Chapter 14

Severus came to the match between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. He wanted to make sure that nothing happened to Hermione. Last year had been a nightmare and, with the Chamber now opened, it would get even worse. Lily sat next to him and they all watched the match. At first things went well until a bludger suddenly came from Hermione. Lily at once pulled her wand out.

"No," Severus said, "You could risk hitting Hermione."

That made it even worse.

"But-."

"Someone has tampered with the Bludger," Severus told her, "I don't know who but I will find out."

"What if Hermione dies?"

"Let's hope that doesn't happen."

Thankfully the only thing that did happen was Hermione broke her arm, which Severus knew she didn't like. Lockhart tried to heal it but all he did was remove her bones. Lily punched him in the face.

"Don't you dare touch my baby, you perv," she snarled.

Madam Pomfrey wasn't pleased. In-fact she was spitting mad. She ushered Hermione onto a bed and then got the most horrible invention of the Potter family, Skel grow.

"Drink this at once," she ordered and Hermione spit it out. "What were you expecting, pumpkin juice?"

"That's just really nasty," Hermione said.

"Everyone out, including you two," she said and Severus heard Hermione groaning as they were ushered out along with the members of the Ravenclaw team.

"I'm worried about Hermione," Lily said to Severus when they were back in their room. "I mean, what's going on here? The bludger! It's supposed to go after all members of the team."

"I know, it seems strange," Severus said.

"You don't think that this has anything to do with the chamber?" Lily asked.

"I hope not, but we can't take anything as chance," he said, "I'm going to have a talk with Dumbledore about this."

"Sounds like a good idea," she said.

"I don't know," Dumbledore replied when Severus asked him what he thought about the bludger coming after only Hermione.

"But you do agree that it's strange," Severus said and Dumbledore nodded. "But who's targeting her?"

"I have a feeling that we'll find out in due time," the Headmaster predicted, "However, I think that you need to put a charm on her so that nothing else can happen. I don't like this year at all, Severus, and we all know why."

"Because of the chamber," Severus reasoned and Dumbledore nodded.

"Severus there is something that I need to tell you," he said and Severus was all ears. "This isn't the first time that the chamber has been opened."

"What do you mean?" Severus asked, fear flooding his body.

"Fifty years ago the Chamber of Secrets was opened for the first time," Dumbledore explained, "Same thing happened. Students were attacked until one of them died. Dippet wanted to close the school down, due to the attack, but something strange happened."

"What?"

"A boy name Tom Riddle captured the person that was supposedly doing it. I didn't believe it for one second due to what I had discovered when I first met him. The person was expelled but I convinced Dippet to allow him to stay on. Riddle got a special award for services to the school, which is in the trophy room."

"Who was the boy that got expelled?" Severus asked.

"Hagrid," Dumbledore answered.

Severus gaped at him but then he went on and said, "Tom Riddle goes by another name now. One that I know you know very well."

"What name is that?"

"Lord Voldemort," Dumbledore answered.

Severus felt like passing out.

When he told Lily about what Dumbledore told him she didn't take it well. She sat down and tried to breathe normally. Severus sat down and said, "Don't worry, Lily, Dumbledore doesn't believe that the dark lord is doing this personally. But something just isn't right here."

"But Dumbledore would have known if Voldemort was in the castle."

"Yes, which tells him that someone is working for him," Severus said, "And that person is the one that's doing it."

"What are we going to do?" Lily asked, "Take them out of school."

"I don't think that will work, not with Miss Weasley roaming around the country and trying to find a way in," he said, "Hermione and Melissa are on the verge of changing for the month and we have to keep them here. No, Dumbledore wants to personally find out how the dark lord is doing it this time and put a stop to it."

"What do you want me to do?" she asked.

"Lily, you're pregnant," he said, "You can't do much. Let the rest of the staff do this."

She nodded and said, "I'm only doing this because I don't want anything to happen to the child."

Severus wrapped his arms around her and allowed her to be comforted. However that didn't last long. There was a banging on the door and he went to answer it.

"Severus, there's been another attack," Dumbledore said.

"Dear Merlin," Lily said, going white.

"A double attack," Dumbledore added.

"Who is it?" Severus asked.

"Nearly Headless Nick and…Remus," he answered.

Severus felt the world vanish and Lily screamed.

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Hermione was sound asleep when she woke up to the feeling that someone was lying on her. When she opened her eyes she saw the tennis ball eyes of Dobby. She yelped in pain and asked, "Dobby, what are you doing here?"

"Dobby is sorry," he said, "I'm such a bad house elf."

"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked.

"I should have worked harder to keep you from coming back," he said, "I thought that my Bludger would hurt you enough to make you go home."

"Your bludger," Hermione hissed, "You're the one that enchanted that ball to try and kill me."

"Never kill you, Miss Hermione, hurt you only," he said, "You must leave Hogwarts at once. The terrible things that I mentioned are happening right now."

"I'm not leaving," Hermione said, "And now that I know that you're the cause of the bludger I think that you better leave now before my arm gets better to strangle you."

"Dobby is use to death threats," he said, "Dobby gets them three times a day at home."

Hermione personally didn't care, she was so mad. Suddenly Dobby vanished and Hermione saw someone entering.

"I can't believe it, a double attack," someone said, "and poor Remus."

Hermione put a hand over her mouth to keep from making a sound.

"What are we going to do?" the woman asked.

"There's nothing that we can do, Poppy," Dumbledore said, "We need to make double sure that the students are safe."

"Are you going to get the Ministry?" she asked.

"No, I don't want the wrong person sent to Azkaban," he said, "We'll keep it from Fudge as long as we can."

She nodded and then Hermione heard them leaving. What the heck was going on here?

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Severus entered the wing with Hermione's first dose of Wolfbane. He turned to see the curtain that had been drawn and sighed. First the first time Remus wouldn't be going through the change due to what happened. Too bad the poor man was petrified and couldn't enjoy it.

"Here's your dose," he said and Hermione took it with the hand that wasn't broken.

"Professor, I have something to tell you," she said and then she told him about Dobby.

"What!" he snapped, "Are you telling me that Malfoy's house elf has caused another problem?"

"Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about," she said, "He said that horrible things are now happening, which we know that to be true."

"I'm going to have to tell the Headmaster," Severus told her.

"I understand," Hermione said, "Though I think that Dobby should be more worried about mum finding out. Lily can be a wild witch when she gets mad."

"Oh I believe that," he said and he left Hermione alone to drink her dose.

"So it was Dobby that did it," Dumbledore said when Severus told him what Hermione had told him.

"Should we keep him out?"

"The wards won't allow that," he said, "But we need to keep a close watch on anything else that might smell like elf magic."

"I hope the little snot doesn't ruin the wedding," Severus said.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure of that," Dumbledore vowed.

News of the double attack on Nearly Headless Nick and Remus, the new Caretaker, didn't make students feel any better. Of course the Slytherin's thought it was funny, to which Severus took fifty points. He might not like the wolf but he didn't deserve this. Of course Draco Malfoy had to put his two pence into things, which earned him a detention. Severus knew that he would be hearing about this from Lucius, but he didn't care.

The boy had to be controlled someway.

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A/N: I hope that you enjoy this chapter. There will be no Dueling Club scene due to Hermione being out due to her transformation.