Chapter 103: entering the chamber of secrets
With this suggestion everyone decided to move and they are going to take Gilderoy with them. But Gilderoy tried to escape because he is just a dummy piece without any combat effectiveness.
Jack has already written to Rita Skeeter and told her to wait in the staff room of Gilderoy in her Animagus form to see the good show. She was thrilled and is currently in the staff room of the defense against dark arts teacher in the appearance of a beetle.
Right at that time Harry and Ron came to Gilderoy to ask him for help save Ginny. They did not ask Jack but asked Gilderoy because he is famous for being an adventurer that even they believed him to some extent.
Actually, they wanted to tag along with Gilderoy that can be convinced easily than other professors to take them along. They want to go along into the chamber of secrets to save Ginny.
If it is other professors they would not allow them to come over. But if it Gilderoy then they can follow him when he shows off like he usually does. That is their plan. One cannot say if they are brave or stupid.
When those big powerful professors and Aurors from the ministry are hesitating, they wanted to fight against the unknown that is killing people. Well Jack did not care about this and is currently in wait to let the show start.
They now know the location and all they need is for someone to open the chamber of secrets passage way. Jack has already told the plan and also revealed the secret of Gilderoy being an impostor instead of a true adventurer.
This was done after Gilderoy left the meeting room silently. Now they used an invisibility spell to hide near the toilet where the chamber of secrets is supposed to be present. They are waiting for the people to come over and open them.
Everyone knows that Harry is the one with the Parseltongue that can open the chamber of secrets with it. Originally they did not want to use the bait method that Jack is using right now. Also they don't want to use Harry as the bait.
But under the insistence of Jack and telling that Harry might not be able to use the Parseltongue unless the situation is urgent subconsciously they would not have accepted it. While they waited three people arrived here and a beetle flew behind them.
The three people are Ron, Harry and Gilderoy. While the beetle is Rita Skeeter that is in her Animagus form. When they came here other noticed that Gilderoy did not have his new wand and he was being threatened by both Harry and Ron.
Well the previous wand of Gilderoy was actually broken by Dobby at the time of dueling club before. Also Gilderoy is not the only one using the broken wand till now. Ron is also using his broken wand.
The thing is Gilderoy has money but most of it spent on the publicity to keep his title facing the advancement of Jack. So right now he is so poor that he did not have enough money to even buy a new wand.
Well as soon as the three people entered the group hiding in the shadows followed secretly and silently. They all looked at Harry that used the Parseltongue to open the gates of the chamber of secrets.
Jack's plan is also right at his hand. It would only take the right moment to make the move and get the benefits. When they came down into the underground rocky area that looked like a huge cave they noticed the shed skin of the basilisk.
By the time they came down a certain incident is happening. Just then, Lockhart feigns fainting and he steals Ron's wand. Victoriously proclaiming that he will erase Harry and Ron's memories and tell everybody they lost their sanity at the sight of Ginny's mangled body,
Lockhart casts the Memory Charm. Ron's broken wand causes the charm to backfire, erasing Lockhart's memory and causing a portion of the ceiling to cave in. Originally this should trap Harry in the direction of the chamber of secrets and Ron in the direction of the castle.
But Jack that acted at that moment was on the side of Harry and Jack is still in the state of invisibility along with other professors. Rita did not follow them down instead she went to the castle gate to formally appear there to talk.
Even for the wizards it would take a while to clear the caved in area of the cave, if they can really complete the work quickly they would have already repaired the caved in secret passage long ago.
Not only students but sometimes professors will also use the secret passages for travelling in secret. Ron and the professors that came have no choice but to stay behind and clear a path through the rocks.
On the other hand Harry continues in search of Ginny while Jack is following him in the dark using the invisibility cloak for extra support. Harry then encounters a wall with stone snakes on it, opens it by speaking Parseltongue, and enters the Chamber of secrets.
Harry finds himself standing at the end of a long dimly-lit giant hall. Jack was behind but he did not dare to enter inside as he is not the protagonist and he could not face the basilisk. If he did he might die at worst and petrified at best.
Jack would wait outside till the entire situation is over and receive the final rewards peacefully like a proper villain. Jack did not even dare to look or step inside the chamber of secrets. All he did is to block the door from closing on its own locking the path for his plans to succeed.
Harry entered inside and looked around the dim lit cave. At the far end by the foot of Slytherin's statue, he finds Ginny lying on the ground, pale and cold.
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