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I heard the sound of hissing approach me as I knelt before him. I remained in that position, not daring to move.

"You're father has disappointed me." I heard. The voice brought on fear in me, but I had to keep it hidden. I couldn't show it to the ones present. At the edge of my eyes I could see a snake by the end of the robes of the one speaking. "You will have the honor of receiving his punishment in his stead. Crucio!"

I screamed out as I felt fiery pain course through my body. It felt like I was being pricked with thousands of needles at the same time my insides were on fire. I couldn't think of anything else but the pain and how I wished it would end. It felt like I was under the curse for a long time when it ended.

"Get up." The Dark Lord ordered in front of me.

I forced myself to my feet and stand straight, but it was difficult my body shook from the curse placed on me earlier.

"Your left arm" Hopeless and resigned as I heard those words. Slowly, I pulled up my left sleeve exposing the pale skin of my arm to the Dark Lord. "You should be honored to be enlisted into my ranks at an early age." The tip of the white wand Voldemort held pressed onto my left arm, and at one word. There was a sting on my left arm, and the dark mark appeared contrasting my pale skin. "Draco, I have a task for you."

"Of course, my lord." I spoke blankly, but inside I was bitter. A pureblood and I'm bowing down to a half-blood! Why did father even follow this mad man?

"You will rid me of a thorn in my side."

"Harry Potter?" I said tentatively.

"No. He is mine to finish off." Voldemort said coldly. "You will relieve Hogwarts of its current headmaster, Dumbledore."

"As the Dark Lord wishes" I said my head lowered like I had no right to meet his eyes and was a lowly servant. Only in his point of view.

"Do not fail me, Draco. There will be consequences if you do." Voldemort hissed out. "Now, leave."

I nodded to the deformed snake before I passed through the throng of death eaters' present and left the room.

I opened my eyes to find the red canopy of my bed in Gryffindor. I placed my hand on my heart hoping to slow it down and my breathing too. I can't remember what I dreamt, but it left me shaking like a leaf. I closed my eyes to sleep again, but sleep didn't come so I got up from my bed to start the day.

I left the tower and went down to the kitchens to grab an early breakfast seeing as it was still early. The house elves were busy, they were preparing breakfast. My mouth was watering from the smell of the food they were preparing.

After eating my fill, I left the kitchens. I was just deciding on either to go to the library or the corridor or the Room of Requirement or something else when someone suddenly appeared in front of me. I yelped, pulling my wand out and shouting out 'Fechema!'

I stared at Harry then his jumper remained unchanged except his trousers had been turned to a skirt revealing his legs while he still wore his shoes. Looking at Harry, I didn't know if I should laugh or be horrified myself. Harry in a skirt.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked then not even concerned on what spell hit him.

"I just hit you with a spell and you're not concerned?" I said surprised of his nonchalance of the situation.

"Nothing happened." He said.

"If you say so." I'll just have to see how long before he realizes his clothes aren't the same.

"What were you doing in the kitchens?"

"Trying to convince the house elves to ask for wage."

"Don't tell me you're in on it with S.P.E.W.?" He stared at me with wide eyes.

"No." I snorted. "My family has house elves, Po—"

"Harry" He corrected.

I rolled my eyes. "I would be a hypocrite if I was. Have you looked up why you, Draco and I know where the other is?" I asked him. It seemed a good time as any, most of the students were still asleep and no one was nearby to hear us.

"Not yet. I do have someone on my back."

"Do you even know of another entrance?"

"No." He replied.

So much for being a son of a Marauder can't even go look for another entrance, no wonder he was fit for Slytherin. He doesn't look for adventure, yet the thought that there was another entrance to the Chamber of Secrets gave me an idea. I went to the corridors then with him tailing after me. I was lucky to find Helena there.

"Hello, Helena" I greeted the Ravenclaw house ghost.

"Salutations, Kellina" Helena replied "and Harry…" she had taken notice of Harrys' clothes and quirked an eyebrow at me "…Potter."

"Where are we?" Harry asked me then.

"Helena by any chance have you seen any snake symbols on walls or doorknobs or on anything while you attended Hogwarts except those in Slytherin house?" I asked ignoring his question, and Helena did the same.

"I am afraid not, Kellina. Even when I was a student the castle held many secrets. Mother had not even dare to mention it to me. I suppose it was a secret only to be known by the founders alone and to be found by the adventurous of the students. You can try with the Room of Hidden Things to start with your search."

"Can a magical eye that can see through disillusionment charms and an invisibility cloak see the entry way to this corridor?"

"I suppose they can, but they would not remember quite easily. Only those who know of the name of this corridor would remember where it is."

"Like the Fedilius charm?"

"Very much"

"Thank you, Helena." I said to the ghost before making my way to the said room.

"What is the name of that corridor?" Harry asked when we he followed me out of the corridor. I ignored his question.

