Mary:
"It's a strange feeling to go back to Hogwarts." I said, looking at Astoria.
During the holidays, we had become quite good friends and some others too had grown on me. We fused together into real friends.
''Why do you think that Mary?" Blaise wondered.
"Well... two months without school and learning. It's just weird." I shrugged.
I was smiling. It was a great feeling to know that someone was by your side. In every situation. Suddenly the compartment door opened and, who would have thought, Malfoy stood in it with his gorillas. I stood up and looked at him defiantly.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Blaise asked scathingly.
I looked at him in astonishment. The idiot opened his mouth, closed it again and repeated this several times. After what felt like minutes, he stopped that movement, turned around and disappeared.
"Eh... thanks Blaise." I said, still a bit perplexed. Blaise was Malfoy's best friend.
"You're welcome." He waved his hand and smiled at me.
"Don't worry he's only a stupid idiot." now Nott spoke up.
The Greengrass sisters nodded reaffirming. It seemed like my friends were willing to go against the high and mighty purebloods for me.
Alice:
During the holidays, I wrote to all my friends and got an answer from all of them, except from Harry, but this didn't surprise me. To be honest I wondered whether his family would let him come back. I'd rather thought that they would put bars on his window. But I was wrong, since he had flown into the Willow yesterday. I almost fell from the chair, laughing, when Harry explained what had happened. Hermione had lectured them, but I was fairly impressed that this aggressive tree hadn't murdered them.
Today was our first official day of school this year and we had a new teacher. Some guy who had written a book. I couldn't remember his name though... I came into the classroom and sat down next to Neville. I offered him a friendly smile, which he returned.
When the classroom was full the Professor entered the room. He began to talk about himself and how brilliant he was. Sadly, all the girls seemed to drool. Slowly I looked around the room and yes I was right, all stared at him, except Mary. Like me she was looking around the room and our eyes met. We both slowly and simultaneously shook our heads before we went back to pay attention to the lesson. This idiotic teacher was about to free some pixies! I stood up and was about to say something to stop him when he actually released them. As I expected, they immediately flew from the cage and began to create chaos.
And what did the teacher do? He told Harry, Ron and Hermione, that they should catch the pixies before he ran away. All the others were running out of the classroom. The 3 were just looking for a solution, while I made a spell that significantly slowed the pixies.
"Wow, that was great." Ron said.
I shrugged my shoulders slightly and we started to collect the pixies. At the end I took down Neville, who had been suspended to the chandelier. After we had captured all the pixies and I made sure that Neville was fine, we parted ways and I went down to the lake.
On my way I met Theo, my best friend since I was a child and no, not even the Sorting hat changed that. I hadn't really encountered him in my first year here and I really had missed talking to him, so we went down to the lake together. Only a couple of hours later we returned to the castle and after we parted, I met my friends.
Mary:
What a stupid teacher. And my fellow students swarmed for him, although he had made this pixie action.
"Oh this Lockhart is so cooool!" Enthused Astoria and her sister agreed.
The boys and I looked at each other with uncomprehending faces. The day passed uneventfully until after dinner. My house was just on the way to the dungeons, when we halted in front of a wall, in front of which stood the Potter clique.
On the wall was written in blood: "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Mudbloods beware."
"Mudbloods beware. Good luck Granger! "Malfoy smiled dirty and his eyes also fell on me, but he kept his mouth shut.
A terrifying feeling spread in my stomach. I had heard about the monster on the inside. It fossilized or in the worst case it killed Muggle-born.
"The Heir of Slytherin ?!" Nott whispered to me. "Who's that?"
... I had a vague idea.
Alice:
Blood ... I could smell it. Filch's cat had been petrified and someone had written on the wall with some blood. But that was already a little while ago, and the blood that I smelled was fresh.
I opened my eyes and instantly got used to the darkness. It was about two o'clock in the morning and everyone else was asleep. I stood up and pulled my school coat on over my pyjama. The smell of blood was stronger, and made me hurry even more. With my vampire speed, I followed the smell and two minutes later I stood before Ginny, who had just smeared some blood on a wall.
