Marauders-era Characters Watch Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry: All right. [turns to Ron] Let's go. [Ron nods in agreement]

Myrtle: Oh, Harry? [the two boys look up at her] If you die down there, you're welcome to share my toilet. [she giggles; making Ron uneasy]

Harry: Uh... thanks, Myrtle. [smiles at her, then turns to the opening, and jumps into it; Ron immediately jumps in after him]

[Harry and Ron scream as they go down a slide, which leads to a small pit filled with animal bones, most likely the Basilisk's feeding area, as Lockhart brushes the dirt off his robes when the boys land. They immediately get to feet and point their wands at him.]

Ron: [glancing at the muck around them] Ugh.

Harry: [stepping on the bones] Now, remember: any sign of movement, close your eyes straight away. [he turns and goes into the passageway behind him]

Ron: Go on. [Lockhart reluctantly follows Harry into the passage with Ron right behind him]

"The basilisk is that long?" Peter whimpered. James eyes widened.

"Harry can't defeat...that!" He wailed. Lily glared at him.

"Harry probably thanks you for your vote of confidence."

Ron: Bloody hell. Whatever shed this must be sixty feet long. Or more. [Lockhart faints, most likely from fear] [sarcastically as Harry turns his attention to Lockhart] Heart of a lion, this one.

"Coward!" Sirius cursed. 

Lockhart: [suddenly grabbing Ron's wand and getting to his feet while breathing wickedly and pointing the wand at Harry] The adventure ends here, boys. But don't fret. The world will know our story. How I was too late to save the girl, [points the wand at Ron] how you two tragically lost your minds at the sight of her mangled body. So... [points the wand at Harry again] ...you first, Mr. Potter. Say good-bye to your memories. [waves the wand wildly as he shouts] Obliviate!

"No!"

[The wand emits green light, causing Lockhart to fly backwards, slam into the wall, then fall to the floor. A couple seconds later, a rumbling begins, then rocks begin to fall from the ceiling; Harry takes cover as huge rocks go flying over him while Ron backs up against the wall as the rocks form a massive pile.]

Ron: [coughing from the dust produced by the rocks] Harry! [Harry pulls his robe free from one of the rocks] Harry!

Harry: [running to a opening in the big pile of rocks separating him from Ron] Ron! Ron, are you okay?

Ron: I'm fine!

Lockhart: [groans and sits up] Hello. Who are you?

"The spell backfired!" James announced. 

"That's karma if I ever saw it!" Sirius laughed. 

[The wand emits green light, causing Lockhart to fly backwards, slam into the wall, then fall to the floor. A couple seconds later, a rumbling begins, then rocks begin to fall from the ceiling; Harry takes cover as huge rocks go flying over him while Ron backs up against the wall as the rocks form a massive pile.]

Ron: [coughing from the dust produced by the rocks] Harry! [Harry pulls his robe free from one of the rocks] Harry!

Harry: [running to a opening in the big pile of rocks separating him from Ron] Ron! Ron, are you okay?

Ron: I'm fine!

Lockhart: [groans and sits up] Hello. Who are you?

"Why the hell is he going in alone?!" Remus demanded.

Ron: [as Harry turns and climbs down from the pile of rocks] Okay.

[Harry draws his wand as he steps onto the floor again and walks forward. Up ahead, he sees a circular door with seven snake-shaped locks on it, and steps towards it.]

Harry: Hesha- Hassah. (Open.)

[An eighth snake slithers out from the door's mechanical hinge, and slithers along the door's edge, causing the other seven snakes to retract one by one. As the snake slithers back into the hinge, the door slowly opens. Harry steps forward; on the other side is the Chamber of Secrets. Harry cautiously steps through the door, into the Chamber, towards the ladder in the doorway.]

"Oh, I'm so nervous." Andromeda expressed. 

"I can't believe they're the ones dealing with it!" Lily stated, outraged.

"This is why they have capable adults at the school! How hard is it for them to be competent for once?" Narcissa voiced.

[As the door slowly closes behind him, Harry climbs down the ladder and walks down the corridor. Looking ahead, he sees Ginny lying motionless at the end of the Chamber. She is clutching Tom Riddle's diary.]

Harry: Ginny. [runs to her, drops his wand and gets on his knees] Ginny. No, Ginny. Please don’t be dead. Wake up. Wake up! Please wake up.

