The Heir of Slytherin (chapter)

The chapter The Heir of Slytherin is the seventeenth chapter in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It is told through Lily Potter's POV.

Summary
When Lily goes to the Gryffindor Common room to inform the students of preparations to leave. as well as get the Weasley boys to meet their parents, she notices Ron and Harry are missing. After bringing the Weasleys to Dumbledore's office, Fred and George tell Lily that they recall the trio hanging out in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom a lot for the year. Lily goes to the bathroom to find the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets opened and she goes down the tunnel to find Lockhart (who's mind was heavily Obliviated) and Ron at a collapsed passage. Lily tells Ron to take Lockhart back and she breaks through the obstruction down to the Chamber where she finds Ginny unconscious and Harry is speaking to someone she recognizes as a teenager who would grow to become Voldemort. She tries to fight the apparition but her spells are useless and he Silences and disarms her. After Fawkes arrives with the Sorting hat, the evil being calls on the basilisk to attack and she is injured trying to protect Harry. Fawkes blinds the basilisk and Harry pulls out a sword from the Sorting hat and kills the basilisk, but the snake's fang digs and breaks off into his arm. The phoenix uses its tears to heal Harry from the poison, and Harry uses the fang to destroy the diary, obliterating the apparition and restore Ginny. The three leave the Chamber and Fawkes carries them and Ron and Lockhart out of the Chamber.

Deviation from Canon

 * Harry confronts Tom Riddle and the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets alone.