The two girls were just resting in Lyra's bed, Hermione had grabbed her book but made no attempt to go back to her own bed. Hermione sprung up from where she was laying one hand on her book the other petting Onyx "The boys!"
"What?" Lyra opened her eyes from where she'd been day dreaming.
"They had detention! I told them we'd go find them after"
"Now why would you go and do that" Lyra whined shutting her eyes once more.
"Because that's what good friends do, get up let's go!" Hermione shoved Lyra as she put her book on her bed, Lyra just groaned but followed after the bossy witch. Finding Ron had been easy but Harry was no where to be seen.
"He's with Lockhart" she muttered wanting nothing more then to go back to her bed and sleep for the night, the trio walked toward DADA but something whispering caught her attention so she held back looking around, the corridors were empty but she had heard something whisper, she just hadn't made it out.
"Lyra! You heard it didn't you?" Harry surprised her causing her to snap around and stare at the other three.
"Oh my god, you did!" Hermione gasped.
Ronald scratched the back of his head as he looked around "Heard what?"
"It's time" a voice hissed out and Lyra's blood ran cold, that wasn't possible, it just simply wasn't possible! She had the diary, she hadn't opened the chamber, it wasn't possible.
"It's moving, i think it's going to kill" Harry's head snapped up and he was already moving.
"Kill?" Ron demanded but the three others were left to chase after Harry as he ran towards the whispering.
"Harry wait! Not so fast!" Hermione pleaded, she wasn't in bad shape but out of the four of them she was much more comfortable with a book instead of outside training for quidditch.
Lyra was practically glued to Harry's side as he sprinted off, the pair having been doing the same training it made sense, Ron wasn't far behind his long legs making up for the difference "Harry pause for a moment, we don't know what we're about to find!" she begged but he just kept running.
Lyra had so much running through her mind, this shouldn't be possible, not even just the beast waking but her being able to hear it, she wasn't a parseltongue at least she hadn't thought she was, there were no proof it was ever in the Black family line.
They hit a corridor and Harry reached out gripping her arm as he brought them to a stop, both Ron and Hermione were somewhere behind them, in a neat line there fled spiders, they were in sync like ants "Strange...I've never seen spiders act like that" Harry watched them in shock.
"That's because they don't, they're scared" Lyra frowned deeply, how! How is this happening?
"I don't like spiders" Ron whimpered and Lyra patted his arm to comfort the boy knowing he was in for a hell of a time "What's that?" They all turned to look at what Ron had seen and that's when she saw it, it was written on the wall in a bright red, it didn't take a genius to know what the liquid was.
"The chamber of secrets has been opened enemies of the heir...Beware. It's written in blood" Hermione read out loud.
"Oh no" Harry whispered and went to move forward but Lyra locked her hand around his wrist.
"Stop! They're coming!" she hissed and they all looked up to see the halls quickly being filled as if this was a joke being played on them.
"It's Filch's cat" Harry frowned not taking his eyes from the feline.
"I know that Harry, she will be fine" Lyra whispered keeping him by her side.
"Enemies of the heir beware? You'll be next mudbloods" Draco sneered but he wasn't looking at anything but the wall.
"What's going on here?" Filch's croaked voice sounded and Lyra tugged Harry further back to which he didn't fight her "Come on make way, make way...Mrs Norris? You've murdered my cat" he muttered but his eyes looked up and found Harry and Lyra who were a few steps closer the the others.
"No, no" Harry shook his head wanting to explain.
"I'll kill ya" Filch stated calmly before the nodding of his head became unhinged and he grabbed the front of Harrys robes "I'll kill ya!"
Lyra's wand was up and in his face before anything else escalated "Argus?" Dumbledore's voice made everyone jump as the corridor had fallen silent everyone waiting on edge to see if the Black heir would indeed to something "Argus i..." the headmasters eyes found the bloody wall "Everyone...Will proceed to their dormitories immediately, everyone except you four" he looked at Harry, Lyra, Ron and Hermione.
The corridors were empties with the help of the prefects present "She's not dead Argus, she has been petrified" Dumbledore soothed the caretaker who was shaking.
