Major changes and additions because of my great Beta Deb.

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Saturday evening, May fourth, after dinner Albus went to his room and took out his map of Hogwarts. He had not seen Tom Riddle Hanley at dinner, but also missing were three of the older prefects. Albus looked on his map for Tom R Hanley, Archana Lucy and Tom Higgy, the seventh year prefects, and Bellatrix Hanley, one of the sixth year prefects. None of them were visible.

Albus found Orion Ollivander, the other sixth year prefect, and asked him, "Do you know where Tom Riddle Hanley, his sister Bellatrix, Archana and Tom are?"

"No," Orion admitted. "If we cannot find them by tomorrow morning we need to tell Professor Ollivander."

The next morning the four students were still missing. Albus went up to Delilah Rosier and asked, "Do you know where the Hanley's, Archana, and Tom are?"

"It is none of your business," Delilah snapped.

Albus found Orion Ollivander, and had Orion ask Delilah, but she snapped at him as well. Albus and Orion asked a number of other students, including Marshall Lestrange, Tomasina Nott, and Caradoc Dearborn, but none of them admitted to anything, and most of them did not realize that the three prefects were missing.

Albus and Orion then found Professor Ollivander and told her about the missing students.

"How are you sure they are missing?" Professor Ollivander inquired.

Albus did not want to broadcast the fact that he had a map of Hogwarts, so he told the professor, "We cannot find them. No one we asked had any idea where they were. I think the headmistress has a way of finding all the students. Ask her, please."

"How do you know they are not in the infirmary?" Professor Ollivander inquired. "How do you know they did not go home for the weekend?"

"We don't know," Albus admitted.

Professor Ollivander dismissed the students.

*

Monday the five were still missing. Professor Ollivander assembled the Slytherin students and asked, "Do any of you know where Tom and Bellatrix Hanley, Archana Lucy or Tom Higgy are?"

No one would admit to anything.

"Delores Hanley, your older brother and sister are missing. You must know something?" Professor Ollivander charged.

The third year student looked like she was thinking, and then slowly shook her head no.

"Lucius Hanley?" Professor Ollivander snapped.

The second year student fiercely shook his head no.

"If they do not show up by tomorrow morning we are calling in the Aurors," Professor Ollivander stressed, obviously very upset. "If any of you know anything about this, tell a professor."

*

Tuesday morning Albus looked at his map. The students were still missing. He found Orion as the students were heading to the Great Hall for Breakfast, and said to him, "The four are still missing. We need to say something to Professor McGonagall and the others."

"Come with me, and I will tell them," Orion replied.

Albus and Orion Ollivander approached Professor Olivia Ollivander as breakfast was starting. Orion said, loud enough that all the professors could hear, "Tom Riddle Hanley, his sister Bellatrix, Archana Lucy and Tom Higgy are still missing. They have been missing since Saturday. Somebody needs to do something!"

Professor McGonagall jumped up, saying in a fierce and barely controlled voice, "Mr.'s Potter and Ollivander, Professor Ollivander, come with me!" She led them into a small room off the main dining room.

Once they were in the room, Albus started by saying, "On Saturday I could not find Tom or Bellatrix Hanley, Archana Lucy or Tom Higgy. I asked Orion, since he was the most senior prefect left, and we tried to find them. We were not sure what to do, but when we could not find them Sunday we went to Professor Ollivander.

"Yesterday Professor Ollivander asked the rest of the house about the missing four, but no one knew anything. I'm sorry to interfere, but something is wrong."

"Thank you for telling me," Professor McGonagall replied in a voice that was kindly towards the students, but very uptight. "You are dismissed."

Albus and Orion left the room, but before they had closed the door they heard Professor McGonagall rage, "You have had four students missing and you didn't tell anyone! ..."

Before breakfast had ended Albus saw Professor McGonagall storm out of the little room and march out of the Great Hall, obviously furious.

*

Minerva McGonagall marched up to her office to call Harry Potter, still amazed that she was using this Magical/Muggle mobile instead of a Patronus or Floo call.

Harry answered, "How can I help you, Minerva?"

