Childhood Friend (A Harry Potter Fan-Fiction) Book 2 Harry Potter X Male OC

Chapter 19: I told you he was a bloody coward!

We was walking in the corridor, Ron was very upset.

"She knew something. She'd found out something about the Chamber of Secrets. That's why she was taken. I mean, she was- is- a pure blood. There can't be any other reason." Ron says

"C'mon. Let's go see Lockhart. He may be a brainless git, but he's going to try and get into the Chamber. We can tell him what we know..." Harry says pulling Ron away from the stairs

"No, Harry, he's a brainless git but you can see the fear in his face when they told him he has to go get Ginny. He's a bloody coward!" I claimed

"He might be but you know he'll do anything to prove he is the best." Harry says

"Guys. D'you think there's any chance at all she's not, you know-" Ron says I glanced over at him, I studied his petrified eyes.

"Ginny?" I scoffed. "No way, not even for a second, she's a Weasley after all, all you weasleys are strong and brave." I said smiling at him.

"Yeah, we'll find her, Ron. Ginny's gonna be fine." Harry says

Ron nods and smiles shakily and looks away. Harry face changes, he looked troubled. I think even him he doesn't believe what he's just said.

"Ron, I promise, we'll get Ginny back. You have my word." I said

Lockhart's Office

Ron and Harry dashed inside.

" Professor, we've got some information for you-" Harry started and Ron and him stopped dead. Lockhart office is stripped to the shelves. Two large trunks stand open.

"Are you going somewhere?" Harry asks

"Um, well, yes. Urgent call. Unavoidable. Got to go..." Lockhart starts

"What about-"

I grabbed my wand and rushed over towards him and pointed at him.

"I told you he was a bloody coward!" I said looking at Ron and Harry then I turned my head back at Lockhart. "You will find Ginny Weasley."

"You can't just leave! After everything, your books!" Harry says

"Fake." I said

"What?" Harry and Ron said

"All those books, what HE written wasn't his work, it was someone else doing. His books would never be sold if he didn't, if he didn't use other people bravery and intelligence. Taking other wizards credit and using it as your own. I've been putting the piece together since we met, when Harry lost his bones because of you, dueling club. I mean can you even do a spell right? You didn't even work for it." I said stilling pointing my wand at him.

"Leon, Leon, Leon. There was work involved. I had to track these people down and ask them  exactly how they managed to do what they did. No, it's not all book signings and publicity photos. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long, hard slog."

"Is there anything you can do?" Ron asked

"Yes, now that you mention it. I'm rather gifted with Memory Charms. Otherwise, you see, all those wizards would've gone blabbing and I'd never have sold another book. I'm afraid I'll have to do the same to you three, lest you do the same." Lockhart says drawing his wand

"Expellairmus!" I said and his wand flew back. "Try something like that again I wouldn't hesitate to use the exploding charm on you, now, do you really want to do that?"

"You don't even-"

"Bombarda!" I said turning my wand to one of his trunks and it explodes, pieces of the once was a trunk was now floating in the air. I raised my eyebrow at him and point wand back at him.

"O-okay."

Girls Bathroom

Lockhart was walking ahead of us, now the three of us had our wands pointed at him. Moaning Myrtle floats above the toilets.

"Who's there? Oh..." she smiles, flirting

"Hello, Leon, Harry. What do you want?" She asks

"To ask you how you died." Harry says

"Yes, proper way to ask someone that." I said sarcastically.

"Oooooh, it was dreadful." She says flattered

"It happened right here. In this very cubicle. I'd hidden because Olive Hornby was teasing me about my glasses. I was crying, and then I heard somebody come in." She explained

"Who was it, Myrtle?" Harry asked

"I don't know! I was distraught! But they said something funny. A kind of made-up language. And I realized it was a boy speaking. So I unlocked the door, to tell him to go away, and... I died." She described.

"Just like that? How?" Harry asks

"No idea. I just remember seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes. Over there..." she says and she points over to the sinks. The three of us hurry over, examining the pipes below, the tile above. I see something it was etched on one of the copper taps I believe it was a tiny snake.

"This it it, Harry, Ron. This is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets." I said

"Say something. Say something in parseltongue."

Harry stares off self-consciously at the tiny snake.

"Open up." Harry says and Ron shakes his head

"AyaeehAaahSsssSeyythaa EsseythaAaah(Open Up)" I said in parseltongue concentrating. "AyaeehAaahSsssSeyythaa, AyaeehAaahSsssSeyythaa." I repeated until the group of sinks open and a large open pipe is exposed.

"Excellent, Leon. Good work. Well then. I'll just be going. There's no need for me..." he says and I turned around smirking

"Oh, there is." I pointed my wand at him and then at the open pipe. "You first."

"Now, boys. What good will it do?" He says

"A bloody lot of good if it's a two-hundred-foot drop onto jagged rocks." Ron says

Lockhart steps grimly to the dark, gaping hole. He turns his head back towards us.

"Need a little help?" I asked

"No I'm-"

Before he can finish his sentence I pushed him into the hole and he screams the three of us leaned over and waited.

"It's really quite filthy down here." He says

I rolled my eyes.

"Alright. Let's go." Harry says

"Oh...boys, if you die down there, you're welcome to share my toilet." Myrtle says

"Thanks, Myrtle." Harry says

I hesitated and nodded. I wanted to leave quickly before Harry jumped in, I jumped in first, Harry and Ron not far behind. We slide down wicked fast, in a hair-raising vertical plummet, catching glimpses of other, smaller pipes branching off in all directions, twisting and turning until the pipe levels off, dumps them onto the damp floor of a stone tunnel.