Just a warning: Some of the scripts in this chapter may be a little wrong from what actually happened in the movie, but it should be fairly accurate. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Michael in Arizona: Yep, and thanks. I agree, the Deathday party was quite boring. Of course Hermione is better than Draco! And thanks.
Addie Whitcher: Is it, really? Aww thanks, and can't wait for you to read the next chapter :)
jeromy scott: The Dursleys aren't exactly loving, are they? And no one likes Voldemort, except he's a little funny with his dramaticness lol
{Filch turns up.}
"He turned up all because of you, Malfoy, you yelled out and made him come," Harry said disapprovingly.
"Filch would have seen his Mrs Norris eventually," Hermione told Harry.
"But if Malfoy hadn't shouted out, Filch wouldn't of found out when we were right there," Ron told Hermione.
Filch: What's going on here? Go on now! Make way... make way!
"He actually just said whats going on here, whats going on," Harry corrected. "The rest of that line was entirely made up by whoever made this movie."
Filch: Potter. What you…
"That didn't happen, but I can definitely see Filch thinking Harry's done something wrong," Hermione said, shaking her head at Harry. "Such a trouble maker."
"He blamed me as soon as he saw Mrs Norris, which he should have by now," Harry muttered.
{He looks up and sees Mrs Norris}
"Well, after a whole heap of added monologue from Filch —" Ron started.
"It really wasn't that much!" Hermione cried.
"— he has finally seen Mrs Norris!" Ron cried back, over the top of Hermione, who just grumbled and rolled her eyes.
Filch: Mrs. Norris. You've murdered my cat!
"He's a little less dramatic here," Harry said. "He actually went 'my cat! My cat' then asked what'd happened to her, in a desperate tone. Although, he did say I'd murdered his cat afterwards."
"I WAS IN THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR! I THOUGHT MRS NORRIS HAD DIED!" Filch cried out, literally crying with tears streaming down his face. Mrs Norris meowed then and jumped up onto Filch's lap. "Oh Mrs Norris… I missed you so much."
"As… beautiful as this is, we do have some movies to watch," Harry said quickly, pressing play on his remote before Filch could argue.
Harry: No…
"More added words!" Ron cried. "So, take out a whole bunch of lines then add in a few, that totally works out for time constraints."
"They left out my deathday party!" Nick sobbed.
"And now I have to see my cat p-petrified," Filch sobbed.
"Ron. Rose, Hugo and their cousins as well as every other Hogwarts students in this room need a very important education!" Hermione cried. "We should be grateful that this thing skips through half our lives, otherwise our children may get expelled for being so awfully late!"
"Well if I thought you weren't Hermione then I was wrong," Ron said, his eyes widening. "And, given the fact that Professor McGonagall is the Headmistress and she's right here, I do not think they'll be getting expelled."
Hermione pretended she hadn't heard him, and quickly resumed the movie.
Filch: I'll kill you. {Grabs Harry's collar} I'll kill you!
"I don't remember him grabbing my collar like that, though," Harry frowned. "Good thing you didn't, eh Professor Filch?"
Filch hadn't heard him, he was still sobbing about his cat who'd been petrified twenty-eight years ago.
"But shouldn't Dumbledore of come by now?" Hermione asked.
"Harry's gonna die!" Ron cried.
"Harry's not gonna die, Ron, there's eight movies in total the voice said, and this is the second!" Hermione said, rolling her eyes.
"The next six movies could be us just crying," Ron suggested, raising his eyebrows.
"That would be boring," said Hermione. "Let's just watch and see."
Dumbledore: Argus!
Hermione's smirk in Ron's direction was enough to set Ron into flames.
"Yeah, whatever," Ron muttered. "But Filch'd only said he'd kill Harry one and a half times before Dumbledore came."
"Looks like Harry's not going to die, then," Hermione laughed.
"Whatever."
{Students move aside for Dumbledore and McGonagall to arrive}
"Didn't Dumbledore come with a whole heap of teachers, not just Professor McGonagall?" Harry asked, eyeing Ron and Hermione who looked ready to jump into another debate with each other at any given time.
