𝟎𝟒𝟒; ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ

























SHE KEPT HER EYES NARROWED, ready to clamp them shut at the smallest sign of movement. The hollow eye sockets of the stone
snakes seemed to be following her.

More than once, with a jolt of the
stomach, she thought he saw one stir.
Then, as she drew level with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the
Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall.

Coventina had to crane her neck to look up into the giant face above: It
was ancient and monkeyish, with a long, thin beard that fell almost to
the bottom of the wizard's sweeping stone robes, where two enormous gray feet stood on the smooth Chamber floor.

And between the feet, facedown,
lay a small, black-robed figure
with flaming-red hair.

"My daughter!!" Molly cries out.

"We can see that."

"Weasel girl." She walked toward her and bend down to check her pulse which was beating but weakly.

Arthur tense, he was worried for his daughter but at least she was alive.

Her face was white as marble, and as cold, yet her eyes were closed, so she wasn't Petrified. But then she must be.

"Wake up," Coventina shook her,Ginny's head lolled hopelessly from side to side. "She won't wake," said a soft voice.

Coventina turned around and stood up. A tall, black-haired boy was leaning against the nearest pillar,
watching. He was strangely blurred around the edges, as though she were looking at him through a misted window. But there was no mistaking
him.

"Tom Riddle." Riddle nodded, not taking his eyes off Coventina's face.

"How is he there?" Sirius tilt his head.

"Monty..." Euphemia clench her hand on her husband's shoulder.

"Calm down, Effie.."

"Is the girl dead?" Coventina asked.

"She's still alive," said Riddle. "But only just." Coventina stared at him. Tom Riddle had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago, yet here he stood, a weird, misty light shining about him, not a day older than sixteen.

"What are you?" Coventina asked, her eyes on Riddle.

"A memory," said Riddle quietly.

"No shit sherlock!"

"Again with the detective name thing?"

"Preserved in a diary for fifty years."
He pointed toward the floor near the statue's giant toes. Lying open there was the little black diary Coventina had found in Moaning Myrtle's
bathroom.

"So that's where the diary was."

Coventina frowns, her wand had gone.

"Give it to her back!" James frowns.

"Chill, Malachi."

She looked up. Riddle was still watching her - twirling her wand
between his long fingers.

"Give it here," said Coventina, stretching out his hand for it. A smile curled the corners of Riddle's mouth.

He continued to stare at Coventina, twirling the wand idly. "And where is the basilik?" She asked.

"There is a fucking giant snake that kill people now..wow.." Sirius exclaims sarcasticly.

"Siriu! Your damn son and goddaughter is in a chamber with a basilik!" Remina scolds.

"OH FUCK-"

"It won't come until it is called," said Riddle calmly. "Give my wand, I might need it-"

Riddle's smile broadened. "You won't be needing it," he said. Coventina stared at him.

"What d'you mean, I won't be -?" "I've waited a long time for this, Coventina Potter," said Riddle. "For the chance to see you. To speak to you."

"Later." Coventina hissed.

"Now that's sass." Marlene smirks.

"I wish I was her godmother." Dorcas pouts.

"We're going to talk now," said Riddle, still smiling broadly, and he pocketed her wand. Coventina stared at him. There was something very funny going on here

"How did the Weasel girl get like this?" she asked slowly.

"It's Weasley."

"She know."

"Well, that's an interesting question," said Riddle pleasantly. "And quite
a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley's like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger."

"Explain."

"The diary," said Riddle. "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for
months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes - how
her brothers tease her, how she had to come to school with second hand robes and books, how-" Riddle's eyes glinted "how she didn't think famous, good, great Coventina Potter would ever like her..."

"She like no one so don't sad." Evan shrugs.

"Babe, serious, quiet." Barty sighs.

All the time he spoke, Riddle's eyes never left Coventina's face. There
was an almost hungry look in them.

"That sound so wrong."

"It's very boring, having to listen to the silly little troubles of an eleven year-old girl," he went on.

"But I was patient. I wrote back. I was sympathetic, I was kind. Ginny simply loved me. No one's ever understood me like you, Tom... I'm so glad I've got this diary to confide in... It's like having a friend I can carry around in my pocket..."

"Our niece sound desperate." Gideon muses.

"Totally, bro." Fabian grins.

"Bro."

"Bro-!"

Riddle laughed, a high, cold laugh that didn't suit him.

"If I say it myself, Coventina, I've always been able to charm the people I needed. So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted... I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets. I grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. Powerful enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back into her..."

"Explain further." Coventina stated coldly.

