It's been a few days since Mrs Norris was petrified and the whole school hasn't stopped talking about it. We are just sitting in Transfiguration at the minute. McGonagall is showing us how to turn animal into water goblets, and everyone is paying attention to what she's doing.
McGonagall walked over to her desk where a bird on sitting on the perch. "Everyone watching?"
"Yes Professor" we all say. She nods and points her wand at the bird. "One, two, three" she trapped the bird threes time before saying.
"Vera Verto" then the bird turned into a water goblet. Cool, I still get amazed when I see someone doing magic.
"Right then, now it's your true" McGonagall says as she looks at us one by one. "Miss Turner" I tense up a little. I look at her and she gives me a little smile.
I point my wand at the bird in front of me. "Vera Verto" and my bird turns into a water goblet. I look at it a little shocked, I've never done magic on my first try before.
"Well done Miss Turner, 5 points to Gryffindor" I smile at her and she points her wand at the water goblet and it turns back into a bird, and I don't know if it was my imagination, but I swear the bird gave me a dirty look.
"Did the bird just give you a dirty look?" Harry asks.
"I knew it! I thought it was my imagination."
"No, I saw it too."
I look at the bird. "I'm sorry" I whisper and he tries to peck me. "Hey! You do that again and I will keep you as a water goblet" I say. I can hear Harry and Hermione laughing behind me.
The bird looks at me. "How about a treat to say sorry?"
I pick a treat off the table and give it to him, and he takes it off me. "Am I forgiven?" I ask, the bird rubs his head against my hand. "I take that as a yes" I say smiling as I stroke his head.
"Mr Weasley, how about you?" Ron nods and tapped his rat Scabbers three times with his broken wand, hopefully nothing bad happens this time.
"Vera Verto" Ron say and Scabber's changed into the form of a water goblet but still kept his fur and tail, people started laughing under their breath.
"That wand needs replacing Mr Weasley" McGonagall says, and he nods.
"I'm going to ask her" Hermione says, I nod and she raises her hand in the air.
"Yes Miss Granger?" McGonagall asks, looking at her.
"Professor, I was wondering if you could tell us about the Chamber of Secrets?" Hermione asks, McGonagall looks around and realized everyone was playing attention.
She sighs. "Very well. Well, you all know of course that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand of years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, now three of the founders coexisted quite harmoniously, one did not."
"Three guesses who" I whisper to Hermione but McGonagall heard me. She looks at me, I thought she was going to say something, but she just nods and carries on talking.
"Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts, he believed magical learning should be kept within all magic families, in other words, Purebloods" she say.
Draco looks at me and Hermione and smirks. We give him our dirtiest look we could master, don't think it worked though because he just rolled his eyes.
"Unable to sway the others he decided to leave the school. Now according to legend Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in this castle, known as the Chamber of Secrets, though, shortly before departing he sealed it until that time when his own true heir returned to the school, the heir alone would be able to open the chamber and unleash the horror within and by so doing purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's view were unworthy to study magic."
"Muggle born" me and Hermione say together. McGonagall nods at us with a little sad smile. "Well, naturally the school has been searched many time, no such chamber has been found."
"Professor, what are the horror that lie within the chamber?" I ask.
"Well, the chamber is said to home to something that only the Heir of Slytherin can control, it is said to be the home of a monster" McGonagall says. Me, Harry, Ron and Hermione all look at each other.
Jut then the bell goes off and we are allowed to leave. "Do you think it's true? That there really is a Chamber of Secrets?" Ron asks, as we walk to our next lesson.
"Of course there is Ron" Hermione says.
"Yeah, didn't you see McGonagall's face? She's worried all the teachers are" I say.
"But if there really is a Chamber of secrets, and it really had been opened that that means -" Hermione starts but Harry cuts her off "the Heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts, the question is, who is it?"
"Let's think, who do we know who thinks all muggle born are scum?" Ron asks.
"If you're talking about Malfoy" Hermione says as he walks past us laughing.
"Of course, you heard him, you will be next Mud-Blood" Ron says.