"Ah! Thought so, so unlucky i wasn't there, i know exactly the counter curse that could've spared her" Lockhart stated completely unasked.
"I didn't know that was possible?" Lyra asked innocently.
The Defence teacher preened under all the attention "Oh absolutely Miss Black"
"Would you please tell us this counter curse sir, i'm afraid i'm a bit scared now having seen this, you understand though don't you?" she looked up at him all wide eyed but she did not miss Severus turning his head or McGonagall bringing her hand up to cover her mouth.
"I, well...I am afraid it is just a bit beyond the skills of second year Miss Black but rest assure i will be here to protect you all, this beast will not get away with this" Lockhart nodded happy with himself of shifting the conversation smoothly to her disappointment.
"How Mrs Norris has been petrified i can not say" Dumbledore stared at the cat in confusion.
"Ask him" Filch nodded towards Harry "It's him that's done it, you saw what he wrote on the wall"
"Oh they actually saw him did they, with their own eyes?" she sneered sarcastically at the caretaker who glared back at her, murderous intent clearly in his eyes.
"It's not true sir, i swear" Harry ignored her talking to Filch to address Dumbledore "I never touched Mrs Norris"
"Rubbish!" Filch snapped.
"If i might headmaster? Perhaps Mister Potter and his friends were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time" Severus suggested but he saw the trio's unbelieving faces joined with Lyra's smug smirk at Filch he continued "However, the circumstances are suspicious. I for one don't recall seeing Potter at dinner"
"I'm afraid that's my doing Severus, you see Harry was with me answering my fan mail" Lockhart stated which he could have done from the beginning but hey late is better then never, she understood his ego probably made it hard to think quickly on his feet when it was about other people.
"That's why Lyra, Ron and myself were looking for him Professor, we just found him when he said-" Hermione stopped when Lyra squeezed her hand tightly silently telling her to stop talking.
"Yes, Miss Granger?" Severus gestured her to finish.
"When i said i wasn't hungry, we were heading back to the common room when we found Mrs Norris" Harry answered for her which Lyra could tell annoyed Severus to no end.
"Innocent until proven guilty Severus" Dumbledore stated.
"My cat has been petrified, i want to see some punishment!" Filch yelled glaring at the four second years.
"We will be able to cure her Argus, as i understand Madam Sprout has a very healthy growth of Mandrake" Sprout nodded stepping forward at Dumbledore's words hoping to sooth the angry caretaker "When matured a potion will be made which will revive Mrs Norris and in the meantime...I strongly recommend caution to all"
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"It's a bit strange isn't it?" Hermione spoke after a while as the three were walking towards their common room, Lyra waved happily at the portraits who eagerly waved back, apparently not many people interacted with them after their first year which Lyra though defeats the purpose of portraits who could talk.
"Strange?" Harry repeated with a frown.
"You hear this voice only you can hear" Hermione stated but Ron quickly corrected her.
"Lyra heard it too"
"Fine, only the pair of you can hear and then Mrs Norris turns up petrified? It's just strange"
"Do you think i should have told them? Dumbledore and the others i mean?" Harry looked like he was now doubting himself.
Ron's eyes bulged "Are you mad?"
"No Harry, even in the wizarding world hearing voices isn't a good sign" Hermione cringe before turning on her heel and continued walking.
"Yeah and besides everyone is just waiting for Lyra to crack, you tell them you and her can hear voices and...Well you know" Ron made small circles by his ear before looking at Lyra who was already glaring at him "I'm not waiting for it! I know you won't crack!"
"Lovely Ronald" she rolled her eyes and followed after Hermione.
That night while everyone was asleep she checked her trunk and there sat in the bottom laid the diary but her wards were dismantled, which shouldn't have been possible.
Someone had found the diary, unwarded it, wrote in it clearly and now the Basilisk was awake and all hell was going to break loose. Lyra glanced up at the fifth bed who's curtains were drawn closed, Ginny couldn't have been able to unward the diary, not as a first year...Unless she had help...But who and why?
