Chapter 7-The Riddle
The next morning when Rose woke up there was a large snowy owl on her bed. At first she thought it was Hedwig, but then realized that Hedwig was smaller than this owl, but only by a little.
She untied that letter that was tied to it's leg. She opened it. It read: *Dear Rose, enclosed is a package I think you might find interesting. -A friend. P.S, Linera* "Linera?" Rose whispered to herself.
"What does that mean?" Rose then noticed that there was a package tied to the owls leg as well. She untied it, tore off the brown paper, and opened the box. Inside was a single peice of parchment.
It looked as though it were ancient, it was yellow and the corners were starting to tear. She turned it over. Nothing was written on that side either. She took her wand from her nightgown pocket and tapped the parchment.
Nothing happened. Then she remembered something.
She touched the paper with her wand tip and said "Linera."
Words formed on the parchment as if an invisible hand were writing them.
*If you would like to find his prize, to follow instructions would be wise. Go to the place that his rival built, find his sword and check the hilt.*
Rose wanted to read on, but the rest of the parchment was missing.
"It's a riddle." she said to herself. Who was "he"? Who was his "rival"?
Three people came to Rose's mind when she heard the word "rival", and they were all Slytherins. Malfoy, Snape, and Voldemort.
Rose woke Hermione, Avril, and Melanie.
"It's going to be tough to figure out," said Hermione after Rose had explained about the letter and she had read it several times. "But we can do it."
The next morning, Harry and Ron were informed about the riddle. It was pondered over for a long time, but no one could come to their mind except for the rivals Rose thought of.
They were in History of Magic when it hit Melanie.
"I think I have figured some out!" she said after class.
"The parchment is really old, so the rival must be really old. I think it might have something to do between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, but I can't figure out which is which in the riddle."
Everyone instantly agreed with Melanie. The next questions were where to go and what the "prize" is.
"Well," said Rose "Lets think about this. 'Go to the place that his rival built' well, did Gryffindor build anything?" "Not that I know of." said Ron.
"Ok, how about Slytherin?" said Rose. They all thought, then Harry shouted "THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS!" "Of course!" said Hermione.
The next morning they had classes. Before brekfast they let Malfoy out (in human form) as they had promised Lupin they would do.
When they did this, Rose said "Malfoy, if you whisper, or say, one word of this I'll-" but she stopped short.
Malfoy didn't have the normal look of mischeif he usually had in his eyes. He had a looked that, in a way, said "Help me.". "Malfoy?" Rose said cautiously.
"What's the matter. Malfoy started to speak.
"My dad-" just then, Lucius Malfoy burst into the room. "Come with me son!" he said "But, father I want to tell-" you will not tell anything to anybody, especially not about that!" and Mr. Malfoy grabbed Draco's wrist and pulled him out of the dorm, slamming the door behind them.
"Ok, what was that all about?" asked Avril.
At breakfast they looked over at Malfoy at the Slytherin table. He had the evil glint back in his eyes.
"Do you think there's something about Malfoy we don't know?" Rose whispered to the others.
They soon forgot about Malfoy after breakfast. They had just finished their classes for the morning and were taking a break and concentrating on how to get to the Chamber of Secrets.
"Oh man I know I remember reading something about the Chamber of Secrets" wailed Hermione. "Of course!" she exclaimed and headed in the direction of the library.
"Good old Hermione headed off to old faithful" said Ron laughing. "Where's old faithful?" asked Avril. "The library!" cried Ron, Harry, Rose, and Melanie in unison.
"Oh duh Av!" Avril said and smacked her head. "Should we go and help her" asked Melanie looking at Rose. But Rose wasn't paying attention she was staring at the classroom she had seen Lucius Malfoy drag a kicking Draco Malfoy into.
"Did anyone else see that?" she asked turning around. The four nodded their heads solemnly. "Let's go" said Melanie. The six of them tiptoed over to the once empty classroom.
They poked their heads around the corner. "Father, please, not again!"
"You will hold still and let me do this to you! Hurry up! Before any nosy Gryffindors catch us!" Draco was still trying to get away.
"No!" he screamed. He broke free of his father's grasp and ran out of the classroom. He stared at the 6 friends. "If you hide me, I'll explain."
Rose motioned for him to follow and said to Harry: "Stay here and don't let Mr. Malfoy see where we go! We will be in Moaning Myrtles bathroom." The 6 ran toward the second floor.
