Can't Catch Me Now / Severus Snape

11. Riddle

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"Exams on my desk when you are done. I have 17 bonus runes on the board behind me if you want extra credit. Begin!"

Lilith leaned back in her chair kicking her legs up. Hootie jumped up strutting up her legs as the kids took their test. Lilith reached out stroking Hooties feathers.

"Honestly this is despicable." Severus tsked.

"I wish i gave a damn about ancient runes," a slytherin murmured. "At least one snape is agreeable." Severus smacked a ruler down on the desk.

"Your lack of interest in potions is noted as well based off your exam scores Greenburge." Severus assured.

"Looks like Moaning Myrtle's flooded the bathroom." Harry realized.

"Shes so moody- where are you going?" Aria shouted chasing after him.

"Come to throw something else at me?" Myrtle questioned, whimpering in the window.

"Why would I throw something at you?" Harry countered.

"Because its fun," aria whispered.

"Definitely a Slytherin in her future."
Ron murmured.

"Thanks." Aria agreed.

"Don't ask me. Here I am, minding my own business, when someone thinks it's funny to throw a book at me." Myrtle blubbered.

"But it can't hurt if someone throws something at you. I mean, it'd just go right through you." Ron corrected. She flew quickly at him. Aria jumped back hiding behind Harry.

"SURE!" She shouted in his face, Ron flinched back. "Let's all throw books at Myrtle because she can't feel it! Ten points if it goes through her stomach!" she put her arm through Ron's stomach "Fifty points if it goes through her head!"  She put her arm through Ron's head.

"But who threw it at you anyway?"

"I don't know. I didn't see them. I was just sitting in the U-bend, thinking about death, and it fell through the top of my head." Myrtle said softly, as she floated to harry before crying as she headed off. Harry stepped forward and picked up a Diary.

"I dont like Myrtle." Aria said bluntly. "Im find mommy."

Pip flew from Lilith to Aria when she ran into the room. Lilith brought a finger to her lips and aria nodded looking around at the remaining students finishing their test.

"Were you with daddy?"

"Harry and ron. They were being bad. But thats not a surpise. They made that weird ghost lady cry. But shes always crying so maybe it wanst them." Aria answered.

"Umm alright..." lilith agreed. "Why dont you do your workbook while the kids finish their test?" Aria jumped into her seat beside lilith and started working on her numbers and letters.

Harry was examining the diary while seated at a table in the Gryffindor Common Room. All the pages are blank. He looks at the back and sees a name printed there.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle." Harry read off the diary, the pages were blank but it was engraved. He dipped his quill in ink and lets a drop of it fall on the diary. The ink vanishes into the page. Harry decided to write a message in the diary.

My name is Harry Snape. The message faded out, and a new message fades in.

Hello, Harry snape, my name is Tom Riddle. The diary answered. Why did that name sound familiar? Maybe it was one of his parents old school friends? Stunned he wrote a second message.

Do you know anything about the Chamber of Secrets?

Yes.

Can you tell me? Harry pondered and watched it fade again.

No. Frustrated, Harry put his quill aside. What a waste But I can show you. Let me take you back fifty years ago. The words appeared and flipped open to a new page the text "13th June" appeared. The pages then begin to glow, enveloping Harry and making him disappear into the diary.

"Have you seen harry?"

"Not since class." Severus countered.

"I cant wait for him to be in my class next year. Its going to be so much fun." Lilith decided.

"You cant spoil him or baby him." Severus reminded her. "Just treat him like every other student-"

"Impossible task!" Lilith corrected. "Because my baby is going to be the best!"

" Harry, I don't know who did it, but you'd better come! C'mon!" Neville shouted.

"It had to be a Gryffindor. Nobody else knows our password. Unless it wasn't a student." Hermione remarked.

" Whoever it was, they must have been looking for something." Ron realized.

"And they found it." Harry realized, looking through his things. "Tom Riddle's diary is gone."

+

"Mother... who is Tom Riddle?"

"Where did you hear that name?"

"In a book a journal... I..."

"Let me see it." Lilith extended a hand.

"I sort of lost it already." Harry admitted.

"What do you mean-"

"I found it in the girls bathroom. Someone threw it at Myrtl and it spoke to me- well it wrote back to me."

Lilith looked to severus quickly. He was getting stronger. But how?

"And now? Where is it?" Severus questioned.

"Someone broke into my chambers. Trashed the place. Stole it." Harry answered.

"Stole it and anything else?" Severus questioned.

"No. Just the journal." Harry answered.

"They knew what they were looking for." Lilith whispered.

Lilith got harry chicago pizza for dinner and then basically trapped him in his room in their chambers refusing to let him near gryffindor tower again.

"Lilith its late what are you-"

"Harry said something about moaning myrtl. Im going to do some investigating." Lilith answered.

"I will come with-"

"No you will protect our babies." Lilith demanded. "I can handle myrtl."

"Lilith-"

"I have to know what she knows."

"And if its nothing?"

"Then its nothing. But i have to ask that psycho."

Myrtle was useless as suspected. But she had to try.

"Maybe its in her bathroom. Thats how she died. All those years ago. She blocked the memory..." lilith pondered that night.

"Wouldnt someone know if a hidden chamber was in the girls bathroom?" Severus countered tracing a hand along her spine.

" I think that ghost scared everyone off. No one wanted to disturb her." Lilith countered

" don't go investigating on your own."

" the chamber of secrets is there..."

"don't go investigating on your own. We will go together."