"Ginny!" I turned her around and shook her. "Ginny!" Her eyes stared through me.
Probably she was somehow hypnotized. Further down the hall, I heard a hiss and crawl. The strange thing was, the sound came from inside the wall, and it came closer. Fast. Whatever it was, we shouldn't stay here to find out. I threw Ginny over my shoulder and ran. Fear spread through me while I ran away from this thing.
Seconds seemed like hours to me and I felt so many terrible emotions. This thing followed me through the walls, I could hear every hiss and every move. When I finally arrived at the dorm, I was totally relieved and all the terrible feelings disappeared.
I felt safe and put Ginny down on the ground again. She still stood motionless, so I decided to help her. I looked into her eyes and broke into her head. I could see everything, her feelings, her memories, her hopes and much more. That was one of the reasons why I didn't want to break in the mind of people. In their head I could see everything and that was just too personal. Currently in Ginny's head everything was covered by a white veil. I tore the veil apart and came back out of her head. She blinked a few times and then looked at me.
"Alice? How did I... Oh, Alice! It was not me! Please believe me, I did not mean to..." She slowly began to cry.
"Hey, it's all right. I know that you did not want that. Everything will be fine, it's over..." I took Ginny in my arms and comforted her.
"Can I sleep with you tonight? I don't want to be alone." She sniffed.
"Sure you can... Come on, we should go to sleep." I wiped her tears away and we went back to my bed.
30 minutes later I laid tired in my bed. Ginny had fallen asleep immediately, but I was not given this happiness and so I was awake the rest of the night in my bed thinking about this monster.
Mary:
"Killing, tear, blood!"
I stopped abruptly. What was that voice? I turned around, but no one was there! What was happening here?
"Do you hear that voice as well?" Asked a voice behind me. Startled, I whirled around and saw Potter's face.
"Potter? Eh ... yes, I think so."
Relief spread across his face. "Well then I'm not crazy!"
I smiled a forced smile. "Unless we both are!" With this sentence, I rushed off to the girls bathroom counter.
When I walked Myrtles cabin, I saw a little brown book. Intrigued, I walked up to the Fund and picked it up. On the cover was in golden letters: "The Diary of Tom Marvolo Riddle!"
My mouth fell open and I opened the book. Nothing. There was absolutely nothing. I took out my ink and sat down on the floor. Maybe it became invisible because of some magic. I smeared the ink on the pages. She got absorbed!
"What?" I mumbled, confused.
I picked up my pen and wrote: "Hello my name is Mary Riddle."
The writing was absorbed slowly and slowly, another sentence was visible. "Mary Riddle! I am pleased to make your acquaintance even though I have to admit that It surprises me, to meet a Riddle."
Too bad for him. I closed the book again. I had no desire to go too deep in the past. I threw the book back in the cabin and left the place.
Alice:
The next day another student was found petrified. This thing had probably taken him instead of me and Ginny. After I had gotten up I walked a bit through the school, with no real goal. Until I met Theo and I told him what had happened the night before. I knew that I could trust him and maybe he knew something. Sadly, that wasn't the case. Still it was really reassuring to know that he believed me. We continued to talk, until Aunt Minerva interrupted us.
"Alice, could you please come over here..."
I turned to Minerva and followed her. When we walked into her office I sat down on the chair in front of her desk.
"You've probably heard what happened ... For security reasons, I do not want you travelling around alone, and certainly not in the evening. Moreover, Draco Malfoy has expressed a desire to spend this year's Christmas at Hogwarts. I want you to keep an eye on him. A few teachers worry. There could be a scandal with Lucius, if Malfoy gets petrified. Professor Lockhart and Professor Snape have established a dueling club, which takes place right in this moment. I do not think much of Lockhart but Professor Snape could really teach you something. If you understand everything, you can go."
