Urgent:

[alt_draco]

I think we might need some help here.

We weren't trying to rescue anyone, I swear, only we overheard the teachers say that Professor Lockhart should go out and try to kill the monster in the chamber since he's done so many heroic deeds and such, and then we tried to track him down because we'd learned from Granger that the monster was probably a basilisk and it was living in the pipes somewhere. We thought the information might help him kill the monster, you see. And Weasley was along because he thought it was his sister who was in danger, so he came along with us to Professor Lockhart's office. Only Professor Lockhart wasn't getting ready to fight a monster, he was packing all of his purple frocks into a trunk and getting ready to leave! And then he told us--well, it will take too long to write, but he's a complete fraud, that one, and he tried to ERASE Harry's memories but Harry was really quick and got his wand away from him!

So we had to find the chamber of secrets and make Professor Lockhart kill the monster, but he really didn't want to and he kept trying to escape, so Harry got his wand out and ordered him to get a move on! He was really angry. We found the chamber in the whinging ghost's bathroom, and it took Harry a long time to get it right but he finally said the right parseltongue words and the sink opened up and it was a deep passageway to a part of the castle I didn't even know existed. We were just trying to get Professor Lockhart to go down there and do what all the other teachers said he should do, but when we got to the bottom he snatched Weasley's wand and tried to erase our memories again! But Weasley's wand is rubbish and so the spell didn't work, and some rocks came crashing down and now me, Weasley, and Professor Lockhart are on one side of the rocks, and Harry is on the other. Harry shouted that he was all right and that he was going to have a look around on his own--I tried to tell him not too. But he hasn't said anything for a while now and we're trying to clear away the rocks but there's an awful lot of them, and Professor Lockhart has gone mental and thinks he's a student again and that we're all members of a spelunking club.

Comments

[alt_ron]

Yeah. Lockhart's a complete berk. He attacked Harry. Well, all of us, but he went for Harry first.

And now. He's sitting here on a big rock, playing with his hair.

[alt_lucius]

Does he still have his wand, boy?

[alt_ron]

No, Harry's got that. He disarmed him right away.

He doesn't have my wand, either, now. And it doesn't look like he could use it if he did.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, how DARE he?

I wish you could make him move the rocks with a shovel like a muggle.

[alt_narcissa]

His hands will do. Serve him right if he ruined that manicure.

[alt_molly]

Ronald! Oh, thank GOODNESS you're all right! I was away from the Burrow for most of the afternoon, and when I got home, the hand for you on the clock was spinning between 'school' and oh my goodness, 'mortal peril.' Now it's wandering around the clock face as if it can't decide where it belongs!


They found Ginny, dear. The twins did. She's all right. Well, we assume so...the twins said she wasn't petrified, although she was taken up to the hospital wing. We're waiting to hear more from the Headmistress.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. I'm okay, Mum.

No worries.

We're trying to shift enough of these stones that we can get through to the side Harry's on. Malfoy's making Lockhart move them, and

yeah, I've got to get back to that.

[alt_arthur]

Good to hear you're all right, my boy. If you don't have a working wand, and you have to shift the stones by hand, do be careful. Lift by straightening your knees, like I showed you, not by twisting your back.

[alt_percy]

You were SUPPOSED to go directly to the Common Room! Wait until I get my hands on you, Ronald Weasley!

[alt_bill]

Easy, little bro. He's all right, and he'll be back soon enough.

[alt_pansy]

well, that's something.

you had me going there for a bit, you know.