With the recent attacks, the failure to find a culprit, and lack of knowledge of what the monster actually was; Dumbledore was suspended from Hogwarts by Minister's Orders.
People were more frantic, the hospital wing was entirely shut down and permitted no guests. Classes were covered with the strictest security, and students moved in large groups.
The Exams were to start on the first of June, one week from today.
It was asinine that they were still getting exams- classes were canceled left and right in fear of the attacks. The library was closed from being a crime scene, and each house had a strict curfew.
Three days before the first exam, Professor McGonagall made an important announcement. The Mandrakes had finally grown to a point where the cuttings could be used to revive those who had been petrified.
The time was drawing short, the window of opportunity for the diary to act was down to just days.
Adrian smiled when he heard the announcement for all students to go back to their House Dormitories. That meant there was another petrification, which meant the diary had decided to take actions.
Draco stared at him horrified as he made his way the opposite direction of the Dorm.
"Adrian! Where are you going!" Draco hissed, and Adrian simply smiled. A breathless excited smile which left Draco standing stunned. Something wasn't right about his eyes.
Adrian walked away, thankful that Lutain had fallen asleep in his pocket.
"Wake up." Adrian giggled, sliding behind a tapestry and pulling out his wand, "It's time to go to the chamber Lutain," He practically crooned.
He casted the disillusionment charm on him, feeling the unsettling sensation as he walked through the now empty hallways with ease.
"What?" Lutain stumbled, waking up sleepily, "What time is it?"
"Time for the Chamber," Adrian hissed, knowing that there was no risk while invisible, "Let's head to the Chamber and see the basilisk."
They walked to the washroom, there was a message written in blood right where the first message had been written at the start of the year.
"Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever." He read quietly in English, lifting a fist to bite it sharply. He would have laughed otherwise- out of sheer relief. Everything was working, the diary had taken a body.
He didn't bother with investigating the sinks, "Open!" He hissed loudly.
The sinks ground, and slowly slid open to the beautiful sight of a hole in the ground.
Adrian stepped into the hole and slid out of sight.
"Look at the shed!" Lutain gasped, flickering his tongue at the huge hollowed form of the shed skin. It was twenty feet long and pale white with imprints of scales larger than Adrian's fist.
There was something freeing about being in this chamber- miles underground. There had never been documents saying that the Chamber existed. No wards, spells, or maps ever drew it. It was completely untraceable, unmappable, which meant no matter what sort of spells Adrian casted, he would never be found.
His face was starting to hurt from smiling when he reached the next set of doors, two carved intertwining serpents with glittering green eyes.
"Open," Adrian laughed, watching as the door cracked apart and each half slid out of sight.
Adrian walked forward, nearly skipping.
He and Lutain were standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars were decorated with more curved serpents, rose high into the dark to support the ceiling.
Adrian pulled out his wand and walked between the serpentine columns, his footsteps echoed loudly off the shadowy halls.
At the last of the pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall. Adrian had to crane his neck back to see the face above: something monkey in features with a long thin beard.
At the base of the floor, a single prone red haired girl lay.
"Ginny Weasley?" Adrian asked, his voice echoing loudly, "Seems a bit strange to possess a pure-blood."
"It worked, didn't it?" a soft voice answered him behind.
Adrian turned slowly, holding his wand aloft.
The tall black haired boy was unmistakable, although he was eying over Adrian with interest, "You have my face," Tom said, blinking in surprise and some sort of pride, "And my hair."
"Blood adoption," Adrian explained, trying to not seem strange with how intently he was looking at Tom Riddle. He hadn't ever seen his father look remotely humanoid, seeing him like this was baffling and thrilling. Adrian wondered how similar they really would look once he grew more.
Ginny made a loud whimper, echoing through the hall.
Adrian looked down at the girl, "She isn't dead?"
"Almost," Tom sighed, looking at her fondly, "She was a wonderful pawn. As she grows weaker, I grow stronger."
"Did you possess her the entire time?" Adrian asked intrigued, "Or only at times?"
"At times," Riddle confirmed, prodding the girl with one of his shoes, "She was pathetically easy."
"Are you able to go back into the diary?" Adrian asked, "It would be easier to take you out of here."
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