Chapter 31 - 32

After listening to Evan, the three could not wait to go back and talk to Myrtle. But ever since that day Filch took a chair and sat in front of the bathroom every night, he seemed to think Evan would break into it when he wasn't there.

In fact, the four of them intend to do so.

But even Hermione wasn't allowed to enter since Filch decided that Evan was the culprit, even though Filch didn't know why Evan wanted to go into the girl's bathroom, he would prevent him from entering.

For a few days, Filch paced around where Mrs. Norris was petrified and hung earlier, he wanted to scrub it with Mrs. Skower's All-Purpose Magical Mess Remover but it was to no avail, the words were still shining as brightly as they were before.

His failure to clean the walls made Filch even more hysterical.

Filch secretly hid in the corner of the third floor and stared at every student that came near with two red eyes, he punished people for anything possible, they were breathing too much, or your clothes are too wrinkled.

"God, I must beat up the madman that did this, but before he gets expelled, I only hope he is able to petrify Filch," said Ron after failing to enter the bathroom again.

But when he saw Ginny's face turn pale, he hastily added it was only a joke.

Ginny was in a bad mood these days, she seemed uneasy after what happened to Mrs. Norris.

Evan asked Colin if Ginny stayed at the Halloween Party and he said she went out for five minutes.

It was quick, but it's enough time to open the chamber and let out the basilisk.

In the present situation, Ginny was the most likely one to have opened the Chamber of Secrets, but no matter how Evan asked she denied she knew anything about Tom Riddle and the diary.

In recent days, Ginny even began to hide from Evan.

Things got a lot more confusing when he forced himself into an infinite loop with the way he kept asking Ginny questions.

On the one hand, according to the original plot, Tom Riddle controlled Ginny and opened the chamber. The questions Evan asked Ginny were somewhat obscure but they would undoubtedly alert Tom Riddle.

If so, the next target will most likely be Evan.

On the other hand, because of the butterfly effect, Lucius may have not given Ginny the diary, but the Chamber of Secrets has been opened, so Tom Riddle is in control of someone in the school.

Evan tried to remember everything he knew about the Malfoy family, but he only could remember a few vague details and the more he thought the more confused he became.

In the end, he had to give up on his plan to find Tom Riddle.

So, he had to go back to his original plan, no matter where Tom Riddle is hiding, as long as he can defeat the basilisk, everything is fine.

Evan knew where the Chamber is so Harry can open it, but the problem is his strength.

It is easy to say, but for a young wizard, it is difficult to defeat a powerful magical creature, so Evan has to speed up his Curse learning, and he also has to learn the standard duelling spells in a short amount of time.

Besides that, he plans to ask Hagrid for a rooster.

But he had no way to carry it, so he had to figure out a way to record it crowing.

The Basilisk is only scared of the rooster crowing, but there isn't a spell to record sound. Evan had to spend a lot of time researching in the library which made him look very haggard.

In fact, the attacks have had an impact on almost every student.

The young wizards were concerned about what was in the chamber of secrets, so almost every Hogwarts: A History was borrowed from the library.

There were rumours everywhere, people were panicking, and gossiping.

By the time the latest issue of Hogwarts Magic came out, it immediately sold over 1300 copies, because Evan and Hermione analysed the chamber of secrets.

The paper was based on reliable historical facts, and Evan added some of his guesses to but everyone wasn't satisfied, they wanted to know who was the heir.

The students then began to suspect Harry.

On Halloween, the four people who found Mrs. Norris petrified, were Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Evan. Hermione and Evan were out because their parents were muggles, Ron's home is full of wizards, but they are all Gryffindors, and Ron is just too weak, so the only one left is Harry who defeated Voldemort, in the minds of young wizards only the most powerful dark wizard can defeat the dark lord.

At dinner, Evan saw Justin Finch-Fletchley hurriedly avoid Harry and say "Slytherin descendant" and so on.

It made a few people feel bad, Harry secretly pulled Evan, and the four people left the great hall and went to the third floor, luckily this time Filch wasn't here. When they were about to open the door, someone came out of it.