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"If i could have your attention please" McGonagall raised her voice slightly to be heard over the class "Right now today we will be transforming animals into water goblets, like so: One, two, three, Vera Verto" with a slight blue shimmer the hornbill on her desk shifted side to side as it transformed into a glass goblet. The goblet was rimmed with gold and had pretty golden designs around the glass, it rocked unsteady before coming to a stop on the perch.
"Now it's your turn now who would like to go first?" McGonagall walked down the centre isle of the classroom "Ah, Mr Weasley 'one, two, three, Vera Verto"
Ronald nodded and faced Scabbers who sat on the table, he cleared his throat before tapping the rat gently three times "Vera Verto" The light that exited his wand was a pale green again and this time Scabbers shifted into a furry goblet which still had a tail and squeaked gently making the class laugh.
"That wand needs replacing Mr Weasley" McGonagall suggested looking unimpressed and while Lyra was sure the broken wand didn't help she asked herself if it didn't work purely because of the wand or because Scabber already was in a transformed stated.
Hermione raised her arm "Yes Miss Granger?"
"Professor, i was wondering if you could tell us about the chamber of secrets?"
McGonagall glanced around the room to see all the class had gone dead silent, most faces were scared or at least wary "Very well, you all know of course that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age: Godrick Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. Now three of the four founders coexisted quite harmoniously, one did not"
"Three guesses who" Ron smirked at Harry who nodded his head.
"Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted into Hogwarts, he believed magical learning should be kept within all magic families, in other words purebloods, unable to sway the others he decided to leave the school. Now according to legend, Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in the castle known as the chamber of secrets, well shortly before departing he sealed it until that time where he's own true heir returned to the school...The heir alone would be able to open the chamber and unleash the horror within and by so doing purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's way were unworthy to study magic"
"Muggleborns" Hermione spoke but it was clear it hadn't been a question, McGonagall pointed at Hermione and nodded sadly.
"Well, naturally the school has been searched several times, no such chamber has been found"
"Professor?" Hermione stopped the witch from walking to her desk as she went to end the conversation "What exactly does legend tell us lies within the chamber?"
"The chamber is said to be home to something that only the heir of Slytherin can control. It is said to be the home...Of a monster"
McGonagall hadn't allowed anymore questions and had demanded they all went back to producing their cups, Lyra turned to the small lizard on her perch but she felt eyes burning into her, she wasn't sure how many but it was more the one.
Gently tapping her wand to the lizard she reached for her magic, it swirled waiting for her command "Vera Verto" she whispered and she felt her magic soar through her core and out her wand, the lizard which was once a pretty pastel green with pale cream spotting gently transformed into a glass goblet, the glass had a rainbow frosted glass effect she had added as a nod to the head to the chameleons talent of changing its coloured form.
"This is very nice transfiguration Miss Black, i remember your father was quite skilled in this class too" McGonagall picked the glass up, there was not one hitch in the design, it was more then skilled of a second year.
"Thank you Professor" the girl smiled gently at the older woman.
"5 points to Gryffindor for a skilful show of Transfiguration"
When their class was over the four were in the corridors once more "Do you think it's true? Do you think there really is a chamber of secrets" Ronald glanced at Lyra but it had been Hermione who answered the question.
"Yes, couldn't you tell? McGonagall is worried, all the teachers are"
"But if there really is a chamber of secrets and it really had been opened then that means..."
"The heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts" Hermione finished Harry's sentence when he paused searching for the right words "The question is...Who is it?"
"Let's think" Ronald scoffed "Who do we know who thinks muggle borns are scum?"
"If you're talking about Malfoy-"
"Of course!" Ron interrupted Hermione who was glaring at the blonde boy who passed alongside Goyle and Crabbe "You heard him, you'll be next mudbloods"
"I heard him, but Malfoy, the heir of Slytherin?"
"Maybe Ron's right Hermione, i mean look at his family, the whole lot of them have been in Slytherin for centuries" Harry nodded along but Lyra just grimaced, she really did think they were sorted too young.
"Crabbe and Goyle would know, maybe we can trick them into telling!" Ronald smirked looking very pleased with himself.
