Harry's POV continued:
Ron and I walked outside the house to the open window. The spider's were crawling down the side of the house and leading down the ground and into the forest. Hagrid left that message for us, and I was determined to find out the meaning behind it.

    "Come on." I ushered him towards the forest.

    "What?!" Ron squeaked.

    "You heard what Hagrid said, Follow the spider's." I repeated. Ron looked at me as if I was crazy.

    "They're heading into the Dark Forest!"

    "Ron, we have to do this. Olivia and Hermione were attacked and they knew something. We have to do this for them, to put an end to the misery going on in the school." I began to walk forward, I was going to go with or without him.

    "Right, for Olivia..." Ron whispered. I caught what he said and turned to grin at him in a teasing way.

    "And Hermione."

    "Well, yeah, you interrupted before I could finish. For Olivia AND Hermione. Shut up, Harry." He shoved my shoulder at my teasing look. "Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?" Ron complained.

Together, with Fang, Ron and I headed into the Dark Forest. Following the trail of spiders. The farther we went the more spider's began to appear. Ron whimpered nearly the entire time. His breathes were uneven and shaky. I understood that he was scared of spider's and why, but it was getting rather annoying.

"Harry, I don't like this." Ron whimpered. His voice squeaked with fear. We walked over more tree roots and followed the Spider's to a tunnel in the ground. "Harry, I don't like this at all."

"Shush!" I scolded him.

"Can we go back now?" Ron cringed.

I gulped, getting a bit nervous myself. No, I had to do this. I looked at the hole and walked forward.

"Come on."

We had to crouch down as we walked through the large hole in the ground. We walked even further following the spider's ignoring the sounds from the forest around us. The spider webs after we exited the hole seemed to get even bigger. I lifted the lantern up to see in the dark. A sudden loud crunching sound, branches breaking, caught our attention.

"Who is it?" A raspy voice called out. More branches broke and Ron whimpered again.

"Don't panic." I told myself, but also trying to assure Ron. Fang began barking at a even larger hole in the ground across the forest. It was very large and covered in spider webs.

"Hagrid, is that you?" The voice called out again.

"We're friend's of Hagrid's." I replied.

Soon enough, eight long hairy legs appeared from the hole. The gigantic spider lifted itself out from the hole and it's black piercing eight eyes all blinked, looking back at Ron and I. We both backed up slightly and I understood finally the significance of the creature.

"And you... You're... You're Aragog aren't you?" I asked trying to stay brave.

"Yes. Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before." The great spider replied.

Ron seemed to be looking around, but I stared right at the spider.

"He's in trouble." I explained quickly. "Up at the school, there have been attacks, they think it's Hagrid." I peeked over to where Ron was looking and spider's, smaller than Aragog, but still way bigger than us were scurrying across the forest floor. I quickly turned back towards Aragog. "They think he opened the Chamber of Secrets. Like before."

"That's a lie. Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets."

I furrowed my brows.

"Then you're not the monster?"

"No." Aragog replied. "The monster was born in the castle. I came to Hagrid from a distant land... in the pocket of a traveler."

"Harry." Ron whimpered.

"Shush." I said quickly. I was getting more answers then ever and I wasn't about to stop now. "But if you're not the monster, then... Then what did kill that girl fifty years ago?" I asked curiously.

"We do not speak of it. It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others." Aragog said, his voice nearly quivering with fear at the thought of the beast.

"But have you seen it?" I pressed.

"I never saw any part of the castle, but the box in which Hagrid kept me. The girl was discovered in a bathroom. When I was accused, Hagrid brought me here."

"Harry." Ron squeaked with a bit more urgency.  I was throughly annoyed.

"What?" I turned and snapped at him.

Ron only whimpered a bit more and pointed above our heads. I looked up and he had every right to be nervous. I gulped seeing the hundreds of spider's crawling their way down towards us on their webs or on the trees. I cleared my throat and looked back at Aragog, not wanting to alarm him.

"Well, thank you." I said softly and we began to slowly back away. "We'll just go..."

"Go? I think not. My son's and daughter's do not harm Hagrid on my command, but I cannot deny them fresh meat when it wanders so willingly into our midst. Goodbye, friends of Hagrid."

Spider's surrounded us in every which way.

"Can we panic now?" Ron asked terrified.

A spider fell down from the trees in front of us and screeched. Ron and I both jumped and gasped. It tried to come forward, but I used the lantern in my hands and swung it around like a bat. Smashing into the young spider. I swung again, hitting another one, but there was far to many. Ron and I quickly stood back to back with our wands pointed out.

"Know any spells?" Ron asked.