I walked three times in front of the blank wall asking for a room that would help me find those snake symbols around the castle which wasn't found in the Slytherin dungeons. I don't think Slytherin would have placed the entrance in Slytherin. He can't be that obvious, the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the girls' lavatory. The door appeared—

"Did that door appear just now?" asked from behind me.

I whirled around to find Alistair and Diggory there. I really need for that spell to tell me if there's anyone in proximity.

"You two saw that, right?" Diggory looked at me then Harry his eyes widening as he looked at him. He turned to me. "Did you do that?"

"Do what?" Harry asked confused.

"Harry, did someone replace your clothes?" Alistair asked next to Diggory.

"Replace my…" Harry looked down at himself. "What the?!" He turned to me with a glare baring his teeth as I smiled back. "Hilarious, return my clothes."

"You're a wizard. You can do that yourself. It was because of that spell." I replied.

"You transfigured his clothes?" Alistair asked.

"It was the spell really. I found it in the book mother gave me." I said.

"You could have used that for dressrobes." Diggory said.

"It doesn't make dressrobes. It was written on the explanation about the spell." I replied. "Just everyday female clothes. So, where are you two headed to?"

"Sheila and Air are working on a project and is going to meet with her at Ravenclaw tower." Diggory said. "I'm just going with him to meet up with Cho."

"What project?"

"It's something we've been working on for a month already. I hope we get it done around May or earlier."

"Maybe I can help." I said. I did ask for his and Sheilas' help during my second year.

"It's alright." Alistair said smiling. "I thought you disliked..." he trailed off but I knew what he was saying.

"Things change." I replied shrugging.

"Well, we should go. See you around, Ina." Alistair said leaving with Diggory and forgetting about the door that they saw appear.

We entered the Room of Requirements, it was dark and the only source of light came from two candles floating next to a full length…mirror? I glanced at Harry as we went towards it. It seemed like a mirror it was almost a replica of the one we have in the dorm, it wasn't tinted silver. It was black.

"What did you ask the room?" Harry asked me then.

"I asked the room to give me something that will help me find snake symbols around the castle." I replied.

It gave us a black tinted mirror, and how was it suppose to help? It's not like the magic mirror in Snow White, or is it? Odd how that thought came in mind.

"It's not the mirror of erised." Harry said.

"Nice job deducting that Sherlock." I said, and a snort came from him.

Am I supposed to say mirror, mirror…well the lines the stepmother in Snow White said to the magic mirror. While there are magic mirrors that tell you how great or disastrous you look and ones that show you your desires, I wonder if this mirror is harmless.

"A black mirror…" Harry said before surprise was on his face. "Oh, it's a scrying mirror!"

"What's a scrying mirror?" I asked.

"It's a divination tool."

I blinked at him not understanding what he meant just now. I didn't take divination. "And?"

"You can use it to see the past, present or future."

"We already know what's going to happen."

"It's not just used for that you can ask it something and it will show you what you want. You can get answers from it." He replied. "But not the entire thing, but just a bit of the picture."

"Huh, so divination does have its use." I said thoughtfully. Which lead me to a thought. "Wait, if you knew about the scrying mirror or learned about it in divination why didn't you use it?" I asked him. "You could have found the horcruxes easier."

"Hermione didn't think of it. She thinks it's a load of bullocks."

Yes, no wonder it didn't come up.

"If you said it's a divination tool, aren't there steps to use this?" I turned to the black mirror.

Harry shrugged. "I don't know if there is, Trelawney didn't teach us about it. She preferred crystal gazing. I only came on it in the book."

I rolled my eyes. "Do we just ask it?"

"Maybe?" He said uncertain. No point if we don't try, the Room gave us what we required at the best of its magic.

I glanced at Harry before turning to the mirror. "Show us where in Hogwarts we can find a snake symbol."

We stood there for a while waiting for—well, we don't really know what we were waiting. It was still worth a shot. We stood there for moments.

"Nothing's happening. Why are—"

"Maybe its thinking." I said.

"A thinking mirror? We already have mirrors telling us how we look, we don't—"

"Oh, would you shush!" I snapped cutting him off.

I turned back to the mirror to find an image of Moaning Myrtles' bathroom, then a moment later an image of a passage replaced the bathroom. The image disappeared from sight before I could get a better look.

"I didn't recognize that passage." Harry said his face askew.

Okay, so asking this mirror shows us what we want to see.

"Show us where we would find the passage from earlier."

We had to wait for a couple or so more minutes before the portrait hallway was shown. The image lasted for a bit before it changed to the sixth floor and it was gone.

"I didn't know there's a secret passage in the portrait hallway." Harry said.

"Well, the Marauders' didn't know about the Room of Requirement. They can't possibly find every secret in Hogwarts."

