Hi i know i said i would update more but i had some very serious problems trying to upgrade my PC since i'm an avid gamer primarily it was time to upgrade and when i did many issues accrued that meant i had no access to my Pc until this was resolved the reason it took so long was getting finances together i am so so sorry to those who follow i know how frustrating it is waiting on a chapter i'm a big reader myself and hate waiting. Please accept my apologies and this reasonable sized chapter.
A few days later Harry woke with the pre Quidditch match jitters he woke early and took a long shower. When he was done he woke Heather and waited for her before going to breakfast.
At Breakfast Heather was forcing Harry to eat when she dropped the spoon that porridge on it into Harry's lap.
Harry looked at her with the same fear Heather was showing, this made Hermione look at them scared. "What is it you two?"
"The Voice" This was all Harry got chance to say before Hermione stood and ran out of the hall saying something about the library. This startled both the twins but Ron just shrugged.
"It's what she does. You should head to the pitch"
"Ron! What about the voice" Heather scolded quietly.
Ron went red but shrugged slightly. "Well we don't know what it is or where it is we should wait for Hermione before we do anything"
This surprised Heather she had not expected that reaction, she sighed and pulled Harry to his feet. "I will walk you down"
The twins walked up to Gryffindor tower to get Harry's broom then headed down. Just as the match was about to start Professor McGonagall interrupted the match. After being informed the match was cancelled Harry, Heather and Ron went to the Hospital wing where their blood turned cold. Lying Petrified in one of the beds was Hermione
Harry felt his anger boil and Heather could not help feeling his emotions fuel her own anger. They were ushered back to Gryffindor tower by Minerva who hugged them and tried to soothe their Ache.
As soon as Minerva left Harry and Heather grabbed their invisibility cloak and headed out of the tower. They headed straight for Hagrid's they needed to know the truth, surely Hagrid would not attack Hermione.
As they knocked Hagrid greeted them he was looking shaky it was clear he was worried he ushered them in quickly and was just about to start talking when there was a knock on his door.
They quickly hid under the cloak and Hagrid opened the door in came the Headmaster and a man they had seen at their hearing.
"Isn't he the Minister for Magic?" Heather sent through the bond, Harry silently agreed. Hagrid was taken by the minister but not before he pleaded he was innocent. Dumbledore backed him up and they left but not before Hagrid left a cryptic message about spiders.
As they were leaving Lucius Malfoy came strutting in looking very proud of himself. He had letters of the Governors and they had suspended Dumbledore. The twins who did not like him did not feel sorry for him but they did worry about what would happen now he was gone.
By the next morning the whole school knew what had happened, there was now an air of fear around the school. The only plus they could see was now no one thought that Harry and Heather was the heir of Slytherin.
Malfoy was very happy when they arrived at potions that day he was talking very loud about how it was his father that had gotten rid of Dumbledore. When Snape came in Malfoy exclaimed that Snape should be the next Headmaster. This had Snape Sneering in a way that made Harry shiver.
Snape had not stopped trying to find out the Potter's secret and watched them scrutinizingly, he had not figured it out and it frustrated him to no end. He had now taken to "Accidentally" knocking Harry's potions as he handed them in causing them to smash. Today Heather cast a spell on his vial as quiet as she could.
As Snape tried to ruin Harry's work the vial hit the floor and rolled away, Harry picked it up and handed it to Snape who looked furious but took it off Harry and gave him a look of pure hatred.
Harry and Heather were not the only ones confused by Snape's treatment to the Potter's.
Snape seemed dead set on destroying Harry's grades but would often tell people that Heather was a natural in fact Heather was believed to be the only Gryffindor Snape did not take points from. When this was questioned Snape glared and took twenty points from her as if to prove a point.
With Hermione absent Harry and Heather had started researching different spiders trying to find out if any could petrify. After a week of searching they had not come up with anything. Frustrated by this they started trying to find out more about the voice they could hear. They had known Hermione had gone to look for something.
