Granger My Love

XI - chamber of secrets

Astrix and Harry coming to another passageway to the right, he beckons Ron and Lockhart to follow them "This way." the four walk into a cavern-like room with a massive and lengthy snakeskin on the floor "What's this?" Ron asked, Lockhart, feeling nervous "It looks like a... snake." Astrix as she examines it "It's a snakeskin."

"Bloody hell. Whatever shed this must be sixty feet long. Or more." Lockhart faints, most likely from fear, sarcastically as Harry turns his attention to Lockhart "Heart of a lion, this one." Astrix said, Lockhart, suddenly grabbing Ron's wand and getting to his feet while breathing wickedly and pointing the wand at Harry "The adventure ends here, boys. But don't fret. The world will know our story. How I was too late to save the girl," points the wand at Ron "how you two tragically lost your minds at the sight of her mangled body. So..." points the wand at Harry again "you first, Mr. Potter. Say good-bye to your memories."waves the wand wildly as he shouts:

"Obliviate!" Astrix tackled Harry out the way, The wand emits green light, causing Lockhart to fly backwards, slam into the wall, then fall to the floor. A couple seconds later, a rumbling begins, then rocks begin to fall from the ceiling; Harry takes cover as huge rocks go flying over him while Ron backs up against the wall as the rocks form a massive pile.
Ron coughing from the dust produced by the rocks "Harry!" Harry pulls his robe free from one of the rocks "Astrix!" ron yelled, Astrix running to a opening in the big pile of rocks separating jer from Ron "Ron! Ron, are you okay?" she asked, "I'm fine!"

"Lockhart's memory charm backfired! He hasn't got a clue who he is" Lockhart picks up a small rock as Harry watches through the opening, "It's an odd sort of place this is, isn't it?" he tosses the rock in his hand then glances at Ron "Do you live here?" Ron took the rock from Lockhart "No." Ron responded, "Really?" Ron smacks Lockhart on the back of the head with the rock, knocking him out; Harry winks slightly
Ron, glancing at the pair through the opening again "What do I do now?" Ron asked, "You wait here, and try and shift some of this rock so we can get back through. we'll go on and find Ginny." Astrix responded,

Harry draws his wand as he steps onto the floor again and walks forward. Up ahead, he sees a circular door with seven snake-shaped locks on it, and steps towards it. "Hesha- Hassah." (Open.) An eighth snake slithers out from the door's mechanical hinge, and slithers along the door's edge, causing the other seven snakes to retract one by one. As the snake slithers back into the hinge, the door slowly opens. Harry steps forward; on the other side is the Chamber of Secrets. Harry cautiously steps through the door, into the Chamber, towards the ladder in the doorway

"what in the wizarding hell?" Harry asked, "someone needs to teach you how to swear." Astrix responded. As the door slowly closes behind him, Harry and Astrix climbs down the ladder and walks down the corridor. Looking ahead, they sees Ginny lying motionless at the end of the Chamber. She is clutching Tom Riddle's diary. "Ginny!" they run to her, Harry drops his wand and gets on his knees "Ginny. No, Ginny. Please don't be dead. Wake up. Wake up! Please wake up."

Suddenly, Tom Riddle walks out of a nearby doorway. "She won't wake." the pair recognizes his voice and turns toward him. Riddle walks to them. "Tom? Tom Riddle? What do you mean she won't wake? She's not...?" Astrid asked, "She's still alive, but only just." Tom responded, "Are you a ghost?" Harry asked, "A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years." Harry reaches out and touches Ginny "She's as cold as ice. Ginny, please don't be dead. Wake up." while Harry's not looking, Riddle bends down and picks up Harry's wand from where he left it, "You've got to help me, Tom. There's a Basilisk."

"It won't come until it's called." Tom responded, Harrh looks up to see Riddle holding his wand and stands up "Give me my wand, Tom." Harry said, "You won't be needing it." Tom responded, "Listen, we've got to go. We've got to save her!" Astrix said. "I'm afraid I can't do that, Astrix. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger." Harry looks at him, confused "Yes, Harry. It was Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets."

"No. She couldn't. She wouldn't."

"It was Ginny who set the Basilisk on the Mudbloods and Filch's cat, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls."

"But why?" Astrix asked, "Because I told her to. You'll find I can be very persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing. She was, shall we say, in a kind of trance. Still, the power of the diary began to scare her. And she tried to dispose of it in the girls' bathroom. And then, who should find it but you two? The two people I was most anxious to meet."

the pair stands in front of the Slytherin statue "And why did you want to meet us?" Astrix asked, "I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to show you my capture of that brainless oaf Hagrid to gain your trust." Tom responded "Hagrid's our friend!" Harry calms down slightly "And you framed him, didn't you?" Tom asked, "It was my word against Hagrid's. Only Dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent." Astrix smirks at him "I'll bet Dumbledore saw right through you." Astrix said,

"He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that." he walks around the pair as he speaks "I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at school, so I decided to leave behind a diary, preserving my sixteen-year-old self in its pages, so that one day, I would be able to lead another, to finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work."

"Well, you haven't finished it this time. In a few hours, the Mandrake draught will be ready. And everyone who was Petrified will be all right again." Harry said, Riddle smiles maliciously "Haven't I told you? Killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now, my new target has been you two." Harry and Astrix looks at him in surprise "How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape" he pushes Harry's hair aside with his wand and moves Astrix's collar with his hand to see their scars "with nothing but a scar while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?" he asked,

"Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time." Harry asked, Riddle smiles wickedly "Voldemort is... my past, present, and future." turns toward the statue and uses Harry's wand to write his full name in flaming letters; after writing the "E", he flicks the wand, and the letters rearrange themselves to say "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT" as the letters fade and Riddle turns to face him "You. You're the Heir of Slytherin." Riddle stares evilly at the pair "You're Voldemort." Astrix said, "Surely, you didn't think I was going to keep my filthy Muggle father's name? No. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world!"

"Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!" Harry responded, "Dumbledore's been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!" Tom said, "He'll never be gone! Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him!" the duo and Riddle glare at each other; a musical sound is heard nearby; the three look down the corridor to see Fawkes flying towards them, carrying something "Fawkes?" Fawkes drops a bundled-up object into Astrix' hands as he flies over and around them, then back down the corridor; Astrix unrolls the object, which turns out to be the Sorting Hat

"So this is what Dumbledore sends his two greatest defender: A songbird and an old hat." he backs away from the two as he continues examining the Sorting Hat, then walks toward the Slytherin statue and extends his left hand "Shearhas- Samnathas- Sélithaeine." (Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four.)