Unexpected Consequences

Ch. 5 into the chamber

After the incident with professor Malfoy Abby decided that she had to make sure no one else noticed her eyes. She had noticed, for the first time, that her eyes looked almost exactly like his.

She walked through the doors to the great hall and looked around to find Neville at his table. She spotted him talking to a few other friends and walked over to him. The other people he was sitting near looked at her and stopped talking, but she ignored them and talked to Neville.

"Neville can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked with a small smile. He nodded and followed her to a part of the table that was not as crowded as the rest so they would not be overheard. "Your father went to school with Harry Potter right?" Neville nodded. "So that also means that he went to school with professor Malfoy…"

"Yea, he has mentioned him a few times but I've never really asked to much about him. Why?"

Abby hesitated for a minute and said, "I need you to ask him something for me. But he can't know it's from me ok?"

"Sure, but why?" he asked her with a confused look on his face.

"I can't say why. But I need you to ask him if professor Malfoy is… gay"

Neville sat shocked and stared at Abby. He knew there was a reason behind this but wasn't sure if he really wanted to know. He walked back to where he had been sitting before and came back with a quill and a sheet of parchment.

"Ok so what should this say?" He asked Abby and she smiled while telling him what to write. 10 minutes later it was finished and sent away with one of the schools owls. Before they went their separate ways Abby asked, "we still meeting tonight to carry out the plan?" Neville looked nervous but nodded, "11."

Later that night the two of them were standing in front of the great hall waiting for a couple other people to show up.

When they all showed up Abby got everyone's attention. "Hey listen!" she yelled and everyone shut up really fast. "Now I want to with you all a happy Halloween. How many of you actually know where and what we are planning for today?"

She looked around and saw 2 people raise their hands.

There were only 4 standing there.

Abby laughed and continued, "We are going to try to get into… the chamber of secrets!" 2 of the 4 people decided that they did not want to be involved in the expedition and went back to their dorms but the rest continued on their way.

The other two people that were going with Neville and Abby were both in Gryffindor. One was a 5th year named Jessica and the other was a 5th year named Ryan. Both of them were good friends with Neville and overheard him talking to Abby about it and wanted to go along with. Abby, of course, had no objections.

The 4 of them went up stairs and to the girl's bathroom where it had been rumored the entrance was. "It is true that Harry Potter found it in here?" Jessica asked as they went through the door and started looking around.

"I don't believe it," Ryan said but he was looting anyway. Abby laughed, she knew exactly where the entrance was but she didn't want to seem like she did so she pretended to look around for a while.

Earlier in the week she had worked up the courage to ask her father about the chamber of secrets. It didn't take him long to figure out what she was getting at. He told her that if she gets caught that he was not going to get her out of trouble, and he expected a phone call in the morning before noon. If he didn't get one he was going to tell her godmother about it and have a search party sent.

Abby laughed to herself and went over to the sink where she knew the entrance was. She laughed softly as she watched the other three people crawling around on the floor looking for any way to open a door. She leaned against the sink and ran her fingers over the small snake that was inscribed on the side of the tap. Neville looked at her and she put one finger over her mouth and said "shhh" before she started talking in hisses.

"Open up," she said, just like her dad had told her to. She took a step away from the sink and waited for it to fall into the floor and open the entrance to the chamber. She turned and looked at the other three people there and smirked. They all got up and walked over to where she was standing. The 4 of them looked down the large hole that had just formed in the floor of the room.

"So… who goes first?" Ryan asked with a shaky voice. The other three just looked at each other but Abby smirked again and jumped in. "Well… I guess that's solved…" The other three followed shortly after.

Abby was standing on the bottom on the long slide that had brought her into the chamber, just as her father had said it would. She looked around and saw all the old bones that were littering the ground. A closer look told her something was not quite right… 'Dad said it was his second year… that was what? 20 years ago? Why do these still look fresh?' She inspected a small skeleton that still had small amounts of flesh clinging to it.

A few seconds later Neville flew off of the bottom of the slide and Ryan followed close behind, followed be Jessica.

"Took ya long enough."

The three new arrivals looked at Abby with a shy look on their faces but didn't respond. Abby led the way through the tunnels at a slow pace. There may not be a basilisk down there any more but there is no way to tell what there actually was down there.

"How the hell do we get past that?" Jessica asked when they came to a spot where it looked like the whole tunnel had caved in. Abby thought for a second about what her dad had told her.

'When Ron and I were in there part of the tunnel caved in. Ron managed to make a whole large enough to get through in the corner. You have to look for it though, top right corner.'

Abby went up to the pile of rubble and followed it over to the right side. She started to climb the rubble to check for the whole. Maybe it had filled in somehow. She climbed and looked around a particularly large bounder and saw that there was a big hole, one that was large enough for them to easily get through.

"Come on guys I found a way!" she yelled back as she climbed through the hole. The other side of the whole had a large black door with silver snakes around the edges.

"How do we get through that?" Neville asked. This whole trip was creeping him out and he just wanted to go back. Abby glared at him as if reading his thoughts and walked over to the door. She looked at the snakes and saw that they looked a lot like the one that was carved into the tap back in the bathroom. She looked back at the other three and saw that they were watching her closely. She turned around and concentrated. She hissed, "Open up." And one of the snakes started to move. It traveled around the edge of the door and back to where it started.

"How did you know how to speak in parseltongue?"

Abby looked over at Jessica and just smiled. Keeping her secret to herself. The truth is that she could easily speak the snake language, not a surprise really seeing as who her father is. They don't know that however… and telling them that her father knows would lead to many more questions…

She pushed on the large door and it swung open without much effort. 'Strange,' she thought, 'shouldn't it be real rusty and hard to move?' She stepped into the next room and stopped. There was a large corpse still lying on the ground at the other end of the chamber and the air smelled horrible.

She covered her mouth and nose with her hand and moved further inside so that the others could follow her in. "Crap it stinks," Neville muttered as he pulled out his wand. He said an incantation and the air slowly cleared up and became more tolerable.

"How did you know that spell?" Abby asked him.

"When you grow up with my dad you learn lots of spells to clear the air. He's bad at well… everything. The house tends to stink a lot."

Abby laughed and nodded, she could see how that would happen. She walked over towards the corpse that was there. 'It's been years, why isn't this gone?' she thought as she walked around it and looked at it closer. Its eyes were slightly open and it looked creepy, almost as if it could come back to life. She shook her head and told herself that she was being stupid, it was dead, had been for a long time.

Abby looked up and saw that the other three people were walking to the small tunnels that she could see on the edges of the room. They turned back to see if she was going to come and she shook her head and moved in the other direction. She walked around to the other side of the basilisk and froze.

The side on the back was completely gone. There were little worm looking creatures wiggling around inside what was left. 'Just maggots… I hope'

She looked closer and saw that there were large bit marks showing on the bones that were sticking out at odd angles. "What the hell?"

Abby was confused, she looked around and tried to see what could possibly be big enough to possibly make teeth marks that were that large. Part of the dead basilisk was in a large pool of water and she walked up to it slowly. She looked down and saw that something large was moving in the water, and it was getting larger.

"NEVILLE! JESSICA! RYAN! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!"

They heard her and came running, "what's going on?" Neville asked and he heard a splash of water. She saw Abby running and turned to run but froze when he saw what was behind her.

It was another Basilisk. Not as large as the dead one but still large enough to eat any of them in one gulp.

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