𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

Chapter 14

Days later in the evening outside is a thunderstorm. Sereia and Ron walk up the stairs to the moving staircases.
Ron: Have you spoken to Hermione?
Sereia: She should be out of the hospital in a few days...when she stops coughing up fur balls.
Ron laughs slightly.

They laugh. Hermione glares at Ron.

They stop and look to the ground seeing water coming from behind a door.
Sereia: What's this?
They walk through the water and enter the corridor behind the door and see the floor full with water.
Ron: Yuck!
Sereia: Looks like Moaning Myrtle's flooded the bathroom.

The girls sigh annoyed.

They go to the bathroom and enter. They see the washbasins being over flooded. Sereia looks up when she hears Myrtle whimpering. She sees her sitting by the window. She taps Ron and points to Myrtle. They walk closer to her. She stops whimpering when she sees them.
Myrtle: Come to throw something else at me?
Sereia: Why would I throw something at you?
Myrtle: Don't ask me. Here I am, minding my own business...
She stands up.
Myrtle: ...and someone thinks it's funny to throw a book at me.
She looks to the ground beside them. Ron looks at her confused.
Ron: But it can't hurt if someone throws something at you.
He looks at Sereia confused and she try's to stop him.
Ron: I mean, it'll just go through you.
Sereia sighs and looks down while shaking her head.

The girls who were in that bathroom before wince and shake their heads at him.

Myrtle flies to him. He jumps while looking shocked and scared.
Myrtle: SURE! Let's all throw books at Myrtle because she can't feel it. Ten points if you get it through her stomach!
She punches through his stomach.
Myrtle: Fifty points if it goes through her HEAD!
She punches through his head.
Sereia: But who threw it at you, anyways?
Myrtle calms down and flies in front of her.
Myrtle: I don't know. I didn't see them. I was just sitting in the U-bend, thinking about death...
She sighs.
Myrtle: ...and it fell through the top of my head. Uh-huh.
She whimpers and flys away. Sereia looks down and walks to a black book with golden corners, on the ground. She picks it up.
Later when everyone is asleep and the book is dry, she sits in the common room and looks through it but the pages are empty.
She sighs and leans back. She closes the book and picks it up. She turns it around and sees the name 'Tom Marvolo Riddle'

Tom freezes slightly and glares at Lucius making him gulp and shift in his seat scared.

Sereia: "Tom Marvolo Riddle."
She looks confused before putting it back on the table and opening it again. She opens her ink and puts her quill in. She holds her quill over the page. A drop of ink falls onto the page and the ink soaks into the page. She looks shocked and turns the page over. She puts more ink onto her quill and begins to write.
Sereia: My name...is Sereia...Potter.
Her writing soaks into the page. New writing appears. 'Hello Sereia Potter. My name is Tom Riddle.'
Her mouth opens in shock.

Most of the adults look worried about the book.

She puts her quill into the ink before continuing writing.
Sereia: Do you know anything...about the Chamber of Secrets?
Her writing disappears and Toms appears. 'Yes'
She looks hopeful and puts her quill into the ink before writing.

They lean in excited.

Sereia: Can you...tell me?
Her writing disappears and Toms appears. 'No'
She sighs annoyed and places her quill down while leaning back. She looks back at the page when new writing appears.
'But I can show you'
She leans forward as it disappears and new writing appears.
'Let me take you back fifty years ago'
The pages flip over. It stops and on top of the page '13th June' appears. She lifts the book and the pages begin to glow. The glow becomes brighter and she disappears in the book. The book closes and stops to glow.

The younger ones begin to scream. "DID THAT BOOK JUST EAT HER?!" They look at her worried. Ron looks at Hermione "see Mione, I told you books are evil." Sereia laughs and Hermione glares at them.

The glow appears in a corridor, when it disappears Sereia stands in the corridor. She looks around and slowly walks down the corridor. She walks around the corner and sees a boy wearing Slytherin robes with a prefect button on his robes, standing on top of the stairs. She walks up the stairs.
Sereia: Excuse me. Could you tell me what's going on here?
The boy ignores her and looks up the stairs.

Now that they can see the boy clearly they begin to look between the screen and Tom in the Hall. "Is that you?" "Don't be stupid, that was fifty years ago, he looks far too young to be over fifty." Tom looks at them before looking to Sereia feeling her amusement. When he looks, he sees her grinning while watching him. Ron and Hermione's eyes widen and they look at Sereia who nods.

Sereia: Are you Tom Riddle? Hello, can you hear me?
She follows his sight and sees four wizards carrying a stretcher with a cloth covering a body and other witches and wizards standing to the side. Tom looks after them when they pass him. Sereia looks at the hand that fell from unter the cloth, shocked and sadly.
Dumbledore: Riddle!
Tom and Sereia turn around and see Dumbledore with a shorter beard on top of the stairs. He waves to him.
Dumbledore: Come.
Tom: Professor Dumbledore.
He walks around the railing. Sereia looks confused.
Sereia: Dumbledore?
Tom walks up the stairs and Sereia walks after him.
Dumbledore: it is not wise to be wandering around this late hour, Tom.
Tom: Yes, Professor. I suppose I...
He puts his hands behind his back.
Tom: I had to see for myself if the rumours were true.
Dumbledore: I'm afraid they are, Tom. They are true.
Tom: About the school as well? I don't have a home to go to. They wouldn't really close Hogwarts, would they, Professor?
Dumbledore: I understand, Tom, but I'm afraid...Headmaster Dippet may have no choice.
Sereia looks at them confused and worried.
Tom: Sir, if it all stopped, if the person responsible was caught...
Dumbledore: Is there something... you wish to tell me?
Tom looks at him.
Tom: No, sir. Nothing.

They look between Tom and Sereia "That's the same thing that you said.." Sereia only hums.

Dumbledore looks at him suspiciously making him gulp. Sereia looks taken back and looks between them. Dumbledore nods
Dumbledore: Very well, then. Off you go.
Tom: Good night, sir.
He walks away. Sereia looks after him before quickly following him.