She hesitates for moment.

But Fay can handle herself and she's the only other person who can get into the Chamber (apart from Voldemort isn't that a cheerful thing to realize) and Anathema's her girlfriend and will need the backup more. She starts moving for the Chamber.

There's fortunately a little side entrance just inside the nearest side door to Hogwarts they discovered on accident one day - Ellie encounters no one else on her way, and the door folds open for her.

The tunnels into the Chamber are as dark as always, and - 

There's something a lot like the sounds of battle and a very angry basilisk ahead of her.

She breaks into a run.

Gormlaith seems to be fighting - 

Headmistress Maxime?

Whose eyes are currently bright gold and who's making no attempt to avoid meeting the basilisk's gaze. Still, there's a pretty intense battle raging - Gormlaith's hide turns away spells, and the Chamber seems to have animated against the headmistress - 

Who is being additionally harried by the occasional spell - one that looks suspiciously like a killing curse lances out, misses - 

Though Anathema seems to be focusing on something other than the fight. She's currently on the other side of a wall, it seems - she has a tiny arrow-slit to fire through - and she's hissing under her breath at something.

Ellie sneaks around the side to get a clear shot on the headmistress, staying out Anathema's line of fire, and tosses her own Killing Curse at the imposter.

She twists out of the way again - but she's scowling, and as Anathema gives a small 'hah' and the Chamber starts to almost shiver she begins to fall back toward the Lake exit. 

Ellie harasses her until she gets out of sight.

Gormlaith helps! And, soon enough, she's gone, the basilisk slithering in pursuit.

Ellie pulls the cloak off.

"Anathema!"

Muffled cursing, then: "Ellie, over here - " as the walls shudder and flow back to their usual arrangement - opening a path to Anathema.

She runs over.

"Wait - I - prove you're Ellie."

"It's me," she says in Parseltongue.

"Ellie," and, with a tiger-y wail, she jumps forward -

And turns back to human, wrapping her arms around Ellie's neck.

Hug.

"What happened here?"

" - Voldemort had been messing with the Chamber. I think it's really tied into the wards, and I think he's been the Beauxbatons headmistress the whole time, or controlling her or something. Elodie sent me a paper butterfly right after the Task started that warned me something was up and her headmistress was evil and I needed to look out for imposters and also Voldemort had a hostage over her, so I told Fay, and - things really spiraled from there, Voldemort had snuck in a lot of his supporters in the Beauxbatons guests, I dunno where he got that many but I don't think most of them were English or - his old supporters - and something was really wrong with the wards and Dumbledore was having trouble rousing the castle so Fay sent me to check here and - I started fixing them, but that was taking forever and then Voldemort showed up - I'd been holding back Gormlaith 'cause I figured she'd make the whole mess up on the surface worse so she attacked him, and."

She sniffles.

"I was worried about you, even though we thought you'd be safer in the maze than out here..."

"The cup was a portkey. It took me to a- graveyard, and Voldemort was there too. He wanted to do some kind of ritual, said something about my mother's protection and three birds with one stone."

"Bellatrix was there. Helping him. And... she didn't recognize your name."

She makes a distressed noise, hugging Ellie harder, and starts crying. "You - you're okay though - "

"Yeah. I'm fine."

"Then - we'll figure it out. Together."

Hug. "Yeah."

"Did you- finish fixing things here?"

She nods, rubbing at her eyes a bit.

"We should probably go help the others, then."