A-N- Hello! Some how the Chamber of secrets chapters got very messed up (don't you love technology!) I'm seriously hoping that this will be the end of the issues but time will tell. I'm sorry for exploding your emails with all the chapters getting messed around :/

CHAMBER OF SECRETS

Chapter One

Harry bolted awake after a fitful night's sleep and rubbed his eyes. The phone was ringing… again; the noise was driving him insane. Aunt Petunia had rung Lily every day that week; apparently Uncle Vernon had a huge meeting coming up, something about drills and a dinner party. Harry hadn't been listening when he'd picked up the phone by accident one day. Harry really didn't care; he did, however, care about his aunt ringing up Lily everyday and making her miserable.

Harry lay back against his pillow and waited a few moments before reaching over for his glasses and putting them on. He threw his legs over the side of the bed and patted Hegwig, who was starting to fall sleep on her perch by the windowsill.

He dragged his clothes on and plodded down the stairs as Lily came out of the living room.

"Good morning, Harry." Lily smiled and discreetly rubbed her eyes. Harry pretended not to notice, only went over and hugged her tightly. "Thank you sweetie," Lily kissed the top of his head. "And of course, Happy Birthday!"

Harry grinned and walked with her through into the dining room. It had been decorated over night and hung with streamers and balloons and bunting. Kreacher hopped down from the set of steps and gave Harry a low bow.

"Master Severus gaves me permission." he flapped his ears happily and pulled a huge dish of treacle tart from the table.

Harry laughed and hugged him. "Thanks Kreacher."

Lily rolled her eyes and smiled, "What are you like?"

Harry took his seat, grinning, and helped himself to the first huge slice of treacle tart, covering it in clotted cream.

A loud squeal let them know that it was Danica rushing down the stairs. She ran to Harry and wrapped him in a hug.

"Mappy Mirfday!" she shouted loudly, making his ears ring. Harry laughed and planted a very sloppy kiss on her cheek. She pulled away with a shriek and dramatically wiped her cheek on his sleeve. He let her go and she rushed to her seat, climbing on and smoothing her hair down.

Harry laughed and shook his head at his sister. Everyone had just sat down, Serverus had stood up to say something, when the phone rang. They all looked at each other before Lily sighed and started to stand up.

"Lily just leave it," Snape told her, an edge of sharpness in his voice.

"I can't just ignore her, she's very stressed." Lily said, standing up and leaving the room.

The only had to wait a few moments, Harry and Danica playing with their spoons before his mother came back in and sat down.

"You need to start ignoring her." Snape said as gently as he could.

Lily shook her head, "I don't want to talk about this now."

"He's right Lily." Sirius agreed, "She treats you like shit and you need to stand up to her. When was the last time she called you that wasn't to be horrible about one of us? Or you?"

"Last month it was that she didn't want you to come round for Dudley's birthday and this month it's this stupid dinner party." Severus told her taking the jar of chocolate spread off his daughter. Danica pouted and started making grabby hands at it, but Snape was doing a very good job of ignoring her.

"Well last year we didn't exactly make a good impression for Dudley's birthday. It took them days to find that snake. Poor thing could have died out in the cold." Lily pointed out, "It's a big occasion for them and I would be very annoyed if someone ruined Harry's birthday."

"What, you mean like ringing to shout at you every five minutes?!" Sirius snapped, throwing his spoon down in annoyance, "Lily wake up!"

Danica started crying at the raised voices, Kreacher wrapped her in a hug and tried to calm her down.

"That's not fair!" Lily shouted back, "It's like you're blaming me."

The phone began to ring again increasing the already unbearable noise level in the room.

"Stop it!" Harry shouted. Everyone fell silent, only the phone continued ringing, drilling into his head, "I don't want everyone to fight. Mum, if you want to answer the phone you can. I don't want everyone hating each other on my birthday."

"I'm so sorry Harry." Lily said ignoring the ringing, "We don't hate each other it's just…."

Sirius nodded.

Harry knew it was difficult. It was stupidly difficult, everything to do with Lily's family was. That year they had sent Dudley a lovely card and £50 voucher for the new bike he wanted; Harry had gotten a card, still with the 'Was 50p now half price' sticker on it two days ago saying 'sorry it's late'.

Apart from the Dursleys, the summer had been a good; if slightly puzzling one. Harry had been to see Neville at the start of term and met the twins but hadn't heard from him since apart from Draco's party when Neville told him he'd written a loads of letters. Harry had sent several letters with Hedwig to Pansy and Daphne as well but had nothing back. He'd seen Draco a few times but again all his letters had gone unreplied to.

Again Pansy or Daphne had both said they had sent him many letters when they saw him for Draco's birthday. He'd not heard from Hagrid either but he was sure that letters had been sent, they were just getting lost somewhere along the way.

He'd even gotten his mother to take Hedwig to the magical pet shop in Diagon Ally but she was fine leaving everyone baffled about what was going on.

Harry just shook his head and smiled, "I know it's tough. I just hate seeing you so upset Mum."

