Harry Weasley

Chapter Thirty Nine: Moaning Myrtle

The next few weeks were spent with their heads in the books, and finding out about different things that could be done. They were talking about who the heir could be, when Hermoine said that, "maybe Myrtle would know? I think she was around back then. Maybe she would know either who the student was that was killed, or who the heir would be."

"That sounds like a good idea Moine. Your talking about Moaning Myrtle right, the ghost that's in the closed down Girls Lavatory on the third floor aren't you?" Harry was now interested in what she was talking about more, because he had read that she was a student around that time, but no one knew when or where she died. Only that she had shown up as a ghost shortly after that incident.

"Well when shall we go talk to her? I mean if we're all going to do it, I don't think that we should go during the day. Maybe we can all get together tonight and head to the bathroom to talk to her." Draco was contemplating this and how they would do it. It wasn't like they all had invisibility cloaks to get around without being noticed.

"Well I can help with that, so we won't be caught. You all know that I have my own invisibility cloak. Well I think that I can get us each one, but you aren't to use them unless it's in use for one of our outings, or pranks. Do you all understand?" Harry was being serious about this, he didn't want to get everyone in trouble for this, and he also didn't want them to abuse the right of having one of these cloaks. He knew that there was already one for each of them in the trunk, but he just hasn't given them out yet. He knew that the Marauders were behind that, and that they were hoping that they would form the new Marauders group. Harry was planning on bringing this up to them eventually, and decided that if it went well tonight, that they might bring up the possibility within the next couple of weeks. They could set up a good prank for once all these problems were done with, and that they could do it quickly.

"You mean that you have more of these cloaks Harry? Why haven't you told us this before?" Ron was getting a little bit mad at this, but once Harry explained it to them, they were understanding why he hadn't brought it up before.

"Yes I have one for each of us, and there is more in there for when we get too big for our cloaks. I mean get too tall to fit into them, not too big in weight. Now if you will all follow me up to my dorm, I have them up there." He led them up to his room, and got the trunk that had them all in it. "Ok, now these are special, in that they were given to us from my parents." He handed them each one, and then they walked out into the common room.

That night they all met outside the Ravenclaw common room waiting for Luna and Dudley to come down to meet them. They made their way down to the third floor levorotary which had Moaning Myrtle in it. They were all dressed under their invisibility cloaks, and each of them made it there without an incident. When they walked in, Hermoine, Ginny and Luna walked over to where Myrtle was usually at and asked her to come out. When she did, she gave a loud gasp when she saw the boys in the room with them.

"What are they doing in here? This is the girl's bathroom. They aren't supposed to be in here." She was becoming rather mad now, and wasn't about to let them get away with it.

"Calm down myrtle please, we just came in here to get some information from you if possible. Do you remember much from back when you were in school here? Do you know either who the girl was who died, or who the Heir of Slytherin was back then." Hermoine was trying to be nice to the hysterical girl, and was actually doing pretty well at it.

"I can answer both your questions Hermoine. One the girl that died back then was I. I don't know how I died, only that I saw these red slits for eyes, and then I was dead. The Heir of Slytherin back then was Tom Riddle, but I couldn't do anything to save Hagrid, for by the time I had known it, I was already dead and couldn't tell anyone. I felt sorry for him when I heard that he was accused of doing this and was expelled because of it. I wonder if there is anything that I can do to reverse what had happened?" Myrtle was contemplating this at the time, and everyone could sense that there was something else that might have been going on between the two of them back then.

Hermoine, Ginny and Luna all had a knowing smile on their faces as they figured out what was going on. The boys of course were completely clueless, and wouldn't have known what was going on if it bit them on the nose.

"We can talk to Dumbledore and see if there is a way of reversing the ruling on Hagrid if you were to testify about what you know Myrtle. Would you be willing to do so, maybe if we got some people to come down here to talk to you and find out what you know? Are you sure that you don't know what the beast was that was released and killed you?"

"Of course I will talk to the headmaster, I have no problems with him. He was always friendly to me back then, like he was with all the students. Yes I am sure that I don't know what it was that killed me, but I know that it was big."

They thanked Myrtle, and made their way out of the bathroom and up to their dorms. They decided that they would talk to the headmaster about this tomorrow morning after breakfast and before classes started.