"I head him, but Malfoy the Heir of Slytherin" Hermione says.
"Crabbe and Goyle must know, maybe we would trick them into telling" Ron says.
We all look at each other, then I remember that Potion I saw in one of Snape's book. "I have an idea, I read about this Potion, it's called -"
"Of course Polyjuice Potion" Hermione cuts me off.
"What's that?" Harry and Ron ask together looking confused.
"It allows you to turn into someone else, but it's dangerous" I say.
"And we would be breaking about 50 school rules" Hermione added, sighing a little.
"Where was this book?" Harry asks me.
"In Snape's classroom."
"We can't just ask him for it, he will want to know why we want it" Ron says.
"Maybe we could check the library first and if they don't have it then we will come up with plan to get it off Snape" Hermione says and we all nod.
Once our lessons have ended for the day, we all rush off to the library. Me and Hermione are just scanning the bookshelves looking for the book that we need. I'm hoping it's hear because I really don't fancy stealing it from Snape.
I'm just looking around when I see it. Oh no, it's the Restricted Section. "I've got good news and bad new" I say walking over to them.
"What's the good news?" Hermione asks.
"I've found the book."
"And the bas news?" Ron asks.
"It's in the Restricted Section."
Harry sighs. "We need a teacher to sing it out, but there's no teacher who would do that."
"Maybe we could say that we just wanted to read it" Hermione says.
"come off it, no teacher will believe that, not unless they were really thick" Ron says. Me and Harry look at each other with a knowing good.
Hermione gasped. "Lockhart is not thick."
"He kinda is, he will be the prefect teacher" Ron mumbles.
"I would rather ask Lockhart, than steal from Snape" I say.
"It's sorted then, crazy eyes, you can ask Lockhart for the book" Harry says smirking a little bit.
"Wait what? I can't ask him lightning. I won't be believable, plus what am I mean to say to him?"
"I will do it, I know exactly what to say" Hermione says.
"You just want an excuse to talk to him" Ron says, Hermione just glared at him.
It's the next day and we have just finished Lockhart's lesson and we have stayed behind so that we can talk to him. "Ok Hermione, you're up kid" I say, she nods and takes a deep breath in and talked over to Lockhart's desk while me, Ron and Harry stayed by the door.
"Do you think that she's going to get it?" Harry asks.
"I hope so, Snape would kill us if he found out that we stole from him" Ron says.
I hear Hermione giggling, I look and see Lockhart take the paper off her and sigh. We all breath a sigh of relief. "He didn't even look at it" I say.
"Just shows how thick he is" Ron says.
"At least we haven't got to steal from Snape" Harry says.
Hermione giggles again before rushing over to us. "I've got it" she says smiling as we walked out of his classroom.
"What was you giggling at?" I ask.
"Oh that, that was nothing."
"He called you his favourite student, didn't he?" Ron asks, narrowing his eyebrows a little.
"No, he called me his best student actually."
"Isn't that sort of the same thing?" I ask.
"Yes, but -"
I give her a look. "Oh shut up" she says blushing a little.
Once we got Grace from Hagrid's, we all rushed to the library, Hermione gave the note to the librarian, Madam Pince, she looked at us suspiciously before walking away to get the book.
"I thought she wasn't going to believe us for a second" Ron says.
"Me too" me, Harry and Hermione say together.
"And me" Grace says not really knowing what we are on about.
A few minutes later Madam Pince came back with the book, we thanked her then rushed off to the back of the library where it's always empty and quite. I opened the book and start flicking through the pages.
"There, go back two pages" Hermione says. I flick back two pages and see the recipe.
"This is the mot complicated Potion I've ever seen" Hemione says as she leans over me so she can see the book. "Lacewigs flies, leeches" I shiver at the thought of leeches.
"Fluxweed and knotgrass" I say looking at the book, then I look at them. "They will be easy enough to get, they are all in the student store cupboard."
"Oh look, powdered horn of a Bicorn, Shredded skin of a Boomslang" Hermione reads.