When they were in the bathroom, Avril said "I don't think your dad will look for you in an out of order girls bathroom." "You'd be surprised." said Draco.
"Now, what was that all about, Malfoy?" asked Melanie. "My dad has been controling me for my entire life under the Imperius Curse. All those things I said to you, about, anying, was not me. I don't want to be a Death Eater and evil like my father!
I would, except, after actually EXPEIRIENCING what they do to people- NO WAY! You have to help me get my father away from me!" So, all those times that you've looked up to your father and said he was so great, wasn't you?" asked Ron.
"No!" said Draco. "I would never say that!" "Are you lying?" asked Melanie. "I don't think he is, Mel." said Rose, looking into Draco's eyes. "It lookes like he's telling the truth." "Your father was supposed to leave two days ago! We can tell Dumbledore and he'll make him leave." said Rose.
"I wonder what Crabbe and Goyle will say." said Avril. "I won't tell them." Draco replied. 'It would be too confusing for them. They might hurt themselves. Not that I care, my dad was making me hang out with them, because their parents are Death Eaters too." he said.
Just then, Harry came bursting into the room. "HE'S COMING!" he yelled. Just then Lucius Malfoy walked in. "Draco, what on earth are you doing!" he shouted.
"Come with me right now!" "Mr. Malfoy, weren't you supposed to be gone 2 days ago?" asked Melanie. "I have had other business here you nosy witch." he said eyeing Rose and Harry quickly.
"You may want to get Rose and Harry in your grasp, but you don't have Draco to help you anymore. Now you'll leave, or we'll get vicious, chase you out, and then tell Dumbledore what you have been doing." said Avril.
"You have no proof whatsoever." he said quietly. "We have your son, and Dumbledore will believe him if he turns you in." said Rose. "OK, I'll leave." said Malfoy, "but I'm takin you and Potter with me." Melanie was the first to react to this.
As she pounced on Mr. Malfoy she turned into her tiger form. Rose told Harry, Ron, and Malfoy to stand back, then she and Avril changed into a wolf and tiger.
Mr. Malfoy managed to get Melanie off him and was now corned by 2 tigers and a wolf. "ALRIGHT I'M LEAVING!" he said, and with that, he left. Melanie, Avril, and Rose changed back to humans and turned to the boys, who were speachless.
Malfoy was the first to speak. "Well, I guess I'll go to bed now." "We'll take you Malfoy." spoke up Rose. "Thanks, but my fathers gone, I don't need you anymore.
I don't want to work with Voldemort, but I still hate you all." he said simply and strutted out. "I liked it better when he was a rat." said Ron.
The 6 still had something to think about. The Chamber of Secrets. The next day at Flying they all told Oliver about the riddle. "The problem is," said Avril "is that if we asked Dumbledore if we could go down into the Chamber, we would have to take a teacher with us."
"You're forgettting." said Oliver, "I am a teacher." "Oh, yeah." said Avril. "But would you go?" "Of course!" he replied. During break the seven went to Dumbledores office and explained.
"You may go." said Dumbledore. "But you have to take a teacher with you." The seven looked at each other and smiled. "I'll go with them, Professor." said Oliver. "Alright." said Dumbledore. "Be careful."
That night, the seven went into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Harry opened the sink. They all went the slimy pipe and landed in the tunnel. A little more than halfway down the tunnel, Ron said "If you look to your right, you will see the exact spot where the famous Gilderoy Lockhart lost his memory!"
They all laughed, even Hermione. When they came to the actual Chamber, Hermione said "Ok, where is the sword." They looked for an hour, but didn't see one, then Melanie shouted "Look! Up on the statue! A stone sword!"
All seven of them ran towards the statue. As they were climbing up they realized that pieces of the statue were coming off. They reached a landing and stood there for a few moments.
"Oh no the landing it's breaking!" cried Avril. In a matter of seconds the landing had broken off and Avril, Melanie, Ron, Hermione, and Oliver were tumbling down the statue.
Rose and Harry had caught hold of a ledge that was jutted out just above their heads. After Ron, Avril, Melanie, Hermione, and Oliver had stood up and brushed themselves off they looked up to see Rose and Harry.
