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'Harry!' Ron called back. 'Lockhart's memory charm backfired! He hasn't got a clue who he is!'

I laughed it was about time, there was no way he'll still be considered a great wizard after we tell everyone about what a huge fraud he is and what he tried to do! Father is going to love this! Unfortunately that also means that Harry and I are own our own for this mission as it's cleary impossible for either of us to get to the other side.

'Great!' Harry replied. 'Are you alright?'

'Yeah I'm fine.'

'Ok, start to try and dig the rocks out enough so that we can come back through with Ginny.'

'Ok!' Then Harry and I continued walking.

'He seems to be awfully calm about this.' I murmured.

'Yeah, doing something helps to take his mind off just how serious this is.' That was when I stopped him, I could feel his nerves and I knew it wasn't just because we could be killed by a giant snake at any time.

'You're worried about the school aren't you?' I asked putting my hand on his shoulder. He nodded slowly.

'If the Basilisk isn't caught then they'll have to close the school, what am I supposed to do then? Hogwarts is my home!'

'I'm sure the teachers will do everything they can to keep Hogwarts from closing, but right now we need to focus on getting Ginny back and who knows we might be able to help get rid of this basilisk. After all you can speak parsletongue.'

'So can you.'

'I don't think the others believe that.' I replied, dropping my gaze.

'Who cares, you know and I know and that's what matters, besides they'll believe you eventually.' He smiled and we continued on.

Soon we came to what looked like a large round door with a lock that consisted of several snakes. Harry spoke to it in parsletongue and in a way I was thankful that it was such a rare gift because all of the parsletongue passwords were simply "open" which made it easy to gain access to such areas.

Once inside the strange chamber I was surprised to see how baron it was and how much water there was. The edges of the chamber were lined with giant statues of snake heads with their mouths open, revealing their sharp fangs and long forked tongues. There was a wide stone walkway that went towards the other end and stopped just before a large pond and a giant statue of Salazar Slytherin's face.

'Oh no.' Harry whispered. I gasped as I saw the unconscious body of Ginny lying on the wet ground and we ran over to her. 'Ginny!' He called. He dropped his wand and we kneeled beside her. 'Come on Ginny, please don't be dead! Wake up! Wake up!' He begged, but she didn't move. I felt her wrist for a pulse, Harry watched worried until he gave me a small nod that she was still alive.

'She won't wake.' We looked up terrified at a boy who looked like he would be in sixth year.

'You.' Harry realised. I glanced at him waiting for an explanation of who this other guy was, but I didn't receive it. 'Tom? Tom Riddle? What do you mean she won't wake?' He walked towards us briskly.

'She's not-'. I started.

'She's still alive, but only just.'

'A-are you a ghost?' Harry asked.

'A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years.' He replied. Harry gently touched Ginny's hand.

'She's as cold as ice.' He murmured worried I watched confused as "Tom" picked up Harry's wand. 'Tom you've got to help us, there's a basilisk-'

'It won't come until it's called.' He interrupted. Harry stood up and looked at him warily.

'Give me my wand Tom.'

'You won't be needing it.' He replied.

'Look we've got to get Ginny out of here, we've got to save her!' Harry said.

'I'm afraid I can't do that Harry.' I stared at him concerned. 'You see as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger.' That was when I realised what was happening. 'That's right, it was Ginny Weasley that opened the Chamber of Secrets.'

'No, she wouldn't.' Harry shook his head.

'She couldn't.' I added horrified.

'Ginny Weasley set the Basilisk on the mudbloods, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls.'

'Why?' I asked.

'Because I told her to, you'll find I can be very persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing, she was shall we say in a kind of trance. Still the power of the diary began to scare her and she tried to dispose of it in the girls bathroom, then who should find it? But you. The very person I was most anxious to meet.' He started circling around Harry and I had to fight my desire to attack him right there and then.

'Why did you want to meet me?' Harry asked glaring at him.

'I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could, so I showed you my capture of that brainless oaf Hagrid to gain your trust.'

'How dare you say that about Hagrid!' I snarled.

'Hagrid is my friend and you framed him didn't you?' Harry replied angrily.

'It was my word against Hagrid's, Dumbledore was the only one who believed he was innocent.'

'I bet Dumbledore saw right through you.' Harry grinned slightly.

'He did keep an annoyingly close watch on me after that. I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the chamber again while I was still at school so I decided to leave behind a dairy, preserving my sixteen year old self in its pages so that one day I would be able to lead another to finish Salazar Slytherins noble work.'

'Well you haven't finished it this time; in a few hours the mandrake draught will be ready and everyone who was petrified will be alright again.' Harry said.

