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Title: Sudden Changes (re-write)
Author: Darkalli
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Warnings: Slash, violence, mentions of child abuse and language. Alcohol consumption.
Pairings: HP/SS, DM/BZ, LM/RL, FW/AJ, GW/OW, HG/CW

I’ve always wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my enemy to go swimming.

Chapter Eight: The Chamber of Secrets.

When Harry woke up on the morning of the first day of school, the sun hadn’t even risen yet. He got out of bed and quietly changed into a pair of track pants and a sleeve less shirt. After he tied up his new sneakers he grabbed his invisibility cloak and silently crept out of the room so as to not wake the other three occupants. After donning his cloak, Harry walked out of the Slytherin common room and headed through the Dungeon corridors.

By the time Harry reached the shore of the Black Lake the sun had already started its slow ascent into the sky. After hiding his cloak under a tree near-by, he stretched a little before starting off at a jog around the lake. Every morning that he had spent at the Dursley’s Harry would sneak out of the house and jog around the streets of Little Whinging. He had kept up the habit whilst at his new home and didn’t see why he shouldn’t keep it up while at school.

Running helped him to think, and right now he needed to think of a way to get everyone into the Chamber of Secrets. He knew that the tunnel was the way in and out for the Basilisk but he highly doubted that Salazar Slytherin himself would stoop to using it as his own entrance. He had to find a way, he needed the Chamber for the DA and there was no way they were all going to go town the pipe. Harry planned on going into the Chamber that night to have a look around. He was going to take Draco and Severus down there; they would both enjoy the plethora of ingredients that they would be able to gather from the body of the Basilisk.

He needed to have a look at the school records which are in the Restricted Section, hopefully Severus would agree to write him a permission slip to enable him access to the books he would need, though it wouldn’t be possible till his first potion lesson which wasn’t till Wednesday. He planned on trying to find where Slytherin’s office is, his portrait should be in there and hopefully he would be in a talking mood.

Once Harry had finished his run around the lake, he sat down behind the tree he hid his cloak in so he wouldn’t be seen and pulled out his pack of smokes and lit one. Drawing in a deep breath, he savoured the flavour of the first cigarette he had managed to have since he was on the train. There was only so many times you could fake needing to use the toilet before people became suspicious, or thought you had bladder issues. That was the last thing he needed, another rumour.

Harry’s first class of the day was charms with the Ravenclaw’s, unfortunately followed by double transfiguration with the Gryffindor’s. He would need to talk to Hermione about what went on in the Gryffindor common room the night before, so glad he had an insider in his former house.

After the odd turn of events at the sorting the previous night, Harry had noticed the reactions of the other houses. The Gryffindor’s, naturally, looked betrayed. The Hufflepuff’s seemed to have mixed reactions to the re-sorting. The Ravenclaw’s, mostly the older years, seemed to have contemplative looks on their faces. They would be the most accepting house, if they didn’t favour knowledge so much they would make excellent Slytherin’s. The Slytherin’s, on the other hand, had the least likely reaction he thought possible, they mostly welcomed him into the house. There would of course be those that would have sent letters straight to their Death Eater parents to inform them that the Gryffindor Golden Boy was now in their house, it was only a matter of time before Voldemort called a meeting to discuss the development.

By the time the sun had fully risen into the sky, Harry had made his way through half his packet of smokes. He had managed to organise his thoughts and create a mental plan for what he was wanting to do that night. He knew that Dumbledore could see through his invisibility cloak, so he would have to pay extra attention to his map as well as his surroundings whilst heading for the Chamber. For now, he had breakfast to attend.

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“Where were you this morning?” Draco asked Harry as the black haired wizard took a seat next to him at the Slytherin table.

“Jogging around the Black Lake.” Harry replied as he started to put food onto his plate.

“Since when do you jog?”

“Since it was the only way to get away from the Dursley’s for an hour a day. I took to it during the last two summers and I still try to do it here. Helps me to think.” Harry explained to the young blonde.

The pair grew silent as they tucked into their breakfast, with it being only seven thirty in the morning the hall was mostly filled with Ravenclaw’s pawing over whatever book was needed for their first lesson and the odd smattering of students at the other tables who were early risers. Not all of the teachers were in attendance yet either, Dumbledore was there of course, keeping an eye on Harry.

Dumbledore had been hoping that the boy wouldn’t be at breakfast so early, the task he had given to the youngest Weasley would not go into effect for another hour, well after Harry would have left the hall. If he himself couldn’t control the boy, then he would control him through another. Ginny Weasley had been given a month’s supply of a love potion, odourless and tasteless. It was a potion that created false infatuation and feelings of submission, if Ginny was able to get Harry to ingest the potion then she would have complete control over him and in turn, Dumbledore would have him back under his control.

