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Chapter 12

Why was everyone looking at us?

Harry and I stood in the Great Hall with the rest of the school and hey were all staring at us. What was going on?

"What do you think that you're doing?" Justin said with an angry look on his face.

Then he stormed out of the room. Both Harry and I were confused. We were trying to get the snake away from him and now he was angry, what's with that?

Snape stepped forward slowly, eyeing both of us, and waved his wand. Instantly, the snake vanished from sight. The next thing I knew, I was being dragged out of the Great Hall by Ron and Hermione.

"Why didn't you two say that you were Parselmouths?" Ron asked when we made it into the common room.

"What?" Harry and I said together.

"A person that can talk to snakes!"

"We've only done this once before," I said. "It isn't that big of a deal."

"Yeah, I bet a lot of people can do it," Harry shrugged.

Ron and Hermione looked at each other and then back at us.

"No they can't," Hermione said. "This isn't a good thing..."

"Why not?" I said. "What's so bad about talking to snakes?"

"Yeah, if it wasn't for us, that snake would have attacked Justin!" Harry said.

"That's what you were saying to it?" Ron asked. "It looked like you two were trying to get it to attack him or something."

"What are you talking about?" I said. "You heard us, you knew that-

"We heard you speaking snake language!" Ron said. "We didn't understand it - no one did!"

"How can we speak a language without knowing that we can?" I asked.

"That doesn't make any sense..."

"Why is it a bad thing Hermione?" Harry asked her.

I noticed that Hermione still had a panicked look on her face like she knew something that we didn't.

"It's just that..." she said. "Being able to talk to snakes is what Salazar Slytherin was famous for..."

"Now everyone is probably thinking that you two are the heirs of Slytherin or something," Ron said.

I don't know what was worse - being mocked for Lockhart's little demonstration or being avoided because people believed that I was one of the heirs of Slytherin. Worst of all, Harry kept freaking out about what Justin was thinking, like he thought that we were out to kill him or something.

"I don't care what he thinks," I said. "We aren't the heirs of Slytherin and we weren't trying to kill him. I don't have to prove anything to him..."

"Well, I don't want him or anyone else thinking that..." Harry said.

Harry went off to the library and I stayed back with Hermione and Ron in the Great Hall. I didn't feel that I had to apologize to Justin for anything. Ron, Hermione, and I stayed in the Gryffindor common room, talking over our plan with the Polyjuice Potion and who we were going to turn into. Then I saw Fred and George come into the room and I suddenly had an idea.

"I'll be right back..." I mumbled to Ron and Hermione.

I walked over to Fred and George who had sat down at a nearby table.

"Oh no!" Fred said. "It's the heir if Slytherin!"

"Careful Fred," George said. "She might send that monster out on you."

I rolled my eyes at them as they laughed.

"I have a plan and I need you two to help me," I said.

The twins looked at each other and smiled deviously, ready to cause any kind of trouble that they could.

"What is it?" Fred asked me.

"I want revenge on Lockhart," I said. "I want to show him that he can't make a fool out of me and get away with it."

"You're talking about that demonstration, aren't you?" George asked.

I nodded at them and looked back at Ron and Hermione who were still talking to each other.

"What do you want to do?" Fred asked.

"I have something in mind..."

Fred, George, and I made our way throughout the corridors of the school and headed towards Lockhart's office later that night. In our hands we carried something that we had created for the prank that we were doing.

It was a box of candy and a letter written to Lockhart.

When we arrived at his room, we opened the door slowly and saw that he wasn't there.

"Perfect," Fred said.

"Excellent," George smiled.

We set down the items on his desk and left the room without a trace.

After we left Lockhart's office, Fred and George said that they were going to go and get some food from the kitchen and that they would meet me back in the common room afterwards.

I walked alone through the corridors towards the common room and smiled to myself when I thought of the prank that was just about to unfold. Of course, I wouldn't actually see the effects until the following morning - but it was worth the wait.

Then, in the middle of my thoughts, I was interrupted when I heard Peeve's yell further down the hallway.

"THERE'S BEEN ANOTHER ATTACK! EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

I panicked and ran towards the voice that I had heard. I wasn't the only one that heard it either. When I made it there, there was already a crowd of people surrounding what I assumed to be whoever had been attacked. When I made it towards the front of the crowd, I saw who it was. Justin and Nearly-Headless Nick were frozen. Harry was standing next to them, looking terrified.

I sat in the common room, waiting for Harry to return. After he was caught at the scene of the crime, he was taken to Dumbledore's office to be questioned. This was the second time that he had been caught in front of someone that had been petrified.

Hermione, Ron, Fred, George, and Neville sat in there with me.

"What do you think that they're going to do?" Ron asked everyone.

"Probably expel him..." I muttered.

"I don't have any proof!" Ron said.

"They found him in front of the petrified bodies Ron!" Hermione said. "They probably think that it's him!"

We sat in silence for a little while longer, thinking of everything that could go wrong in this situation.

"Would anyone care for a licorice wand?" Fred asked.

Hermione rolled her eyes, probably annoyed that, even in times like this, Fred couldn't take anything seriously. Finally, after a while, Harry returned to the common room.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"I'm not in trouble," he said. "I was with Hagrid only minutes before the attack happened, so they know that it couldn't have been me."

We all sighed with relief, knowing that he was going to stay at the school.

It's funny how I wasn't even caught at the scene of the crime and people were coming up with theories on what I had been doing to help Harry petrify those people. I heard several people whispering about how Harry and I were the heirs of Slytherin, even though they thought that we couldn't hear them.

"I heard that she was getting the monster hidden while he stayed back-" Hannah Abbot whispered rather loudly to another Hufflepuff the following morning. However, when she saw me looking, she coughed loudly and acted like she was reading.

This seemed to be the common theory throughout the school, everyone truly believed that we were the heirs of Slytherin.

"So, who are you going to get next?" Fred asked us.

"How's that monster been treating you Emily?" George asked.

I thought that it was kind of funny, but Harry didn't find it that comical. I think that he cared too much about what other people thought of him. I guess I didn't because I knew what was true and they didn't.

The one thing that brightened up my day was to see Lockhart at lunch. He had skipped breakfast that morning and I assumed it was out of embarrassment. At the teacher's table, there was no mistaking this teacher and he was certainly a sight that day. His hair, usually blonde, was now a neon pink and green color and was standing on end. His skin, usually flawless, was covered in several multicolored polka-dots.

When I saw him, I couldn't help but laugh. Fred, George, and I all gave each other high fives as we saw him try to conceal himself from everyone. Even Harry, who was down about the whole heir of Slytherin thing couldn't help but smile.

Thanks for reading - I hope that you all liked it. Thanks to everyone that has been commenting, I love your responses!

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-Do you think that Harry or Emily should be petrified while the other goes into the Chamber of Secrets? Do you think that they should both go?

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