I sigh. "Looks like we have got to steal from Snape after all" Harry and Ron look at me. "What, all those ingredients Hermione has just read out are in Snape's personal store."
"Jade's right, it's going to be tricky to get hold of them."
I look at the book again. "Eww!"
"what?" they all ask.
"We also need a bit of whoever we are changing into to."
"I think I'm going to be sick at the thought" Harry says, wrinkling his nose.
"It says here, either a fingernail or a piece of there hair, I guess hair isn't so bad" I say.
"It's better than a fingernail, and a lot easier to get" Harry says and we nod.
"Sissy, what's a, a P-juice Potion?" Grace asks looking at the book.
"It's called Polyjuice Potion, and it will let you turn into someone else."
She gasps. "Are you going to turn into someone else?"
"No, these three are."
"What? You're not doing it with us?" Ron asks.
"No. Four people asking question will be to suspicious, plus I can't leave Grace on her own."
"I don't mind sissy. I will wait in our room."
"No, no it's fine, I will stay with you."
"You're scared" Harry says smirking.
I look at him. "Are not."
"Are too, I can tell."
"Fine, maybe I am, but that's only because I'm worried that something will go worry and we will be stuck like that person."
"We won't, the Potion wears off after an hour" Hermione says.
I look at them. "And what happens if we get this wrong?"
"Let's try not to think about that and come up with a plan on how to steal from Snape" Harry says and Grace gasp.
"Harry, stealing is wrong."
"Erm -" he starts, but stops himself.
"We know it's wrong, but it's for a good reason. There's something happening in the school, something bad and we need to find out who it is, so we can stop it" I say.
"But sissy, you can't steal from a teacher."
"He won't know it's us" Ron says.
"Yeah, we will be extra careful" Hermione says.
"Promise?" Grace asks.
"Promise" we all say and she smiles at us and nods.
"how long dose this Potion take anyway?" Ron asks.
"A month" me and Hermione say together.
"The sooner we get those ingredients, the better" Harry mutters.
"That's plan tonight" Grace says, we look at her. "It will be fun" she say smiling.
"Tonight it is then" I say smiling.
It's later in the day and we are all sitting in the common room. "So, any idea on how we can steal from Snape?" I ask.
"We could ask him" Grace says.
"Good idea, I'm writing in on the list" I say as I write it down, she sits there smiling.
"We could cause a distraction" Ron says, I write in on the list.
"What kind of distraction though?" Harry ask, looking at us one by one.
"Maybe, maybe - ugh I've got nothing" Hemione groans.
"What about a firework or snow" Grace says.
I gasp. "Grace you're a genius" I kiss the top of her head before running off up stairs.
"I'm a genius guys" I heard Grace say.
I rush into my room and look around, I see Daisy asleep on my pillow. I walk over to my night stand and open the draw and see what I'm looking for, I smile and pick it up then rush back into the common room.
"Care to explain what that was all about?" Harry asks.
"Grace as just given us a way to steal from Snape" I say holding the item in my hand.
"What is that?" Hermione asks.
"Filibuster firework. I got it off Fred and George."
"Brilliant" Ron says smiling.
"What dose it do?" Harry asks, taking it off me to have a beet look.
"You poke it with your wand and it starts to fizz, then you only have a few seconds before it explodes into fireworks, maybe we could set it off and throw it over the other side of the room, then once Snape is going to investigate, we can sneak into his store" I say smiling.
"It's a very good idea" Harry says smiling.
"Ok, now we just need to decide who's throwing it and who's sneaking into Snape's store" Hermione says.
"How about Jade and Hermione going into Snape's store, if they get caught on the way, they could just say they have girls problems" Ron says. We nod.
"And I could throw the firework" Harry says.
"But Harry, you will be in a lot of trouble if Snape sees you" Grace says worriedly.
"He won't Grace, I will be careful" she nods.
It's the next day and Harry has got a Quidditch game today, he can't wait to play, I'm just walking back from the common room, Grace forget her teddy so I went back for it.
