Previously…
"And if it is real Frost," she asked a little shakily, but getting a hold of herself. "Where exactly do you think the entrance to it is?"
"Right behind that door, Professor," Jack said, stepping aside, and pointing towards Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
Slowly Professor McGonagall moved towards the bathroom door, ignoring the 'Out of Order' sign.
She was about to go inside when a Gryffindor House elf popped up and curtsied to her.
"Sorry's to be disturbing you Ma'am, but we is believing that two first years are missing." she said looking up at her with her big brown eyes.
"What?" Professor McGonagall asked a mix of fear, and anger on her face. "Who?"
"We is thinking it is Ginny Weasley, and Annie Dale." the house elf answered ignoring Ron and Jack's cries, and carried on "Neither has been seen since breakfast, and neither were in any of their classes."
"Then get all the Elves looking for them, Dawn," Professor McGonagall said before Dawn disappeared and she turned to the boys "You three return to class now. I need to see if this is true or not."
"But Professor," Ron said sounding worried.
"Now! Weasley!" she ordered and left.
"Come on," Jack said heading for class "We can come back later. Best not to get the school thinking we're missing too."
Nodding Harry and Ron followed Jack to their class room, sneaking in quietly and not talking to Hermione until after class.
They were about to go and see Myrtle themselves at break, but the bell never came.
Instead Professor McGonagall's voice rang out through the halls, sounding rather panicky:
"All students return to their house dormitories at once. All teachers return to the staff room. Immediately, please."
"What do we do?" Ron asked getting more worried for Ginny.
"Follow me," Jack said heading for the Room of Requirement, requesting a screen viewing the staff room.
Everyone was so worried about what might have happened nobody asked Jack what this place was, or how he knew it was here.
Inside there was a large mirror like screen which Jack reached out and set it for staff room, rewinding it a little.
They watched the teachers entering the room; some looking puzzled, some downright scared, the last to arrive was Professor McGonagall looking more worried than she was before.
"It has happened," she said the silent staff room. "a pair of students have been taken, by the monster, into the Chamber itself."
Little Professor Flitwick let out a squeal, while Professor Sprout clapped her hand over her mouth, and Professor Snape gripped the back of his chair harder than necessary.
"How can you be sure?" he asked.
"The Heir of Slytherin, left another message right underneath the first." Professor McGonagall, who was looking very white, said "'Their skeletons shall lie in the Chamber for ever'."
Flitwick burst into tears.
"But who are they?" Madam Hooch asked "Which students Minerva?"
"Ginny Weasley, and Annie Dale." said Professor McGonagall.
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Behind them Harry, Hermione, and Jack could hear Ron collapse to the ground.
Jack felt like killing something, but knew now wasn't the time for it, and only kept himself from doing it because Baby was there patting her tiny hand against his cheek.
Jack was about to get up to race to Myrtle's bathroom to save both girls on his own when the staff room door opened.
For a moment, Jack, and Harry it seemed, thought it might be Dumbledore, but it wasn't.
It was that idiot Lockhart, saying he had been sleeping when the announcement was given.
"Still think he's all that perfect Hermione?" Jack asked not caring that he didn't get an answer.
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"Just the man." Snape said stepping forward and surprisingly looking pleased. "The very man. Two girls have been taken by the monster Lockhart. Into the Chamber of Secrets itself. Your moment has come at last."
"My… My moment?" Lockhart asked looking confused.
"That's right Gilderoy," chipped in Professor Sprout "Weren't you saying just the other day that you've known all along where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is?"
"I – well – I mean…" Lockhart spluttered.
"Didn't you tell me, only this morning, you were sure you knew what was inside it?" Professor Flitwick piped in.
"Yes, I certainly remember you saying you were sorry you hadn't had a crack at the monster before Hagrid was arrested," said Snape. "Didn't you say that the whole affair had been bungled, and that you should have been given free reign from the start?"
There were small identical smirks on the Heads of Houses faces, Professor McGonagall must have let them in on what Jack had found out.
Mean while Lockhart was getting more stoney faced and more and more pale.
"I… I really never… You must have misunderstood me…"
"Oh I think we all understood you perfectly Gilderoy, but just in case you need reminding, Jack Frost has some how worked out what the monster is, and has an idea where the entrance is." Professor McGonagall said. "If you promise to keep him safe, I suppose I'd let him join you in rescuing the two girls that were taken."
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In the Room of Requirement, Jack gave a small laugh "Ha! I don't need protecting from that fake. If they let me, I can do it all by myself."
