Shifting to Chamber of Secrets

Chapter 8

Disclaimer: everything besides Sophie and her family belong to J. K. Rowling.

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November 24 came. It was my birthday. I was 12 years old now. I had to remind myself that I would be celebrating my 12th birthday again when I returned home. Ron got me a chocolate frog. Hermione got me another muggle book. Professor McGonagall got me a swan hairpin. Malfoy got me another charm for my bracelet. It was swan feather. It mean graceful. I thanked all of them.

December...

It was christmas break. Malfoy was staying at Hogwarts for christmas. I had thought that he would go home for the holiday.

I ate with Harry, Ron, and Hermione at their table. They were almost done with the polyjuice potion. They still needed to get a piece of Crabbe and Goyle's hair.Hermione already got a sample from a Slytherin female student. They had planned this for a whole month. They needed to interrogate Malfoy to know about the chamber of secrets and the heir of Slytherin. To get the hair, Hermione put sleeping draughts in cupcakes. "Thats actually not a good idea," I said. Hermione smiled.

I went out of the Great Hall. Malfoy saw me and came over. "You want to come with me?" he asked. "to where?" I asked. "Close your eyes," he said. I closed my eyes. He was leading me somewhere, but I didn't know where. It was getting colder. I hate the cold. I could feel my ankles hurting. "Pureblood," I heard. He lead me somewhere. "You can open your eyes," he said. I opened. It was dark a bit. There was a fire place. The room was decorated with Slytherin colors.

I turned to him. "Welcome to the Slytherin common room," he said. My ankles were killing me. "Am I allowed in here?" I asked. "I already asked Professor Snape and he said it was ok," he said. "Oh, ok," I said. I thought I was restricted to only Gryffindor common room, but I guess not.

Malfoy saw that something was wrong with me because I was wincing in pain. "Are you ok?" he asked. "My ankles are sensitive to the cold. They hurt when its really cold," I said. Malfoy looked alarmed. "You should sit. I'm going to go get something," he said and left. I sat at a couch. I rubbed my ankles to get heat in them. Malfoy came back with a hot pack. He sat on the couch next to me. He brought my ankle up to his legs and put he hot pack on. It felt nice. "How does it feel?" he said. "Much better. Thank you," I said. "You stay here, I'm going out to find Crabbe and Goyle really quick," he said. He left me to heat my ankles a bit.

Ten minutes later, Malfoy came back with them. They acted weird. They were surprised to see me. Malfoy sat next to me again and put my ankle on his legs. "How your ankle's he asked. "They're find now," I said. We turned to Crabbe and Goyle. They began to talk about the chamber of secrets and the heir of Slytherin. Malfoy's father said that it opened once before. A muggleborn died that day. I notice Crabbe and Goyle acting very weird until I saw them changing. {It was Harry and Ron this whole time.} They ran out the room.

I gave Malfoy his hot pack back and thanked him. We gave each other a hug. Before I left the room, he gave me a present. Again, I didn't get a present for him, but he said that it was ok. I left the room and walked to my room. I reached my room and went inside. I opened the present. It was another charm. A head of an barn owl. The eyes were Garnet. There was a letter in the box.

Dear Sophie,

Merry Christmas. The Owl represents wisdom. Your name mean wisdom if I'm correct. Enjoy!

-Draco Malfoy

I smiled. I know now that I really liked him. I could tell that he cared about me very much.

Next day....

I learned that it was Harry and Ron who were with me at the Slytherin Common room yesterday. Hermione used cat fur and not hair in the polyjuice potion and now coughing up fur balls. They wanted to know why I was in the room. I told them that Malfoy brought me there. I told them everything about Malfoy and me being friends. I knew that they didn't like it, but i didn't care.

If they did't accept me being friends with Malfoy, then were not my true best friends. Then again, I would feel bad if they decided that they weren't going to be my friends anymore. I just had to wait and see.