"Like the corridor Luna pulls me into to practice how to dance?"

"Yes." I said. "Now, we are going to find that passage."

"Er, why?"

"Good Godric! Where is your sense of adventure, Potter?" I glared at him. "Aren't you even excited to find another secret Hogwarts has?"

"It's gone on break this Yule." He replied.

"You'll have to call it back then." I said grabbing his hand while I pulled him along towards the door while asking the room for a door close to the Portrait hallway. "I need your tongue to find it."

"No." He said pulling his hand from my grip and making me stop before the door. "I don't want anyone to find out."

"Then, use a notice-me-not charm everyone would prefer to stay in their common room in this winter weather. May I remind you that you have that whole illusion spell?"

"Fine." He sighed.

Harry was startled to find himself on the fourth floor when we passed through the door. He turned opening the door we came through to find it was a broom closet.

"How did we—"

"Magic" I replied.

"How long did you know about that?"

"First year"

"And you kept—"

"You're the one who knows of it and yet you don't know what else the room can do." I replied. "You can't tell me that I kept that one to myself."

We were in the portrait hallway then after passing the Defense classroom.

I pulled out my wand. "Latexero" I said. It was a spell to reveal anything hidden by magic, but there was no light coming off from the walls or the portraits. "It's not hidden by magic. You take the left side and I take the right. Try to see if there's a switch or something that's out of place on the walls or the portraits."

Of course, even with my idea of going muggle to uncover the passage it didn't lead us to anything.

"Anymore bright ideas?" Harry asked.

"How about you try to speak in—"

"Fawley, Potter" Someone roared from the mouth of the passage to the Defense classroom, damn I didn't think that Moody would be there. "What are you two doing?" Moody said his wooden leg clanking on the stone floor as he approached us.

"Just a bit of exploring Professor." I replied casually. "You know uncover some secrets here and there. Hogwarts has a lot of secrets."

"Yes. Yes, indeed it does." Moody replied his magical eye going from me to Harry. "Go on then don't let me stop you." He said before turning away and leaving us.

I counted to three hundred in my mind and Po—Harry spoke up then.

"Do you think he heard us?"

"If he has bat ears then maybe, but I doubt that. Now, as I was saying use your…ahh gift or whatever caused by Tom."

Potter, Harry gave me a withering look. "What am I supposed to say?" He said.

"Try open." I said. "Don't forget the notice-me-not charm."

He did as I said but there was nothing different in the hallway, just magical portraits giving me strange looks with Harry Potter under a notice-me-not charm. I was more susceptible to their looks.

"I say child what are you doing?" asked an old man in the portrait near me, the portrait was dated back to 1781. For a 17th century portrait, his English is modern.

"I don't suppose you know of a secret passage around here?"

"Ah, you should have asked." The old man said shaking its head. "Really, you wasted your time searching for it by your means. Why do you think there are mostly portraits here?"

"I don't follow."

"Which house are you from?"

"Gryffindor"

"Ah, makes sense" The old man replied, and while I didn't know what he meant it was rather offending.

"Are you going to tell me how to access the secret passage or not?" I asked.

"Goodness" The old man shook his head. "Children these days are getting more impatient. I'll give you a hint."

"Okay." I nodded.

"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"

"The school motto?" Harry Potter said next to me. I almost forgot he was there.

"I gave you a hint. You have to figure it out yourself." The old man said before he left his frame to go elsewhere.

"Are we supposed to find a dragon and tickle it?"

"Is there a portrait here with a dragon in it?"

"We'll have to find out then." I said.

We didn't find a portrait of a dragon sleeping but there was a portrait of a hippogriff.

"Ina, there you are." I turned to find Draco walking towards us.

"You don't look good." I said noticing his hair was a bit messed up and he looked ragged.

"Just a…" He started but paused when he noticed Harry was there. "…actually my morning is ruined." A sneer came on Dracos' face. "What is he doing with you?" Draco said glaring at me.

"Looking for a secret passage that leads from here to the sixth floor." I replied ignoring his tone with me.

"There's no secret passage from here leading to the sixth floor." Draco said.

"There is. The portrait said so we just have to figure out what the school motto has to do with the passage."

"Have you tried angering the portraits?" Draco asked.

"What?" I was surprised of his suggestion. "Why would we want to anger any of the portraits here?"

"Just because our school motto says 'Never tickle a sleeping dragon' does it mean literally. It means not try to provoke anyone into rage or face the dire consequences of an angry person."

"Oh" That was a bit surprising, and here I thought it was a silly motto.

Draco shook his head then.

"Then which portrait should we even anger to find the passage?" I asked rolling my eyes.

"How about the hippogriff? It's the only portrait here that's a magical creature." Harry said.

"Okay. Harry, you insult it then." I said.

"I'm not going to insult a hippogriff portrait." Harry replied.

