Chapter 10 Sneaking in

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It seems like there is no other way, Harry has to use the cloak if he wants to get out without being detected.

As the Master of the Hallows, Harry is connected to all three of them, ever since he woke up he can feel all three of them. The wand is safe in the headmaster's office, the stone is hidden away in the form of the ring and the cloak has been in a trunk in his parent's room for the last four years.

Harry can summon all three of them to him but he never did, because taking the wand would probably give Dumbledore a heart attack, he also has no use for the stone and the cloak is right there with him.

Now there is no other way, Harry waited until it was late into the night and made sure that everyone was asleep before he called the cloak to him. Just like that the cloak appeared in his hands, he quickly covered himself with it and disappeared.

Just as an invisibility cloak the hallow is already powerful, while in the cloak a person is completely invisible to all detection spells and even the strongest of wizards, if used properly someone with this cloak could literally sneak up on Dumbledore even eluding the legendary wizard's magical senses.

But to its master, the cloak is something else entirely. While under the cloak Harry is completely undetectable by any means, which means no spell or ward can detect his presence, he can't be seen or heard or sensed in any way by anyone unless he wants to. While the cloak is powerful it can't be used offensively as attacking others will give away the wearer's general position, also while the person under the clock is undetectable to the wards the magic they cast is not.

Under the cloak, Harry quickly got out of the house and walked out of the warded area. He stopped for a moment to see if anything happened, after a few seconds seeing that nothing was happening harry apparated away.

Both his parents and grandparents have cast powerful detection spells on him and his siblings for their protection, if it wasn't for the cloak the moment Harry stepped out of the wards both his parents and grandparents would have been alerted. He can easily remove these spells but removing those spells will also alert them.

With a barely audible pop harry appeared a little outside the Hogwarts wards. With no time to waste he quickly made his way towards the Chamber of Secrets, since it was so late into the night harry didn't encounter anyone in his way.

$Open$ with a single word the chamber opened itself for him. Before going in harry used his magic to sense the massive serpent living inside only to find the snake deep in slumber. The serpent will stay this way unless someone disturbs the beast's rest.

Using a cushioning spell he directly jumped inside, avoiding the piles of bones and snakeskin he made his way towards the entrance of the chamber but instead of opening the door lined with snakes harry went to the opposing wall. This looks like just a normal wall, even if someone used magic to sense it all they will feel is a normal wall.

$Open$ Harry spoke and just like that, a portion of the wall opened like it was a door. Inside it is a chamber that looks like a small library with a small desk to the side.

This room was Slytherin's personal study, but just because this room belonged to a legendary wizard from a thousand years ago don't expect it to be filled with rare books filled with secrets that allow anyone to become a powerful wizard. Most of the information here became outdated centuries ago, just because these books are old doesn't mean they are useful, our knowledge of magic has changed and expanded multiple times in the last thousand years.

The only thing useful inside this room is the rare magical parts that are kept under stasis and the ritual room.

Harry found this room in his final year of Hogwarts, after Ron and Hermione's relationship imploded on itself those two couldn't be in the same room without it turning into a screaming match. Worst of all the two had the tendency to drag him in the middle of their arguments, so harry often came here to avoid his friends and eventually found this room.

Harry is sure that even Voldemort couldn't find this room but that was only because the wards that protected and concealed this room were broken by that time. They were most likely broken with other wards when Voldemort attacked the school.

Harry spent a lot of time in this room reading Slytherin's journals, trying to understand the legendary wizard who lived a thousand ago, who helped build this wonderful school.

Suddenly Harry froze in his place, according to the journals when Slytherin made the wards he also copied his consciousness into the ward scheme, he left a copy of his consciousness to control and protect the Chamber of Secrets. This was done as a failsafe as leaving a basilisk in a school full of children is dangerous. If the giant serpent ever got out of control this consciousness can order it to go to sleep or lock it inside and seal the chamber.

Slytherin used the same method that the founders used to make the sorting hat, all the four founders copied a small part of their consciousness with their most defining traits and then combined the four parts to make the sorting hat. Here Slytherin copied his entire consciousness instead of just a part of it.

In the previous timeline when Harry entered the chamber the wards were already destroyed so the consciousness was also gone.

Harry quickly looked around to see where the consciousness could be? Then he noticed that the portrait of old Slytherin on the wall was looking at the door that was just opened, he also felt a wave of magic pass over the entire chamber, the painting just used the detection wards to try and find him.

Thankfully he was still under the cloak or he would have surely been detected by the painting. Just when Harry thought he was in the clear the painting spoke.

"I know you are there! so show yourself intruder"