In the Hospital Wing, Malfoy was seen on one of the beds as Madam Pomfrey entered.
"Quit your whining Mr. Malfoy. You're free to go." She said as she walked to over the bed Harry was on. Ginny and Neville and Luna and Tom and Jerry were there with him. "I don't see why Professor Lockhart wouldn't let you come see me first. Not to worry though. It's easy to grow bones back but it'll take time. I'm afraid you'll have to stay over night."
"You will be able to though won't you?" Harry asked.
"Of course I will." Madam Pomfery said as she took out a bottle labled Skele-grow. "You'll gonna be in for a rough night."
She poored a glass for Harry to drink. The moment he took his sip, he felt his mouth burn as he swallowed it in pain before he caughed.
"What did you expect? Pumpken Juice?"
"Not really." Harry said in a very dry tone.
"Here you go." Neville said as he handed Harry a glass of water.
It wasn't easy to sip sense Harry was right handed. But he had managed to pull through with his left hand.
The rest of the Gryffindor team wanted to see him. But Madam Pomfery held them back. Fortuntly, Harry had the time to talk to the others about their plan to infultrate the Slytherin dorms.
"So there's a full moon tonight." Said Ginny. "We'll be able to get some Fluxweed now. We already got the rest of the ingredients."
"So all we need left is a bit of hair from some Slytherin students." Said Luna.
"And then we can see if Malfoy really is the Heir of Slytherin." Said Jerry.
"Unfortintly, me and Jerry should stay here with Harry." Said Tom. "But we'll meet with you in the morning to prepare the potion."
Harry was glad Madam Pomfery aloud pets to stay with him. It was better than nothing to distract him from the pain of the regrowing bones.
But then,
"Come to me. Let me rip you. Kill! Kill!"
"That hissing again." Said Tom.
"I take it you also heard that voice?" Jerry asked Harry.
"I did." Harry answered.
"Hello."
The trio turned to the new voice to see who it was. And they were surprised.
"Dobby?" Tom asked as he remembered the House-elf from before.
"Harry Potter has returned to school. Harry Potter has not listened to Dobby. Harry Potter should gone home when he missed the train."
"It was you." Said Jerry. "You stopped the berrier from letting us through."
"Indeed. Yes sir." Dobby said as a tear fell from his eye and onto his nose.
"You almost got me and my friends expelled." Said Harry.
"At least Harry Potter would have been away from here. Harry Potter must go home. Dobby thought his bludger would be enough to make Harry Potter see what is going on at Hogwarts."
"You're bludger?" Tom asked angry. "You made that bludger chase after us?"
"Dobby feels most agreed and ashamed. Dobby had to iron his hands." He said as he showed them his bandaged up hands.
"You better go before Tom and I get vilent on you." Jerry said as he and Tom pulled out their mallets.
Dobby wimpered as he moved away before the mallets had got him even though Tom and Jerry haven't swang them yet.
"Dobby is used to Death Threts sirs. Dobby gets them five times a day at home."
"I don't suppose you could tell me why you tried to kill me." Said Harry.
"Not kill you sir. Never kill you. Dobby remembers before Harry Potter triumped over Lord Voldemort."
"You said his name." Said Tom.
"We house-elves were treated like vermin sirs. And Dobby is still treated like vermin."
The trio can see how upset Dobby had gotten as he grabbed the bed sheet he was wearing and used as a cleanex for blowing his nose on.
"Why do you wear that thing?" Jerry asked.
"This sir is the mark of the house-elves enslavement. Dobby can only be freed if master presents Dobby with cloths. Dobby is not even aloud a sock because even underwear counts as cloths."
Just then, the sounds of doors opening was heard.
"Listen. Terrible things are abut to happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter must not stay here now that history is about to repeat itself."
"You mean The Chamber of Secrets?" Tom asked. "This has happened before?"
