Commendation Conference

Festooned and beaming, Hogwarts held a ceremony to honor heroes.

A fine banner floating in the air, dozens of blue flowers in full bloom on both sides. Those glorious deeds of the main character of the conference were kept broadcast, the largest banner on the front of a line of vigorous and straight text rolling broadcast.

"To Be A Good Child in The Wizarding World, To Be The Role Model of Hogwarts-AQUAMARINE WEASLEY'S HEROIC DEEDS RECOGNITION CONFERENCE"

"In a critical moment of danger, putting other's lives first... She took full responsibility for the lives of nearly 2,000 students in our school by leading the majority of teachers and students to overcome difficulties. This spirit of serving others without regard to oneself is worthy of our learning. Let's invite Aquamarine Weasley to tell us about her glorious deeds!"

Amid the waves of applause, five people were on their minds.

That day, after counting twelve hundred seconds, Luna got up and ran to Dumbledore's office.

She had barely left the third-floor corridor when Dumbledore arrived with a large group of people, including Lockhart. Several of her professors, Aquamarine and Harry. Snape carried a chicken coop full of roosters, headed straight for the bathroom, ignoring Luna.

When Aquamarine asked Harry to open the door behind the sink in Parseltongue,

Harry tried several times but all failed. Then Luna prompted them to try Open Sesame. They did not pay particular attention to Luna's presence even after they had fully opened the sink.

Among the crowd, Luna was lucky to escape the retaliation of the sink and reach the underground where the frenzied roar of the basilisk was heard as soon as her foot touched the ground. At Dumbledore's command, Snape swung open the cage he was holding and let the roosters out. They fired Amplifying Charm, Engorgement Charm, and Shield Charm to the roosters, soon enough roosters began crowing.

When at last the roaring stopped in the darkness, the professors lit up their wands. They saw a huge basilisk, in the size of an oak trunk, lying motionless on the floor, both its sides and a mouth full of slugs.

Ron and Hermione were crawling out of a sewer tunnel, not far from where Ginny lay unconscious.

The professors were shocked to see Ginny, and Luna jumped forward to check her breath.

Dumbledore stepped forward cautiously to take a closer look.

"Already dead." He added after seeing the horrified faces on others, "The basilisk, I mean. Miss Weasley is still alive."

Professors relaxed at that. Snape stepped forward at once to take care of the basilisk. Aquamarine stepped forward to observe Snape's movements with great interest and seemed particularly interested in the glowing green fangs.

While Snape was concentrating on the basilisk, Luna noticed that Aquamarine had suddenly reached out and tugged at the corner of Snape's coat, then pouted her lips in Harry's direction.

"Ten points to Gryffindor for Potter's help in opening the Chamber of Secrets. Plus, then points to Gryffindor for Granger's small contribution to Miss Weasley's investigation."

Harry had risked his life to get here but only gained ten points. Even Hermione's points were blocked.

Dumbledore's eyes widened at once, he had never expected Aquamarine will take the move that quickly.

Soon, Snape had disposed of the basilisk, placing the contents he had taken from it under a Shrinking Charm, then placing them separately into a pile of jars, and jars in a small, elaborately carved box.

All the problems were solved, Dumbledore summons Fawkes with everybody to fly out of the Chamber of Secrets. While leaving the bathroom, professor McGonagall added ten points for Slytherin suddenly that Aquamarine had cast a protective spell to the door, a detail that all professors forgotten, but a first-grade girl noticed and used Confundus Charm which is sixth-grades material.

Under Professor McGonagall's reluctant stares, Harry's gloomy states, Professor Flitwick's and Professor Sprout's funny stares, Professor Snape's dangerous stares, and Aquamarine's sly smile, Dumbledore announces that two hundred points will be given to Slytherin as Aquamarine solved the Chamber of Secrets.

