Harry Potter and the Room of Things no one Knows About

Chapter 13

By

Jason Richard

So Harry was the talk of Hogwarts, but instead of calling him the 'boy who lived' they referred to him as the heir of Slytherin, and Harry hated it. He was miserable for quite a while as rumors about him kept spreading. They'd say that Voldemort detected that a baby would become a dark wizard to challenge him, some would say. A baby! How ridiculous! How could an evil baby challenge the dark lord?

Not that Harry wouldn't claim a good baby could challenge him, but still.

But more trouble came along when Harry heard voices in the wall again, saying, "Kill, kill, murder, lunchtime! Oh wait, it's night. Dinnertime!"

He tried to follow it, and as luck would have it, Harry lost track of it just long enough to miss a certain conversation.

...

"Why didn't you just kill the mudblood!" demanded Riddle, once again talking through Ginny Weasley in her trance. She stood with the basilisk next to Justin Finch Fletchley and Nearly headless nick, both of whom were petrified, thought Nick floated in the air, his head slightly askew.

"You told me to petrify him!" cried the giant Basilisk. "And I wanna eat someone!" it smashed its head against the wall. "I wanna I wanna I wanna!"

"Curse this Gryffindor girl!" said Riddle. "To think that this lovesick fool could override my will!" within the diary he thought it over. It was almost a shame he'd have to dispose of her eventually, now that this untapped potential has revealed itself. Even so, through the girl, he said, "What now?"

Basilisk: "Eat the girl?"

"Would you just..." Riddle stammered. "Just..it's too dangerous to keep eating people tonight. Sneak into the forbidden forest and eat something. You're the enemy of spiders, aren't you? The thing that makes them tremble in the night? That whose name they do not speak, just as wizards no longer speak the name of Voldemort? Eat one of them. In fact, if you find one called Aragog, be sure to devour that on with gusto! Go my servant...eat a giant spider, and instill the terror in them once more!"

"Do I have to?" asked the Basilisk. "Giant Spiders give me gas."

A moment of silence, and then...

Riddle: "Wow...I did not know that."

...

By the time Harry got the assailants were gone. All he saw was Justin and Nick in their petrified state. As far as Harry could tell there was no sign of anything amiss. Well, he did see a bunch of spiders leaving the scene. Then again, now that he thought about it he might have seen spiders when Mrs. Norris was attacked. He only didn't think about it because he had bigger problems at the time. He wasn't there when Collin was attacked. Were there spiders them?

"Yes," said a deep voice suddenly. Harry looked over to see Filch grinning evilly. "Now'll you'll get justice for my poor cat. Mrs. Norris will be avenged!"

Harry: "What about the students?"

Filch: "Sure whatever. Oh Professor McGonagall!"

...

And thus Harry found himself in Professor Dumbledore's office. He hadn't done anything, but as he'd been at two of the previous attacks, he was now a prime suspect. What a sad fate for the boy who lived!

Harry sighed, then looked over at the sorting hat. Curiously Harry walked over and put the hat on his head. Nothing happened for a moment, and then...

Sorting Hat: "Bee in your bonnet, Potter?"

"Wait," said Harry. "You're a bonnet?"

Sorting Hat: "What? No. Of course not..."

Harry: "Because you know, bonnets go on people's heads, and the only thing on my head is you. So if you see a bonnet on my head..."

"I am not a bonnet!" cried the sorting hat.

"Okay!" said Harry defensively. "Okay! Good grief! I'm just saying if there was a bee inside whatever was on my head, and what was on my head was you..."

Sorting hat: "WHAT DO YOU WANT!?"

Harry: "Should I have been in Slytherin?"

Sorting Hat: "If I tell you no, will you leave me alone?"

Harry: "Well I'd have no other reason to talk to you so..."

Sorting Hat: "Then no, you're a Gryffindor through and through."

Harry: "Oh. Okay. Thanks Sorting Hat!"

Sorting: "Yeah sure, now buzz off!"

What a rude Hat, Harry thought as he put the hat down. Suddenly Dumbledore came in and looked at Harry gravely.

"So," said Dumbledore. "Did you petrify those students and that cat?"

Harry: "No."

Dumbledore: "Works for me. See you later!"