I looked at her motionless for a couple of seconds, and then I left the office. I went down the hallway, when suddenly a student ran out of a large room. In the hall a lot of students were gathered together with Snape and Lockhart. Harry and Draco stood on a long table and everyone stared at Harry. He jumped off the table and hurried out of the room, followed by Ron and Hermione. I ran after them, and we walked together to Gryffindor Tower.
"What was that Harry?" Ron asked frightened.
"What do you mean? I only told the snake that it should leave him alone." Harry said, confused.
''It didn't sound like you were stopping it.'' Ron said.
''I don't know what you are talking about! You heard what I said didn't you?''
"If you spoke with a snake then you spoke Parseltongue... Harry, this is not normal. Few Wizards are able to do that. Salazar Slytherin was a Parseltongue."
Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at me in surprise.
"She's right, Harry ... I was not quite sure, but now I am. You are the heir of Slytherin. " Hermione said.
Mary:
I had no idea why everyone was staring so startled at Harry. He had only tried to keep this snake away from the boy! Because of this stupid and really idiotic action of Malfoy. The creature turned to me.
"Do what he says and leave the boy alone. I mean what do you want from him anyway? "I asked the snake.
Suddenly all heads turned to me. What? Did I have something on my face? The Slytherins looked at me admiringly, the rest more anxious. A little confused I noticed that Professor Snape let the snake disappear and that Harry ran out of the room. My tutor came up to me.
"Follow me Miss Riddle." I could not read his expression but I had a bad feeling…
Only when we had arrived in his office did he start to speak.
"So you speak Parseltongue!", He noted. I looked confused.
"Not that I know of. No wait. To speak with snakes is Parseltongue. Oh. "Now I smiled slightly. "In that case, yes. I can understand Parseltongue."
"Don't you wonder why you can speak Parseltongue as a Muggle-born?"
I stared at him.
"At the beginning I did, then I've researched my family. And I found the answer." I said softly.
He nodded knowingly. "Yes, in that case you might not need to worry about the monster. The wizarding family of which you come from is directly related to Salazar Slytherin. One might think that you are the heir of Slytherin."
Was it weird that it did not surprise me particularly? I kind of thought the same
"You do not look surprised, how come Mary?" He asked warily.
"Get that idea out of your head, Professor. I've got nothing to do with it. "I said clearly and turned to go.
"I am aware of this fact Miss Riddle. But your name triggers a discomfort by certain professors, do you understand me?" I nodded and left the dim lit room.
Alice:
As time passed, we came to the conclusion that maybe Malfoy knew something about the Person who opened the Chamber fifty years ago. So, I told them that Malfoy planned to stay in Hogwarts over the Christmas Holidays. Hermione prepared everything for the Polyjuice Potion and on Christmas we met in the Great Hall to talk about our plan.
''I planned everything. The only thing you'll need to do is to get a hair from the People you want to change into.'' Hermione explained.
''I wish you guys good luck. I'll keep an eye on Malfoy until you meet him, then I'll make sure that no one interferes.''
Hermione nodded approvingly. Ron and Harry didn't seem so sure.
''Do you really think this will work?'', Harry asked.
Hermione sighed and explained again how her plan was flawless and that everything would work as long as they didn't screw up.
On the same afternoon while the others were getting prepared I stayed close to Malfoys side, while at the same time having enough distance between the two of us. I wanted to just linger in the shadows as long as the others were preparing themselves but sadly, faith was against me. I saw the real Gorillas coming in Malfoy's direction, followed by Harry and Ron. So they were still trying to get the Hair? Dammit… I got away from the wall and approached Malfoy.
''I was looking for you.'' I said, while taking his arm and pulling him with me around a corner and in a classroom.
It took him a couple of seconds to realize what had happened. He threw me a dirty look and broke free of my hold.
''What do you want?'' He asked angrily.
I raised an eyebrow. ''Did you stand up with the wrong foot? Calm down…''
He still seemed unhappy but at least he had calmed down. ''So. What do you want?''
Right… I had no idea. I played with my fingers behind my back nervously. I hadn't thought that far ahead. Shit.