It was Penelope Clearwater, she looked at the eyes of the four people and turned and hurriedly ran away.

"She must think we are going to do something bad!" muttered Ron while taking the lead to the bathroom.

At this time, a person's voice suddenly shouted out.

"Ron what are doing?" said Percy with an expression of utter astonishment on his face.

"That's the girls' bathroom!" gasped Percy, "What are you....?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to take a casual look," shrugged Ron, "We're going to look for clues, you know."

"Looking for clues?!" said Percy, "I don't think there would be any clues in a girl's bathroom so get out of here now."

Said Percy toward them urging them to go quickly.

"Others are eating, but you come here and try to enter a girl's bathroom."

"Why can't we come here, you don't know anything," said Ron as he stopped and stared angrily at Percy, "I know what you're thinking, listen we didn't do anything to that cat!"

"I told Ginny the same thing, but she still thinks you're going to be expelled, I've never seen her so sad where she cries all of a sudden. you should think of her, freshmen students have been distracted by this incident!" said Percy

"Evan is a freshman too, but I haven't seen him upset about it," said Ron with his ears turning a bright red, "But you don't care about Ginny, you just worry that I'll spoil your future as a Prefect."

"Gryffindor loses five points!" said Percy stiffly as he used a device to take away points, "I hope this will teach you a lesson, not to engage in any detective activity, or I'll write mom!"

Percy strode away with his neck as red as Ron's ears.

"Ron you shouldn't quarrel with Percy he is just concerned about us," whispered Evan

"Do you think I'm bothersome?!" said Ron as he turned around and looked at Evan, "First it was flying to school, then the slugs, apologizing to myrtle, and until now trying to enter the girls bathroom, you are all right, the wrong is always mine."

"Ron, Evan didn't mean it like that…." said Harry hastily

"I'm fed up!" exclaimed Ron, "The madman could only attack a cat, so let him go and attack."

After that he ran towards Gryffindor Tower.

Harry and Hermione froze momentarily before they hurriedly chased after Ron, leaving Evan alone in front of the bathroom.

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After the incident, Ron seemed to have made up his mind not to speak to Evan or Percy, and avoided them as much as he could, which embarrassed Harry and Hermione.

As time went on, no one mentioned moaning myrtle anymore.

The talk of the chamber of Secrets was getting less and less. Everyone came to think just like Ron, no matter who the heir was, if their only ability was to petrify a cat, then they had nothing to worry about.

Hermione spent most of her time reading books. She went through thick books detailing events of Hogwarts to find clues about the chamber of secrets. Evan used his spare time to practice curses in a room where no one was present.

It was getting closer and closer to Harry's first Quidditch match, so Harry's Quidditch practice increased significantly.

Every day after dinner, he would be taken by wood to the Quidditch stadium.

Thanks to Malfoy's sponsorship, the Slytherin's Quidditch team's brooms have all been upgraded to the Nimbus 2001's, which is far better than Gryffindor's broomsticks.

Since they were unable to get the same broomsticks, Wood decided to increase the team's training intensity. They flew in almost every weather condition imaginable. He hoped to narrow the gap between the two teams caused by the broomsticks.

Since the fight between the two teams, the conflicts between the two houses have grown larger, so many of the Gryffindor and Slytherin students are hoping for a big fight, the upcoming Quidditch match is just adding fuel to the fire.

The day before the Quidditch competition there was a fierce confrontation between the two houses but ever since the first large fight every professor in the school has become very vigilant and stopped it before anything major could happen.

In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday morning.

Evan and Colin went to the auditorium to have breakfast. Evan could feel the depressing atmosphere around the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Wood let all the players eat as much as they could but he didn��t eat anything himself, and when everyone had finished, they went to the Quidditch stadium.

Because of Ron, Evan didn't go with them but waited until Eleven o'clock and went with the school teachers and students to Quidditch stadium.

Evan was in the stadium next to Colin and Ginny.