If things went as planned, then the boy would be back in his control by the end of the week. But as usual, the Little Boy Wonder was throwing a wrench into his carefully thought out plans.

“Wonder what the old man is thinking, he looks rather constipated.” Harry remarked after he took a big gulp of his orange juice.

“I don’t know but it probably has something to do with you, it’s always to do with you.”

“He needs to get a life, of course it’s not going to happen anytime soon.”

“Anyway, after breakfast I want to meet up with Hermione to find out if anything interesting happened in the Gryffindor common room last night. I’ve also decided that we need to go into the Chamber tonight, we’ll need to bring Professor Snape with us.”

“Chamber? What Chamber?” Draco asked.

“The Chamber of Secrets. It’s the perfect spot to hold the DA meetings, Dumbledore can’t get into it. The only entrance I know of is the one in the girl’s unused bathroom on the second floor. That’s how I got down into the Chamber in our second year, I’ll need the help of both you and Severus to search for another entrance.” Harry Explained.

“If we’re unable to find the other entrance whilst down there then I plan on asking Severus for a pass to the restricted section to try and find a book referencing the whereabouts of Slytherin’s office.” Harry continued as he poured himself another goblet of juice.

“Okay, just let me know what time you want to head out tonight. For now, I believe it is time to meet up with Hermione, she’s just finished her meal.” Draco pointed out as he put away his charms book and stood from the table.

Harry quickly gulped down the remainder of his juice and grabbed the last three pieces of bacon off of his plate before standing up and following the blonde to the doors leading out of the hall.

They caught up with Hermione who was standing at the base of the Grand Staircase, she had one of her text books out and was skimming through it whilst she waited for the two boy’s to turn up. Upon their arrival she closed the book and placed it into her school satchel before turning to face her two friends.

“Took you two long enough to catch up.” Hermione said with a fond look on her face as she watched Harry shove the last of his bacon into his mouth.

“Hey, ever since I came into my magical inheritance and more of my magic opened up, my appetite has tripled. I guess it’s a good thing because since my birthday I’ve grown five inches and actually gained weight.” Harry explained in indignation as the three teens walked up the stairs.

“At least you don’t eat like Ronald. I swear he eats like a starving beggar eating their first meal in weeks. That’s at every meal too.” Hermione said as they reached the third floor corridor where their Charms class was.

“Did you have a run in with him last night?” Harry asked as they stopped outside an empty room a few doors down from the charms classroom, they still had just under an hour till their class started.

“He and his sister ambushed me as soon as they found me in the common room, I ignored them the best I could but eventually I had to head up to my dorm room. Thankfully, with me being the Head Girl this year, I have my own room so I was able to escape from them completely.” Hermione informed them as they entered the unused room to continue their conversation in private.

“Things will start to get heated once everyone has settled in. I’m still waiting for the fallout from last nights’ sorting, it’s guaranteed that the students with Death Eater parents will have sent their little letters off telling about how I’m now in Slytherin.” Harry said to his two companions.

“Pansy told me this morning that she saw Millicent Bulstrode sending off a letter.” Draco informed them as he took a seat.

“Hmm, It’s alright. I knew it was going to happen, we’ll just have to see how it plays out.”

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The rest of the day went by fairly quickly; the two hours Harry was stuck in Transfiguration with Ronald was both tedious and funny. The volatile Weasley spent the majority of the lesson trying to provoke a reaction out of Harry, however he ended up getting the Gryffindor’s close to being in the negative when it came to house points.

Seems McGonagall no longer favoured that particular Gryffindor, she was less than impressed when she found out that most of the Weasley family were being paid by Dumbledore.

Arithmancy turned out to be a rather interesting class, he was thankful he had decided to take it. It didn’t hurt that it was one of only two of his classes that didn’t have the Weasley in it.

Dumbledore must have done something to prevent the news of Harry’s resorting from getting to the papers, he was expecting for it to be in The Daily Prophet but there was not a single thing mentioned.

Harry planned on going to Severus’ office after dinner to talk to him about going down into the Chamber with he and Draco. He was hoping that the man wasn’t on rounds that night and that he’d be able to help them sneak up to the second floor bathroom so they could access the tunnel. Harry was really hoping that Myrtle would be off in one of the u-bends so that he didn’t have to put up with her talking about him dying and haunting the bathroom with her.