''I-uh… ''
I could see that he was getting confused and annoyed. He turned around and wanted to get out of the room, but I couldn't let him leave now. I could still hear the Gorillas in the hallway searching for Malfoy. What were Harry and Ron doing? I reached forward and pulled Malfoy back.
He turned back to me, angrier than before and was about to say something, when a thought crossed my mind. I pulled him to me and kissed him… the first couple of seconds we were just standing against each other, not moving. But then again, this wouldn't stop him for long, so I started to move my lips and suddenly he returned the kiss. Not with passion, but with anger and frustration.
There were probably a couple of things wrong in his life right now, for him to react in that way. Crazy enough, I didn't even notice the time passing as I was kissing him like that and it didn't bother me. I actually liked it… this was after all my first kiss and every girl always made some drama about it and here I was. Giving it away to someone I didn't even especially like and I was pretty sure the feeling was mutual. Still, somehow this fact didn't make us stop, but the opening door followed by Harry's voice did.
''Alice we-''
I immediately let go of Malfoy and took a step back but it was too late. Harry already looked at me as if I just had said that the Dursleys were the nicest people on earth.
Silence fell upon us and as I glanced to Malfoy I could see that he had mixed feelings about all of this. Not that he would like me or anything, but he seemed rather angry that this 'thing' ended so abruptly.
I cleared my throat and looked at Harry. His brain seemed to work again, then he blinked a couple of times before he finally broke the silence.
''Eh, yes. I just wanted to say, that we were ready.'' He looked from me the Malfoy and back again. ''I'm just gonna wait in the Hallway.'' And with that he disappeared as fast as he had appeared.
Since I couldn't find anything halfway smart to say I just walked to the door but before I opened it, I turned around to Malfoy, who looked at me with some kind of Storm in his eyes.
''This doesn't need to leave this room…'' Somehow this didn't really sound right to me, so I added something. ''Merry Christmas, Malfoy.''
I left the room and almost walked into Harry who still seemed shocked. We hurried down the Hallway together, with him occasionally looking at me. Only when we had almost reached the place, where the other two were, did he stop.
''What happened back there?''
''I had to stop him from leaving the room, because you were taking so long with the two Gorillas and they were searching him.''
''So you kissed him?!''
''I was panicking, okay? I didn't know what to do and then this idea suddenly came to me.''
He made a face as if he was going to vomit. ''I'm never going to get that picture out of my head.''
I rolled my eyes. ''Yeah. I know what you mean.''
''Do you want a bonbon? Or maybe you should wash your mouth.'' He said while laughing.
''You're an idiot!'' I responded but I couldn't stop myself from laughing too.
We entered the room and started phase two of Hermione's plan. While the others were transforming themselves, I went to see if Crabbe and Goyle, I had finally remembered their names, were still sleeping like little babies. After I had made sure of the fact that they would be out for another hour I went to the Gryffindor common Room and sat down on a couch. I was kind of exhausted, so I laid down and closed my eyes. I only wanted to rest for a couple of minutes.
"Alice ... Alice ... Alice !"
Terrified I opened my eyes. I sat sweating on the sofa in the common room. Ginny looked at me anxiously.
"W-What happened?" I took a deep breath.
"I-I don't know ... I was looking for Ron, w-when you suddenly started to moan and twitch. Then you cried and punched around you ..." Ginny stroked hair behind her ear.
"Thank you for waking me." I could not remember anything of this dream. Then I remembered something Ginny had said.
"Ron is out with Harry and Hermione." I didn't really want to lie to Ginny but how could I tell her that they had drunk a Polyjuice Potion and were probably still talking with Malfoy right now. Malfoy… my memories came rushing right back. I fell back on the couch. Now I wished that I could sleep again.
Mary:
On the way to the common room I met a lonely Malfoy. Actually, a good opportunity to ask him what was going on with him lately. Confidently I walked up to him and turned him to face me.
"Riddle, what do you want?" He asked, somewhat absent.
"I want to know what's wrong with you. Lately you behave ... well ... weirdly." I said, looking at him questioningly. He avoided my gaze.
