(Y/N)'s POV

The next few days were a bit dull, a few more classes and it was finally the weekend, I awoke later than normal to find a note from Harry telling me he was going to Quidditch practice. I decided to get breakfast and the catch up with him. I tried my best to hurry so that I could cheer him on during practise.

Harry's POV

We were making our way down the field, Wood was going on about the drills we were going to use during practise, Fred and George spotted the Slytherins and Wood went to confront them. By the time I made my way to Wood, the Slytherins were showing off their new seeker.

Draco Malfoy, he walked up to us with a sneer and showed off the teams' new brooms, with a smug smile. Apparently they had written permission from Snape to use the pitch so they could train their new member. I'd bet anything Snape did it when we had the pitch reserved on purpose.

"Nimbus 2001's" he said, his voice filled with pride, "Much faster than older models" he said, eyeing the Weasleys brooms and then glancing at mine, I was about to say something when Hermione beat me to it.

"At least nobody on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in" she commented proudly. "Shut up, you filthy little mudblood" said Malfoy Hermione stood there in shock, as did Ron.

There was a collective gasp from the Gryffindor's and the Slytherins jeered at her, I'd never heard of this term, but it didn't seem like a friendly nickname, the Weasley twins lunged forward at Malfoy but Wood stopped them.

The crowd parted and there were loud footsteps behind me, but I didn't pay much attention to them because Ron ran up to Malfoy wand drawn and said, "Eat slugs Malfoy!" angrily, he tried a curse, but because of his broken wand he was sent flying backwards only to vomit up a live slug. There were further laughs from the Slytherins at this turn of events.

What happened next was over in the span of a second, I turned to see if Ron was ok, Hermione ran after him, I was about to follow, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw who was making those loud footsteps earlier, it was (Y/N) and he looked furious.

I turned back just in time to see it happen. (Y/N) reeled his fist back and punched a still laughing Draco Malfoy in the throat. Only to then dive on him and go for another hit.

It then took; Oliver Wood, Fred and George Weasley and Katie Bell to pull him off and hold him back, at one point Alicia Spinnet had to dive on top of him to stop him from thrashing about, he shouted profanities and threats at the entire Slytherin team, who had all surrounded Malfoy as he coughed and wheezed on the floor.

By the time he had calmed down, Malfoy had recovered, but was still milking it, and the teachers had been called, unfortunately, the wrong teacher arrived on the scene first. "Come" said the sly voice of Snape as he dragged (Y/N) behind him.

(Y/N)'s POV

Snape dragged me by the arm up to McGonagall's office, he explained the situation and she was astonished. "I am disgusted by your behaviour young man!" she shouted, "It is out of my hands, this must be taken to the headmaster."

The next thing I knew I was in Professor Dumbledore's office waiting as each teacher went in turn and discussed what they thought was necessary, I was sat in silence, eyeing the bird in the corner, I was almost certain it was a Phoenix, I had a strong urge to pet it but knew I should sit still and do as I'm told.

"He simply must be expelled, there should be no tolerance for violence against other students, regardless of cause, he has done nothing but make trouble since his sorting" reasoned Snape.

"While his behaviour has been unacceptable, I think expulsion is extreme for the first event of this nature, he is usually a very well-mannered student, and while he is mischievous at times, violence has never been a factor" argued Professor McGonagall.

"Thank you for your input, if you would, I would like to speak with Mr (L/N) alone" said Dumbledore. Snape protested but Dumbledore simply said, "He should state his case, what happens next will be at the discretion of myself and Professor McGonagall, thank you Severus."

When we were alone Dumbledore turned to me, "Would you care to go over your version of events?" I explained to him what had happened, "I was coming back from breakfast to go to the Quidditch pitch so I could watch Harry practise, when I saw a crowd of people.

I saw the uniforms and realised it was Harry, so I was about to go and say hello to my friends and the Slytherins were there too so-" he held up an arm to stop me. "Take a breath my boy" I realised I had been rambling, I took his advice and took a deep breath.

