"Oh my god," said Hermione.
"Ron, you shouldn't have said that, I'm going to go talk to her," said Evan while looking at Ron angrily.
"Ok!" said Ron while blushing, "You don't really like Moaning Myrtle, right?"
"Ron!" said Hermione
"I don't like her but she is an important source of information." grunted Evan, "I had something to ask her, but now it's all messed up."
"You should apologize to her even though I don't really like her but you shouldn't have said that near Peeves," said Hermione
"Apologize?!" said Ron while blushing a little.
"Yes, Ron!" said Harry as he elbowed Ron, "I think Evan and Hermione are right, we said things we shouldn't have said."
"Well since you all think I should, I will go and apologize to her now," said Ron
After that, he turned around and ran out of the Dungeon while the three people looked at him while being a little worried.
"Let's go, I've looked around and the food here is not for the living." sighed Evan, "And I do have something to ask Myrtle."
"The three of them walked towards the door and nearly Headless Nick floated from the crowd.
"My friends, did you enjoy yourself?"
"We enjoyed ourselves very much." They lied
"The number of people who have attended is excellent." said Nearly Headless Nick proudly, "the Wailing Widow came all the way from Kent."
Nick told the orchestra to stop playing, he stood at a podium with a blue coloured spotlight shining on him.
"My late Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, I am deeply grieved...…"
Before his words could finish a sound rang out through the Dungeon, the ghosts looked around excitedly while Nick's expression looked a bit painful.
Suddenly twelve headless ghosts rode in on horses. all the people who attended clapped warmly, the three clapped to but when they saw Nearly Headless Nick's face, they stopped.
The twelve horsemen went to the centre of the dance floor and demounted their horses.
The one leading the ghosts was a man that carried his bearded face under his arm. The man took his head and held it high up in the air so he could see the crowd while making everyone laugh.
He strode to Nearly Headless Nick.
"Nick!" said the man, "How are you, is your head still hanging?" the man shouted.
The man laughed and patted Nearly Headless Nick's shoulder.
"Welcome, Sir Patrick," said Nearly Headless Nick stiffly.
"Living!"
Sir. Patrick glanced over towards Evan, Harry, and Hermione, he dropped his head causing everyone to laugh once more.
"It's very funny," said Nearly Headless Nick.
"Don't be so gloomy Nick!" shouted Sir. Patrick's head from the floor, "Nick still has a grudge since we didn't let him join the Headless Hunt!"
"I think..." said Harry but before he finished his words, he noticed Nearly Headless Nick's meaningful gaze and remembered his engagement, and hastily said, "Nick is terrifying!"
"Bahahaha"
Sir Patrick's head shouted, "I guess he told you to say so."
Then he ignored Harry and started playing a hockey game with his head with the rest of the Headless Hunt, all the ghost turned to watch the Headless Hunt and no one paid attention to Nick standing at the podium anymore.
Seeing Nearly Headless Nick's pathetic appearance, Evan sighed and felt like he needed to do something.
He stepped to the podium and stood next to Nick; he produced a loud noise using his wand which brought the attention back to the podium.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to share my perspective as a living person," said Evan.
All the ghost looked at Evan curiously, wondering what the young wizard was going to say, a living person's speech seemed more interesting than the Headless Hunt's game.
"As a ghost, Nearly Headless Nick may not be as scary as Sir Patrick in appearance but he is still a very respectable being, even in the living world."
There was suddenly a lot of chatter, many ghosts doubted what Evan said.
"To get more people to commemorate his Deathday, and to thank him for the help he offered me," Evan continued, "I decided to Invite Sir Nicholas to become a special correspondent for the Hogwarts' Magic newspaper, and to publish his life's story in the newspaper."
The voices of the ghost grew louder and made everyone curious about the work of a 'special correspondent'
A ghost's life is so boring even though they had endless life, there are very few things that one could entertain oneself with, through the years their memory fades, some ghost's even stand in a dark corner but those ghosts forget who they were all together.
This is the horrifying reality for a ghost, all ghost's desperately look for things to do but the choices are very limited, this is one of the reasons the Headless hunt is so popular.
But only a few ghost head and body are separate, the vast majority of ghosts are still one being.
Evan's newspaper correspondent job offers them something to do, but they have never heard of the Hogwarts' Magic.
"The Hogwarts' Magic Newspaper is a newspaper that specializes in things related to Hogwarts' wizards, the current sales have reached 800 but the sales are steadily improving." Evan saw that Everyone still had doubts so he continued to explain, "We have been cooperating with mainstream media such as the Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly, and the Quibbler. For example, the article about Sir Nicholas' life will simultaneously be printed in the Daily Prophet and the Hogwarts' Magic."
As Evan's voice faded, the entire room erupted.
Nearly Headless Nick's life will appear in the Daily Prophet, this is a great honour for a ghost who has been dead for hundreds of years.
Everyone was staring at Nearly Headless Nick with envy.
After a minute, Nearly Headless Nick reacted, he looked at Evan excitedly, he wanted to thank Evan for everything he did. Evan believed if Nearly Headless Nick could cry, he would have been weeping long ago.
Evan's words helped Nick win the respect of all the ghosts, put his Deathday party back on track, and no one was paying attention to Sir Patrick and the Headless Hunt anymore.
The ghosts congratulated Nick and floated around Evan, Harry, and Hermione, eagerly asking if there was any vacancy for special correspondents for the newspaper.
Evan thought, the more articles the better.
There were over a thousand ghost from all over the U.K. here, if he could convince them and their friends to help collect news, the news sources of the Hogwarts' Magic newspaper would soon be greater than the Daily Prophet.
