The Same World
by Healer Pomfrey
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
A story with small, daily updates! COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC.
It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, go and find something else to read or write your own story to your liking!
When the world around him stopped spinning around, Harry eyed his surroundings with curiosity. He still seemed to be at Hogwarts, as he could recognise her familiar stone walls around the room that he found himself inside. Before he could determine where the room that was equipped with old-fashioned furniture could be, the house-elf spoke up.
"I'm sorry for abducting yous, Harry Potter. I is Lisa, Hogwarts' elf, and Hogwarts ordered me to brings Harry Potter here. You cans speaks to her now."
'Hogwarts?' Harry wondered, eyeing the elf in disbelief.
"Hello my boy." Suddenly, a voice which seemed to belong to an old woman penetrated his ears. "I'm sorry for having Lisa bring you here, but I really need your help."
"Hogwarts?" Harry asked with a combination of confusion and excitement. "Is that really you, the castle, speaking to me?"
"Yes dear," the old lady replied in a soft voice. "You are now in my founders' Parlour, the only room where you can speak to me, freely. At all other places, you have to put your hand against the wall in order to communicate with me."
"Thank you so much for inviting me here, Hogwarts," Harry replied in amazement. "Err, you said something that you needed my help. What can I do for you?" he then asked, wondering how he'd be able to assist a castle, which was about one thousand years old and had so far managed without his help.
"You might not know this, but Salazar's familiar Amaterasu is still living in his Chamber of Secrets," Hogwarts began to explain, causing Harry's eyes to widen. "Salazar used to cast a charm over my grounds to prevent students and teachers from dying by looking into her large, yellow eyes. However, the charm has to be renewed once a year and, as you probably can imagine, no one has re-cast it for several hundred years."
"How can I cast that spell?" Harry asked, eagerly.
"That I don't know," Hogwarts replied in a grave voice. "There are two possibilities that you might want to check. One would be to ask Amaterasu if she, by chance, knows the incantation. The other would be to search Salazar's library. Amaterasu will be able to show you how to get into the library."
"Excuse me, Hogwarts," Harry spoke up in confusion. "What kind of animal is Amaterasu?"
"She's a basilisk," Hogwarts informed him, sounding as if she was smiling. "She's big, but she's a real cutie," she then added and promised, "If you let me know when you go to see her, I'll inform her and ask her to turn her eyes white, so that they won't harm you."
"All right then, I'll do that during the weekend then," Harry promised, confirming that Hogwarts would show him the way into the Chamber of Secrets.
"There's another thing that I'd like you to do," Hogwarts then continued and explained about a red haired girl that owned a black diary. "The diary is possessed by a very evil wizard. He was also the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets and made Amaterasu kill a student fifty years ago."
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It was almost midnight, when Harry returned to his dormitory after promising Hogwarts to come back with his friends during the weekend. He was still stunned from the story about Tom Riddle's Horcruxes that Hogwarts had told him. 'So that's why he's not dead yet,' he thought in understanding, as he quickly changed into his pyjamas and scrambled into bed, when a sudden thought crossed his mind. 'Will Ginny hand over the diary without making a ruckus?' he wondered. 'Probably not. Maybe I should tell someone, although I don't really want anyone involved in this. Oh well, first thing in the morning, I'll go to McGonagall and speak with her about Ginny and the diary,' he finally resolved, before he drifted off to sleep.
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Professor McGonagall was still in her bath robes with her hair loosely hanging down, when she opened the door for Harry.
"Mr. Potter," she said in apparent surprise, "what happened?"
Deciding that he trusted his head of house in contrary to the headmaster, Harry told her the truth about Lisa abducting him and Hogwarts giving him advice how to stop what was happening with the Chamber of Secrets.
"Harry, are you sure that this conversation has really happened?" McGonagall finally asked in clear disbelief. "Could it not have been a dream?"
Preventing himself from rolling his eyes at the professor, Harry confirmed that he was absolutely certain about this. "I only waited until the morning, because I didn't want to disturb you at midnight," he added, firmly.
McGonagall replied pensive for a moment, before she decided, "I'll speak with Miss Weasley and get the diary from her. As to your visit to the basilisk, I'd appreciate it if you took Professor Snape with you." Apparently noticing Harry's incredulous look at her suggestion, she explained, "He is an adult wizard who would be able to protect you if the need arose, and I'm sure that Salazar Slytherin's library would be a treasure trove for him."
'I won't be able to take Connie with me then,' was Harry's first thought at the professor's suggestion. 'She's going to kill me.' "I'm sorry, Professor, but I'd prefer to go there just with my friends," he replied, hesitantly.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Potter, but I can't allow that," McGonagall informed him in a strict voice. "This is much too dangerous, even if I assume that we can trust Hogwarts to not lead you into peril."
"All right," Harry reluctantly agreed. "Snape won't believe me anyway though."
"I shall speak with him," McGonagall promised. "When did you intend to go to the Chamber?"
"On Saturday morning," Harry replied, inwardly sighing at the prospect of taking the Potions Master with him. "Professor, could you please not tell anyone about my connection to Hogwarts? I don't want the headmaster or the other professors to know, especially not the headmaster," he added as an afterthought.
"If the diary really is a Horcrux, which it probably is, as I can't imagine Hogwarts to lie about this, I'll ask Professor Flitwick if the goblins have a way to get rid of it," McGonagall promised. "If not, I'll have to ask Professor Dumbledore, but I don't have to tell him about your involvement if you don't want it."
"Thank you, Professor," Harry replied and returned to the common room. Burying his head into a book, he unobtrusively observed how his head of house strode through the common room towards the girls' dormitories a few minutes later and returned with a black book in her hands and Ginny in tow.
Later the same day, Professor McGonagall told him that Professor Flitwick had taken the diary to the goblins, who had promised to destroy it.
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On Saturday morning, when Harry was just half through his breakfast whilst fighting a telepathic fight against Connie about accompanying him to the Chamber of Secrets, when Professor Snape strode by the Gryffindor table and instructed him to follow him.
Reaching the entrance hall, the professor cast a Silencing charm around the two of them and asked, "Potter, is it true that Hogwarts suggested that you check out Slytherin's library within the Chamber of Secrets?"
"Yes sir," Harry replied, simply.
"I shall accompany you then," Snape decided, quirking an eyebrow in silent question.
'Sorry Connie, I can't even take Hermione and Neville with me,' Harry continued his previous conversation. 'I need to go there with Professor Snape.'
tbc...
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