The game had soon begun; the dazzling figures flew through the air.

From the very beginning of the game you could see which team was more dominant, in less than ten minutes Slytherin scored three consecutive goals, Fred and George's broom lagged behind their opponents, never coming close to the ball.

"All of our brooms are too slow, and no one but Harry can keep up with Slytherin," said Colin feebly.

"I hope Harry can catch the snitch soon," said Ginny while being a little disturbed at how many goals the Slytherins are scoring.

The situation gradually became more beneficial to Gryffindor as in begun to rain.

Wood's training worked, and because the Slytherin's lacked practice in different weather conditions, the Slytherin players became slower.

Everyone soon saw a crazy bludger that seemed to be attracted by some magnetic force towards Harry. The bludger tried its best to try to knock Harry out of the air. Ginny screamed while grasping Evan's arm tightly.

To avoid the bludger's ferocious attack, Harry had to rise fiercely.

He turned, rotated, twisted, flew in a zigzag route but nothing he did worked, the bludger kept following him without going after other people.

With Fred and George protecting him, Slytherin scored two more points.

"The Slytherin's must have done something to the ball," shouted Ron as he stood up and waved his fist in anger.

"Evan, what should we do?" asked Ginny.

"Don't worry Ginny!" said Evan while comforting her and turning to make his way through the crowd, "Someone should be controlling the bludger, I'm going to take a look."

This should be the house-elf Dobby's handy work.

Evan didn't know where Dobby was but one thing was for sure, he must have been hiding somewhere in the vicinity.

Evan wandered around the stadium, looking far and wide until he found the horrendous creature near Ravenclaw's bleachers. Before he could stop Dobby, he saw Wood calling the team together in a huddle.

"What's going on?" asked Wood, "Where were you when the bludger prevented Angelina from scoring."

"We were twenty feet above her preventing another bludger from killing Harry." said George angrily, "someone has bewitched the ball."

"But since we practiced last night the bludger has been locked up in Mrs. Hooch's office since this morning…."

"Listen, you can't keep flying around me, I have no chance of catching the snitch unless it comes around me."

Harry saw the Slytherin team sneering at him and said "Fred and George, go deal with the other bludger and let me deal with the one chasing me."

"Don't be silly, Harry!" said Fred, "It will knock your head off."

"It's all about you!"

George looked at Wood angrily and said, "Catch the Snitch or die in the game, you must be crazy for telling Harry such a thing!"

"What now?" said Wood while looking at Harry, Fred, and George.

"Oliver, be sensible." said Alicia Spinnet angrily, "You can't let Harry deal with that thing alone. We should ask for an investigation!"

"If we stop now, we will be disqualified." said Harry as he shook his head, "We can't lose to Slytherin because of a rogue bludger, we practiced for this game for three months.

"But…."

"Let me deal with the Bludger, I think I can solve the problem," said Evan as he ran over.

When the Gryffindor Quidditch player heard him, they turned their heads and looked at him.

"Evan what are you going to do?" asked Harry eagerly

"You just need to worry about catching the snitch leave the rest to me," said Evan, "Come on, Harry! I've already written the article about Gryffindor winning, and you can't let me replace it.

"Well!" said Wood while looking at Evan and Harry with a firm expression, "Fred, George, you both heard them let Harry deal with the bludger."

With Mrs. Hooch's whistle, the game resumed.

Evan knew he had to hurry. He pulled out his wand while rushing to Ravenclaw's bleachers, Evan ignored Luna who stood up and greeted him.

Evan shouted "Stupefy" which caused a red light to fly out from his wand.

When Dobby heard Evan's shout, he turned his head while looking a little surprised, Dobby stared at him for a second, but he vanished before the spell hit him.

"Damn it!" said Evan as he clenched his fist since he forgot that house elves could freely apparate within Hogwarts.

At that time there was an exclamation within the stands.

Evan hurriedly up and saw that Harry caught the snitch but was hit by the wandering ball from behind and fell to the ground.