For the next few weeks everything was a blur between classes, meals and sleep. The most interesting thing that had happened was Professor Grassus's fit, and they had talked that through a lot.
"So what do you think "SSSSSssss" means?"
"Pippa, we have talked that through already," Snitch said impatiently.
"Yeah, she probably thinks she's a snake or something when she's having a fit." Stella contributed.
"I got it!" Snitch yelled.
"What, the Snitch?" Pippa laughed at her own little joke.
"No…" said Snitch, rolling her eyes. " Remember how yesterday we were talking about how we wanted something excited to happen, or we wanted to do something exciting?"
"Yeah..."
"Well we can go into the Chamber or Secrets!"
"The what?" asked Willow.
"The Chamber of Secrets. It's a secret chamber in the out of order bathroom on the 2nd floor that Salazar Slytherin built. There's a snake on one of the taps. You speak Parseltounge to get in. You say "open up".
"That sounds like a job for me!" said Stella with a grin.
"Ok, we should go at break." Willow said. "This is going to be so exciting!"
Next break they walked down to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, and looked at all the sink taps for the right one.
"I found it, I found it!" Pippa called. "Here, the snake is on this one!"
Everyone approached the sink. "Stand aside, stand aside!" Stella said importantly. "Parselmouth coming through!"
"But I want to say it Stella!" argued Snitch. "You taught me some Parseltounge already!"
"But I can say it more fluently, Snitch!"
"But Stella, I want to say it!"
Pippa and Willow rolled their eyes.
"Okay, How about I say it now, then you can say it when we open the door thing James was talking about when we get down there."
"Fine." gave in Snitch.
Stella stood at the tap.
"Open Up." she hissed in Parseltounge.
The sink grinded as it moved aside and revealed the dark, dank hole.
"Who's going first?" asked Willow.
"I will!" said Stella importantly. "I'm the Slytherin here!"
And with that she jumped into the hole.
"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!" said Snitch, holding up and invisible sword. She then jumped in.
"That was so cheesy." said Pippa, and then jumped after Snitch.
"Wheeeeee!" said Willow and jumped in, with her hands in the air.
They slid down the slippery hold and landed. They were all expecting a hard landing, but it was soft.
"Wow. What have we landed on?" said Snitch.
Willow gulped. "Basilisk skin."
"How do you know that!" said Pippa alarmed.
"I'm in Ravenclaw, duh. Of course I know."
"Well, we are in a "Slytherin" chamber." said Stella, matter of factly.
"James didn't say anything about a BASILISK!" said Snitch, jumping up.
"Don't worry, it's probably dead. If it was alive, James would have mentioned it, wouldn't he?" Said Willow reassuringly.
"Yeah…yeah I suppose so." said Snitch.
"Now that we have established there is a dead basilisk down here, can we please get a move on? It's cold." said Pippa.
They walked further up the passageway, until they got to a door, with snakes on it that felt really eerie.
"Snitch, your turn." said Stella sulkily.
Snitch marched up to the door.
"Open up."
The doors creaked open. The girls looked in. It was breathtaking. There was a huge hall with statues of towering up on both sides. They slowly walked through the damp hall.
"This. Is. Amazing." Said Pippa. "But..guys…look over there.."
They turned to their right and gasped. In front of them was a huge skeleton…of a Basilisk.
"It's dead. I'm right." Willow said calmly. "I'm always right."
"We should make this our secret chamber!" said Snitch. "Like our..clubhouse!"
"Yeah..!" agreed Stella. "That would be so cool! But I think the bell has gone for our next class..ages ago…"
The girls looked at each other alarmed. Then they ran out of the chamber as fast as they could.
There was ten minutes left remained in their next class when they got there.
"I can't believe it!" Stella moaned. "Of all the classes to be late for..double Potions!"
They walked into the dungeons. "Miss Wood. Miss Williams. Miss Davies. Miss Flint." Professor Grassus started. "Late. Again. Hopefully you have a reasonable excuse this time."
"We- we-" Snitch could not come up with an excuse.
"And why are you covered in dirt? And slime?"
The girls looked down at their robes. It was true. They were covered with dirt and slime.
"That's it. Detention. All of you. My office. Tomorrow afternoon. Now sit down. And DON'T get any slime on the desks!"
By the time they got out of Potions they were irritable and grumpy because Professor Grassus was always picking on them the whole lesson. They walked into the Entrance Hall.
"I'm going to go change my robes. They are so disgusting." muttered Willow.
"Snitch! Snitch!" They heard someone calling. It was James Potter. He ran up to them.
"I couldn't find you all break! Where were you? And what happened to your robes? Wait a second…"
He looked at their robes more carefully and took in the slime and the dirt.
His eyes suddenly widened with realization. "Oh no…you didn't…you didn't actually…I though you wouldn't…I didn't mention-"
"That there was a giant dead basilisk in there? Yeah, I think you left out that bit of vital information." Snitch told him.
"Were you alright down there? Did you get hurt?"
"Umm…we were down there too, you know…" muttered Stella.
"Shhhhh!" whispered Pippa. "Let them talk!"
Snitch blushed with pleasure at what James said. "Oh it was a breeze really." she said.
Willow, Stella and Pippa raised their eyebrows.
"Umm…yeah…apart from you freaking out that there was a dead basilisk down there, and that we landed on shed basilisk skin...yeah...apart from that it was a breeze.." said Willow sarcastically.
"Well, I'll leave you guys to..well..change your robes. See you!" He waved and then ran off.
Willow and Stella also went to their dorms to get changed.
"C'mon Snitch, let's get to the Common Room and change our robes…" Pippa told her.
Snitch did not respond.
"Snitch? Snitch?"
Snitch still didn't respond, she was still staring at the spot James Potter had just vacated.
Pippa clicked in front of Snitch's face. "Snitch, snap out of it!"
"OH..what?" said Snitch.
"C'mon, let's go to the Common Room."
"Ok." Said Snitch, and they walked off the Common Room.