I'm just walking down the corridor when I hear "oi, Mud-Blood" I turn around and see Draco rushing over to me, before I could say anything, he pushes me up the wall, holds my arms down by my side and puts his leg in between mine. Great, now I can't even knee him.
"I got a detention because of you" he growls.
"Th-that wasn't my fault."
"Yes it was. You probably knew that Snape was there."
"How could I? I had my back to you" I try getting out his grip, but he doesn't let me go and I start to panic a little bit.
Draco looks at me and smirks. "You're scared of me."
"I-I'm not."
"You are, I can see it in your eyes, you're scared of me"
I close my eyes. "See, not scared" he laughs a little.
"Open your eyes."
"Why?"
"Because I want to see the fear in your eyes."
"Th-there's no fear in my eyes."
"Open your eyes" he says loudly and I jump a little, but kept my eyes closed, I don't want him seeing the fear in my eyes.
"If you don't open your eyes, then I'm going to kiss you" he mumbles.
Wait what? He wouldn't, would he? I'm not going to take that risk. I open my eyes, only to see him smirking. I go to roll my eyes but stop myself at the last minute.
"Ahh, there's your beautiful and fearful eyes."
"There is no fear in my, wait, you think I have beautiful eyes?"
"Yes, I like that you have one blue eye and one brown eye."
"Oh, me too" I mutter.
I look at him and see that he's in his Quidditch clothes. "Like what you see Turner?" I look at him and he winks.
"Shouldn't you be playing Quidditch right now" I see his face change from smug to anger, he groans and tightness his grip. "It's all your fault" he says loudly.
I jump, again. Why do I have to be so jump? And in front of Draco, now he's going to know that I'm scared of him. I'm not really sure why.
I think it's because I've seen the way he can change, one minute he's fine with me and the next I'm pinned to a wall. Draco is very unpredictable and I don't like when people are like that, it reminds me of my dad.
Draco looks at me. "See you around, precious."
"Precious?" I ask a little confused.
"It's what your name means. Precious green stone."
"I didn't know that. How come you know that?"
"I looked it up" he shrugs.
I frown at him. "Why?"
"Because I needed a new nickname for you, calling you the Gryffindor princess was to long" he says smirking.
"That was you? Ron and Harry teased me for weeks about that name."
He goes to say something, but gets cut off by an angry voice. "What do you think you're doing?" We look and see Snape walking over to us.
Draco quickly moves away from me. "We were just talking, wasn't we?" Draco ask looking at me with a 'don't tell him' look.
"Y-yeah, just talking."
"Oh really, and might I ask what you were taking about?" Snape asks.
Me and Draco look at each other, then I look at his top, he must have understand what I mean by it because he told Snape that we were talking about Quidditch.
"I see, and why did Miss Turner need to be pinned against the wall for that?"
"I-I, well, he -" I starts but stop when I have nothing else to say. Snape looks at me suspiciously, I look at the floor.
"Mr Malfoy, go to the Quidditch pitch, your team are waiting for you" he nods and walks off without saying anything.
"Miss Turner."
"Yeah?"
"Look at me" and I do. "Care to explain what that was all about?"
"Draco already told you, we were just talking."
"Are you always pinned against the wall when people talk to you?" I shake my head for no.
"So why were you with Mr Malfoy?"
"I don't know" I whisper.
"Did he hurt you?"
"No."
"Did he make you feel uncomfortable?"
"N-no."
"I think I will be having words with Mr Malfoy."
"No don't."
"And why's that?"
"Because we were just talking" he just looks at me. "Anyway, I better go or Grace will start worrying on why I'm not back yet."
He sighs. "Come on, I will walk you to the Quidditch pitch" I nod and we start walking.
"Are you ok?" Snape asks.
"Yeah, I'm fine, why?"
"You seem a little shaken up."
"Maybe a little, but I've been pinned to the wall before, so I'm used to it."
"By who?" he asks.
"No one" I say quickly. "I didn't mean to say that."
Snape looks at me. "Do you want to tell me what he was really doing?"
