Hermione Granger.SLYTHERIN?! Chapter 17: Jade



Harry spent most of his walk to Charms with Ron consoling the redhead, who was crying his eyes out over losing his beloved Hermione to Malfoy.

"Oh, cheer up, Ron." Harry said." I must've told you at least a hundred times that Hermione was going to change because she was put in Slytherin. Can't you just forget about her?"

"NO!" Ron wailed, blowing his nose on his sleeve. "I was in love with her for so long, Harry! I really was! And now, she just turned her nose up at me like I was nothing more than dirt! It's just not fair! How in blazes could she have chosen Malfoy over me? HOW?!"

"Possibly because Malfoy makes her happy and because he and something else poisoned her mind and influenced her." Harry said, reasonably.

"But Harry, we saved her life several times!" Ron protested. "How can she just forget about that?"

Harry, bewildered, didn't answer. It was a puzzle to him, too, but he patted Ron's back in reassurance. He felt bad for his friend. Ron looked like Hermione had taken a sledgehammer to Ron's heart and shattered it into little tiny pieces.

After that, they said nothing more and continued to walk to Charms in silence.

A little later after that, the fifth years had a break until dinner. Hermione and Draco spent it holed up in Draco's dormitory, having sex.again.

"For God's sake, Hermione, when are you going to set the Serpent of Slytherin on a Mudblood?" Draco asked as Hermione lay on top of him, sucking on his neck. "Shouldn't you be doing that instead of screwing me?"

"Soon, Draco, darling, soon. It's much too risky for me to do that now. I have to do it when everyone's occupied."

"Like when?"

"You'll see."

The very next day, Hermione seized the opportunity to strike during her Potions lesson, when a very beautiful witch was the substitute for Professor Snape, who had fallen ill.

While Professor Hope Riddle distracted everyone in the dungeon, Hermione slipped out and headed to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, which, according to Harry, was the location of the secret entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. She headed straight to the sink in front of Moaning Myrtle's toilet and saw the tiny snake etched on one of the copper taps. She looked at it and willed herself to believe that the snake was real. Then, she spoke in Parseltounge: "Open up." Only, that wasn't what she heard. What Hermione Granger/Riddle heard come out of her was a peculiar hissing sound. Then, the sink moved and Hermione entered the Chamber of Secrets.

Hermione found herself in the main chamber in a matter of minutes, mainly because, she had remembered everything that Harry had told her three years before. Soon, she found herself in font of the huge statue of her noble ancestor, Salazar Slytherin.

Then, she spoke in Parseltounge once more: "Speak to me Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

And she watched as the huge stone mouth of Slytherin opened up and the second basilisk with its eyes tightly shut. "Who disturbs my slumber?" the basilisk hissed; its voice was clearly female. "Is it you, the one who slaughtered my mate?"

"No." Hermione answered. "I am the Heiress of Slytherin; I have come to set you free and feed you."

The basilisk was interested. "Feed me?" she asked. "Feed me what?"

Hermione smiled. "Humans." She said, calmly "Are you interested?"

"Oh, yes." Was the hissed reply. "May I call you 'Mother'?"

" Yes and I shall call you Jade. Now, come my dear. Let's go find your first meal."