Harry Potter's sister ~~~ Fanfiction

Explosion part 35

Regardless of how remarkable Emma Potter was considered on Halloween Night, Filch took the attack against his cat very personally and began patrolling the area outside the toilets and regarded whoever passed with suspicion and anger. Students took to avoiding that corridor, but it was problematic as, 6 days out of 7, it was the most convenient way to Charms. Harry was just thankful he could take the slide down to the ground floor. Draco Malfoy and his goons seemed pretty happy, despite the fact he spent Halloween weekend in the Hospital Wing because it took Madam Pomfrey two days to undo the multitude of spells that had impacted him.

The Professors all seemed heavily tense about current affairs, even Lockhart; but that was probably more due to Hermione asking him what methods there were to petrify someone and what were the precautions one could take.

"You know we never asked McGonagall about that thingie charm." Said Ron "You know the one that turns a Werewolf back into a human?"

"Hormorphus Charm!" said Luna "Gilderoy Lockhart is clearly a fraud, but Harry has kept us all well advised of our Defence coursework."

"Yeah I suppose." Said Ron

"What do you suppose?" said Neville coming in, the group had taken to meeting in the practice room regularly, partly because Luna couldn't enter the Gryffindor Common Room, but mostly because it kept others from eavesdropping. During lunch they had all been discussing the Chamber of Secret and inadvertently invited half of Gryffindor into the discussion and many dodgy characters in the house had tried to sell some protective amulets. Hermione and Harry and just stopped Neville from being duped when Professor McGonagall noticed and about 7 boys and a girl ended up losing the House collectively over 100 points and all eight of them had 2 weeks of detentions cleaning dusty unused classrooms.

The 100+ points turned out to be rather insignificant because by the end of the meal, each house had lost at least that much for much the same reason. Strangely the Hufflpuffs lost nearly 200 points, Emma saw the idiotic boy in Harry's year that challenged her status as sister of the Boy-Who-Lived, Zacharias Smith, being docked 50 points alone for protesting quite dramatically to Professors Sprout and Snape about how they lacked the right to confiscate his products. Smith was an idiot.

Neville entered followed by Vicky and Natalie, Geoffrey and Colin were in sitting at one of the desks playing chess; Ron, Luna and Demelza were playing exploding snap at another, Ginny was practicing her bat-bogey hex against the wall and Hermione, Harry and Emma were all reading different books.

"Hey guys?" said Emma asked Emma "What is a Parselmouth?"

Everyone turned to look at her. "Parselmouth?" said Ron "Why the hell do you want to know that?"

"Well I thought if we knew a bit more about Salazar Slytherin, we might be able to find the chamber more easily." Said Emma "I'm reading this profile in a history book I found and it mentions all his great magical abilities but it doesn't say what they are. I don't recognise the term Parselmouth?"

"It's Slytherin's most popular ability." Said Hermione "That's why the symbol for his house is a snake."

"Ok now you've lost me." said Emma

"Sorry." Said Hermione "Parseltongue is the ability to talk to snakes. People who can talk to Snakes are called Parselmouthes. It is said that only the Slytherin line has the technique but with the exception of Voldemort the last recorded Parselmouth was over 400 years ago."