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Crazy Diaries and Scary Spiders

Okay, this Chamber of Secrets is now getting really dangerous. The worst thing that could possibly happen, just did. Hermione is now one of the Muggle-born's who have been petrified.

It was awful. I was sitting with the other Gryffindors in the stands of the Quidditch pitch, waiting for the coming match. We were all really excited. I was wondering where Hermione was, but I just assumed she was in the library or something. It sounds like her to miss a Quidditch match to catch up on school work.

Harry and the other Gryffindors has just walked out on to the field, when Professor McGonagall marched out just after them. She looked worried and I kind of guessed that something bad had happened. Then she walked over to Harry and I just knew. I knew what had happened.

McGonagall led me and Harry to the hospital wing and she was just lying there. It was like she had been frozen. But it made me angry. It has been going on for too long. Too many people were being petrified. Soon someone was going to die, just like last time. I'm just glad it wasn't Hermione. I don't really have that many friends here, you know. Well, not very good friends. Harry and Hermione are all I've got.

I should have made her come to the Quidditch pitch with me. Then none of this would have happened.

Before this happened, Harry found this old diary in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She claimed someone had thrown it at her (probably because she had been watching them, or something). Anyway, Harry picked it up, but there was nothing written in it. It was just an empty book. I thought he should have left it there (what use would it be?) but he was convinced there was something weird about it.

And it turns out he was right. One night, he decided to write in it and you know what it did? It wrote back! Talk about magic. I am pretty sure this book I'm writing in now is just a plain old book (which is unfortunate). I haven't found anything magical about it yet.

So, yeah, Harry was taken back in time, into this bloke known as Tom Riddle's memory. He went all the way back to the time the Chamber was open last time. Apparently this Tom Riddle had been the one to catch the culprit. And you will never guess who it was. It was Hagrid! You know, the part giant we go and visit all the time? He had opened it last time.

Well, that was what we thought, but it turns out Riddle framed him. So, after this revelation, Harry and I decided to go and talk to Hagrid ourselves. If he had opened it last time, maybe he would know how to close it.

We went down to his hut underneath Harry's Invisibility Cloak (I swear it is the most useful thing he owns) and we wanted to ask him questions. But before we could really get started, the Minister for Magic turns up. Here at Hogwarts. It was all very strange.

Apparently he was under the impression Hagrid had been the one to reopen the Chamber and had come to take him to Azkaban (the wizard's prison. It's the most horrible place ever, so I hear).

Harry and I were just standing there, helpless to do anything. But, do you know what he did? Left us a clue. And not just any old clue. He wanted us to follow the spiders. Spiders! Of all things, I have no idea why he chose that. I hate spiders. Ever since Fred and George turned my teddy bear into one, I have been terrified of them. Why do they need so many legs?

But Harry was determined and I suppose I had no choice. I had been everywhere else with him.

But, the only problem was, we couldn't find the spiders. There weren't any around. It was very strange.

Though, most unfortunately, after weeks (of me hoping I would never see one again), we found a trail of spiders leading in to the Forbidden Forest. So that just made it all worse. It's called the Forbidden Forest for a reason.

We followed the spiders deep in to the Forest. It was really dark and kind of creepy, but I knew we had to find answers. What if whoever/whatever was doing this to Hermione and the others, came back to finish them off? That thought made me keep going, until we eventually came to their home.

The spiders we had followed had been small, but the one Hagrid wanted us to talk to, was HUGE! I have never seen anything that big, ever! He called himself Aragog and considered Hagrid to be a friend. This did nothing but increase my fear. No beast Hagrid was friends with would mean we were safe.

As we spoke to Aragog, I saw more and more spiders (not quite as big, but still very big) closing in around us. Harry didn't seem to notice. This was the most terrifying thing I think I have ever done and that's saying something. Growing up with wizards is no easy life. Sometimes I wonder if Muggles have it easier.

Anyway, so while I was freaking out about the hundreds of spiders that were big enough to eat us whole, Harry was learning that Riddle had framed Hagrid. He never opened the Chamber. So that kind of left us back at square one.

And then after this, what does 'Hagrid's friend' do? He sets his bloody sons and daughters upon us. This is when Harry finally noticed we were in danger. We were surrounded, but just as they were about to take a bite, the car shows up. It just drove itself up to us and we climbed in.

If I hadn't been so worried about being eaten alive, I would have found it funny. But it was cool. That will teach mum when she decided to send me another Howler. If Harry and I hadn't driven the car to school, it wouldn't have been there to rescue us and we would be dead. Then she would have that conscience on her for the rest of her life, knowing the last thing she said to me was in that Howler.

But, yeah, the car saved us. I kind of wondered what had happened to it and now I know; it had been running wild in the Forest.

It was difficult, but we managed to escape. I am still so angry at Hagrid for sending us in there. What was he thinking? Did he want us to die? If he ever gets out of Azkaban, I will kill him myself.

We now also think that Myrtle was the girl who had died. It would make sense, really. The girl who had died fifty years ago had died in a bathroom. And Myrtle haunts a bathroom. But we're not sure. With all the extra protection going on around the school (because of the Chamber), we haven't been able to find a time to question her about it. But we must. We must so we can catch whoever is doing this and all the petrified people can be...unpetrified.

I can't believe I almost forgot. So, our second year is almost finished and in the third year we get to pick some of our own subjects. I really had no idea what I wanted to pick, but me and Harry picked the same. At least then, we would be in the same classes.

But it got me thinking, you know. All these lessons at Hogwarts will eventually get us careers in the future. I'm not really sure what I want to do. Being an Auror would be really cool, but I'm nowhere near good enough for that. You have to get really good marks to become an Auror. It would still be cool, though.

Maybe I could aim to become Minister for Magic. You don't have to be very bright for that. Just look at Cornelius Fudge...but, oh well, I still have a while to go before I have to make a decision. It just got me thinking.