But it was followed by Hermione snorting "Even they aren't that thick, but there might be another way"
"Oh no you don't! I will not spend a month in a bathroom Hermione Granger, i refuse!" Lyra scowled "Have you three simply stopped to think that maybe i would know considering i live with him?" all three were looking at her waiting for her to answer her own question, she huffed "Draco is not the heir of Slytherin nor do they know where the chamber of secrets is"
"Do you?" Hermione frowned "Do you know who the heir is or where the chamber is?"
"I know who the heir was and i do know where the chamber is but i can not open it nor do i know what lies inside" she lied.
"Who was the heir then?" Ronald's head was tilted.
"The Gaunts"
"But they died out years ago? How could one be here" the red head frowned deeply.
"I told you i knew who the heir was, not who is now" Lyra reaffirmed, she still hadn't known if Ginny had found the diary but someone had "You three should look it up in the library"
"And what will you be doing?" Hermione stopped her from walking off.
"I am going to see if i can get a glimpse of what this thing is and i can't do that in the open"
"I can come with you" the muggleborn girl offered but Lyra shook her head.
"No they will need you and besides when i said a glimpse i didn't mean in person, let me know if you guys find anything" with that she turned and went to her common room, once there she opened her trunk to find the Diary. She moved to sit in her bed and Lyra pulled the curtains for privacy, she took a deep breath and lifted her quill towards the paper.
𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑜
She didn't have to wait long before the writing disappeared and started reforming on the page.
𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸, 𝓶𝔂 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓣𝓸𝓶
Lyra scoffed as she gently dipped her quill in her ink pot.
𝒴𝑒𝓈, 𝒾 𝑔𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓇𝓎
The reply took a little longer but she was sure it was because the 16 year old's trapped soul was not very pleased with being taunted.
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓲 𝓪𝓼𝓴 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓲𝓼? 𝓘𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓻𝓾𝓭𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯.
𝐼 𝒹𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒷𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓉𝑜 𝑜𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓊𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓊𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎, 𝒽𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝓎 𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝐿𝓎𝓇𝒶.
𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪?
𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝒹, 𝓎𝑒𝓈.
𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓮, 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓲 𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓾𝓹𝓼𝓮𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪?
She scoffed once more, god what an idiot but that she could use.
𝒩𝑜, 𝒾 𝒶𝓂 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓊𝓅𝓈𝑒𝓉. 𝐼 𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝒻 𝒾 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒾 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓇𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓃𝓀 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝓉.
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓮𝔀 𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓪𝓰𝓸?
𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂?
𝓘 𝓭𝓲𝓭 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓭, 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰.
𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒?
𝓘𝓯 𝓲 𝓭𝓲𝓭 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓲 𝓪𝓼𝓴 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓭𝓸 𝓸𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝔂𝓸𝓾?
𝒪𝒽 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒. 𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝐻𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝐵𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀!
She smirked to herself, that should get him interested and she had been right the answer was practically immediate.
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴? 𝓦𝓱𝔂 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓪𝔂 𝓼𝓸, 𝓲 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓼.
𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾 𝓅𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓁𝒻 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝒹.
𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓘, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵𝓼 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓖𝓲𝓷𝓷𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓼𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮.
𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓁𝒾𝑒, 𝒢𝒾𝓃𝓃𝓎 𝒲𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓁𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈, 𝒢𝒾𝓃𝓃𝓎 𝒲𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓁𝑒𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇. 𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹𝓃'𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒾 𝒶𝓂 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈, 𝒾 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒽.
𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓪 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓶𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻, 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓲 𝓪𝓼𝓴 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓫𝓮?
Lyra froze when she read the message, why would Dumbledore dismantle her wards? How would he even know she had the diary?
𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪?
𝒜𝓁𝒷𝓊𝓈 𝒟𝓊𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓂𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝑜𝑔𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈?
𝓐𝓱𝓱, 𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓼𝔂 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓲 𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓗𝓸𝓰𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓶𝓼 𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸 𝓭𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝔀. 𝓘 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝓱𝓲𝓶 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓻𝔂, 𝓲𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓲𝓽.
𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑜 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝒯𝑜𝓂, 𝒾 𝒶𝓂 𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐵𝒶𝓈𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓀?
His reply was slow, hesitant.
𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓴?
𝐼 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝒾𝓉, 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒾𝓅𝑒𝓈. 𝐼𝓉'𝓈 𝒽𝓊𝓃𝑔𝓇𝓎 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾 𝒶𝓂 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒾𝓉𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃.
