19. Heir, who?

October arrived with a chill in the air, it was starting to get cold outside, most of the lessons were going great except DADA, because someone ridiculous was trying to teach us, I've even tried to convince Hermione that he has just got looks but not a sherd of the brain, she ignored me because She has been smitten by him.

I wanted to ignore it but something I've started to realize for the last some days in potion classes, how I missed it last year I don't know but Professor Snape never says anything to me, he always taunts my brother in his class but never even says a word to me, I'm sure he won't even know if I someday skive off his class. I told this to Hermione she just replied that Snape hardly gives anyone attention except Harry.

So, for checking it myself one day I stayed behind everyone with an excuse to Hermione, I was almost ten minutes late when I entered his class. He looked at me and asked "why are you late, Ms. Potter?"

"I'm sorry Sir, actually I had something

important to do" I replied nervously

"something more important than class?" he asked me sternly

"Yes Sir, I'm sorry" I replied

"here I thought you were better than your brother, ten points from Gryffindor, now find yourself a seat quickly" Snape replied,

I quickly went to Hermione and placed my cauldron."Where were you?" whispered Hermione

"later" I whispered back, she didn't ask more then we focused on our cauldrons.

When class ended Hermione asked me

"wasn't this a stupid plan?"

"kind of" I replied to her

"Now you know he talks to you, satisfied"

Hermione said, while packing her things

"Yes" I conceded

We together exited and met my brother and Ron just outside the gate, "where were you?" My brother asked with a raised eyebrow

"Really, you don't want to know?" I replied

"I want to?" my brothers insisted

"with my boyfriend" I replied,

"WHAT?" Harry exclaimed

"What, what,??" I asked mockingly

"You- you can't have a boyfriend" my brother stuttered

"why can't I have one" I asked seriously

"You just can't- harry started but Hermione cut him off and said "Harry she is just kidding, she was in the washroom,"

"Then that's fine" he replied, I wanted to argue with my brother about why I can't have a boyfriend, but I know he will just pull out the big brother card as always so I dropped the topic.

Later that night harry came after his Quidditch practice in common room and directly went to change when he came back, he just announced "we are going to Deathday party nearly headless nick invited me and I promised him we will come"

"Deathday party, what the hell-

"LANGAUGE RON!" Hermione exclaimed

"I'm just sitting, beside you woman" said Ron while rubbing his ears and Glaring at Hermione.

"What is it??" I asked Harry

"it's headless nick's death day so he is throwing the party," explained Harry,

"who celebrates his death day," asked Ron incredulously, "we will have to go?" Ron added

"Yep" replied Harry

"This is first party ever which is sounding horrible" said Ron while looking at all of us.

"it will be fascinating to attend something like that" Hermione said cheerfully.

Finally, the day arrived for Halloween, I was nearly thinking of abandoning my brother or Halloween feast, I mean he has made that stupid promise, Now I was going to miss this year feast just like last year because of that Deatday party. Even My brother didn't wanted to go but he made a promise which Hermione dutifully reminded us, So instead of going to the wonderful feast in Great hall, we were attending Nearly headless nick's Deathday party in dungeons. Which was practically Deathday party, there was rotten food, insects for dinner, in beverages I was definitely sure it was blood of various animals. There were every ghost from castle, even bloody Baron was attending it, Slytherin ghost.

After sometime we all somehow, managed to get out of the party, praying that the Halloween feast is still going on because we were starving, we were down in dungeons when I heard,

Rip….. Kill…. Tear,

"what's that sound" I asked Hermione who was looking at me confusingly

"You heard it?" My brother asked, I nodded,

"what?" Ron asked

"the sound?" I told him, but still he and

Hermione were looking at us like we were mental.

"So hungry , for so long,"

I heard it again the same murderous voice, my brother looked at me, then he started running in the direction of voice, I started following him, Ron and Hermione running after both of us.

"kill… tear…" the voice was getting fainter by second, harry was running then he ran upstairs, in entrance hall, and we all ran after him, suddenly he stopped , so did we all.

"killl…." It was difficult to hear in entrance hall because of the babbling in great hall,

"it's going to kill someone- my brother said before he started running towards the voice, up the stairs, on first floor it was dimly lit so I had to squint for seeing anything.

