Chapter 106: The Chamber of Secrets, first attempt

It's a fine Monday night. I dare say it's a perfect night for venturing into an ancient chamber which houses one of the most deadliest creatures on planet...

But I don't really need to worry. I'm just here to have a look. It's not like the Basilisk would suddenly come out if I opened the Entrance since there's another door restricting it after this one.

I entered the bathroom disillusioned, since there's Moaning Myrtle here many of the times. I had come here once before, to set up a notification ward in case someone does open the chamber, though that went useless due to minor detail that I forgot about the Notification ward.

Standing in front of the tap with the snake marking on it, I prepared to say the words I'd memorized from just earlier, even though I felt idiotic saying them.

"Aaah-yaah-ssss-seyythaa." (Open)

Nothing happened.

"...."

I looked around to confirm that no one was here to witnessed this embarrassing moment. Damn it! I've had it with Parseltongue. I knew this wasn't gonna work! I only tried, because Ronald f*cking Weasley had somehow opened it in the last part when they needed the Basilisk venon for destroying the Horcrux.

There's a reason I'm here tonight, without much preparations.

I recalled my conversation with Harry just a few hours ago.

*Flashback*

"Hey Chris! Wait for a moment. Err, there's something I need to talk to you about." I was going to the common room with my friends when Harry had called out to me.

Since I know him well, I could tell that this could be serious. "What is it?" I asked as I separated form my friends and we just started walking in a random direction.

Harry hesitated was a moment but said, "I... sort of... of heard a voice last night, when we were walking back to the dorms after dinner."

"...."

Oh no! I totally forgot about that! Shit, shit, shit.

"What kind of voice? What did it say?" I asked, despite already knowing the answer. Damn, only now I remembered. The notification ward might not work with too much distance. ...and I was in France yesterday.

What I had feared has come true.

Someone really has the diary. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened again.

I had really hoping that I'd just find the who had the diary when the culprit trips the wards, but he tripped them when I was in France. My fault, is that I forgot that the ward might not work with such a long distance and with me being outside Hogwarts wards.

Harry answered my question, "It was a very...cold voice. Very malicious...and very mad. It said it wanted to kill... but it couldn't..."

I nodded at face value, since I already knew what he was going to say, but then I didn't a double take.

'Did I hear it wrong?'

"Come again, what did it say?!" I asked urgently.

Harry nodded, thinking that I was shocked at about the voice, "It was muttering something along the lines of— it wanted to kill, but it couldn't. It sounded quite frustrated and... hysterical. I tried to see where it was coming from but I couldn't find it! Um... I know all this might sound weird and absurd to you, but you know I wouldn't joke about things like this!" Harry kept rambling but mind was already somewhere else.

Well, I'll be damned. It said something different this time. "It couldn't kill" holy shit, that actually makes sense!

I mean, what are the odds... that for a whole year, the Basilisk would only attack the victims with the intent to kill, and each and every single one of them gets only petrified due miraculously looking at it through reflection!

But wait for it! The gap in logic doesn't end here.

-> Why does the Basilisk then leaves in peace and not think like, 'Oh, I missed it again? Well since he's already Petrified and can't run, let's just finish the job and kill him the normal way! Or, let's just look into those open eyes once again, this time directly without any reflection.' I mean, Wtf?! It's not a game like, Oh you missed the shot! Now you can't attack me! Naa - nana - naanaa!

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So, the plot holes of the Chamber of Secrets are slowly getting filled. And things are starting to make sense. The snake actually might not be allowed to kill at all. Maybe he was only allowed to petrify and only kill when someone who's not the Heir actually discovers the entrance of the Chamber, or enters it. Myrtle was crying in the toilet cubicle when Tom opened the Chamber, and when she opened the cubicle door, she saw the entrance and thus the Basilisk killed her.

So, I asked Harry, "And no one else heard it except you?"

Harry nodded. "Neville and Hermione were there too. They couldn't hear it."

I pretended to think about it for a bit. "Mate, it might be a snake." I said finally, and Harry paused his steps.

"....Damn! This might be it!" said Harry, punching my shoulder. "Why didn't I think about it?!" He said as ran his hand through his hair.

"Nev and Hermi might have only heard some hissing sounds, but it must have been too low to notice." I chipped in.

"Yeah, that must be it." Harry nodded and then hung his hand around my neck like bros. "I knew you'd somehow figure it out, man. You always have. Even Hermione couldn't deny it when I said that you might have an answer." said Harry gratefully.

I nodded, taking it as a matter of fact. "Anyway, tell me, how do you say - 'Open' in Parseltongue?"

Harry concentrated hard and I transfigured a rubber snake to help.