One night as the twins lay in bed holding each other Heather started to think.
"We know someone died last the chamber was opened right?"
"Yeah but how does that help us sis?"
"Well i was wondering who it was I wondered if there was some way we could talk to someone they knew and see if they could tell us anything, we would need to find out who died first" As Heather said this Harry looked surprised.
"We will look at past Prophet tomorrow okay?" Heather nodded and smiled, glad that Harry had not rejected her theory. As she lay there in his embrace she couldn't help but look at his lips, this made her blush a little she wondered what he would if she kissed them.
Harry noticed his sister looking at him and raised an eyebrow questioningly, Heather just shook her head and laid on his chest causing him to laugh a little and kiss the top of her head.
The next day the twins spent a long time in the Library they found there were many more papers than expected and it took them ages to find ones from fifty years ago. By the time they had the ones close to the time they figured it would be they still had nearly 150 papers.
The entire lunch period and most of their free period after that was spent flicking through the old papers. Making a note of where they had gotten up to they came back the next two days before they found the paper they need.
They were tired and frustrated when they found the paper, so tired they nearly missed it. They must have tried to downplay it because it was not on the front page they found what they wanted but when they did they jumped in surprise.
"Harry this is the Ghost in the bathroom right?" Harry didn't answer right away he was so stunned.
"I think we finally have a lead sis, lets go and see her"
"Hold on we need to decide how to go about this, we can't just wander up and ask how she died it would be so insensitive" Harry nodded and was thankful for his sister's insight.
They spent the next day discussing how to ask her about it. They had decided to just be truthful and see how they went. That morning they sat at the breakfast table. Minerva had just told everyone that the mandrakes would be ready soon this made Harry and Heather very happy. They still vowed to see Myrtle for answers though.
As they were finishing their food Ginny came up to them she looked hesitantly at the twins before sitting next to them. "I'm ready to tell you" She said not looking at the twins.
The twins took Ginny's hand and led her out of the room and into an empty classroom when they were there they looked at Ginny worried. Ginny was very pale and her eyes seemed to have some of their colour.
Ginny was looking anywhere but Harry and Heather.
"I don't want you to hate me anymore than you already do. I was horrible to you both"
"We don't hate you but we are hurt by you this year, i thought we were friends" Heather said quietly hugged Ginny tightly. Ginny burst into tears crying on Heather's shoulder.
After a short while Ginny stopped crying and looked at Harry and Heather with a new resolve in her eyes, before she could say anything Snape looked in.
"What are you all doing in here get to class and fifteen points from Gryffindor for inappropriate conduct" He sniggered and waited for them to leave. Ginny lost all her courage took off to her lesson and wasn't seen again all day.
At lunch the twins spent a good twenty minutes looking for Ginny when they couldn't they sighed and went to see Myrtle. As they entered Myrtle looked at the twins suspiciously.
"What are you two doing back?"
"Well Myrtle we came to ask you something and we know this will be very hard but we think what you know may help us" Whatever the ghost had been expecting it was not this. She eyed Heather with a look of great interest.
"We need you to tell us how you died if you are able to, we think it will be the key to stopping the monster" Myrtle turned on Harry her eyes filled with sadness and anger.
"That's not very polite to ask" She said sounding angry "How would it help anyway?"
"Well no one knows what the monster is anything you can tell us may help us identify it and stop the same thing happening again this year.
Myrtle looked sad but told them everything she remembered, she remembered seeing bright yellow eyes and they she just died, she had pointed to sink and told them it came from that way.
They were confused they could not see how. They spent some time looking at the sinks when Heather saw a snake on one.
She dragged Harry out of the bathroom thanking Myrtle. She dragged Harry to the Library.
I think the monster is some sort of snake, that's why no one but us knows what it's saying"
"Wouldn't some one notice a snake roaming the school sis?"
"I think people have, those who are petrified" As she said this harry's blood chilled a little.
They spent the rest of lunch looking at snakes, they had none that could petrify people and were just about to give up when they noticed a page missing from one of the books.
