Harry looks around, its filthy, and he can not see any way out. He can not even see the snake so he can ask it. There are some bones here too, would they die of hunger here too?

And he is still tired and hungry. He does not like being hungry, it reminds him of Dursleys and the cupboard. He has to distract himself somehow. Snape's back faces him, he has gone into some professor mode and is waving his wand in complicated patterns, saying long multisyllable latin words.

He bets not even Dumbledore knows what all this hocus pocus is about.

"Potter, do I need to remind you to either refer to your elders with sir or another respectful name? and I can assure you that the Headmaster would know what all this hocus pocus is about."

Harry is som dumb sometimes. Why he had thought that when he knew that Snape would know and box his ears or what? He shrugs, this is what it is. He is trapped with the potion master, no way out.

"when are we going to go and find the heir?"

He can swear Snape rolls his eyes, but keeps silent. Harry feels a little pissed, doesn't he know that lives are in danger and they are their best bet? There is no other parselmouth in the castle, the bathroom was blown into pieces and there is no way help would find Snape and him, let alone for those poor girls!

Then he thinks that maybe he is happy just keeping him safe, Ron said that Potters had lots of money and he can use those frozen assets when he becomes 17. Maybe he wants to keep him safe so he can demand the life debt?

"Professor? You know I can go alone if you don't want to, and about the life debt…I can find a way to repay you, maybe cleaning potion classroom?"

At this snape fully turns of him, staring at him with an unreadable look. It takes a full minute and Harry thinks that he had broken him or what.

"Potter, what do you think happens if all mediwizards and witches demanded payment for their services? The supposed life debts they had over all wixen?"

Harry thinks for abit, and here he was afraid of that 1 life debt he had to Snape! Madam Pomfery could have him scrubbing bedpans for ages!

Snape shakes his head "it seems your idiocy knows no bound.Have I not said IF? If that was the case, the dark lord would have become a healer and didn't need all these complicated methods. Healers will swear a vow, at the beginig of their training that makes any lifes debts they acuire while on duty null, similar to this, any teacher or professor of Hogwarts will do another kind of it. So simply put for your low active brain, a professor like me who is both a mediwizard and a teacher, can not hold any life debts. Does it explain or should I say it back in simpler words?"

Harry's face is red, he is sure. Why he had come to that idea, he can only blame on being tired and hugry. Really if that was it, any dark wizard would kill for being a healer or a teacher. Hermione would have shaken him until he saw some sense.

Oh, Hermione!Ginny!

"you are not going anywhere child. If the heir is that powerfull to avoid detection, you will be another asset in his belt. You are to stay here, and not move."

Harry sits up tight, and glares.

"what?"

"I dunno professor, but the heir is kind of a parselmouth, and I havent see you talk the language"

"you..you… cheecky..you.."

Harry watches with smugness as he understans the problem. He never knew watching Snape fall over his words was so funny!

"just stay behind me, and don't act like a headless Gryffindore"

"isnt that heedless Gryffindore and headless chicken?"

Snape says as he strides down the tunnel "Same thing really, tomato tomahto"

Weird. He never knew Snape know any muggle expression, but he didn't know many things about the man to begin with.

God, damn those long legs of his. Now he had to run to keep up with the tall git. He ran in the dark, and suddenly hit a hard tall thing.

"ow!"

Turns out the rock was Snape, standing in fron of the entrance of the chamber. The door had so many snakes on it, harry could bet on his wand this was it.

"well what are you waiting for? The minsiter of magic telling you to? Do your part and stand aside"

The arrogant prick.

So Harry hissed, and the door responded.

Hermione didn't know where she was, or rather she preferred not to know. When Ginny approched him and said that Snape wanted to see her, she should have listened to her gut, why would he send Ginny to get her? But she said maybe he wanted it in private.and she was eager to finally talk to the man. She hadnt seen him even in great hall! If he had not seen him eat, she could bet her 'hogwarts history' book he was a vampire. When she joined Ginny in the second floor, and saw Greengrass with a dazed look in her eyes, her suspicion grew. Ginny said that Snape wanted to talk about something really important, and it was about the heir and chamber of secrets.

That he needed her.

Damn her Gryffindore side that said, be a hero!

And here she was, down in the chamber, with an unconcious Ginny, and a strange boy sitting in front of her.

The Greengrass girl had not talked. The boy said that imperio curse would do that to people.

What the hell was imperio?

And did the boy liked his voice? He hadnt stayed silent since she had woken up from whatever curse Ginny put on her.

And why was Ginny working with him? She had hit her head somehow, everything was fuzzy. The boys speech was full of nonsense, starting at an orphanage, going on about Dumbledore who taught transfigurations, and his father and uncle.

"so you see, hagrid was as stupid as always and Aragog or what his name…" are you even listening?

No she wasn't. she was sore, her head hurt and she smelt of somethink stinky. Her hair were in disarry and they had also gone greasy and stuck to her forhead.

"Merlin you are trully Severus daughter. You even roll your eyes at me like him, what next, calling me dunderhead?"

Then, suddenly it was like saying his name summoned him, he emmerged from a hole in the wall.

"Potter, by Merlin if you try and infuriate me again, just stay put! I do not need to bloody worry about your hide too!there are three innocent girls involved who had not killed their teacher with their hands!"

God, was Harry here too? How the hell those two managed this far without killing eachother?

"I DID NOT KILL QUIRELL!"

"did so"

"did not"

Hermione could feel the start of a headache. Seriously, in the chamber, with lives on stack, and those two played at being toddlers? And why she couldn't speak!

She saw the boy what-the-fuck-his-name-was creeping slowly towards the arguing pair.

Then saw a green light leave his, Ginny's to be exact, wand, heading straight for the Professor and her best friend.

Green light was not good. Green was the color of a color changing spell, and Avada curse. She doubted the boy had shot a color changing spell to Harry's to enrage the potion master.

She watched helplessly as the green beam approched them in slow motion.