[Suddenly, Tom Riddle walks out of a nearby doorway.]

Riddle: She won’t wake.

[Harry recognizes his voice and turns toward him. Riddle walks to him.]

Harry: Tom? Tom Riddle? What do you mean she won’t wake? She’s not...?

Riddle: She’s still alive, but only just.

Harry: Are you a ghost?

Riddle: A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years.

Harry: [reaches out and touches Ginny] She's as cold as ice. Ginny, please don't be dead. Wake up. [while Harry's not looking, Riddle bends down and picks up Harry's wand from where he left it] You've got to help me, Tom. There's a Basilisk. 

Riddle: It won't come until it's called. 

Remus and Regulus shared a look. Suspicious. 

Harry: [looks up to see Riddle holding his wand and stands up] Give me my wand, Tom.

Riddle: You won't be needing it.

Harry: Listen, we've got to go. We've got to save her!

Riddle: I'm afraid I can't do that, Harry. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger. [Harry looks at him, confused] Yes, Harry. It was Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets. [Ginny is shown standing in front of the sink in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom as it opens]

"What?!" Ted shrieked.

"But Ginny can't bet the Heir of Slytherin...she's a Gryffindor!" Alice protested.

Harry: No. She couldn't. She wouldn't.

Riddle: It was Ginny who set the Basilisk on the Mudbloods and Filch's cat, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls. [Ginny is show using her blood-covered fingers to write on the wall]

Harry: But why?

Riddle: Because I told her to. You'll find I can be very persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing. She was, shall we say, in a kind of trance. [as Ginny is shown running into a stall and throwing the diary into the toilet] Still, the power of the diary began to scare her. And she tried to dispose of it in the girls' bathroom. And then, who should find it but you? The very person I was most anxious to meet.

Harry: [stands in front of the Slytherin statue] And why did you want to meet me?

Riddle: I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to show you my capture of that brainless oaf Hagrid to gain your trust.

Harry: [angrily] Hagrid's my friend! [calms down slightly] And you framed him, didn't you?

Riddle: It was my word against Hagrid's. Only Dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent.

Most people gaped.

"What kind of sick person does that?" James asked, incredulously. 

"The Dark Lord." Regulus answered simply. 

Harry: [smirks at him] I'll bet Dumbledore saw right through you.

Riddle: He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that. [walks around Harry as he speaks] I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at school, so I decided to leave behind a diary, preserving my sixteen-year-old self in its pages, so that one day, I would be able to lead another, to finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work.

Harry: Well, you haven't finished it this time. In a few hours, the Mandrake draught will be ready. And everyone who was Petrified will be all right again.

Riddle: [smiles maliciously] Haven't I told you? Killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now, my new target has been you. [Harry looks at him in surprise] How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape [pushes Harry's hair aside with his wand to see his scar] with nothing but a scar while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

Harry: Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time.

Riddle: [smiles wickedly] Voldemort is... my past, present, and future. [turns toward the statue and uses Harry's wand to write his full name in flaming letters; after writing the "E", he flicks the wand, and the letters rearrange themselves to say "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT]

There was silence for a moment. 

"You were right." Sirius said weakly.

"WE were right." Regulus corrected, glancing at Remus. 

"I have to say, being right would taste much better if Harry wasn't facing Lord Voldemort." Remus responded. Bellatrix rolled her eyes.

"Whatever, he's done it twice already. I have no doubt in my mind he'll do it many more times."

Harry: [as the letters fade and Riddle turns to face him] You. You're the Heir of Slytherin. [Riddle stares evilly at Harry] You're Voldemort.

Riddle: Surely, you didn't think I was going to keep my filthy Muggle father's name? No. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world!

Harry: Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!

Riddle: Dumbledore's been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!

"By corrupt fucking politicians!" Mary seethed.

Harry: He'll never be gone! Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him! [Harry and Riddle glare at each other; a musical sound is heard nearby; Harry and Riddle look down the corridor to see Fawkes flying towards them, carrying something] Fawkes? [Fawkes drops a bundled-up object into Harry's hands as he flies over and around them, then back down the corridor; Harry unrolls the object, which turns out to be the Sorting Hat]

Riddle: So this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender: A songbird and an old hat. [backs away from Harry as he continues examining the Sorting Hat, then walks toward the Slytherin statue and extends his left hand] Shearhas- Samnathas- Sélithaeine. (Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four.) 

