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A/N: Okay sorry for the delay, in this chapter we get to see what happens with Daphne' birthday, however there won't be a lemon, and why will be clear as the chapter progresses. I hope you enjoy the chapter, and once again thank you for all your support.

Hogwarts Charms Classroom

Harry dived behind the now upturned desk, Professor Flitwick had set up a type of obstacle course for him to navigate, and had charmed several dummies to act as attackers. The object for Harry to reach the goal and take out all the targets. The dummies at the start of the course were easy but to make things more challenging Flitwick had charmed each dummy with a different set of difficulty. He was halfway through the course. According to Flitwick this was a test to see just how much he knew and put him in a situation where he had more than one opponent and not a clear sight of the targets

Harry rolled behind one of the desks and fired off several spells which impacted the dummies shield, he then rolled again for cover as the dummies retaliated with two spells of his own. The dummies, of course, had been charmed to use none lethal spells but from the mark, it had left on the upturned desk it was still quite powerful.

Flitwick watched silently with a critical eye, so far the boy had exceeded his expectations, the dummies he was now facing were charmed with year six and year seven spells, if he could overcome these then he would up the level to Junior auror level. He grinned as Harry finally took down the dummy and then moved on to the last one in his path.

Harry was beginning to slow down, he knew that he could take all these dummies out if he was allowed to use any of the curses he knew, but he didn't want to use any dark curses in case it caused the dueling master to have second thoughts about training him. This is what he needed to be put in situations like these, so he would be prepared to take on Voldemort when the time came.

Flitwick checked the sands on his desk, the had almost run out, finally, the last grain fell. "And time, that is it." The boy hadn't managed to complete the course but he had managed to get over half-way, so it was still an impressive feat in itself. "Well done Harry, that was very impressive, although you didn't complete the course you still did better then I thought you did. We will try again in a months time. Now I understand you said you had something you needed to do tonight, so I suggest we leave it there for this evening."

Harry nodded, he did have something planned tonight. It was Daphne birthday today, he had ordered a necklace and earring set for her. The jewels used in the set were emeralds and it had been delivered to her this morning at Breakfast. There were several ooh and ahh from those who could see the set, it was clear the set was of the highest quality, Harry noticed Daphne turned her head to the Gryffindor table and mouthed a silent thank you. The surprises were not over though, Harry knew there was one place Daphne had wanted to explore, and so he had planned to take her down to the Chamber this evening. There they would explore and then have dinner in the Chamber which Dobby and several other elves had been cleaning out. But there was no way he was meeting Daphne like this, he needed a shower and a clean set of clothes before he went to pick Daphne up from the Snake Pit.

Slytherin Common room

Daphne was sat next to Tracey, she was admiring her new necklace that Harry had bought her, she was getting more than few jealous stares from the other girls in her house, however, Daphne didn't care what they thought. Harry had informed her to be ready and not to go to the Great hall for the evening meal, as he had something special planned. Daphne wondered what Harry had planned, she knew what had happened with Hermione's birthday, honestly, this last week had been nothing but her bragging about how wonderful it was, and how good Harry was, and how he made her first time special for her. She was still nervous about the last part, as a respected Pureblood, she was bought up in the old ways, that meant keeping yourself pure until your marriage night, however the last few years had been rather difficult, it seems their generation had no problem with breaking their traditions, and several times she had nearly been caught out. The fact was she didn't feel ready to lose her virginity just yet but was being pressurized into it by her past encounters with various males of her house. She didn't want to lose it to someone she didn't love, and at the moment although she liked Harry a lot, it wasn't quite love just yet. Daphne was pulled from her thoughts by Tracey.

"Hey, don't worry, I'm sure Harry will understand, he doesn't seem like that type to you know order anything of you. Also, you have to think Hermione was raised in the muggle world, they have no real idea about traditions in our world."

Daphne sighed. "But I am scared that I will be attacked by someone else. If I give it to Harry now, at least then I know I have lost it to someone I care about."

Tracey frowned. "Daphne it's your body no one else, if you're afraid of that then why don't you talk to Harry about it, maybe he could come up with something to ease those fears of yours. You won't know until you ask him." The conversation was stopped and everyone heard the entrance opening and appearing in the doorway was Harry, with his wand drawn. Tracey turned back to Daphne. "Go have fun, after all it's your 17th birthday."

Daphne hugged Tracey and then left the sofa and made her way over to Harry who held out his hand which she took. He then kissed the back of it.

"Good evening my Miss Greengrass, shall we go. I have something special planned for tonight."

Daphne appreciated the gesture and smiled. "Good evening Lord Slytherin, yes let us go, I've been looking forward to this evening."

both left the Slytherin common room hand in hand. They traveled through the dungeon, and up into the main school building. They arrived at the main staircase and had to adjust their route several times due to the stairs moving. Finally, they arrived on the first floor and walked off down the corridor to the girl bathroom. As they appeared outside the door, Daphne gave Harry an odd look.