"Apparently Professor McGonagall is the only important teacher now," Ginny shrugged. "Except not showing the other teachers makes no difference in time constraints."
Dumbledore: Argus, I… {He sees the writing}
"Argus, I did not say that," Dumbledore said, peering at the screen through his half-moon spectacles.
"Yeah, you saw the writing, then just told us and Filch to come with you," Harry added.
"Oh, yes, and you used my office which I graciously gave up for you to use, Albus," Lockhart grinned, grabbing out his marker. "Autograph?"
Dumbledore: Everyone will proceed to their dormitories immediately.
"Albus did not say that," said McGonagall, whacking the marker right out of Lockhart's hand, but he just presented a new one.
"Autograph time!" Lockhart giggled.
"How many of those do you have?" McGonagall cried faintly.
Lockhart just grinned and grabbed out a pack of permanent whiteboard markers.
"This packet has an infinite charm on it," he grinned.
"Great." McGonagall muttered. She snatched the packet out of his hands and ran to the bathroom.
"Wait… no!" Lockhart chased her and rushed into the bathroom with her.
They heard an awful lot of yelling, growling, and cursing before they heard a toilet flush. McGonagall walked back, smiling, with Lockhart following her, shaking with anger.
"Shall we continue?" McGonagall asked in her badass tone.
Dumbledore: {Everyone starts moving} Everyone except… {Everyone stops, and Dumbledore speaks to Harry, Ron and Hermione} you three.
"So that's how they present the fact that we had to go with the teachers to Fraudhart's office?" Hermione asked in disbelief.
"Well the truth is that Dumbledore just said for Filch to come with him, then he said also us three," Ron added.
"Why must it always be you three when something happens?" Ginny asked.
"You expect us to know?" Harry chuckled.
"You three are like… a Golden trio," Ginny decided. "For one, you're all in Gryffindor, and one of the colours for Gryffindor is gold, and you're the ones always near trouble, you're all best friends" — she glanced at Ron and Hermione at this one — "ish, and you're the main characters of these movies!"
"OK, that was deep," Harry said.
"It all makes sense! Anyway, let's just watch," said Ginny.
{Everyone else starts moving out}
Percy: Gryffindors, follow me!
"Such a good prefect, Percy!" Fred cried.
"Percy the Prefect, bossing everyone around," George added.
"You guys are just jealous you never became a prefect," Percy snapped.
"Uh, not really," Fred shrugged. "Responsibility really isn't for me."
"Oh really? I couldn't tell," said Percy, smirking.
Dumbledore: She's not dead, Argus. She has been petrified.
"I said that in Gilderoy's office," Dumbledore said. "After Gilderoy went on saying how it was unlucky he wasn't there and could of saved Mrs Norris from, ah, death."
Lockhart turned pink. "I was testing you! Seeing if you'd call me out, of course, haha…"
"No you were not," Hermione cut in. "You're just a fraud, and were pretending to know these facts, hoping you were right."
"Says the girl who had hearts around his classes on her timetable," Ron teased.
Hermione blushed.
Lockhart: Ah, thought so. So unlucky I wasn't there. I know exactly the counter-curse that could have spared her.
"Oh really?" Harry asked. "And what is that counter-curse, Fraudhart?"
"Er…" Lockhart turned from pink to magenta.
"So, this entire scene was set in Fraudhart's office and he'd said he knew the counter-curse when he still thought she'd died, and I suppose its not gonna have him counting how many lives he'd spared," Hermione sighed.
"And it's not gonna have Filch asking why she was all stiff?" Ron muttered.
Dumbledore: But how she's been Petrified... I cannot say.
"I just but how, not she's been petrified," said Dumbledore.
"Well you see, Mrs Norris has been petrified because she saw the eyes of the basilisk through the water on the floor," Harry explained. "But how the heck did she get up on the torch bracket?"
Filch was looking straight at Ginny, who turned red.
"Well, perhaps she jumped?" she suggested.
"Jumped?" Filch cried angrily. "My cat got petrified because of you and we want to know some information and you say she jumped?"
