Saved

Harry asked Tom Riddle how Ginny got like that. Then Tom started to tell. Harry listened full of anger. Ginny has been writing in the diary for months and months, telling Tom all about her. She also said everything about Harry, all his fascinating stories. Tom was kind and patient and wrote back. But then, he was starting to feed her with a few of his secrets, to start pouring a little of his soul back into her. He was controlling Ginny when she did all this stuff, she opened the Chamber  and set the serpent of Slytherin on four Mudbloods, and a Squib’s cat. She didn’t know anything. Ginny was very afraid, she told Tom that she didn’t know what was going on and she wasn’t herself anymore. There are some moments she couldn’t remember what she was doing. Tom found it really funny. Then she suspected me and tried to dispose of the diary. And that’s the moment that Harry found it. But then, Ginny has stolen it from Harry because what if Tom will tell Harry all her secrets? But Tom knew Harry would go any lengths to solve the mystery. So Tom took Ginny with him. He knew Harry’d come. How did Harry escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort ’s powers were destroyed? Then Tom was saying ‘I care about this because I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. Didn’t you see it, Tom Marvolo Riddle and Lord Voldemort are the same, only the place of the letters is different. I am the greatest sorcerer in the world!’ Then Harry said after a silence’ you’re not’, his voice full of hatred ‘ The greatest sorcerer in the world is professor Dumbledore!’ Suddenly Fawkes, the  phoenix, appeared and he had the sorting had in his beck. Tom laughed and he wanted to know how Harry survived everything. Harry said that his Muggle-born mother stopped him from killing Harry. Tom smiled an awful smile and said that there was nothing special on Harry, that it was merely a lucky chance that saved Harry from Tom. He said also ‘ Let’s match the powers of Lord Voldemort, against famous Harry Potter and the best weapons Dumbledore can gave him’ Then he turned to the high statue and said’ speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four’ Harry started to run. He knew what was coming out of it. The Basilisk of course! He heard it but then he heard Fawkes screaming. There was a loud, explosive sitting sound right above him. Harry opened his eyes and saw the enormous serpent, but the serpent didn’t see him, Fawkes made him blind! Harry kept running because Tom was giving the Basilisk instructions where Harry was. Suddenly, Harry felt something, it was the sorting hat. The Basilisk had swept it into Harry’s arms. This was Harry’s only chance. So he did the hat on his head and asked for help. Suddenly he felt something, it was a sword! So he killed the serpent when it was lunging at him. But then , Harry felt. He was acting really weird. Then he saw it, the serpent has bitten him. One long fang was sinking deeper and deeper into his arm. He gripped the fang and wrenched it out of his arm. Then Fawkes came and began to cry on Harry’s wound. And…  the wound was healing! Phoenix tears have healing powers. Then Tom wanted to fight and took his wand when suddenly, Fawkes threw the diary to Harry. Harry knew what to do, he seized the Basilisk fang and plunged it straight into the heart of the diary. Tom started to scream and then, he was gone! Ginny woke up and started to cry. They ran out of the Chamber of Secrets and saw Lockhart and Ron. Ron was so happy to see them, alive. There was also something very funny. Lockhart lost all his memories. He didn’t even know who he was! Brilliant, an excellent punishment! Everyone in the school is now very happy. The school is saved! Harry and Ron both received Special Awards for Services to the school and 200 points apiece for Gryffindor! Isn’t that great ? Everyone is Harry and Ron really thankful. But then, Lucius Malfoy came to professor Dumbledore and was very angry. Professor Dumbledore told him everything. Lucius didn’t look happy after the story. But next to Malfoy stood… Dobby! So Lucius was his master. And now, we knew it! Malfoy had gave the diary to Ginny! He said we couldn’t prove it and went away. Harry said that he forgot something and threw the diary at him but round the diary, Harry did a sock. Lucius threw the sock away and Dobby caught it. And when a house-elf received a clothing item from his master… he’s free so Dobby is free! Dobby was really thankful. After all this stuff about the Chamber of Secrets, the summer arrived. We had to go to home. Everyone was really sad. I will miss them! See you next year!

