Chapter Fifty

Fighting Lockhart

When Harry came out the bottom of the shaft, what he found made his blood freeze. He found that Ron was knocked out, and Lockhart had his wand pointed at him when he came out. "Now Harry, you are going to go over there and awake your brother there, and then I will preform a memory charm on both of you so that you won't remember any of this. What will happen is that the rest of the professors will find that I brought you out, and that you two won't remember anything about it. I will have looked like I had saved you two when you went down to save your sister. I will say that I was able to kill the basilisk, but not before he killed young Ms. Weasley and ate her. I had brought you two back, and you were so shocked by what happened that you don't remember anything. Now if you two will please go over there and stand while I think about how to do this without causing any commotion." Harry went over and revived Ron and they stood over by the wall.

"What do you think he is really going to do to us Harry? I'm sorry that he got the drop on me, but he was down here waiting for me, and knocked me out with one punch. I have got to learn to defend myself more if we make it out of this alive." Ron was really freaking out now, and wasn't sure about what to do.

"Don't worry Ron. I don't think that he is that stupid. Now just follow my lead while I figure out something to do about the situation we are in. Maybe if we distract him enough, I might be able to get a stunner on him and then we can go rescue Ginny. Then maybe if we can, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. Don't worry Ron, Ginny's not dead, I can tell that whomever it is that took her down here, didn't want her to die." Harry was smiling as they talked quietly and watched the professor.

Lockhart in his own defense was standing there primping and preeming about what he was going to do, and that he had to look good going about it. "Now are you two ready to be taken out of the picture. Are there any last words or requests that you might have?" He was cocky in that he thought that the two boys didn't have an idea up their sleeves at this time. He was right in thinking this, but he didn't have to act so pompous about it. He was laughing actually as the students were watching. "Now who should I take care of first? How about you Ron, that way Harry can watch another of his family be taken down. Yes that should do it, maybe I will save him so that he can see what became of his little sister before I charm his memory." He was chuckling menacingly when he said this. Ron and Harry were now smiling, for they saw that the wand he had was Ron's old broken one, and he hadn't noticed it yet.

"I didn't know you still had that one on you Ron. That is brilliant, hopefully he will try to use it and it will backfire on him like it always does on you." Harry was whispering a bit so as the professor wouldn't hear them.

"What are you talking about Harry, that is my wand. Wait I see what you mean, he has my broken one doesn't he? This should be interesting to say the least. Shall we go on down the hall here to see what he will do, see if he is crazy enough to try anything." Ron and Harry started walking down the dank corridor with Harry having his wand out, Ron didn't have his out, because he didn't want the professor to think that he still had his wand.

"Where do you two think your going? Come on, I'm good with these charms, so don't tempt me." When they kept walking, Lockhart pointed the wand at them and tried to cast the memory charm. When he did, it backfired, causing part of the ceiling to fall between Ron and Harry, and Professor Lockhart to look at Ron weirdly. "Who are you? What am I doing here?"

"I think that the charm backfired Harry. Are you all right? Harry, why don't you go on and get Ginny while I stay here with Lockhart and start clearing some of this away for your exit for there." Ron started clearing away the rubble as he heard Harry agree with him on this. As he was clearing all the rubble away, he told the Professor who he was, and what was going on.