"Hey! It wasn't her fault!" Harry cried.
Ginny rolled her eyes. "Well, unless you have a form of time travel to change what I said, I just did say that she might have jumped. You expect me to know? I'm not a creep, I don't randomly spy on your cat."
Filch: Ask him! It's him that's done it. You saw what he wrote on the wall!
"In between that monologue Dumbledore said no second year could have done that," Hermione remembered.
"No second year could've done that," Draco smirked. "But a first-year managed."
Ginny was obviously enraged, but forced a smirk on her face, and looked like she was trying to out smirk Draco. "Well, seems even when I was eleven years old I was more superior than you."
"You almost killed all the mudbloods in the school!" Draco snapped. "Wish you'd killed one of them, you basically failed in your task."
At this, Harry and Ron both stood up.
"Good thing I'm not a murderer," Ginny cried. "Now that wouldn't be something I'm proud of." Then she smirked. "You know what I am proud of? Having a nose!"
"You little…!" Voldemort was glaring at Ginny before she quickly pressed play.
Harry: It's not true, sir, I swear! I never touched Mrs. Norris.
"The first sentence of that was made up," Harry said. "And it didn't show him saying about me knowing he's a squib."
"Wouldn't it of shown you seeing his letter thing?" Ron asked.
"Oh, yeah! Squibs might not even be in this movie," Harry suggested.
"It should be, Harry," said Dumbledore. "Because it should show Merope Gaunt."
"Oh, I hope it doesn't show me," Merope said sadly.
Filch: Rubbish!
"Of course no mention of the Kwikspell letter," Hermione said.
Snape: If I might, Headmaster
"I said if I might speak," Snape corrected.
"I guess we won't be explaining about the Deathday party then?" Ron sighed.
"Maybe this is set after the Deathday party but there was a time skip or something?" Hermione suggested.
"But wouldn't we of all been together?" Harry asked.
Snape: Perhaps Potter and his friends were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"He said we may have, not perhaps," said Ron.
"I really don't understand why they must change simple lines, especially when it won't even help shorten the time," Hermione sighed.
"Because maybe they didn't pay enough attention to our life," Harry shrugged. "Wait a minute, how do they even know what happened in our life?"
Ron and Hermione shuddered.
"I think I'd prefer not know," Ginny said.
Snape: However, the circumstances are suspicious. I, for one, don't recall seeing Potter at dinner.
"That was wrong, he said there was a set of suspicious circumstances, and asked why we were up in the hall, why we weren't at the Hallowe'en feat," Ron corrected.
"This isn't even set on Hallowe'en night," Hermione snorted.
Lockhart: I'm afraid that's my doing, Severus. You see, Harry was helping me answer my fan mail.
"In September, I did that! This is over a month later!" Harry cried.
"It's not gonna show my Deathday Party, is it?" Nick sobbed.
"It might, still!" Hermione cried. "Don't lose hope!"
Ron sniggered quietly, and they all turned back to the screen.
Hermione: That's why Ron and I went looking for him, Professor.
"Wow," Ron said sarcastically, clapping. "Well done, movie maker! You got rid of the Deathday party and made Hermione and I looking for Harry right after his detention."
"Which was in the middle of the night," Harry laughed. "So, Hermione was sleeping and Ron was doing his detention with Filch, and neither of them came looking for me."
Hermione: We'd just found him when he said… {Hermione looks at Harry}
"I didn't say that, Ron and I both just looked at Harry," Hermione said.
"Before I wondered what to say, and this was after Snape had asked why we hadn't come to the feast afterwards," Harry added.
Snape: Yes, Miss Granger?
"Well that didn't happen," Ron said simply.
Harry: When I said I wasn't hungry.
"But didn't Harry say we wanted to go to bed first?" Hermione asked, frowning.
"Yes, then Snape asked why without supper," Harry agreed.
"And it was me who said we weren't hungry," said Ron, rolling his eyes.
"Right before your stomach rumbled," Snape sneered.
Harry: We were heading back to the Common Room when we found Mrs. Norris.
"I didn't say that," Harry said, in an almost sing-song voice.