"Are you guys ok!" shouted Melanie. "We'll be fine" called Rose. The five on the ground watched as Harry and Rose hoisted themselves up onto the small landing. "Everything's fine up here how about you guys?" called Harry.
"We're fine just a little dust in the eyes" called Ron. "Go and get the sword you guys" yelled Oliver. "Hurry!" cried Melanie, Hermione, and Avril together. Rose and Harry got to the sword. Rose read what was written on the hilt.
"It says: Third corridor, second floor, on the right, the second door." Harry tried to lift the sword off the statue, but the statue started to move! "Rose, Harry! Jump!" yelled Ron, but it was too late. The stone Slytherin picked Rose and Harry up and threw them into his mouth.
It was pitch black inside. "Lumos!" said Rose, and a light appeared on the tip of her wand. Harry did the same. They tried to pry the stone jaws open, but they wouldn't budge. They looked around and saw that there was a tunnel stretching out behind them.
"Should we go?" asked Harry, his voice echoing strangley. "It's the only way to get out." replied Rose. They walked for what seemed like hours, then they hit a dead end. "Oh no!" cried Rose. "Look!" said Harry pointing up. There was a trapdoor. He pushed on it.
Nothing happened. "Help me, Rose!" he said. Rose and Harry pushed. Nothing happened. "Stand back!" said Rose, she pointed her wand at the ceiling "Cormol Lomen!" A great blast issued from her wand. The trapdoor crumbled. Harry poked his head out.
"It's the prefect's bath!" he said. "Oh, I hope theirs noone there!" "Nope." said Harry. He helped Rose out of the hole. Just then, Snape walked in. He stared at the hole, he stared at Harry, he stared at Rose. "Detention." he said dangerously.
He looked at the two of them "Now go back to your dorms. I'll let you know your detention tomorrow after I talk with Dumbledore." Harry and Rose slid past Snape and looked like they were hurrying towards their dorm. When they were sure Snape was gone they backtracked and went back down to the Chamber of Secrets to get the others.
Harry opened the sink in Myrtle's bathroom and Rose and Harry jumped through the pipe. They came face to face with Avril, Ron, Melanie, Hermione, and Oliver. "We were just coming out to find you guys" cried Melanie. "Yea we were getting a little tired of waiting" exclaimed Ron.
"What happend?" asked Avril. "No time to explain Snape caught us and we have detention!" cried Rose. "Not again" said Oliver. "Come on guys I think Snape's patrolling the halls we better get a move on" said Harry.
The others agreed and they climbed out the pipe. Harry and Rose went first. They turned and helped Hermione out who was behind them. "You guys better get back to the dorm in case Snape comes by again and you get in more trouble" said Avril. "Don't worry we'll be fine" she said when she saw their disbelieveing looks.
The others nodded in agreement. "Ok, we'll go but only because you told us to" said Rose. They turned and cautiously went out the door. Avril got out first then Melanie and the two girls helped pull Ron and Oliver out. "Ok, stay close and watch out for Snape or any other teacher" said Oliver.
Oliver opened the door cautiously and peeked around the corner, and saw that no one was coming. "Ok the coast is clear" he called back. "We'll take it in pairs ok" Oliver told them. "Ok first Melanie and I will go then Avril you and Ron count to 50 after we leave then you guys come.
They nodded. "Ok ready Melanie?" he asked her. "As ready as I'll ever be" she replied. "If anybody challenges us I'll tell them I was taking you back to your dorm." he told her as they stepped out the door. They made it safely to the dorm without running into any teachers. (back in the bathroom)
"Ok they left let's starting counting to 50" Avril told Ron. Avril began counting. Ron looked at her and smiled. She stopped counting "what are you grinning at?" she asked him laughing. "You" he replied. "Me" Avril pointed at herself.
"Yeap we're all alone" he said smiling mischeivously. "Yeah, alone in an out of order bathroom" she told him laughing even harder.
"Oh man I lost count, see what you made me do" she punched him playfully in the arm. He grabbed her fist easily as it came at him and turned her around and gave her a hug. "We better go" Ron said. "Ok" Avril agreed.
They opened the door cautiously and peeked around. They were sure no one was coming so they walked out and began to head back to their dormitories. They turned the corner and walked smack into Snape. "Well well what have we got here.