"Sorry I talk a lot when I'm nervous" he nodded in understanding. "So, this outcome was not your original intent?" I shook my head furiously. "I wasn't trying to start a fight, I just wanted to see what was happening, but then Malfoy" he looked at me with a puzzled expression, "err Draco called Hermione a..." I paused and looked at him.

"Go on, don't worry." "Mudblood." the word made me sick to my stomach even now. The use of this word seemed to trouble him, he put a hand on his chin and stroked his beard. "I just got so mad and I-"

"I see, and you acted on impulse?" I nodded. "I know this doesn't help but I wasn't aiming for his throat, I just missed, I was aiming for his nose, honest, he just flinched a bit when he saw me and-" I realised I was rambling again, "Sorry" I rubbed the back of my neck.

His brows furrowed "Do you believe that your actions were justified simply because you acted in defence of another?" I looked down and he continued. "I think Miss Granger is perfectly capable of dealing with these issues without your help."

This made me very upset, the thought of him brushing it off like this, I stood up and basically shouted. "With all due respect sir, she shouldn't have to deal with these issues in the first place."

He remained calm as always, "That is a matter we agree on Mr (L/N) although there are many who do not share our outlook, unfortunately this does not justify your behaviour."

"If you promise me that an incident of this nature will not occur again, I will see that Professor McGonagall deals with your punishment however she sees fit and expulsion will not be considered."

I wanted to tell him that, promise him that I wouldn't ever raise my fist to anyone again, but I couldn't. "I'm afraid I can't do that professor; I can't just sit back and do nothing while things like this happen. Even if it gets me expelled."

"Very well, I understand, you are a very bright young man Mr (L/N), you have a kind heart, but please, don't let it get you into trouble like this again, for this old man's sake" I nodded.

"Professor McGonagall will handle the matter of your punishment" I stood up to leave, after petting the Phoenix in the corner, it didn't look very well. "Is your Phoenix okay professor?" I asked out of curiosity.

"Oh, yes my boy, Fawkes is currently going through his rebirth cycle" "Good, I was worried" I said with a small smile, I scratched under Fawkes's chin, like I did with Bones, and he chirped, after that was done, I left.

I headed straight to Professor McGonagall's office, I figured it would be best to get it out the way now. I found her pacing in her office, when she saw me, she let out a sigh of relief.

"I am very disappointed in you young man, you will serve detention, with me every day for a month, and I swear, if this EVER happens again, you will be thrown out of Hogwarts faster than you can say Gryffindor, do I make myself clear?"

"Yes" I nodded. "Now off to your dormitory, your friends are worried, Miss Granger especially, and after the scene you caused, I don't blame them." I walked back to the common room in silence.

As I stepped through the portrait Bones was already at my feet, she must have been waiting for me to get back, I did come in late, I picked her up, "Hey princess, sorry I worried you" she meowed at me and then jumped down, running off to paw at Scabbers.

I announced my presence in the room by asking a simple question and I was suddenly attacked by a mess of hair that tackled me to the ground.

Ron's POV

We had just come back from Hagrid's, I still had the taste of slugs in my mouth, I was still furious at Malfoy calling Hermione that, she was worried about (Y/N), we all were, everyone knows that Draco will go crying to daddy as soon as he gets the chance, Dad told me once "Lucius Malfoy can stir up a lot of trouble, he has a lot of pull nowadays."

"I don't know what we are going to do" said Hermione who had been in a state since it happened, "They have every right to expel him" she kept pacing back and forth, back and forth, in the common room.

"Will you stop that, it's making me ill" I said, finally having enough and trying not to retch. Bones came running into the room, she was chasing Scabbers again "Leave him alone, you ruddy menace" I said to the cat.

Bones paused and looked at Hermione as if debating if her pacing was more interesting then chasing my poor rat, but then continued as Scabbers darted out from under a cushion. "I bet he's chuffed, did you see Alicia Spinnet diving on him." I said to lighten the mood.

