Amelia Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PART 1

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The boy slammed the door shut and stood up.

'What yer doin' down here, Tom?'

Riddle stepped closer.

'It's all over,' he said. 'I'm going to have to turn you in, Rubeus.

They're talking about closing Hogwarts if the attacks don't stop.' 'What d'yeh –'
'I don't think you meant to kill anyone. But monsters don't make good pets. I suppose you just let it out for exercise and –'

'It never killed no one!' said the large boy, backing against the closed door. From behind him, Harry could hear a funny rustling and clicking.

'Come on, Rubeus,' said Riddle, moving yet closer. 'The dead girl's parents will be here tomorrow so will the boy's. The least Hogwarts can do is make sure that the thing that killed theses kids is slaughtered ...' 

'It wasn' him!' roared the boy, his voice echoing in the dark passage. 'He wouldn'! He never!'

'Stand aside,' said Riddle, drawing out his wand.

His spell lit the corridor with a sudden flaming light. The door behind the large boy flew open with such force it knocked him into the wall opposite. And out of it came something that made Harry let out a long, piercing scream no one but he seemed to hear.

A vast, low-slung, hairy body and a tangle of black legs; a gleam of many eyes and a pair of razor-sharp pincers – Riddle raised his wand again, but he was too late. The thing bowled him over as it scuttled away, tearing up the corridor and out of sight. Riddle scrambled to his feet, looking after it; he raised his wand, but the huge boy leapt on him, seized his wand and threw him back down, yelling, 'NOOOOOOO!'

The scene whirled, the darkness became complete, Harry felt himself falling and, with a crash, he landed spread-eagled on his four-poster in the Gryffindor dormitory, Riddle's diary lying open on his stomach.

Before he had had time to regain his breath, the dormitory door opened and Ron came in.

'There you are,' he said.

Harry sat up. He was sweating and shaking.

'What's up?' said Ron, looking at him with concern.

'It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.'