"I can't take it any more!" Blaise shouted.

I was peacefully walking through the hallway on my way to the Great Hall when I heard Blaise shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Esther, I am begging you, please don't tell me that you love that lunatic too?!" He jumped on my back in order to hug me since I didn't pay attention to his words.

"How many times I have to tell you, that you are not allowed to hug me!" I spun him around and pulled him by his tie, with my wand on his throat.

"Whoa ..whoa, easy …. put that thing down!" He raised both of his arms in defeat.

"You made that onto yourself!" Draco could be heard from beside him, and I smiled a little at him.

Then I turned my attention back to Blaise ''This is your last warning!'' I let go of his tie while trying my best to stay angry at him, his expression was just too funny. I spun around and started walking towards the Great Hall. They soon caught up with me and together we went to dinner.

We were already at the table when Blaise put his arm around my shoulders. It was enough just to send him a glare and he immediately removed his hand from my shoulders. 'This idiot, I am going to kill him one day!' I tough while finishing my soup.

"Esther, this is not fair! "He bent over the table to get into my line of sight. 'Why can't he just let me eat in peace.'

"How come that Draco is allowed to hug you, but I am not ?!"

''What?!" Draco and I shouted at the same time, causing Blaise to jump a little.

''You heard me!" He pointed at both of us , while his suspicion was clearly seen .

'Now he was playing smart, that git, I am so going to hit him.'

"Listen here..." Draco tried to say something but I interrupted him. "Draco isn't allowed to hug me, not now nor ever in his life!" I started pushing him with my finger and for a moment I reminded myself of my father. We are somehow the same when it comes to talking back to people, we certainly enjoy it.

I chuckled at that thought and boys looked weirdly at me but I didn't care.

"We will see," Blaise whispered while smirking the same way as the bastard beside him, and I rolled my eyes.

"By the way, what were you shouting a few moments ago?" I asked just so I could avoid this stupid conversation.

"Blaise has been talking about Lockhart ever since our first class with him!" Draco said while rolling his eyes.

"Somebody will think that you like him." I smirked in Blaise's direction , truing to make fun of him.

"For Gods sake, no!" he let out a heavy sigh. "I was just hoping that you are not the same as those girls, that are head over heels for that guy!"

"Believe me when I say, that I am not!" I shook my head and smiled to myself." That guy is totally insane!"

"See, I told you ! She is the only one sane enough to see that there is something wrong with his head !" Draco said in his usual calm voice while carefully eating his pudding. He, even while he ate, looked like a person with class, unlike the two pigs in front of me who were like a tornado, taking everything they could get their hands on. Seriously, how can they eat so much?

"Esther, are you listening?"

"What ….oh sorry, I was just lost in my thoughts." I looked at Crabbe and Goyle, who were still stuffing their mouths with ,everything, and made grimace like I was about to vomit ." I somehow lost my appetite" I slowly stood up and I think that they understood what I meant because they both stood up too, as if they agreed .

"I am sorry I wasn't listening, but what were you talking about ?" I asked as soon as we went outside .

"You haven't missed much . We were talking of how funny it was when Lockhart released pixies, his face was priceless !" He then started imitating Lockhart expression, putting both of his hands on his cheeks "Come on, gather them up, they are just pixies...ahhhhhhh!" And then he added a mix of creepy girly voice and something that sounded like the scream of terror.

I started laughing, and soon we were walking down the hallway laughing like the three crazy persons, like we were.

"And Draco, it was so funny when one of the pixies landed on your face!" I patted him on his back, and Blaise were holding his stomach while laughing.

"Hey... we agreed to never talk about that!" he was clearly angry. "I had scratches all over my face for three days!" He again tried to make us stop laughing but he failed.

"And when..." I tried to say something but stopped when we came across group of students blocking the hallway .

We pushed our ways through the crowd only to find Hermione, Potter, and Weasley standing beside the wall and shouting.

"What are you doing blocking the way!" I shouted at them so I could get their attention.

"Esther!" Hermione started running towards me with a concerned look on her face. ''Esther we didn't do it, you have to believe me!"

"You didn't do what?" I looked weirdly at her.

"Look at the wall!" I was so focused on her that I didn't noticed that something was written on the wall.

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir... beware!" Draco read it out loud, and I just looked at the wall in disbelief. "You are next mudbloods!" when he said that I hit him on the head. He stumbled a little and looked weirdly at me as if he didn't know why I did it.

I read the words on the wall over again still trying to process what was happening, and then I saw Mrs Norris hanging on the wall. I ran towards her and quickly took her down with a spell.

"No, no, no…" when I took her into my arms I hugged her carefully. She was so stiff, and for a moment I thought that she was dead. I let out a sigh of relief when I heard her heart beat and I realized that she was still alive.

I was silently crying in one corner still holding her when Filch arrived .

"What is going on... Make way !" Filch shouted moving everyone in the hallway. "Potter, what are you..." he moved his eyes towards me because I jumped from my corner still holding Mrs Norris.

"Mrs Norris?" he looked at Potter again. "You murdered my cat!" he probably didn't accuse me because he knew how much I loved the cat.

"No," Potter mumbled shaking his head.

"I'll kill ya!" Filch grabbed Potter by his shirt and started shouting at him. "I'll kill ya!"

"Argus...Argus!" Dumbledore, along with my father and professor McGonagall, came just in time so Filch couldn't finish what he was doing.

