Anxiety [hp]

- 2.15

[As the door slowly closes behind him, Harry climbs down the ladder and walks down the corridor. Looking ahead, he sees Ginny lying motionless at the end of the Chamber. She is clutching Tom Riddle's diary.]

"Oh my— Ginny!" Molly gasped, holding onto her husband.

Harry: Ginny. [runs to her, drops his wand and gets on his knees] Ginny. No, Ginny. Please don't be dead. Wake up. Wake up! Please wake up.

[Suddenly, Tom Riddle walks out of a nearby doorway.]

Riddle: She won't wake.

"Holy—" Bellatrix exhaled.

"That can't be." Walburga shuddered.

"It's not possible." Orion added in shock.

"Actually it is." Regulus and Avery stated.

"But you won't learn about that until the last three movies." Jasper concluded.

[Harry recognizes his voice and turns toward him. Riddle walks to him.]
Harry: Tom? Tom Riddle? What do you mean she won't wake? She's not...?

Riddle: She's still alive, but only just.

Harry: Are you a ghost? And where's Avery?

Riddle: A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years. And she's right here. [he motions to Avery walking out of the same doorway Tom came through. Blood running down her head.]

Jasmine gasped, "Oh my Merlin, Avery!"

"What the bloody hell did he do to you?" Remus questioned in shock, consoling his girlfriend.

Avery could feel Ginny's anxiety from where she was sitting, she reached over and held her hand. Helping the girl relax a bit.

Harry: [straightens up] Avery? Are you okay, love?

Avery: [blinks to clear her vision, very confused] What. The fuck. Is happening?

Harry: [reaches out and touches Ginny] She's as cold as ice. Ginny, please don't be dead. Wake up. [while Harry's not looking, Riddle bends down and picks up Harry's wand from where he left it] You've got to help me, Tom. There's a Basilisk.

Riddle: It won't come until it's called.

"What did he say?" Dorcas scowled.

Harry: [looks up to see Riddle holding his wand and stands up] Give me my wand, Tom.

Riddle: You won't be needing it.

Harry: Listen, we've got to go. We've got to save her! And Avery looks like she can barely walk! [Said girl started to wobble and leaned on the nearest wall.]

Riddle: I'm afraid I can't do that, Harry. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger. [Harry looks at him, confused] Yes, Harry. It was Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets. [Ginny is shown standing in front of the sink in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom as it opens]

Ginny started to get self-conscious. She was about to stand up and ran out of the hall, but Bill engulfed her in a hug making her other brothers do the same.

Harry: No. She couldn't. She wouldn't.

Riddle: It was Ginny who set the Basilisk on the Mudbloods and Filch's cat, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls. [Ginny is show using her blood-covered fingers to write on the wall]