"Malfoy?!"
He did not respond. Ok, then we would walk in silence. Suddenly there were two clever looking Crabbe and Goyle, with glasses, coming around the corner. I furrowed my brow sceptically.
"Since when do you wear glasses, Goyle?"
Goyle looked at me slightly scared and hurriedly pulled the thing away.
"To read," he grumbled.
"You can read?" Malfoy interjected. ''First her and now you, what's wrong today? Why is everyone so weird.''
He starred into the distance while talking. Did he mean me when he said 'her'? Somehow it didn't seem like it, but then who did he mean? Goyle was suddenly very pale. Did he know anything? Oh well, it wasn't my problem.
"Well guys, I'm leaving."
Alice:
Harry and Ron ran into the hospital wing and rushed over to where I was standing. I had already arrived a few minutes earlier and yet I still could not believe what I saw before me. Hermione lay with outstretched hand in front of us on a sickbed. She was as rigid as a rock and the look in her eyes seemed dead. Next to her on the bedside table was a mirror.
Some time ago we found out that Malfoy had not opened the Chamber and now? Now Hermione was petrified.
"We need to save her, guys ..." I said in a serious tone.
"I already know how ..." Harry said. "We have to follow the spiders ..." Harry mumbled half understandable.
"What did you say?" Ron asked.
"I'm not quite sure yet, but I have a guess... Ron, we need to see Hagrid. Alice, please watch out for Hermione, until we are back!" Harry ran out of the room and Ron followed him.
I stayed at Hermione's side and looked at the mirror. I took it in my hand and lifted it up. The mirror had a small green glow when I held it to the light. How come?
'The mirrors in this house are all something special. They see everything and the same and yet no mirror shows the same as another. ' Dumbledore's voice went through my head.
Maybe ... I tried to remember the spell that we learned two weeks ago. When he came to my mind again, I took out my wand and kept it ready.
"Levantia." I enchanted the mirror and he played everything from what he had seen in the last 5 hours.
A Basilisk ... it was a basilisk. How did he get through the school, without anyone seeing him? My gaze drifted to Hermione and I discovered a piece of paper in her hand. I put the mirror down and took the paper from her hand. Hermione had also found out that it was a basilisk... It was a page about a basilisk and at the bottom was a note. Tubes. Of course! The basilisk wandered through the pipes! I absolutely had to find Harry and Ron.
"Sorry Hermione but I have to leave you for a short while to save the two idiots ..."
Mary:
A number of students had been petrified. The unrest of the teachers was close enough to touch, and finally Dumbledore called me in his office.
"Ah, Miss Riddle, Please sit down." Inwardly sighing I dropped into the chair.
"Professor, I know what you want to ask me. The answer is no, although I am probably the heir of Slytherin, I'm not to blame for these incidents!" I wanted that to be clear. He pierced me with his Dumbledore-gaze.
"Mary, do you have to tell me anything? Is something on your mind?"
I thought about his question. I noticed the thing with Voldemort and easily all the problems of the first year, the diary ...
"No, there's nothing professor." I answered him. He still looked at me with his typical look.
"Was that all? Can I go?"
The Headmaster nodded and I disappeared through the magnificent door. Slowly it scared me to bear the name Riddle! Annoyed, I entered the common room and sat down with my friends.
"What's going on Beautiful?", I was greeted by Blaise.
"The teachers think that I am the terror of the whole school!" I said thoughtlessly.
"Why?", Wondered Astoria stunned.
"Well because of my name." I mumbled on. When I realized what I had said, I slapped my hand on my mouth internaly.
"What's wrong with your name?"
My friends all looked at me curiously. Yes, now I was doomed.
"Her name. Riddle is the name of the Dark Lord." That voice.
I turned around and looked at the serious face of Malfoy.
"What do you mean by that? Don't lie Draco." Hissed Nott.
"Nott, let me tell you what. I never lie in such matters!" Said Malfoy in return.
Now Blaise turned to me. "He's telling the truth?"
I looked at my friends, one after another. Finally, I nodded. "Yes, he is."