"You're suggestion Potter." Draco said. "It's only a portrait."

"You're the one who said to anger a portrait."

"And you pointed out the hippogriff portrait."

"You're far better at insulting a hippogriff than I am." Harry said airily.

A thunderous look came up on Draco and I stepped between to stop any incoming fights or duels.

"Draco, what do you think of Hippogriffs?" I asked turning to the blond. Harry had a point. Draco disliked Hippogriffs greatly it's why he didn't take Care of Magical Creatures.

"Great ugly chickens" He replied.

A screech came from the Hippogriff portrait and we turned in time to see it charging towards us. The three of us stepped back from the portrait as it bounded nearer almost like it would leap out of its frame and the portrait swung open revealing a passage.

We entered the passage with the portrait door closing behind us leaving us in the dark. I conjured a light orb to illuminate the place. It was half the size of the hallway we were in, but large enough. The dust on the floor was thick, meaning the passage hasn't been used in a while, or more like centuries.

"We found the passage." Harry asked after he lit his wand up. "What now?"

"We look for a snake symbol on the wall." I told him turning to the wall next to me inspecting it.

I heard Draco cast 'Lux Volans' and walked farther in the passage.

"Hey, I found something!" Dracos' voice echoed in the passage after a while of looking at the stone walls.

We rushed to where Draco is then he was looking back and forth from the walls.

"What is it?" I said when we got to him.

"I found the Hogwarts seal."

"Not a snake?" I asked.

Draco shook his head. I did say snake symbol, that didn't mean it shouldn't be with other symbols. I didn't think of that one. I turned frowning at the Hogwarts seal on the wall.

"So much for another entrance to the Chamber of Secrets." I said then.

"You were looking for another entrance?" Harry asked surprised.

"Yes, because Moody is on your back and you can't go to the Chamber with him around. Wouldn't want him to know where it is would you? I suppose you can use the Room of Requirement to get to Moaning Myrtles' instead."

"Why are you even looking for another entrance to the Chambers?" Draco asked.

"Draco, we still know where the other is just by thinking of the person. We don't even know why it's only the three of us." I replied. "Wouldn't you want to know why?"

"I haven't even thought of that because of the tournament." Draco replied. "But why the Chamber of Secrets?"

"Harry found the ritual from last year in there." I replied.

"In that large chamber?"

"No. The large chamber is mainly for the Basilisks space like a living area of sorts, the statue is its sleeping quarters and the pipes are like its equivalent to a hallway." Harry responded and stopped probably noticing looks we were giving him. It was odd him saying the chamber is like a house. Harry blushed a bit. "Anyway, Slytherin had a secret room in there."

"At least that's why its secrets not secret." Draco said.

"Right then let's find out what else this passage has on its walls and which hallway this leads to on the sixth floor." I said inspecting the walls like earlier, Draco and Harry followed.

There was nothing else on the walls, and we reached the other end of the passage. Like the mirror showed it was the sixth floor, and it was near the Astronomy tower. I checked if the wall would solidify when we passed through, but my hand went through without a problem. The passage entrance on the sixth floor wasn't even hidden by a portrait or behind a wall or a tapestry just an illusion of a wall in an alcove. Wonder if any students snogging in this alcove fell through before, then again the Astronomy tower was close by they would have chosen the tower over the alcove.

"Any passages that would get us near the Astronomy tower the fastest?" I asked then.

"I know one." Harry said.

"Show me." Draco cleared his throat. "I mean us." I corrected.

We went in the direction of the Astronomy tower, but by passed it to the other wing. We turned at one corridor and there was a tapestry nearby. We followed him through it, and it got us to the ground floor after some seconds. It was even near the stairs to the dungeons and basement. It must be a shortcut for the Slytherins and Hufflepuffs.

"I'll never be late for Astronomy." Draco said.

"I garner that's true." I said before turning to Harry. "Harry, can I borrow the Marauders' map?"

"The what map?" Draco asked.

"I don't—" Harry frowned looking at Draco unsure.

"You have another map like it in your trunk, much larger even. I'll return it to you in one piece."

"Give me one reason to let you have it."

"Because I won't stop unless you let me borrow it, or you can lend it to me without a problem and I'll be out of your hair. The lesser evil, Harry." I said smirking.

"Fine." He said sighing. "Do you want it now?"

"No." I replied remembering what Edward did. I would have to enlist Dracos' help for this or maybe the twins. Now that's a difficult choice.

AN: Well? Who should assist Kellina with Edward? Draco or the twins or someone else? I'm going to have fun with this. Mwahaha... Anyway, drop an answer, I will consider it for the next chapter. ;) Until the next! Sorry for the late one, like I said the connection sucks, but it's what we have and I'm not the one paying for it. We have to be thankful for what we have even with the smallest of things. I'll still update after every two weeks, don't worry.