Two Gryffindors out of bed this time of night. You can join your friends Harry and Rose in Detention. Go back to your dormitory I'll let you know what your detention is tomorrow along with Harry and Rose's." As Snape turned and walked down the hall Avril stuck her tongue out at his back then rolled her eyes.
She then grabbed Ron's hand and they made their way wearily back to the dormitory.
The 7 sat in the common room and talked about the sword. "We can't go there now." said Melanie, "we already have detention." "Wait," said Oliver, "Isn't that McGonagall's Office?" he said.
"Hmm, might be." said Harry. He ran up to the dorm and got the Marauders Map. "It is!" he said. "See, right here..." The next day at transfiguration the 6 of them Were anxious to have a look in McGonagall's office.
When class was over, and they were leaving the room, they saw Malfoy coming down the hallway. He had a mischeivious glint in his eye, like the old Malfoy. "What?" asked Rose.
"I saw Wood talking to Potter about your little scavenger hunt." Rose stared blankly at him. "And?" "I want to join it." "What?" said Ron, who had overheard. "Who knows." answered Malfoy.
The mischeivious gleam left his eyes. "I might end up liking you Gryffindors at the end. Plus, we might find treasure." "We'll see." said Rose and Ron together and they left. As they were walking down the hallway, Rose stopped suddenly, making Harry, who was right behind her, run into her.
"Ouch!" said Rose. "What's the matter?" asked Harry, fixing his glasses, which had been knocked askew by the crash. "I know who could help us with the hunt!" Ron groaned. "Not Malfoy?" "No, I'm still thinking about him, but think about this.
Who knows the whole school better than us? Who could find their way throught it even if it was turned upside down. Harry, I know you have the Marauder's Map, but they have more expeirience."
The 6 were thinking silently for a moment. Small smiles on their faces quickly turned to broad grins. "Fred and George!" they all said together, and hurried of to lunch.
At lunch, Fred and George were nowhere to be seen. "I wander where they could be?" asked Harry. "Probably dropping dungbombs in Professor Snapes room." replied Ron. Rose flinched at the consequences they would have to face if they were caught.
At the end of lunch, Dumbledore stood up. After making the usual announcements he said "Will Rose Garrison and Harry Potter please meet Professor Lupin in his office when you leave?" Rose and Harry looked at each other with quizzical looks on their faces.
After lunch Harry and Rose went to Lupin's office after saying "goodbye" to the others. When they entered the room, Lupin and Sirius Black were sitting there. "Please, have a seat." said Lupin. They sat down.
"Now, I know you are in a hurry to get to your potions class..." Harry and Rose rolled their eyes, but noted Lupin's serious face. "To the point. You two are twins." he said. "What?" said Harry and Rose at the same time, rather alarmed. "James and Lily Potter had two babies. A boy and a girl.
They knew that Voldemort was after them, and they knew that they could only protect one child. They gave Rose to me. On the night of Voldemort's attack, I ran from my ouse with Rose. In all the commotion, I had forgotten it was a full moon. I turned into a werewolf and bit Rose. After that, I didn't think that I could be trusted, so I gave Rose to the Garrisons, who at the time a fully trusted.
It turns out that they are Death Eaters." All Rose could manage was "But-I-he-we-huh?" Harry was speechless.
Rose and Harry walked slowly back to the common room, completely bewildered. They were silent for awhile, then Rose spoke out. "
Harry, did you have any idea at all?" "No," replied Harry. "I'm just as confused as you are."
"Well, let's hurry up and tell the others!" Rose and Harry walked the rest of the way back to the common room in utter silence. Each one lost in their own thoughts not quite knowing how to put in words what had just been revealed to them to explain to the others.
Finally they reached the portrait and spoke the password and came into the common room only to find it empty. "Now where did they go?" Rose asked out loud looking quizzically around the room. "Uh oh" said Harry. "I think they're disappearence might have something to do with this" Harry said picking up a piece of parchment in the middle of the floor.
He quickly unrolled it and read the contents. His face turned white and he dropped the paper to the floor. "What's up?" asked Rose. Harry couldn't get a word out. Rose bent over and picked up the parchment and read it. Her face went nearly as white as Harry's "Oh no" she breathed. "But how could they?" she kept repeating over and over. Finally Harry spoke
"Rose do you know where that place is you know the address that is in there?" he asked looking at her. Rose began to tremble "y-y-yes I do it's where I live" she stuttered.