 

 

 

 

The Chamber of Secrets

Harry and Ron went to Lockhart but he was packing his stuffs. He wanted to leave! Can you believe that? He was saying that he never did the adventures he said in his books. He wanted to do a memory charm on the boys so they wouldn’t remember anything of what Lockhart said. Otherwise it was bad for Lockhart’s reputation. But then, Harry and Ron pointed their wand to Lockhart and command him to go to Moaning Myrtles bathroom. They asked Myrtle how she died. She said that someone was teasing her about her glasses. Then she ran into the bathroom and cried in a cubicle. Suddenly she heard something. She came out the cubicle and looked at the sink where she heard the noise, but then… she died. So Harry and Ron looked at the sink. They examined every inch of it. Suddenly Harry saw a tiny snake on the sink. He said in Parseltongue ‘open up’ and next second, the sink began to move. The sink, in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into. Lockhart had to go first, then Harry and Ron followed. It was like rushing down an endless ,slimy, dark side. They could see more pipes branching off in all directions. Then they landed. It was very dark inside. The floor was littered with small animal bones. They saw also a really large snakeskin. Then, suddenly, Lockhart knees had given away. He got to his feet again and then, he dived at Ron, knocking him to the ground. He took his wand and said ‘ the adventure ends here, boys, I shall take a bit of this snakeskin back up to the school, tell them I was too late to save the girl, and that you two tragically lost your minds at the sight of her mangled body.’ Then he pointed the wand at Harry and Ron, but the wand exploded. Harry ran, slipping over the coils of snakeskin, out of the way of great chunks of tunnel ceiling which were thundering to the floor. Next moment, he was standing alone, gazing at a solid wall of broken rock. Harry and Ron were separated! Harry had to go alone. He followed the tunnel and suddenly, he saw a solid wall ahead on which 2 entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great emeralds. Harry said open in Parseltongue. The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Harry walked inside. He was standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars entwined with more carved serpents rose to support a ceiling lost in darkness. He pulled out his wand and moved forward between the serpentine columns. Then a statue high as the chamber itself loomed into view, standing against a back wall. Suddenly, he saw Ginny. She lay there, motionless. Harry shouted that she had to wake up. Suddenly someone was saying that she won’t wake up. It was Tom Riddle. He was a memory from his past, preserved in a diary for 50 years. Harry said to him that he had to help him, that it wasn’t save in there, and that they had to go out of there. He told him about the Basilisk. Tom was laughing. Harry wanted to take his wand but it was gone, Tom had it!

The sleeping beauty woke up

 

 