"Not her commanding him." Alice chuckles.

"Like father, like daughter." Achilles smirks.

"Haven't you guessed yet, Coventina Potter?" said Riddle softly. "Ginny
Weasley opened the Chamber of Secrets. She strangled the school
roosters and daubed threatening messages on the walls. She set the
Serpent of Slytherin on four Mudbloods, and the Squib's cat.

"What!?" Molly yells making some people hissed in pain.

"My daughter would never do that!" She shouts again. "He is lying, I s-" She gasps.

"SHUT UP!" Achilles shouts angrily, he was losing his cool because of those red heads.

James tense nervously, he never
saw Achilles so angry in his life.

"She did?" Coventina glare at the red head girl on the ground.

"Yes," said Riddle, calmly. "Of course, she didn't know what she was doing at first. It was very amusing. I wish you could have seen her new diary entries... far more interesting, they became... Dear Tom," he recited.

"Think I'm losing my memory. There are rooster feathers all over my robes and I don't know how they got there. Dear Tom, l can't remember what I did on the night of Halloween, but a cat was attacked and I've got paint all down my front. Dear Tom, Percy keeps telling me I'm pale and I'm not myself. I think he suspects me... There was another attack today"

"And I don't know where I was. Tom, what am I going to do? I think I'm
going mad... I think I'm the one attacking everyone, Tom!"

"He is a good actor." Marlene shrugs.

"Little trouble." Rabastan warns. "Fine, I am quiet." She pouts.

"it took a very long time for stupid little Ginny to stop trusting her
diary," said Riddle. "But she finally became suspicious and tried to dispose of it. And that's where you came in, Coventina. You found it, and I couldn't have been more delighted. Of all the people who could have
picked it up, it was you, the very person I was most anxious to meet.."

"And why did you want to meet me? I did not know that you were a fan of orphan." She raised a browed.

"This should not be that funny."

"I agree."

"Well, you see, Ginny told me all about you," said Riddle. "Your whole fascinating history. " His eyes roved over the lightning scar on her's forehead, and their expression grew hungrier.

"Continue."

"So I made Ginny write her own farewell on the wall and come down
here to wait. She struggled and cried and became very boring. But there isn't much life left in her... She put too much into the diary, into me. Enough to let me leave its pages at last... I have been waiting for you to appear since we arrived here. I knew you'd come. I have many questions for you, Coventina Potter."

"Like what?" She scoffed.

"Oh oh, he is pissing her off." Dorcas tsk.

"Hm," Bellatrix smirks, finally some actions.

"Well," said Riddle, smiling pleasantly, "How is it that you a skinny girl with no extraordinary magical talent - managed to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?"

There was an odd red gleam in his hungry eyes now.

"Really, stop with that." Peter frowns.

"I agree with you." Alice nods.

"Why do you care how I escaped?" said Coventina slowly. "Voldemort was after your time..."

"Voldemort," said Riddle softly, "is my past, present, and future, Coventina
Potter ..."

He pulled her wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words:

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves:

I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

"What!?" Every students shouts.

"Did you-" James and Sirius looks at Euphemia and Fleamont.

"Yes, this is the Dark Lord." She replies with a sad smile.

"Hold up, my daughter is with a Dark Lord!" Lily gulps.

"I thought you said that she is now James's child." Marlene rolls her eyes.

"You see?" he whispered.

"It was a name I was already using at Hogwarts, to my most intimate friends only, of course. You think I
was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name forever? I, in whose
veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, through my
mother's side?"

"I, keep the name of a foul, common Muggle, who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out his wife was a witch? No, I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak, when I had become the greatest sorcerer in the world!"

"The Dark Lord is a half-blood?" Regulus smirks. "Oh, mother." He laughs.

Finally after years, Regulus could finally laughs outloud in the face of his mother.

"Poor you, Bella." Sirius smirks at his cousin's disbelief face.

"Wow, they are SHOCK." Alphard take another sip of vodka.

"Those three, I swear." Mortem shake his head.

"You are weak, Riddle, a fool that Dumbledore beated, you feared him but I, Coventina Potter fear no one."

She smiled, her plan? Riling up Riddle till he decide to bring his little snake to fight her. And he did.

"Why would she want to fight a damn basilik?" Arthur asks confusely.

"Maybe she want to test something." Amelia Bones replies.

"Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

"Now that's laughable."

"The great Heir of Slytherin saying after getting defeated by a baby." Sirius snickers.

