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Raised by a Scoundrel	By : Viking_Six-Nine_Actual Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 23363 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. Dedicated to SPC Robinson, 1991-2013

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Chapter 5: In the darkness, I feel the bones

Hogwarts Castle, October 31, 1992
‘The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.’
A cat, Ms. Norris, was found petrified and tied up next to the inscription written in blood. The floor was flooded with water.
Deeper in the castle near the Dungeons, a few months later
Professor Snape was a man, pale with slick greasy hair and a permanent scowl from a presumed heartbreak years ago that had never healed, was penning a letter to his predecessor.
The man was both the former Potions master, and Head of Slytherin House like Snape was now. His name was Horace Slughorn.
Horace,
Something has happened at Hogwarts again, that I believe happened at your time. A cat has been found petrified, and a warning scribed in blood, stating that the chamber of secrets has been opened. Since then a couple muggleborns and a ghost have also been discovered petrified.
My research has led me to discover that the chamber has been opened before some 50 years ago when you were here. A second year muggleborn was killed in a bathroom. Since most of the victims then were petrified, I believe the “monster” in the chamber is most likely a basilisk.
A basilisk, kills upon sight. However if the victim only views the creature indirectly, say through a reflection in water or a mirror, the deadly sight would be lessened in to petrification.
I hope you have more knowledge to assist me in my oath to protect the students not only in my charge, but the whole school.
Respectfully,
Severus
He finished up the letter and sent it by owl and waited, for a reply. A couple of days later he got one. It was rather short, but mentioned seeing a carved snake on a sink in the bathroom the girl was found in. It was his belief that Parseltongue would be required to speak to gain access to the chamber, he did note that he had a friend who knew a snake-speaker. He also mentioned that he believed the information should not reach the headmaster.
Ilvermorny, Middish-Winter, 1993
When Lily Potter received Slughorn’s letter, she got angry. His letter included all he knew about the Chamber of secrets and what had been going on at Hogwarts. It also included a thought he had had, that a Basilisk’s deadly sight could be blocked completely with special rune marked goggles and a modified mandrake draught. When she showed Padfoot the letter, Padfoot asked when he and the cub were going to fight the creature. Lily stormed off. Padfoot made plans to journey secretly to the Scottish Lochs, secretly enter the castle, and save all the “innocent maidens”. He also contacted Slughorn as Padfoot, referred to Lily as Prong’s Tiger-Lily and Harry as Prongsson. He promised to be there by the Easter break, and that whatever parts the retired professor wanted of the basilisk would be used as payment for the rune goggles and modified potion. The challenging part for Slughorn would be making one set of goggles adjust to a large dog’s face and be able to shift into a person’s face. Slughorn wrote back a week later and announced that the plan was in motion.
Hogwarts Castle, Mid-April, 1993
"Her Skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever."
Per coincidence or just the will of magic, Ginny Weasley, sister of Ron and a first year, was taken down to the chamber the same day Padfoot and Harry arrived secretly on British shores. They got their gear which also included a special bag created to hold live domesticated fowl, in this case a rooster.
Casting a spell to hide themselves from the wards detecting they were there, Padfoot and Harry, snuck into the secret passage in Honeydukes and Padfoot disillusioned themselves.
Moving quickly, they made their way to the carved snake and Harry spoke “$Open$” when it opened they saw a curved passageway like a slide, wide enough to fly through on broom, luckily they packed them. Fearlessly they descended into the deep.
They emerged in a snakeskin covered, rodent graveyard. As the looked around they noticed a round door with seven carved snakes emerging from the hinge. When Harry again spoke “$Open$” an eighth snake emerged and wrapping its way around the door pushed in the other snakes, unlocking the door.
What they saw next was incredible, a twenty-five foot tall bust of Salazar Slytherin filled the rear wall, and his mouth was open and empty. Water covered the ground and fourteen large snake heads adorned the walls of the passage, seven on each side. At the far end near the bust of Slytherin was a small, red-headed girl looking as cold as ice, and clutching a black diary.
After taking in the chamber a man emerged, about sixteen years old, and handsome, but out of time, dressed in the Hogwarts uniform of the forties.
“Welcome to the Chamber of Secrets, I am Tom Marvolo Riddle, Heir of Slytherin.” He said ominously.
“Tom Marvolo Riddle, now where have I heard that name before,” Harry asked Padfoot, “Oh that’s right sometime after you left Hogwarts you decided to conquer Britain and rebranded yourself Lord Voldemort.”
Tom starred at him slightly dumbstruck. Harry Continued:
“Hello. My name is Harry Potter. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” As he took up a dueling stance along with Padfoot.
“Ah but Mr. Potter that is where you are wrong twice, I did not kill your father, for I am but a memory preserved in a diary,” He gestured at the diary held by Ginny, “for fifty years. Also you can’t kill me until Ginny dies. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger.”
Turning to face his ancestor, Riddle spoke “&Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four$, Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter. It only obeys me.”
A monstrous serpent extracted itself from Slytherin’s mouth. As it worked its way out, Harry pulled his concealed rooster out of his bag since it had been stunned, just prior to crowing when Harry woke the bird up it crowed and the basilisk began thrashing madly before falling to the ground, the light from its murderous eyes fading. Working quickly Padfoot clawed out the eyes into special pouches harry threw at him while shooting spells at Riddle, who simply dodged them.
“Hey Padfoot,” Harry yelled at his godfather in-between spells, “If this Riddle is a memory hosted by the diary, would killing the diary kill the memory?”
Padfoot barked in approval. He transformed and grabbed a fang from the basilisk, while shooting spells at Riddle. He handed the fang to Harry, who was now between Ginny and Riddle, and took over dueling.
Harry took the fang and stabbed the diary, Ginny began gasping for air and, Riddle now had light shooting out of him in different spots. Harry opened the diary and stabbed it again, Riddle exploded in a flash of pure light.
Ginny woke up and saw a black haired boy with green eyes accompanied by a great, big black dog, both wearing goggles. The boy said:
“It’s okay Ginny, Padfoot and I, Prongsson saved you.”
She promptly passed out.
She woke up in the hospital wing after being found by her twin brothers in a flooded bathroom.
She said “Some black haired boy with green eyes accompanied by a great, big black dog, saved me, he said he was Prongsson and the dog was Padfoot.”
The twin exchanged glances…

Notes:
1. First off sorry for the delay I’ve been dealing with personal health issues and haven’t had the time to write, I’m probably going to only be able to post every other day at most, possibly every third day.
2. Second, Neville is not the boy-who-lived, for the same reason Harry is in Canon. However, he is the second child of prophesy, and Dumbledore being the manipulative bastard he is purposely sent Neville and other children into the corridor to confront the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord’s soul is simply so corrupted, that touching the pure, innocent boy destroyed his host body.
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