Hermione frowned but Harry nodded, "That's probably why he did it, you know he fancies her. Told me all about it during a Quidditch match once." I said with a laugh, Harry joined me, Hermione didn't look very happy. 

"So, what do slugs taste like Ron?" said a voice I recognised. By the time I had turned my head, Hermione had already tackled (Y/N) in a hug. At least I thought it was a hug at first, she started hitting his arms calling him all sorts of things like "Idiot" and "Reckless" with small tears in her eyes, the whole time he was just laughing.

"Ow, Hermione get. Ow. Off I'm not. OW! Allowed in any more fights" he said as she got up. He stood up and brushed himself off. "Good to see someone is grateful" he mused; Hermione just looked away.

"What did they say? They haven't expelled you have they?" asked Harry. (Y/N) cleared his throat, he put on an oddly familiar voice and said, "If you put another TOE out of line, we will send you straight home!"

 Harry and Hermione then burst into laughter; it took me a second to realise that was (Y/N)'s impression of mum from the howler. "Oi!" I said quickly, this just made them laugh harder, wiping tears from their eyes.

(Y/N)'s POV

We joked around for a few hours and everybody went to bed, I was about to follow when Hermione grabbed my arm, I thought she would give me another lecture like last year.

Instead she ran up to me and pulled me down to her level, she gave me a small peck on the cheek and said "Thank you", and scurried of to bed, a crimson blush on her face, I was in utter shock, it took me ten minutes to make my way up the dormitory stairs and into bed, my mind was racing too much for my legs to move.

The next few days dragged on, Snape had it out for me now and kept calling me "Empty headed" and Lockhart's lessons somehow managed to be both exhausting and boring at the same time, and to make matters worse after every day of gruelling classes, I had to march down to McGonagall's office and serve out my detentions.

They weren't hard, they were simply tedious. She made me sort out documents for her classes, or she would make me count the things that had to be transfigured in her classes, something repetitive and boring.

Today's detention started off the same, she had me sort through some needles that the first years had finally transfigured from matchsticks, if any of them where odd or incomplete I would have to transfigure them myself, I suppose this is her way of telling me that transfiguration shouldn't be used lightly, "Two birds with one stone" as dad would say, and trust me I got the message, because boy it took a lot out of me.

"That will be all for today" she finally broke the silence; she must have noticed I was dozing off. I thanked her to be polite and then left, I was walking down the corridor when I heard a familiar voice, walking towards it I met up with Ron and Harry.

Harry explained to me that he had promised Nearly Headless Nick he would be at his death day party, it sounded a bit dull, but I suppose it might be fun, and the others were going so I decided to tag along.

When the time for the party had arrived we all made our way to the room it was held in, as I had expected it was filled to the brim with almost every ghost in the castle, the others had decided that we should just stick in a corner somewhere and keep our appearance brief, I could tell Ron really wanted to go to the Halloween feast.

I didn't want to follow their lead, that would be rude, instead I mingled at the party with the ghosts who all had some very fascinating stories to tell, I made my rounds, I had already spoken to the Bloody Baron and the Fat Friar, the Grey Lady brushed me off, so I was about to head over to Harry so we could leave when a voice I recognised called out to me.

"Hello (Y/N)"

I turned on my heel to see Moaning Myrtle floating behind me. "Fantastic" I thought. "Hiya Myrtle, long time no see, odd to see you out and about, how have you been?" I greeted.

"Still dead, still lonely" she wailed "Nobody comes to see me anymore, even you, nobody wants to talk to stupid old moping, Moaning Myrtle" she began sobbing loudly.

"Oh, I'm sorry Myrtle, I've just been busy, I will come have a chat with you soon I promise" I immediately regretted saying this because she started to creepily giggle at me.

I was eager to cut this conversation short and head to the feast so I continued quickly before she could speak. "Sorry Myrtle, I have to dash off, see you soon, have, err, a nice day" I said awkwardly with a wave.

