Chapter 25

"Hey guys, I'm going down to the dungeons to see the headless hunt and try to talk to some of the ghosts. It'll be wicked; all the stories that we can learn and all that!" said Harry.

"Cool! I'm coming," said Jamie and Hermione at the same time. They began walking out laughing and having a good time. Harry and Jamie have the day off; Tom had taken on another part time employee so they only work once a week. It seems the man knew that they weren't getting enough sleep.

"Wait for me! Don't leave me on my own!" yelled Draco as he going after them, causing them to laugh all the more at how Draco sounded. Draco screwed up his face at them before laughing a proper laugh with them.

They made their way down to the dungeons shivering at the cold. They started to regret their decision to come when their stomach started to rumble. Instead of being with everyone else eagerly waiting on the Halloween feast, they were walking along the dungeons.

It was exactly seven o'clock when Harry whispered, "It's been eleven years since our lives changed!" said Harry to Jamie.

"What do you mean?" asked Hermione curiously.

"It was the day our parents stopped caring about us," said Jamie sadly.

"What! Do you mean they only started neglecting you because your brother?" asked a shocked Draco suddenly glad that his father only wanted him to get good grades.

"Yes. We didn't defeat the darkest wizard of our age so we're not good enough to share a room with our brother or eat with them," said Harry bitterly. He hated his parents and just wished he could take his sister and leave the house permanently. He was glad that they had gone this summer. It had been the best one he had ever had.

"Your parents are evil," said Hermione to both of them. She could hardly believe that her friends were abused; she didn't want to think on what they had gone through. She would hate it if her parents ignored her or didn't praise her work.

"Yes, funnily enough, our family thinks we're the ones that are evil," said Jamie quietly and they ended the conversation as they entered the death day party. Nearly Headless Nick was already there.

They were greeted with an incredible sight. The dungeons was full of hundreds of pearly- white, translucent people, mostly drifting around a crowded dance floor, waltzing to the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws played by an orchestra on a black draped platform. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight blue with a thousand more black candles. Their breath rose in a mist before them; it was like stepping into a freezer.

"I'm going to look around!" said Harry casting a warming charm on himself. He walked around the room, looking at the different ghosts that were there.

"Yeah, me too!" said Jamie as she walked around. Hermione followed her and Draco walked towards Harry. He wasn't a follower but he didn't want to be left with ghosts for company and he didn't want follow the girls.

"Let's go the other way," muttered Draco.

"Why?" asked Harry looking at Draco curiously.

"I just saw Moaning Myrtle. From what I've heard she haunts the girls' bathroom on the second floor. They had to close it because of her. I heard the girls moaning about her popping up when they were in the middle of doing the toilet." said Draco trying to keep a straight face, soon he couldn't and they started laughing their heads off.

"Oh...that...was....a...good...one," wheezed Harry in-between laughs.

"Yeah," said Draco as he stopped laughing and let his pounding heart calm down.

"What are you two laughing about?" asked Jamie curiously.

"Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the girls' bathroom," said Draco.

"Oh," said Jamie and Hermione together.

They were about to move when Myrtle looked at them suspiciously before she said to them, "you're laughing at me," she muttered as a pearly white tear making its way down her face.

"How are you Myrtle? It's nice to see you out of your toilet for a change," said Hermione with a sickly smile. Myrtle just sniffed. Draco and Harry had to stop themselves from laughing. They decided to change the topic before she started to cry.

"Miss Granger was just talking about you," said Peeves out for some fun tonight.

"Saying how nice you looked tonight!" butted in Jamie before throwing a nasty look at Peeves. He looked shocked that someone had stood up to him. And from that moment he gave them his respect and it was deserved.

"Don't you think I don't know what people call me behind my back? Fat ugly miserable moaning moping Myrtle!" yelled Myrtle before she screeched and went through the ceiling.

Just then, Nearly Headless Nick came over and asked, "Are you enjoying yourself?"

"Yes," said Harry and he truly had enjoyed himself; he and his sister didn't celebrate Halloween because it was the day that messed up their lives.