When Dumbledore realized what was written on the wall he told everyone to go back to our dormitories. "Everyone except you three!'' He added. I quickly said to Draco that I would stay with professors, because I needed to tell them something.

"Can I stay too? We have to send Mrs Norris to hospital wing, I think that she is still alive!" I said giving her to Filch who smiled at me, and mumbled 'thank you' so nobody could hear.

"Exactly, she is not dead, she has been petrified!" Dumbledore said and I could see that Filch was now more calm. And he wasn't the only one, I too was much more calm now that I knew for sure that she would be okay.

"Ah...I thought so!" Lockhart suddenly said. I didn't even noticed when he arrived. "So unlucky that I wasn't there... I know exactly the counter-curse that could have spared her." when he finished with his nonsense everyone looked at him like he had grow horns on his head.

Does he know what is he talking about... A counter-curse for something that was powerful enough to petrified someone doesn't exist.

I tried to say something but my father stopped me, eyeing Potter and his company basically saying 'they are here, don't try anything.'

"Well how she was petrified, I can not say," Dumbledore continued, ignoring Lockhart's outburst.

"Ask him, they say that he did it... You saw what he wrote on the wall!" Filch said referring to Potter, and as much I hate him, I don't think that he was someone who would do something like that.

"It is not true, I swear I never touched Mrs Norris!"

"Rubbish!" Filch said through clenched teeth.

"If I might headmaster. Perhaps Mister Potter and his friends was just simply in the wrong place at the wrong time." My father said and I looked weirdly at him. Did he just defend Potter?

I could see that I wasn't the only one surprised, the trio looked shocked as much as me.

''However, the circumstances are suspicious, I for one don't recall seeing you Potter, at dinner." he continued to pressure them and I could see that in one way he actually didn't believe them at all.

"I'm afraid that is my doing Severus" Lockhart again spoke up. "See Harry was helping me answering my fans' letters!" he smiled and I just rolled my eyes. 'Of course he was'. And from the corner of my eye I could see Hermione smiling like crazy at Lockhart and I just wanted to vomit.

"That is why Ron and I went looking for him professor, we just found him when he said that…." she made a long pause and my father wasn't that patient.

"When I said that I wasn't hungry!" Potter finished and somehow this whole situation was too weird. "We were going back to the common room when we found Mrs Norris." he quickly added.

"Innocent until proven guilty, Severus!" Dumbledore said when my father looked at him with eyebrow raised.

'And they got away.'

"Not correct, my poor Mrs Norris has been petrified, all of them deserve some punishment!" Filch's shouting could be heard throughout the hallway.

"We will be able to cure her, and as I understood Madam Sprout already have growth Mandrake, and a potion will be made, which will revive Mrs Norris. And in the meantime I strongly recommend caution to all!'' After that Dumbledore sent four of us back to our dormitories, but I sneak out to speak with my father.

When I separate with Hermione and the rest to go to the dungeon I stayed hidden behind a pillar so I could eavesdrop on their conversation, because somehow I knew that they were hiding something.

"Harry, even in the wizarding world it is not normal to hear voices!" Hermione said with caution in her voice, as she was afraid that someone was going to hear her.

"I know …. but it was so weird, the voice was so creepy!'' Potter said and I just couldn't help but wonder what was he talking about, I had been in Hogwarts for my whole life and I have never heard of a creepy voice wandering down the hallways. This is one more reason for me to go and talk with my father.

The rest of the conversation was impossible to hear since they were way too high on the stairs and with their constant moving nothing could be heard.

I slowly snuck out of my hiding place and went to find my father. Because of this incident he probably wasn't in his office and right now he could be only in the headmaster's office.

When the trio wasn't at the staircase anymore I started walking up the stairs. I have always hated them, every time I step on them I was afraid that they will start moving and that I would fall. And the higher I get the more frightening it would be, and I needed to go all the way to the seventh floor.

"Why is the Headmaster's Office so high up?'' I said out loud .

When I finally managed to the seventh floor I fought the urge to kiss the floor. For someone who isn't afraid to play Quidditch, this fear of heights is really stupid. And it is not that I am afraid of heights, it is just that here I don't have my broom with me, or any other flying device and while falling I could easily hit one of the stairs and break something.

I shuddered from that thought and continued to walk towards Dumbledore's office.

When I arrived at the place where the giant golden Gargoyle was supposed to be I realized that he wasn't there, and instead of him there was a circular staircase, which only meant that Dumbledore wasn't alone in his office.

Silently as possible, I climbed the stairs, and halfway up I could hear loud arguing.

"Albus it is happening again!" I could hear professor McGonagall saying. Her voice was full of fear. 'What could possibly happen to make her so scared.' I thought while putting my head on the door so I could hear what they were talking about.

"I know, I know." Dumbledore said slowly as if he wasn't concerned about the whole situation. "We can't let the children knows what is happening, we all just need to stay calm."

"Stay calm?!" Professor McGonagall screamed "As I recall, Albus, last time one student died!"

'What for Merlin's sake happening here, who died and how? Did that person died of the same thing that has petrified Mrs Norris? Is it going to happen again?' I had so many questions going through my head.

''Calm down Minerva, we will figure it out." I was right, my father was here and somehow he too was scared and that was saying something.

Suddenly there was silence. It felt like the office was empty and I came closer to the door basically leaning in.

Seconds later there was a loud bang, and I found myself flat on the floor. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that I was surrounded by four professors and the headmaster, one of them happened to be my father.

"Hi!" I said silently as I could, while looking at them with an innocent expression on my face.