All anybody can do is talk about the attack and all I can do is worry that I'm the one responsible for the attack on Miss. Norris. I can't tell anybody my worries because I would be kicked out of Hogwarts although the students would cheer me for getting rid of Miss. Norris for a while. Filch is keeping my guilt, or not guilt since I still don't know if I did it or not fresh in my mind, by patrolling the place where his cat was attacked. After Ron tried to cheer me up I went down to check out the scene of the crime and soon as I saw it I went into the nearest bathroom to throw up to the sound of Moaning Myrtle's wails. Now every time I walk by and see the writing and Filch, I feel like throwing up all over again. It's awful. Every one keeps on saying that Harry is the one who attacked Miss. Norris. I know that Harry didn't because Harry would never do anything like that, he is the kindest person I know.
To make things worse, I still have been having nightmares every night, I can't sleep at night so I end up sleeping in class. Im getting paler and paler because I haven't been outside in a long time. I don't have any time with all of the homework I need to do. I rarely have any free time but when I do have free time, I write to Tom. With the rest of my time I do homework and yet Im still falling behind. To makes things even worse every Potions lesson Snape comments on my lack of potion making skills, or lack of, and finds some reason to take away points.
Tom keeps on trying to cheer me up and convince me that the attack on Miss. Norris wasn't my fault but I don't believe him. Tom keeps on telling me that my dreams don't mean anything and that I shouldn't be afraid of them. I have no idea if I should believe him or not. For now, I guess I will believe him, Tom has never wronged me so I will continue to trust him.
Tom, what do you know about the Chamber of Secrets?
Ginny, do you still think you attacked that cat because like I have told you many times before you just...
No, no... I just want to know what it is? Everybody at Hogwarts does?
Alright, I will tell you what I know but you have to promise never to tell anyone?
I promise, besides who am I going to tell? Moaning Myrtle is more popular than me?
Who?
Just some female ghost who haunts a second-floor womans bathroom. Nobody ever goes into her bathroom, will I go in there when I want to be alone, which is a lot theses days. Anyway I promise.
Alright, the Chamber exists. Your teachers will try to tell you otherwise but don't believe them, the Chamber exists. It was opened when I was at school fifty years ago. The Chamber was made by Salazar Slytherin, who founded Slytherin house. Salazar thought that Hogwarts should only admit those students of pureblood, but when the other houses disagreed with him he left the school.
He made the Chamber before he left though?
Thats right. He made the Chamber and hid it so nobody but his true heir can open it and release the monster within.
Th... th... the monster within?
The monster is supposed to clear away all those students who are unworthy of entering the school.
Muggleborns
Correct. The monster was unleashed in my years at Hogwarts. It attacked several students and killed one before it was caught.
Thats not going to happen this time, right Tom?
Of course it won't happen this time? Why would history repeat itself?
I have been thinking about what Tom wrote to me about the Chamber of Secrets a lot these days and I really hope history doesn't repeat itself because I do not want anyone to die. No one at Hogwarts deserves to die, not even those stuck up Slytherins who make fun of my taped up school books. Although I wouldn't mind if the monster attacked Snape.
I was walking down the corridor thinking about all the ways I wish the monster would attack Snape. I just suffered through a lesson where I somehow managed to explode my claudron all over my face and Snape took off twenty points for pure stupidity. While I was mulling over Snapes attack in my head, I saw Ron, Hermione and Harry headed down the corridor. I didn't want Harry to see me with my failed potion all over my face so I ducked behind a suit of armour.
As they passed I overheard Ron say, "Honestly, if they sorting hat tried to put me in Slytherin, I would have took the train straight back home."
I gulped as I watched their figures head up to Gryffindor tower. If Ron knew, if my family knew, the sorting hat debated on putting me in Slytherin they would disown me. The first Weasley to be a female and the first to be considered to be put in Slytherin, I would be a laughingstock. I defiantly have to make sure nobody finds out about my suspicions that I attacked Miss. Norris. If anybody finds out I will be expelled and made into the laughingstock I would have been if I were put into Slytherin.
Actually being expelled might not be that bad, I would be with mum and dad and I wouldn't constantly be with my brothers and I wouldn't be teased and I wouldn't have to worry about my homework and... I can't get expelled, even though it would help out my school problems, I just can't cause my family that kind of humiliation.
The only thing I can do to stop myself from turning myself in and getting expelled on purpose is by finding things to look forward to. I had Halloween to look forward to last week and this week I have the upcoming Quidditch match to look forward to. The match is Gryffindor vs. Slytherin and I can't wait to watch Harry play in an actual Quidditch match instead of an old field.
On Saturday morning, the day of the Quidditch match, it was cloudy and seemed like it was going to rain. I walked down to the pitch with Colin prattling on in my ear, Colin is annoying but he is my only friend so I just pretend Im listening to him by occasionally nodding my head. I look around the Gryffindor stands for where Colin and I should sit. Percy is talking to a group of his prefect friends and Ron is sitting with Hermione.