"One, but it's not powerful enough for all of them." I explained.

"Where's Olivia and Hermione when you need them?" Ron groaned.

The spider's were nearly upon us. We stood tightly pressed together with Fang at our side. A loud roar of an engine came driving up from over one of the many mounds of tree roots. The bright lights shine in our faces. It was Mr. Weasley's Ford Angela! It plowed through the spiders making a path right for us. We quickly hurried backwards and the car finally came to a stop in front of us. There was still no one driving the vehicle and it opened the doors for us. I wasn't about to argue.

"Let's go!" I shouted and we ran towards the car jumping in our seats. The spider's all began to come scurrying back towards us. I aimed my wand as as spider blocked my path from the door. I remembered the spell from the memory. "Arania Exumai!" I shouted.

The spider hissed as it was blasted away from the car. I quickly jumped inside the passenger doorway. Shutting it behind me. Fang sat in the back and Ron in the driver's seat. Spider's began attacking the car and Ron screamed.

"GO!" I shouted.

Ron cranked the car into gear and floored the pedal. The car jerked and went backwards while spider's were on the roof, and hood of the car still. He took us on the path that the car came in from and we drove up the side of the rooted hill. There was a steep drop off the edge. The back of the car was in the air one minute and the next we began falling, driving, backwards.

"Whoa!" Ron and I screamed.

The last spider knocked off the hood and we were alone in the dark forest.

"Glad we're out of there." Ron exclaimed while breathing heavily. I took a deep relaxing breath and nodded. But suddenly a spider jumped on the side of the car and it's legs wrapped around Ron. They were thrashing around and I backed up with wide eyes. "Ahhhh!" Ron screamed.

I pulled my wand back out and pointed. Ron's body was in the way, but he quickly jerked the spider towards the side allowing me to cast my spell.

"Arania Exumai!"

The light shot of from my wand, blasting the spider away, killing it. We both were breathing heavily and Ron turned back to me after seeing the spider was finally gone.

"Thanks for that." He gulped.

"Don't mention it." I breathed. As I turned to sit back in my seat correctly I focused my terrible eye sight. The headlight of the car shined out into the forest. Now scurrying towards us was the hundreds of kid spiders. Ron whimpered in fear as they seemed to line up, ready to attack. "Get us out of here... Now!" I shouted.

Ron once again put the car into motion. He twirled us backwards and changed gears. The car lurched forward as we began to head towards the edge of the forest.

"Come on! Come on, move faster!" I shouted trying to encourage him. "Go! Go! Get us in the air!"

"The flying gears jammed!" Ron explained as the car made a loud cranking noise. In front of us now were hundreds of spider's. They seemed to catch up and made a blockade.

"Come on, pull!" I yelled. Leaning over into Ron's seat I helped him grab the lever and tried to pull.

"I'm trying!" Ron shouted back.

We both screamed as we crashed into more spider's while we tried to pull the lever. Finally it seemed to give way and the car began to head into the air. The back hit a fallen tree, but then it was smooth sailing from there. Well, sort of. We glided across the trees and the car seemed to dive back towards the ground, just outside of Hagrid's hut. It crashed, bumped and jumped across the ground, before finally coming to a stop. We both quickly opened the doors and climbed out on wobbly legs.

"Follow the spiders. Follow the spiders! If Hagrid ever get's out of Azkaban, I'll kill 'im." Ron shouted angrily. We stood in front of the car and it's engine roared to life again. We watched as it back out and went back into the forest. "I mean, what was the point of sending us in there? What have we found out?" Ron complained.

I sighed in a bit of relief that not only were we safe on Hogwarts grounds, but I knew one thing for certain now.

"We know one thing. Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets. He was innocent."

Even though I had more answers, I still felt like I had so many questions. Ron and I visited the hospital wing every single day. We always brought new flowers for the girls. We took turns sitting at each of their beds. I didn't know if they could actually hear us, but I told them what we'd found out so far. The weeks seemed to pass by, and we were no closer to getting anywhere with the information we had. At least Madam Pomfrey had told us that the Mandrake Drought was just about ready. So very soon, we'd have the girls back. We left to go visit the girls again and I fixed Olivia's flower's while Ron fixed Hermione's. He sat next to her and I sat on Liv's bed.

Her one hand that must have been holding the quill was still frozen in the air. I decided to sit on the other side of the bed and I grabbed her hand and let out a big sigh.

"I really wish you were here, Olivia. I miss both you and Hermione so much. Your bossing us around. We could use some of that right now. We need you two. Now, more than ever."

