Harry was sitting at an empty compartment of the Hogwarts Express. He was waiting for Daphne, Tracey and Blaise to join him. Five minutes later, the door slid open and in came Tracey and Daphne.

"Hi Harry" both chorused, while Daphne pulled him into a hug.

"Hi guys"

"Blaise isn't here yet?" asked Daphne.

"His mom is probably kissing him goodbye" Tracey said.

"You don't wanna let him to hear that" Harry warned

"Hey he's a mommy's boy. Everyone knows that" Tracey returned

At the same time the compartment door opened and Blaise stood on the hallway."Who are you guys talking about?"

"Well Tracey was saying how you were a mommy's boy. Isn't that right Tracey?" Said Daphne with an evil smirk, Tracey meanwhile was white as a sheet and sent a horrified look towards Daphne.

Sensing the impeding blast, Harry quickly changed the subject. "So how was your summer Blaise?" Daphne pouted at him for changing the subject but he ignored it. 'Though she does look cute with a pout. Wait what?'

"Well I spent it training in Italy. Grandfather really wanted me to continue the family tradition of making assassins. How was your time with your Godfather?"

"Well Sirius is like a prankster and he spent most of the summer trying to prank me, quite unsuccessfully, I might say. We spent the first month of the break at an island owned by the Blacks near the Carribbean. How was your summer Tracey?"

"Well it was quite nice. We spent our time in magical China. Dad was busy doing some business, wanted more silk from there or something."

"Wait a minute. Isn't your sister coming Hogwarts this year, Daphne?" Harry asked

"Yes, Astoria is coming to Hogwarts this year. I hope that she'll be a Slytherin too. She should be joining us by now." Astoria was like a complete opposite of Daphne. Daphne was closed off to anyone besides her friends and she won't make friends easily. Harry was pretty sure that only him, Blaise and Tracey were her only friends. Astoria was very talkative, yet cunning. She also liked to play pranks and had a bubbly personality.

They all settled in with Harry and Blaise playing exploding snap and Daphne and Tracey speaking. Within an hour into the journey, the door opened again and when Harry looked up, he wanted to groan. There stood Malfoy with his two thugs behind him. He had stayed away from Harry since the Filch incident, but now it seems that Harry will have to teach him a Lesson again.

"Look who it is Crabbe, it's scar head and his pets." Malfoy said and laughed.

"Those are strong words coming from a peacock that keeps two gorillas with him" Harry retorted and Blaise snorted.

"Watch your mouth scar head-"

"Or else what? You'll go crying to your dad?" Tracey was holding in laughter. "Oh I'm so scared of big bad Lucy" And that broke her.

"You'll regret this, Potter" Malfoy went red in his face and walked away.

"Blaise do you wanna help me spread a rumour?"

Sensing a good prank, he asked "What's the rumor?"

"That Narcissa Malfoy had been cheating on Lucius with Snape and that Darco is the by product of that."

"No one is daft enough to believe that Harry" Tracey said

"Oh dear Trace, you'll be surprised at how stupid the Hogwarts students are. Besides the rumor mill passing up on such a juicy gossip? I don't think so" Harry said

"Well lead the way my lord" Said Blaise and together they were off to spread the rumor. Tracey and Daphne just chose to stay in the compartment and gossip.

Harry was currently sitting at the Welcoming feast. The rumour they had started now also holded that, the reason Crabbe and Goyle follow Malfoy is because Snape threatened to suck their blood if they didn't. Everyone was whispering to each other and then looking at Draco, making him comfortable. Harry hadn't paid attention to the sorting, except for Astoria, who joined them in Slytherin.

What frustrated him mostly was that Gilderoy Lockhart was the new Defence Professor. 'What was Dumbledore thinking?'. Harry had read his books as his entire collection was necessary for this year's curriculum. And it was shit. Anyone with a half brain would know that it was fake. But Dumbledore had gone and hired him.

"Tut, tut" Lockhart looked through the finished test results "hardly any of you remembered that my favourite colour is lilac. But Miss Hermione Granger knew that my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market my own range of hair care products, good." He winked at her, she looked ready to faint.

"Who the hell actually says 'tut tut'?" Harry asked Daphne who couldn't seem to think of an answer

"Now" Lockhart continued "be warned, it's my job to arm you against the foulest creatures known to wizard kind, you may find yourself facing your worst fears in this room. Know only, that no harm can befall you, whilst I am here. I must ask you not to scream, it might provoke them!" Lockhart dramatically lifted a cloth off a cage, revealing a cage full of pixies.