"Not a bad turn out," said Nick proudly. "Its nearly time for my speech," he finished. Just then, the place quiet down. Harry didn't want to hear the man moan and shout so he started talking to some of the ghosts that weren't paying attention. They were bored out of their minds after all it was the same thing each year.

"...Grindelwald was changing the place for the better, but some people one hundred years ago didn't agree and they hunted the man down and killed him. The story changed and they made it sound like he was a dark lord. He killed people who deserved it! He would never hurt an innocent soul! He was good for the world," said one of the ghosts who had died after the war with Grindelwald.

"Really?" asked Harry in wonder, the others were looking at the ghost in awe.

"Oh aye, best thing that could've happened!" said the ghost.

"Then why did they make him out to be a dark lord?" asked Jamie curiously.

"Because to them that what he was. He was dark as they could get, he killed people who deserved it, and would've became Minister of Magic! If they hadn't killed him! And, his wife Annie Evans was a nice woman; after her husband died, she changed her children's' names to Evans before moving," said the man.

"Did you just say Evans?" asked Jamie shakily.

"Yes."

"What's wrong?" asked Draco.

"Our mother is an Evans. Is it possible that we're pureblood? Is it possible that we have family from our mother's side?" asked Harry curiously.

"What happened to the children?" asked Jamie to the ghost.

"The daughter married and she had children. One was a squib and they knew she wouldn't be brought up happily so they gave her to a couple who would love her and look after her. The squib married Alan Granger."

"What!" said Hermione shakily.

"Well, it looks like you're not a mudblood after all Hermione!" said Draco patting her on the back.

"That means you'll get the Evan's money. It might be a possibility that she can't get any access to it at all!" said Harry to Hermione.

"Yeah," said Jamie nodding her head.

"We need to look up our family tree," muttered Harry excitedly.

"How come we have never thought of that?" asked Hermione.

"Don't know but let's go!" said Harry dragging his friends away, yelling his thanks back at the ghost before they made their way through the halls.

Just as they were making way to their room, a voice entered the corridor, making Jamie and Harry freeze and causing Hermione and Draco to bump into them, toppling them all over.. Jamie and Harry started running following the voice, Draco and Hermione following them wondering what was wrong with their friends. Feeling along the walls was certainly not their normal behavior.

"Let me kill you....kill...time to kill...smell...blood...rip...kill."

They ran around the corner they had saw their friends go in, only to bump into them again, only this time they didn't fall over. They gasped at the sight that met them, writing against the wall.

The chamber of secrets has been opened enemies of the heir beware!

"Let's get out of here. We don't want to be caught here trust me!" said Draco who had gone sickly white when he had seen the writing and remembering what his own father had told him about the chamber.

"Too right," muttered Harry and Jamie together they had read Hogwarts a History so many times; they knew of it by heart. They knew what the chamber of secrets was, but before they could get their legs in motion, the whole school came around both corners. They stood their petrified that they were going to get expelled, for being caught next to the scene of the crime.

"Make way! Make way!" yelled the annoyed voice of Argus Filch as he tried to get past the crowd of children.

When he saw Mrs. Norris his eyes widened before his hands went over his face, in horror, seeing his own cat hanging from a hook, used for lights. His eyes opened and looked at all four of them before snarled.

"You!" screeched the demented man who wanted blood. "You killed my cat, you murdered my cat! I'll kill you...I'll kill you!"

"Argus!" yelled Professor Snape, as he, the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall arrived at the scene. He didn't like people shouting at his favorite students at all.

Dumbledore went over to the bracket and unhooked Mrs. Norris before asking them all to follow him, "Everyone follow me, you too, Miss Potter, Miss. Potter, Miss granger and Mr. Malfoy," he said looking at them in disappointment. He had seen the magic they could do, and he wasn't taking any chances.

"My office is nearest, headmaster - just upstairs and around the corner please feel free…" said Lockhart.

"Thank you Gilderoy," said the headmaster as he walked away. Gilderoy looking important as always followed, then McGonagall and Snape soon followed, only after making sure his students were alright. He knew they didn't do it; he had seen the shock on their faces at the accusation as well as the hurt.

Thank you for editing this hen! well what do you think? will they end up expelled? or will Snape come to their defence? and stick? R&R