Chapter Fourteen; The Diary

Hey guys! Sorry I never updated yesterday, but like I said, I've been extremely busy lately. Anyway, here is the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it!

After Harry's Easter holidays were over he returned to Hogwarts to find that Ginny was acting even more peculiar than usual, and six more muggleborn students had been petrified. One afternoon at lunch time, Ginny went over to Harry's table and sat down next to Ron.

"I have something to tell you." She began.

"What's that?" Harry asked her as Ginny simply just lowered her head and started to blush again.

"I know about what's been going on lately." She told him.

"Do you mean about the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry questioned her. "Do you know who's behind it? The attacks I mean." He said as she nodded slightly at him.

"Well then go on, tell me. Who is it?" he asked her before she raised her head again but still avoided actually looking at him.

"It's_" she began before Hermione burst through the doors and ran over to them breathing frantically.

"Harry! Ron! Come quick!" she cried as Ron groaned and rolled his eyes before they leapt up from the table and started chasing after her.

"This better be good, my sister was just going to tell us who the heir of Slytherin was!" he shouted at her angrily while they followed her back to the Gryffindor common room.

"Well I'm sorry, but there's just something that I had to show you." she began before she led them over to a table and pointed at the small black diary on top of it.

"A book?! We ran all this way for a book!?" Ron exclaimed with bewilderment and disbelief.

"It's just not a book Ron, look at the name on the front of it." She began before she picked it up and showed it to him.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle." He read. "Hang on, his name was on one of the trophies that I had to clean for my detention. He was awarded special services to the school in 1939."

"Exactly, which must have meant that the book was his." Hermione began.

"Brilliant Hermione, did you work that all out for yourself?" Ron asked her but she just simply scowled at him and ignored him before she opened it up.

"But there's only one problem," she began as she started flipping through it. "there's nothing written on any of the pages. It's all blank." She told them before she shut the book again. "I found it in the girl's bathroom in one of the toilets." She explained.

"Do you think that means that Tom Riddle or one of his descendants is back at Hogwarts?" Ron asked her.

"If that's true, that means that they could be the heir of Slytherin." Harry realized. "It's just too bad the voice that I've been hearing hasn't said anything about who it is. I just wish that you guys could hear it." He said when suddenly a lightbulb lit up over Hermione's head.

"Oh my God! I think I just understood something!" she cried before she started running away.

"Where are you going!?" Ron called over his shoulder at her.

"To the library! Don't worry I'll explain everything later!" she exclaimed with her voice draining out before she ran out of the portrait hole.

"Why does she need to go to the library for?" Harry wondered.

"Because that's what Hermione does." Ron began. "When in doubt, go to the library. The library knows all." He told him. "Well I better get back to the great hall and see if Ginny's still there. Then she can finish telling me who the heir of Slytherin is. See you later Harry!" he called before he turned around and ran away.

Harry looked at the book and studied it more closely while flipping through the pages himself before shutting it again. "Tom Riddle." He said to himself aloud as if trying to figure out if he had heard that name before. Then he decided to try something. He pulled out one of the chairs and pushed it into the table before opening the book and setting it down on top of it. He took out his quill and dabbed it in some ink before starting to write;

"My name is Harry Snape."

Then all of a sudden his eyes widened with disbelief and astonishment as his writing disappeared through the page and brand new writing appeared.

"Hello Harry Snape, my name is Tom Riddle."

A few moments later that writing also disappeared and Harry thought about what to write next and decided to write the very first thing that popped into his mind.

"Do you know anything about the Chamber of Secrets and whose been attacking everyone?"

He asked him and he waited for a few more moments for the writing to disappear before Riddle's response appeared.

"Yes, as a matter of fact I do."

He said as Harry's heart pounded against his chest eagerly with excitement before he started to dab in some more ink and then write back knowing that there was a possibility that the suspense would finally be broken.

"Can you tell me?"

Harry waited anxiously for his reply before he became disappointed and saddened by his response.

"No."

Harry was about to ask him why he couldn't, and if that meant that he was really the heir of Slytherin before some more writing suddenly appeared.

"But I can show you. Let me take you back about fifty years ago when the chamber was opened for the very first time."

He wrote as Harry started trying to figure out what he meant by that. All of a sudden the pages started automatically ruffling backwards before landing on a specific page that read June thirteenth on the top of it. A bright light suddenly shone out of the pages and Harry realized that he was being sucked into the book as the room slowly started to disappear. Then he found himself at the bottom of the staircase, only it wasn't what he remembered it to be.

Harry looked up and saw a small boy about his age that looked exactly like him minus the glasses and the obvious lightning bolt scar on his forehead. Although he was skinny and had short black hair, although his was tidy and he had dark brown eyes instead of green like Harry's. "Hullo there, can you please talk to me and tell me what happened?" he asked the boy whose gaze seemed to be fixed on someone or something.

"Excuse me, are you Tom Riddle?" he asked him but the boy continued ignoring him as some wizards started carrying a stretcher down the stairs of what appeared to be a body. They walked right past Harry as if he wasn't even there. That's when suddenly a much younger Dumbledore appeared in front of the boy.

"A lot of people are telling me that I should expel you Tom. Not only that, but a lot of parents have threatened to have us both arrested all because I believe in your innocence. Now, it would save us both an awful lot of trouble if you just told me the real person that's been doing this." Dumbledore said.

"Please sir, I'm telling the truth. It wasn't me who opened the Chamber of Secrtes,.." he began. "It was Hagrid." He said when all of a sudden Harry started breathing unsteadily. It couldn't be true! Hagrid would have never done anything that would have hurt anyone at all! However, that would explain why he had told Harry that he was expelled in his third year. However Dumbledore seemed to ponder this thought over for several seconds while he eyed Tom suspiciously.

He didn't actually believe him did he? "Is this true Tom? Was Hagrid the one who caused all of the muggleborn attacks, and the cause of Myrtle Warren's death?" he questioned him as Harry gasped.

"Moaning Myrtle." He realized as he whispered it under his breath. Tom nodded.

"Yes, it's true Professor." He told him. "I saw him setting a very large spider loose." He explained as Dumbledore seemed to study this over.

"Well in that case, I better go investigate this matter more thoroughly." He said before he turned around and walked away. That's when Harry finally understood what was going to happen. Hagrid was going to get his wand snapped in half and be expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, just like Hagrid had said.

A very special thanks to Cuika (sorry if I misspelled your name I forgot) for letting me know that the last chapter was a repeat. You guys have to let me know these things!