"This books missing a page sis" Harry said aloud and pulling her to look.
When she agreed they looked at the contents and found that that page should contain information on a basilisk. They quickly asked Madam Pince, the stern looking librarian for help. She questioned them for a good five minutes about why they wanted this book.
When they had placated her saying that it was because they were interested in snakes she showed them several books and quickly left them alone. What they found out scared them.
"If this thing kills by looking at people how is no one dead" Harry asked silently, this caused them both to think hard. When Harry told Heather his thoughts concerning each victim she agreed.
It was getting late by the time the twins had the answers they needed and they quickly hid under the cloak, they never left Gryffindor tower without it. They headed to McGonagall's office but before they could get there they saw teachers rushing past them.
Choosing to follow the teachers they ended up in a corridor some floors down the teachers were looking at the wall and panic spread through them. When Harry and Heather saw the wall their hearts stopped.
Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber Forever
Madam Pomfrey was crying and asked who had been taken when Minerva said Ginevra Weasly Harry felt Heather started to fall, he grabbed her and held her. She instantly started hugging him crying silently.
Harry had heard Minerva task Gilderoy to get her back and so after he helped Heather recover they went to speak to him. He was packing and made a big fuss about having to leave Heather got very mad and threatened to hex him.
Gilderoy was faster than expected though and grabbed his wand pointed it at Heather and shouted "Obliviate"
Harry, who had been expecting something from the fraud shouted Protego a spell he had been practising after he learnt it was a shield. Lockhart's spell hit the Shield and flew back at him, hitting him and knocking him to the ground. Heather was furious kicked Lockhart in the nose she heard a sickening crack and smiled.
After the disappointment that was their defence Professor the twins wasted no time rushing to the bathroom they saw Myrtle in. They rushed over to the sink that has never worked and hoped their theory was right.
In a desperate hope they were right harry told the sink to open, as the sink lowered into the floor Heather grabbed Harry's hand. She looked him dead in the eyes and kissed his lips. It was a soft short kiss but they both enjoyed it.
"We watch each other's back in here no doing anything risky if we see the snake we close our eyes and try to get out" Heather started shaking with fear.
Harry held her close they shared another kiss before sliding down the pipe. The pipe went on for sometime and the twins suddenly worried about the bottom. Before they could react the tunnel levelled off and the twins could stand. They shared a look of relief before walking into the underground lair.
They walked a short distance before coming to a big door. The door had many snakes carved into the big heavy metal the twins felt unnerved by the sight and quickly told it to open. The snakes seemed to slither over the door and out of sight, then the door swung open slowly.
The room it opened up to was a large and mostly empty chamber, it seemed to have black marble floor and dark pillars that spanned from the ground to the roof. At the far end carved out of stone was the face of a man. The twins could only assume was Salazar.
On the floor in the distance Ginny's red hair could be seen, the twins ran to her.
On the floor next to Ginny was the diary that Harry had found he realised where the diary had gone.
The twins turned Ginny to look at them, she looked severely ill. Where she had looked pale earlier she now looked chalk white. Her skin was cold as ice the twins tried to rouse her but she would not move and her breath was shallow and almost non existent.
It was then the twins noticed movement behind Ginny the figure looked a little older than them and was wearing the Slytherin colours. It took Harry a moment to recognize the boy.
"Riddle what are you doing here?"
"Harry Potter, How sad I was to learn you lost my diary, I was slightly annoyed to have to listen to the whining of this silly girl again" Heather would not listen to him talk this way about Ginny turned her wand on tom.
Tom laughed a cold laugh and disarmed Heather easily. He looked down at Heather's wand twirling it in his fingers.
"This is very similar to my own wand how interesting"
"Tom we need to help Ginny give my sister her wand back" As Harry said this Tom twirled the wand again and aimed at Heather he cast a stunner. As the red light flew toward Heather Harry pulled her closer to him, the spell missing her by less than an inch. Heather could feel the heat of the spell over her arm.