Let's see, sit by Percy and have to ignore both him and Colin or sit by Ron and have to ignore him and Colin. It's a hard decision. I will sit by Ron because Hermione is always nice to me.
"Hi guys," I say as I sit down by Hermione.
"Hey Ginny. You're oddly happy," Ron said a knowing smile on his face.
"Shut up or I will sic Fred and George on you," I say, before Ron can say Harry's name.
"I wasn't going to say anything, so no need to unleash the artillery on me."
The Gryffindor Quidditch team came out of the changing rooms and Colin and his camera went off. Non-stop clicking in your ear could drive anybody crazy.
"Colin, if you don't stop taking pictures of the team on the field, you will run out of film before they get in the air."
"Oh, you don't have to worry about that Ginny, I brought extra film with me."
Great, I slumped back in my seat and listened to the clicking.
"Nice try Gin. One of these days Im going to take his entire unused film collection and dump it in the lake." Ron scowled at the bouncing Colin beside me.
Harry is a good flyer! He is better than the rest of his team and he is certainly better than those stupid stuck-up Slytherins on their stupid stuck-up, bought by Malfoy's dad broomsticks. Malfoy is nothing compared to Harry, he may have a faster broom than Harry but nothing can beat the natural ability that Harry has.
I watch as Harry roams around the pitch, keeping an eye out for the snitch and staying out of the other players way. A bludger zoomed by Harry's head and I felt my heart skip a beat. Fred... or wait it might be George, I can't tell which one from this far way hits the bludger at a pudgy Slytherin. The bludger, however, changed course a few feet from the Slytherin and came back towards Harry. Luckily George or it might be Fred hits it before it can reach Harry. The bludger changed course again and headed back to Harry. It kept on following Harry as he flew across the pitch.
"Ron, do bludgers normally just follow one person?" I ask, already knowing the answer but hoping for a different one.
"No... This is weird... it's like that bludger has it out for Harry."
Not only is Harry having a hard time with the bludger that is insisting on following him but Fred and George are too. They both are flying after and around harry trying to stop it from murdering him. To top it all off Slytherin is winning 60-0.
"It's a time out, the Gryffindors will figure out some how to deal with Harry's bludger," Ron said.
Everyone watched as the Gryffindor team huddled together. When they broke apart Fred and George didn't follow Harry into the sky, they headed after the second bludger.
"Never mind, I appear to have been wrong. Their strategy appears to be to kill Harry." Ron said.
"Harry probably decided on this, you know how stubborn he is on doing stuff himself." Hermione said.
"He probably decided to have Fred and George leave him alone because their was no way he could get the snitch with them trying to keep the bludger away from him." I say, to three agreed nods.
'Why is Harry just sitting still, is he having a tea party with Malfoy or something?" Ron asked sarcastically.
The bludger hit Harry on the elbow, causing the crack to be heard all the way up here in the stands. The angle that Harry's arm is at and the sound of the crack leaves no doubt in my mind that it's broken. All of a sudden Harry starts moving again, charging at Malfoy, good arm outstretched.
"He's going to attack Malfoy!" Ron said excitedly before yelling, "GET HIM HARRY, GET HIM HARRY!"
"NO! He's going to crash," Hermione squealed, one hand clutched on her cheek in nerves. I started to wonder why her other hand isn't clutching her face when I look down to see that Im gripping her free arm tight.
Harry hit the ground, arm bedraggled and something gripped in his non-injured hand.
"He has the snitch," I squeal.
"He does, he does, oh Ron we have to get down there." Hermione says as I turn lose of her arm.
Ron and Hermione run down to the pitch with me in tow and Colin behind me. As the four of us run toward Harry, I can heard Lee Jordan announce, "HARRY POTTER HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!"
When we get to Harry the four of us, push to the front of the crowd just as Harry's eyes flicker open. Good, he is awake.
"Oh no, not you!" Harry murmurs. I glance around and see the nightmare that Harry is seeing. Gildory Lockhart, kneeling over him.
"Doesn't know what he is saying." Lockhart says. "I will fix it in a gif."
Oh, yes he does. Harry is perfectly aware that you are the biggest git on the face of this Earth.
"NO, I will go up to the hospital wing and Colin I do not want a picture of this." Harry said but neither one listened to him.
Lockhart waved his wand and oh... Harry isn't going have to worry about his broken bones anymore since Lockhart did him the favor of removing all the bones in his arm. Colin clicked his camera faster than ever and continued to click as Ron and Hermione brought Harry up to the hospital wing.
The crowd followed the three up to the castle and I turned to Colin, snatching away his camera.
"Hey, give that back. Why..."