The mouths flew open and huge eyes staring at me.
"Are you satisfied now Malfoy?" I hissed, turned around and took the road to the Astronomy Tower.
Alice:
Ron and Harry looked totally bewildered, as I found them. We were out by the willow who struck constantly around and a car just flew away. Ron muttered paranoid of spiders and Harry looked startled but also thoughtful.
"I have it! I have the solution! "I cried. Both looked to me with questioning eyes.
"The monster! It's a basilisk! That's why Harry could hear him." I explained quickly.
It was quiet a little while until Ron broke the silence. "How can he just simply travel through the school without getting seen? He has to be huge..."
"He travels through the pipes ... "I said.
Now Harry stood up and began to speak. "We have to stop him and tell someone!"
I thought for a moment and tried to say something, but Ron was quicker.
"First the spiders and now a basilisk?! Do you want to kill me?!" Ron was at the edge of hyperventilating.
"No, we clearly don't want that... Harry we will do all of that tomorrow. Ron won't make it otherwise. In addition, we still have to decide which teacher we involve... I would say Mi-"
"Lockhart, he has taken on the subject..."
"Are you serious, Harry? This guy can't do anything."
"But he has written all his adventures in books... something must be true about what he says." Harry said firmly. He helped Ron to his feet and pulled him with him.
"Yes, the something!" I called after him, but he just kept going.
"What something?"
Surprised, I turned around and saw a boy standing way too close to the tree.
"Watch out!"
I couldn't even make a step towards him, when he was already hit by a tree branch and then got thrown through the area on the branch.
"I hate this day." I hissed and quickly approached the tree. In addition, I still avoided the branches, who were trying to crush me. Damned willow!
I waited until the branch with the boy flew past me again and then jumped on top of it. A strong draft hit my face and the tree whipped us around. The boy did not stop screaming and slowly this started to annoy me.
With difficulty I climbed along the branch to him. Thousand small leaves and branches beat and tore at me. I pressed my hand over his mouth to silence him, which was not easy, because I could hardly hold on to the branch.
I took my hand away and held him at his shoulders on the jacket. I waited for the right moment and then pulled him up. At the same moment I pushed myself off from the tree, toward the floor. I squeezed the boy at me with one arm and dodged the branches that raced towards us. A branch caught me by the leg and threw us to the ground. I landed hard on the ground and bit myself lightly on the lips. We rolled about five feet and just like that we were out of reach of the willow.
For a while we lay still in the grass. It was so dark that the normal human eye could barely see anything. I let go of him and sat down. With one finger I touched my lips and noticed that I was bleeding.
"T-Thank you for saving me... but how did you do that?"
Surprised, I looked at him, then I remembered that he indeed could not see me well and that it had already been extremely dark before, which meant that he probably only had seen my outlines.
He whined as he tried to move his leg. When I looked at it more closely, I realized that it was in an unnatural angle. That would hurt if he had to heal it normally and also the boy would get in trouble because it was forbidden for the younger students to be outside at such a late hour.
A drop of blood ran straight down my chin, which gave me an idea.
At first I wiped my blood from my chin and then I pressed my finger to his mouth. Since he was totally surprised, I pressed my finger through them and made sure tp spread the blood all over his tongue. His first reaction was to swallow, and with that he drank some of my blood without even realizing it. When he had done that, I pulled my finger out of him at once, and saw that his leg returned to the correct angle and he could move it again. My own injuries were logically healed a long time ago, which made it a lot easier to get up.
"How... how did you do that? Did you use magic?"
The guy got up slowly, bent down to wipe the dust from his clothes. When he straightened up again, I had almost reached the Gryffindor dormitory already.
Mary:
I had spent the whole day in the Astronomy Tower. When the night came, my gaze wandered to the Whooping willow, because I had heard screams. But when I hadn't discovered anything, I turned around and went back to the common room. Luckily it was empty, so I could be undisturbed in the dormitory. When I wanted to lie down exhausted on the bed, I bumped into something warm and humanlike.