Slytherin's gigantic stone face was moving. Horrorstruck, saw his mouth opening, wider and wider,
to make a huge black hole. And something was stirring inside the statue's mouth.

Something was slithering up from its depths. Something huge hit the stone floor of the Chamber, she knew what was happening, she could sense it, could almost see the giant serpent uncoiling itself from Slytherin's mouth.

"Okay, this is no longer laughable." Sirius frowns.

"Its.." Rabastan looks at the screen, "Beautiful?" Narcissa continues.

"I was about to say, slimly." He shrugs.

Then he heard Riddle's hissing voice:
"Kill her. " The basilisk was moving toward Coventina; he could hear its heavy body slithering heavily across the dusty floor.

"NO!!"

The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving
drunkenly between the pillars.

"ɴᴏ!" Coventina hissed, "ɪ ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ, ʟɪsᴛᴇɴssss ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ!" She continued. Her eyes were closed with the basilik infront of her.

"Your daughter is crazy!?" Evan shouts.

"Shut it!" James hisses, Barty frowns.

"Say one thing and you are dead." Achilles mouths.

"ɪ ᴡɪssssʜ ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀɪɴ ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟᴏʏᴀʟᴛʏ, ᴋɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ sɴᴀᴋᴇs." She hissed, her hands slowly being on the head on the basilik.

"What the.."

"She is so amazing."

"sssssʜʜ, ʟɪsᴛᴇɴssss ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇɪʀ ʙᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ." Riddle's eyes widened in disbelief.

"NOOO! Kill her!" He shouted but
the basilik did not obeyed.

"Opps, the King is dead, all Hail to the QUEEN!" Marlene cheers.

Everyone cheers.

"sʟɪᴛʜᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇsssᴛ, ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪғᴜʟ." She continued, the basilik slowly slithered back to the statue ignoring the cries of Riddle.

As soon as the basilik obeyed her, Coventina opened her eyes and smirked.

"Oh, poor Tommy boy your little pet does not even obey you anymore?" She coos ignoring the glares of Riddle.

"She sound like Bellatrix." Rabastan whispers to Dorcas.

"Beautiful and powerful?" Dorcas raises a brow.

"No, crazy and sadistic." Rabastan comments.

"You did exactly what I want." She laughs, a cold laugh, a laugh that make Riddle shiver, it was like him.

She was like him.

"Never, she is better." Sirius, Achilles and Fleamont says.

"Explain." He demanded.

"I knew you framed Hagrid, I knew Ginny had the diary and I knew that she would steal it. My chamber is block by magical wards from the Peverell, no one could enter it without my permission...but oh how could poor Ginny entered it then?" He tensed.

"She planned it all!"

"That brat placed my daughter in danger!" Molly complains.

"Your daughter was stupid to even
go to her room." Regulus answers.

"You allowed her to." Riddle answered angrily.

"Yes, I did." She shrugs, "I knew she would take me to you, and I knew you would take me to Voldemort and also that beautiful creature." She giggles while clapping her hands.

"Okay..we can be scared.."

"Nah why is she so cute?"

"Cute!?"

"You gave me what I want on a
golden plate." She smiles, Riddle shake his head in disbelief.

"Tommy, Tommy boy, I am no fool, nor a weapon."She continued.

"Everyone are merely pawns,
and I am the chessmaster." She
said.

Achilles smirks, "She is right, in a selfish world, the selfish succeed and in a world of fools, the mastermind win."

James tense, "Why? The two of you are so similar, it can't be. Unless Achilles came back in the future but he wouldn't. He did abandoned me." He thought.

"That quote is cold."

"Everyone thinks they are in control, but in reality, they are just moving on my command. And in the end, they will all fall into the same predictable pattern as everybody else." She shrugged.

"But what can they do? A Queen is a Queen and a King is a King. All they can do is obey."

Many pureblood understand her words, and she was right, you had to go every lengh to get what you want.

You don't give up on the first try.

Riddle seems to become enraged at her words.

She walked toward him, standing right in front of him with no fear, and lean near his ears. "Yes, I am a child, a twelve years old girl. But right this moment." She smirked.

"It's checkmate." She stabbed the diary.

"Manipulation is a dangerous
trait." Fabian states.

"She can't become like this! I won't
allow that!" Lily thought.

There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream. Ink spurted out of the diary in torrents, streaming over herhands, flooding the floor. Riddle was writhing and twisting, screaming
and flailing and then.

He was gone.

"She killed a Dark Lord twice.." Bellatrix shivers.

"That's our girl." Sirius smiles.

"Impressive." Thought Arcturus.

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