The Girl Who Lived, Loved And Lost.

2~18

The twins turned around to see Tom Riddle walking up to them. "Tom. Tom Riddle! What do you mean she won't wake? She's not...?" Harry started to trail off.

"She's still alive but only just," Tom told him

"What are you? Are you a ghost?" Delilah asked Tom.

"A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years" Tom responded.

Delilah felt Ginny's skin "Harry she's as cold as ice"

Harry followed his sister's actions and also felt Ginny's skin "Ginny wake up! You've got to help us, Tom. There's a basilisk"

"It won't come until it's called" Tom informed the tow while picking up their wands.

"What are you doing? Give me our wands Tom" Delilah commanded to the older boy while holding out her hand.

"You won't be needing them" He informed her.

"Listen we've got to go! We've got to save her" Harry shouted.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Harry. You see as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger. Yes, Harry Delilah, it was Ginny who opened the Chamber of Secrets " Tom responded.

"No. She couldn't. She wouldn't!" Harry said.

"It was Ginny who set the basilisk on the Mudbloods and Filch's cat, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls," Tom told the two.

"But why?" Harry asks.

Delilah suddenly realized what was going on "Harry we've been tricked. Tom isn't the good guy in this scenario"

Tom nodded his head "Well done Delilah. Ginny did it all because I told her to. You'll find I can be very persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing. She was, shall we say in a kind of trance. Still, the power of the diary began to scare her. And she tried to dispose of it in the girl's bathroom. And then, who should find it, but you two. The two people I was most anxious to meet"

"But why did you want to meet us?" Harry asked.

"I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to show you my capture of that brainless oaf Hagrid to gain both of your trust" Tom told the young boy.

"Hagrid's our friend! And you framed him didn't you?" Delilah shouted in anger.

"It was my word against Hagrid's. Only Dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent" Tom responded with a slightly frustrated tone.

"So Dumbledore saw right through you then" Delilah stated.

"He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that. I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at school, so I decided to leave behind a diary preserving my sixteen-year-old self in it's pages so that one day I would be able to lead another to finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work"

"Well, you haven't finished it this time. In a few hours, the mandrake draught will be ready and everyone who was petrified will be all right again" Harry told him.

"Haven't I told you? Killing mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now my new target... has been the both of you. How is it that two babies, with no extraordinary magical talent, were able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you both escape with nothing but a scar while Lord Voldemort's power was destroyed"

"Why do you care how we escaped? Voldemort was after your time" Harry said.

Delilah sat on the cold floor next to Ginny's body as she listened to Tom "You..." She put her hand over her mouth "How?"

Harry turned to his sister in confusion "What is it, Lilah?"

Tom used Delilah's wand to spell out his name.

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

He waved his wand so they spelt out the words...

I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

"He's Voldemort Harry" Delilah whispered out.

"Voldemort is my past, present, and future," Tom says with a smirk on his face "Surely, you didn't think I was going to keep my filthy muggle father's name? No. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world"

"Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!" Harry yelled.

"Dumbledore's been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!" Tom shouted

"He'll never be gone! Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him" Delilah spat out. As Delilah said that she heard a phoenix call above her. When she looked up she saw that it was Fawkes. Fawkes dropped the sorting hat down next to Harry and Delilah and then landed on one of the statues.

"So this is what Dumbledore sends his great defenders, a songbird and an old hat" Tom turned to a statue and started to speak parseltongue. After he spoke the mouth of the state opened and out slithered the basilisk.