[Harry turns to face the statue of Salazar Slytherin as a rumbling begins; Riddle turns around to face him as the statue's mouth starts to open.]

Riddle: Let's match the power of Lord Voldemort, Heir of Salazar Slytherin, against the famous Harry Potter.

[Harry gulps and turns toward the statue again as he hears an ominous snarling that appears to be coming from inside the statue and hyperventilates; Riddle turns to face the statue's mouth as the Basilisk shrieks "Hungry!" from within the statue. The stone slab concealing the statue's mouth stops descending; a split second afterwards, the Basilisk emerges from the darkness and starts to come into the light, growling menacingly. Harry throws the Sorting Hat onto the floor in front of Ginny and races back towards the door to the Chamber as the Basilisk's head comes out of the statue's mouth and its snake-like body lowers into the surrounding water; Riddle, immune to the Basilisk's lethal gaze, watches the creature.]

Riddle: Sethae- He- This! (Kill him!) [turns his attention to the fleeing Harry as the Basilisk's body curves to its right behind it] Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter. [the Basilisk's tail drops into the water behind him] It only obeys me! 

"Come on Harry!" Peter cheered. Frank shuddered.

"Merlin, I hate snakes."

[The Basilisk slithers after Harry with a ferocious growl. Harry races down the corridor as fast as he can while the Basilisk is in hot pursuit; unfortunately, Harry loses his footing on the slippery floor and trips, allowing the Basilisk to catch up with him. His glasses clatter to the floor in front of him; he immediately puts them back on before realizing the Basilisk is right above him and covers his head with his hands. Just as the Basilisk is about to attack Harry, Fawkes emits his cry, getting their attention. Fawkes swoops down, going directly for the Basilisk, and attacks the colossal snake, pecking at it, with Harry observing their fight by watching their shadows on the wall.]

"Go Phoenix which I forgot your name!" Sirius whooped. 

Riddle: No! Your bird may have blinded the Basilisk, but it can still hear you. 

"It's blinded!" Lily brightened. 

[Harry turns around to see that the Basilisk's yellow eyes are bloody. The Basilisk thrashes around furiously as Fawkes flies off; Harry gets to his feet, and steps backwards, stepping into something slimy, causing a splattering sound; Harry looks down to see what he stepped in. At the same time, the Basilisk stops thrashing about and blindly glares at Harry, who looks up again and makes a run for a passageway to his right. The Basilisk lunges at Harry, nearly getting him. Harry, breathing heavily, runs as fast as he can, into a tunnel just to his left as the Basilisk lunges at him again, smashing through a stalactite. Harry runs through the tunnel, looking back to see if the Basilisk is still behind him; he turns left into an alcove, only to find his path blocked by a grate. He struggles to move it, but turns around upon hearing the Basilisk coming into the tunnel. He steps back against the grate, as the Basilisk comes to his position. The Basilisk hisses at him and approaches him with its mouth open. Harry picks up a rock at his feet and throws it; the sound of the rock distracts the Basilisk, who slithers off into another passageway. Harry races back into the Chamber where Riddle and Ginny are.]

Riddle: Yes, Potter. The process is nearly complete. [Harry puts his hand on Ginny's hand again] In a few minutes, Ginny Weasley will be dead, and I will cease to be a memory. [Harry looks up at him] Lord Voldemort will return... very... much... alive.

"Harry, hurry up." Remus urged under his breath, knowing very well that Harry couldn't hear him.

Harry: [glancing at Ginny again] Ginny...

[The Basilisk bursts out of the water surrounding the Slytherin statue and thrashes about; Harry turns toward the Sorting Hat, where a sword magically appears. Harry, without hesitation, grabs the sword and holds it up defensively as the Basilisk slithers toward him. Harry races for the statue and begins to climb it; the Basilisk blindly follows Harry's movements, using its tongue to track his location and lifts its body off the floor. The Basilisk uses its tongue again to find Harry's current position directly in front of it; Harry swings the sword at the Basilisk; it lunges directly at him, he dodges, and it smashes right into the statue. Harry climbs higher as the Basilisk lunges at him again, missing again; Harry climbs onto the top of the statue's head, the Basilisk lunges at Harry repeatedly as he swings the sword wildly at the creature. Eventually, the Basilisk sends Harry rolling down the side of the statue, causing him to lose the sword.]

Harry: [seeing the sword about to slide off the top of the statue's head] No.

