The Dark Knight of Hogwarts: A Male Batman Reader x Hermione Granger Fanfic 1-4

The Chamber of Secrets Pt 8

*In the hospital wing, the three of them went to visit Hermione. Damian replace the dried flowers with new ones and sat down beside her and across from Harry and Ron.*

Harry: Wish you were here, Hermione. We need you. Now more than ever.

*Damian took her hand in his but felt something in it. He took some paper out of her hand and unfolded it.*

Ron: What's that?

Damian: Guys...This is why Hermione was in the library the day she was attacked. Come on.

*The two of them followed Damian as he read the page.*

Damian: "Of the many fearsome beasts that roam our land...none is more deadly than the basilisk. Capable of living for hundreds of years...instant death awaits any who meet this giant serpent's eye. Spiders flee before it." guys, this is it. The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk. That's why Harry can hear it speak. It's a snake.

Ron: But if it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it no one's dead?

*Harry gave it some thought until he spotted the window.*

Harry: Because no one did look it in the eye. Not directly, at least.

Damian: So Colin saw it through his camera. And Justin...

Harry: Well Justin must have seen the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick. Nick got the full blast of it. But he's a ghost, he couldn't die again. And Hermione...

Damian: Had the mirror. Knowing her, she used it to look around the corners in case it came along.

Ron: And Mrs. Norris? I'm pretty sure she didn't have a camera or a mirror.

Harry: The water. There was water on the floor that night.

Damian: Exactly. She only saw the basilisk's reflection.

*Harry then took the paper and went over to a torch to read it.*

Harry: "Spiders flee before it." It all fits.

Ron: How's a basilisk been getting around? A dirty, great snake. Someone would have seen it.

*Damian flipped the page over and it had the word "Pipes." on it.*

Damian: Hermione's answered that too.

Ron: Pipes? It's using the plumbing.

Harry: Ron, remember what Aragog told us about that girl 50 years ago? She died in a bathroom? What if she never left?

Ron: Moaning Myrtle.

*Just then, McGonagall's voice came on through the intercom.*

McGonagall: All students are to return to their house dormitories at once. All teachers to the second-floor corridor immediately.

*Both of them went down to the corridor and hid behind it so they could hear what was going on.*

McGonagall: As you can see, the Heir of Slytherin has left another message. Our worst fear has been realized. A student has been taken by the monster into the Chamber itself. The students must be sent home. I'm afraid this is the end of Hogwarts.

*Lockhart arrived.*

Lockhart: So sorry. Dozed off. What have I missed?

Snape: A girl has been snatched by the monster, Lockhart. Your moment has come at last.

Lockhart: My moment?

Snape: Weren't you saying just last night...that you've known all along where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is?