"Talking."
"About?"
"Quidditch" he rises his eyebrow at me, I just smile at him because I don't know what else to say.
"You can smile at me all you like Miss Turner, but I know there's more to this than you're letting on."
"Would you smile back if I smiled at you?" I ask.
"No!"
"Why not?"
"Because I don't smile."
"I've seen you smile."
"You just caught me on a bad day."
I laugh a little. "So what do you do when you're happy, frown?" I pull a frowning face and I see him go to smile, but he stops himself.
"I saw that."
"I don't know what you're talking about Miss Turner."
"Why don't you liking smiling?"
"Because there's nothing to smile about" he says.
"There is, you just need to find something that makes you smile."
"And where would I find that?" he ask not looking at me.
"I dunno, but sometimes it's right in front of us, but we just don't realise it yet."
I can see him looking at me out the corner of my eyes. "What makes you smile?" he asks.
"Grace, my friends and just being at Hogwarts."
"Do you like being here?"
"I love it, it's my home, I would stay here forever if Dumbledore would let me" I see him smile, but I don't say anything.
We make it to the Quidditch pitch only to find Harry being carried of the pitch, I rush over to him. "What's happened? What's wrong? Eww your arm" his right arm is like rubber and there doesn't look like there's any bones in there.
"Move out the please. He's needs the hospital wing" Lockhart says pushing me out the way and walking off with Harry.
"Sissy" Grace shouts as she runs over to me.
"What happened to Harry's arm?"
"The ball wouldn't leave him alone, it kept following him, then it hit his arm and the teacher with blonde hair -"
"Lockhart?" I ask and she nods.
"He did a spell that made Harry's arm all floppy."
"Moron" Snape mutters under his breath.
I look at Snape. "I have to go and see Harry."
"Of course, I will leave you to it."
"It was nice talking to you Sir."
"You too Miss Turner" I smile at him and he smiles back. I gave him a look. "What? I'm feeling miserable today."
I laugh a little. "Bye Sir."
"Bye Miss Turner."
"Bye teacher" Grace says smiling.
"Bye Grace" he says before walking off.
Me and Grace walk into the hospital wing and see the Gryffindor Quidditch team all around one bed, I'm guessing that is Harry's bed. I hear someone groaning.
I look and see Draco lying in bed holding his stomach, he looks like he's in pain. He looks at me and winks. Yeah, he's definitely faking his pain. Such a drama queen.
We walk over to Harry's bed. "How you feeling?" I ask.
"I'm fine" he mutters.
"Dose it hurt?" I ask looking at his arm.
"No, I can't feel a thing."
I pick up his arm, then let go and it flops down on the bed, which makes me laugh. Harry gives me a look. "What? I just wanted to see happened" he rolls his eyes.
I can still hear Draco groaning. "Oh, Mr Malfoy, stop making such a fuss, you can go" Madam Pomfrey says. Even the nurse hasn't got time for his shit.
"Out of the way, out of the way" she says pushing us out of the way. "Should of been brought straight to me, I can mend bones in a heartbeat but growing them back" she says.
"You can, can't you?" Grace asked looking worried.
"Yes dear, but it will be painful, you're in for a rough night Potter, re-growing bones is a nasty business" she says handing him a drink, Harry took a sip of it but he immediately spat it out making us move out the out so it didn't go over us.
"Can I stay with him tonight?" I ask.
"And me?" Grace asks.
"No dears, Mr Potter needs his rest, you can come and visit him tomorrow" we nod, and the nurse walks off.
I look at Harry and give him a 'I'll sneak in later' look, and he give me a 'I knew you would' look. I honestly love that we can read each other eyes.
"It's weird when you two do that" Ron says.
"Do what?" we ask together.
"Give each other looks and know what they mean."
"It's just something we have picked up on over the years" I say.
"Yeah, at first, we were like why you looking at me like that for, but know we just know" Harry says.
It's later at night and Grace and everyone else is fast asleep, so it's time to sneak in the hospital wing, hopefully I don't bump into any teachers. I get out of bed and put my shoes on and grab my wand and leave the room and out the common room door.
