TSS: Chapter 30: The Falling of Pieces, Part I

> *“I know you sent the snake to frame Malfoy at the gala during your first year. You had a motive and I saw you leave the ballroom not long before it happened. Serpensortia doesn’t work as it did there. I know Malfoy didn’t conjure it, yet the snake was docile to him. That should have been impossible unless the caster was a Parselmouth. You also hesitated earlier this year in a duel when I conjured a snake, and you have access to a mysterious room that even I can’t figure out how to get into. When your brother hissed at the snake during the Duelling Club, it only confirmed my theory.”*
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— Grace telling Harry that the time for his game of secrecy was at an end.

## Summary:

Harry and Grace rescue Charlotte and deal with her captors. Harry and his friends make plans in regards to the Heir of Slytherin. Albus Dumbledore realizes that he needs a meeting with a certain person. Cassius Warrington becomes the latest resident in the Chamber of Secrets.

## Plot:

**April 22nd, 1993:** A captured Harry is levitated throughout the dungeons. Not long afterwards he is rescued by Grace Weitts who quickly deals with his captors. After checking that he is alright, the two hurry towards the Slytherin Common Room to ensure that Selwyn has not hurt Charlotte. Once there, they stumble upon unconscious students and a message left for Grace from Daniel Selwyn informing her of Charlotte whereabouts and captive status. Grace tries to rush to her sister rescue but she is stopped by Harry who points out the importance of formulating a plan. Thus, as the students are beginning to wake up, she leads him to the entrance of the Speaker's Den, demands that he opens the room whilst informing him that she was long aware of him being a Parselmouth. Harry, with resigned reluctance, ascertains to her request and opens the passage to the Speaker's Den.

Some time later, Grace and an invisible Harry, proceed to rescue Charlotte. Grace steps first into the room where her sister is being help captive by Selwyn, Flint, Macnair, Jugson and Rowle, deciding to forgo the ward disabling as it would take too long, and proceeds to attack. Unfortunately for her she is apprehended by a second set of wards tied to the blood of her sister. Before things could get dire she is rescued by Harry. The two manage to deal with Charlotte's capturers and save the girl.

A little bit later, Harry and Charlotte are being treated for their wounds in Grace's suite granted to her as Head Girl. Grace explains to Harry that they have reached a stalemate with Selwyn, Flint, Macnair, Jugson and Rowle as they now know they Harry is a Parselmouth but that they will not tell a soul as that would lead to Harry revealing their use of the Unforgivables during their confrontation. At the time, Grace points out that Charlotte's way of handing the younger Jugson and the Mulciber Heir with the use of Legilimency is not exactly legal. Harry's pondering is interrupted by the arrival of one of his spy-snakes that informs him that Charlus had received a message from the Heir of Slytherin.

**April 23rd, 1993:** In the Speaker's Den, Harry and his friends discuss the latest letter directed to Charlus that they managed to intercept with the help of the Switching Spell. In it, Albus Dumbledore reveals that he is not aware of a monster that scares the spiders away but that he has a lead that he is going to investigate. After further talk, they decide to start investigating in groups of two — as Ares suggests — the area where the caretaker's cat was first petrified.

**May 15th, 1993:** It is the first time during Calypso's duelling club where Harry is able to beat Flora.

**May 23rd, 1993:** Charlus sights in defeat after another night of fruitless search in the Restricted Section.

**May 26th, 1993:** On the outskirts of Greece, Albus Dumbledore after looking for information in one of the few places that were deeply rooted in Chaos, realizes that he needs to have a conversation with the only person that would potentially know about the kind of Chaos Magic that his thinking about and would be willing to answer his queries.

**May 29th, 1993:** At breakfast, Harry receives a letter from the Heir of Slytherin informing him that Cassius Warrington has been their latest victim and that only one more was to follow.