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Chapter 2 - Revelations

Clapping came from behind him. Turning towards the noise Harry saw a man, dressed in battle robes, the Slytherin insignia on the right side of his robes. The man had black hair just below his shoulders, tied in a low ponytail. He had green eyes, which had a sharp edge to them.

The man was still clapping for some time after Harry turned to look at him confused. When he finally lowered his hands, he was smiling at him.

"Well done Harry I am impressed, you figured it all out much quicker than I expected, plus I am surprised at how well you took the fact that your familiar is a 50ft snake."

Harry watch the stranger warily but he didn't have the same evil look about him as Riddle.

"Who are you?" Harry asked.

The man smirked, "If I tell you, you're not going to like it," the look on Harrys face clearly said that he wasn't in the mood and to get on with it. "Fine. My name is Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts."

Harry eyes widened, 'It makes sense if he is down here, dressed in battle robes and isn't terrified by the fact that I have a 50ft basilisk standing behind me.'

"Ok so just hypothetically say that I believed you. Why are you here?" Harry asked.

Salazar continued to smirk for a moment before answering "When I tell you this I don't want you to interrupt no matter how much you want to, however before we start I probably should do this." Slytherin looked from Harry to Ginny, who now Harry looked at her, could see that she was beginning to wake up. Her eyes were twitching, fingers curling in an automatic move to find her wand. Slytherin raised his hand, and made a gesture towards Ginny. For a moment Harry thought that time had frozen as he felt a surge pass him in slow motion, it felt like heat passing through his body from left to right.

Ginny stilled completely but didn't lose the colour that had returned to her cheeks, Harry's eyes widened fearing for the worst.

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO HER!" he was running to her before he even realised what he was doing.

Slytherin sighed he should have known this would happen 'must be something about the Potters can't let the red heads die' he raised his hand again this time waving it in Harry's direction. Harry was still trying to run for a few moments before he realised he wasn't going anywhere and was floating a few inches of the ground. Cursing, he turned to Slytherin.

"If you would stop being such an idiot and over reacting to everything I do or say then maybe I would have a chance to explain. So are you going to listen?"

"Fine" Harry said in defeat when he realised that he wasn't going anywhere.

"Good, well to begin, Ginny is in fact not dead she is perfectly fine, I just prolonged the time it will take for her to wake up, second can I put you down now?" nodding Harry felt himself lowered to the ground. "Now I really need no interruptions while I tell you this, I'll start with who you are now, Harry Potter you are my heir my magical heir. I will train you, as will the other founders, yes they are here, you will be trained in not only magic but hand to hand combat, but I will explain more about that later. Your familiar is of course Nat, now roll up your sleeve." Silently obeying Harry rolled up his sleeve stopping when he got halfway up his forearm, staring in horror. There was a snakes head and as he move up his sleeve he could see the tattoo coiling itself around his arm.

"What is it?" he was more curious than annoyed.

"It is the link between you and Natalia; Nat is able to go into the tattoo, when you have learned how you will be able to change her size at will. 'Course she will still be able to do it herself but you can communicate with her if you needed any help. Though she will never be able to go past the size of a full grown basilisk." He explained

"Ok this is all so ridiculous that I sort of have to believe it, considering nobody would make this up. But I still don't understand what all this has to do with me" Harry asked

"This is important because next year you and possible some other people later will be training in between school that is of course if you want to, I'm not going to force you into it. Though it would help you so much, you could help win the war" Slytherin had a look on his face that he didn't usually let people see but in this case it was necessary. He knew that Harry was the type of person that wasn't going to just trust anybody. It was going to be some time before he was ready to accept this all but maybe the summer would give him time.

Harry was thinking about it for a moment before he spoke again "I think I need some time to think about this."

"I thought you might, we will talk after the summer. When you have had a chance to think about it. See you then Harry" Slytherin smiled at him one last time before turning to Ginny, waving his hand at her again, before heading back to the room beside the entrance once again.

Watching him leave Harry heard a moan behind him; he immediately remembered that Ginny was still lying behind him. He took one look back at the closing door before running to Ginny's side. She was moving slightly, her eyes were rolling around under her eyelids, her hands were twitching and she was slowly coming round. Her eyes opened to reveal dull brown orbs that seemed to have lost all the life and fire he had seen in them over the summer.

Her eyes moved around before settling on Harry. "Harry, I didn't mean to, it was horrible, it was like a constant scratching in the back of my mind and then it was gone I was at peace but then I would realise that I had moved and I really did try to tell you and lots of other people but it just didn't come out no matter how I tried to tell you." She was fidgeting as she spoke but the look on her face wasn't fear like Harry expected from the girl, but what he saw was hatred and anger and when he looked a bit closer he saw determination. That scared him a bit, a 12 year old girl looking like that.

'I think that I should talk to her about that' Harry resolved.

"It's ok Ginny I already know about it don't worry; right now we have to get out of here. Come on." Ginny dropped her gaze for a moment before gasping.

"Harry what's that, is it a snake?" Harry suddenly panicked; he had completely forgotten about Nat standing behind him, taking a subtle look over his shoulder. He looked back in surprise when he didn't see anything over his shoulder. He looked over to Ginny in confusion only to find that she wasn't looking over his shoulder but at his sleeve, when he looked down he saw that his sleeve was still rolled up.