"Snape should be saying about Harry being deprived of privileges by now," said Hermione.
{Snape turns to Dumbledore}
Dumbledore: Innocent until proven guilty, Severus.
"I suppose it's going to skip that part," Ron responded.
"Well, Severus, you obviously just wanted him off the Gryffindor Quidditch team because you wanted Slytherin to actually be good again," McGonagall smirked.
"No, I just thought that would be a good punishment," Snape snarled.
"Sure, sure."
Filch: My cat has been Petrified! I want to see some punishment!
"Why must you always want punishment?" Harry asked Filch.
"Because I want to hear the screams from the old punishments that were very rudely banned," said Filch.
"They were banned for a reason, Argus," said Dumbledore.
Dumbledore: We will be able to cure her, Argus. As I understand it, Madam Sprout has a very healthy growth of Mandrakes.
"I'm a Madam now?" Sprout said eagerly.
"If you want," Dumbledore smiled, "but I actually said Professor Sprout has managed to produce some mandrakes."
Sprout nodded in understanding. "Ah, oui oui!"
Dumbledore: When they have matured, a potion will be made which will revive Mrs. Norris.
"Y-you said once they'd reached their full size, you'd have a potion made," Filch sniffed, obviously still upset about what had happened to Mrs Norris.
"Do calm yourself, Argus," said Dumbledore. "This happened a long time ago, after all."
"I've never gotten over the fact that Mrs Norris was p-petrified for months on end!" Filch cried.
"Oh, it's not that bad!" Hermione said, trying to reassure him that Mrs Norris had been fine. "It's literally like one minute you're seeing these eye things, the next you're in the hospital wing!"
Filch was still crying.
Dumbledore: And in the meantime, I strongly recommend caution. To all.
"I don't remember Dumbledore saying that," Ron said.
"Fraudhart and Snape should be having their argument about who would make the potion by now," Harry snorted.
{Harry, Ron and Hermione walk up staircases}
"No argument?" Hermione said, looking at Ron's sad face. "You're seriously upset because they didn't have an argument? It was really short, anyway."
"But it was good," Ron laughed, "gosh I hope Snape made it, Fraudhart would have no idea…"
"Given the fact that I'm not petrified, let's guess that Snape made it," Hermione told him.
Hermione: It's a bit strange, isn't it?
"Wait, why am I talking?" Hermione wondered. "I remember… I didn't want to talk, I was too baffled about the attack."
"Remember, Hermione says all," Ron muttered, rolling his eyes. "And I didn't even say that, Harry started the conversation by asking if we thought he should've told them."
"You should have," said McGonagall. "You could have helped us prevent attacks."
Harry: Strange?
Hermione: You hear this voice. A voice only you can hear. And then Mrs. Norris turns up Petrified. It's just… strange.
"I said it was pretty weird," said Ron.
"And I was silent," Hermione added.
"Damn Hermione, I think we've basically swapped lives!" Ron cried.
"Don't tell me your going to get petrified now…." Hermione almost laughed.
"That'd totally suck!" Ron cried. "It'd be just… too different."
Harry: D'you think I should've told them? Dumbledore and the others, I mean.
"Finally!" Harry cried. "That was what I said first, and I said told them about the voice I heard."
"I really don't understand why they give me so many extra lines," Hermione said, shaking her head. "The poor actor would have had to remember so much."
Ron: Are you mad!
"I actually said no," Ron said. "I never asked Harry if he was mad."
"Now that I think about it, it would have been much more responsible to of told them," Hermione frowned.
"Seriously, Hermione?" Harry groaned. "It's not a good sign, and it would've just been weird to tell them, like, oh, hi Professor Dumbledore, I've been hearing this weird voice that no one else can hear, yep that's totally normal!"
Ron laughed as Hermione facepalmed.
Hermione: No, Harry. Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn't a good sign.
"Wow. Just. Wow." Ron rolled his eyes and shook his head. "The line was basically mine and I said hearing voices isn't a good sign first, and oh my god."
"Hermione says all," said Hermione, nudging him.
Painting: She's got a point, you know.