𝓨𝓸𝓾'𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓮?
𝒲𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒯𝑜𝓂?
𝓝𝓸, 𝓲 𝓪𝓶 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓮. 𝓘𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓻𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽, 𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓰𝓵𝓪𝓭 𝓢𝓵𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓰𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓼 𝓾𝓼.
Lyra hummed, he had assumed she was Slytherin, she could use that to her advantage.
𝐼 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝒹𝓂𝒾𝓉, 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝒾 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓌𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒶 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓏𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇...𝒯𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝑒 𝒯𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒?
𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓽𝓸𝓸.
𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝐵𝒶𝓈𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓀𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉, 𝒾 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓅𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒻𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹.
𝓘 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪, 𝔀𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓵𝓵. 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓴𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓵𝔂 𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓫𝓮𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓽'𝓼 𝓮𝔂𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻, 𝓲𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓾𝓼 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓮𝓼.
Lyra grinned, well thank you Tommy boy, you made this all but too easy, she would thank him and allow him to believe she was just another airheaded pureblooded girl.
𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓃𝓉! 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝒾 𝒽𝒶𝒹𝓃'𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒, 𝒾 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝒷𝒾𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝒯𝑜𝓂!
𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓰𝓵𝓪𝓭 𝓲 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓵𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓸 𝔀𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪?
𝒪𝒻 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝒯𝑜𝓂!
𝓘 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓲𝓽, 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓫𝔂𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴.
𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹𝒷𝓎𝑒 𝒯𝑜𝓂 𝑅𝒾𝒹𝒹𝓁𝑒.
She chuckled as she closed the diary, well that went well! Who knew Tom Riddle would be so helpful if he thought he could use you, he simply handed over any information he could to get her to trust him.
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Lyra found herself sat in on the reserve bench, it was November week one meaning it was the prolific Gryffindor VS Slytherin game, she had been practicing on her new broom it was stupid fast but she knew the firebolt was going to be insane.
She winced when Pucey scored once more "Another score for Slytherin" Lee Jordan announced, it was now 90-30 to Slytherin, the Gryffindor team just could not keep up with 7 new nimbus 2001's.
The game continued until a bludger hit Wood from the air, his broom shattering into pieces, the reserve keeper was thrown into the game immediately but Harry was still flying around rapidly, a rouge bludger was behind him.
It had so obviously been tampered with seeing as Bludger never fixated on one person, they flew around to cause chaos but their attention span was very short, however this one was fixated intently on Harry.
Lyra frowned seeing Harry and Draco fighting to catch the snitch, they disappeared somewhere in the stands of the quidditch pitch followed quickly by the bludger. They were down there for a few minutes and she couldn't help but gasp when Draco came flying out, his broom being tossed to the side as he rolled and flipped to a stop, he was clutching at his stomach gasping for breath as he was winded.
Seconds later Harry came out and was arm out trying to catch the snitch, she screeched when the bludger hit his arm ripping his protection off from the force, she knew it was going to happen but seeing his arm being forcefully broken was something else. She watched closely when he wobbled on his broom but steadied himself and reached out with his other hand.
He must have swung too far because his broom turned and his back hit the sand bringing him to a slow stop, Lyra was out of her seat before the game had been called but Harry held his hand up "Harry Potter has caught the snitch! Gryffindor wins!" Lee yelled happily followed by the roaring of Gryffindor supporters.
Harry rolled quickly when the bludger came down aiming for his head, not wanting to wait she raised her wand without saying a word she casted a bombarda, she knew if she spoke the spell out loud they would know she was studying and practicing spells above her year level but nonverbal spells she could claim she didn't know what she cast and it was simply emotion.
The bludger exploded and rained tiny pieces around them as she slid on her knees down beside Harry "Listen to me closely under no circumstances will you allow Lockhart to heal you, do you understand?" she ordered and Harry nodded slightly scared of the witch if he was being honest.
"Are you okay?" Hermione asked as she joined along with others.
"No, i think...I think my arm is broken" Harry looked down at the arm he was clutching to his chest, he's jaw was gritted tight in pain.
"Not to worry Harry i will fix that arm of yours straight away" Lockhart got down on his knees and Lyra snarled at the man.