"I know and the dinner party is tonight so I'm going to unplug the phone!" Lily smiled and went left the room. The ringing stopped suddenly and Lily came back through, "Now shall we have some more treacle tart?"

Harry ate until he was nicely full, not wanting to feel ill and ruin the rest of the day. He was dragged through to the sitting room by Danica who, with Sirius's help, placed a large box on Harry's lap.

"Wow this is huge! And heavy. What is it?" Harry asked looking over the edges of the box.

"Open! Open!" Danica shrieked.

Harry grinned and quickly took the paper off; opening the box. Inside was train set.

"We're going to put it up around your bedroom," Severus explained.

"Maybe even clear our one of the spare rooms." Sirius laughed. Half the house was still full of rubbish that generations of Blacks had dumped and they hadn't gotten around to getting sorted. It was a long running joke.

"Thank you so much." Harry grinned and began to get out the lengths of track and a plain silver train.

"You only told boring stuff!" Danica whined in frustration, "Help me show." She asked Lily.

Lily smiled and pulled her wand out, "Talpa." She said tapping her wand to the train and twisting it slightly. The train shimmered and blurred for a second before turning a brilliant blue.

"You just have to think of any pattern you want, or name and say 'Talpa' and it'll change. We can practice later if you like." Lily explained. Harry nodded eagerly.

"And this!" Danica said excitedly pulling trees and a house out the box, "For...S..ss..sce-n-erry."

"This is brilliant. Thank you so much guys." Harry said giving them all a quick hug as well as he could around the box.

Danica presented him with another, much smaller box. He opened it and found a new set of Snitches. He smiled and thanked her giving her a hug.

"They come back when you thistle." Danica said proudly, "So you wont loose so many!"

"W, Whistle" Harry laughed, "Having them come back is brilliant though."

They were something that often went missing and had to get bought again. It was lucky that Draco lived so far away from muggles really the amount they managed to loose. He looked over the snitches, they were good quality and having them come back to him would very useful.

Draco and him had been practising as much as they could. The seeker position on the Slytherin house team would be open this year and they both wanted to be on the team.

Sirius handed him the next present. A new set of colouring and drawing pencils as his original ones were sharpened down to less than half their original size. Harry had found that over the summer he'd loved spending hours in the garden or park drawing everything he could. Sirius said that James used to draw as well.

The pile of presents around him grew and he thanked his family greatly. Sirius helped him carry them to his room and put them away; making a few comments about how he might want to tidy his room before Lily came up.

Sirius sat on the edge of Harry's bed, an "I'm-about-to-do-something-that-will-get-me-in-trouble" smirk on his face.

"What are you up to?" Harry laughed.

Sirius pulled out a page from the Daily Prophet and grinned, "Your mother doesn't like you seeing them when they're about you from that dreadful woman but I know you collect them and it is your birthday."

Harry grinned, "Thank you! Lets see."

He sat on the bed next to his godfather and read over the terrible Rita Skeeter article,

Dear readers do I have a story for you!

As you all know, Hogwarts has finally let out for Summer and the children are safely home with their families, and let me tell you, they are much safer than at Hogwarts! As you all know I am friends with an insider at Hogwarts who has told me a lot about this last year.

Let's start with Harry Potter- the bully! Apparently, Harry Potter is too good for his fans and those who look up to him, brushing them aside and leaving them in the dirt. I've been told he even went as far to tell a fellow first year that he hated him! Obviously, the stress of finally not being able to play on his fame is getting to him, but was made worse by the horrifying discovery.

Harry Potter actually engaged in a dangerous fight with the new Defense Against The Dark Arts Professor Quirinus Quirrel under the Forbidden third floor.

I know, I know, you probably have many many questions, and I, dear readers, am here with the answers as always!

To start with, why on earth would Harry Potter be on the forbidden floor you ask? Well, it's Harry Potter! He laughs in the face of danger. He boldly went where he knew there would be danger for the good of his school- or did he? Was he really trying to play hero, or was he simply breaking the rules, and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Was he lured by the person he was fighting? And how did he get past the many tests and precautions that had been put in place with out help? Was he helped along by Quirrel to get him into the perfect place for an ambush?

And why on earth would Quirrel, a member of Hogwarts faculty chosen by Albus Dumbledore himself, want to hurt Harry Potter, unless Quirrel hides a dark past that no one knew about- until now.

Quirrel was travelling the world before he applied for the job of DADA teacher at Hogwarts, and for some strange reason, developed a hatred for Harry Potter in his travels. So Quirrel started planning, a way to get Harry once and for all! The horror!

But it doesn't stop here, Ladies and Gentlemen, it does not stop here! Quirrel, fuelled by the burning fires of his hatred for Harry Potter, took the name Quirinus Quirrel after the man had gotten the job at Hogwarts! Of course, I don't know this for sure, but why would Dumbledore- a well known hero- hire someone who was a danger to one of his students?! Or was Quirrel just really good at hiding it? Who knows?!