'Haven't I told you? Killing mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now my new target has been you. How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing, but a scar while lord Voldemort's powers we're destroyed?'

'Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time.'

'Voldemort is my past, present and future.' He then turned and started writing flaming letters in the air using his wand.

'Tom Marvolo Riddle". He then swished it and the letters rearranged themselves to become "I am lord Voldemort"

'You? You're the Heir of Slytherin? Voldemort.'

'Surely you didn't think I was going to keep my filthy muggle fathers name. No. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world.'

'Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!' I said angrily.

'Dumbledore's been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!'

'He'll never be gone; not so long as those who remain are loyal to him!' Harry proclaimed.

At the sound of a screech we all looked up toward the entrance as Dumbledore's phoenix flew in carrying something.

'Fawkes?' I said quietly, confused as to why the bird was here. He then dropped the sorting hat into Harry's hands and flew off.

'So this is what Dumbledore send his great defender: a song bird and an old hat.' Voldemort sneered. He then walked to the edge of the pool in front of Salazar's statue and stuck out his hand. 'Aya sala selethane.' We stared as the giant mouth of the statue slowly sunk down. 'Lets match the power of lord Voldemort, heir of Slytherin against the famous Harry Potter.' Then out of the darkness appeared a long pointed mouth full of sharp fangs, Harry and I glanced at each other and ran back towards the entrance. 'Parsletongue won't save you now, it only obeys me!'

Great, that really helps, what's the point in having creepy snake-talk powers if you can't use them to control giant mutant snakes that want to kill you? I wondered. The basilisk chased us and I listened as it let out what almost sounded like a roar while we continued to pound our feet on the wet stone as we ran.

'Careful you don't want to slip!' Just as I said that my feet lost traction and I skidded across the ground.

'Rose!' Harry kneeled beside me and we braced ourselves as the basilisk loomed over us ready to rip us apart. A screech pierced the air and Fawkes flew into the chamber again. Watching the shadows on the roof we witnessed Fawkes attack the basilisk, poking and tearing at its eyes.

'No!' Voldemort shouted. 'Your bird may have blinded the basilisk, but it can still hear you!' Harry helped me up and after taking a step backwards and hearing our footsteps, I understood exactly what he meant the water made it impossible to move silently.

'Run!' I commanded and we sprinted off again, into the old tunnels, it surged forward and crushed old bits of rock and stalagmites that we had barely brushed past. I scrunched my face as we splashed through puddles giving away our position only to hear the monster not ten meters behind us.

I could hear my heart pumping and blood rushing in my ears as we sprinted through the damp tunnels, constantly glancing over my shoulders to see where the beast was and cringing as I noticed several rats on the ground. I freaked out when we came to a dead end. Bars blocked the end of the tunnel so we could go no further.

'What do we do now?' I asked my voice a strained whisper.

'Stay silent.' He hissed as we heard the basilisk slithering towards us. I backed as far into the bars as I could and bit down on my lip to hold back my a scream when the long pointed face of the basilisk appeared less than a meter in front of us. It moved its head blindly as if trying to see again, sliding slowly forward opening is mouth as it came close enough that we could feel is hot rancid breath on our faces and Voldemort's words replayed in my head.

"Your bird may blinded the basilisk, but it can still hear you!"

It gave me an idea, I silently slid down and picked up a small rock that sat by my feet, which I then tossed down the tunnel and it rolled into another part of it tapping and boudin on the ground as the sound reverberated off the walls. The basilisk turned its head and headed in the direction of the sound. Once we were sure it was far enough away we slipped out and made our way back to the main part of the chamber where Ginny still lied unconscious and the young memory of Voldemort stood next to her. Once again Harry dropped to his knees beside her and felt her hand.

'Yes Potter, the process is almost complete. In a few minutes Ginny Weasley will be dead and I will cease to be a memory. Voldemort will return, very much alive.'

'No.' I shook my head. 'We won't let you restart your reign of terror, you took everything from us and I have no intention of letting you do the same to others.'

The basilisk then burst out of the water in front of Slytherin's statue towering above us all, thrashing its head around roaring. I watched as Harry's gaze flickered to the sorting hat as it now glittered and shone and much to our surprise a glittering silver sword appeared sticking out of it. Harry bravely grabbed it and pointed it at the basilisk before running over to Slytherin's statue and I watched shocked as he started to climb it.

'He won't survive this time.' Voldemort smirked. I screamed as the Basilisk reached up and bit to stone right where Harry was standing.

'Harry!' Luckily he managed to duck just in time, but the basilisk struck again, leaving Harry gripping the stone with one hand as he dangled dangerously. He used his strength and kept going until he reached the top and stood upon Slytherin's head, pointing the sword upon the impending creature. The snake moved forward and Harry who slashed it across the face, I grinned as the snake recoiled, but is retreat did not last long and it opened its mouth bearing its teeth hissing. Once again Harry tried to slash its face, but it lurched forward and knocked him over.