It's so cold out tonight, I wrap my dressing grown around to try and keep warm. I'm just speed walking down corridor when I hear a noise.
I look around and there's no where to hide, so I pull out my wand and carry one walking to the hospital wing as quickly as I can. The school is very scary at night.
I turn the corner and trip over something, I look and see Colin Creevey lying on the floor, he looks frozen, his camera is held up to his face, like he was trying to take a picture of something.
I start panicking because I have no idea what to do. "Miss turner" I jump and stand up. I look and see Snape walking over to me. "what are you do -" he started but stopped when he saw Colin.
"I-I just f-find him."
"What happened?" So I tell him what happened. "And you didn't see anything else?"
"No, what could have done this?"
"It looks like he's been petrified, you are so lucky that it didn't get you too."
"I know" I say looking Colin.
"What are you doing out of bed anyway?" he asks.
"Oh erm, I was just - just going to see Harry."
"That's very stupid of you Miss Turner, you could have ended up like Mr Creevey" Snape said angrily.
"I'm sorry" I say looking at the floor.
Snape sighs. "Let me take Mr Creevey to the hospital wing, then I will walk you back to you common room" I nod and Snape picks up Colin and I follow him.
Once we reach the hospital door's, Snape kicks them open and we walk in only to found Madam Pomfrey, McGonagall and Dumbledore stood there talking.
"Good heavens" Madam Pomfrey says when she sees Colin in Snape's arms. "Put him down on the bed Severus" Snape nods and puts him down.
"Perhaps he managed to take a picture of his attacker" McGonagall says pointing to Colin's camera. Madam Pomfrey took it from his face and opened it, it looked ok at first then there was a small explosion.
"What can this mean Albus?" McGonagall asks.
"It means that our students are in great danger" Dumbledore says.
"What should I tell the staff? McGonagall says.
"The truth, tell them Hogwarts is no longer safe, it is as we feared Minerva the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again" Dumbledore says.
I look at Harry, and see him lying there awake. He looks at me and mouths 'tomorrow' I nod and he pretends to be asleep again. I look back at the teachers only to find them looking at me.
"Miss Turner, I didn't see you there. What are you doing out of bed at this hour?" Dumbledore says
"I wanted to see Harry, but found Colin instead."
"I see, that was very -" he starts but I cut him off "I know, I know, very stupid of me, yeah, Professor Snape as already told me that" Dumbledore chuckled.
"I was going to say sweet" he says smiling.
"Oh."
"And stupid" Snape mutters.
I look at him "something stupid and sweet just go together, you do a stupid thing for a sweet reason" Snape rolled his eyes.
He looks kinda cute when he dose that. Wait what? I did not just think that about my teacher. I see Snape smirking, I swear he can read minds you know. I always see him smirking when I think something about him.
"Miss Turner" Dumbledore says, I look at him. "You should get back to your common room and try and get some rest before your lessons start in a few hours" I nod.
"Severus, could you escort Miss turner back to her common room."
"Of course headmaster" Dumbledore nods and we leave the hospital wing and head to my common room. "You shouldn't go wondering around at night, Miss Turner, especially not for Potter."
"He's my friend and I wanted to see of he's ok."
"And that couldn't have waited till morning."
"It could have, but I couldn't wait that long."
"Well, maybe next time you should think about your own safely instead of worrying about potter" Snape says.
I look at him. "What would you have done if your friend was in the hospital wing?"
"I don't have any friends."
"I can understand why" I say without thinking, which makes Snape glare at me from the corner on his eye. I don't say anything and we walk to the common room in silence, which wasn't as awkward as I thought it was going to be.
"Password?" the Fat Lady asks, as soon as she sees me. "Red and gold" she nods then the portrait swings open.
I look at Snape. "Thanks for walking me back."
"Your welcome, just don't go walking around at night again."
"I won't" he nods "Anyway, good night sir."
"Good night Miss Turner" I smile at him then walk into the common room and head to bed.