The next day, after classes, Harry's told Ron and Hermione about what he saw.
Just like Bloom, neither of them can believe it - he wouldn't believe it if he hadn't seen Tom confront Hagrid.
They are debating amongst themselves of whether they should ask Hagrid about the Chamber or not when he is suddenly behind them with a sack of foul-smelling contents.
It's for the Mandrakes they're growing this year - which should un-petrify all the victims of the creature from the Chamber of Secrets.
Before Harry, Bloom, Ron, and Hermione can decide whether to ask him about the Chamber or not, Neville comes running up to Harry completely out of breath.
"Harry, I swear I don't know who did it. But you really have to follow me, come on!"
He takes off sprinting again, something must really be wrong.
Everyone follows Neville, and it doesn't escape any of them that Bloom has by far the easiest time of keeping up with Neville.
In the Gryffindor boys' dormitory, Harry and Ron's room looks like a tornado appeared in it.
Somebody was looking for something, all the drawers are emptied and even their beds were unmade.
Hermione says "It must have been a Gryffindor, nobody else knows our password."
Bloom adds "Unless it wasn't a student."
They all share a look at this, thinking of whatever's been petrifying the students.
Ron says "Well, whoever, or whatever, it was, they were looking for something."
Harry searches through some stuff, and says "And they found it. Tom Riddle's diary is missing."
They all share another look, and then Bloom closes the door and then puts Harry's room back together with her fairy powers.
A few weeks later, the upcoming Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor is suddenly cancelled.
Most of the Gryffindor team is sent back to the tower, but Professor McGonagall takes Harry to find Ron - there's something they both need to see.
Outside the Hospital wing, she says "I'll warn you now, this is going to be a shock - and not a good one either."
When she opens the door, they see Bloom and Hermione occupying two more beds.
Ron runs over to Hermione while Harry to Bloom.
"They were found near the library, along with these." Professor McGonagall shows them a mirror and Bloom's notebook - the mirror means nothing to them, Bloom always has her notebook on her.
Harry takes Bloom's notebook, absently flipping through pages of her notes - and realizes some of them are burned into the pages, likely an experiment of hers when her arm got hurt.
Professor McGonagall says "Hermione has been petrified, but Bloom is only unconscious it seems. When she'll wake is uncertain though."
Harry and Ron sit beside Bloom and Hermione, and Harry's trying to draw Bloom back from wherever she is right now.
It doesn't work, she doesn't even twitch.
Now they have to go talk to Hagrid, he's the only one who might know something.
New rules get instated that night, students must be in their dorms by 6:00pm and must be escorted by a teacher to every class.
Harry and Ron use Harry's father's invisibility cloak to get to Hagrid's hut, and he seems almost relieved to see its Ron and Harry.
"Get inside, quick."
Harry and Ron ask if he knows anything about the Chamber, but before he can answer there's more knocking at the door.
It also didn't escape Ron and Harry's notice that Hagrid had a crossbow when he greeted them at the door.
Harry and Ron hide under the cloak before Hagrid opens the door, and in comes Professor Dumbledore and a man from the Ministry of Magic.
Ron recognizes him as Cornelius Fudge, his father's boss and the Minister of Magic.
Cornelius didn't want to come, but four attacks on students has left him no choice but to come and take Hagrid away.
Lucius Malfoy enters and gives Dumbledore an order of suspension from the Ministry itself - all twelve of them, how unusual to Ron.
Apparently, most of them are good friends of Professor Dumbledore's and think he's doing a great job.
After Lucius leaves, Hagrid says "Well, if anybody was looking for some stuff, all they'd have to do is follow the spiders. And, someone will have to feed Fang, of course."
Fang growls lightly, like he agrees, and everyone leaves.
When Ron and Harry are sure nobody else is coming, they come out from under the Cloak and make their way outside - after checking for anybody outside.
Ron immediately wants to go back to the school - the spiders are heading towards the Dark Forest!
Aside from that, he's been terrified of spiders ever since Fred and George put a big, hairy one down the back of his shirt.
When they find a clearing where spiders are leaving in all different directions, a voice asks "Who is it?"
Harry tells Ron "Don't panic."
"Is that you, Hagrid?"
Harry calls "We're friends of Hagrid's." A giant spider comes out, making Ron lock up in total fear.
Harry asks "And you? Y-y-your Aragog?"
"Yes. Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before."
"Hagrid's in trouble. There have been attacks up at Hogwarts. They think it's Hagrid, they think he's opened the Chamber of Secrets."
"That's a lie! He never opened the Chamber of Secrets all that time ago."
Harry says "Then you're not the monster."
"No. The monster in the Chamber of Secrets was born in the school. I came to Hagrid from a faraway land, in the pocket of a traveler."
Ron looks around and sees spiders are coming down like they're getting ready to eat. "Harry."
"Sh!"
Harry turns to Aragog again and asks "If you're not the monster, then…then what did kill that girl fifty years ago?"
"It is an ancient creature, one we spiders fear above all others. We do not speak of it."
"Have you seen it?"
