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Lacy here kids. Finally. Sorry for the delay. My computer died a spidery death and I had to get a new hard drive. But! I'm back now and the next two chapters of Heidi should come pretty fast cause I have them all written up. Yeah, a week with no computer gets a lot of actual writing done. I haven't physically written so much since high school three years ago. My wrist hates me. *pauses* Okay, rambling done. Onto the chapter. We've got the rest of the visit from Malfoy and the Minister and then into the Dark Forest...after Heidi almost snaps at Lockhart. *grins* That'll be fun. Kay, annoyingly long AN over. Have fun!

Disclaimer: I own Heidi.

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Heidi sat in the Ravenclaw common room, almost in a state of shock. She couldn't believe what she and Harry had seen, had heard. The Minister removed Hagrid, blaming him for the attacks at the school, the Governors, under Malfoy's control, had Dumbledore removed as Headmaster, placing McGonagall in charge of the school for the time being, and Harry and Heidi were no closer to finding out who was in control of the Chamber and the creature within.

"Heidi,"

Heidi looked up from her blank sketch page at Luna, who was wrapped in her blanket.

"Hey Luna," Heidi tried to smile. "you should be sleeping."

Luna sat beside her. "You too." she watched Heidi's face. "What happened when you went to Hagrid's?"

Heidi sighed. "Hagrid's been taken to Azkaban. The Minister is falling back on the past to solve the current attacks."

Luna shook her head. "But there's no evidence that Hagrid did anything. Just a memory from that Riddle person."

Heidi nodded. "I know. But that's not the worst part."

Luna frowned. "What could be worse?"

Heidi looked at her. "Dumbledore has been removed as Headmaster by Malfoy and the other Governors."

"They can't get rid of the Headmaster." Luna said. "The muggleborns won't stand a chance."

Heidi shook her head slowly. "None of us do."

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Heidi wanted him dead. Gone. Done.

"Let me go, Harry." Heidi growled. "I swear it won't take long."

Harry struggled to hold his sister back. "Yeah and neither will shipping you off the Azkaban after they snap your wand. Calm down, Heidi!"

"He's gloating about Hagrid being gone!" Heidi spun on her brother. "Saying he knew all along that Hagrid was guilty. I'm tired of the bastard's arrogance!"

"Heidi Lily Potter, keep your voice down." Tonks said, coming over to the two. "If someone hears you, you could get in a lot of trouble."

Heidi huffed, trying to calm down. "Tell me you don't think it was him, Aunt Dora."

"Of course I don't." Tonks said. "And neither do your uncle or godfather but going off and trying to kill a teacher isn't going to prove that to anyone."

Heidi crossed her arms. "It'll make me feel better."

Tonks and Harry shared an eye roll. They really needed to limit Heidi's time with Sirius.

"Can I trust you two to go back to your common rooms without an escort?" Tonks asked. She did trust them but McGonagall had asked her to patrol the halls, just in case.

Harry nodded before Heidi could answer. "Yes Aunt Dora, we'll go right now."

Tonks kissed them both on the head. "Good, be careful."

Harry grabbed Heidi's hand and yanked her down the hall. Once they'd made three turns, not heading anywhere near either of their common rooms, Harry stopped.

"I'll come for you at midnight again," Harry said. "be ready, we're going into the forest."

Heidi swallowed. "We're following Hagrid's advice, I take it." That advice being to follow the spiders. While Heidi wasn't afraid of them, she really didn't want to follow them into the Dark Forest.

Harry nodded. "We are."

Great.

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Heidi was shaking by the time they finally got back outside Ravenclaw. Spiders, huge honkin' spiders! And there were a lot of them! Good gods, did Hagrid really go out there with those things? Had he lost his ever loving mind? Heidi paused. Of course he had, he kept one as a bloody pet!

"Well we know one thing," Harry said.

Heidi looked at him. "Spiders really can grow to the size of a house, like Padfoot fears?"

Harry ignored that. "We know Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets. He was innocent."

Heidi crossed her arms. "Ah right, that." she frowned. "Wait, Harry. Aragog said the girl, killed fifty years ago, died in a bathroom." she looked at her brother. "What if she never left?"

Harry blinked, realization dawning on him. "Moaning Myrtle."

Heidi nodded. "It makes sense. She died fifty years ago and haunts the bathroom. That has to be where she died."

Harry nodded as well. "Alright, we'll find time to talk to her. See what she can tell us."

Heidi rubbed her eyes. "Okay. For now, I'm going to go have nightmares." she walked into Ravenclaw shaking her head. "Follow the spiders, if Hagrid ever gets out of Azkaban, I'll kill him."

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Yeah, I'm with Heidi, and Ron who said it in the movie, on that. Follow the spiders, coulda warned them it was a nest, Hagrid! *shakes head* Okay kids, let me know what you think, flame policy stands and thanks for reading.

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