And rushes towards Ginny

Harry had left Ron to deal with the mind-wiped Lockhart, and clearing the rubble to access the tunnel. Once he commanded the door to open in parsel-tongue, the huge vault-like door opened and at the end of a hall decorated in snake motif, harry could see Ginny lying on the ground.

"Ginny!" Harry exclaimed as he rushed to her body. As he got close he also saw a beautiful female Hogwarts student with flowing auburn hair and a face like a fairytale princess. Harry couldn't help but notice that the young woman was more developed than Ginny or Hermione.

Aware that she was a potential danger, Harry demanded to know; "Who are you?"

The Dark Lady Misty put on her best innocently concerned face, and responded. "I'm Misty. Ginny needs help, she saved us both from Tom, but i think the diary is still draining her."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that Tom Riddle was using his diary to control Ginny, and drain her soul so he could resurrect. However, he also had imprisoned me in the diary. This last time, I was able to speak with Ginny. You see, Tom kept referring to himself as a memory, so i quickly taught Ginny a spell called obliviate, and..."

"And when she used it on Tom, it erased the memory?" Interrupted Harry.

"Exactly. But with Tom gone, his diary continued to drain Ginny, and I've been regaining my own body." Harry, you have to help Ginny. If we don't do something she could die."

Harry looked at the diary on the ground in horror. He couldn't let Ginny die, but Misty seemed like an innocent victim in all this, and he couldn't condemn her to death.

"Is there any way i could give her a transfusion of my own soul energy?"

Misty looked at Harry in surprise. "An energy transfusion is a good idea, but you can't be the one to donate energy. Without a device to regulate the flow, it could instantly drain you dry and overwhelm ginny. But that gives me an idea. Harry, is it true you are a parsel-tongue?"

"Yes, but how did you know?"

"While i couldn't speak to Ginny until today when Tom was distracted, I could hear everything she said about you. Amazingly, you exceed the high expectations set by her stories. You are indeed our knight in shining armor."

Harry blushed as Misty licked her lips while giving him the once over with her eyes.

"But back to the task at hand, if Riddle is dead, the Basilisk is likely free of compulsion and may answer your call. If it is willing, it may be able to donate some soul energy to stabilize Ginny. And because it is hundreds of years old, the energy to stabilize Ginny won't even make a dent in the basilisk's life force."

Harry looked down at the diary, and then back at the tunnel. There was no way that ron could have cleared enough rock to get Ginny out. This plan seemed crazy, but no crazier than anything else he had done at Hogwarts.

"All right, lets do this."

Harry concentrated on calling the basilisk and spoke in an echoing hiss: "Basilisk of Salazar Slitherin, can you hear me?"

A hiss responded: "Yes, I hear you? Who is this?"

To his side Misty gasped in apparent surprise "how did I understand that? Never mind we can figure that out later. Go ahead Harry."

Harry nodded at Misty and responded: "I am Harry Potter, I wish to ask your help to save a friend that is dying"

The Basilisk responded. "Well Harry Potter, my name is Nyssa. I no longer feel the control of my former master, and appear to be free. What help do you seek?"

Harry was glad that the epic snake confirmed that riddle had been controlling it, and that it was now free.

"Nyssa, I hate to ask but would you allow me to set up a transfusion of soul energy to save my friend. My understanding is that it would not significantly effect you, but it would save Ginny's life"

"May I come out to see this Ginny?"

"Of course, please be careful with your gaze. Do you need us to close our eyes?"

"No, I have multiple eyelids. No need to worry over my sight." Nyssa responded as she slithered out of a tunnel into the main chamber.

"This one aided my old master under his control. She and I do share that experience." Nyssa looked at her mistress, the Dark Lady Misty, who nodded subtly behind Harry.

"Yes, I will agree to aid your friend."

Misty then chimed in. "In that case, Harry you will need to stand between Ginny and Nyssa. "

"Then point at Nyssa and cast "translatio anima anguis" when you say anguis, point to ginny and will her to awaken. Ready?"

"Lets do this. Nyssa, are you ready?

"Yesssss."

"All right. translatio anima anguis!" With that a beam of energy first connected Harry's wand to Nyssa, and then a green energy flowed up the beam until it reached the tip of Harry's wand before flowing into Ginny.

After several minutes a hand fell on Harry's shoulder. "Harry, it looks like the diary stopped and I'm fully back. With no further drain, that should be more than enough to stabilize Ginny Though another minute or two of transfer should bring Ginny around sooner."