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_lucius]

Sadly, the only other Parselmouth in the realm is hardly close to hand.

Your Uncle Rodolphus is running through a number of curse-breaking spells to force it to open.

Have you heard any more from Harry?

[alt_draco]

No, I haven't heard anything. We've been calling out his name, too. And now Hydra's, as well.

[alt_narcissa]

There is a spell to blast rock away, but you daren't use it, dearest. It might make the cave-in worse.

Put that idiot Lockhart to work. Even if he's no memory left, he can be made to move the stones - and with the Weasley boy and him, and you levitating much of the weight, it ought to go more quickly.

Your Uncle is having no luck at all with spells on the entrance. The poor thing is getting quite frustrated - as are we all.

I've asked your father to contact Windsor.

[alt_lucius]

I shall do no such thing, Draco. The Lord Protector is hardly to be interrupted on an errand such as this - and He would not be likely to be pleased at having to enact such a rescue.

However, since the entrance is to be gained through the pipes, Dawlish may have a map to the parts of the castle thought inaccessible in any way. It is another avenue to providing you an exit.