except for Filch.) and now Jasper. Alice stopped by briefly to tell me what happened as she knocked on the door, looking for her sister. Although I told her to look for her in the library, she just decided to go to the Hospital Wing, and told me to tell Rosalie not to worry about her.
Edward POV:
Alice stayed in the hospital room with me, and with petrified Jasper.
"Alice, what is the Chamber of Secrets? In detail, not just what you told me earlier." I asked the moist eyed girl that was sitting on the opposite side of the bed.
She sighed and looked down. "I guess you should know, I mean you wouldn't already know since you weren't born into the Wizarding World." She looked back up at me. "The Chamber of Secrets is deep under the Slytherin dungeons. There is a monster designated to purge the school of Muggle-born students, or wizards/witches that come from muggle parents. Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of the school, and founder of the Slytherin House built the Chamber before he left school." She paused, and looked around scared and confused. She continued. "No one knows what the, err, monster is, but it petrifies people, and, um, one person is thought to be killed, but there is another way that person could have been, uh, killed." She looked nervous now as she told me this and kept on looking around.
"So really, this 'creature' is going around, trying to kill people, because of their blood status?" I asked, looking down at my brother, who was only petrified.
"Yes, that pretty much sums it up." She told me looking more relaxed.
Emmett and Rosalie ran into the room and up to Jasper's bed, to Madam Pomfrey's despise.
"What happened to him?" Emmett asked looking at Jasper, who was staring straight ahead.
"Petrified by a monster from The Chamber of Secrets." Rosalie said looking down at Jasper. "At least he didn't get killed, only petrified."
Alice POV:
I was surprised at Rosalie knowing the answer, but she did know some dark magic things, but only because that was the only reading material in the house.
I heard a voice, but it had no source. It was the second time today that I heard it too, both times in this room. Once when I was in the middle of telling Edward about the Chamber, and just now. It said a different thing than before, the first time it said, Tell the muggle-born about me, go ahead, and then this time it said, I am going to kill Harry…
I couldn't figure out where the source was, and it was getting pretty worried about the whole ordeal.
I excused myself, and Rosalie followed me. It was probably a good idea to leave the brothers alone. We walked over to the Gryffindor common room, and after saying the correct password, the Fat Lady let both of us in. In the common room, there wasn't anyone, except for the gang that stayed behind. Someone had gone and fetched Bella, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred and George were sitting in the chairs, in a circle, in the middle of the common room.
As we walked in, everyone cocked there head towards us, and Fred and George summoned two chairs to the circle where there were some openings.
"Is Jasper ok?" A worried Hermione asked as soon as we sat down.
"He's only petrified." That had to count for something.
"By what?" Harry asked, knowing nothing about the chamber.
Fred spoke up, "By whatever is in the Chamber. Maybe it isn't a legend anymore, maybe it is real."
"I would think so, or whoever is doing this is sick minded." Ron added to the conversation.
The conversation went on like this, and then switched to Quidditch. I froze in my seat, as did Harry when I heard that stupid voice again. Come here… Come here so I can kill you.
I remembered the voice before, and knowing that it was meaning Harry. When everyone but him left, I looked over at him, beckoned him to go outside with me. He followed me out into the corridor.
"You heard that voice." We both said at the same time, pointing at each other.
"Ok, well obviously we both know that the voice is talking, but what is it?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, but I keep on hearing it, I heard it twice in the Hospital Wing. It said to reveal itself to Edward and then it said," I gulped and looked down. "That it wants, and expects that it will, kill you."
He looked over at me with a pained expression. "Really? You've heard more of what it speaks then me; I've only heard it repeat the phrase that it said in the common room."
"Weird and we are the only ones, at least out of our group and the ones in the Hospital Wing that heard it." I said, musing over the fact. Then I had a brainwave. "Can you talk to snakes?"
He looked uncomfortable with that question, "Yes, why?"
I looked over at him. "I can too, and we are the only ones that can hear it, don't you get it? The thing that is talking to us is some sort of serpent like creature."
"So, this creature is a serpent?"
"Yes." We heard Filch in the hallway, coming closer. We quickly awoke the Fat Lady, told her the password, and went our separate ways to our dorms.
When I walked inside, everyone was asleep, I settled down into my bed, and quickly fell asleep.
The next day, right before we went to Transfiguration, I received a note from Dumbledore:
Alice,
I would like you to meet me in my office as soon as Transfiguration is over.
Dumbledore
PS: Lemon drops are sour.
Knowing that getting into Dumbledore's office had a password, I assumed that was the password at the bottom of the note. As soon as Transfiguration was done, I started heading towards Dumbledore's office, only to be stopped by Harry.
"Does Dumbledore…?"
"Yes."
We were silent as we walked up to Dumbledore's office, gave the gargoyle the password, and walked in.
"Ahh, Harry and Alice, I am glad you have arrived together." Dumbledore said, noticing our arrival.
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