Like at breakfast, Dumbledore was concentrating his attention on the Slytherin table. The boy had somehow managed to not be effected by the potion that he knew was in the goblet of pumpkin juice the boy was drinking. The effects should have been instant but the boy went on as though nothing was in the goblet other than what was supposed to be.

Little did Dumbledore know, Dobby had taken it upon himself to check all of Harry’s food before it went up to his place at the table. It was harder with the juice because it was served in jugs but he had managed it. With the wizarding world on the brink of war with Voldemort, Dobby didn’t want to chance his unofficial master being hurt. He wasn’t happy when he saw the sister of Harry’s red headed friend passing a vial to another house elf at breakfast and then again at lunch, unlike the other elves Dobby wasn’t subjected to the same orders. He would need to inform Harry of what he had discovered, maybe the wizard could find out what the potions were.

HPSSHPSSHPSSHPSSHPSSHPSS

“Is there a reason why you are at my office and not in the common room, Mr Potter?”

“I need to talk to you, sir. It’s about what we discussed earlier.” Harry informed the potions professor.

“Very well, come inside.” Severus stepped aside and allowed the boy to enter into his office.

The pair of wizards walked over to the desk at the far wall and sat down, Severus pulled a bit of parchment towards him and started to mark it with a red quill. Harry guessed it must be someone’s summer homework, from the look of the rapid progress of red ink going along the parchment, he figured it wasn’t a good one.

“What is it you wanted to discuss?” the potions professor asked as he dipped his quill into the ink pot again.

“I’ve found somewhere to hold the new DA meetings, problem is that I need to find an alternate entrance and I was hoping that you would come with me and Draco to go and look around.”

“And where is this location you have decided on?”

“The Chamber of Secrets.”

“You’ve decided to have the meetings in a chamber that houses an unknown creature?” Severus asked as he put his quill down and pushed the parchment away from him.

“The Basilisk isn’t alive anymore, it’s only useful for potions ingredients now.” Harry told him off handily.

“The Chamber creature was a Basilisk?”

“How can you not know that? I thought that Dumbledore had told all the teachers about what went on down in the Chamber.” Harry asked shocked.

“All we were told was that he had found out what was behind the petrification of the students and that it had been dealt with. He didn’t even tell us where the entrance to the Chamber was.” Severus explained.

“The Basilisk was using a tunnel that exited into the unused second floor girl’s bathroom. I need to go in there tonight to see if there is another entrance because I highly doubt that Salazar Slytherin would have used a slimy tunnel to enter into his chamber.” Harry explained.

“If I came with you would I be able to harvest the Basilisk for ingredients?” Severus asked, barely containing the glint of glee in his eyes.

“Sure, it’s only going to go to waste otherwise.” Harry told him with a hint of laughter in his voice.

“What time are you wanting to go down there?”

“After curfew, less likely to run into anyone. Draco and I will sneak up there under my cloak and we’ll meet you there at about twelve.” Harry told him.

“Alright, I will see you at twelve.” Severus told him as they both stood from their seats and headed towards the door.

Harry left the office and headed further into the dungeons towards the Slytherin dorms. When he entered the common room he saw Draco, Pansy, Theo and Blaise sitting on the leather lounges in front of the fireplace. It looked like Draco had once again scared off any younger year from sitting on those particular lounges, he was really having fun scaring the little first years.

“Harry, over here.” The blonde called as he spotted the younger wizard enter.

“I just spoke with Professor Snape, he agreed for twelve.” Harry told the group as he sat down next to Pansy.

“Was he all excited about the Basilisk?” Draco asked.

“He didn’t even know about it, apparently Dumbledore only told the teachers what he wanted them to know. Nothing about how I got into the chamber, nor about what was actually doing the petrification’s.” Harry explained.

“How far do his manipulations go?” Pansy asked incredulously.

“There will be more that are going to be revealed before the year is even out.” Theo added into the conversation.

The five teens continued to talk about the headmaster and his manipulations as the night slowly passed, all the younger years had eventually gone to their dorms and left the five older students the only ones in the common room.

Eventually even Pansy, Theo and Blaise left to go to bed and as they all walked out of the room, Harry noticed Draco’s eyes eagerly following Blaise’s ass as the boy walked from the room.

“When are you going to tell him already?” Harry asked the blonde once the Italian wizard was no longer in sight.

“Tell who what?”

“Oh please, don’t insult my intelligence. I know you have the hots for Blaise.” Harry replied incredulously.

“I do not.”