"Tom and Bellatrix Hanley, Archana Lucy and Tom Higgy are missing. We last saw them Saturday for breakfast. We do not think they were at lunch, but that is not unusual on a Saturday. We know none of them were at dinner."

"You cannot find them on the map?" Harry inquired.

"Albus was the first to notice, on his copy of the map," Minerva explained. "He noticed it Saturday night, and told Professor Ollivander on Sunday. She did not tell me, though. Your son Albus and another student, Orion Ollivander, announced it to the staff this morning.

"If I was a dragon the whole of Hogwarts would be burned to a crisp, I am so mad. I told Olivia that from now on I am in charge of Slytherin. I will work with her, but this dragon dung of Slytherin being independent stops right now!"

"How would you usually find out that a student is missing?" Harry wondered.

"That is one of the jobs of the prefects, especially the senior prefects," Minerva explained. "The matrons tell both the head of house and the senior prefects if a student is in the infirmary. I tell the same people if a student suddenly has to go home for some reason. The prefects are responsible for telling us if all the students are not in their rooms overnight."

"That doesn't help much if the senior prefects are missing," Harry mused.

"Albus told Orion Ollivander, the most senior prefect left," Minerva said. "The two of them went to Orion's aunt. I should have been notified right away!"

"We will contact their parents first," Harry told Minerva. "They need to be notified in any case, and if they took the students out of school, and didn't tell anyone, I want our Aurors to be the first to confront them. Missing students is not a matter to be taken lightly."

"Let me know as soon as you find out anything, Harry, please," Minerva insisted.

Harry placed a Floo call to Niles Hanley. "Tom and Bellatrix are missing," Harry stated without a preamble, "along with Archana Lucy and Tom Higgy. If you have any idea where they might have gone, please let us know."

"What do you mean, they are missing?" Niles yelled.

Harry replied, "They did not show up for dinner Saturday night, and no one can remember them at lunch Saturday either. Saturday the school started to search for them, but so far no one will admit to knowing anything. Your son has disappeared for hours at a time, and no one knows where he goes. It is time to tell us everything you know about what your son has been doing."

"I have no idea where they are," Niles snapped. "If they have left the Hogwarts grounds I have a couple of ideas where they may be. I do not think they have left Hogwarts."

"Please look anywhere else they may be," Harry pled. "We will continue to see if they are in some hidden area of Hogwarts."

Harry notified the other parents, with similar results. He assembled a team of people from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, but they could not find anything either.

*

Wednesday after dinner the four students were still missing. Albus assembled the MELL students, and they all went down towards the Slytherin dormitory. They were looking outside the entrance to the dormitory when Cleo started sniffing the air. "I think I smell something awful," she coughed.

Cleo felt along the wall with her wand, sniffing and coughing. Galadriel the Elf took out her wand and felt along the wall. Cleo stopped at a crack in the wall. Galadriel put her wand on the crack and it started to open. The rest of the students could now smell something. Albus put his wand on the crack as well, and a door opened. Albus yelled, "Make sure you have your glasses on. We think there are basilisk in there!"

The smell that came from the door was overwhelming awful. Thorin the Goblin took out the Sword of Gryffindor. Albus, Cleo and Scorpius went through the door. Others tried, but the way seemed to be blocked. Thorin took the sword and passed it to Scorpius, telling him, "Put your wand in the hilt of the sword."

Cleo illuminated the corridor with her wand. Just as they started in a basilisk attack. The basilisk was about six foot (two meters) long and six inches (fifteen centimeters) in diameter, and was moving fast. Albus tried to stun it, with some success, but it was Scorpius who cut off its head with the sword. The three cautiously went a little further into the chamber before encountering another basilisk that was the same size as the first one. Albus confined this one, and again Scorpius killed it with the sword.

"I think there are more basilisk here," Albus said, just as another one attack. By this time Albus knew what would confine the basilisk, keep it from moving, so Scorpius could dispatch it. It was a good thing that Albus had confined the basilisk, because it took Scorpius a couple of tries to kill this one.

The smell was so bad that it was hard to concentrate.

