Slytherin Heart

10.

Having Gilderoy Lockhart teaching us Defence Against the Dark Arts was a joke. He had set loose a cage full of Cornish pixies, and rather than helping, he scrambled back into his office. Not before asking that Harry, Hermione, Ron and I nip them back into the cage.

Fed up with what was so clearly not working, as poor Neville was stuck up on a chandelier by his robes, I withdrew my wand and shouted, "immobulus!"

Straight away, the blue pixies froze in the air, unable to cause any more havoc. I had half a mind to march Lockhart back into his classroom and put them all back in the cage, himself, since I'd found a way to keep them from flitting about.

I'd happily take Professor Sprouts class again, and how to safely pot Mandrakes, or the second hand embarrassment that I'd gotten after hearing the Howler Ron had gotten from Mrs Weasley during lunch.

***

Slipping out of bed, as to not wake Gaia, I headed down to the Great Hall. Fred and George bellowed my name even though there was hardly anyone around, so I jog up to them.

"I've missed you boys, especially this summer," I point.

"Missed you too, Ally-boo!" I wrinkle my nose at their unusual nickname for me.

We had breakfast together and then because I had a free period, I decided to do some homework that had been set. I left the castle and went and sat down by the pumpkin patch near Hagrid's Hut. This way I knew I wouldn't be disturbed.

More days pass, and after an accident during our duelling club we discover that Harry can speak Parseltongue - snake language, and that he's been hearing voices too.

One night, Hermione, Ron, Harry and I are walking through an empty corridor. We managed to catch up with Harry after his detention with Lockhart, who had him signing fan mail. He was hearing voices then, too. We only stop short when we see writing, in what I can only assume is blood, across part of the wall, between two torch brackets.

'The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir beware.'

"Is that blood?" Hermione asks.

"It is," I say.

That's when Harry notices Mrs Norris hanging from her tail. "Oh no, it's Filches cat, Mrs Norris," he says and reached out his hand.

Bad timing. People began to crowd the hallways and it didn't look good with the four of us stood at the centre of it all. I was thinking of backing up into the group of Slytherin's, but stayed put as Draco spoke.

"Enemies of the heir beware? You'll be next mudbloods," he narrows his eyes towards Hermione.

I thought Filch was about to go for Harry's neck when he saw his cat, but in that moment, Dumbledore and a few other Professor's approached.

Dumbledore quickly sent everyone off back to their dorms, except for the trio; ignored me. Once most students had left, I was about to leave too but Dumbledore said, "Miss Malfoy! You'll know who they are when you see them," he tells me cryptically. "Look to the moving pictures first."

He gave me a knowing look, peering at me through his half moon glasses.

I got back to my dorm room and found that there was a package waiting for me on the bed. Gaia turns to face me as I walk over and pick it up.

"What is it?" She asks the moment I've opened it.

"It's a moving picture album, there are only a handful of pictures in it, at the moment."

"Who are they?" Gaia asks, looking over my shoulder.

"I don't know, but Dumbledore said that I will know who they are when I see them," I shrugged.