The next morning when Rose woke up there was a large snowy owl on her bed. At first she thought it was Hedwig, but then realized that Hedwig was smaller than this owl, but only by a little.
She untied that letter that was tied to it's leg. She opened it. It read: *Dear Rose, enclosed is a package I think you might find interesting. -A friend. P.S, Linera* "Linera?" Rose whispered to herself.
"What does that mean?" Rose then noticed that there was a package tied to the owls leg as well. She untied it, tore off the brown paper, and opened the box. Inside was a single peice of parchment.
It looked as though it were ancient, it was yellow and the corners were starting to tear. She turned it over. Nothing was written on that side either. She took her wand from her nightgown pocket and tapped the parchment.
Nothing happened. Then she remembered something.
She touched the paper with her wand tip and said "Linera."
Words formed on the parchment as if an invisible hand were writing them.
*If you would like to find his prize, to follow instructions would be wise. Go to the place that his rival built, find his sword and check the hilt.*
Rose wanted to read on, but the rest of the parchment was missing.
"It's a riddle." she said to herself. Who was "he"? Who was his "rival"?
Three people came to Rose's mind when she heard the word "rival", and they were all Slytherins. Malfoy, Snape, and Voldemort.
Rose woke Hermione, Avril, and Melanie.
"It's going to be tough to figure out," said Hermione after Rose had explained about the letter and she had read it several times. "But we can do it."
The next morning, Harry and Ron were informed about the riddle. It was pondered over for a long time, but no one could come to their mind except for the rivals Rose thought of.
They were in History of Magic when it hit Melanie.
"I think I have figured some out!" she said after class.
"The parchment is really old, so the rival must be really old. I think it might have something to do between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, but I can't figure out which is which in the riddle."
Everyone instantly agreed with Melanie. The next questions were where to go and what the "prize" is.
"Well," said Rose "Lets think about this. 'Go to the place that his rival built' well, did Gryffindor build anything?" "Not that I know of." said Ron.
"Ok, how about Slytherin?" said Rose. They all thought, then Harry shouted "THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS!" "Of course!" said Hermione.
The next morning they had classes. Before brekfast they let Malfoy out (in human form) as they had promised Lupin they would do.
When they did this, Rose said "Malfoy, if you whisper, or say, one word of this I'll-" but she stopped short.
Malfoy didn't have the normal look of mischeif he usually had in his eyes. He had a looked that, in a way, said "Help me.". "Malfoy?" Rose said cautiously.
"What's the matter. Malfoy started to speak.
"My dad-" just then, Lucius Malfoy burst into the room. "Come with me son!" he said "But, father I want to tell-" you will not tell anything to anybody, especially not about that!" and Mr. Malfoy grabbed Draco's wrist and pulled him out of the dorm, slamming the door behind them.
"Ok, what was that all about?" asked Avril.
At breakfast they looked over at Malfoy at the Slytherin table. He had the evil glint back in his eyes.
"Do you think there's something about Malfoy we don't know?" Rose whispered to the others.
They soon forgot about Malfoy after breakfast. They had just finished their classes for the morning and were taking a break and concentrating on how to get to the Chamber of Secrets.
"Oh man I know I remember reading something about the Chamber of Secrets" wailed Hermione. "Of course!" she exclaimed and headed in the direction of the library.
"Good old Hermione headed off to old faithful" said Ron laughing. "Where's old faithful?" asked Avril. "The library!" cried Ron, Harry, Rose, and Melanie in unison.
"Oh duh Av!" Avril said and smacked her head. "Should we go and help her" asked Melanie looking at Rose. But Rose wasn't paying attention she was staring at the classroom she had seen Lucius Malfoy drag a kicking Draco Malfoy into.
"Did anyone else see that?" she asked turning around. The four nodded their heads solemnly. "Let's go" said Melanie. The six of them tiptoed over to the once empty classroom.
They poked their heads around the corner. "Father, please, not again!"
"You will hold still and let me do this to you! Hurry up! Before any nosy Gryffindors catch us!" Draco was still trying to get away.
"No!" he screamed. He broke free of his father's grasp and ran out of the classroom. He stared at the 6 friends. "If you hide me, I'll explain."
Rose motioned for him to follow and said to Harry: "Stay here and don't let Mr. Malfoy see where we go! We will be in Moaning Myrtles bathroom." The 6 ran toward the second floor.