Confused, I whispered "Lumos."
My wand lit up and I looked at the sleeping face of Theo.
"What?" I breathed and shook him awake. He looked at me tiredly from his stormy-gray eyes. "What are you doing here?" I whispered.
"I wanted to go look for you. When I didn't find you, I came here to wait for you. I must have fallen asleep. Your bed was so soft and it smells so nice."
A little perplexed, I looked at him. "Oh... key!" I whispered and snuggled under the covers. "Why did you want to look for me?" I asked uncertainly.
He grabbed my hand and squeezed it. "I don't care, who your ancestors are. I like you Mary. The way you are and no Malfoy in the world can change that."
I remained silent for a moment, then leaned to him and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank you." I breathed and turned to the side. "You should go now."
My eyes slowly closed. I didn't notice how Nott brushed my hair out of my face before he left.
Alice:
The next day everything was almost like always... almost.
"Have you really not seen anything?" Seamus asked for the third time. When I came into the Great Hall at noon, he was already with Harry and Ron and asked many questions of this kind.
"No, we do not know who this mysterious girl is, but when everything went the way you say it, then shouldn't she have as many scratches as you?" Harry asked finally. He seemed extremely annoyed.
Seamus was immediately silent and thought for a moment. Now I noticed that he had cuts, on the neck, arms, and on his face.
"You're right, Harry ... I just have to find the girl with the injuries. See you later guys!" He exclaimed and ran.
"If you ask me, she'll probably run away from him as soon as she sees him..." Ron said bored.
I rolled my eyes and then turned to them. "People we have an important issue, which we need to take care of."
"You're right, we should start immediately if-"
"Wait Harry, I'm not going to ask this idiot Lockhart for help. If you really want to do that you have to go without me.'' I said clearly.
"But... fine, I'll see you later." Harry and Ron got up and left the hall, but before the door closed, Harry took a last glance at me.
Twenty minutes had passed in which I had talked with Neville to distract me, because otherwise I would have worried way to much over my two idiotic friends. But suddenly I heard a huge crash. Five minutes after that, I heard Harry shout. I got up and ran in the direction from which the cry came. The sprint ended in the woman toilet of the Moaning Myrtle. I scanned everything and discovered a metal snake craved by the sink.
"And at that very moment, it would be handy if I could speak Parseltongue..." I said, annoyed.
"Can I help you?" A voice asked a bit behind me. I turned around and saw Mary Riddle standing there. I first wanted to say no, but then I remembered what was so special about her name again.
"Can you repeat that again in Parseltongue?" I asked her.
First she looked at me totally confused, but then she did. I did not understand a word, but it worked, because the sinks were split and a hole appeared in the ground.
"Thank you!" I shouted as I jumped into the hole.
As I arrived I landed on a pile of bones. Quickly I stood up and followed the dark tunnel, when I suddenly discovered Ron and Lockhart. Ron sat on the floor, while Lockhart babbled something.
"What happened? And where's Harry?"
They both looked at me immediately. Ron pointed to the path who was blocked by stones.
"I heard him screaming! We have to help him!" I said quickly.
"How?"
I didn't let Ron have time to ask more questions. I had already started to hurl the stones out of the way. Damn, I didn't have enough power at that moment, because I had been too long without blood. If things went on as they were now, we would come much too late.
"Forgive me Ron."
Before I allowed a bad conscience on my part, I bit into his arm and drank a little of his blood, and then I gave him some of mine and deleted his memory. I felt absolutely alive and felt the whole vampire force that was in me. I picked up a small stone and threw it with full force through the wall, making a large hole appear.
"I'll go get him, wait for me here!" I shouted at Ron before I climbed through the hole and ran off to help Harry.
Mary:
I wondered why I had helped her. I don't know. After Alice had disappeared in the depths, I was still there a little indecisive. If that was the Chamber of Secrets, then they really were the Brainless Idiots. Without an heir they could never get out of this thing alive! Determined I jumped after her and again asked me why.
Once at the bottom, I met Ron and Lockhart.