When I woke up, Harry and Ron told me everything: the Quidditch match was cancelled because there was another attack… and I was the victim. They weren’t allowed to go out of their dormitory unless they had classes so they took Harry’s invisibility cloak and went to Hagrid. When they arrived at Hagrid, they had to hide themselves because professor Dumbledore came in with Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic. He had to take Hagrid to Azkaban, the best prison for magic people, until his innocence was proven. Then came Lucius Malfoy in. He was saying that he searched professor Dumbledore. Then he saw professor Dumbledore. He said to him that the governors wanted his removal. That it was an order of suspension. That Dumbledore will find all the 12 signatures on a large role of parchment. They were feeling that Dumbledore was losing his touch. So… Dumbledore stepped aside and followed Lucius. He only said: ‘ Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.’ It looked like professor Dumbledore’s eyes flickered towards the corner where Harry and Ron stood hidden. Hagrid left too but he was saying : ‘ if anyone wanted to find out some stuff all they have to do would be to follow the spiders.’ So that was their plan, following the spiders. When they had herbology at the end of the week, they saw the spiders. They were running into the Forbidden Forest. So Harry and Ron went to the Forbidden Forest. It was really dark and they couldn’t see very much were the spiders were running to. Suddenly they were caught by… spiders! They took them to a giant spider, Aragog. He was saying : years and years ago, they believed that I was the monster of Slytherin. They thought that Hagrid had opened the Chamber and set me free. That’s why Hagrid is been expelled. But they were wrong . A traveler gave me to Hagrid. Hagrid cared for me, hidden in a cupboard in the castle.’ After his story, he said that his sons and daughters could kill them! They do not herm Hagrid but fresh meet that wanders so willingly into their midst is really good for them. They wanted to eat Harry and Ron! But when the spiders wanted to start, the flying car arrived and took Harry and Ron out of the forest. When Harry and Ron stepped out of the car, the car disappeared again into the forest. They were the car of course really thankful. The only thing they know now after their visit by Aragog is that Hagrid never opened the Chamber, he was innocent. They went back to their dormitories and wanted to sleep, but suddenly Harry knew it! Aragog said that the girl who died was found in a bathroom, but what it it’s Moaning Myrtle? So they wanted to go to the bathroom, but suddenly professor McGonagall appeared. Harry and Ron lied of course and were saying that they wanted to visit me. Professor McGonagall believed them and walked away. They went to the hospital where I was laying because otherwise professor Mc Gonagall  would know that they didn’t visit me. Fortunately, Harry noticed the paper in my hand! We didn’t died because there was always a reflection of the monster, we saw never the monster directly. They wanted to talk about everything what they knew now with professor McGonagall when suddenly, they heard her voice through the micro. Everyone had to go to their rooms. But Harry and Ron were hiding themselves in the wardrobe next to the staff-room. They heard from the teachers that there was another note on the wall: ‘ her skeleton will lie in the chamber forever.’  Everyone hates Lockhart with his boasting, so Lockhart had to go to the Chamber of Secrets and had to kill the monster because he said he already knew where the Chamber was. The teachers were also saying something else… it was Ginny, Ron’s first-year sister who had a crush on Harry, who was lying in the Chamber…

 

 

The Monster of Slytherin

The next day, Harry told us something very important. He said that all his books were covered into ink except the diary. So that evening, in his bed, he was trying to write anything in the diary. His words disappeared and there appeared another written line, except it wasn’t from Harry. Harry could talk with the diary, with Tom Riddle! He knew something about the Chamber of Secrets and wanted to show it to Harry. Harry said that suddenly the book had turned into a minuscule television screen. And suddenly, he was falling in it. Then, he saw Tom Riddle. He was in the office from professor Dippet , the professor before professor Dumbledore. He was asking if he could stay here in the holidays. He lived also in a Muggle orphanage, like Harry. And he hated it there too. But he couldn’t stay in Hogwarts because it wasn’t save with the attacks of the Chamber of Secrets. Then he asked if he found the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets , he could stay in Hogwarts? After that, Professor Dippet asked if he wanted to tell him something. Tom said no and he walked away. Harry followed him. Tom was waiting in a corridor. Suddenly Harry saw Hagrid in a room. He was talking to someone, to a monster. Harry couldn’t see the monster but Riddle said that Hagrid is been caught, that it’s all over. And then Harry came back to the world, to his bed. It’s really weird, isn’t it?! So it’s Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets and that’s why he is been expelled. We understand of course that Tom only betrayed Hagrid because he didn’t want to spend his holiday with the muggles. But we know all that Hagrid didn’t want to kill anyone. He just wanted to take care for the monster. But the monster killed a girl! Should we go and ask Hagrid all about it? We decided we wouldn’t say anything to Hagrid unless there was another attack. Another day, Harry wanted to go to his dormitory when suddenly he saw that his room was a mess. The contents of Harry’s trunk had been thrown everywhere. And… the diary has gone, someone must have stolen it but… only a Gryffindor knows our password. Then the Quidditch match arrived between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. When we were going to our dormitory to get Harry’s Quidditch things, Harry heard the voice! It wanted to kill again. And suddenly, I knew it. Harry is the only person in the whole school who heard a voice that nobody else can hear. If there is an attack, we saw only spiders running away. Didn’t you get it? The monster is a basilisk, the king of Serpents. I read about it. Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. He is moving in the pipes from the school. I went immediately to the library to be sure. I didn’t say anything to Harry and Ron because what if it wasn’t true and I was wrong. That I read something else? Oh no I want always to be right! Afterwards very stupid that I didn’t say anything… At the library, there was another girl, the Prefect from Ravenclaw. I smiled at her and then, I went searching for it. I found it and I had it right! All spiders are afraid for it. I ripped the page out of the book in case Harry and Ron didn’t believe me. Suddenly I heard something, I heard the pipes. Oh no, it couldn’t be the Basilisk, could it? I didn’t dare to look because if it was the Basilisk, I could die. So I said to the girl that she hadn’t to look behind her. I said that I thought that it was the Monster of Slytherin. She was very afraid. I asked for a mirror so we can look if I was right. Fortunately she had a mirror so we looked in the mirror and then… I felt. The last thing I saw were green eyes…

