A/N:

Chapter 10! I've reached a milestone!

Don't get your hopes up for Harry/Daphne just yet, he will be dating other girls as well, but she is the main pairing, that doesn't automatically mean he's going to end up with her though (not that that means he won't), it just means they will be the most focused on pairing. (I haven't decided yet, my outline is pretty general)

Wow all those hits! It makes me so happy.

*Does happy dance freaking her brothers out*

Harry: Run awaaaay! Take cover!

Sooph: Duckface…

Everyone: Backs away slowly

PS: Ok, There might be quite a few clichés in this story, but you'll have to bear with me..

(I don't really mind them just that it's not at every turn, though this is still the beginning of the story.. I might merge some chapters together at a later date, it depends (Since the chapters are so short))

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Chapter 10

He was indeed sore the next morning. He woke up at about 8 o clock. He sat up and stretched his back yawning.

"Rise and shine." Draco taunted.

"Shut up Draco." Harry snapped back, good-naturedly. They were becoming fast friends, even if it was tentatively at first. They headed for breakfast; it was his first quidditch practice that day after school hours and Draco seemed more excited than Harry. Millie tagged along of course. With her bubbly personality she cheered up everyone around her and filled up long silences in conversations that Slytherins were prone to.

Thus Harry arrived at the quidditch pitch in a good mood till he saw Marcus Flint, he had a fierce determination in his expression. Which in Harry's experience didn't mean

well and gave him a sense of foreboding. His senses were right. It didn't. They had one of the most intense trainings in Harry's life, which was saying something with him having Wood as one of his captains, apparently there was one person who was more obsessed with Quidditch and that was his current captain.

Harry decided he didn't want the Weasley twins seeing him walking around on the Marauder's map. So he was planning on "acquiring" it as soon as possible, and that's why he was following them with a non-tracking charm on him so that they couldn't anticipate him sneaking up on them.

He was having fun, something he sorely missed. He had devised a neat little plan to get into the common room: He would stun a first year and steal his clothes, then he would sneak in with a group of other Gryffindor's. So that night he waited in the shadows behind a suit of armor and stunned an unsuspecting first year, found a group of Gryffindor's and followed them into the common room. Once in a wave of nostalgia hit him. He hadn't been there for a while, he paused at the doorway but caught himself and headed for the dorms. He quickly disillusioned himself and crept into the older boys' dorms, well technically he was older, but that didn't matter at the moment.

As he was sneaking in he heard obscenely loud snoring, it was emanating from Lee Jordan, he was sure it was a prank of the twins, no one could possible snore that loud naturally. The good thing about that was that the twins had put up a silencing charm around their beds. Harry quickly broke their prank-and serious warding (to get into the room) with relative ease and put a sleeping spell on all the occupants in the room for good measure. Now all he had to do was find the damn thing.

He searched and searched and then slapped his forehead with his palm mumbling "Stupid" to himself. He crept up to one of the twins' beds and looked under the pillow, it wasn't there, so he headed over to the other one, and sure enough, there it was.

He quickly rewarded the room and crept back outside of the common room in his disillusionment spell. He quickly redressed in his own robes and spelled the other boy's clothes on and confounded him so he wouldn't know what had happened. He tapped the map saying the password 'I solemnly swear I am up to no good.' And found his way back to the Slytherin common rooms undisturbed. As he was getting in to bed he decided he was going to add some things to the map. He realized his father had never explored the Slytherin common room or the secret chamber. He decided he would explore the Slytherin common rooms with his parseltongue the next day.

He woke up in a daze; he'd had the weirdest dream of when he was a baby. Dumbledore was standing over him waving his wand and golden threads were connecting to him.

He dismissed it and quickly got up to go explore, he decided to start with checking in corners and behind tapestries. After checking all of them and the one he'd come out of after the whole Chamber of Secrets fiasco he didn't find anything, except with the one he'd come out of there was a snake carving. He was still searching when people started coming into the common room and was forced to stop so that they didn't hear him hissing in parseltongue.