"Harry, why are we going into a girls bathroom?"

Harry turned to Daphne and just grinned. "Wait and I see, I assure you, all will become clear soon. Just be quiet we don't want to disturb Mrytle."

Daphne like many of the girls knew this bathroom was haunted by a ghost called Mrytle, and the bathroom was rarely in use because Mrytle flooded it constantly. As they stepped into the bathroom both Harry and Daphne moved past the stall quietly towards the large structure in the middle of the bathroom. Daphne looked to one of the sinks which Harry was pointing at, her eyes widened as engraved on the tap was a small snake. Daphne looked at Harry in surprise.

"Guess where we're going yet? Stand back." Harry stepped back with Daphne and then hissed in Parseltongue.

"Open" As he finished, the whole structure began to slide apart much to Daphne's surprise. She had never seen anything like it.

The grate slid back revealing a large hole. Daphne looked to Harry for instructions and noticed he had now sat down at the edge of the hole. "Follow me." Harry then vanished as he slid down the hole leaving Daphne alone. She finally heard Harry's voice echo up the pipe. "You coming, Daphne?"

Daphne took a seat at the edge of the hole, she had no idea what was about to happen, she slid her butt off the edge and cried out as she fell back as she slid down and around the pipe until she reached the bottom where Harry was waiting for her. As Daphne got up she noticed the muck and grime on her backside, she stood up and tried to brush it off.

"Well MiLord, you certainly know how to show a girl a good time." Daphne noticed it wasn't coming off and removed her wand, a few waves and the muck and grime had vanished. Once she had placed her wand back in its holster, she took hold of Harry's hand once more.

"Sorry Daphne, it is the only way to access the Chamber, you did want to see it right, I thought it would be a great birthday surprise for you."

Daphne's eyes widened. "Wait that was the entrance to the chamber of secrets?"

Harry nodded. "It's the only entrance I have managed to find, no doubt it wasn't meant for people and only for the Basilisk. The first time I came down here was to find Ginny who as you know was taken into the chamber. I came down here with Ron and Lockhart, it was then we realized Lockhart was a complete fraud and had been obliviating witches and wizards who had done all those things. He then took credit for them. He tried to obliviate Ron and I but he ended up obliviating his own memory after he grabbed Ron's broken wand and attempted to curse us both."

Daphne frowned. "I always knew he was fraud, honestly anyone who has a brain could tell in class he had no idea what he was doing."

Harry laughed. "You should have seen Hermione's face when we told her, she was crushed, no doubt a few other girls were also crashed after his crimes were reported in the Prophet. (This story time-line Lockhart was charged with fraud)

Daphne nodded. "I know a few cried in our dorm, so then what happened?"

Harry continued his account of what happened. "well the backfired spell not only wiped out his memory but caused a cave in separating me and Ron, so I had to adventure alone towards the chamber while Ron went for help."

Both Teens stepped out into a huge cavern. "Anyway it was when I got here that I saw this huge door, I assumed it would open with Parseltongue and so tried Open in Parseltongue which seemed to work." Harry then hissed Open.

The huge snake on the door began to sliver around the door, as it passed the three snakes whose heads were hanging over the edge locking the door in place. One by one the head retracted until the door swung open. Daphne and Harry headed through the open door and down the staircase. Harry let go of Daphne's hand and mock bowed.

"Welcome my future Lady Slytherin, to the Chamber of Secrets."

Daphne, of course, had seen the chamber in Harry's memory but seeing it first hand was completely different, the huge bust of Salazar Slytherin overlooking the chamber at the end and the pools of water on either side moving and reflecting over the chamber gave it an eerie sort of feel. Daphne noticed the small table at the end of the chamber and then looked to Harry.

Harry noticed where Daphne was looking. "I thought we could have dinner in the chamber and then you can explore Slytherin private library. Most of the books he wrote are in parseltongue but as you can speak and read it, then you should be able to read them. There were some rare potion ingredients, however, I had them transferred to Slytherin vault at Gringotts. Who knows maybe together we might find some other secrets and maybe another way out of here."

Daphne was really interested in finding the library, she could just imagine what rare books she could find in there. "Has Hermione been down here yet?"

Harry shook his head. "If I let Hermione down here, the library would be empty by now. No this is just a place for you and me. As Lord Slytherin and you to be my future Lady Slytherin then I feel it is right to share this with only you."

Daphne was pleased with the answer, and she took the offered hand by Harry who led her to the table where they both sat down. A few seconds later Dobby appeared.

"If the Lord and Lady are ready, I will bring your starters." Dobby then popped away and appeared with two bowls of steaming hot tomato soup, along with a basket of rolls. Once the bowls had been emptied Dobby appeared again and vanished the bowl and replaced them with two plates of Spaghetti and meatballs, along with a basket of freshly baked garlic bread.

