A Mother's Love (Harry Potter Fanfic)

Part 15

Harry can fly on his broomstick to the moon. He found the chamber of secrets. One problem, he had dragged Ron into the mess. Not to mention, he found out Lockhart was a fraud. Ron and Harry made sure to force the man to the chamber and go with them inside.

"Harry! Are you alright?" Currently, Lockhart tried to erase their memories but due to Ron's broken wand, the spell backfired and caused the cave to collapse.

"Yeah, what about you?" Harry calls climbing on the rocks and peaking in a hole seeing Lockhart wake up and Ron standing next to him.

"Hello, who are you?" Harry could laugh at the dazed smile from the man.

"Ronald Weasley."

"Really? And..who-who am i?" 

"Lockhart lost his memory. He hasn't got a clue of who he is."

"Nice place. Do you live here?" Harry winces as Ron hits the man over the head with a rock.

"Ron, stay here and try to move the rocks. I am going to go on ahead." Harry climbs back down and heads further into the chamber nervous. His stepmother is going to kill him. He promised to not get into any more danger and yet he is here. "Please forgive me, mom."

Opening the snake door, he climbs in and finds a body at the end of the hallway. Ginny. Running over, he crouches down and touches her hand. Cold.

"Ginny, come on, wake up."

"She won't wake up." Harry looks up to see a tall male. A familiar male steps forth from the shadows.

"Tom. What do you mean? We have to get her out of here. The Basilisk..."

"Won't come until it's called." Harry begins to get a queasy feeling. Something is off about the situation.

"Help me, Tom." Harry then notices the man got his wand. "Give me back my wand."

"This wand is different than I imagined it. It doesn't have the phoenix feather core." Tom seems confused.

"What does that have to do with anything?" Harry is confused.

"Tom!" Their heads snap to the entrance of the chamber. Hazel stands with her wand and a snow leopard growling at them.

"Mom!" Harry feels relieved to see her. "What are you doing here? The basilisk..."

"Relax, Tom won't dare set the creature out until he wants to." She walks over and Harry glance at Tom's shocked face.

"Hazel...you are alive."

"You really think you could kill me? How the mighty have fallen." Hazel glances at Harry's wand and can't help the smirk grace her features. "The wand is not what you expected huh?"

"It does link. Why is that?"

"The wand is the soulmate twin wands." Tom looks down and drops it. Hazel flicks her wand and gives it back to Harry.

"How can that be? He was.."

"I know. You like so many believed in Albus's lies." Tom shocked expression turns to anger.

"What is going on? You were to be dead. Everyone said so. Albus said."

"Yes well, Albus knows how to create plenty of white lies to save his own skin. Tom, end this now."

"No, I am going to be the greatest sorcerer in the world." Tom turns and began speaking snake reaching his hand out to the statue.

"Harry run." Harry does so noticing the snake. He runs but stops hearing the blasting and shrieking of a snake.

"Mom!" Harry's eyes widen as Hazel shoots a strong and thick spell at the snake. Its shrieking fills the hall and Harry gawks as it falls down on the ground.

"No!" Hazel cast spell after spell at Tom who evades it. A shrieking of a bird catches their eyes to a red and orange bird flying toward them. "A bird and a hat? this is Dumbledore's help?"

"Not so shocking. Harry reach in the hat." Harry notices the snake is waking up. Glancing down at the hat, a sword appears and Harry knows what he has to do. Grabbing the sword, he leaps to the side as the snake launches at him. Running forward, he uses the statue to gain ground at the same time dodging the snakes' attack.

Standing on the head of Salazar Slytherin, he stares as Fawkes pecks at the beast's eyes. The beast roars launching at him one last time. Harry swings the blade and stabs his mouth and pierces through his brain. He screams feeling one of the fangs stab his arm.

"No!" Tom cries and is blasted off to the side. Harry climbs down and stumbles to the diary that lies next to Ginny. The paleness of her skin shows she is fading. 

"Give up Tom. It is useless." Harry looks at his stepmother standing before him protecting him.

"No matter, I will soon become a true full flesh human again. As she grows weaker, I grow stronger. You are too late." Harry remembers how Tom showed him his memories preserved...in the diary. "What? No! Stop! Ah!"

Harry stabs the fang into the book and black ink spills out. He looks over to Tom and sees cracks of light appear. Digging the fang's sharp end deeper in, Tom cries in pain. Flipping the book closed, Harry stabs it once more.

"Ah!" Hazel covers her eyes as Tom bursts into light and disappears.

"Harry!" Hazel turns upon hearing Ginny's voice to look at her stepson and notices the wound. Damn. Bending down, she wraps an arm around him to steady him. "I am so sorry."

"It is alright Ginny. It was not your fault. You are not to blame." Hazel's gaze moves down to Harry in fear. The poison of the Basilisk has no cure. She is not ready for this.

"Fawkes, thank you for helping us." the bird lands near Harry and leans over. Hazel laughs in relief as his tears heal the wound. "Pheonix tears heal any wound. Thank you."

"Oh Harry, thank goodness you are safe." Hazel hugs him too glad he is alive to scold him for his reckless behavior.