Evan looked at the enthusiasm of all the ghost, Evan even considered looking for someone to write down their life stories.
However, this work would be too big and boring. The young wizards simply could not do the job so he would have to wait to hire specialized staff for this task.
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Evan, Harry, and Hermione were the most popular people at the Deathday party, countless ghosts encircled them.
"Incredible, I've never seen such passionate ghosts before," said Hermione.
"Yeah, they're really enthralling." said Evan as he walked down the hallway, "I'm starving, I hope all the pudding hasn't been eaten."
"Wait, we should find Ron first." said Harry, "I wonder if he was successful in apologizing to Moaning Myrtle."
"It shouldn't be easy so let's go the girl's bathroom and see since I have something to ask her." said Evan as he rubbed his belly, "the party will be over soon, perhaps Colin and Ginny remembered to bring us something back to eat."
The three of them walked up the steps but Harry came to a halt soon.
"What's wrong Harry?"
"Did you hear a voice?" said Harry, his face was very unnatural.
"What voice?" asked Hermione while staring at him.
"It was a cold, murderous voice, I heard it in Lockhart���s office a few days ago too," said Harry, ". . . so hungry . . . for so long . . ."
"Damn it, it's the basilisk!" thought Evan as his heart sank, "The Chamber of Secrets was opened, was it, Ginny?!"
"It smells blood, it's going to kill someone." said Harry while staring at the ceiling, "It's moving hurry up, follow me."
After that, Harry ran up the stairs, they could hear the echoing laughter of the Halloween party from the Great Hall.
"Harry where are we going?" asked Hermione while gasping for breath.
"Shhh!" Harry listened.
He heard the voice again and again.
"Harry, let's hurry up, where is it?" said Evan eagerly while wiping away the sweat from his face.
"What are you looking for? I haven't heard anything," said Hermione, she was exhausted and gasping for air, she suddenly pointed to a corridor.
"Look!"
There was something sparkling on the wall in front of them. They slowly approached the wall; they squinted their eyes in the darkness to try to identify what it was. Between two windows and one foot above the ground were a few words flashing under a burning torch.
"THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.", read Evan as he felt like he was going to faint.
"What's that hanging under the words?" asked Hermione as she grabbed Evan's shoulder.
"I don't know, let's get closer and see."
They cautiously approached, there was a big puddle of water on the floor which almost made Harry slip.
The tree moved closer and closer but when they saw what it was, they jumped back which caused water to splash.
Even though Evan knew the plot in advance, it still was frightening to see Mrs. Norris hanging on the wall. Her tail was hanging on the torch's bracket, her body as stiff as a plank, eyes wide open as if she was terrified.
They suddenly heard someone coming down the corridor, which frightened the three kids making them hurriedly turn around, their hearts nearly jumped out of their chests.
It was Ron who came out of a room at the end of the corridor, he was staring at the three people with big eyes and a pale face.
"Harry what's going on?", Ron was obviously frightened, "What did you do to Filches cat?"
"It wasn't us, we just got here," explained Harry.
"What are you doing here?" asked Evan looking at Ron doubtfully.
"What else but doing what you said and apologizing to Moaning Myrtle." said Ron while raising his voice "But then I saw you and the cat!"
"Apologizing?!" said Evan when he noticed that Ron was in the bathroom with Moaning Myrtle, so he hurriedly asked, "Was there anyone else in the bathroom beside you?"
"I don't know, I was in the stall with Myrtle the whole time, she cried so badly she made water go everywhere, it took a lot of effort to make her listen to me." said Ron as he wrinkled his nose and looked disgusted, "This is the stupidest thing that I've ever done, and if Percy ever finds out that I sneaked into the girls bathroom, I don't know how I should explain it to him that it was to apologize to a crying ghost."
"Ron think again, when you were apologizing to Myrtle, was there anything unusual, it's very important," said Evan with a serious tone.
"Well, I think I heard a hissing sound but I'm not sure." said Ron as he swallowed his saliva, "Why do you ask, the girl's toilet is out of order, and beside me and Myrtle who else would be in there or was there someone else?"
"Yes" answered Evan as he nodded stiffly, but know Evan's was even more worried.
Someone unlocked the chamber of secrets when Ron was in the stall but he didn't notice anyone, so he wasn't sure who did it.
Although Ginny made it clear she had never seen Tom Riddle's Diary, she could have been lying. If she was under Tom Riddle's control at the time Tom Riddle would have become suspicious which is the worst-case scenario.
But at the same time, he was fortunate that Ron had been in the stall because if he would have come out, he probably would have been killed.
"Evan, Ron, can you stop going back and forth for a moment."
Harry said, "We should see if we can still rescue the cat."
"I don't think that a good Idea." said Ron, "Since we haven't done anything to the cat it is better to get out of here so we don't get blamed."
But it was too late, he had just finished speaking when he heard people coming down the corridor, the feast was over. They could hear the sound of hundreds of feet on the stairs, and the cheerful laughter of people.
The students crowded into the hall.
When the people leading the groups saw the cat hanging upside down, they all stopped, the happy chattering soon disappeared as well.
Evan, Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone in the middle of the corridor, the students were dead silent, people were trying to see the terrible scene. Evan saw Ginny and Colin standing in bewilderment, they looked like they wanted to come over but they didn't dare to approach.
Someone suddenly spoke loudly breaking the silence.
"ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE! You're next mudblood!"
Draco Malfoy was already at the front of the crowd, his cold eyes were sweeping across them, and his usually pale face was rose red.
He looked at the hanging cat and looked at Evan with a gigantic grin.