When they were in the bathroom, Avril said "I don't think your dad will look for you in an out of order girls bathroom." "You'd be surprised." said Draco.
"Now, what was that all about, Malfoy?" asked Melanie. "My dad has been controling me for my entire life under the Imperius Curse. All those things I said to you, about, anying, was not me. I don't want to be a Death Eater and evil like my father!
I would, except, after actually EXPEIRIENCING what they do to people- NO WAY! You have to help me get my father away from me!" So, all those times that you've looked up to your father and said he was so great, wasn't you?" asked Ron.
"No!" said Draco. "I would never say that!" "Are you lying?" asked Melanie. "I don't think he is, Mel." said Rose, looking into Draco's eyes. "It lookes like he's telling the truth." "Your father was supposed to leave two days ago! We can tell Dumbledore and he'll make him leave." said Rose.
"I wonder what Crabbe and Goyle will say." said Avril. "I won't tell them." Draco replied. 'It would be too confusing for them. They might hurt themselves. Not that I care, my dad was making me hang out with them, because their parents are Death Eaters too." he said.
Just then, Harry came bursting into the room. "HE'S COMING!" he yelled. Just then Lucius Malfoy walked in. "Draco, what on earth are you doing!" he shouted.
"Come with me right now!" "Mr. Malfoy, weren't you supposed to be gone 2 days ago?" asked Melanie. "I have had other business here you nosy witch." he said eyeing Rose and Harry quickly.
"You may want to get Rose and Harry in your grasp, but you don't have Draco to help you anymore. Now you'll leave, or we'll get vicious, chase you out, and then tell Dumbledore what you have been doing." said Avril.
"You have no proof whatsoever." he said quietly. "We have your son, and Dumbledore will believe him if he turns you in." said Rose. "OK, I'll leave." said Malfoy, "but I'm takin you and Potter with me." Melanie was the first to react to this.
As she pounced on Mr. Malfoy she turned into her tiger form. Rose told Harry, Ron, and Malfoy to stand back, then she and Avril changed into a wolf and tiger.
Mr. Malfoy managed to get Melanie off him and was now corned by 2 tigers and a wolf. "ALRIGHT I'M LEAVING!" he said, and with that, he left. Melanie, Avril, and Rose changed back to humans and turned to the boys, who were speachless.
Malfoy was the first to speak. "Well, I guess I'll go to bed now." "We'll take you Malfoy." spoke up Rose. "Thanks, but my fathers gone, I don't need you anymore.
I don't want to work with Voldemort, but I still hate you all." he said simply and strutted out. "I liked it better when he was a rat." said Ron.
The 6 still had something to think about. The Chamber of Secrets. The next day at Flying they all told Oliver about the riddle. "The problem is," said Avril "is that if we asked Dumbledore if we could go down into the Chamber, we would have to take a teacher with us."
"You're forgettting." said Oliver, "I am a teacher." "Oh, yeah." said Avril. "But would you go?" "Of course!" he replied. During break the seven went to Dumbledores office and explained.
"You may go." said Dumbledore. "But you have to take a teacher with you." The seven looked at each other and smiled. "I'll go with them, Professor." said Oliver. "Alright." said Dumbledore. "Be careful."
That night, the seven went into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Harry opened the sink. They all went the slimy pipe and landed in the tunnel. A little more than halfway down the tunnel, Ron said "If you look to your right, you will see the exact spot where the famous Gilderoy Lockhart lost his memory!"
They all laughed, even Hermione. When they came to the actual Chamber, Hermione said "Ok, where is the sword." They looked for an hour, but didn't see one, then Melanie shouted "Look! Up on the statue! A stone sword!"
All seven of them ran towards the statue. As they were climbing up they realized that pieces of the statue were coming off. They reached a landing and stood there for a few moments.
"Oh no the landing it's breaking!" cried Avril. In a matter of seconds the landing had broken off and Avril, Melanie, Ron, Hermione, and Oliver were tumbling down the statue.
Rose and Harry had caught hold of a ledge that was jutted out just above their heads. After Ron, Avril, Melanie, Hermione, and Oliver had stood up and brushed themselves off they looked up to see Rose and Harry.