The corridor was all smooth stone. Albus shouted, "Look for gaps and holes in the stone. We do not want a basilisk to attack us from behind." The three of them carefully scanned the walls as they went in, but the stone was smooth with no obvious gaps or holes. It was not a long walk until they could see a room ahead, but before the room they could see, in the corridor, what looked like a partly eaten body.

"I think we need to go back," Albus suggested. "This looks like a crime scene Dad and the Aurors need to investigate."

"Look out," Cleo pointed as another basilisk slithered towards them. Just as Albus was stunning this one two more attack. Scorpius was able to kill two of them, but the third was heading towards the open door. Scorpius ran after the basilisk, cutting off its tail just as it emerged from the corridor. Everyone backed off as the wounded basilisk turned on Scorpius and bit him, just as he cut off its head.

Scorpius collapsed on the floor. Albus called, "Fawkes!" and the phoenix appeared.

"Scorpius is hurt," Albus told the phoenix. "Please heal him."

Fawkes flew over to Scorpius, landed on him, and cried one tear. The tear landed on the spot where the basilisk had bitten Scorpius.

Cleopatra was doing something at the door to the corridor. A gentle breeze was moving into the corridor. The smell was becoming a little less overwhelming, although it was still bad.

"Have we killed all the basilisk?" Albus asked out loud. "We have killed six of them."

Delores Hanley, the sister of the Hanley's who were missing, whispered, "I think so."

Albus turned around and snapped, "What did you know?"

Delores cried, "Not much. I did not know how to get into the Chamber of Secrets. Just something about six basilisks and killing mudbloods and all sorts of awful stuff."

Lucius Hanley, Delores's younger brother, muttered, "Shut up," to his sister as he made a threatening gesture.

Professor McGonagall came striding into the corridor, followed by Olivia Ollivander, Urban Umbridge, and Henry Slughorn, the three professors who had been in Slytherin.

Scorpius was sitting on the floor, the bloody Sword of Gryffindor in his hand, a dead basilisk at his feet. Cleo was pointing her wand into the newly opened door, as a breeze wafted into it. Albus looked to be in command of the situation; at least everyone else was looking at him.

"Scorpius killed six basilisks," Albus jumped in with. "They were all about the same size as the one on the floor next to Scorpius. Delores Hanley says that there are only six, at least that is what she heard. We stumbled across a dead and partly eaten body before we retreated. So far only Scorpius, Cleo and I can get into the corridor. Thorin and Galadriel tried, and they could not get in."

"Is that awful smell coming from that?" Olivia asked, pointing to the door and the corridor behind the door.

"It is a lot less now that Cleo is pushing air into it," Albus replied. "It was worse by the dead body."

"What do you know, Miss Handley?" Professor McGonagall kindly asked.

Delores looked at her brother and muttered, "Nothing."

Albus insisted, "You said there were only six basilisks!"

But Delores just mumbled, "I don't know nothing." as she started to cry.

Professor McGonagall pulled out her wand and conjured up her Patronus. "Tell Harry Potter that we have a major incident here with at least one and probably four deaths, basilisk and more." The shimmery cat scampered off.

Gabriel and Hermeli Habsburg came running into the corridor outside the Slytherin quarters.

"Our resident Aurors are a little late," Professor McGonagall quipped. "I am glad you are here. We seem to have at least six dead basilisks and one dead person in there," pointing to the door and opening in the wall.

Gabriel walked up to the door but could not get through the opening.

"See if you can get in," Professor McGonagall commanded Olivia Ollivander.

"Me?" Olivia squeaked.

"You are a graduate of Slytherin. IN!" McGonagall shouted.

Professor Ollivander went into the corridor, and came right back out. "It smells even worse in there," she said through coughs. "It smells like death."

"I will see if I can get in," Orion Ollivander volunteered. "I will come right back out." Orion walked into and then out of the corridor.

The corridor was beginning to become packed with people.

Professor McGonagall announced, "Galadriel, Luthien, Thorin, please stay. Miss Smith (referring to Cleo,) you can also stay. Anybody else, if you are not in Slytherin, please leave. That includes the MELL students. We need room here. Slytherin students, if you know anything tell Mr. or Mrs. Habsburg, then returning to your dormitory."

Rose asked, "May I please stay, Professor McGonagall?"