"Why? I will give you why. Harry said he didn't want a picture of him lying in the mud with a broken arm and who took that to mean that you needed to take as many pictures of him as possible. Why is a very good question, like why are you such an idiot." Colin stared at me, open mouthed.
I don't want to yell at him but sometimes he just makes me so mad and ugh...
"Im not an idiot and I was taking pictures of Harry because he is my friend and..."
"Ha, your not his friend, you just wish you were." I yell right back at him. I don't know why Im so mad, I guess it's just the thought of Harry lying in the cold mud with no bones in his arm.
"Your one to talk. You have a crush on Harry and let's face it all you ever will be to Harry is Ron's little sister."
I fell speechless, Colin had thrown my worst fear up in my face. He knew it would hurt me and did it because I had hurt him."
"Take that back," I said, drawing my wand.
"Never," Colin said, pulling out this own wand.
"Colin Im warning you,"
"What are you going to do? Shoot sparks at me."
"I can do more than that Im excellent at Charms unlike you."
"Fine you can give me a bloody nose but at least I can get through a Potions lesson without getting points taken away from Gryffindor."
"Thats not fair, you know Snape hates me,"
Colin wasn't listening, "Also, at least I have friends, unlike some people."
"Colin... your such a... prat," I cried before turning around and running into the castle. Once inside I slowed down to a walk and headed up to Gryffindor tower. I know that I shouldn't have said those things to Colin but he just made me mad and I couldn't control my temper. I guess I deserved all those things he said but what hurts the most is that everything Colin said is true. I don't think Harry will ever like me and I don't have any friends, ill other than Tom. Tom will cheer me up, he always does.
Tom, today was one of my worst days at Hogwarts.
Why what happened Ginny?
A lot. Today started out great and I was even smiling because today was the match, you know the one I told you about.
The thing that was keeping you going?
Yeah and the match started out good. I was sitting with Ron, Hermione and Colin and I was watching Harry play.
Is he as good as when you watched him over the summer?
Yeah he is, in fact he is better than over the summer. However something strange happened during the match. One of the two bludgers would not leave Harry alone, where ever he went the bludger went.
Somebody bewitched the bludger to try and knock Harry from his broom?
Yeah
Who would do that?
Ron and Hermione think Malfoy and I believe them. Malfoy is certainly evil enough to do it.
Did Harry ever get hit?
Once in the elbow, right before he caught the snitch.
Harry caught the snitch with a broken arm?
He did, he really is an amazing seeker.
So what happened next?
Harry was lying in the mud with his broken arm trying to tell Lockhart that he didn't want him to fix it and Lockhart still attempted to fix Harry's arm
Why didn't Harry want Lockharts help, if he was in pain you would think he would want anybody's help.
Lockhart is rubbish at magic, I don't care how many things he says he has done, it's a fact that Lockhart is rubbish at magic. Lockhart removed all the bones from Harry's arm instead of healing it.
What an idiot, how can you make an mistake like that?
You already said the reason, he is an idiot. However, that's not the complete reason of why Im upset. While Harry was lying in the mud he told Colin that he didn't want picture of him lying in the mud and Colin took it to mean that he needed to take as many pictures as possible. I was so mad at Colin that I waited until the pitch was clear and then I started to yell at him.
What did you say to him?
Some things that Im not proud of and Colin said some things back that really hurt me.
Like what?
Like how Im rubbish at Potions, I have no friends and that Harry will never like me. I deserved it though, I did say some things I shouldn't have to Colin.
Don't worry about it Ginny, you two said those things because you were mad not because you meant them. If I were you I would get some sleep and then apologize to Colin in the morning.
Okay I will. Thank you Tom, you really are a good friend. I don't know what I would do without you?
That's what Im here for Ginny. Now go to sleep, I promise that you will feel better in the morning... Oh you will sleep alright but you wont feel better in the morning.
I fell asleep before Tom even finished his sentence his words disappearing into the page, never to be seen again.
Harry! I must save Harry! I quickly got out of bed and put on my robe and slippers. I slipped down the girls staircase and out of the common room, not sure where I was going but knowing that I was going the right way. I found myself outside of Moaning Myrtle's out-of-order bathroom and slipped inside. I headed toward the sink and looked for the snake on the tap. There it is.
Open!The words coming out of my mouth, did not sound human. It was like I spoke a different language without knowing how.
Oh great creature of the greatest house, Im the heir of Slytherin and Im here to finish what your great master started. Oh come now and kill.
Again I heard the words come from my lips but I had no idea how I spoke the strange language.
I heard something move and knew I had to get out of their. I exited the bathroom and headed back up to Gryffindor tower. I didn't make it though, my head started to pound as I reached the fourth floor. I slid down the wall as my head felt like it was going to explode.
Blood... Must have blood... Kill... This time... Must kill...
As the cold voice quit speaking I no longer felt like my head was going to explode but I felt like I would feel warm again.