Chamber Of Snakes

Truth, lies, and guesses

The next morning came but the kids hadn't woken up. Madam Pomfrey had shifted them to the beds, and Cedric had been informed.

It was in the afternoon the three gained consciousness, and Cedric and Ginny were there in a jiffy.

When Ginny saw them she burst into tears.

"I'm so sorry for not being there with you. My- my family is very Gryffindor only and my brothers had started teasing me for having friends in other houses." She took in a huge breath. "Even Colin had been attacked, it was really scary. I'm sorry I distanced myself. But I promise it wasn't because of the rumours. I'm so sorry!"

Cedric quietly watched as the four sat together for the first time in ages.

"Now I'm sure this is a very important reunion, but Miss Weasley, we'll have to see you out." Madam Pomfrey said. "We still don't know what happened, you as well Mr Diggory."

"Not him!" The three shouted.

"Please Madam Pomfrey, we need him." They had their best kitty eyes on.

She looked at them for a few seconds before nodding.

"I know you're tired but we need you to recount what happened." We being, the heads of all four houses along with the healer and headmaster that had crowded around the three.

"I'll start then," Cordy said. "We all were kidnapped separately, but the method was the same I think." Cedric mentally face palmed, people usually didn't start on a dark note.

"I was going to my house when somebody knocked me out using, chloforum." Wendy snickered.

"It's chloroform."

"Yes, so this chloforum thing fumes were used to faint us." Her brother felt like an idiot.

"I'm sorry I've forgotten to speak." At this point he'd given up on his sister.

"Please someone take me over." Well atleast this was blackmail material.

Wendy decided to continue the story but she was the same as Cordy. "We were bought to an left alone old classroom where we recovered from faint. They used a muggle potion, but stronger. Hyacinth, save me!"

"Then Wendy told about that potion and this fifth year Hufflepuff person, the Dumbledore guy. He forced open Wendy's mouth to take possession of her and Cordy..." the Ravenclaw didn't continue for fear of getting his friend scolded but he didn't notice the mood shift to a very dark one.

"Cordy?" Snape asked, trying to move the conversation away from the dangerous waters.

"I sweursed. And they got befuddled and we used that to regroup and go into plan A."

The teacher beckoned for them to go on but they were interrupted by Cedric.

"If I may," the teachers nodded. "When we heard that they were being threatened we couldn't just sit back! So we kinda taught them to get better at Expelliarmus and Rictumsempra. And also taught protego duo. Because if they were picked on these spells should have been good enough for self defence without hurting the other person. So they must've cast them, cause that was plan A."

The three nodded excitedly, having resigned trying to speak and then showed the movements of the spell to indicate the order.

"We don't know how long, but we kept throwing the spells."

"When they finally slept down we ran away."

"And went to Professor Sprout's home."

They'd butchered the language but atleast the story was completed. Maybe they wouldn't have had to tell it now, if the whole ensemble crew wasn't in front of them.