A/N: Hi again! I just wanted to say thanks for the awesome reviews I've been getting! I actually got one that doesn't like Ivy because she ruins Draco and Hannah's "moments". Sadly, there isn't really a Hannah/Draco moment in this chapter, but there will definitely be one in the next chapter, I promise! So, enjoy the Chapter and as always, reviews are loved.
Chapter 18
A Mystery sort of Solved
I followed Ivy down to Nightshade's tree and was pushed down the slide. My heart raced as I slid down into the vacant common room. I jolted up and pulled out my wand.
"Lumos." I muttered as my wand tip flickered with light. I turned to Ivy "So what was it that you found?"
Ivy pulled out a large book, it looked like Nightshade's diary, but it was slightly larger. "It's Slytherin's diary."
I gaped "So this is…"
"The last piece of the puzzle!"
I ripped the journal from Ivy's hands. "We should tell Nightshade about this!" I squealed.
"Already been done, Han. Nightshade!" Ivy called out.
Nightshade floated up from her rooms and hovered over a large armchair "Yes?" Ivy took the book back from me and held it up "Does this look familiar?"
Nightshade nodded "Yes, that's Salazar's diary!"
I looked at it "Give me that!" I shouted, ripping the book from Ivy's hands once more and sitting in an armchair next to Nightshade.
"Let's read it!" Ivy shouted leaning overtop me.
"Exactly what I had in mind. It's time to see what Slytherin thought of the other founders." I opened the journal. "Dear Diary,
I have managed to gain the other founder's of Hogwarts' trust. Nightshade especially. She'll do anything to be loved. Ha! Godric, what a gullible fool. He actually thinks he's my best friend! Hufflepuff, what a nut, thinking that everyone has some good in them! Ravenclaw…fairly suspicious, as she should be. She knows that my ability to speak Parseltongue is a very large sign of a Dark Wizard. Ha, journal. Little do those fools know that I am a Dark Wizard!"
"So Salazar thought this way!" Nightshade wailed. "Think I would side with him for love! I made a good decision then."
"Here's another one, a little later on, regarding you!" Ivy said, taking the book from me. "Dear Diary,
Nightshade and Godric have been acting weird lately. I'm growing suspicious that they are harbouring something. Godric always looks triumphant around Nightshade and I. Nightshade looks scared. Could they have…done something behind my back? No. I'm sure Nightshade is too shy to do anything with Godric."
Nightshade blanched (if that was at all possible). "He thought I was too shy to find someone other than him!"
"I know, I'm shocked too." I said "This is the last one. Dear Diary,
I have found out the truth. Nightshade and Godric have done something behind my back, and now, Nightshade has had that stupid Gryffindor's child! I will kill her for her unfaithfulness and leave this school. It's about time I did too. With everyone bringing in those Blood of Muds. I still think they should only allow pure blooded wizards and witches. Good thing I built that Chamber and sealed that monster inside it. When my one true heir comes to this school, he will be able to set it on those pathetic excuses of magic beings! Goodbye for now, journal. I must leave you behind, some will find it suspicious if I carried you along when I leave."
My jaw dropped. "Slytherin, no offence, Nightshade was a total…a total…"
"BASTARD!" Ivy shouted.
"And what's this thing Salazar mentioned about a Chamber?" Nightshade asked.
"Perhaps we'll never know. After all, only his true heir can open it." I said putting the journal in my book bag.
"Which reminds me, Han, where did you put that dagger we found?" Ivy asked.
I looked up "I held onto it. I find it cool. I've been using it to cut in Potions. I can bring it back, if Nightshade wants it."
"No, Hannah, you can keep it. I want any and all reminders of Salazar Slytherin out of my tree forever. I don't want them ruining my death."
I looked up suddenly "Nightshade, whatever happened to your child?" I asked.
"Oh, I was dead by then. Godric had taken her and put her up for adoption. I think the family was called…Capodebt."
My eyes widened "Capodebt?"
Nightshade nodded "But I think Godric saw her from time to time."
I turned to Ivy "Ivy! Capodebt! Ramona's ancestor is Nightshade and Gryffindor's daughter! I knew she looked like Nightshade when we first met her! Come on, we have to tell her!"
…
Ivy and I sprinted to find Ramona after curfew when we ran into Harry, Ron and Hermione, under Harry's Invisibility Cloak.
"Hey guys, no time to talk, we need to go find She-Cat." Ivy and I said together.
"Neither do we. Hagrid wants us to help get Norbert to Romania, where my brother, Charlie works caring for dragons." Ron explained.
"Get under the Cloak, you two." Harry told Ivy and I.
"Who's Norbert?" I asked.
"This is Norbert." Harry said, pointing at a crate Ron and Hermione were lugging.
"A crate?" I asked, pulling my own Cloak out of my book bag (I carry it around everywhere).
"No, there's a dragon in the crate. Hagrid wants us to get it to the Astronomy Tower to give it to Charlie." Hermione explained.
"But it's after curfew!" I protested. "I don't want to get in trouble."
"Hagrid's in trouble too. Malfoy saw Norbert!" Harry yelled.
"What! I have to go plead for him not to say anything!" I said, getting out of Harry's Cloak and wrapping my own around me.
"Han!" Harry yelled as I ran back to the common room "Han!"
…
I was just going into the dugeons when I ran into Draco.
"Good, just the person I was looking for." I panted from the run "Did you see something at Hagrid's?" I asked, taking my Cloak of and stuffing it in my bag.
Draco nodded, smirking "Yeah, and I told McGonagall about it."
And just to my dread, McGonagall came walking up in her nightclothes.
"Come along you two." she ordered.
I mumbled "shit." to myself as Draco and I followed McGonagall up to the Astronomy Tower.
We were nowhere close when I saw…literally saw, Harry Ron Hermione and Ivy, no Cloak, no nothing.
"You three are in so much trouble."
I furrowed my eyebrows in disappointment. "Harry, you idiot!" I yelled.
"Han!" Harry yelled as Draco faced the three of my friends and my brother.
"Busted, Potter." Draco smirked.
…
We all walked into McGonagall's classroom and stood there, Draco and I on one side, supposedly not in trouble, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ivy on the other side, in the deepest trouble ever.
"Nothing, and I mean nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night." McGonagall explained, keeping her temper "So as punishment for your actions, fifty points will be taken."
Draco and I looked at each other.
"Fifty!" Harry yelled.
"Each." McGonagall added.
Draco and I smirked. Gryffindor house out two hundred points in one night. The House Cup was sure to be ours!
"And to ensure this never happens again, all six of you will receive detention."
I gaped and turned to Draco. "Did she just say?"
Draco nodded and we both stepped up.
"Excuse us, professor, perhaps we heard you wrong." Draco said.
"I thought you said 'The six of us will receive detention.'" I finished.
"No, you and Ms Potter heard me correctly, Mr Malfoy." McGonagall told Draco "You see, as honourable as your intentions were, you and Ms Potter were also out of bed after hours. You will both join your classmates in detention."
Harry turned to face Draco and I and smirked at Draco.
I gaped. I, Hannah Lillian Isabella Marie Potter, had a detention! I was a browner! Browners don't get detention!
"Shit!" I hissed.