"You will do no such thing! You are not a medi-wizard and you are under no authority to do such spells here, Madam Pomfrey is not far and he will survive the short journey...Sir" she all but growled as she moved herself between the two.
"Poor girl, she's just scared for her friend" Lockhart went to reach around Lyra but she moved once more.
"I am warning you Lockhart, if you reach to meddle once more i will reveal your biggest secret to everyone here" she hissed and he paused "Hagrid can you help Harry up to get him to Madam Pomfrey i think he may be in shock" she turned and the half giant lifted the boy carefully already walking to the med bay.
Once in the infirmary Lyra stepped back to allow Madam Pomfrey to attend to Harry she moved over to where Draco was groaning in the bed, ignoring the other Slytherin players she leant down "Are you alright Dragon?" she whispered into his ear and he shrugged "I am so sorry you didn't catch the snitch but you played so well! I am so proud of you" she kissed his cheek gently ignoring the blush that built on his cheeks.
"You should be over there Blood traiter" Flint growled at her but she simply waved him off.
"Write to me tonight alright?" she whispered and Draco nodded, she sent him one more smiled before walking back over to Harry's bed who was choking on the Skele-grow "You did the right thing getting him straight to me, god only knows what that..." Pomfrey cut her self off but Lyra chuckled.
"Well i knew you were the best one to see, at least you know which way up to hold your wand" she joked and Madam Pomfrey sucked in her lips to stop a smile before she painted on a disapproving expression.
~~~
That night after writing with Draco in their linked diaries she moved to the bathroom, throwing up a privacy charm she then turned "Kreacher?"
Her favourite elf popped into the bathroom not even seconds later "You called Mistress? Are you well it is quite late?" he approached taking her hand gently as if checking her temperature.
"I am fine Kreacher i am just a bit worried, can you please go and get Dobby for me i think we all need to have a talk?" she asked and her elf nodded before leaving and appearing once more with Dobby.
"Miss Lyra! So good to see you, Kreacher said you bes needing Dobby?"
"Dobby yes, thank you for coming" she smiled "I really need to ask you something, do you remember when i asked about those letters you had?" the elf nodded "Well i saw you trying to keep Harry from Hogwarts, you shut down the portal to the train and then once more you set a loose bludger to hurt him in hopes of scaring him off. I want you to know i believe you when you said you wouldn't try to stop Harry from being here once more but it has all happened so i have to ask, was it you?"
"Dobby did not! Dobby swears it Miss lyra, Miss Lyra asked Dobby to trust her and he does, He promises" the elf looked like he was going to panic.
"I believe you Dobby i hope you understand i just had to make sure, i didn't want to accuse you for something if you hadn't done it...It just begs to question who is doing these things?" she sighed with a frown.
"Something else is bothering Mistress Lyra?" Kreacher narrowed his eyes at her.
"Kreacher do you know Regulus' locket?" her elf nodded and cast Dobby a glance "Well there are others like it, i found one and i am going to destroy it but someone here found it and dismantled my wards, i still have it and i have hidden it now but they tried to steal from me and now people are getting hurt" she sighed "I'm afraid it's my fault, i tried so hard to change things but..."
"Mistress Lyra tries her best and sometimes things do not go right but that isn't her fault" Kreacher patted her hand "Mistress Lyra is a good witch, Kreacher knows this" Dobby nodded viciously agreeing with the statement.
"I don't know who is doing all of this, i can not see, it is all backwards" she stressed, Lyra had no idea how any of this was happening.
"How can Kreacher help?"
"I don't want to put you in danger Kreacher, i'd rather myself get hurt then you" the elf went to argue but she cut him off before he could "But could you take a letter to Lucius and bring back any reply he has?"
Kreacher nodded watching as his mistress walked out of the room appearing a few minutes later with a letter, he was unsettled by the comparison of his two masters, he had lost Regulus but he couldn't lose Lyra, he couldn't do it again.
