Harry Potter and the Room of Things no one Knows About
Chapter 10
What if Hogwarts' Ghost Professor died in class?
By
Jason Richard
The talk of the school was the Chamber of Secrets. What was it? And who was the heir that the second part of the message talked about?
"Wait," said Harry to Hermione. "Enemies of the heir beware? I don't remember that being written on the wall last night."
Hermione, "The writer forgot to put that in the last chapter."
Ron grunted and said, "Lazy writers. Am I right?"
"We need to find out what the Chamber of Secrets is," said Harry. "There could be more attacks after all. The boy who lived will not stand for it!"
Hermione: "You're not trying to resurrect that again aren't you?"
Harry: "Of course! I solve the mystery of this chamber and I'll be famous again. Besides, I'll be everyone's already forgotten about the puppy that lived."
At that moment they entered the great hall to see Dumbledore's announcement.
Dumbledore: "And joining the puppy that lived, is the kitten that lived!"
Audience: "Awww!"
Harry: "Oh come one!"
They could see Dumbledore standing next to a kitten and a puppy playing together.
"Oh looooooook," said Hermione. "They've got lightning bolt patterns in their fur."
Harry: "Seriously?!"
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It was later on that the trio found an opportunity to learn about the Chamber of Secrets. It was in Professor Binns' history of magic class. Professor Binns was a ghost who had been teaching history for years, died, and kept on teaching as a ghost. This proved to be rather awkward at first.
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Sometime in the 1970's
Professor Binns as a human: "Anyway, the goblin conflict lasted for three decades before…"
THUMP!
The professor looked own to see his body on the floor and realized that he was glowing and transparent.
Professor Binns: "Oh. It seems I've died and become a ghost. Oh well. As I was saying the goblin conflict…"
The students screamed at the top of their lungs and ran for the exit. After a minute of pandemonium Professor Binns shook his ghostly head.
"Skipping class I see," he said. "The nerve of some children."
Meanwhile, the only student who remained was a goth kid with white makeup and piercings everywhere who said, "This class just became awesome!"
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Present day.
Hermione: "Professor Binns? We were wondering if you could tell us about The Chamber of Secrets?"
Ghost Binns: "A myth. Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin were the founders of Hogwarts. While most of them believed they should they should train all wizards and witches, Slytherin believed that only those with exclusively magical heritage should be taught, AKA purebloods. The Chamber was supposedly created in secret by him and said to contain a creature that, guided by the true heir of Slytherin, would purge the school of muggle-borns, or mudbloods as some in the wizarding community call them."
"So that's what's going on," said Hermione thoughtfully. "Slytherin's heir must be unlocking the chamber and using the creature to go after muggle-borns. It makes sense. It went after Filch, and he's a squib. Magic family but no magic."
Silence filled the room.
Ron: "Filch can't do magic?"
Hermione: "Of course he can't."
Ron: "So if he tries to take me to detention I can hex him and he can't stop me?"
Hermione: "Ron! You can't be serious!"
But Ron was just grinning gleefully.
Harry: "You really shouldn't have told him that. Why on Earth did you think he wouldn't get ideas from that?"
Hermione: "Because hexing school staff is against the rules...oh no I've made a terrible mistake."
Ron laughed maniacally.
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Filch stood in the hall, his entire body covered in hair by a gorilla hair hex, and scowled.
Filch: "Someone's going to pay for this."