Butterflies (Harry Potter x reader)

Discovering the Basilisk and Chamber of Secrets

The next day I go to visit Hermione in the Hospital Wing again, only to find Harry and Ron there too.

"Oh, hey Y/n," Harry says upon seeing me.

"Hey," I gloomily say.

I look at Hermione's frozen unmoving body. I felt so bad for her, she didn't deserve this, none of these people do. I hope whoever did this is caught, and no more innocent people are punished.

I then look back at Harry to see him studying me curiously.

"What?" I ask him.

"You just don't seem like your cheerful energetic self," He states.

"Well it's a bit hard when my best friend is petrified by someone who has been petrifying multiple innocent people," I respond.

"Yeah I guess so,"

I then see white roses in a vase next to Hermione's bed. 

"Wish you were here Hermione," Harry says from Hermione's bed. "We need you. Now more than ever,"

"She's not gone. They're going to find a way to help her and everyone else. Until then, we'll have to figure this out ourselves." I say.

Harry seems to take a piece of paper out of Hermione's hand and flatten it out.

"What's that?" Ron asks.

"Ron, this is why Hermione was in the library the day she was attacked," Harry says. Ron and I both get up and go to Harry to see what he is talking about. "Come on!" We follow him through the corridor, and Harry reads from the page. "'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...' Ron, Y/n, this is it. The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a Basilisk. That's why I can hear it speak. It's a snake."

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

"Because no one did look it in the eye. Not directly at least." Harry states. "Colin saw it through his camera. Justin... Justin must've 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... had the mirror. I bet you anything she was using it to look around corners in case it came along."

(Sorry guys, I forgot about Colin!! Just ignore that :))

"Ah! Smart thinking Hermione," I said.

"And Mrs. Norris? I'm pretty sure she didn't have a camera or a mirror, Harry." Ron stated.

Harry thinks for a moment. "The water... There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the Basilisk's reflection,"

"Nice going, Harry! You're a real detective," I said with a smile.

He looked at me, then had a relaxed smile on his face.

Harry looks at the page again and we walk to a nearby torch to read it more clearly I assume.

"'Spiders flee before it.' It all fits." Harry says.

"But how's the Basilisk been getting around? A dirty great snake, someone would've seen it." Ron inquired.

We all look at the page again, to see the word 'pipes' written on the bottom of it.

"Hermione's answered that too," Harry said.

"Pipes? It's using the plumbing!" Ron concludes.

"Remember what Aragog said about that girl fifty years ago, she died in a bathroom? What if she never left?" Harry offered.