Dobby shivered and whimpered knowing he shouldn't have said that. Before they knew it, Dobby had grabbed the bottle skele-grower and slammed it on his head.
"BAD DOBBY! BAD DOBBY!"
"Dobby stop!" Harry shouted as he snatched the bottle away from him. "Tell us Dobby. When did this happen before? Who's doing this now?"
"Dobby can not say. Dobby only wants Harry Potter to be safe."
With a snap of his fingers, Dobby vanished.
Just then, the doors to the Hospital Wing opened. Harry and Tom and Jerry jumped back into the bed before they were seen awake.
Poking one of their eyes open, they saw McGonagall and Dumbledore enter with Madam Pomfery placing what looked like a satue on a bed. Until thy saw that it was Colin. Was he also petrified like Filch's cat?
"How did this happen?" Madam Pomfery asked.
"Perhaps he managed to take a picture of his attacker." McGonagall said as she opened up Colin's camera to see the picture. Only to see that the film had blown up as it had been sabitoshed. "What can this mean Albus."
"It means that our students are in gave danger."
"What can we still that staff?"
"That The Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again. Hogwarts is no longer safe I'm afraid."
The next day, Harry and Tom and Jerry met with Ginny and Luna and Neville in a deserted bathroom on the first floor and told them what happened last night.
"So The Chamber of Secrets was opened before?" Ginny asked as she prepared the Polyjiuce Potion.
"Makes sense doesn't it?" Tom asked. "Lucius Malfoy must have opened it while he was in school."
"And now he must have showed Draco how to do it." Said Neville.
"We'll have to wait for the Polyjiuce Potion if we're gonna get the answers." Said Luna.
"Still, why are we brewing it in the middle of the girls bathroom in braw daylight?" Jerry asked. "Someone could catch us."
"This is the bathroom Myrtle haunts." Said Ginny. "Nobody ever comes in here."
"AAAAAHHHHH!"
Everyone turned to see Myrtle screaming the moment she had seen Jerry.
"Ginny! Luna! What is that mouse doing here?!" She shouted before she turned to Harry and Neville. "And why are these two here? This is a girls bathroom. And these two are not girls."
However, she calmed down the moment she saw what they were working on.
"Is that Polyjiuce Potion? Not being a bad girl are you Ginny?"
"No she's not. We're just experementing." Harry lied.
Myrtle can tell Harry was lying. But she just let if go and flew back into the toilet that she's haunting.
"I wonder what she has against mice." Jerry thought out loud. "I guess we can find out later."
"Say. Isn't the Dueling Club suppost to be today?" Tom asked.
"Sense this potion takes time, we should have enough time to get to The Great Hall and sign up then." Said Ginny.
The six had arrived in The Great Hall to see that all the house tables have been replaced with a reptangle arena with moons on it. They had managed to sign themselves up and awaited the arivel of Professor Flitwick and Professor Snape.
But much to the disapointment of Harry and Neville and Tom and Jerry, Professor Flitwick wasn't there. Instead, Lockhart was in his place.
"Gather around everyone." He said. "In turns of resent dark events, I asked Professor Dumbledore, who exceped my premition, to take Professor Flitwick's place for this years Dueling Club to train you all up in case you ever need to defend yourselves, as I have done myself on countless occasions. For full details, see my published works."
"Just great." Harry said to Neville. "I was really looking forward to dueling."
"That Lockhart's something isn't he?" Asked Justin Finch-fletchley from Hufflepuff.
"Of course he is." Said Tom. "He's way over in his head."
"Very funny." Justin said smiling.
"Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape who has agrred to help me with a short demonstration. Not to worry everyone. You'll still have your Potions master once I'm through with him."
Everyone watched as Lockhart and Severus walked close together. Then they pulled out their wands and held them in front of their faces and then bowed to each other and then walked back a bit.
"Ready. 3. 2. 1."
"Expelliarmus!"