"What do you want..."
"Shut up, where are they?" I yelled. Ron pointed in the direction. Without a word, I ran and met Alice, who tried desperately to open the door.
"Wait, let me try." I said, and pushed her aside. "Open up!" I muttered in Parseltongue and the lid sprang open.
Quick, without paying attention to whether Alice following me, I jumped in and burst into an unpleasant scenario.
A Basilisk, Harry and a boy, all faced each other. Well fine, Harry lay on the ground. I quickly realized who this boy was.
"Tom." I said, and his gaze came to me.
"Caution Mary. That's Voldemort! "Harry yelled at me.
"I know!" I said quietly and walked toward my great-uncle. "Stop. Please."
The boy frowned and looked from me to Harry and then back again.
"So that's how it is." He muttered, shaking his head. "I will have my revenge and my lost power! You will not stop me."
"You forget Tom, the Basilisk cannot harm me, and besides, he will obey only the current heir!"
Tom widened his eyes. "No." he breathed, looking around almost insane. "No."
Alice:
I really thought that we had won, when Tom suddenly began to laugh hysterically. "It looks like dear niece, you also have forgotten something. Although you may be of my blood, I am the true heir and I know this Basilisk."
Mary's gaze went from confident to slightly panicked. The Basilisk hissed and attacked Harry. I grabbed Harry and threw him aside. The Basilisk nearly missed him, turned and raced on to Mary.
Behind the basilisk I discovered Ginny, the Sorting Hat and the Gryffindor sword. I ran to it, but Voldemort stood in front of me.
"What do you think you're doing?" He asked angrily.
''I'm going to kill your little pet.'' I ran through him and took the sword in my Hand.
"Mary! Over here!"
Mary escaped the Basilisk and came to me.
"I need a little jump start." I said to Mary, who immediately understood what I meant.
"I hope for all of us that you know what you're doing..." she said, without letting the basilisk out of her sight.
She folded her hands and leaned slightly down on her knees. The basilisk came rapidly toward us.
I took a little start-up and then ran toward Mary. My foot stepped on her hands and she threw me with all the strength she had upwards. In the air I did a roll and when I came down next to the basilisk, I raised the sword high and tore it down to cut the basilisk's head. I ended up on the floor next to him and put the point of the sword calmly on the ground. In the second it touched the ground, the head of the basilisk fell off and rolled a few feet toward Harry.
"No ... no!" Voldemort began yelling and cursing.
"Harry, you must destroy the book!" Mary picked up the book from the floor and threw it at Harry, who had the idea to tear out a tooth of the basilisk to pierce the book.
Voldemort walked menacingly toward Harry, but before he could reach him, he dissolved into light and disappeared. From behind I heard a gasp and when I turned around, I saw Ginny lying on the ground. She was breathing heavily, but otherwise she seemed to be fine.
My vampire strength left me again and exhausted, I let myself fall to the ground. The others came immediately to see if I was fine and I started to laugh with all my heart. It was totally absurd that an outsider, a monster and a boy with a strange lightning scar had defeated a basilisk and Voldemort. The others were briefly silent, but then also began to laugh. So that's how the story of the Chamber of the Secrets ended, and what had we learned from this? That even the biggest freaks, no matter how different they were, could survive anything as long as they did it together.
After this event, the rest of the school year went quite smoothly and without problems.
Malfoy and I didn't really talk again. There was always someone turning around him, when he looked as if he tried to approach me, which was a rare occurance. Maybe it was better like that. Over time the incident got more and more in the back of my head and became insignificant.
One thing did change though… Mary and I talked together sometimes when we met somewhere.
At the moment, all the Hogwarts residents sat in the Great Hall to assign the House Cup.
"... Hufflepuff has 168 points, Ravenclaw 159, Slytherin 200 and Gryffindor 200 in order to clarify this, I will now distribute the extra points. 50 for Mary Riddle, Alice Tepes and Harry Potter, for saving the whole School and thus Gryffindor won. I wish you all nice Holidays and an exciting next year! "