$Aaah-yaah-ssss-seyythaa$, he said in weird hissing tone. The frequency of his voice went up and down a lot, and some noises were just inhuman. AND, there were magic fluctuations in his voice though they were too low for me to properly feel.

Still, I tried to imitate it after remembering it with occlumency.

"Aaah-yaah-ssss-seyythaa."

Harry frowned.

"Is that how I usually sound? Like this hissing?"

"Yep. Something similar." I confirmed.

Harry repeated what I just said.

"$ Aaah-yaah-ssss-seyythaa.$" and once again, his voice sounded more real as we both heard it.

Then he said, "Well, I can understand that you're trying to say "Open" if I repeat what you said with my own voice, but... yours doesn't sound right, at all. I mean, usually, I hear snakes voices in English. Yours is just... creepy hissing, not the fluent English that I'm accustomed to. This is the first time I'm having to say it myself to understand it."

"...."

Well, I still have hope, since Ron Weasley was able to open it. So, I learned the rest of the words as well.

*Flashback end.

So, it didn't work. And that makes perfect sense. Why would Slytherin allow all random hissing sound to open the chamber?

It doesn't make sense for the entering criteria to be just making hissing sounds. It might be something like— it'll only open for someone when that person has already entered once. Ron might have been registered on his first visit to the chamber when he came with Harry. So the entrance opened when he tried opening it again.

So...what do I do now? The easiest solution seems like I should just bring Harry. But that's not quite rational.

Because if Dumbledore reads his mind, he'd know that I entered the Chamber of secrets and killed a f*cking Basilisk and that's not something you want Dumbledore knowing. And besides, the main goal is to get the diary Horcrux and stop a 16 y/o Voldemort to be resurrected. The Basilisk venon is not the priority since I've learned Fiendfire this summer. But I'd still like to get them somehow, since they're super rare.

Anyways, I'm a bit reassured now, since the chances of someone dying have lowered now. Now I need a plan to kill the Basilisk without making Harry risk his life, and get that body which is Basilisk priceless.

And I also need to make a notification charm that's not limited by distance. I think I can manage it. There are a lot of types of it in the Martin library.

Let's just hope nothing unexpected happens now. I'll have to find an approach in which I'll have to sacrifice the least and gain the most.

***

Just like that, days started passing by quickly as I got busy with all the things on my hands. I had to train daily, concentrate on a dozen other projects that were incomplete.

During this time, I also pondered on the Red Fiendfire that I'd made during my anger. It was quite different from a normal fiend fire. Plus, there's something I only realized later after I reviewed the memory in a pensive at my home.

And yeah, we have a f*cking pensieve in our manor. This young master lacks nothing. That's what I wanted to ask for from Durant. A pensieve is actually quite rare. The one Dumbledore has is a Hogwarts pensive. He can't use it for private matters. (Not openly)

When I watched myself caste the Fiendfire again this time, could clearly see that my mouth was moving quite differently from how it usually should. It's like, I'm saying something else, but I'm hearing the word "Fiendfire" in my head.

After comparing with Harry's situation, I can officially say that I'm a freakin' Draconmouth.

I really had my doubts when I saw the power and control off that fire. I'm telling you, I can't normally produce that much fire power with my capacity and my Fiendfire was still not so controllable the last time I practiced it this summer. Especially when when I have my occlumency shields down.

So, let's get this straight. From what I know, Dracontongue enhances the power output of my Fire related spells at least. And increase my control/dominance over fire related magic.

What makes it truly op is that: The most OP spell in my arsenal is fire related! Fiendfire!

And as for the red colour, that must be due to Super Trigger Rosé. I had never entered Super Trigger Rosé after that incident when I got angered after knowing about Dora's past memory, and from what I had observed form that incident, it makes my magic quite different and powerful. After I'd activated in front of Dora, even though I had quickly deactivated it, when I'd spoken to Dora after that in panic over hear having witnessed it, the residual magic had seeped into my voice and did what I had wanted at that time, it had gained persuasive properties and made my words very believable.

When I had used it against Peeves, it had made full use of my anger and got converted into magic that could obliterate the Poltergeist's existence forever from this world. Now I finally know something about the functioning of my Super Trigger Rosé.

So, this was some of my progress I've made in my research over the last month. I haven't tried using Dracontongue on other spells, and I'm pretty excited to try it, though I've been busy making the notification spell with no range problems, and I've finally succeeded in that at least. But I still managed to go home these days since I had good temporary solution to my problem.

I linked the notification spell with Nyxie and leave her to play around with any of her new friends. And I go home to research the spell and spend time with Esmée. If someone opens the Chamber, Nyxie would inform me through the bond, which fortunately doesn't have distance limits.

Upto now, there's not been any further attempts by the Diary holder to enter the Chamber, but, it's Halloween tomorrow.

And everyone knows that Halloween in Harry Potter world is just cursed.

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