The explaining

After the attack, I read a lot of books, more than usual. I wanted to know more about the Chamber of Secrets. But I didn’t find anything. All the copies of ‘Hogwarts: a History’ have been taken out. So I asked Professor Bins if he could tell us anything about the Chamber. He said there is a legend about the Chamber of Secrets and started to talk : Hogwarts was founded over 1000 years ago by the 4 greatest witches and wizards of the age. The 4 school houses are named after them : Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together. For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together. But then disagreements sprang up between them. A rift began to grow between Slytherin and the others. Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted in Hogwarts. He believed that mafical learning should be kept within all-magic families. There was a serious argument on the subject between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and Slytherin left school. But Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in the castle, of which the other founders knew nothing. Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that none would be able to open until his own true heir arrived at the school. The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber, unleash the horror within it ( that is some sort of monster) and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic. But the teacher said it’s nonsense and that the Chamber didn’t exist. But of course no one believed him after the attack on Mrs Norris and the writing on the wall… We wanted to know more so we went to the place of the attack and saw only little spiders ran away threw a broken window. There was also a little bit water on the floor so we searched where it came from. It came from Moaning Myrtles bathroom. We asked Myrtle if she didn’t see anything. But Myrtle didn’t see anything because she was upset about something what Peeves said. Then Ron, Harry and I were  thinking who could be the heir of Slytherin. And of course we knew it immediately, who hates Muggle-borns ?! Malfoy of course! But how do we find out if it was him ? And suddenly I knew it! We need to get inside the Slytherin common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him realizing it’s us. We need a polyjuice potion. It transforms you into someone else. The recipe is in a book called ‘Moste Potente Potions’ and that’s in the Restricted Section on the library… The next day we had classes from Lockhart and after the lesson I asked Lockhart if he would sign a note so we had permission to go to the Restricted Section. I said that it was for one of his books, that I would know anything more about slow-acting venoms. Fortunately, he wasn’t reading the note because then he had seen that we asked for the book we wanted. We went immediately to the library and searched for the book. We found it and opened it in Moaning Myrtle’s place. The ingredients of the polyjuice potion were quite difficult. I’d say it’d be ready in about a month, if we can get all the ingredients…