The Deathday Party

Today, Harry went to Filch offices because Filch saw him in the deserted corridor.  Harry was there talking with Nearly Headless Nick, a ghost. He was talking about that Nick wanted to join the Headless Hunt but he couldn’t because they can only accept huntsmen who heads have parted company with their bodies. When Harry sat down with Filch, Peeves, the poltergeist, came in and distracted Filch. So Filch ran away after Peeves. Harry saw on Filch’s bureau that Filch had a Kwick spell. It was something for learning magic. Then Filch came back and said to Harry he could go. Outside the office stood Nick and he was asking if it worked. So it was his idea that Peeves distracted Filch, great idea! Harry asked if he couldn’t do anything to Nick because cause of Nick he hadn’t detention. Nick said there was something… On Halloween  it’s his 500 deathday and he invited me, Harry and Ron. Harry said that it was good. By the time Halloween arrived, Harry was regretting his rash promise to go to the deathday party. The rest of the students were happily anticipating their Halloween feast. But why is he regretting it? There aren’t many lived people who can say they have been to a deathday party , it will be fascinating! And… a promise is a promise! So we went to the deathday party. It was in the dungeon. It was a really weird party. There were only ghosts and there was nothing to eat except rotten things. The smell of it was quite disgusting! Then we saw Moaning Myrtle. She haunts the girls’ toilet on the first floor. It’s been out of order all year because she keeps having tantrums and flooding the place. But then, Peeves appeared. He was laughing and shouted Myrtle. He was saying that we were talking about her. Stupid Peeves! Myrtle started to cry, of course…like always. Suddenly Sir Patrick arrived. He’s leader of the Headless Hunt. He was very annoying and when Nick wanted to do his daethday speech, Sir Patrick started a game of Head Hockey and everyone was of course looking at him instead of looking at Nick. We wanted to go when suddenly Harry heard something… It was the voice! He wanted to kill! Harry was following the voice so we followed him because we couldn’t hear the voice. Suddenly we stopped. On a wall was written in blood ‘ the chamber of secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.’ Then we looked to something else what was hanging on the wall. We gasped. Mrs Norris, Filch’s cat, was hanging by her tail from the torch bracket. She was stiff as a board, her eyes wide and staring. Ron said ‘ Let’s get out of here, we don’t want to be found here.’ But it was too late. We heard people and the next moment, students were coming into the passage from both ends. Then they saw the cat and stopped. We stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence felt among the mass of students, pressing forward to see the grisly sight. Then filch appeared. When he saw his cat, he was really furious! He wanted to kill Harry but then came Dumbledore and the other teachers. He said that Filch had to relax. Everyone had to go to their rooms, except we of course… Dumbledore said that the cat wasn’t dead, that he was petrified. Then Dumbledore looked at us and Snape and Filch were saying that it was Harry! Dumbledore said very calm that no second-year could have done this. But Filch didn’t believed him, he was saying that Harry knows that he’s a squib and that’s the reason why he had done this. A squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn’t got any magic powers. So that’s why he had a Kwick spell in his office, he wanted to learn magic. Snape was asking us a few questions. Why we weren’t at Halloween and what we did in the corridor on that moment. We didn’t say anything of the voice of course because hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign , even in the wizarding world. So we said we were tired and wanted to sleep. Snape didn’t believe him. Then Dumbledore said ‘ innoncent until proven guilty’ and let us go. I couldn’t sleep. What does this all mean and what’s the Chamber of Secrets ?