This Can Never Be Real || George Weasley

Thirteen

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥

I ran my hands through my hair, muttering to myself. Where is it?

I ran down the Gryffindor Common Room staircase after thoroughly searching Harry's room, only to find nothing.

I stopped at the bottom step when I saw Ginny sitting on the couch, the diary in her hands.

Of course, another threatening message came out on the wall this week, and I wasn't the one who wrote it.

It was Ginny.

I sat next to her, looking at her.

"Ginny?" I asked carefully, my breath hitching, "where'd you get that?"

She looked up at me fearfully and I gently took the book out of her hands. "You're in danger," I mumbled, suddenly realizing all the prices I was putting together. "Ginny does Tom want you to go down to the Chamber?"

She nodded. "He told me he'd like to meet me in person so we could talk more. I agreed."

I shook my head, standing up. "Ginny, I'll write the final message, and I'll go down. You have to stay here, stay safe. He's trying to manipulate you, okay?"

Ginny looked at me fearfully and nodded, and I rushed back up to my dorm, watching the last message Tom had written into the page slowly disappear.

Tell Hogwarts, school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, that you have been taken to the Chamber.

—-

Before the Quidditch match the best day, I was pulled aside by Hermione.

"What?" I asked sleepily, yawning and rubbing my eyes. I was running on two hours of sleep and planning to to face atom instead of Ginny, so I wasn't kn a great mood.

"Remember the voices Harry was hearing?" She asked, making me furrow my eyebrows.

"No," I mumbled. "No one told me. Also, why are you telling me this? Have you got a theory?"

Hermione sighed. "Yes. Just... come with me to the library."

"Hermione, I've got a game soon—"

"It'll only take a second, I promise."

I sighed and followed her, yawning as she sped through the hall.

"Basilisk?" I asked, clenching my jaw and tending. "That's what Harry's hearing?"

"Yes!" She exclaimed. "Brilliant, erm, look, we have to check the corner of the library just to be safe."

She pulled a mirror out of her pocket and Aimee it at the corner so she could see through it.

I rubbed my eyes. "Hermione, you've got to be ser—"

A thump sounded as Hermione fell to the floor, and I immediately hid my eyes.

This was were I was going to be taken.

Breathing heavily, I took the mirror Hermione had dropped with her, looking the monster right in its yellow eyes.

I went out cold as everything went black.