"I do not remember a painting randomly speaking to us, but OK…" said Harry.
{In transfiguration class, the next day}
"Wow! Now we're not even going to hear me saying about Bill saying something about the chamber? Why am I not surprised…" Ron rolled his eyes.
"And why are we having Transfiguration?" Hermione asked.
"Shouldn't it be breakfast the next morning, or Potions, or in the library, or at the very least History of Magic?" Harry asked.
McGonagall: Could I have your attention, please? Right. Now, today, we will be transforming animals into water goblets. Like so. One, two, three, Veriverto.
{She taps her want 3 times on a bird and it transforms into a glass goblet}
"Uh, OK," Ron said.
"Transforming animals into objects… it always gives me a chill at the thought of it," Ginny shuddered, "I mean, shouldn't the animal… stay an animal? The poor thing…"
McGonagall: Now it's your turn. Who would like to go first? Ah, Mr. Weasley. One, two, three, veriverto.
"Why do I get the 'this isn't going to work out' vibes?" said Ron. "Firstly, since my character is apparently serving as comic relief, I'm almost bound to get everything wrong, plus the broken wand…"
"Yeah, that ain't gonna work out," Hermione said, shaking her head.
{Ron clears his throat and taps Scabbers 3 times}
Ron: Veriverto.
{Scabbers half-transforms and is squeaking. Everyone laughs.}
"What did you say!" Harry said, crossing his arms.
"That poor rat, though, the rat pretending to be Scabbers — Er, Wormtail," Ron said.
"It's movie magic, Ron," said Hermione. "The rat wouldn't of actually been hurt."
"Magic? But…" Ron was confused, but Arthur was rushing over to Hermione for explanation.
"Magic? In a movie made by muggles! You really must tell me everything! What spells do they use?"
"Er, green screens? Video trickery, it's not really magic…" Hermione started, but Arthur wouldn't let it be anything but magic.
"Green screen? What is the incantation for that?" he was jumping up and down like a child who had just been told they'd maybe get an ice-cream.
"It's not magic, really!" Hermione said. "The — the movie might explain it, so watch carefully…" Arthur grinned and went back to his seat.
McGonagall: That wand needs replacing, Mr. Weasley.
"Wow, as if I hadn't needed that reminding," Ron laughed. "Except I still don't understand why we're having this lesson."
"Yeah, the movies hadn't really added many classes, so to do this now, I dunno why…" Harry shrugged.
{Hermione raises her hand.}
"Wait a minute…" Hermione's eyes widened.
"Oh…" Ron said.
"They can't even add a single History of Magic lesson?" Harry wondered, raising an eyebrow.
McGonagall: Yes, Miss Granger?
"Well, this could be one of the Transfiguration lessons we forgot about or something," Hermione suggested. "But I dunno…"
Hermione: Professor, I was wondering if you could tell us about… the Chamber of Secrets.
"Hey! Isn't that what you asked me, Miss Grant?" Professor Binns droned.
"Er, yeah," said Hermione.
"And you asked if he could tell us anything about the chamber of secrets," said Ron.
"And you didn't hesitate like you did here," Harry added.
McGonagall: Very well.
"Oh, Professor Binns said that he taught facts, not myths at first!" Hermione said. "It's going to make it seem so much easier!"
"I didn't agree to tell you until you reminded me that legends have a basis in fact," Binns said in his usual dead-pan voice.
McGonagall: You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age.
"That skipped saying it's a sensational and ludicrous tale," said Ron.
"And it skipped Professor Binns saying the exact date is unknown," Hermione added.
"Given the fact that this is Professor McGonagall speaking, I don't really think it matters about the differences of what they say," Harry said.
McGonagall: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.
"Wow! Was that really their names?" Ginny cried in a sarcastic, mocking tone. "I never would have guessed, given the fact they're the names of the four houses."
McGonagall: Now three of the founders co-existed quite harmoniously. One did not.
"OK, well I guess it's not going to have the lines where Binns said about how they built the castle together away from muggles and stuff," said Ron.
"And he said that for years the four of them worked in harmony for many years," said Hermione. "Before the rift started between the others and Slytherin."