 

The diary

For several weeks , I laid in the hospital. Under my pillow was a Get Well card from Lockhart. I love him! I left the hospital wing in February, finally. Harry and Ron were pleased to see me and said that they went to Myrtles place because there was a lot of water on the floor and the water came from Moaning Myrtles bathroom. They asked Myrtle if she didn’t see anything that could heve provoke the water. She said that someone had thrown a book to her, she couldn’t tell who it was, she didn’t know. Harry kept it. It’s the diary of T.M.Riddle. Ron had seen his name before, on a trophy when he had detention. He won the trophy for special services. The trophy was 50 years old. That’s odd, that’s also the moment when the chamber of secrets has been opened. Malfoy said that to Harry and Ron when they were in disguise. Then valentine’s day came. Nobody was in the mood because everyone was very scared about the Chamber of Secrets and the attacks, except Lockhart. He thought that it was over, that the attacks were gone. He took care for the card-carrying cupids. They would be around the school delivering your valentines. I found it a great idea but everyone else found it very stupid. A cupid wanted to give a musical message to Harry. But Harry didn’t want it and wanted to run, but the cupid didn’t let him go so Harry was trying to escape. But then all his books, his wand, parchment and quill were falling onto the floor and his ink bottle smashed over the lot. Then Malfoy appeared and took the book. He was bullying Harry and said that he had Harry’s diary. Malfoy didn’t want to give it back so Harry tried a spell on him and the diary felt into Ron’s hands. This has lost Harry 50 points for Gryffindor, unfortunately…

