Kristen Gregory

By the next morning everyone had already heard that a first year Muggle-Born from Gryffindor had been petrified. It was all anyone could talk about at breakfast. Everyone had already forgotten about the rouge bludger from the Gryffindor/Slytherin game. It made Kristen very nervous. It made everything so real. Muggle-borns were at risk. Did the Heir of Slytherin know that her parents were both Muggle-borns? Kristen knew that blood purists would consider her a muggle-born because of that so could she be next?

Kristen was quick to finish her breakfast because she wanted to head straight to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She told Padma that she was tutoring Dylan in Charms which is why she couldn't hang out with her. Padma wondered why Hermione couldn't do it, but Kristen insisted that she was stronger than Hermione which is why she was doing the tutoring.

The truth was that she was ready to get started on this Polyjuice Potion. Hermione, Harry, and Ron were going to get the ingredients they could from the student store-cupboard. Kristen isn't overly excited to hang out with Hermione without Dylan there, but figured that Dylan would show up eventually and as long as Hermione didn't get in Kristen's way everything would be fine.

When Kristen got to the bathroom, Ron, Harry, and Hermione had just arrived.

"We should find a stall to hide it in so if someone does wander in her they won't find it," Hermione said. Kristen couldn't help, but roll her eyes. It was a good idea, but it was so obvious. Why did Hermione feel the need to say it out loud?

"This one will work," Kristen said picking the one next to Moaning Myrtle's toilet. If someone did come in here, they would not want to do their business right next to the toilet that was occupied by the overly emotional ghost.

"So who do you guys think Dylan was talking about yesterday?" Harry asked. Kristen could tell that it was eating him alive. Kristen knew who Dylan was talking about. There was only one current student who hated Dylan as much as Malfoy.

"Isn't it obvious? She is talking about Ryan Marvil," Kristen said.

"Ryan Marvil? The Slytherin Seventh year prefect? The girl who Dylan used to think was her sister?" Hermione asked.

"Ryan and her sister Jaime used to love tormenting Dylan. I'm sure there is a reason why Dylan thinks she is involved with all of this. Maybe she said something to her," Kristen said.

"But I haven't seen Ryan even acknowledge Dylan's existence," Harry pointed out.

"Maybe it is because she is hiding something. Besides it would make more sense that Ryan would be able to do this advanced dark magic than Draco being able to do it," Kristen shrugged. Kristen figured that made sense, but still wasn't entirely convinced that Ryan would do such dark magic. She was a blood purist, but would she actually harm muggle borns? She had many chances back in Aliquam Velit, but she just ignored those who weren't pure blood. She acted as if they didn't exist. How do you go from avoidance to attacking so quickly?

"I suppose that makes sense," Hermione muttered.

Kristen smirked. Of course it made sense. She was probably mad that she didn't come up with it first.

Hermione and Kristen focused on prepping the potion. Dylan was a natural at potions so it would be nice to have her here with how complicated everything is, but so far everything was going smoothly. Hermione didn't talk much and let Kristen do what she had to do, but also did her fair share. Kristen was actually kind of surprised that Hermione wasn't just trying to take over. She was too focused on her part. Hermione was very detail oriented like Kristen was. Kristen was actually kind of surprised how smoothly the first part was.

"Hello? Guys its me," Kristen heard as the door opened. It was Dylan.

"Over here!" Kristen called.

"We decided to get started without you and figured that this was the best place to hide it," Ron explained as Dylan walked up.

"Guys Colin Creevey was petrified," Dylan said.

"We know. Everyone is talking about it," Kristen said.

"We have to get a confession out of Malfoy. He probably took out his Quidditch frustrations on poor Colin," Harry said.

"There's more to it," Dylan said.

"You mean Ryan's invovlement. I understand she doesn't like you, but do you really think she would do all this?" Kristen asked.

Dylan grew slightly pale and looked liked she was about to say something, but then closed her mouth.

"W-Well I'm not sure if Ryan is involved anymore. It turns out that it was Dobby who sent those bludgers after Harry and me. He also is the one who blocked the barriers at the train station," Dylan said.

"He what?" Harry asked with his voice rising.

"Isn't Dobby that House-Elf that tried to get you in trouble with your aunt and uncle?" Kristen asked.

"Yep. He showed up at the Hospital Wing last night. He told me that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened before, but he couldn't tell me anymore. He wasn't even supposed to tell me that," Dylan said.

Kristen's eyes grew wide.

"Wait, so this has happened before?" Kristen asked.

"It must have been Lucius Malfoy the first time and now Draco is here to finish the job. He probably taught Draco how to do all of this dark magic," Ron said.

"Why is this House Elf telling you all this? Who does he belong to?" Kristen asked.

"We think he might belong to the Malfoy family which would make sense as to how he knows all of this," Harry explained.

"But if he belongs to the Malfoy family, then how could he tell you all of this? I doubt they would let him," Kristen pointed out.

"He has harmed himself quite a bit over it, but I don't think he likes them very much," Dylan explained.

Kristen was actually pretty fascinated by all of this. A House Elf that would actually disobey their masters? She had never seen such a thing.

"I wish he would have told me more though. It would be nice to at least know what the monster is so maybe we would understand why nobody has actually seen it," Dylan said.

"Maybe it can make itself invisible," Hermione suggested as she double checked the potion to make sure everything was correct so far.

"Or maybe it can disguise itself as something else. Like a Chameleon Ghoul," Kristen said.

"A Chameleon Ghoul?" Harry asked.

"Don't mind Kristen. She reads a lot so she knows a lot about random creatures that aren't really common," Dylan said.

"I've read about those...it could be possible," Hermione shrugged.

Kristen looked over at Hermione. She was actually defending Kristen's theory and not trying to one up Kristen. Kristen didn't see that coming. Maybe she had Hermione all wrong.

"Well I hope Dobby stops trying to save us or we might end up dead," Harry groaned.

Dylan nodded in agreement. Kristen turned her attention back to the potion.

"Looks good so far. We've got some time before we need the powdered bicorn horn and shredded boomslang skin, but I wouldn't wait too long," Kristen said looking over at Dylan who planned to use her invisibility cloak.

"Exactly. The sooner we get this mess behind us, the better," Hermione agreed.

Kristen couldn't agree more.

So Dylan did not admit to being a Parcelmouth. Will she ever live up to it? In the next chapter we will check in with Nina and see how the blood purists in Slytherin are reacting to everything, then after that we will jump back to Dylan as she steals the Polyjuice potion ingredients. Stay tuned!