5th
Year Sorrows Part 11
For that whole week,
everyone was trying to avoid Ron as
much as possible, which was pretty hard, since whoever was controlling him was
making him follow everyone around, especially Harry. Dumbledore and the
teachers were notified, of course, and they had just said that the best thing
to do was avoid him. At one point, Ron got so bad that Harry had to open the
Chamber of Secrets and students had to hide down there. Harry pointed out to
Dumbledore that whoever was controlling Ron was working for Voldemort, and
Voldemort could easily open the chamber, but Dumbledore had just said that they
would put a teacher down there to keep watch. Harry felt this wasn't enough,
and indeed he was right.
About a month and after they
arrived at Hogwarts, pretty much the whole school was there; everyone except
the Slytherins. Exactly one week before the first set of Slytherins were to
arrive, a white faced Hufflepuff came running from the chamber, screaming.
Harry and Hermione had been walking around up there, when she came up to them.
"Harry, Hermione, quick get a
teacher, Dumbledore, anybody!" she shrieked.
"Why, what happened?" asked
Harry, quickly drawing his wand.
"Oh, it's awful, a big man in a
mask came down, and oh, it was terrible!" the girl screamed.
"Ok, go find a teacher," he said
to the girl. He then told Hermione how to get up to Dumbledore's office. "The password's Chocolate Frog.
Hurry!" he yelled, as Hermione dashed up the steps. Harry then ran into Myrtle's
bathroom.
"Oh, you finally decided to come
visit me," she said, floating over to where Harry was.
"Myrtle, I don't have time to
talk, I have to get down to the chamber," he said before going in through the
entrance. What he saw was almost as if walking into a nightmare. He saw a death
eater that he recognized as Wormtail. There was a whole lot of screaming and
the Dark Mark was hovering over the scene.
"Wow, Wormtail, never thought
you'd have the nerve to come back here," said Harry. He knew he was being
stupid, talking to a Death Eater like that, but he had a sense of hate in him
at that moment like no other. Pettigrew was in his debt, but Pettigrew had made
a better rat than a human, and Harry felt he should have let Back and Lupin
kill him, it was what he deserved.
"Harry, why are you here?" asked
Pettigrew, he had turned very shaky and fell to the floor, either that or it
was because Harry had just hit him with the jelly-legs curse.
"You were in the debt of me, do
you deny it?"
"N- no. B- but what d-does that
have t-to d-do w-with anything?"
"Oh, I thought I would remind
you, you still have to repay that debt, you realize that?"
"Y-you d-don't u-understand. V-Voldemort.
He'd kill me!"
"Yes, well, I doubt he'll need
to do that, you'll probably already be dead; you won't see him again." At that
moment Harry hit him with a full body bind. He looked around. Students were
standing around him. Harry was glad to see nobody was dead.