“Ah, yes you do. Every time you see him you stare at him like a starving man looking at his next meal.”

“I have no idea what you are talking about.” Draco said as he stood from his seat and walked over to the table in the corner that had jugs of juice and water on it.

“You can keep denying it all you want but your feelings for him are obvious to everyone but he and you.”

“Just drop it, okay Harry. If we’re talking about feelings, then are you going to admit to yours about Severus?” Draco changed the subject onto his friend.

“Oh I already know how I feel about him; I also know that nothing will ever happen. Whereas the feelings you have for Blaise are returned.” Harry told him, he had no qualms about admitting to his attraction to the potions master, he also knew without a doubt that the man only tolerated him because he was the only way the man would be free of both his masters.

“Can we just change topics completely, please? What time is it?” Draco asked once he drained his goblet.

“It’s eleven thirty, if we leave now then we should get to the second floor by twelve. Just let me go and get my cloak and map.” Harry conceded to Draco’s request for a topic change. He headed towards the dorm he shared with the other seventh year boy and retrieved his cloak and map from their hiding place within his trunk.

“Alright, let me check the map to make sure no one is outside the entrance.” Harry said to the blonde as he returned to the common room.

Harry said the password to reveal the maps contents and then promptly had his vision obstructed by a blonde head. Draco had pushed his way in front of Harry to get a look at the unfolded map as it started to reveal itself.

“What the hell is this?”

“It’s a map that my father and his friends made while they were at Hogwarts. It shows everyone in the castle, no matter where they are. There are only two places that it doesn’t show and that’s the Chamber and the room of requirement.” Harry informed his as he looked at the map to see outside the Slytherin dorms.

“This thing is awesome, look there is the Weasel. Looks like Dumbledore has called upon his two little pets, they’re both in his office.” Draco pointed out when he spotted the names in the headmaster’s office.

“Probably discussing whatever it is that had the old coot pissed at every meal today.” Harry said as he looked at that location on the map.

“Looks like Hermione is doing her rounds.” Harry pointed out as he found her name on the map.

“She’s on the second floor, isn’t that near where you said the unused bathroom is?”

“Yeah, she must be doing her Head Girl duties tonight. She said something about keeping an eye out tonight if she was able, she must have talked the Head Boy into swapping nights with her.” Harry added as he looked at her name on the map.

“Well that will make it easier to sneak into the bathroom. There is no one on patrol in the Dungeons so we should be fine, at least until we get to the second floor corridor where it looks like the sixth year Ravenclaw prefect is patrolling. We need to go down that corridor to get to the bathroom.” Harry said once he had studied the map.

“We’ll worry about that when we get there, let’s head out now so we don’t leave the professor waiting for us. That won’t go over too well.” Draco told Harry as they headed to the passage leading to the stone wall that hid their common room.

Hidden under the cloak and with a silencing charm placed on their shoes, the two young wizards made their way up to the second floor. They almost ran into Peeves on the Grand Staircase but a noise seemed to distract him before he could reveal their position and he floated off in the direction the sound came from. Other than their almost run in with Peeves, they met no one else until they came to the second floor corridor and saw the Ravenclaw prefect. Getting passed him was rather easy considering it seems as though his girlfriend had joined him and they were currently leaning against the wall snogging each other and not paying attention to their surroundings.

They didn’t run into Hermione but the corridor outside the bathroom was completely empty so they entered the room to find the potions professor standing by the sinks waiting impatiently. Not a good idea to make the stoic man wait for anything. They quickly pulled the cloak off and walked further into the room.

“Took the two of you long enough.”

“Sorry, we almost had a run in with Peeves.” Harry explained as he folded his cloak and placed it into the bag he had bought with him.

“Well, now that you are here, let’s get on with this.” Severus told him.

Harry pulled his wand out of his holster and walked over to the sinks, he spoke the password and stepped back to watch as both Draco and Severus looked at the moving sinks with awe. Once the entrance had opened, Harry cast a Lumos charm and aimed the light down the tunnel, it looked just as slimy and dismal as it did in his second year.

“It’s a really gross tunnel to go down but seeing as we are going down to try and find an alternate entrance then it should be fine for the first few times.” Harry told them as he prepared to jump down the tunnel.

“You mean we actually have to go down there?” Draco asked as he looked into the tunnel with disgust.

“Yes Draco, we have to go into the dark slimy tunnel. The world isn’t going to end if you get a bit of dirt on you.” Harry told him before promptly jumping down the pipe.

