Theodore had taken up visiting Cassie in the Hospital Wing. It was awkward for the most part. How did you have a converation with someone who was petrified?
He sat there unsure of what to do. I mean, what in the name of Helena was he supposed to do? He sighed. This sucked badly.
Cassie was practically the Ravenclaw second year 'ringleader' as she always said in reference to a song by Biffany Lears, or whatever the singer she'd mentioned's name was. To be honest he didn't care. He just wanted Cassie to get better. Maybe he would tell her how he felt when she did.
An image of his friends wheezing with laughter popped into his mind. Like he was brave enough to do that.
On the other side of the castle, Harriet was starting to feel restless. It was like the universe wanted someone to die.
Fuming, she paced around the common room trying to come up with a solution on her own. There was no use relying on any of the others. All their solutions were what you would find in a dictionary if you looked up the word 'stupid'. Maybe even'brainless'.
Draco was lounging in a nearby armchair, sulking. He had just gotten three of his ideas denied.
Harriet had admitted that calling some sort of magical creature watch team was probably a good idea, but somebody would make it out to be a prank students pulled to keep Hogwarts and their main source of income from being shut down. Thus, they had to play pest-control themselves.
The issue was the lack of information. Or rather, that one missing piece to comlete the puzzle.
Harriet wanted to punch something. How dare the universe keep one miserable piece of information from her!
The next morning turned things around. Harriet's breakfast was disturbed by the flutter of wings and a white feather falling onto her face when she looked up.
She sneezed.
"Hedwig!" she cried leaping up.
The owl replied by dumping a letter in her hands and flew off after stealing a piece of toast from Pansy.
Harriet sat back down and unfolded the parchment carefully.
Toms handwriting was unmistakeable.
Harriet,
There is no clear way to remove a basilisk from its chosen location. Especially not if it was placed by Salazar Slytherin himself.
One rumour specifies that a person has to be sacrificed to close the Chamber of Secrets. Another would tell you that finding a new basilisk to "replace" the old one is neccessary. I suggest a young one. They're the most vicious and effective. The 'eyes of death' wear off after a while.
I apologize for the lack of solid advice.
Best wishes,
Tom Marvolo Riddle
Harriet stared at the letter. A human sacrifice or a new snake. Great. Just great.
She rolled her eyes. Tom didn't exactly sound apologetic for being of no use. But then again, maybe he was just bad with words. If he didn't care, he wouldn't have given any advice.
But he had potentially killed Myrtle using a Basilisk.
He was trying to help though, right?
Harriet couldn't figure it out so she shoved the thoughts into the back of her mind and decided to focus on the task at hand.
She wondered how the others were going to react to the suggestions.
Blaise's jaw dropped. Draco's eyebrows rose to his hairline. Harriet grinned sheepishly, scratching the back of her neck.
" How the hell do we get a Basilisk? " Blaise asked.
" We can always wait for someone to die..." Draco shrugged.
"Why would we do that?" Blaise sounded mildy horrified and just on the edge of intrigued.
"It's easier."
"No one is dying." Harriet said firmly, "No one." She was not going to Azkahban because of a pet problem.
Draco just nodded, eyes wide.
Blaise rolled his eyes,"Well, I'll be going to the library to research the trade of magical creatures. You should come as well. I'm pretty sure this Illegal though."
"When have we ever followed the law to 100 percent? " Harriet asked.
"We're in our second year at school and I can't give you an answer to that," Draco sighed.
"Exactly!" Harriet exclaimed, "We didn't give a damn last year when we saved the philosopher's Stone! Why should we care now? We're doing the world some good aren't we?"
"Technically, it was just the school." Draco said.
"Details," Harriet said, making a dismissing motion with her hand.
She began to walk off.
"Where are you going?" Blaise called after her, "Thought we were all going to do research."
"Bathroom."
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