"Luck like that will only get you so far Harry. Tell me how you survived that night"
As Tom looked over at Harry and Heather his face took on a look of disgust.
Neither Harry or Heather answered him both were shaking Ginny still trying to wake her. Seeing that he was being ignored Tom fired red sparks at the twins.
"DO not ignore Lord Voldemort"
That caught the twins attention.
"What did you just say?" Heather asked.
"What do you know of Voldemort?" Harry followed up.
"You haven't worked out who i am i should be offended" With Heather's wand he drew his name in the air but as soon as he finished the words changed and they now saw his claim to be Voldemort.
"How?" Harry and Heather asked together.
"Can't you work it out Harry? no ? Heather? Come on use your brains. No? Well let me help you out that silly girl has been writing to me for over a year now" As he said this the twins saw the diary but they could not understand the relevance.
Tom could see the confusion on his face and he laughed, his laugh sent ice down the twins spine "I've wanted to meet you both for some time now, i must say getting rid of Dumbledore was very beneficial to me. Now I can take my time killing all three of you"
"We don't need Dumbledore and we won't let you kill us" The twins shared a smile, talking at the same time was becoming a weird habit of theirs.
"You think you can stop me the greatest sorcerer in the world?" Tom asked clearly amused by thought.
"Well we beat you when we were just one didn't we" Heather stated her anger taking over.
"You also failed last year when you tired to get the philosopher's stone" Harry added.
Tom was now furious he unconsciously sent sparks flying from his wand again. He glared at the twins his eyes full of hate.
"Well if that's true i will just kill you tonight"
Before anyone could say anything else Fawkes flashed into the room and dropped the sorting hat in Harry's hands. This caused Tom to laugh.
"You're bird is dumb it thinks that hat will save you. I have a basilisk and he brings you a hat. Let's see how you think to win against the Slytherin Heir"
He turned and shouted to the statue in Parseltongue. "I the Slytherin Heir command you to come to my aid and kill the Potter's" The stone face opened and out slithered a huge snake it was easily 60ft long. Harry and Heather squeezed their eyes shut.
"How do you intend to fight with your eyes closed? Look at the beast and die like your good for nothing parents"
Fawkes started to sing his low trills filling the room filling the twins with courage. The bird then flew at the Snake the twins could hear the snakes agony and Tom shouting in anger.
They could feel Fawkes tell them the beast was blind. Harry opened his eyes and after confirming it to be true so did Heather. As the twins wondered how to handle the snake a heavy object fell into Harry's hand from the hat.
Harry took it and looked at it in his hands laid a magnificent sword, the sword looked finely crafted but nothing really stood out apart from runes that spanned from the hilt up until about half way up the blade.
As Harry looked at the sword the hat spoke quietly.
"Harry hand me to Heather"
Confused Harry did as he asked as Heather took the hat she felt it grow heavy and could feel something long falling out grabbing it before it fell Heather pulled out a sword of her own this one had Ruby's set the hilt, the blade had Godric Gryffindor written on it and made Heather's heart swell.
Tom Looked taken aback slightly he recognised one of the swords but not the other. He turned to the snake. "You can still hear and smell them what are you waiting for kill them"
The snake did not need telling twice it slithered towards the twins at a speed the twins could not have guessed it possessed. Their minds went blank and all they could think to do was run. They split up and ran to opposite ends, the snake hesitated then headed for Harry.
Heather Ran at Tom seeing her chance, Tom who had not been expecting this saw the sword go through his ethereal body and and his face flooded with anger and amusement.
"I cannot be killed yet silly girl you're silly friend clings to life but when she has passed I will have form and i will take over the known world"
Tom fired a stunning spell at Heather as she stepped away from him in alarm. In her panic she lifted the sword to block the spell, the spell hit the metal and flew across the room.