~~~
"Gather round, gather round" Lockhart tried to herd the children towards the duelling setup "Can everybody see me? Can you all see me? Excellent! In light of the dark events of recent weeks, Professor Dumbledore has given me permission to start this little duelling club, to train you all up in case you ever need to defend yourselves as i myself have done on countless occasions, for full details see my published books" Lyra rolled her eyes at the egotistical man, the only reason she was here was to watch him be thrown on his arse.
Lockhart took off his outer robe and threw it into the crowd watching with a smirk as a bunch of fifth year girls fought over it, the fact they were 15-16 and he clearly got the reaction he wanted was sickening.
"Let me introduce my assistant Professor Snape" Snape climbed the step with his arms crossed looking very unimpressed "He has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration, now i don't want any of you youngsters to worry you'll still have your potions master when i'm through with him, never fear"
Lyra snort was loud and obnoxious but she really didn't care, how Dumbledore didn't see through this fool was shocking. The two men approached each other and raised their wands in front of their faces before lowering them and bowing, each turned on the spot and walked to the opposite ends of the setup.
"One, two, three" Lockhart smiled.
"Expelliarmus!" Snape drawled out almost lazily but the spell had to have packed with so much frustration and anger because Lockhart went flying his wand being ripped out of his hand. Lyra's laugher caused others to join, it was just brilliant.
Hermione worried staring at the winded teacher "Do you think he's alright?"
"Who cares" both Ron and Lyra spoke at the same time.
"An excellent idea to show them that Professor Snape but if you don't mind me saying it was pretty obvious what you were about to do and if i had wanted to stop you it would have only been too easy"
"Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells professor" Snape all but hissed and Lyra smirked when Lockhart looked stunned for a moment.
"An excellent suggestion Professor Snape, well let's have a volunteer pair, erh Potter, Weasley? How about you?"
"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest of spells. We'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a match box, might i suggest someone from my own house? Malfoy perhaps?" Snape spun and pointed to Malfoy to stand, instead of climbing the stair Draco just jumped up onto the raised platform.
Lyra gripped Harry's arm "Draco is going to summon a snake, try not to talk to it" she whispered and he nodded looking completely lost but he moved to climb onto the platform both boys reaching the middle to greet each other.
"Wands at the ready" Lockhart directed and both boys lifted their wands up.
"Scared Potter?" Draco taunted.
"You wish" Harry snapped back and Lyra heard Seamus snicker from beside her, both boys lowered their wands forgoing the bow they both turned to put space between them.
"Oh the count of three, cast your charms to disarm your opponent, only to disarm! We don't want any accidents here. One, two..."
"Everte statum!" Draco fired off sending Harry flying backwards through the air.
Snarling Harry jumped to his feet "Rictusempra!" Draco was hit by the tickling charm causing him to stumble back before he doubled over in laughter.
"I said disarm only!" Lockhart yelled as Snape casted the finite incantatem spell allowing Draco to caught his breath.
"Serpensortia!" Draco yelled and a instead of the cobra the boy summons in the films it was a black adder snake, the snake summoning spell didn't produce a snake out no where instead it summons the closest snake to the one summoning it and it fit's that it was a black adder. They mainly live in open fields with rough grass like Hagrids fields.
The snake slithered forward and Harry froze "Don't move Potter, i'll get rid of it for you" Snape walked forward moving closer to the snake.
"Allow me Professor Snape" Lockhart grinned making Snake stop in his tracks, Lyra rolled her eyes as he moved forward "Alarte ascendare!"
"What a fucking idiot" she snarled, the spell was literally to propel something up into air, reading the books or even watching the films was annoying but having to study Latin and knowing the translation to the spell was worse, how Dumbledore allowed this man to teach was beyond her.
The snake flew into the air twisting unhappily as it hissed before it landed but this time it was furious and felt threatened, the snake looked up and locked eyes with the first person it could which just so happened to be a Hufflepuff muggleborn name Justin.
As if forgetting her warning Harry walked forward towards the snake "Leave him" he ordered harshly at the snake which dropped backwards from the Hufflepuff, Lyra's eyes bulged as she understood what he was saying. Looking around everyone was staring at Harry in fear and shock meaning he was in fact speaking Parseltongue.