When he got to the end of the tunnel he cast a banishing charm to get rid of all the rooster carcases, he was just in the process of casting a cleaning charm when Draco reached the bottom. The look on his face made Harry laugh, he had only ever seen that look on the blonde that morning when he had made the mistake of looking over at the Gryffindor table and saw Weasley eating his breakfast.

“Well that was disgusting.”

“You’d better move, I can hear Severus coming down.” Harry told him. The blonde had just barely moved when the potions master gracefully exited the tunnel.

“Do you ever do anything without grace?” Harry asked him.

“Let’s just get going.”

The three wizards continued into the tunnel that lead to the circular door leading into the actual chamber itself, once they reached the area where the cave in occurred, when Lockhart tried to Obliviate him, Harry and Draco cast a banishment charm on the fallen rocks whilst Severus cast a spell to reinforce the roof. Once the way was clear, Severus pulled out a few jars from his satchel and started to collect some of the Basilisk skin.

Once he had collected enough to fill three small jars, the three of them headed further down the tunnel. Once Harry had spoken the password and the actual entrance door had open, Harry led the two others down the ladder and then towards where the Basilisk was.

“You actually fought that thing?” Draco asked him.

“It seemed bigger. Probably because I was twelve and like five foot tall. There must be some kind of preservation charm on the chamber, that Basilisk has been lying dead there for five years and it should be bones by now.” Harry said as he moved closer to examine the mouth.

“Where is the other fang?” Severus asked as he started to extract the venom from the one fang that was left.

“Dumbledore has it, along with Tom Riddle’s diary.” Harry told him.

“Who is Tom Riddle?” Draco asked as he helped Severus to peel off some of the scales.

“Tom Marvolo Riddle is Voldemort’s birth name. His name is an anagram; it changes from Tom Marvolo Riddle to I Am Lord Voldemort. Pretty sure he’s in love with himself.” Harry told him.

"So much for his rant on blood supremecy, he's one of the things he claims to despise." Draco added once he got over the shock of Voldemort not being a pureblood like he claimed.

“Like I said, in love with himself. Anyway, I’m going to head off and look for any other rooms.” Harry told the other two wizards before walking further into the chamber.

HPSSHPSSHPSSHPSSHPSSHPSS

For the next three hours all three wizards went about their tasks, Harry walked along all the walls looking for a door while Severus and Draco continued to harvest the Basilisk. Severus would be able to make quite a bit of money from selling the ingredients. Draco had helped with collecting the ingredients but had stopped about an hour in to help Harry with his search.

Just when Harry was about to give up, he noticed a motif of a snake that was barely visible in the dull lighting of the chamber. It looked like the snake on the sinks up in the bathroom and Harry wondered if it required the same password.

“Hey guys, come over here. I think I found something.” Harry called out.

“What is it?” Draco asked.

“I found a snake motif that matches the one up in the bathroom, I would have missed it if the light wasn’t shining on it the way it is.” Harry pointed out to them.

“Well, open it then.” Draco told him.

Harry gave him an incredulous look before turning to the wall and speaking in parseltongue to open the hidden door. The wall rumbled and a panel the size of a door pushed inwards a bit before sliding to the right. Once the door stopped moving, it was like a spell had been activated, there was a cascade effect as lanterns along the left side of the wall lit up showing a hall leading to another door.

Harry entered the hallway first and made his way towards the door. Thankfully this door had a handle and with a quick turn it opened easily. Behind the door was a spiral staircase leading back up into the school, as they walked up the stairs lanterns along the wall lit their way. At the top of the stairs was a door that automatically opened as Harry approached it, like out in the hall, the lanterns inside the room lit up upon the door opening giving the three wizards the needed light to see where they were. They walked further into the room and noticed it was a sitting room, there were chairs over in front of a rather ornate fireplace, above it was a picture of Hogwarts during winter. The fireplace lit up with the presence of the wizards and more of the room came into light. Along the right wall were several doors leading off to who knows where, another door was on the far wall which Harry assumed must be the door to lead out of the quarters. He had a sneaking suspicion as to where they were but he wanted to make sure before voicing his thoughts.

“Where are we?” Draco asked as he walked further into the room.

“I have no idea, well at least not much of one yet. Pick a door and explore.” Harry said as he picked the door closest to the staircase entrance.

It was a lucky pick, the room turned out to be an office. He headed towards the desk to see if he could determine whose office it was when he heard a voice from behind him, spinning around he was a portrait on the wall beside the door. The occupant was even more shocking than the sudden voice.

“Who are you and why are you in my quarters?”

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A/N: Longest chapter yet, over 5,000 words.
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