"but harry what's happening" Ron shouted, I was getting worried every moment I heard the voice, but harry stopped running, we all stopped, panting trying to catch a breath, harry pointed ahead at a wall, there was something shining in water on floor, because of the dim light there was something written on the wall between two windows , when it came in focus -it was written in BLOOD.

There was fuss about something happening on the first floor with all the second year Slytherin, I also started running towards it, when we all made it to first floor, there was crowd all over the hall, I somehow managed to get a peek, then I saw

THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.

I heard Draco saying something about "the mudbloods are next" then out of nowhere Argus filch the caretaker came running and went barmy over something accusing harry of killing his cat, so I looked around and so Miss. Norris Filch's beloved cat, it was hanging upside down by her tail on a torch bracket on the stonewall. Professor Dumbledore came on the scene and ordered all of us to go to our respective common rooms.

"Heir of Slytherin" asked Tracy to me

"What's that, I mean chamber of secrets" I asked her

"I don't know much about it, but Malfoy sure does" replied Tracy

"The way he announced, everybody's going to think he is the heir himself" I snorted

"do you think?" asked Tracy, trace of curiosity in her tone.

"Him, never," I replied

"I' m sure , Daphane knows" Tracy said

"She didn't come?" I asked her

"Nope, she said, eventually she will know, are you going to ask her, maybe she knows about chamber" said Tracy

"Me, I don't know, last time I talked to her was when we both showed Professor Snape that, now I can do on my own, that was almost two weeks ago" I told her

"I thought, you two were going to make good friends, I mean most of the time you both were together" said Tracy

"Yeah we were but because of situations not by choice," I replied, when we reached common hall, I saw Greengrass sitting on Chair in one corner writing something, I thought of asking her about chamber of secrets but I can ask Draco.

"he built a chamber in here this very castle, sealed it with a deadly creature in it then left, the creature for cleansing the school of muggleborn as they have no right to wizarding studies" I oversimplified just for clarification. Malfoy nodded, Me, Zabini, Nott, Goyle, Crabbe and Malfoy were discussing.

"It's a very noble work, we are honored that we are in slytherin because only he knew that muggleborns were nothing more than filth" said Malfoy, then grinned around at all of us.

"Any idea, who can be this heir?" I asked him trying to hide my curiosity.

"No idea, mate" said Malfoy "but whoever it's, I wish him luck"

In next few days everyone knew the story of the chamber of secrets and everyone was interested in talking about it more than anything, the slytherins were smirking most of the time, few Slytherins were really glad about what was happening, which made me sick.

One fine November afternoon I was going to the library I needed to work upon a assignment given by our beloved potion master. I started looking in bookshelves for finding the book I required but the moment I touched it, someone else did too. I looked beside me, it was the bushy-hair girl, Hermione granger.

"you can read it, if you want to" said the girl looking at me hopefully that I may leave the book.

"We are in same class, working on very same project, shouldn't we just share?" I asked her, she looked at me for a moment, I waved my hand in front of her, then she responded with a nod.

She was nervous around me, I can understand I mean she is a muggleborn and I'm a slytherin, so she was not able to believe it that a Slytherin is being nice to a muggleborn and as she was not talking to me, it was awkward to really write or read something from the book, so I knew what I had to do.

"I'm a muggleborn" I said, it shocked her it was apparent in her expressions but soon her expression changed, she looked livid.

"for a moment I thought, you were nice," she said, then left him sitting there, he didn't even have a moment to stop her because she quickly grabbed her bag, ran away out of the library, I was just looking at where she was a minute before, someone snapped me out of my trance.

"what" I uttered, then looked at the blonde girl who was standing beside me

"I need this book, if you are done with it" Greengrass asked me.

"I haven't done anything yet" I replied

"Okay, then i'll come back after an hour, complete it before then" she said, she was about to left,

"can't we do it together" I blurted out before I even knew what I was saying.

It was awkward, working again with Greengrass but not more awkward than it was with granger because at least Greengrass and I talked. When I was back in our dormitory, I saw Malfoy coming fuming about something, Crabbe and Goyle following him around loyal puppies.

"What's up?" I asked malfoy

" Can you believe it people are thinking, potter is the heir of slytherin" he replied angrily

" No, he is not even in Slytherin" I said,

"He can never be, not even in his wildest dreams" Malfoy shouted, he looked like he was reassuring himself.

"Don't worry Malfoy, you got a chance to show potter his place in this weekend Match" I said, giving Draco something to think about so he will stop throwing his tantrum over heir of slytherin.