As I reached the gang, I pushed them all out the door quickly. "Go, GO!" I said under my breath. We were making our way to the feast when Harry started acting weirdly, he dashed to the wall and put his ear to it. "You all right mate, feeling dizzy?" I asked concerned.

He told us to be quiet and said he heard a voice, I strained my ears but I couldn't hear anything, but I did get a weird feeling, a shiver down my spine and a sinking feeling in my stomach, as if something bad was going to happen.

A thought popped into my head out of nowhere "Something is close by, and wants to, no, it's going to hurt someone." Wanting to keep my friends safe I voiced my concerns "We have to leave, now!" Ron and Hermione looked at me like I was mental, but Harry nodded his head, so we sprinted down the corridor.

There was a puddle of water on the floor, making the ground slippery and caused us to stop, but that's when we saw it, it was a cat, stiff as a board and hung up by the tail on a nearby torch sconce, for a second I feared it could be Bones, but as I got closer I realised it was Mrs Norris, this didn't fill me with much relief.

But that wasn't even the worst of it, printed on the wall in something that looked very similar to blood were the words "The chamber of secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir beware"

I didn't have much time to take it all in because as soon as I had read the words a loud rumble of footprints approached. It was the students returning from the feast. Once they had all taken in the sight, a voice I recognised shouted "Enemies of the heir beware, you're next mudbloods" I was about to tell Malfoy to shut his mouth when the teachers arrived.

Filch came first, he bellowed about his cat, when his eyes darted over to the four of us, he scanned our faces and noticed me and Harry, "YOU!" he charged towards me and held me by the scruff of the neck, using a surprising amount of strength for his size.

"You've murdered my cat! I'LL KILL YA!" I was spluttering and trying to explain that it wasn't me, that I would never do that, when Dumbledore and the rest of the staff arrived, he calmed Filch down and escorted us to Lockhart's office, as it was closest.

He then explained to Filch that Mrs Norris had been petrified, luckily, professor Sprout could provide some mandrakes when they were fully grown and Snape could brew a potion to cure it, there was a wave of relief that washed over me at these words, until Filch pointed a finger at me and Harry.

"They did it!", he proclaimed pointing between us "He did it, he's always had it out for her, him and the bloody demon he calls a pet, always causing trouble and fighting, the both of them, you saw what he wrote." His eyes darted around the room,

"And him,he knows I'm a.... Squib" He pointed to Harry and then back to me "His little friends must have told him, so he took them all to see what he did to my poor cat."

I was shocked at these accusations, "Bones never got into fights, did she? and since when have I had it out for Mrs Norris?, I don't even care that Filch was a Squib" I thought, I was about to jump to my own defence and explain my alibi when surprisingly Snape spoke for me "Perhaps, Mr (Y/N) and his associates" he looked at Harry "Were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time."

After an hour of defending ourselves by explaining about the death day party we were finally given permission to leave. A few days later, Hermione summoned us all to the library, she explained why.

"All the copies of Hogwarts, A History, have been taken out." "Oh no, whatever will I do?" I smirked. "Why do you want it?" asked Harry."To read up on the chamber of secrets" said Hermione as she explained she couldn't remember it.

"What about the copy I got you for Christmas last year?" "I couldn't fit it into my bag with all the Lockhart books" she said with a blush. "Why is nothing ever simple?" I asked in frustration.

A few hours later Professor McGonagall was finally pressured into telling us about the chamber of secrets, she explained that it was built by Salazar Slytherin, and can only be opened by his heir, and that when it was opened before, several Muggle-borns were attacked and finally a poor girl died.

We were very on edge for the next few days, until Harry thought up a plan. He was certain that Draco Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin, and we had to prove it.

"We have to get in the Slytherin common room", Hermione came up with the idea to use Polyjuice potion, , we were going to impersonate the Slytherins and get a confession. We got permission from Lockhart, so we set our plan into motion.