Harry stepped into the girl's washroom that has been abandon for a while by the looks of it with no one coming out of the stalls or anyone chatting to someone. It was eerie quiet which gave Harrison a small bit of goosebumps. There was no babbling idiots around which was probably a good thing.
*Open,* he hissed, watching the sink move and descending downwards revealing a dusty pipe which Harrison slid down into the dark pathway that should lead to Salazar's Chamber of Secrets at least from the directions he was told.
Lighting a quick Lumos with his wand he steered to the pathway noticing the bones surrounding him which made a crunching noise as he passed by until he reached a doorway with snakes on it.
*Open,* Harrison hissed, his Avada Kedavra eyes watching the door open revealing the murky place of the Chamber of Secrets.
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Harrison stepped forth into the eerie green glow belonging to the Chamber of Secrets. He looked around the chamber and noticed the snake heads with their fangs pointing out, as if ready to attack. His footsteps echoed with the wet puddles on the dark, concrete path making his shoes soaked, and causing a mark of wet footsteps. At the very end of the chamber was what he assumed was Salazar's head, with a mouth that looked like it would open if he spoke the right thing. There were open areas belonging to very large pipes for Salazar's monster if someone who wasn't a Slytherin called it. The said monster wasn't a monster at all, just a Basilisk who could kill you if you made eye contact or the reflection of the snake caused petrification.
Harrison could still hear Draco's words echoing throughout his head,
"How long have you spoken Parseltongue?" Draco asked him.
"You should really hide your curiosity better and keep your thoughts to yourself." He brushed off Draco's question, as if it wasn't anything important. He knew it was the blonde's curiosity, but it was something he really wasn't ready to share fully yet.
He knew the blonde was never going to give up, and would keep on persisting about it. There were several memories that should remain hidden, deep within his occlumency shields to where it would truly take someone who didn't mind all the horrors he planted in his mind, to discover them. It was some deeply personal memories that didn't deserve to see the light of day especially when it dealt with the Potters directly.
He smiled as he stepped forth, until he was standing right in front of Salazr's head. He did it! He finally found the Chamber of Secrets and hopefully its uses would be able to help. Salazar told him that the chamber held several helpful items to aid in his journey and for his own benefit. At least, he would be able to hide in the Chamber of Secrets without worrying that his secrets or any prying eyes would be able to tell. Besides, he didn't have to be in the company of his annoying pupils who acted like spoiled brats at times, who had everything handed to them while he was rotting away in Azkaban.
He put his mask back into place, as he couldn't risk anyone knowing about what he was doing. He knew there hadn't been a parselmouth at Hogwarts within thousands of years besides when the Dark Lord came about. He also wasn't stupid, and perhaps someone with curious intentions discovered the chamber.
He studied Salazar's mouth, and a thought popped into his head. Salazar didn't really say if there was another password, so he thought he'd try the one he used to get into the pipe trailing into the Chamber, and the one in getting in.
It had been about fifty years or so when the basilisk was last called, by another parselmouth. He always thought it was the Dark Lord as there wasn't another parselmouth who went to Hogwarts. The petrifications stopped right after it killed a mudblood girl, a girl who now lingered as a ghost, haunting the girls' loo right where she died. The culprit and the 'monster' which turned out to be an Acromantula, was caught, with the student being expelled.
He couldn't help but find it funny that an Acromantula got blamed for being the monster. Of course, Hogwarts was desperate to find the monster who was doing all the petrifications, but everyone who cracked open a book and actually read about the species knew that the spider couldn't cause petrifications, and wouldn't leave the victims intact as the spider is known for its venom, and eating human prey.
While the real monster was indeed a snake, and had been in slumber for fifty years right after the attacks stopped, Hogwarts was quite contemptuous with its monster.
*Open,* Harrison hissed.
Salazar's mouth opened, and he couldn't help but let a glint of glee escape through his eyes, before it disappeared as if it was never there.
*Amara, reveal yourself.* He ordered.
*Why should I?* came the rhetorical response from the snake, as the snake slithered out of its mouth.
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