My heart dropped and I waited to see if he was alright, then I noticed the sword about to fall of the edge and gasped when he slide forward grabbed it, then he stood up and thrust it through the roof of the basilisks open mouth so far that it shot up through its head, the tip glistening with blood. Then I gasped as Harry yelled out and clutched his arm as he removed the sword and I saw what looked to be a fang from the basilisk in his arm! He pulled it out and sluggishly climbed down. While the basilisk swayed this way and that screaming and howling as it came crashing down with its head lying upside down on the stone.

I rushed to my friend and watched as he limply dropped the sword and it clattered to the ground falling into my arms. I let him lean weakly on me as I helped over to Ginny and he collapsed by her side, breathing heavily. I glared up at Voldemort who was smirking down upon us.

'Remarkable isn't it? How quickly the basilisks venom penetrates the body. I guess you have little more than a minute to live, you'll be with your dear mudblood mother soon Harry.' My face fell and I kneeled beside Harry, gripping his hand as he turned slightly and caught my eye. 'Funny the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl.' He sneered. Then I grabbed the diary opening it and took the fang from Harry, I saw horror flash across Voldemort's face as I held the fang menacingly above the book that had started all this. 'What are you doing?' He asked uncertainly, I lowered the fang. 'Stop! No!'

Thrusting it into the book, I watched as blood-like ink poured out of it and a gaping whole appeared in Voldemort's chest from which light shone through. He began to scream and I stabbed a place in the opposite page, causing his face to twist in agony as light shone though his gaping mouth. The holes started widen and I turned back to the cover then holding the fang above my head I thrust it down with all of my anger, all of my hate and all of my pain driving it down into the dairy for the final time and holes opened up all over his body and he exploded into a million sparks.

I smiled to myself, I just defeated the wizard who taken so much from me and my friend and it felt so good to have revenge. I then gasped Ginny's eyes shot open and she sat up gawping at us.

'It was me, but I swear I didn't mean to, Riddle made me and- Harry you're hurt.'

'Don't worry about me, but you need to get to get yourself out. Follow the chamber and you'll find Ron, Rose will help you.' He said glancing at me. I looked at Ginny before turning my attention to my friend, there was no way I was just going to leave him here to die!

'You're coming with us, even if I have to carry you out, I'm not going to leave you here.' I out my hand on his shoulder.

'N-no, the two of you need to get out. J-Just leave me here, there's no way you can carry me.'

'I'm not just going to abandon you to die down here.' Tears sprang to my eyes. Then the same shrill squawk that I had already heard several times tonight filled the air and Dumbledore's red phoenix flew in over to us and landed beside Harry.

'You were brilliant Fawkes, I just wasn't quick enough.' Harry gave the bird a weak smile. Fawkes then made a soft noise that almost sounded like a coo and bent forward over Harry's wounded arm, squeezing his eyes shut the bird made small glistening tears fall from his eyes which landed on the bloody flesh. To our amazement the wound been to shrink and heal until there was almost no evidence of it ever being there at all.

'Of course phoenix tears have healing powers, thanks you Fawkes.' I smiled and hugged Harry, who happily hugged me back. Then we looked at Ginny who was still shaking slightly.

'It's ok Ginny its over.'

'It's just a memory.' I joked. We then got up and walked back through the chamber to the entrance where Ron had cleared enough of the rocks for us to climb back through.

'Ron!' Ginny grinned and hugged her brother fiercely.

'Ginny!' He sighed happily. 'I was worried sick.'

'That's a first.' I whispered nudging Harry, who stifled a giggle.

'Are you two alright? What happened?' Ron asked smiling at us.

'We're fine and we'll tell you everything everything when we get out of here.' Harry assured him.

'Alright, but uh... How do we get out?'

'That's easy.' I replied. 'Fawkes can fly us out, phoenixes can carry incredibly heavy loads.'

It was true and after forming a chain and nearly forgetting Lockhart Fawkes flew us out of the chamber back up into the girls bathroom, I rolled my eyes as Lockhart spoke.

'I'm flying! This is just like magic!' He called and it echoed around the chamber, but I couldn't help whooping as we saw up towards the light that now streamed through the bathroom windows.

Once we were out we said "hi" to Myrtle, who seemed somewhat sad that none of us died during our adventure so we could "share the bathroom with her", but all the same we then walked to Dumbledore's office and explained what happened to Ron and Ginny, boy did we have a story to tell everyone. What will the teachers think? What will Hermione think?