The day went by in a normal fashion. He had some more boring lessons, he didn't enjoy Hogwarts much during the day because he knew everything already. When finally everybody had gone to bed and he was sure they were asleep, Harry continued his hunt for secrets to put on the map (he hadn't figured it out completely yet). When he was sure everyone had gone to sleep. Courtesy to the map, he continued his hunt, he'd drawn in the whole Slytherin common room, in his lessons since all the stuff they learned he'd seen already he could keep up. He was thinking of where to look next when his eyes landed upon a portrait with snakes on it. He went over to them and started a conversation. "Hello my fellow companionss." He hissed amiably at them.

"A sspeaker."

"Did he jusst Ssspeak?"

Incredulous voices asked each other.

"Yesss ass a matter of fact I did, I am the heir of Ssalzar Sslytherin. I wass wondering if you knew any ssecret roomss where I could train?"

"Ssalazar's heir!" Voices were speaking reverently and a female spoke up.

"Yess Ssalazar kept a room here for his heirs to continue hiss work or follow their own passsionss. He alssso had a library in the chamber."

"Really? Becausse I wass there and it wass jusst an empty room with a dessk and a portrait." He said disbelievingly.

"That portrait only workss with the passsword and a ssample of Salazar's blood." The snake said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Harry sighed and was relieved, he had wanted there to be more knowledge and had been disappointed when he hadn't found anything.

"Ssso where iss thiss other chamber?" Harry asked impatiently. "Behind usss my lord." The portrait hissed.

"Open" Harry hissed.

"The portrait swung open and Harry was stunned.

It was everything he imagined and more, there were dummies of different sizes like real people, they had different builds and fleshy skin. The walls were lined with different kinds of weapons swords, daggers and bows, all very medieval. It was all from Salazar's time after all. In the corner of the room there was a desk with different graphs that showed all sorts of things, like the last person who had been in the room and his (or her) scores.

Saelstiël Slytherin had defeated 4 mid level dummies in the span of 12 minutes and 36 seconds in his 7thyear.

Harry got all giddy and started checking the dummies out; it looked like it had 3 levels, easy, medium and hard. It adjusted to how good you were and it was all very realistic. He tried it out by saying: "Magi-dummy 4 level medium, martial arts." A disembodied voice counted down. ..3..2..1.. Start! The dummy started attacking him with kicks and hits at a pace that Harry could just barely follow. He got out of breath and quickly hissed, "Stop!" And the dummy froze, and then it levitated back to the place it was before the whole fight. Harry smiled gasping. He was going to use this room to its full extent; he was only in his 1st year after all, this was the one time he was glad for it, and the library of course.

He left the room and went to the dorms where he showered and went to bed.

The next morning happened in much the same fashion as the previous mornings. He rather liked the normalcy for once; he didn't have the years before, in the future (alternate universe).

He decided he would visit his favourite snakes that day to discuss what he would do with Quirrel he had completely forgotten about him.

So after classes he headed for the chamber of secrets. As he entered, the now clean chamber he found the two (smaller) snakes together. Apparently Sylas hadn't grown when they bonded, they were trying to figure out why Saphy had grown to be so big compared to Sylas, and Harry secretly thought Sylas' pride was being wounded. His female mate was bigger than him. Harry knew it would hurt his pride too, if he was 20x smaller.

As he got closer Saphy started to hiss as if she was annoyed about something. "What'sss that glow around you master?"

"What glow?" Harry questioned. "I didn't ssee it before becausse I had jusst awoken but.. I think you have a compulssion web weaved around you. It wasss one of the giftss I got when bonding with Ssalazar. I have a ssort of mage ssight."

Harry stepped back as if slapped. "A-a compulsssion web? As in someone is controlling my perssonality and magic?"

A/N: Sorry for the wait, I had to get through a rough patch and had writers block (At least it was only a week long :P)

I'm all-better now, thanks to my friend, Sam xD

You might have another wait though, sorry Cringes but it's just, I'd rather make you wait than have a crap chapter up :P