Time After Time

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Disclaimer
and Authors Note can be found in the first chapter.

 

-Chapter
Ten-

 

 

The
Marauders and Severus reached the toilet just seconds later. All of them jumped
off their brooms and hurried to the railing. They all looked over it and found
themselves looking into Harry’s slightly disoriented face. Severus had no idea
if he should help or hex Harry to the seventh hell for scaring him lihat,hat,
he decided on the first choice.

 

“That was…fun.” Harry said when he was back
on solid ground. “But not anything I would recommend.” Then he turned back to
the entrance to the toilet. He began to look closely on the edges of the
door-case, and the hinges of the doors. “Severus, Potter and the rest of you,
go get Dumbledore, McGonagall, Denton and Gorder. I’ll need all four of them to
help me out with this.” The Marauders nodded and set off. “What are you waiting
for Severus?” Harry asked, not even turning around. He was examining the inside
of the bathroom. The crying of Moaning Myrtle subdued and she came out of her
stall and looked at them. “Hello, Myrtle.” Harry said pleasantly. “I see that
being dead has done you more good than anything else.” He cringed. Wrong choice
of words. Before Myrtle could begin to cry again, he continued. “I mean, look
at you. What a beauty.” The ghost blushed.

 

Not even
ghosts it seemed, could avoid Harry’s charm. The Slytherin would bet his place
on the Quidditch team that Harry could charm Voldemort to do what he wanted.
Come to think of it, that would be a really nice trait. Suddenly Harry turned
back to him.

 

“Sev, why aren’t you gone?” Harry asked, the
other boy didn’t answer. “Listen to me Sev. There’s no force between heaven and
the seventh hell that can make me take you down there with me, so you better
give up on that idea.” Sev jus just watched him with that never-wavering gaze
that could drive Harry nuts. The shorter boy turned to Myrtle, who was still
blushing. “My dear Myrtle,” Harry began, unaware of the movement Severus made
behind him. “Did you see anything unusual in here since the school started?
Please tell me, it’s very important. And a wonderful ghost as yourself mue
ve
very observant.”

 

“Well, there was this Ravenclaw coming here
for the first week, but then he just stopped.” Myrtle said, giggling. “He was
hissing to something a lot. First time I thought that he was chocking, so I
went to get Madame Pomfrey. But when we came back, the boy was gone, only lots
of green slime on the floor. Oh, and today a vampire came in here so I hid, and
haven’t seen him since. After that there was a guy with a snake here too. Where
are people going?”

 

“Secret passages my dear Myrtle.” Harry said,
quickly moving towards the right sink. “Oh, I would go a bit back if I where
you, just in case. Can’t have such a wonderful ghost ruining her appearance,
now can we?”

 

Severus had
been watching the whole chat silently, glaring at the ghost when Harry had
flattered her. Maybe that was the only way they were getting information out of
her, but he didn’t have to like it. Then he watched as Harry moved over to a
sink, and hissed at it in Parseltongue. It sent shivers down his spine, and not
pleasant ones. The sink sunk into the ground and a large hole appeared.

 

Harry
looked down into it for a second, then sent his patronus into it. A second later
they could hear lots of traps going off somewhere on the way down. Harry nodded
and jumped into the hole without further ado. Severus stared for a second in
complete shock, then went after the shorter boy. There was no way Harry was
going through this alone, not if he had anything to say in it.

 

At the end
he rolled right into Harry who had just dusted himself off, and now fell into a
huge pile of dust and rat bones. The other boy glared at him, but Severus
ignored it, got up and helped Harry to stand then started to dust himself off.
Harry just ed fed for another minute, shook his head and lit his wand. Severus
followed the suit.

 

Harry led
off through the huge, dusty cave. In realit wan wanted to knock the living shit
out of Sev, but he also didn’t want to alert the vampire or whoever else might
be down here. Suddenly he heard something and stopped, Severus right beside
him. Harry looked down on the ground and saw a little snake hurrying towards
them. It was probably the snake McColgan had brought to open the Chamber and
the other doors in here. He picked it up and asked it what had happened.