The polyjuice potion

The next day, Ron and I were making the polyjuice potion. Harry wanted to see Justin and tell him that he has been saying to the snake that he mustn’t kill Justin. Instead he heard people talking about him and avoiding him. He was so furious about everything he heard that he didn’t know where he was going. Suddenly, he saw Hagrid. He had a little talk and then, he walked to his next lesson. But then, he saw something. It was laying on the floor. It was Justin!! He was petrified! And above him was Nearly Headless Nick, also petrified. Oh no , this wasn’t good! He could run but he couldn’t just leave them lying there. Suddenly Peeves appeared. He shouted ‘ ATTACK, ATTACK !’ Suddenly Harry saw all students coming from everywhere. The crowd saw Harry and then Justin and Nearly Headless Nick. They were shocked. Professor McGonagall came out of the crowd and said that Harry had to follow her. They went to Dumbledore’s office. It was very cool, Harry said. There was also a phoenix Fawkes in the room. But Harry had seen him on his burning day. Phoenixes burst into flames when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. Then Dumbledore appeared. Dumbledore would say something but before Dumbledore could speak, the door of the office flew open with an almighty bang and Hagrid came in , shouting ‘ It wasn’t Harry!’ But Dumbledore said that he knew it wasn’t Harry and Hagrid went away. Dumbledore was asking if Harry would like to tell him anything. But Harry didn’t say anything.  He left the office and told us everything. We were still making the polyjuice potion. After a few days, the polyjuice potion was ready! We had only to add some hair of Goyle, Grabbe and Millicent. Goyle and Grabbe are Malfoy’s best friends and Millicent is just a friend. I had my hair already because we were wrestling at the dueling club and some of her hair came on my dress. Now, we only need to take Grabe and Goyle’s hair but how? I had a plan! We made a chocolate cake for them filled with something that let you sleep. So we let the cakes at the end of the banisters and of course Grabbe and Goyle ate it because they love food and eat everything. They felt asleep and we took the hairs. We did the hairs in the potion and drank it in a cubicle of Moaning Myrtles bathroom. Then I felt really weird and started to deform. But this wasn’t good. I had suddenly … a tail and a cat-face!  Oh no, it was some of Millicent cats hairs that I threw in the potion. And the potion is only for disguise into other PEOPLE? Not animals! What could I do? I said to Ron and Harry that they could go without me. They waited a minute and then, I heard they were going away. I started to cry. I didn’t know how long I was crying but it must have been really long because suddenly I heard Harry and Ron again. I doubted and came out the cubicle, finally. They were shocked and I told them it was a hair of Millicent’s cat. They said it will be alright and that I should go to the hospital. I wasn’t sure of that but I hope it will be alright! We went to the hospital. Harry and Ron were saying it wasn’t Malfoy. They were sure. But who is it then?

 

The dueling club

Today, the potion is only half-finished. We need two more ingredients, and the only place they were going to get them was from Snape’s private stores. What we needed is a diversion to get in there. Then one of us can sneak into Snape’s office and take what we need. I better do the actual stealing because I’ve got a clean record. Then we had Potions lessons with Snape. I gave Harry a sign that he could pull one of Fud’s Filibuster fireworks out of his pocket and gave it a quick prod with his wand. The firework began to fizz and sputter. Harry straightened up, took aim, and lobbed it into the air. It landed tight on target in Goyle’s cauldron.it worked. Everyone was distracted so I took the ingredients and sat down. Nobody had noticed it. But Snape was looking mad at Harry. He knows it, but he couldn’t prove anything so he let it go. A week later stood on the notice board that we started a dueling club. Everyone was free to enter it. But almost everyone thought that it would be interesting on one of those days. So that evening we went to the Great Hall for starting. There were a lot of people and Lockhart and Snape were the teachers for learning it to us. They were demonstrating and Snape attacked Lockhart and Lockhart felt. But of course it was a demonstration to let us see what this spell can do. Then we were set up with a partner. Mine was Millicent Bulstrode, a Slytherin. Poor Harry he had to work with Malfoy! But everything end up in a fight, so Lockhart had a new idea, we had first to learn how to block unfriendly spells. The volunteer pair who had demonstrated it was Malfoy and Harry. They began. Malfoy threw a snake before Harry. That was really dangerous! The snake slithered straight towards Justin and raised itself again, fangs exposed, poised to strike. But then Harry… He said something we couldn’t hear. He had a parselmouth! He can talk to snakes! The snake took off and Snape killed it. Everyone was looking at Harry, very scared. Oh no, this isn’t good. We had to go out of there. We went to Gryffindor common room. Harry didn’t know what was happening. He didn’t know he was speaking parseltongue, Snake’s language. He said he was saying to the snake that he had to stop. Poor Harry. we explained him everything. It’s really bad because being able to talk to snakes was what Salazar Slytherin was famous for. That’s why the symbol of Slytherin House is a serpent. Now everyone thought he was the heir of Slytherin! And…it could be true, it could be possible because he lived about a thousand years ago. For all we know, he could be. Everyone thinks that he’s the one who is the cause of the attacks. Because he had detention from Filch and that’s why he could attacked his cat. And he found it  perhaps annoying that Colin was making pictures of him and that’s why he could attacked him. This isn’t good, poor Harry!