"I remembered what Dobby looked like when he worked for the Malfoys, he never looked this happy, he was always dressed in that dirty pillowcase, Lucius even abused him in public on more than one occasion, it was heartbreaking to watch I mean I use to see him at the get together at Malfoy Manor."

Harry frowned. "Yes well you never heard about how I met Dobby, did you. In my second year he was hiding all my mail and trying to stop me coming to Hogwarts due to the opening of the Chamber, you see it was the cursed diary what started it all, as you saw in my memory. It was quite the year. First Dobby attempted to stop me getting on the train, by blocking the entrance to the platform. In the end, Ron had to steal his dad's flying car to get us to Hogwarts, then you remembered the game against Slytherin when I caught the snitch and that rogue bludger hit me. Well, that was caused by Dobby."

Daphne was surprised by the revelation. "Really? So why did you end of freeing him, if he did all that to you?"

Harry took a bite of garlic bread and waited till his mouth was empty before continuing. "Well no one should be treated like that, even if he caused me trouble, he was only trying to protect me. So I tricked Lucius into freeing him."

Daphne blinked. "How did you manage to do that? Lucius is very smart and cunning himself."

Harry grinned. "I took advantage of his ignorance. When I confronted him and told him I knew about the diary he had slipped into Ginny's cauldron, well he tried to deny it and handed the diary to Dobby, not realising that I had hidden a sock in the diary, so in the eyes of magic Lucius had released Dobby by presenting him with clothes."

Daphne laughed so hard that she almost fell off her chair. "You know Harry you would have made a fine Slytherin that was very underhanded, I bet Lucius was furious."

Harry nodded. "He attempted to curse until Dobby intervened, and that is how Dobby and I become friends. He was working in Hogwarts but I formed a bond with him in my fourth year."

The two teens continued to exchange conversation, eventually, they both finished their mains. Once again Dobby popped in and removed the empty plates. And in their place was a large sundae glass filled to the brim with ice cream, which Harry and Daphne shared. Once it had all been eaten, Harry showed Daphne towards the library. The moment she got in she dived to the nearest bookcase and began to sort through all the books.

"Harry we really need to get an inventory done of all these books, there are hundreds, goodness knows how old some of them are."

Harry thought that was a good idea, and decided he would ask a few of his elves to do it. He watched as Daphne examined one book after another. "So did you like your birthday surprise."

Daphne looked up at Harry and smiled. "Best Birthday ever" She then pounced on him and kissed him, which Harry returned, quickly though Daphne pulled away. "Sorry Harry, I got carried away in the moment."

Harry noticed Daphne was a little surprised. "It's fine Daphne, you are my future bride, it not like you were a complete stranger."

Daphne shook her head. "That's not what I mean Harry, I was acting like Hermione then, its something that someone of my upbringing shouldn't have done. I know what happened with Hermione on her birthday, but I am just not ready for that yet."

Harry held is hands up in surrender. "Slow down Daphne, I wasn't going to do anything, believe me, that was all Hermione who instigated what happened I just followed her lead.

Daphne nodded. "It's just I feel that I should give it to someone I love, and although I like you a lot it isn't love quite yet, but I am worried that if I don't give it to you then someone else might claim it by force."

Harry eyes flashed. "Believe me Daphne I would never let that happen to you or any of the others, including Tracey and Pansy."

Daphne stood up and turned her back on Harry. "I know Harry, but you can't be their 24/7 you might have given them warnings but that won't stop them for forever."

Harry paused in thought, Daphne was right, he couldn't be with her 24/7 due to their different houses and lesson plans. "What about some type of charm item, do they have such things in this world, you know protection items, maybe a teleport function."

Daphne nodded. "There are such things but they're really expensive, I know of one item, its a ring, I saw it in Diagon Alley in the shop window. I did inquire about it and discovered it was blood charmed. Basically, only those who had dropped some of their blood into the ring could approach the wearer, it also had an emergency apparation system. In the event of you being in trouble, you would be transported to the person who gave you the ring. (Any who want to know more, just check my Anamagi story the ring is in that)

Harry looked up to Daphne. "How much were these rings?"

Daphne looked down and began to play with her uniform. "they were 25,000 galleons each."

Harry stood up and took Daphne's hands. "No price is too high to make sure your safe Daphne. I will order five of them tonight, three for you, Tracey and Pansy, and two for Hermione and Luna."

Daphne launched herself into Harry's arms, she was thinking that the amount would have been too much for Harry to pay, but it seems her fears were unfounded. "Thank you, Harry, you really are the best boyfriend."

Harry carried on hugging Daphne and smiled. "Anything for you and the others Daphne, don't feel scared to ask me for anything, now what say we explore this chamber further and see if we can find another way out."

Daphne broke the hug and wiped her tears away with her sleeve. She and Harry then explored the chamber together.