Chamber of Secrets

Ginny wanted to reach Ron and the others as soon as possible in the morning, so they can sort things out and see what they can do.

She had it all planned out, but like everything she ever planned had turned out, that plan did not work out.

When she woke up, it was already dinner time.

Ginny can't find Harry and Ron around but heard that Hermione got into the hospital wing today. With a sense of foreboding, she ran to the hospital wing and begged Madam Pomfrey to let her visit Hermione.

"Have you just visited her?"

"What?"

"Didn't you just come here?"

That kiwi came to visit Hermione?

"That's my sister, I'm a twin. Just let me in for a moment, I'm looking for Hermione. It's urgent."

Ginny was driving Madam Pomfrey mad with all her babbles that she finally open the door.

"Don't excite the patient." Said Madam Pomfrey.

She didn't need to say that, as Hermione was already too excited when Ginny entered.

Hermione's bed was hidden from view by the thick curtains, but it was easy to feel her anger billowing behind the curtains, rising and rising.

Ginny had never seen Hermione such angry, like a small erupting volcano, a wildly leaking can of gas, and all her accumulated resentments were crystallizing into flames.

"Hermione?"

"How dare you... Ginny?" Hermione turned down the gas a bit. "Just in time, come here."

"Can't... your rage is attacking me... "

Hermione took a deep breath and turned down the gas a little.

Ginny trudged forward into Hermione's fury and sat down in a small chair beside Hermione's bed, ready for escaping at any moment.

"Have you heard that last night... "

"Luna told us."

"So what's your plan?"

"I'm going to strangle your sister!"

Hermione threw back the curtains, then Ginny and the chair both rolled over.

A Hello Kitty face appeared, well, without the bow.

"Don't bite me." Ginny deflected her by hiding behind her chair.

"How did you educate your sister? You should set a good example for your younger sister! Why is she like this?" Demanded Hermione.

"Well, you see, it's kinda the other way around in my family..."

Early on Christmas morning, while Ginny was asleep, the Polyjuice Potion had been made. Hermione had accidentally put a cat's hair in and ended up in the hospital. Harry and Ron had got off on the wrong foot, with little news from Malfoy. Luckily, they met Luna, who had arrived at the hospital wing for treatment of her ankle that afternoon, and she told the three of them what had happened the day before.

"Just as they left, your sister came." Hermione's face turning as dark as thunder. "She was like doing criminal justice, asked us why we were after Malfoy. Strange as it sounds, I didn't know what happened, like, I just... succumb to everything she wanted me to do... I was even willing to tell my grandmother's middle name by then, I told her all I know..."

"Your grandmother's middle name? So you betrayed us on the basis of betraying your grandmother?"

"I did not betray you! Or my grandmother!" Hermione sank her head under her pillow, furious. "I can't help myself when she looks at me, would you believe it?"

"I believe you, I absolutely believe you." Ginny jumped up vexedly, "My sister is born with this ability to get to people do whatever she wants. Do Harry and others know about this?"

"They don't know yet. I asked them to tell the professor, but they didn't seem to want to. Where are them now?"

"I've been looking for them a long time."

Hermione slapped her forehead.

"No, no, no. They didn't go looking for trouble, did they... Go and get me a paper bag!"

Hermione quickly dug two holes in the brown paper bag Ginny had found, put it over her head, and pulled on her long overcoat to cover her hairy body.

"Hurry up, go before it's too late."

"I can go!"

"You know what just come on..."

Two figures zoomed past the hospital wing door.

Hermione was sprinting along the corridor after Ginny. But while Hermione neared the hall, Ginny, who was in front of her, stopped and cause a sprinting Hermione ran into her.

"What happened?"

"I suddenly feel so dizzy." Ginny, who had been knocked down, got up slowly. "I am dizzy whenever my sister was close by."

Ginny poked her head around the corner, her voice trembled as if she saw something horrible.

"I found Harry."

Hermione heaved a sigh. "Good, I thought he was in the Chamber of Secrets."

"It's worse than being in the Chamber of Secrets. My sister and Snape are with him, on their way to the headmaster's office. Dumbledore will be in trouble."

"What can happen to Dumbledore. Your sister can probably mess with me, she can't mess with Dumbledore." Hermione turned back. "I think they're going to report the whole Chamber thing to Dumbledore. Just wait, it'll all be sorted out by tomorrow at the latest."

Hermione had barely reached the top of the stairs when she was hit a second time by something moving at a high speed.

The thing moving at a high speed was Luna who hopping along on one leg.

"Ginny we got the rooster they said it could kill the basilisk but your sister came Harry was covering the rooster no wait it's Ron and Harry left with your sister we waited in the bathroom I never knew I can speak snake language and your brother has not come back!"

"Say that again?"

Luna almost fainted.

After being chased out from the ward by Madam Pomfrey, Harry, Ron, and Luna discussed how they could settle the matter without confessing about Luna. The simplest way they can think of was to destroy the basilisk, pretend they didn't know anything, and talk about Aquamarine's weird behavior later.

Basilisk can be easy to deal with. Just throw a rooster over.

Although Luna had pinched every rooster left at the school, at Hogwarts-Ron pointed out proudly-as long as there's enough money, those twin brothers could even get space shuttles, let alone roosters.

They went to George and Fred and told them they needed a creature for a little secret experiment, preferably a rooster. The twins got excited at hearing the little secret experiment and offered two help hands with a very small fee for running errands.

By the time the three were walking back with the rooster in hand, Aquamarine appeared at the other end of the corridor.

There was nowhere to hide, Harry handed Ron the rooster and said, "I'll cover, you'll go, we'll meet in the bathroom!"

Ron and Luna said a tearful farewell to Harry and heard from far away that Aquamarine was taking Harry to Snape.

They waited for hours in the bathroom, but Harry didn't show up. Luna chatted to Myrtle, asking her about the sounds she had heard that day. Myrtle made a few random imitations, then Luna spoke some strange words and asked if that is right. That made Ron gasp, he had not thought that Parseltongue was such a popular language. Luna also had just discovered that she could speak Parseltongue when she was possessed.

Ron asked Luna to see if she could open the entrance, and Luna said "open the door" in Parseltongue to the wall, but nothing happened; Ron asked her to speak something complimentary about Slytherin, Luna yelled out "Slytherin is the most handsome of all! Slytherin is the idol of women all over the world! Wish Slytherin all the happiness and luck in the world! Long live Slytherin, long live, long live!" and a whole lot of good words. Not a single wall responded.

Suddenly, Luna recalled an old mantra that had been around for thousands of years, so she spoke aloud:

"Open Ses-"

With these words, a brass faucet sink opened behind them.

"-a joke." Luna continued.

The sink hesitated for a moment and slammed shut.

"This sink is so easy to fool." Luna nodded and repeated, "Open Sesame."

The sink slide opened to reveal a way to the Chamber of Secretes. Ron said he wanted to go down, and Luna wanted to follow. But the sink seemed to hold a grudge and tried to trap her in the middle of it at the sight of her approaching, so Luna gave up.

Ron said there was no danger. Just drop the rooster and walk out without opening his eyes. The basilisk cannot do anything to him.

But to be on the safe side, he put on a pair of plain glasses.

As a result, he has not come up yet.

When heard this, Ginny made a frantic dash for the bathroom.

"If anything happens to my brother... I won't blame you!"