"Cornish Pixies'?" Seamus Finnegan laughed

"Freshly caught Cornish pixies" Lockhart corrected "laugh if you will Mr Finnegan but Pixies can be devilishly tricky little blighters. Let's see what you make of them" Lockhart opened the cage, allowing the pixies to fly out.

All of a sudden the classroom was in chaos, the pixies flew around and began damaging everything. They ripped books, pulled hair, threw whatever they could. Neville ended up dangling from a chandelier after the pixies painfully dragged him up by his ears. Many of the class began running out of the classroom, Lockhart tried to stop the pixies but one of them snatched his wand. Lockhart ran but stopped at the doorway.

"Could you all round them up please?" He said before he bolted out...

"Now what are we supposed to do?" Ron asked as he slapped one away with a book.

Hermione had had enough of the pixies, she stood up and removed her wand and aimed it in the air. A spell was on the tip of her tongue when the pixies all stopped moving. They froze in midair, floating around the room. The three looked around, wondering what happened.

"Thanks Harry" Neville's voice brought them out of their thoughts. They turned to see Neville on the ground, shaking Harry's hand while Daphne and Tracey stood behind him.

"It's no problem mate" Harry smiled "come on guys, let's go"

"Wait a minute" Hermione said as the group began making it's way out "what about the pixies?"

"What about them?" Harry asked

"You have to help us put them away"

"Do I?" Harry looked at Daphne who adopted a thoughtful pose.

"I'm pretty sure you don't" Daphne said after pretending to think about it

"Well, you heard the lady" Harry turned to the group "I stopped them, that's my contribution. You want to put them back then do it yourselves" Harry left the room with Daphne, Blaise and Tracey following him. Neville wasn't quite sure if he should stay and help but decided to go with Harry.

The next day Harry found himself and the Slytherin team walking towards the quidditch pitch. Draco had tried to bribe his way in with new brooms, Marcus Flint the captain, had accepted the brooms as they were technically gifts but told Draco that he'd still have to try out and prove he was better. Draco couldn't take the brooms back as they were gifts and to do so would make him hated among the Slytherins, but Flint didn't care. Flint just wanted to win, in his eyes Harry was a great seeker and that was all he cared about. He'd only have Draco on the team if he could prove he was better.

On the way there they were stopped by the Gryffindor team along with Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, the two captains began arguing over who could use the pitch. Until Flint pulled out a note he had gotten from Professor Snape.

"'I am giving the Slytherin team permission to use the field'" Flint read out "owing to the need to confirm who will play as the teams seeker'"

"But I thought Harry was the seeker" Hermione said

"I am but Draco wants to try and replace me" Harry explained

"Look at those" Ron pointed at the brooms "those are Nimbus 2001s, where did you get those?" And they all were apart from Harry who still had his Nimbus 2000, strangely enough he didn't get a new broom from Draco.

"A gift from Draco's father" Flint answered

"You see Weaselbee" Malfoy sneered "unlike some, my father can afford the best"

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in" Hermione retorted "they got in on pure talent" Malfoy turned red for a second.

"Nobody asked you, you filthy little mud..."

"Careful Malfoy" Harry warned "you finish that word and you won't make it to the try out because you'll be too busy bleeding."

"Don't threaten me Potter"

"Or what?" Harry raised an eyebrow "You going to tell your daddy on me? I'm really scared, but if you don't mind I'd rather hurry up and get on with me embarrassing you"

"You embarrass me?" Malfoy scoffed "Don't make me laugh"

"If I wanted to make you laugh then I would have given you a mirror"

"Enough" Flint interrupted "let's go"

They walked past the Gryffindor team and made their way to the pitch. The next half hour was Harry utterly destroying Malfoy despite Malfoy having the better broom. Around the end Malfoy ended up falling to a wronksi feint and crashing into the ground. He was taken to the hospital, as he had broken his arm and collar bone. Harry informed all of Slytherin house and eventually the news of Malfoy's failed attempts to take Harry's position spread through out the school.

A week passed by and the first quidditch game rolled out. It was once again the lions vs the snakes. The game was going on nicely until near the end of the game a rogue bludger had chased Harry making him go circles around the field. Thankfully, he had caught the snitch during the chase and then promptly blasted the bludger.