"You know what else is different?" Harry asked them. "The fact that in this movie it's Professor McGonagall explaining all this."
Ron: Three glasses who.
"Hmmm… let's see," Ginny feigned confusion. "Perhaps… Godric Gryffindor? No, Hufflepuff? No, no surely it's Ravenclaw!"
"Hate to break it to you Ginny, but it's actually Slytherin," said Ron, "and I didn't say that."
"What? Couldn't be!" Ginny pretended to be shocked and Harry burst out laughing.
McGonagall: Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts.
"Wow, that's basically what Professor Binns said!" Hermione said. "Talk about giving someone's line to someone else!"
"Yeah, talk about it," Ron mumbled.
McGonagall: He believed magical learning should be kept within all-magic families.
"Isn't this what I told you guys?" said Binns, apparently waking up from a sleep and only just zoning back in.
"Yes, Professor Binns!" Harry said. "Pay attention!"
"You're commenting on everything," Binns whined.
"We have to, to get out of here," said Harry. "You don't need to comment on things we've already commented on!"
Binns just shook his head and made a grumbly noise.
McGonagall: In other words, purebloods.
"Next he said that Slytherin disliked the muggle-borns and found us… untrustworthy," said Hermione.
"You are!" Draco sneered. "I mean, where do you get your magic from? Purebloods and halfbloods get it from their parents, or parent, but where do you mudbloods get it from? It's… untrustworthy."
"They get their powers from pure talent," Ron sneered. "Now shut up."
"It's like how Elsa got her powers," Dudley shrugged.
"Who?"
Dudley turned pink. "Er, no one."
McGonagall: Unable to sway the others, he decided to leave the school.
"He actually left the school after an argument with Gryffindor about not wanting muggle-borns," said Harry, hiding his laughter at his cousin, who was blushing as a few muggles and muggle-borns kept glancing at him with laughter in their eyes.
McGonagall: Now, according to legend, Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in this castle, known as the Chamber of Secrets.
"Basically an abridged version of what Professor Binns said," Neville said. "That lesson was by far the most interesting History of Magic lesson in the history of History of Magic lessons!"
"The… history of history…" Seamus looked at Neville, puzzled. "Okay…"
McGonagall: Well shortly before departing, he sealed it until that time when his own true heir returned to the school.
"Still not perfect of what Professor Binns said," Dean shrugged.
"It's not even Binns saying it, though!" Harry cried. "This makes it seem like Professor McGonagall talked to us about the chamber of secrets!"
"Like I said before, apparently McGonagall is the only important teacher," said Ginny.
McGonagall: The heir alone would be able to open the Chamber, and unleash the horror within, and by doing so, purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic.
"A few things wrong in that, for example I said the heir would be able to unseal the chamber, and didn't say by doing so, or in Slytherin's view," said Binns.
"And McGonagall didn't say any of this, and it was not in Transfiguration, and it was in History of Magic, said by you, Professor Binns!" Harry cried.
"Harry, you've made that pretty clear," said Hermione.
Hermione: Muggle-borns.
{McGonagall nods.}
"You didn't say that, did you?" Ron asked.
"No, Professor Binns had already made it obvious that it was muggle-borne Slytherin didn't like," said Hermione. "This movie makes it seem like I'm ashamed to be a muggle-born."
McGonagall: Well, naturally, the school has been searched many times. No such chamber has been found.
"Professor Binns said that it was all arrant nonsense, that it had been searched for evidence, that it didn't exist," Harry said.
"Well, he was wrong," Ginny laughed.
"Very, very wrong," said Hermione, shuddering.
"I didn't want you students to be scared!" cried Binns.
Hermione: Professor, what exactly does legend tell us lies within the Chamber?
"I asked him what he meant by the horror within," said Hermione.
"The horror within, oh, just some giant snake thing that wants to kill and petrify everyone, no big deal," Ron said, shrugging casually.
McGonagall: The Chamber is said to be home to something that only the heir of Slytherin can control. It is said to be the home of a monster.
