Chapter 37: Strange behavior

After Tom cast the imperious curse on Edwin his mind went blank at first But few moments late he woke up but and felt like he was in a nightmare, Edwin could see what his body was doing but couldn't control it and watched as Tom walked back to the washroom and open the chamber of secrets.

Clenching the diary in his had Edwin who was now being control by Tom spoke through hisses opening the Chamber of secrets and guiding the Basilisk through the corridor to find their first target, As they went through the floors Tom saw a girl talking to the Gryffindor house ghost headless Nick and Hisses at the Ballistic sending it to attack the girl, Edwin couldn't see what was happening but when the basilisk came back the Nick was floating in the air and the girl was on the floor.

" Hogwarts will be pure again," Edwin said

Watching the events unfold Edwin knew that if Tom isn't stopped Yasbel would be harmed as Tom went back to the Slytherin common he didn't avoid Theodore or any of Edwin friends but talked to them as though nothing was wrong, Tom had mimic Edwin perfectly the time they had spent together helped him in avoiding detection.

" Dam it... I won't let him control me " Edwin screamed inside of his mind and could feel the Tom losing control on him, Feeling like he could break the curse Edwin wanted to test something and tried focused his mind to move his hand.

Edwin's Right hand moved and it was brought close to his face, Tom who notice this cast another Imperius curse on Edwin making lose control once more but this time he didn't lose consciousness but just felt as though his body wasn't his anymore.

After finding out that he could take control of his body Edwin felt relive but he still had a problem if Tom sensed that he was losing control he could always cast another Imperius curse to gain back full control, Edwin came up with the idea to send hidden messages to his friends hoping that they won't take long to figure it out.

After coming up with the plan to inform his friends Edwin had to do something about his memory if Tom got suspicious and ask Edwin questions about his 'vision' he would have to tell the truth to avoid that Edwin tried to lock his memory away from himself using Occlumency Edwin block the memory of the past leaving Tom with no chance of learning about the future.

After three Muggle and a Ghost was sent to the hospital petrified the school became uneasy Harry and Hagrid had the blame pushed onto them, Harry, Hermione and Ron started to investigate the chamber of secret.

After the third Person was attack Edwin used this opportunity to start sending the messages Edwin would write down 'help me' whenever he could, to write without Tom noticing he would have to make sure that it wasn't suspicious and only break control for a few moments before hiding again with only a few moments Edwin writing could be barely understandable.

At first, everyone didn't think much about Edwin writing Help but after a few times and the weirder it got they became concern But they didn't ask Edwin anything about it since the last message he wrote on his chair was " I'm being control " it took everyone a while before they could figure out what the message said.

Draco entered the common room with Crabbe, Goyle and Pansy " The twins have Edwin busy " Draco said and sat down

" Everyone received a message from Edwin saying Help me or something close to that right... good that either means he's playing one hell of a prank or he's in danger "

" It's not a prank " Draco stated, " The twin said that they followed Edwin and found out something weird... He entered the Second-floor girl's washroom a few time and when they asked him what he needed help with he would say nothing "

" Yeah the same thing happened with me," Daphne said " In charms, he wrote Help on my arms... I taught he wanted help with wand movement but when I tried to explain it he ended up correcting my movement... If he knew it why did he ask for my help ?"

" If what he wrote on the chair is true he is being controlled, " Theodore said with a grim expression " We shouldn't take the chance of it being a prank... We should inform Snape "

Everyone agreed with going to see Snape about Edwin After the discussion had finish Crabbe and Goyle asked about the Chamber of secrets but Draco told them everything that he knew about the chamber opening.

Pansy looked around the Slytherin common room and asked Theodore " why don't we try to send Edwin a message ?"

" We tried in writing but he looked at us as though he never wrote anything " Theodore replied, " Even Yasbel think that he being weird "

Edwin walked through the door and everyone acted as they weren't talking about him and the conversation switched to potion and quidditch but a faint smile and Edwin spoke in a mumble but it was loud enough for everyone to hear " Basilisk " when he spoke the words were mumbled but some hear the words clearly.

No one asked Edwin what he meant or why he said it as Crabbe was about to ask but Pansy covered his mouth everyone knew that it was a clue and pretended as though they heard nothing Edwin then went to his room.

Theodore and Draco told Snape what was happening and told them to wait until the next potion class so it wouldn't seem weird or uncalled for, The next potion class Theodore had messed up when making a potion and caused Edwin and him to be covered in boils they had to stay back to make the antidote and not go to Madam Pomfrey as motivation to get it right.

As Snape talked Edwin he saw nothing was wrong and couldn't look into his mind but he didn't take it lightly and provided Edwin and Theodore with the cure for the boils later that week the ministry arrested Hagrid and sent him to Azkaban.

As the plot of the second book was getting close to the end Edwin felt like something dangerous would happen and had to give everyone a bigger hit but the last time he mentioned Basilisk Tom started to pay attention to Edwin every movement and Threaten to make Yasbel his next target.

Edwin knew that he and Yasbel would be the last target but didn't want to rush it as he saw Hermione looking at him Edwin felt as though she knew something and that was good enough for Edwin and He told Draco " Harry knows who-" As he said that Edwin felt like a force came over him and he couldn't talk anymore Tom had started to put continuous pressure on Edwin.

During a Potion class, Edwin broke control again and wrote "Monkshood added to Rhododendron gives you " on Theodore's notebook and pelt Hermione with a note that says " Tom Riddle "

Edwin had only managed to give out two messages before Tom gain back control