 

“>We came down here. Everything went
black, ae hee heard the basilisk.<” The tiny creature replied. “>There
was a human with fangs here too that attacked us, and someone else. One of the
black birds from this school. The Slayer was knocked unconscious within a few
minutes. He’s still in there somewhere.<”

 

“>Thanks,<” Harry said, put the littlnakenake on the ground and watched it slither off towards the exit. “The vampire’s
still here. And so is that Ravenclaw that disappeared earlier. McColgan’s
unconscious and we’re on our own. Life just seems to get better and better,
don’t you think?” Harry started to walk again.

 

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Albus was happily
sitting in his office, eating some cookies and having tea with Minerva, when
James and Lily ran through the door, not even bothering to knock. The two teens
began to talk at the same time, both of them out of breath. Combined, those two
things made it very hard for Albus to understand what the kids where saying.

 

“What are we going to do!” Lily said when she
was finished explaining.

 

“First you two are going to calm down, have a
cup of tea, and then you are going to tell me what has happened.” Albus
replied. “I am rather afraid I didn’t catch your first try.”
sp; sp;

“Chase has gone down into the Chamber of
Secrets, whatever that is,” James began. “And there’s this basilisk down there
– well, that’s what we’re told – and Snape is trying to get him from going down
there. We met them half-way to the entrance of the Chamber, and followed them
to the ruined girls toilet on the second floor. Harry was there first and the
doors blew outwards. Then he said to get you, Professors McGonagall, Denton and
Gorder.”

 

“Minerva, get all the students back to their
common rooms. And please tell Anton and Chri mee meet me down there.”
Dumbeldore was about to exit the room when he stopped and turned to face the
three others. “Mr Potter, Ms Evans, if you want, you can come down there with
me. But if it comes to a fight, stay out, and always stay close to me.” Then he
was gone, James and Lily following closely behind. Fawkes gave a chirp, then
disappeared, leaving a shocked Minerva behind.

 

Albus
hurried through the empty halls and corridors with James and Lily in tow. When
they reached the toilet they found a very flushed Myrtle flying around, singing
her heart out. Albus went straight for the hole in the ground and jumped into
it, followed by the two teenagers. At the bottom, the old Headmaster lit his
wand and began to walk. Harry had told him witch way to go, in case there was
need for the old mages abilities.

 

He found
the stone wall open just like Harry had said he would. He could see the
unmoving body of the basilisk in the room beyond. There was nothing to tell him
if the vampire was still there. Albus walked carefully into the cave. From his
position he could see that the basilisk was dead, a golden sword sticking out
of its throat.

 

Suddenly
there was a flash of light and Fawkes appeared. The bird flew straight to
something behind the giant snake, Albus followed without blinking. On the other
side he was met with the sight of two unmoving bodies on the ground. The
phoenix was already sitting on the chest of one of the boys, singing one of its
healing songs.

 

The
Headmaster ran over to the two Slytherin boys, but stopped when he saw how they
were lying. Harry had apparently been blown backwards by a curse, and Severus
had rushed to his side. At the same time shielding the smaller boy from another
curse or spell, while carefully holding him in his arms. Their hands where
clasped together, fingers twinned in a death grip. But what surprised the old
Headmaster the most where the two golden rings on each of the boys fingers.

 

“What the hell has happened here?” James
asked. “Sorry Professor.” He added quickly, but the Headmaster didn’t respond,
just watched the phoenix as it continued to sing.

 

Lily wal ove over to the two Slytherins. She had thought that those two liked each other
more than just friends, and here was the proof. She tried to untangle the two
bodies, but nothing could be moved, not even a stray lock of hair in Harry’s
face. She turned to Dumbledore, looking desperate not knowing what had happened
and what was happening.

 

“Leave them be.” The old Headmaster said with
a sigh. “There’s nothing we can do until Madame Pomfrey arrives.”

 

“But sir, why do they have rings on their
fingers?” James asked. “They didn’t have them half an hour ago.”

 

“That, my dear boy, is a very hard thing to
explain. And I will not tell you anything until those two wake up, which could
be from now until the end of time.” Albus replied. What a situation they had
gotten themselves into.

 

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