"Vipera Evanesca" Snape threw the spell at the snake which disappeared probably being sent back to where Draco had summoned it from.
Harry looked over at Justin with a smile, clearly happy the snake hadn't attacked even if it was barely poisonous but the smile did not go down well. "What the hell are you playing at?" Justin demanded before storming off followed by his friends, the duelling practice was called to a close for the day.
"You're a parselmouth? Why didn't you tell us?" Ron demanded as they entered the common room which was empty.
Harry spun to face them "I'm a what?"
"You can talk to snakes" Hermione stated as if it was obvious.
"I know, i mean, i accidentally set a python of my cousin Dudley at the zoo once"
Lyra snickered "No way! That's so cool"
"Cool? Have you lost your mind" Ron hissed looking at her but she shrugged.
"Yeah once but so what, i bet loads of people here can do it"
"No, they can't it's not a very common gift Harry, this is bad" Hermione winced at the mere thought of what was to come.
"What's bad? If i hadn't told that snake not to attack Justin..."
Ron sighed in relief "Oh that's what you said to it!"
"You were there, you heard me"
"I heard you speaking Parseltongue, snake language" Ron corrected the Potter heir who frowned.
"I spoke a different language? But i didn't realise, how can i speak a language without knowing i can?"
"I don't know Harry but it sounded as though you were egging the snake on or something...Harry listen to me there's a reason the symbol of Slytherin house is a serpent. Salazar Slytherin was a parselmouth, he could talk to snakes too" Hermione explained hoping it would click for the boy, the damage of what was to come.
"Exactly now the whole school is going to think you're his great, great, great grandson or something" Ron nodded and Lyra chuckled.
"But i'm not...I can't be"
"He lived a thousand years ago, for all we know you could be" Hermione winced shooting the boy an apologetic look.
Lyra sighed "You're not Harry, you are also not the heir of Slytherin but if you are so worried about it this Christmas holiday i can go with you to Gringotts and you can take a inheritance test, if you are it will tell you"
"They do those there?" Hermione frowned looking at Lyra who nodded.
"Oh yeah my grandmother took me there the day she got me to check what i was...You know you could do one too Mi, your magic came from somewhere, you might be the last hope of a dying house you know. Same as you Ron one of your brothers really should take over the Prewett family name maybe Charlie or Percy depending on if Charlie wishes to have children or it could go to the twins, Prewett twins were more common"
"You know i'm not the heir for sure?" Harry stopped her from straying too far from the conversation.
"Yes Harry i do, just like how i know you told the snake to leave Justin alone and how i heard the beast"
"You're also a parselmouth?" Ron squeaked as he looked at her.
"I seem to be but i am unsure as to why, there hasn't been a parselmouth in house Black, ever. At least not that i know of unless they kept it secret"
"Are you the heir?" Ronald questioned.
"No i am not!"
~~~
Beside her Harry was shifting in his seat so she looked up but saw he was looking around the room, following his direction she saw that pretty much the whole room was staring at Harry "If they make you uncomfortable just glare or something" she whispered towards him.
"No he shouldn't they are already scared of him" Hermione hissed at Lyra who chuckled.
"Exactly, they are scared and he's not even the heir so let them be scared Mi, Harry hasn't done anything wrong"
"I know that Lyra but someone is hunting muggleborns, Collin Creevey was found the other day, he's in the hospital ward petrified until they can grow the Mandrakes"
"That's another thing Mi, why are they not buying Mandrake root for the potion? Why wait for them to be grown, god knows how much money they get towards the school and it's not like Mandrake root is very expensive...They are leaving that 11 year old boy to rot and for what? Do you even know if they've contacted his parents because let me tell you if that was me Lord Malfoy would have pulled me out first day to get me help"
"I don't know" Hermione sunk into her seat, it hadn't made sense to her to wait for the Mandrake but the teachers must have had a reason, right?
"I'll see you back at the common room" Harry broke the silence that had fallen over the group, he closed his books and walked off but Lyra let him go knowing he was going to find Justin and have that talk with Dumbledore.
As he walked off everyone turned to watch him go, Lyra threw nasty glares their way, she knew fourth year was going to be a bitch.