Harry Weasley
Chapter Thirty Six: The Heir of Slytherin
A/N: Ok here is a couple of things that you should know. 1. To answer one of my reviewers concerns, this is not anywhere near like the books. There is only slight similarities in that it will be basically the same plots, but there will be complete differences in the way it is written. 2. If you found that chapters 33 and 34 contradict each other, please reread chapter 33, I have fixed the contradiction in it. Thank you and please keep reading and reviewing. —Donald
While they were reading up on what happened before, there was one thing that kept coming up each time. "Heir of Slytherin." No one knew who it was back then, and they still didn't know who it was. All anyone knew was that the Heir was the one that could open the chamber, and that the Heir was a Parselmouth. Well as far as anyone knew there was only one parselmouth in Hogwart's at this time, so everyone was looking at Harry with some trepidation from the time that they found out what was going on. The Slytherin's were either jeering Harry or cheering that the Heir was a Gryffindor. Well that was except the four friends that he had in the Slytherin House. Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle weren't quite sure what to think about it, but they knew that Harry wasn't opening up the Chamber, and couldn't have been the Heir that they were looking for.
The group was meeting in the Room of Requirements to find out if they could find out who or what was going on. They had all the books from both the Restricted area of the Library, and the ones from Professor Flitwicks private library that were on the Chamber of Secrets, who the Heir of Slytherin has been, the history of the Slytherin Lineage, and the different types of creatures that could cause the petrification without killing the people. They had it down to a couple of creatures that it could be, but neither one of them were seen in many a century. They finally found out who it was that was accused of opening the chamber the last time, but they didn't believe it. It was their friend Hagrid, he was accused of bringing out a monster that had killed the student, a Acramantula. They looked up the Acramantula, and found that they couldn't petrify anything. So they found that it was impossible for it to be the cause this time, and they didn't believe that it was the problem back then.
When they decided to take their inquiries to Professor Dumbledore, they decided that they would approach him together. They made their way up to his office, and knocked on his door. When they got the permission to enter, they each took a seat and started in with their tale to the headmaster.
"Professor, we think we might have found what it is that has been attacking the students. We think that it is either a Medusa, or a Bassilisk. They are both able to speak snake tongue, and are both able to petrify without killing. Now neither of them are common around this area, and we aren't even sure if it is possible for either of them to exist in the castle without anyone knowing about it." Hermoine told the headmaster with some pride in her research.
"Thank you all for your research, and I will look into this. We don't know who the Heir is yet, and I can assure you that we aren't accusing you Harry. Some of the students might accuse you for a couple of weeks, but it should calm down after then. Now is there anything else that you wanted to talk to me about?" Dumbledore had his twinkle in his eyes that seemed to fill the hole room.
"No that's all sir, except that we were wondering, why was Hagrid accused and expelled when the student was obviously petrified to death. The Acramantula that he was accused of hiding and raising wasn't able to petrify anyone."
"Well that was a long story. You see, at the time we weren't sure whether or not the student was petrified or not. You see, she just sat there dead. We couldn't do anything to save her, and what the Acramantula's do is similar to that. So you see, once we found out what really happened, we couldn't do anything about it. Now if there isn't anything else, I am quite busy." The students took that as if they were dismissed.
Harry told his friends that he would meet them back in the ROR, he had something else that he had to ask the Headmaster. Harry stayed back as the rest left the room. "Excuse me Professor, can I ask you one last something?"
"Go ahead Harry, even tho I think I know what your going to ask already."
"Do you think that this has anything to do with that Diary of Tom's?"
"It is a possibility Harry, but at this time I am not sure. You see, Tom was the Heir of Slytherin back then, but by the time we found that out, it was too late. He had already left the school, and become Lord Voldemort. Then his reign of terror had begun. If there isn't anything else Harry, I truly am busy. You should go and catch up with your friends."
Harry thanked the headmaster and quickly left the office to catch up with his friends. When he caught up with them, he was excited about what possibly could be happening. What he didn't know was that his suspicions were going to be brought up in a rather interesting way later.