"I revisited that corridor and found a pipe hidden in the wall, which led me to the broken girl's bathroom on the third floor, where there was a ghost, Moaning Myrtle. I had a deep conversation with her, and I asked when and how Myrtle had died. Myrtle told me that she was being bullied and was crying in the bathroom when she heard a boy's voice. She opened the door to shoo the boy away, but she saw two big yellow eyes and wake up dead. Her words gave me a clue. Had the Chamber of Secrets been opened before? What happened at that time?"

Ron's ears were filled with the loud speeches that came on the stage, and he did not listen carefully for that. He remembered that day, shortly after Ginny had run out of the tunnel, the basilisk had begun to writhe violently and its huge body had been pounding against the narrow opening. That left Hermione and him with no chance to put their heads out to help Ginny. A loud boom resounded through the whole ground like thunder, and the sewage has spread to the neck. Suddenly, somewhere came a burst of harsh crow. Soon, the basilisk stoped movement, and they heard the noise of people-rescue came. They clambered out of the hole covered in water and saw the professors, Harry, Luna, Aquamarine, and a fainted Ginny.

"Assuming Myrtle was the victim of the last Chamber of Secrets opening, the significant difference between her and the victims this time is that she saw the eyes directly, whereas Mrs. Norris and Creevey saw the eyes indirectly. I remember reading about an animal-basilisk. The crow of the rooster id fatal to it. Any person's eye contact with it would die immediately. Then, I recalled that Hagrid's rooster had been killed a few days earlier. Last time, on the day Mrs. Norris was killed, I saw spiders running away. So the animal in the Chamber of Secrets was almost certainly a basilisk. If so, the location of Chamber of Secrets can be deduced."

Hermione sat twitchy in her seat, annoyed at the memory of the recent past. They were brought back to the surface, Aquamarine explained their presence in the Chamber by saying: "I'm really sorry, Hermione, I shouldn't have told you all of that. I didn't think you were really going to try to work things out on your own. However, I admire your courage!" Then she smiled very, very, very kind, people can almost drown in that smile. Hermione and Ron took it all in with a huge smile, and Professor McGonagall deducted ten points each for their recklessness. Hermione finally realized that something was wrong, but when she recheck things with Ron, Ron repeated the same words as Aquamarine. Hermione tried her best to inspire Ron to recover his original memory, but Ron only became increasingly confused.

"The remaining question is who opened the Chamber of Secrets? Someone who can manipulate a basilisk at least has the telepathic powers of a basilisk or an elven. Someone who has elven power would never kill people randomly so that someone should be familiar with Parseltongue. Thinking about Parseltongue, Mr. Potter would be vulnerable to suspicion, as he had shown himself to be a Parseltongue during dueling club training. But, it could not be Mr. Potter, because... "

Harry didn't say anything about it. He had forgotten what had happened as well, but his forgetting seemed more quickly and completely. Unlike Ron, who had slipped from his piece of memory to another piece of memory, Harry could not remember a single thing, so he had to accept what others said.

"I thought of my twin sister Ginny, who was very unstable at the time. I thought she might be influenced by some evil force, so I tried to comfort her. My sister Ginny sobbed to me about the strange things that had happened to her for a long time. She said she was mentally unstable and often didn't know what she was doing. She showed me a diary."

Ginny's head was still bandaged and she was drenched, without knowing whether it was her injury or her sister's. As soon as she woke up in the hospital, she cried loudly: "Did I kill it?" Then she found herself being looked at sympathetically by others.

She tried to tell everyone what had happened to her, but no one believed her. "Poor kid," they all said in unison, "it must feel terrible to be possessed. Even now she's still in a mess."

Ginny was in a mess. She couldn't understand what Aquamarine was up to when she gave her the diary then destroyed it, what is the point of releasing the basilisk and then killing it.

"Even though the diary was destroyed and the matter was over, I still fell grief to my classmates who were unharmed. It was my sister who paid the most for it, but I think she is strong and brave enough to face such a disaster and bounce back. Please allow me to hug my sister and show my love for her!"

Ginny bit the bullet and hugged her sister, tears coming out of the corner of her eyes. Everyone said that's because of the sensation of love.

Thunderous applause almost brought down the house.