"Are you guys ok!" shouted Melanie. "We'll be fine" called Rose. The five on the ground watched as Harry and Rose hoisted themselves up onto the small landing. "Everything's fine up here how about you guys?" called Harry.
"We're fine just a little dust in the eyes" called Ron. "Go and get the sword you guys" yelled Oliver. "Hurry!" cried Melanie, Hermione, and Avril together. Rose and Harry got to the sword. Rose read what was written on the hilt.
"It says: Third corridor, second floor, on the right, the second door." Harry tried to lift the sword off the statue, but the statue started to move! "Rose, Harry! Jump!" yelled Ron, but it was too late. The stone Slytherin picked Rose and Harry up and threw them into his mouth.
It was pitch black inside. "Lumos!" said Rose, and a light appeared on the tip of her wand. Harry did the same. They tried to pry the stone jaws open, but they wouldn't budge. They looked around and saw that there was a tunnel stretching out behind them.
"Should we go?" asked Harry, his voice echoing strangley. "It's the only way to get out." replied Rose. They walked for what seemed like hours, then they hit a dead end. "Oh no!" cried Rose. "Look!" said Harry pointing up. There was a trapdoor. He pushed on it.
Nothing happened. "Help me, Rose!" he said. Rose and Harry pushed. Nothing happened. "Stand back!" said Rose, she pointed her wand at the ceiling "Cormol Lomen!" A great blast issued from her wand. The trapdoor crumbled. Harry poked his head out.
"It's the prefect's bath!" he said. "Oh, I hope theirs noone there!" "Nope." said Harry. He helped Rose out of the hole. Just then, Snape walked in. He stared at the hole, he stared at Harry, he stared at Rose. "Detention." he said dangerously.
He looked at the two of them "Now go back to your dorms. I'll let you know your detention tomorrow after I talk with Dumbledore." Harry and Rose slid past Snape and looked like they were hurrying towards their dorm. When they were sure Snape was gone they backtracked and went back down to the Chamber of Secrets to get the others.
Harry opened the sink in Myrtle's bathroom and Rose and Harry jumped through the pipe. They came face to face with Avril, Ron, Melanie, Hermione, and Oliver. "We were just coming out to find you guys" cried Melanie. "Yea we were getting a little tired of waiting" exclaimed Ron.
"What happend?" asked Avril. "No time to explain Snape caught us and we have detention!" cried Rose. "Not again" said Oliver. "Come on guys I think Snape's patrolling the halls we better get a move on" said Harry.
The others agreed and they climbed out the pipe. Harry and Rose went first. They turned and helped Hermione out who was behind them. "You guys better get back to the dorm in case Snape comes by again and you get in more trouble" said Avril. "Don't worry we'll be fine" she said when she saw their disbelieveing looks.
The others nodded in agreement. "Ok, we'll go but only because you told us to" said Rose. They turned and cautiously went out the door. Avril got out first then Melanie and the two girls helped pull Ron and Oliver out. "Ok, stay close and watch out for Snape or any other teacher" said Oliver.
Oliver opened the door cautiously and peeked around the corner, and saw that no one was coming. "Ok the coast is clear" he called back. "We'll take it in pairs ok" Oliver told them. "Ok first Melanie and I will go then Avril you and Ron count to 50 after we leave then you guys come.
They nodded. "Ok ready Melanie?" he asked her. "As ready as I'll ever be" she replied. "If anybody challenges us I'll tell them I was taking you back to your dorm." he told her as they stepped out the door. They made it safely to the dorm without running into any teachers. (back in the bathroom)
"Ok they left let's starting counting to 50" Avril told Ron. Avril began counting. Ron looked at her and smiled. She stopped counting "what are you grinning at?" she asked him laughing. "You" he replied. "Me" Avril pointed at herself.
"Yeap we're all alone" he said smiling mischeivously. "Yeah, alone in an out of order bathroom" she told him laughing even harder.
"Oh man I lost count, see what you made me do" she punched him playfully in the arm. He grabbed her fist easily as it came at him and turned her around and gave her a hug. "We better go" Ron said. "Ok" Avril agreed.
They opened the door cautiously and peeked around. They were sure no one was coming so they walked out and began to head back to their dormitories. They turned the corner and walked smack into Snape. "Well well what have we got here.
