Cara Gaunt, a proud Slytherin with a rude cold exterior is a mean force at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her incredible magic speaks for itself. It is not until she meets a certain redhead who breaks down her wall and shows her wha...
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Back in the common room, it wasn't that much different. Draco, Blaise, and Pansy took it upon themselves to interrogate the young witch.
"What were you doing with Potter?" Pansy asked accusingly.
Cara gave her a pointed look. "Nothing Parkinson. We had detention in case you forgot."
Blaise, who was laying on the couch with a book in his hand decided to support his friend. "Pansy, leave it alone."
"We will not," Draco said. His gaze on Cara didn't leave. He was questioning what she could've done. He knew she had detention but she didn't have to say with him afterward either. "There's something else." He looked at her with pleading eyes. "What happened?"
Cara didn't want to lie to her friend. Especially if her friend was Draco. The only person who ever understood her.
"I-I heard a voice."
Pansy rolled her eyes. "Great she's crazy."
"Shut the fuck up-"
"Language Gaunt!" Blaise yelped while he looked around to see if anyone heard.
Draco nodded at Cara to continue. And she did.
"I heard a voice, I'm not going crazy. Potter heard it too." She explained. "So we followed it. His friends came along I didn't ask any of them to follow me. And it led us there."
Draco absorbed the words and nodded. "Ok, I believe you."
She pulled him into a tight embrace. One that he returned but softly.
It was the next morning and Cara sat in McGonagall's class trying not to fall asleep.
"Today we will be turning animals into water goblets!" The professor proudly stated. Her small framed stood before a bird and she tapped it three times with her wand. In seconds in transfigured into a gorgeous water goblet."
"Who wants to go first?" She asked.
Cara raised her hand and McGonagall nodded for her to continue. She looked at the toad in front of her and with three taps it beautifully turned into a water goblet.
"That was extraordinary."
Cara smiled brightly and turned to give a thumbs up to Blaise who was across the room.
"Mr. Weasley?"
"Yes Ma'am?" Ron said unsurely.
"Will you like to go?"
He nodded and faced his pet rat named Scabbers. And with three taps of his wand, it surely transformed, but his tail remained.
Cara snickered to herself and Ron shot her a glare.
"You just replace that wand, Mr. Weasley." She reminded him.
He nodded shyly and hid his broken wand in his sleeve.
Cara kicked Ron's leg from under the table and returned it.
"Leave me alone Gaunt."
She rolled her eyes. And reached her hand from across the table and into his sleeve retrieving his wand.
"Bloody hell what are you doing?" He asked completely taken off guard.
"Shush."
"But you took my wand!"
She lifted her wand to face his broken one and with one wrist motion, she said the incantation. "Reparo."
The wood mended itself together until it looked as good as new.
She took the wand into her hands and handed it back to the redhead who looked at it questionably.
"Thank you?"
"Sure."
Hermione from a few tables down raised her hand to ask a question. "Professor I was wondering if you could tell us what is in the Chamber of Secrets."
Silence filled the air.
"I teach Transfigurations, Miss Granger."
"What is she doing?" Ron whispered to himself.
"I guess you're all crazy," Cara said while shaking her head.
Ron turned to her in amusement. "I'm not the one hearing voices."
She cracked a smile at that and proceeded to kick his shin once more.
He groaned and sent her an annoyed expression that she smiled too.
"Very well," McGonagall started. "You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age."
Cara's ears piped up at the information. It sounded like something she heard her father say.
"Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, Salazar Slytherin. Three of the founders co-existed quite harmoniously. One did not."
"Who?" Ron asked.
"Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within all magical families. In other words purebloods. He was unable to sway the others, he decided to leave the school."
Cara understood why it sounded so familiar now. This was a tale she was told again and again as a young girl. It was a belief that was set in her mind since she was born.
"According to the legend, Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in this castle, known as the Chamber of Secrets. Shortly before departing, he sealed it until that time comes that his one true heir returned to the school. The heir alone would be able to open the Chamber of Secrets and unleash the horror within. And by so doing, purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic."
"Muggleborn." Hermione sulked.
Why is Hermione making such a big deal out of it? Muggleborn are the only reason their world can be revealed.
After class Cara met up with Draco and his friends as they walked away.
"That Granger girl seemed bothered by what Professor said." Cara pointed out.
"No duh, she a Muggleborn is she not?" Goyle told her. Crabbe agreed and Cara rolled her eyes.
"I'm clearly talking to Draco, not you two."
Draco raised his hand in a way to tell her to be quiet but she continued. "Seriously Draco, out of all the people you can be friends with."
"Cara calm down. Why is this bothering you so much."
Cara looked around and slowly inched closer. "It's the voices."
He stared at her for a moment before erupting into laughter. "Oh, hahaha the voices." He couldn't breathe and turned to his minions who joined in the laughter unsurely.
"It is not funny."
"I know it's just-" he tried to finish but another wave of laughter came over him.
"You suck sometimes I hope you know." She growled before grabbing her belongings and walking away.
