Chapter 129 : A Night of Secrets and Magic
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"Which was always expected, my boy." Albus reassured him as Harry turned to look at Severus for an explanation that actually made sense. The potions master had cocked an eyebrow and was just letting the scene unfold.
"I still don't get it." Harry said, deciding the only way to get answers would be to ask directly.
"Once again, allow me to elaborate; your parents would like to listen to this too, I believe." The Headmaster said. "First, we have entering to the Chamber itself; one of the main reasons why nobody had ever been able to find the Chamber, let alone enter it, would be the fact that you need to be a Parselmouth to open the entrance, an ability Adrian has not."
"Thank Merlin for that too!" James offered. "Dark as they make 'em, those Parselmouths." Harry idly wondered what Merlin, being a Parselmouth himself, would have to say at such a declaration.
"So, how did Adrian enter the Chamber then?" Harry asked confused.
"He simply commanded it." Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling wildly. Harry did a double-take.
"Just like that?" He asked smiling; the Headmaster covered his tracks better than any story he might have come up with. And he seemed to believe it too. "Well, what did you expect?" He turned to Adrian. "You have inherited Mom's temperament; it's been proven to bring down walls." Everybody laughed at Harry's remark, Severus almost joining in.
"Tell me about it." James stated.
"In the beginning I thought it didn't open." Adrian admitted. "Then Lockhart tried to escape…"
"As expected." Remus commended.
"… and when we returned to the bathroom the sink had given way and a pipe was revealed on the floor."
"And you decided to jump in." James offered. "Definitely my son!"
"Don't encourage him, James!" Lily warned. "What he did was dangerous; he could have died!"
"But he didn't." Her husband countered.
"Not now, James." Lily stated drily and turned towards the Headmaster. "Please continue; you still have to explain the specifics of what happened to Adrian." Albus nodded and continued; he narrated the events pretty much as Harry remembered them, minus his own involvement, up to the point when Riddle stunned Adrian.
"And that's the point that Adrian's powers surfaced once again." Dumbledore stated. Harry looked at him confused, the image of his brother stunned on the floor still dominant -and painful- on his mind.
"How?" The green eyed wizard asked.
"The specifics I can not give; but it seems his magic reacted violently to the threat, taking control of his body and fighting back. Adrian left the entrance open…" I knew I had forgotten something, Harry thought "so Severus and I went down to see what had happened to the Chamber from up close." And that's why Severus was there. "The backslash from your magic outburst must have been tremendous, my dear boy." The Headmaster stated looking at Adrian with a wide smile. "The Chamber was almost destroyed." It wasn't that bad, Harry thought sheepishly. He had just brought down a few columns. And maybe a couple of statues. And then there was the basilisk slain in the middle of the room. Okay. I trashed the place, Harry admitted to himself, trying his best to keep a nervous chuckle from escaping.
"But what of Slytherin's monster? And how did Voldemort get involved?" Harry questioned, figuring that the more details he heard at the moment, the less chance he had to let something that he wasn't supposed to know slip later on, like the fact that the monster was truly a basilisk for example. Dumbledore explained how the owner of the diary, Tom Riddle, was really the Dark Lord himself -Harry feigned surprise once again- and what the monster really was. He spoke of Fawkes's intervention and how Adrian must have pulled the sword from the Shorting Hat, his magic calling out for help.
"And what does the old Cap have to say about it all?" Sirius asked and Harry tried not to show his panic; he had forgotten about the bloody hat!
"Unfortunately, the hat's magic only works when sorting someone at the beginning of their stay at Hogwarts; after that, all he can tell about that person is its opinion on the sorting and even that stays confidential between the hat and the student." Dumbledore explained and Harry's muscles relaxed. That had been sheer damned luck. "But Fawkes who was there confirmed that the basilisk was slain by the sword that did indeed come out from the hat." Harry marveled at the phoenix's ability to tell the truth without going into specifics; the basilisk had been slain by the sword of Gryffindor that had been indeed pulled from the hat. Who had summoned it and how, had been kept hidden from the Headmaster.
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