The girl who died Harry Potter's Twin Sister

Chapter 10- CoS

The next day, Harry and Ron are visiting Hermione in the Hospital Wing again; Harry takes the old dried up flowers out of the vase next to Hermione's bed, puts in some new white flowers, then sits on the bed.

"Wish you were here, Hermione. We need you. Now more than ever," Harry says. Hermione just lays there with her glossy facial expression as Ron sighs sadly. Harry rubs Hermione's left hand; feeling something in it, he looks down and removes his hand to discover a crumpled up piece of paper, a library book page, which he carefully removes and straightens out.

Ron glances at the page. "What's that?" Ron asks.

Harry examines the page. "Ron, this is why Hermione was in the library the day she was attacked." He glances at the page and then back at Ron as he gets up. "Come on!" Harry and Ron walk through the corridor as Harry reads from the page: "Of the many fearsome beasts that roam our land, none is more deadly than the Basilisk. Capable of living for hundreds of years, instant death awaits any who meet this giant serpent's eye. Spiders flee before it..." He looks up at Ron. "Ron, this is it. The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a Basilisk. That's why I can hear it speak. It's a snake,"

Ron processes the information they just read. "But if it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it no one's dead?"

Harry thinks for a few seconds then looks at the window. "Because no one did look it in the eye. Not directly, at least," They walk along as they go over how each of the victims were petrified. "Colin saw it through his camera. Justin... Justin must've seen the Basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick. Nick got the full blast of it, but he's a ghost. He couldn't die again. And Hermione... had the mirror. I bet you anything she was using it to look around corners in case it came along," Harry rambles.

"And Mrs Norris? I'm pretty sure she didn't have a camera or a mirror, Harry,"

Harry thinks about how Mrs Norris got petrified, then remembers. "The water... There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the Basilisk's reflection." Ron nods. Harry takes another look at the page, then walks to a nearby torch to more easily read the page, running his finger along with it as he reads. "Spiders flee before it. It all fits."

"But how's the Basilisk been getting around? A dirty great snake, someone would've seen it." Ron questions.

Harry thinks as he and Ron glance at the bottom of the page where the word "Pipes" is written. "Hermione's answered that, too."

"Pipes? It's using the plumbing!" Ron says stunned.

"Remember what Aragog said about that girl fifty years ago, she died in a bathroom? What if she never left?" Harry asks.

"Moaning Myrtle." Ron breathes. Harry nods.

"All students are to return to their house dormitories at once," McGonagall's voice booms. Ron glances at Harry in surprise, wondering what could be going on now. "All teachers to the second-floor corridor immediately," she adds quickly.

Harry and Ron hurry to the second-floor corridor. In the section where the bloody message is, Professors McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Madam Pomfrey, and Filch run-up to the wall, where Professor McGonagall directs their attention to a newly written message.

"As you can see, the Heir of Slytherin has left another message," Harry and Ron walk into the corridor behind them. "Our worst fear has been realized, a student has been taken by the monster, into the Chamber itself," she says sadly looks at the others. "The students must be sent home. I'm afraid this is the end of Hogwarts,"

Lockhart happily walks up to the group. "So sorry. Dozed off. What have I missed?" He grins at Snape and McGonagall.

"A girl has been snatched by the monster, Lockhart. Your moment has come at last," Snape says fear slightly laces his voice but it goes unnoticed.

"My... moment?" Lockhart asks slightly stunned.

"Weren't you saying just last night you've known all along where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is?" Lockhart looks bewildered.

"That's settled. We'll leave you to deal with the monster, Gilderoy. Your skills, after all, are legend," McGonagall says.

"Very well. I'll just be in my office, getting, uh... getting ready," He stutters. He turns and walks away Filch watches him, then glances at Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall.

"Who is it that the monster's taken, Minerva?" Pomfrey asks.

Professor McGonagall glances at her. "Elizabeth Potter." Harry and Ron straighten up in shock. Harry quavers slightly. Professor McGonagall sadly walks away, along with the other staff a second later, Snape follows them, revealing the newly written message, which reads "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever".

Ron reads the message with dread in his voice. "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever." Ron looks at Harry as he's becoming all the more devastated by his sister's abduction.

"Elizabeth..."