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

Avalon: Ginny. [runs to her, drops her wand and gets on her 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.

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

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

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

Avalon: Are you a ghost?

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

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

"Dang it, Avalon!"

"I'm sorry!"

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

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

Riddle: You won't be needing it.

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

Riddle: I'm afraid I can't do that, Avalon. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger. [Avalon looks at him, confused] Yes, Avalon. 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]

Avalon: 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]

Avalon: 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.

Avalon: [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.

"HOW DARE YOU!"

"Is this the same Riddle my mother and Bellatrix gushed over?"

Avalon: Hagrid's my friend! And you framed him, didn't you?

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

Avalon: [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 Avalon 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.

Avalon: 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. [Avalon 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 Avalon's hair aside with her wand to see her scar] with nothing but a scar while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

Avalon: 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 Avalon'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]

"Oh bloody hell!"

"Jason, did you just..."

"Yes, I did!"

Avalon: [as the letters fade and Riddle turns to face her] You. You're the Heir of Slytherin. [Riddle stares evilly at Avalon] 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!

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

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

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

"Oh no....RUN!"