[Harry hurries to retrieve the sword; the Basilisk lunges right at Harry once more. Harry stops the sword just in time, and rams it right through the Basilisk's upper jaw. The Basilisk bellows in pain until Harry pulls the sword out. Harry screams in pain as one of the Basilisk's venomous fangs just fell into his arm; he pulls the fang out, unfortunately, the venom is already in his bloodstream. The Basilisk thrashes around, roaring and bellowing in pain, collapsing under its weight, and falls backwards to the floor, dead, splashing water everywhere; Riddle stares at the Basilisk's corpse in disbelief.]

"Oh my god!" Lily shrieked.

"He did it!" Sirius cheered.

"MY TWELVE YEAR-OLD SON DEFEATED A BASILISK!" James announced. 

"Yeah, Harry!" Peter cheered, somewhat lamely after James' words. 

"Oh, he did it!" Ted shouted and kissed Andromeda.

"He still has to defeat the Dark Lord." Narcissa pointed out.

"Oh, I forgot about that." Frank said sheepishly.

[Harry limps past the Basilisk's corpse, and, dropping the sword and falling to his knees, he crawls towards Ginny once more as Riddle walks toward them.]

Riddle: Remarkable, isn't it? How quickly the venom of the Basilisk penetrates the body.

"What?" Sirius frowned. "Did I miss something?"

"You idiot, the Basilisk bit Harry!" Regulus stated. The mood in the room suddenly became graver. 

"Oh, no." Lily cried.

"I didn't notice..." James trailed off.

Riddle: I guess you have little more than a minute to live. You'll be with your dear Mudblood mother soon, Harry. [Harry extends his left hand to Ginny's again] Funny... the damage a silly little book can do... especially in the hands of a silly little girl. [Harry looks to the diary in Ginny's arm and carefully pulls it out, placing it on the floor between her and the Basilisk fang] What are you doing? [Harry picks up the Basilisk fang and holds it up while staring at Riddle, who immediately realizes what Harry is about to do] Stop. No!

"Yes!" Alice cheered. "Voldemort is dead once more." Regulus frowned.

"To be fair, this time he was never really alive. Last time too." He stated.

[Harry stabs one of the diary's pages with the fang as Riddle steps forward to try and stop him; Riddle's body crumbles and gives a discharge of yellow light; ink starts to ooze from the diary, Riddle recoils and growls with rage; Harry pries the fang out. Riddle attempts to attack, but Harry stabs the other page, crippling Riddle, and causing him to crumble further; Harry closes the diary and stabs the cover with the Basilisk fang; Riddle screams in agony and disintegrates into yellow particles; shortly after Riddle's demise, Ginny awakens, hyperventilating, and sits up.]

Harry: Ginny.

Ginny: [turning to face him] Harry, it was me. But, I swear, I didn't mean to... Riddle made me. And... [notices Harry's injury] Harry... you're hurt.

Harry: [covering his wound] Don't worry. Ginny, you need to get yourself out. Follow the Chamber, and you'll find Ron. [Fawkes emits his song again; Harry and Ginny both look down the corridor to see him flying towards them; he swoops around the Basilisk's body, and lands in between them, then steps over to Harry] You were brilliant, Fawkes. I just wasn't quick enough. [Fawkes emits a soft grunt, then lowers his head to Harry's wound, and cries on it; the wound miraculously disappears; Ginny stares in amazement] Of course! [lifting his healed arm] Phoenix tears have healing powers.

The room erupted into cheers.

"OH I KNEW HE COULD DO IT!"

"THANK GOD FOR DUMBLEDORE!"

"HARRY I'M SO PROUD!"

"Harry defeated the Dark Lord again?"

"AGAINST ALL FUCKING ODDS!"

"YES! YES! YES!"

"He survived Basilisk's venom?"

"OH MERLIN YEAH!"

"HE DID IT! HE DID IT! HE REALLY DID IT!"

"Stop shaking me. I'm aware."

Harry: [Fawkes grunts affirmatively as Harry glances at him] Thanks. [looks at Ginny] It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

[Fawkes then flies Lockhart, Ron, Harry, and Ginny out of the Chamber of Secrets.]

Lockhart: Amazing! This is just like magic!

[Fawkes carries the four of them up towards the opening of a cave as the moon can be seen above them.]

"Hilarious! Comedy genius!" Sirius laughed, still on the high of Harry winning.