Harry's eyes widened Ginny could see the head of his new snake tattoo on his forearm. "It's not what you think I'm not evil or anything I'll tell you about it after we get out of here. I promise you I will not hurt you but you have to trust me"

Ginny was still staring at his tattoo but reluctantly nodded 'I get the feeling that I won't be able to get out of here without him but I won't trust anyone that easily again' Ginny decided.

Harry and Ginny walked to the entrance of the chamber, Harry was supporting Ginny, her arm around his shoulders. Climbing through the entrance, Harry noticed that Ginny was looking around curiously as they walked through the pipes of the chamber.

"Were in the Chamber of Secrets" Harry thought that he would answer her unasked question.

Ginny smiled slightly in amusement, "That wasn't why I was looking around I already knew that, I was just curious as to what it would look like and how a basilisk would get around. I don't remember when I came in." Harry stopped in shock gaping at Ginny while she continued to walk down the pipe seemingly oblivious to the shock on Harry's face.

Ginny stopped turning her head slightly "Are you just going to stand there staring at me or are you going to get a move on?" Ginny's voice was hard but Harry could see the faint flicker of a smile of her face.

Harry shook his head before running to catch up to her. Stopping next to her, he just had to know. "How did you figure it out, it took us months and we had Hermione."

"People can be underestimated you know. I don't think that you are as stupid or Hermione as smart as you make it out. Plus you shouldn't judge a book by its cover."

Harry was about to reply when they turned the last bend in the pipe, filing out ,Harry could again see the pile of rocks which had blocked Ron from coming with him. Harry could see that the small whole had now become a gap just big enough for a small teenager to get through. He could see a mop of red at the other side of the gap and could hear grunting.

"Hey Ron can you hear me?" Harry called.

"Hey Harry mate is that you, hey is Ginny with you, is she alright?"

Harry rolled his eyes, typical Ron hardly spared a thought that it might not be Harry talking to him. "Yeh it's me and Ginny, were both fine. Did you manage to make a big enough gap to let us get through?"

"Yeh mate, bit may be a bit of a squeeze for you." Ron called from the other side of the giant wall of stone in front of them.

"Ok thanks were coming through now." Harry moved to the wall grasping Ginny's wrist. He climbed to the top, stopping a few timed to reposition his hands when it became too painful.

Harry got to the top of the giant wall of rocks, stopping for a few moments halfway up to check his hands for cuts from the jagged rocks.

After reaching the top Harry stopped. Turning back he watched Ginny come up beside him "You go first I'll be right behind you." he told her. Ginny rolled her eyes but complied, pulling herself through the narrow gap.

He paused before following, he looked down at is arm watching the snake move her eyes to Harry and nodded to him, he shook his head sighed before rolling his sleeve back down.

Harry pulled himself into he make shift ledge at the start of the tiny tunnel. He crawled along feeling the tiny, sharp ricks digging into his stomach as he lay on it. Along the last meter the roof got even lower forcing him to dig himself further into the rocks below him.

He finally felt himself leave the cramped space, but he was sure he left a chunk of his leg behind.

Stumbling out he slid down the other side before coming to a stop right to top of Ron, knocking him to the floor.

"Harry what the hell do you think you're doing, I just saved your life." Harry gaped at the cocky expression on his best friends face.

Harry shook his head not even bothering to reply to the comment "Whatever Ron let's just get out of here."

When Harry got closer to the pipe which lead back to the bathroom, he spotted something red at the end of the chamber. It was sitting in the shadows. He put his hands up motioning for Ginny and Ron behind him to stop, before crouching down to get a better look at the thing he was sure had not been there before.

It made a sudden move towards him causing Harry to fall on his back and watch as the red and gold phoenix flew over his head. It landed on Ginny's shoulder while Ron looked over in anger.

Fawkes wafted his tail feathers in Ginny's face indicating that Ginny should grab them.

Ginny moved her hands to his feathers gripping on tightly to the silky smooth feathers. At her soft reluctant touch he wiggled his tail feathers again giving her a hard look making her grip tighten. Fawkes looked up, let out a cry, and then flapped his wings lifting both himself and Ginny of the ground a few inches few inches before lowering her down softly.

Harry looked on in realisation; he could see the same look on Ginny's face while Ron continued to stare at the majestic bird in wonder.

"Guys I think that I know how we are going to get out of here." Harry said.

"How?" Ron asked in confusion. 'He really is an idiot' Harry thought to himself.

Before Harry could answer Ron's question Ginny responded speaking in a very slow and deliberate voice "Well Ron, Fawkes just lifted me of the ground, and if I remember rightly then phoenixes can life extremely heavy loads." When Ron's look of confusion still didn't go away she continued "For example three children, perhaps us" Ron's face changed to one of understanding and then to a one of anger as her realised that Ginny had been mocking him.

"Fine" he half yelled.

Ginny kept her hold on the feathers when Harry came over and put his arms around her waist, making her cheeks heat up for a moment.

Suddenly Fawkes lifted off; Harry felt the rush of air and then a sudden weight on his leg. Looking down he saw that Ron, who hadn't been hanging on to any of them, had grabbed his ankle. They reached the top in only a few minutes, coming into the bathroom in a flood of light.

Fawkes dropped them right beside the door; they all stumbled into the door heading outside.

Crashing through the door they saw Dumbledore standing outside and he didn't look pleased.

Well that's chapter 2 hope you like it please R&R