She answered, "Well, I guess. You seem to be part of this foursome."

"I would like Orion to stay as well," Albus told Professor McGonagall. "He is the most senior prefect left."

Professor McGonagall agreed.

It took about twenty minutes of work to clear the corridor. Gabriel and Hermeli Habsburg did interview a number of students who had seen Albus, Cleo and Scorpius go through the door and enter the corridor, and seen them come out battling the basilisk.

*

Harry had gone back into work, and was assembling a team to go to Hogwarts, when he received a text message from Albus. 'It looks like only Slytherins' can get into the chamber' Albus typed.

Harry switched gears. There was a record of which house all of the Aurors and other employees of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement had been sorted into, as long as they had attended Hogwarts. There were a number of Aurors, some from other countries, who had not attended Hogwarts. He had Mary Lou Creevey, one of his administrative assistants, give him a list of all the Aurors and other Department of Magical Law Enforcement officers who had been in Slytherin, and then picked five of them to accompany him to Hogwarts.

It took a half an hour for him to assemble the staff and take a Floo to the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes store in Hogsmeade, and then get to the proper corridor at Hogwarts.

Theodore Nott had been in the first class of Aurors, and was someone who Harry trusted and knew as a good field Auror, and one who could lead the group into the corridor and chamber beyond. Oliver Oddpick was a wand expert, good at finding out what spells a wand had been used for. He would not have been Harry's first pick for an assignment like this, but he didn't have much of a choice. The other three Slytherin graduates were not Aurors. Two, a witch and a wizard, were patrol officers, and the third was little more than a file clerk. Law enforcement seemed not to be a common choice for a job for a Slytherin student, and some of the family histories were suspect enough that Harry was not eager for people from those families working for him.

When Harry and his team arrived at the doorway to the Chamber of Secrets, he looked at Albus, asking, "What did you see?"

Albus thought, "It is a modest size corridor leading to some sort of chamber. We did not get far enough in to see what was in the chamber. The only thing we saw except the corridor ending in some sort of a room was a partly eaten dead body just inside the corridor."

Harry was quiet for a few moments, then asked, "So was your cell phone broken, not charged or something like that? You had Elves with you. Why did you not call for help right away?"

"Sir?" Albus asked not understanding the question.

"Because that is the only reason I can think of that instead of calling me or Professor McGonagall when you discovered the smell or when you came across the first basilisk, and backing out of the chamber, that you kept going forward and nearly got your best friend killed."

"That's not what happened!" Cleo protested.

"Isn't it?" Harry asked, "It's not that I would have stopped you from going, but with a lot more wands and more protection so Scorpius wouldn't have gotten hurt in the first place."

"But you killed that basilisk on your own," Albus reminded him.

"We were in the midst of a war," Harry grumbled, "and I did not have many allies. Too many people lost their lives. Do NOT go off on your own, Albus."

"Yes, sir," Albus meekly replied. Perhaps they should have called for help as soon as the door began to open.

Harry looked at Cleopatra, and asked her, "What did you see?"

"Albus and Scorpius fighting the basilisk," she replied. "The tunnel or corridor was smooth stone, with joints but no gaps I could see. I think the dead body was a girl. I'm not sure why I think that. The room was dark, and my wand did not give enough light to let us know what it is like."

"What did you see, Scorpius," Harry asked.

"Basilisk," Scorpius stressed. "One basilisk after another. I kept trying to remember what Thorin taught about fighting with a broadsword. I couldn't stab the basilisk, but needed to chop their heads off. If you don't do it right you wound them but not fatally. It took a couple of tried to finish off two of them. As soon as I was done with one another one was there. The last one fled and I cut off its tail but that just enraged it and it bit me as I was trying to finish it off.

"Mr. Potter, I would have died except for Albus stunning them and the phoenix tears."

Harry complimented Scorpius. "You are a hero for what you did, Scorpius. I am very proud of you."

Scorpius shook his head. "I do not think I want to make a career of being a hero. I only did it because there wasn't much of a choice. I was terrified the whole time."

"You had every reason to be terrified, Scorpius," Harry agreed. "Heroes lose their