Two Gryffindors out of bed this time of night. You can join your friends Harry and Rose in Detention. Go back to your dormitory I'll let you know what your detention is tomorrow along with Harry and Rose's." As Snape turned and walked down the hall Avril stuck her tongue out at his back then rolled her eyes.
She then grabbed Ron's hand and they made their way wearily back to the dormitory.
The 7 sat in the common room and talked about the sword. "We can't go there now." said Melanie, "we already have detention." "Wait," said Oliver, "Isn't that McGonagall's Office?" he said.
"Hmm, might be." said Harry. He ran up to the dorm and got the Marauders Map. "It is!" he said. "See, right here..." The next day at transfiguration the 6 of them Were anxious to have a look in McGonagall's office.
When class was over, and they were leaving the room, they saw Malfoy coming down the hallway. He had a mischeivious glint in his eye, like the old Malfoy. "What?" asked Rose.
"I saw Wood talking to Potter about your little scavenger hunt." Rose stared blankly at him. "And?" "I want to join it." "What?" said Ron, who had overheard. "Who knows." answered Malfoy.
The mischeivious gleam left his eyes. "I might end up liking you Gryffindors at the end. Plus, we might find treasure." "We'll see." said Rose and Ron together and they left. As they were walking down the hallway, Rose stopped suddenly, making Harry, who was right behind her, run into her.
"Ouch!" said Rose. "What's the matter?" asked Harry, fixing his glasses, which had been knocked askew by the crash. "I know who could help us with the hunt!" Ron groaned. "Not Malfoy?" "No, I'm still thinking about him, but think about this.
Who knows the whole school better than us? Who could find their way throught it even if it was turned upside down. Harry, I know you have the Marauder's Map, but they have more expeirience."
The 6 were thinking silently for a moment. Small smiles on their faces quickly turned to broad grins. "Fred and George!" they all said together, and hurried of to lunch.
At lunch, Fred and George were nowhere to be seen. "I wander where they could be?" asked Harry. "Probably dropping dungbombs in Professor Snapes room." replied Ron. Rose flinched at the consequences they would have to face if they were caught.
At the end of lunch, Dumbledore stood up. After making the usual announcements he said "Will Rose Garrison and Harry Potter please meet Professor Lupin in his office when you leave?" Rose and Harry looked at each other with quizzical looks on their faces.
After lunch Harry and Rose went to Lupin's office after saying "goodbye" to the others. When they entered the room, Lupin and Sirius Black were sitting there. "Please, have a seat." said Lupin. They sat down.
"Now, I know you are in a hurry to get to your potions class..." Harry and Rose rolled their eyes, but noted Lupin's serious face. "To the point. You two are twins." he said. "What?" said Harry and Rose at the same time, rather alarmed. "James and Lily Potter had two babies. A boy and a girl.
They knew that Voldemort was after them, and they knew that they could only protect one child. They gave Rose to me. On the night of Voldemort's attack, I ran from my ouse with Rose. In all the commotion, I had forgotten it was a full moon. I turned into a werewolf and bit Rose. After that, I didn't think that I could be trusted, so I gave Rose to the Garrisons, who at the time a fully trusted.
It turns out that they are Death Eaters." All Rose could manage was "But-I-he-we-huh?" Harry was speechless.
Rose and Harry walked slowly back to the common room, completely bewildered. They were silent for awhile, then Rose spoke out. "
Harry, did you have any idea at all?" "No," replied Harry. "I'm just as confused as you are."
"Well, let's hurry up and tell the others!" Rose and Harry walked the rest of the way back to the common room in utter silence. Each one lost in their own thoughts not quite knowing how to put in words what had just been revealed to them to explain to the others.
Finally they reached the portrait and spoke the password and came into the common room only to find it empty. "Now where did they go?" Rose asked out loud looking quizzically around the room. "Uh oh" said Harry. "I think they're disappearence might have something to do with this" Harry said picking up a piece of parchment in the middle of the floor.
He quickly unrolled it and read the contents. His face turned white and he dropped the paper to the floor. "What's up?" asked Rose. Harry couldn't get a word out. Rose bent over and picked up the parchment and read it. Her face went nearly as white as Harry's "Oh no" she breathed. "But how could they?" she kept repeating over and over. Finally Harry spoke
"Rose do you know where that place is you know the address that is in there?" he asked looking at her. Rose began to tremble "y-y-yes I do it's where I live" she stuttered.