Amongst the danger was not just Harry Potter, oh no! I have been informed that, in fact, Draco Malfoy, Daphne Greengrass, Pansy Parkinson, who are ALL in Slytherin house, and Neville Longbottom, a Gryffindor, were also with Harry Potter as he took down the dark wizard who had tried to kill him.

And, you might be wondering, where his step-father Professor Severus Snape was in all of this? Why didn't he, as a teacher at Hogwarts, step in and stop his wife's son from being in danger? Well, I can tell you that he was mysteriously absent through every incident! I have been told that Severus Snape was not there when his son was fighting Quirrel, was not there when the troll was let in at Halloween; it seems he was not there at all this year! This may be a coincidence, but I think not my readers! Maybe Snape has not fully gotten over the fact that Lily POTTER chose beloved hero James Potter over him in the beginning. This would explain why he was fine with his enemy's child going off into danger. Or, it could simply be that Professor Snape is playing favourites with the children, choosing his new daughter over Lily's son. Who really knows? Maybe Sirius Black also has something to do with this? After all, he was thought to have told You-Know-Who about Lily and James's hiding place in the beginning.

But, we have not addressed why Professor Quirrel would want Harry Potter dead. As I said, he was travelling the world when he suddenly developed a dislike of The Boy Who Lived, but what caused this?

I have a theory, dear readers! I have a theory that, despite being defeated by a one-year-old, You-Know-Who has followers! Yes, there are those who still believe He is all powerful and will return! This is another cause to be concerned! What in the name of Merlin will happen next year, when we send our precious children back to the castle?! We must protect them!

The Daily Prophet, as always, is here to tell you that concerns have been heard. Dumbledore has told me that none other than famous heart-throb Gilderoy Lockhart will be teaching at Hogwarts next year! We don't know the position, although I have my guesses. Maybe he'll be teaching potions, as we all know Professor Severus Snape has always had his eye on DADA teacher. I bet every girl will be paying attention to Professor Lockhart!

This is proof, in my humble opinion, that Dumbledore really does care about our children, and is now doing more thorough interviews and investigations into the teaching staff at Hogwarts for the next year, so no more imposters can endanger our children!

Dear readers send your children off at the start of the next term, waving your white handkerchiefs as the great train pulls away from platform 9 ¾. The school is safe, my dears, the school will always be safe!

Until next time, my faithful readers,

Rita Skeeter.

Harry burst out laughing, "This is great! Thank you so much."

"I knew you'd like it." Sirius smirked, "I do think you should tidy your room though. And don't tell Lily I gave that to you."

Harry laughed and agreed; tidying had never been his strong suit or high on the list of priorities for him. He quickly shoved the stuff covering his floor into his wardrobe and under the bed, piling all the dirty clothes in a corner to take down later. Kreacher wouldn't be happy, he'd just done a load of laundry.

Harry was jolted out of his laundry thoughts by a knock on the door. Lily popped her head round the door.

"Have I given you enough time for an emergency tidy?" She laughed.

Harry grinned and nodded, "Apart from a large pile of laundry."

Lily huffed jokingly and rolled her eyes. She came into the room fully and wrapped an arm around her son.

"Sorry about earlier."

Harry shook his head, "It's fine. I know that it's difficult."

"Yes but difficult isn't always an excuse." Lily smiled.

She took a seat on Harry's bed and ran her fingers over the green embroidered blanket, "James helped me with this. I remember him picking the colours out and drawing on the pattern. We would sit stitching for hours in the evenings. Sirius wasn't allowed to help; he's terrible at embroidery. I always thought it was strange he wanted to do it in green. I guess he always knew."

Harry sat next to her and let her pull him in for a hug. She brushed his hair with her fingers and ran a finger tip lightly over his scar, "I believe Dumbledore may have told you things that frightened you at the end of last term."

Harry didn't say anything but nodded slightly.

"I want you to know you will always be safe here. I will always do everything I can to look after you; we all will." Lily said softly.

"I know that." Harry said sitting up, "None of it is your fault. I was the one who chose to try and find the stone." he pointed out.

"I know. I must take some responsibility for it though, you've inherited my curious mind and kindness. Can't bare to see someone hurt if they don't deserve it. And James's love of breaking the rules." She smiled, "Are you ready for your present?"

Harry nodded and quickly pulled the box from under his bed and pulled out the length of black ribbon. He took the small box his mother was offering him and looked at the gold quill tip laying on the soft red velvet lining of the box. It's end was slightly squished and Harry could see small cracks running all over it.

"It was his favourite. James used it all through school, I think it was his fathers before it was his. I tried to fix it before you went to school but it was to far gone. I imagine it wasn't helped by how often it had to be fixed in the past." Lily explained.

Harry touched it to the ribbon and used his wand to secure it in place. He wasn't supposed to use magic outside of school but the odd spell wasn't an issue when he was around his family.

"You're getting so good at magic." Lily smiled, "I'm very proud of you." she kissed the top of his head, "I'm going to go and help Kreacher in the kitchen. Draco and Neville will be here soon."

Harry nodded and began to search through his new train set.