Chapter Forty Four

Talking to Hagrid

The group of them made their way down to Hagrid's Cabin, and knocked on his door. When they were ushered in, they looked at him and started talking all at once. "Hold on you guys, one at a time please. Ok now you Harry, what is going on here? Why are you all down here to talk to me?"

"Well Hagrid, we know that you know a lot about different creatures and what they can and will do. We found out what it is that is attacking the students. We were wondering if you could tell us how that a 50+ foot long Basilisk can get around the school unnoticed to attack the students. Is it possible to be done without us noticing it?" Harry was a little nervous when he was talking about this. They were technically going behind the headmasters back with talking to Hagrid about this.

"Well from what I know about Basilisk's, the young ones aren't as deadly as the full grown ones, and the full grown ones are just to big to do what is being done now. The only way that it can be done without being detected is through magic, or it's going through the pipes. I don't know whether or not that is the way, but it makes sense to me. Have you talked to the headmaster about this yet?" He looked at the students with a 'you better have or else' look that they knew would make Hermoine proud.

"Of course we have Hagrid, in fact he was the first one we went to this morning with our suspicions. Now you said that it is more than likely that it's getting at the student's through the pipes. Does that mean that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in one of the pipes or something like that?"

"That would make sense. Now don't you all go getting yourselves killed by going after this thing. The only thing that I can say is follow the spiders. They will lead you to where you need to go. But don't you dare go looking for trouble, if you feel like you want to go after this thing, make sure you have a lot of back up in the form of a Professor or two. I also would recommend that I go with you, so as that I can keep you all out of trouble. Now off with you, enjoy this fine Saturday morning. You know with all your abilities in Ani-Magus, you should be able to take it out yourself. But I don't want you to go after it by yourself anyway. You aren't that experienced with your powers yet." With that, the eight students made their way out to the lake to discuss their options.

"Well we should follow what he said. I know for one that he is right. We aren't fully trained in our Ani-Magus powers to be able to take it on by ourselves. We might be able to in a couple of years, but right now we need to follow the spiders with a few professors to back us up. Who do you think we should take with us?" Harry was talking and figuring out to himself at the same time.

"Well I think that we should at least take Hagrid and Professor Lockhart with us. Maybe we can get Professor Flitwick to come with us to help out also. I don't think that Professor McGonagall will be of much help in this situation, and Professor Snape will be more than likely to help it take some of us out. No offense to the Slytherins, but he still hates the Gryffindor's for some reason. Now I don't like the idea of going and following the Spiders to find where we are to go, but I will swallow my pride and follow you to help out Harry." Ron was shaking a little bit at the idea of following Spiders anywhere, but Harry knew that he could count on Ron to help out.

"Ok that sounds like some good people to help us out. So we ask Professor's Lockhart and Flitwick along with Hagrid to join us when we go down to go after the Basilisk. This is agreed to by all of you right?" Harry looked at his eight friends and they all nodded their heads in agreement.

They decided to approach Professor Flitwick first to see if they could get his help in this endeavor. They had decided that they would talk to him Monday after class, and just enjoy the rest of the weekend. They had a quidditch game this afternoon, and they went to get ready for the game.