❝happiness can be found in the darkest of times‚ if one only remembers to turn on the light❞
- Albus Dumbledore
Cover by voidxriddle
I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS, ALL RIGHTS TO J.K. ROWLING
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"Well why don't you just tell Harry you like him?" Hermione exclaimed as she laid back in the bed. "Be quiet someone could hear you! We don't know who is in this hospital wing." As if on cue the doors to the wing opened up to reveal Harry and Ron. I prayed to Merlin that they didn't hear us.
Hermione looks towards me and starts laughing hysterically, and I cover her mouth with my hand.
"Hey guys. Is everything alright?" I said due to their unexpected appearance. "I guess we could ask you the same thing." Ron signifies to my hand that is placed over Hermione's mouth, and I quickly remove it. "Oh yeah, just um Madam Pomfrey gave her this weird potion. It makes her laugh." They nod slightly, but it was a terrible excuse.
"Look, we found this in the girls lavatory. Someone threw it at Myrtle." Harry said sitting on the bed handing Hermione the book.
"There's a name in this diary, Tom Marvolo Riddle."
"Tom Marvolo Riddle?" Ron asks as he takes the diary from Hermione's hand. "Hang on, I know that name. But where have I heard it? Of course! That night I had detention. My job was to polish the trophies in the trophy room. I remember. I kept burping up slugs on Tom Riddles trophy." Ron says.
"What was the trophy for?" I asked.
"He won an award about, 50 years ago. Special services to the school or something."
"50 years ago? Are you sure?" I asked Ron. Everything was starting to make sense.
"Yeah. Why?" Ron asked.
"Don't you remember what Malfoy said to us? The last time the chamber was opened was-" Harry finished my words. "50 years ago."
"That means Tom Riddle was here, when it was opened. It's possible he knew where the chamber was. How to open it, and what creature even lives in it. If so, whoever is behind these attacks, wouldn't want this diary laying around." Hermione said adding up the loose ends.
"That's a brilliant theory Hermione but there is one flaw, there is nothing written in this diary." Harry showed us the blank pages. We all were puzzled by the mysterious diary, but it was a step closer to finding out about what was really going on beneath Hogwarts walls.
•••
"You're telling me that Hagrid opened the chamber. No I don't believe it." I said to Harry.
The four of us walked across the courtyard as Harry tried to convince us that Hagrid opened the chamber 50 years ago. "We don't even know this Tom Riddle, he sounds like a snitch to me." Ron said. "The monster killed someone Ron, what would any of us have done?" Harry said trying to convince us of his theory.
Hermione stopped us. "Look Hagrid is our friend, why don't we just go and ask him about it." Ron scoffed. "Well that will be a cheerful visit. Hello Hagrid, tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy lose in the castle lately."
