Harry Potter x Reader - More Than Best Friends (Second Year)

What is the Chamber of Secrets?

I've watched the movie again and taken a few notes to things I've forgotten... *cough*thehowler...*COUGH* What the heck wrong with me that's like the highlight of things going wrong for Ron...

..........Harry's Point of View ..........

   Me, (y/n), Ron, and Hermione were heading towards Transfiguration, deeply into a weird conversation about Filch's cat. I've been getting a lot of stares recently, but I don't really know if it's from them knowing I speak a weird snake language and not noticing... Oh god now I'm imagining myself just accidentally messing up and speaking snake in the middle of a conversation and not noticing- hang on... didn't that happen last week with that one person-

   We don't speak of this. 

   "Today, we will be transforming animals into water goblets," Professor McGonagall started once the bell rang for the start of class. Everyone immediately sat down if they hadn't already and tried to pay attention, even if the subject was particularly boring at parts, "Like so."

   Then she proceeded to say some weird spell (was it Latin? ...when is it not?) and the old looking black and white bird turned into a brilliantly shiny, silver water goblet. Reminds me of the goblets that we have in the Great Hall during lunch time... 

   Just one more class and you can eat, Harry. Just hang on for a little longer..., I thought to myself, trying to find motivation.

   Professor McGonagall looked slightly pleased at the 'oooh's she had gotten from the people that were actually paying attention. She looked around the room, seemingly trying to find anyone that wasn't paying attention. I immediately elbowed (y/n) under the table to make sure she was paying attention and she stood up straight and 'admired' the water goblet that used to be a bird. Magic is weird... who would want to turn a bird into a goblet?? I get you can do it for other things, but isn't that a bit extreme... we need our animals in the world, not turned into goblets.

   ...Sorry for that oddly passionate thing about birds-turning-into-goblets-is-bad... thing. 

   "Ah, Mr Weasley. Please perform the spell on your... rat." Professor McGonagall said, looking slightly disgusted to see such a thing on the table. 

   "Oh..." Ron immediately stopped fiddling with his robe sleeve and looked around to see everyone staring at him, "I... uh..."

   He then tried to said the spell that McGonagall had said, and it sounded alright, but Scabbers only took what looked like the shape of a goblet... and everything was still furry and disgustingly rat-like... Ew, okay, just no, please no.

   "That wands needs replacement, Mr Weasley..." she sighed, before heading back towards the front of the room (she had come over to inspect Ron's... spell casting), before Hermione abruptly shot her hand up. McGonagall looked over, her gaze probably telling her it was alright to speak.

   "Professor... I was wondering if you could tell us about the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione said hesitantly, and it seemed suddenly everyone was paying attention. The mood almost went cold; everyone had stopped speaking for once.

   McGonagall looked around the room and saw the looks from the other students that were practically begging her to explain why things were attacking students and suddenly everything seemed very... 'life or death' I guess... When she realised that everyone would rather hear the story of the Chamber of Secrets and (for some reason) she decided she probably wanted to be the favourite teacher again or something so she looked down in defeat. 

   Breathing out, she said, "Very well."

   I could feel (y/n)'s excitement for this story, probably thanking Hermione to the moon and back for 'wondering about the telling the class about the Chamber of Secrets'.