Harry was having just as hard a time, he knew he could not outrun a basilisk. He saw a small alcove and hid in it, the snake went by trying to find Harry. After it passed Harry ran back to Heather he could see her blocking spells with her sword. Harry was surprised to see how easily she could move the sword it looked heavy and she was swinging it like it was made of plastic.
"His body cannot be damaged i don't know what to do Harry, i can't keep this up forever"
Hearing his sister's voice he came to her side and helped her block, Tom was tiring and he cursed.
"Just let go stupid girl i need all of your strength" Tom shouted this at Ginny. Harry and Heather smiled knowing that Ginny was still fighting him. The yell however had alerted the snake to their presence and it slithered back into the room.
As it loomed over them the twins sliced at the Basilisks underbelly, the swords made the beast bleed but it did not notice or care for the flesh wounds as it brought its head down fast and heavy Harry pushed Heather out of the way.
He heard Heather let out a cry of pain as she hit the floor, the snake had sunk one of it's large teeth into Harry's arm. Without thinking Heather plunged her sword up into the Beasts mouth. The Basilisk reared its head in pain pulling the sword out of Heather's hand it remained in the beasts mouth.
As the beast writhed around in pain Harry pulled out his wand, he levitated his own sword and with as much force as he could he threw the sword into the beasts mouth to join his sister's. The beast was now wailing hard and it could not keep itself up.
As the beast fell Harry and Heather took their sword and for good measure stabbed the beast through its damaged eyes. The beast made no noise and they knew it was dead. It was at this moment Heather noticed the fang buried in Harry's arm.
Harry was becoming drowsy and he could tell he would not last long. Heather grabbed Harry's wand and levitated the fang out as she did she cried heavily.
"He won't last long now there is no cure for basilisk venom" Tom laughed from where he sat watching the show.
Heather dragged Harry over to Ginny, she was still hanging on but Heather had no clue what to do. Harry seemed to be reaching for the diary, Heather looked at him confused but handed it to him. Without thinking he slammed the tooth into it because he could not lift his sword, it felt heavy.
The effect of the tooth's attack was instantaneous, Tom let out an unearthly scream. The scream sounds distorted and quite horrible. Heather wanting to help plunged her sword into the book next to the tooth. The sword went clean through the book and the ethereal now had light tearing at him from within it didn't take long for his body to shatter and disappear in a burst of light.
Ginny suddenly took a deep breath, this caused Heather to jump and look at her. Ginny saw Heather next to her jumped into her arms and apologised over and over again. Heather tried to shush her but it was no use, it wasn't until Ginny saw Harry's wound she stopped crying.
"We need to get you to a doctor" She said with her voice shaky. This caused Harry to shake his head.
"There is no cure for Basilisk venom the book we read told us as much" This caused Heather and Ginny to cry, Harry tried to move to comfort them but a weight on his arm stopped him. Fawkes was crying onto the wound.
Harry felt like hot water was coursing through him, he could feel the venom fade away he looked at Fawkes Questioningly. The bird let out a soft trill and Harry knew he would be fine.
He stoked the birds head and smiled.
"Thank you Fawkes you were brilliant today"
Harry's statement caused the bird to trill happily. When it stopped crying it stood on Harry's shoulder. It quickly moved off though as Heather jumped up and wrapped her arms around Harry.
She didn't let him go for a good few minutes, it was hearing Ginny break into tears that pulled her away. Through her tears she explained everything to the twins. They both hugged her refusing to let go.
That is how Dumbledore found them some twenty minutes later. Ginny had cried herself to sleep and the twins didn't feel like moving just yet the shock still too much for them.
When Dumbledore got close he saw two wands drawn on him, it took the twins a few moments to realise who had come, they lowered their wands and gently shook Ginny awake.
Ginny woke with a start when she saw where they were and whose arms she was in, she started to cry again.
They helped her to her feet and after collecting their swords helped her toward the exit.
They had ignored Dumbledore for the most part and he seemed content on waiting to interrogate them. As they reached the bottom of the pipe Fawkes trilled and Harry knew to take hold of the tail feathers.