"She said it so much more formally than I did," yawned Binns. "Wait, did you ask McGonagall as well as me or something?"
Hermione was obviously annoyed, but she took in a deep breath. "No. This thing just changed all the little facts like that. You were the only one I asked."
{Ron looks back at Draco, who is smirking.}
"I never had Transfiguration with you losers," said Draco.
"Thank goodness!" Harry cried.
"He must be there to raise the viewer's suspicions of him being the heir of Slytherin," said Hermione.
"Why would you think I'm the heir of Slytherin?" Draco smirked.
"Because you think all muggle-borns are scum, you're entire family has been in Slytherin," Ron said. "Why would anyone think Harry was the heir of Slytherin?"
Silence rang through the theatre.
{They walk through the hall}
Ron: D'you think it's true? D'you think there really is a Chamber of Secrets?
"Well that skipped a lot," said Hermione. "Like, Ron saying about how Slytherin was a loony, and Colin arriving…" she shook her head.
"But I did ask that, eventually," said Ron. "Just, after a while.
Hermione: Yes. Couldn't you tell? McGonagall's worried. All the teachers are.
"Er, didn't you say you weren't sure?" Harry asked Hermione.
"I did, and I mentioned that I didn't think what petrified Mrs Norris was human since Dumbledore couldn't cure her," said Hermione.
Harry: But if there really is a Chamber of Secrets, and it's really been opened, that means...
"I don't remember saying that," Harry shrugged.
"We should be walking up to the corridor and seeing the… the spiders," Ron was trembling.
"But we already saw the spiders in this, remember?" Hermione said.
"Then I suppose we'll find another way to Myrtle's bathroom," guessed Harry.
Hermione: The Heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts. The question is, who is it?
"I asked who it could be, and that was later in the common room," said Hermione.
"Maybe we're not going to Myrtle's bathroom," Ron suggested.
"Maybe Myrtle won't be in this at all…" Harry wondered.
"I'd better be!" Myrtle sobbed.
Ron: Let's think. Who do we know who thinks Muggle-borns are scum? {Malfoy passes them}
"Wow, they really had to make it that obvious?" Ron facepalmed.
"You guys seriously suspected me?" Draco snorted.
Hermione: If you're talking about Malfoy…
"Yeah, I was actually," said Ron.
"Well, hate to break it to you, but I'm not the heir of Slytherin," Draco mocked.
"We've realised that," Hermione snapped.
Ron: Of course! You heard him, you'll be next, Mudbloods!
"So that's why you suspected me, because I said the mudbloods would be next?" Draco sneered. "Wow, just wow. Bet you weren't smart enough to figure it out yourself."
Harry, Ron and Hermione exchanged grins.
Hermione: I heard him. But Malfoy? Heir of Slytherin?
"And I told you guys it wasn't him, but you didn't listen, we had to find out for sure," Hermione said, rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, by waiting until the end of the year," Draco laughed.
Harry: Maybe Ron's right, Hermione. I mean, look at his family. The whole lot of them have been in Slytherin for centuries.
"Eh, that was sort of right," said Harry. "I also said that he's always boasting about it."
"My whole family being in Slytherin proves none of us are filthy mudbloods!" Draco cried.
Ron: Crabbe and Goyle must know. We could trick them into telling...
"Ha, think you'd get anything out of us!" Crabbe laughed.
"We're loyal to Malfoy!" Goyle added.
"And I didn't say that, Harry asked how we could prove it," said Ron.
Hermione: No. Even they aren't that thick. But there might be another way.
"I actually said there might be a way after Harry asked how to prove it," said Hermione.
Hermione: Mind you, it would be difficult.
"You said of course it would be very difficult, actually," said Harry.
Hermione rolled her eyes.
Hermione: Not to mention we'd be breaking about fifty school rules. And it would be dangerous. Very dangerous.
"Didn't you say about it being dangerous before saying we'd be breaking fifty school rules?" Ron asked.
"Yes, but of course we got away with the danger, the difficulty sort of, and getting in trouble for breaking those fifty school rules!" Hermione smiled happily.
And would you look at that! We're already halfway through book/movie 2!