Baby Tooth squeaked giving off the message of 'This is no time to be like that'.
"Oh come on Baby you know it's true. I was the main reason we were able to defeat Pitch remember?" he whispered as the others kept watching the screen.
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"Well, then I'll just be in my office getting… Getting ready." Lockhart said and left.
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"He's going to try and run for it." Jack said knowing just the kind of person Lockhart was.
"He wouldn't do that," Hermione said as the screen went black "He's the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."
"Oh, just like the last one wouldn't have Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head?" Jack asked in a mix of sarcasm and making a point.
"He has a point" Harry said trying to get Ron up.
"Besides even if he isn't he'll need us to tell him everything," Jack said and left, Harry and Ron quickly following him.
"Where's Brownie-Locks?" Jack asked as they rushed to Lockhart's room.
"She trusts him too much, so she's going back to the Common Room." Ron said rolling his eyes.
The three of them reached the classroom and saw the large painting of Lockhart, painting another Lockhart had vanished, and could hear lots of noise and bangs from behind the office door.
"Wands out, but keep them hidden," Jack said pulling out his own and hiding it behind his back before knocking on the door.
There was silence from the other side of the door, soon followed by hurried footsteps and the door opening a little for them to see Lockhart's worried, scared looking face.
"Oh, Mr Potter… Mr Weasley… and Mr Frost, yes I was just about to come looking for you actually..." he said giving off the dumb smile.
"Really sir?" Jack asked in a 'I don't know what's going on' voice "Why? All Professor McGonagall told me was to see you and help you try and get Ginny and Annie back."
"Oh… um… Did she?" Lockhart asked losing his grip on the door and letting the boys come in a little more.
"Yes sir." Jack said ignoring all the suitcases and books and other things all over the place. "And Ron is here because Ginny is his sister, Big Brother instincts you know, and Harry his here because he can open the entrance to the Chamber for us."
"Well, that will surely be helpful but…" Lockhart said trying to think of something before Ron asked:
"Are you going somewhere?"
"Oh um yes, urgent call unavoidable, got to go," Lockhart said turning back to his suitcases.
"What about my sister?!"
"And what about Annie?!" Harry asked getting just as mad.
"Well, as to that – most unfortunate," said Lockhart avoiding their eyes as he started pulled out a desk drawer and poured the condense into his bag."No one regrets more than I."
"Then why sir…" Jack said pulling his want out and poking him in the back with it, nodding to Rona and Harry to do the same "Are you running away like a scared little baby Did-Dik? (AN, These are real life creatures that get scared really easily)"
"Especially after all the things you wrote in your books," Harry added, gripping his wand just as tight as Jack was his.
"Books can be misleading," Lockhart said not answering Jack's question.
"You wrote them!" Harry shouted.
"My boy, have some common sense!" Lockhart said spinning around looking more frazzled than before. "My books wouldn't have sold for nearly as much if people didn't think I had done all those things! No one want to read about some ugly old Armenian warlock, even if he did save a village from werewolves. Why he'd look dreadful on the front cover. No dress sense at all And the witch who banished the Bandon Banshee had a hare lip, I mean come on…"
"So, you've just been taken credit for what a load of other people have done." Jack said in a non-surprised, mad sort of voice.
"Jack… Jack," Lockhart said shaking his head "It's not nearly as simple as that. There was work involved. I had to track these people down. Ask them exactly how they managed to do what they did. Then I had to put a Memory Charm on them so they wouldn't remember doing it…" he would have carried on if Baby Tooth, having turned red in the face hadn't come up to him and started attacking him in squeaks and sharp pricks with her beak and wagging her finger at him.
Harry and Ron were surprised, but Jack knew exactly why she was so angry.
The Tooth Fairy looked after everyone's memories, all over the world, and this man, was taking them away.
"Baby, that's enough," Jack said gently after a while and she had gotten Lockhart to curl up into a ball on the floor. "Go and tell Tooth what happened. We'll let her get a few words in for him before she gets to work sorting this out. I promise."
Huffing and giving one last glare at the man on the floor Baby Tooth left.
"Now. Professor…" Jack said pointing his want at him signaling for him to stand. "You are going to leave you wand here, and we are all going to go to the Chamber of Secrets and rescue Annie, and Ginny. Understand?"
Slowly, fear dripping off him by the bucket load, Lockhart stood up and followed Harry and Ron, and being prodded forward by Jack, out of his classroom, along the corridor, down the stairs; pass the messages on the wall and to Moaning Myrtles bathroom.