When Halloween came, Daphne had insisted, rather forcefully, that Harry should come to the feast to avoid encounters like last year. It was on their way back that tragedy struck.

"The chamber of secrets has been opened. enemies of the heir, beware."

written, in red blood on the wall with Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris petrified underneath.

Harry's eyes widened. 'The chamber of secrets? Only a parselmouth can open in, and the only known one was Voldemort.' Ofcourse Harry himself was one too, but he didn't plan on letting that out. 'That means either there is another parselmouth in the castle, or Voldemort's inside the castle'. They returned back to the common room and Harry quickly went to his room and pulled out his Marauders Map. He wanted to check if Voldemort's inside the castle. Going through each and every corner of the castle was tiresome and there was a possibly that Voldemort was in the Chamber itself or room of requirement. Or he may have fled after setting the Basilisk free. Harry was disappointed in his lack of success and was about to close the map, when he saw it. There was no Voldemort inside the castle, but there was a Tom Riddle in the Gryffindor Girls dormitory.

Taking his invisibility cloak along with his shrunken broom, Harry walked towards Gryffindor common room, under the cloak ofcourse. The prefects were just about to enter after their patrol, so Harry got the password. He checked his map to ensure that there was no one in the room and then opened the potrait. Walking in he un-shrunk his broom and using it along with the cloak, flew over the steps into the girls dormitory. This was necessary because the steps turn into a slide, when boys step on it. He walked towards the first years dormitory and on a desk beside a girl he recognised as a Weasley, he saw it. 'The horcrux. But how? It was supposed to be with Malfoy.' He took the Horcrux and left quickly. He put the horcrux in his room and then went towards the second floor girls bathroom where the entrance to the chamber stood. Ensuring that the annoying ghost was not present, he opened it, summoned stairs and walked down.

He passed through the cave towards the door, but didn't open it. Instead, he called for Minny.

"What can Minny do for master?"

"Minny I want you to find 5 roosters. Put them in a cage and silence them and then bring them to me."

"Ofcourse master, Harry"

She popped back in with 5 roosters in a metallic cage, silenced. With a flick of his wand, He conjured blind folds for all of them. He was going to kill the Basilisk, as it won't listen to anyone other than Slytherin's blood heir. It was unfortunate, but necessary.

SOpenS

The door opened. He placed the roosters aside, then cast a strong compulsion for them to crow.

SSpeak to me SlytherinS

He quickly closed his eyes. He was sure that the Basilisk was awake and then removed the silencing charm.

STom, Are you bac-AhhhhS

It screamed and thrashed, but Harry wasn't seeing any of it as his eyes were closed.

'Thank God, Daphne doesn't know about this. Or else she'll kill me herself'

When the thrashing stopped, Harry waited two seconds and then removed the blindfolds from the roosters as he didn't know if the eye still had killer gaze after a Basilisk's death. Seeing that the roosters weren't dead, Harry slowly opened his eye.

The sight made him shiver, of both fear and arrogance. He had single handedly taken down a 1000 year old 60 foot long Basilisk and probably was the first wizard to look at one with it's eyes intact, and that too without a scratch. He deserved to be a little arrogant.

He levitated the jaw of the Basilisk using his wand and then carefully pulled out a fang. This would act as his horcrux killer. Voldemort had read that Horcruxes can only be destroyed by fiendfire, killing curse and Basilisk venom. Since he couldn't cast the first two, this was the next best thing. Calling Tipsy, he asked her and other elves to render the creature down and store it in a vault. He decided to explore the chamber later and for now, went back to his room. After all he had a Horcrux to destroy. He plunged the fans through the diary, destroying it. Thankfully he had silenced the room and no one had heard the screech from the horcrux. Well this was enough action for one night. So he went to sleep.

From the next day onwards Harry didn't get any alone time outside his common room. Daphne and Tracey had followed him everywhere with Daphne clinging onto his arm and Tracey following. He could tell that Blaise too was a little more alert. He didn't mind as he kind of liked knowing that someone was worried for him.

Weeks went by and no more attacks occurred. People had assumed that it was just a prank by someone. Harry once again set himself into the routine of training, studies and pranks. The only surprise was that Blaise, Daphne and Tracey had joined him in waking at 6 and taking a run around the castle. Apparently, when Blaise told his mother that Harry was doing this she insisted that Blaise join him to be healthy. Daphne and Tracey just were beauty consciousness and wanted to remain in shape. Days rolled out and finally, Yuletide was here.