"No, I never saw any part of the castle but the box in which Hagrid kept me in. The girl was found dead in a bathroom, and when I was accused Hagrid brought me here."
Ron says "Harry!"
"What?"
Harry's getting annoyed by the constant interruptions, until Ron shows him all the spiders around them.
The spiders aren't small, and they look really poisonous.
Ron and Harry gulp, and Harry nervously says "Well, thank you. We'll just be going…"
"Go? I think not. My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid on my command, but I cannot deny them fresh meat when it so willingly wanders into our hollow. Goodbye, friend of Hagrid."
Ron sarcastically asks "Can we panic now?"
Harry glares at him as Aragog leaves and the spiders start to close in on them.
"Know any spells Harry?"
"One, but it won't work on all of them at once."
"Where's Boom and Hermione when you need them?"
Suddenly, they hear the sound of a car horn honking, and see the Weasley's still-dented flying car drive up and open the doors.
Ron and Harry gratefully climb in, silently and un-silently thanking it profusely.
A spider jumps onto the car, and Harry yells "Arania Exumai! Let's go Ron!"
They all but fly out of the clearing, somehow making it safely through the forest as Ron rants.
"Follow the spiders, he says. I swear, if Hagrid ever gets out of Azkaban I'll kill him! What was the point of coming here?"
Harry says "Well, Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets. He was innocent - and I bet I know who framed him."
"Who?"
"We had his diary for a few hours, Ron."
Ron chews on that while they get out of the forest alive, it seems the car finally forgave them.
Later, in the Hospital wing, Harry is sitting by Bloom again and Ron is by Hermione.
"Wish you were here Bloom, we need you now more than ever this year."
Harry strokes Bloom's hair, and notices she feels like she has an amazingly high fever.
It could be her magic, or she could actually be really sick from the Basilisk's gaze - but there's no way to know.
Harry looks at Bloom's notebook again, and realizes one of the pages is folded at the corners.
This is enough to get his attention, Bloom never folds the corners - she just remembers what she's read or where she's written something down.
"Ron, I think there's something Bloom wants us to know here."
"You mean besides all her notes?"
Ron sounds like he might cry, Harry's right there with him.
"No, she folded the corner of this page."
Ron immediately gets up and looks - and the pages opens to what looks like Bloom copied from a library book.
"Ron, I think Bloom and Hermione have solved the answer for us! 'Among the many creatures that roam our world, the most dangerous of them is the Basilisk. Capable of living many centuries, instant death waits for all who meet its gaze. Spiders flee before it.' Ron, this is what's been attacking the students, it all fits. The way the spiders have been leaving the school nonstop, how I can hear the voice, and Bloom can hear it through me, everything matches."
Ron says "Except for one thing. How's it been getting around? Someone would have noticed a snake that big!"
"Bloom answered that to, she wrote 'the pipes' on the page. Along with 'reflection=petrification.' That's why nobody's been killed yet! Nobody's met its gaze directly! Collin had his camera, Justin must have seen it through a ghost, and I'll bet you a year's homework Bloom and Hermione were using the mirror to look around corners in case it showed up! Mrs. Norris must have seen it in the reflection off the water that was on the floor - and wait. There's something else on the page. 'MM' - what could MM mean?"
Ron asks "Remember how the girl that was killed fifty years ago was found in a bathroom?"
Harry catches on, and says "Yeah, maybe she never left. Moaning Myrtle! Bloom is a genius!"
Suddenly, Professor McGonagall's voice is heard saying "All students are to return to their dorms at once. Teachers are to meet in the second-floor corridor at once."
Ron and Harry decide to follow, and listen from around the corner.
Professor McGonagall says "The Heir of Slytherin has left another message, our worst fears are confirmed. A girl has been taken into the Chamber. The students will have to be sent home, I'm afraid this is the end of Hogwarts."
Lockhart enters the scene and asks "Sorry, I dozed off. What'd I miss?"
Snape smirks and says "A girl has been snatched by the monster Lockhart. Looks like your moment has come at last."
"M-my moment?"
Lockhart seems shocked, like he had no idea being the Defense Against the Dar Arts teacher would include fighting monsters.
Snape asks "Weren't you saying just last night you've known all along the location of the Chamber of Secrets?"
McGonagall says "Well, that's settled. We'll leave you to deal with the monster Gilderoy. Your fighting skills are legendary, after all."
Harry thinks Yeah, a legendary flop. He can't deal with Cornish Pixies, much less kill a Basilisk!
He feels something stirring slightly in his connection to Bloom, but not nearly enough for Bloom to be awake.
When Madame Pomfrey asks who's been taken, McGonagall says "Ginny Weasley."
Every drop of blood leaves Ron's face at that, and they get a clear view of the message when the teachers leave: her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.
Ron says "Oh, Ginny…"
He feels like he could be sick - now he's wishing he could switch places with Bloom, because that's who they really need if they're going to stop this giant snake.
AN: Bloom and Hermione were getting some answers for them, as usual, and ended up the Basilisk's next victims shortly after they discovered that's what's been attacking people. But Bloom is unconscious instead of petrified, think something's going to happen?