Severus casted the disarming charm on Lockhart which knocked him down on his back as his wand flew off of his hand.
"I wish I had a video camera to repeat that." Said Jerry.
"Muggle electronics don't even work at Hogwarts." Said Neville.
"Aw man."
"Well it's not funny anyway." Said Hermione.
"It was to me." Said Ron.
"Honestly Ronald."
"An excellent idea to show them that Professor Snape." Lockhart said as he got up. "But if you don't mind me saying, I would have stopped that if I wanted. It would have been only too easy."
"Perhaps it would be prudent to teach the students not to use unfriendly spells for the training section of this Dueling Club. We wouldn't want any acsidents until the real thing."
"An excellent idea again. Now if we could have a volunteer pare. Harry. Mr. Longbottom. How about you two?"
"Neville's wand causes devastation even with the simplest spells. We'll be sending Harry to the Hospital Wing in a match box. Perhaps he could suggest someone form my own house?"
"Malfoy perhaps?" Harry asked wanting to have a go at Malfoy.
"This is gonna be good." Tom whispered to Jerry.
"I know. We'll probily see Malfoy shouting that he opened The Chamber of Secrets." Jerry suggested.
"Scared Potter?" Malfoy asked smerking.
"You wish." Harry said as he pulled out his wand.
"This is training so cast your charms to only disarm your opponent." Said Lockhart. "And I mean only to disarm. We don't want any acsidents until the real match. At the count of,"
"Everte Staturm!"
A blast shot from Malfoy's wand as it hit Harry and knocked him back as he landed on his back. Fortintly, Harry was alright as he got back up and,
"Stuperfy!"
A red jet wave shot out of Harry's wand as it hit Malfoy and stuned him.
"I said disarm only!" Lockhart shouted.
"Flipendo!"
A blue ray blasted from Malfoy's wand and pushed Harry down to his back again. Until he got up and,
"Rictusempra!"
Another white wave came from Harry's wand as it Malfoy and sent him spinning in the air until he landed on his side.
"Didn't you hear me? I said dis,"
"Serpensortia!"
And then, a snake emerged from Malfoy's wand.
"Does anybody ever listen to me?" Lockhart asked.
"Yes." Most of the other students said.
"Mostly anyway." Said Ginny.
"No need to worry Harry. I'll get rid of it for you." Said Severus.
"Allow me Professor Snape." Said Lockhart. "Alarte Ascendare!"
That spell did no good than just send the snake into the air as it landed safely back on the floor.
But when it did, the snake turned to Jerry with a hungry look on its face.
"Don't hurt him." Said Harry.
The snake stopped and turned to Harry.
"You can leave through those doors." Harry said pointing at the doors.
The snake then slithered out of the hall. But just as it was gone,
"Hey! What are you playing at!" Justin shouted at Harry.
It wasn't just him, almost everyone was looking at Harry like he had done something wrong.
As the six returned to the common room, Harry wondered why everyone else was acting different around him.
"Harry why didn't you tell us you were a Parsalmouth?" Neville asked.
"I'm a what?" Harry asked.
"A Parsalmouth." Said Luna. "A wizard who could talk to snakes."
"We've known Harry could talk to snakes before we knew he was a wizard." Said Tom.
"He replaced a snake at the zoo with his cousin Dudley once." Said Jerry. "So we thought it was common for wizards to do this sort of thing."
"This isn't common Jerry. This is bad." Said Ginny. "There's a reason why the symble of the Slytherin house is a snake."
"Salazar Slytherin Harry." Neville said to him. "He can talk to snakes too. Now the whole school's gonna think it was you who set the attacks on Colin and Filch's cat. They'll think you're The Heir of Slytherin."
"But I'm not." Said Harry. "I can't be The Heir of Slytherin."
"He did leave many years ago." Said Ginny. "For all we know, you could be. But we still have our bets on Malfoy."
Harry smiled to know his friends are still loyal to him.
