Lust for Blood

“It was Hagrid. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago.” Harry explained what he saw from the diary the other night as we walked through the yard.
“It can’t be Hagrid. It just can’t be.” Hermione explained,
“We don’t even know this Tom Riddle. He sounds like a dirty, rotten snitch to me.” Ronald explained,
“The monster had killed somebody, Ron. What would any of us have done?” Harry stopped.

“Look, Hagrid’s our friend. Why don’t we just go and ask him about it?” Hermione suggested,
“That would be a cheerful visit. ‘Hello, Hagrid. Tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy loose in the castle lately?” Ronald explained as the huge black bearded man walked up behind him.

“Mad and hairy? You wouldn’t be talking about me, now, would you?” Hagrid joked,
“No.” we all spoke.

“What’s that you’ve got, Hagrid?” Harry asked changing the subject,
“It’s Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent. For the Mandrakes, you know. Now, according to Professor Sprout, they’ve still got a bit of growing up to do. But once their acne’s cleared up, we’ll chop them up and stew them and then we’ll get those people down at the hospital un-petrified.” Hagrid explained to us all, he didn’t have the right aura to be someone so dark. I don’t believe that he would be able to open the Chamber of Secrets.

“In the meantime, though, you four had best be looking after yourselves. All right?” Hagrid looked between all of us, then left.

Suddenly, Neville ran past Hagrid and towards us,
“Harry, I don’t know who did it, but you’d better come. Come on!” Neville explained, we all hurried back to the Gryffindor common room then upstairs to the boy’s bedroom to see Harry’s area a complete mess. Harry started looking through everything,
“It had to be a Griffindor. Nobody else knows our password.” Hermione spoke,
“Unless it wasn’t a student.” I added, Hermione nodded in agreement,
“Whoever it was, they must have been looking for something.” Ronald spoke.

“And they found it. Tom Riddle’s diary is gone.” Harry looked back at us.



Ronald and myself were in the stalls on the Quidditch pitch waiting for the game to start,
“What do you think is taking them so long?” Ronald asked,
“Maybe they’re trying to explain to Harry that the Hufflepuff players are afraid of him,” I smirked as McGonagall came along,
“Mr. Weasley, Miss. Skylar, please come with me,” she spoke, we both looked at each other in suspicion and followed her.

We followed the Professor to the hospital wing,
“I warn you. This could be a wee bit of a shock.” McGonagall explained, we walked around and saw something, which shocked us.

“Hermione…” I spoke standing at the end of the bed.

She had been Petrified.

“She was found near the library… along with this. Does it mean anything to either of you?” McGonagall asked holding a mirror in her hand, we all shook our heads.
“No.” Harry spoke, I bit my lower lip and closed my eyes.



After heading back to the common room we stood on the stairs as Professor McGonagall walked in,
“Could I have your attention, please? Because of recent events, these new rules will be put into effect immediately: All students will return to their house common rooms by 6:00 every evening. All students will be escorted to each lesson by a teacher. No exceptions.” Professor McGonagall explained, “I should tell you this: Unless the culprit behind these attacks is caught… it is likely the school will be closed.” She added and walked out leaving us to think.

Harry turned to us,
“We’ve got to talk to Hagrid. I can’t believe it’s him but if he did set the monster loose last time he’ll know how to get inside the Chamber of Secrets. That’s a start.” Harry explained looked between us,
“But you heard McGonagall. We’re not allowed to leave the tower except for class.” I explained, Harry smirked and looked at Ronald,
“I think it’s time to get my dad’s old cloak out again.” Harry explained, I looked between the two boys confused as Ronald smiled a little bit.