I stroked her hand with my thumb, her fist was closed tightly, but something was poking my hand. I frowned as I looked down and investigated. She seemed to be holding something. I carefully pried it out of her fingers. It was badly crumpled and I did my best to smooth it out.

"What's that?" Ron came over to Liv's bed. I knew my eyes had grown wide seeing the paper in my hands.

"Ron.... This is why Olivia and Hermione went to the library that day. The day they were attacked!" I explained excitedly. "Oh, thank you, Liv!" I quickly kissed her forehead and stood back up. "Come on!"

Ron and I quickly left the hospital wing and headed back. I read the paper over and over and began to read it out loud to Ron.

"Of the many fearsome beasts that roam our land, none is more deadly than the Basilisk. Capable of living for hundreds of years, instant death awaits any who meet this giant serpent's eye. Spider's flee before it. Ron, this is it! The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk! That's why Olivia and I have been able to hear it speak. It's a snake!"

We stopped in the hallway as I explained everything. I can't believe they had figured it out. I should have seen it before. I was certainly just glad we knew now and not to mention the Mandrake Drought was almost ready. I'd have my sister back soon. Now, I just needed to find the chamber, but the pieces seemed to start coming together.

"But if it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it that no ones dead?" Ron asked.

He had a good point. I thought about each attack. Olivia and Hermione wouldn't have grabbed this from the book unless they were sure. I looked up and saw my own reflection in the mirror on the wall. It suddenly clicked.

"Because no one did look it in the eye. Not directly at least." I began to walk along side Ron back to the common room, thinking about each attack. "Colin saw it through his camera. Justin... Justin must have seen the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick. Nick got the full blast of it, but he's a ghost. He couldn't die again. And Hermione and Olivia... had the mirror!" I exclaimed as I remembered McGonagall asking why they had it and the quill. Brilliant they are. "I bet you anything that they were using it to look around corners in case it came along."

"And Mrs. Norris?" Ron asked. "I'm pretty sure she didn't have a mirror or a camera, Harry."

"The water." I remembered. "There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the Basilisk's reflection." I hurried to the nearest column of light and pointed to the page. "Spider's flee before it. It all fits."

"But hows' the Basilisk been getting around? A dirty, great snake, someone would have seen it."

I looked down at the page seeing my sister's hand writing, part of it had been cut short.

"Olivia and Hermione answered that too. She must have been trying to write something down for us in case. That's why she was found with the quill." I pointed out.

"Pipes?! It's using the plumbing?" Ron exclaimed as he looked around.

"I think maybe I know why Liv was writing this too... Bathroom. Not sure about the sink part, though. Or the Sna... She must not have finished what she wanted to write before seeing the snake."

    "Maybe she was thinking about having a snack in the bathroom by the sink? You know how Olivia loves food." Ron suggested and I frowned at him.

    "No, it must have to do with what Aragog said. Remember? About that girl who died fifty years ago? She died in a bathroom? What if she never left?"

    "Moaning Myrtle!" Ron whispered as he understood.

Suddenly Professor McGonagall's voice came over the P.A system around the school.

    "All students are to return to their house dormitories at once. All teachers to the second floor corridor immediately."

Ron and I gave each other one look and we knew we weren't going back to the Common Room. We hid behind one of the walls as the teachers came running down the corridor. There was another message that had been written on the wall.

    "As you can see, the heir of Slytherin has left another message. Our worst fear has been realized. A student has been taken by the monster into the Chamber itself." Professor McGonagall sighed. "The students must be sent home. I'm afraid this is the end of Hogwarts."

Lockhart was the last teacher in the room. He walked up with a smile on his face.

    "So sorry. Dozed off. What have I missed?"

    "A girl has been snatched by the monster, Lockhart. Your moment has come at last." Professor Snape remarked. Lockhart's eyes widened in surprise.

    "M-My moment?"

    "Weren't you saying just last night that you've known all along where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is?" Snape said patronizingly.

    "Well, that's settled then. We'll leave you to deal with the monster then, Gilderoy. Your skills, after all, are legend." I'd never heard McGonagall practically mock a teacher before. But that's exactly what she had done. Clearly Lockhart and his big mouth had gotten him disliked around here.

    "Very well. Um, I'll just be in my office getting...uh, getting ready." Lockhart said nervously. He turned and quickly left the hall.

    "Who is it that the monster has taken, Minerva?" Madam Pomfrey asked her.

    "Ginny Weasley." McGonagall answered.

Ron and I were shocked. The teachers left the corridor and we could finally see the message that was written on the wall in blood.

    "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever." Ron read the wall and gulped. "Ginny."