The Chamber of Secrets Through Another's Eyes

Chapter 2: Morana Drax

Hello, my name is Morana Kali Drax (pronounced: more-on-uh kale-e drahx). I will be one of the four narrators of this story. And this chapter will be all about me.

I have almost black hair that I want to be blue instead, but I'm not a Metamorphmagus so there is nothing I can do at the moment. By the way, a Metamorphmagus is someone who can change their appearance without much effort. And I have greenish-blueish eyes that are almond shaped. All of my siblings and I have eyes shaped like my dad, who's half English and half Chinese. Then there's our mom, who's half European (at the age of 12 I couldn't tell you what specifically) and half Indian, so my sister and I have darker skin when we tan in the summer. I was born on February 14th, 1980.

I am the daughter of Miranda Drax (née Bocks) and Matthew Drax. I am the younger sister of Melissa Drax, who is four years older than me. I am also the older sister of Michael Drax, whom I am four years older than. Melissa was born July 22nd, 1976 and Michael was born August 4th, 1984. I am a pureblood witch that currently attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

But I need to tell you something before I tell you what happened at Hogwarts. My mum is a Death Eater, one of the workers for Lord Voldemort. Eleven years ago she didn't go into Azkaban (the wizard prison) for working for him by saying she was under the Imperius Curse. The Imperius Curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses. When the Imperius Curse is on you you do things that the person who is doing it to you wants you to do.

Anyways, when my sister was twelve my mom taught her the Unforgivable Curses at home. Now, we aren't allowed to use magic outside of school, so my sister just tried her best to remember the words and what they do first. On Melissa's thirteenth birthday, my mom and sister went for a "walk" in a Muggle (non-magic person) village. On this "walk" my sister used all three Unforgivable Curses on unarmed Muggles, you know, just for the fun of it. That's when everything got bad.

On August 1, Melissa had to go to a hearing and my mother was allowed to be in there with her but my father, brother, and I weren't, but I roughly know what happened. My sister was expelled from Hogwarts which she didn't care about for some reason. But if you use any of the three Unforgivable Curse it's a one way ticket to Azkaban. I heard my mother's screams.

She screamed, "NO! PLEASE! SHE'S ONLY A CHILD! DON'T SEND HER THERE ALL BY HERSELF! TAKE ME WITH HER!" But they said that they couldn't send somebody to Azkaban for no reason. And they said she didn't do anything.

She said, loud and clear so that everybody could hear her, "Oh, but I did do something."

She was put under Veritaserum (truth potion) so that they knew she wasn't lying. She said that she had indeed worked for Lord Voldemort. And that was the last time I ever said good-bye to my mother and sister... So far they have been in Azkaban for three years already...

When I first started at Hogwarts one year ago I was sorted into Slytherin, just like the rest of my family (except for my mum's mum's family who didn't go to Hogwarts). I didn't make any friends that year. Not because I didn't have the ability but because I was really shy. I only ever did my school work. And if I wasn't doing that I was looking at a photo book that my mum and dad gave me. It has a bunch of pictures from my childhood that we keep adding on to. And not the type of pictures you Muggles use, mind you. Ours are actually interesting. Our pictures move instead of just standing in one place the whole time.

I got really good grades in Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, and Transfiguration. I had pretty decent grades in Astronomy and Herbology. My worst subject was History of Magic.

I mean, for one thing, our teacher is a ghost! Who would want a ghost as a teacher? Not me, that's for sure. And everyone looked like they were about to pass out in every History of Magic class... Except for Hermione Granger. A Mudblood, that one. A Mudblood is a very mean way of saying Muggle-born. If you are Muggle-born your parents and everyone before you was a Muggle. But you happen to be a witch or wizard.

Anyways, Granger always wrote down what Professor Binns (History of Magic teacher, the ghost I was talking about) was saying. That Granger is just so smart. How did she get into Gryffindor (the house of the brave at Hogwarts)? She should have been in Ravenclaw (the house of the intelligent). But I personally think that she shouldn't be at Hogwarts to begin with.

I didn't really know anybody's name. I knew Hermione Granger's because the teachers called on her a lot. I knew Harry Potter's name, obviously. Everyone has heard of Harry Potter by now. How he is the only one who survived the killing curse, because of Lord Voldemort. Or as others call Lord Voldemort, You-Know-Who or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. And I knew the teachers' names, obviously. All of them taught for the years following. Well... There was Professor Quirrell who taught Defense Against The Dark Arts. He died...I'm not actually sure how though. I wonder...

Well, I think that's all I need to tell you so far. I'll just let Xenia tell you about her.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MORANA DRAX~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I wrote this chapter. Hope you like it!! :)