""Wrong." she said, her voice cold. "Ron and Hermione have been best friends since they started Hogwarts, Lockhart was in the tunnel by himself. And I'm fine." Ginny replied, shoving past the man to continue down the street. She wasn't going to admit it, but it bothered her that he knew about Tom Riddle. The story fed to the school and the public had been that the basilisk had taken Ginny down to the Chamber and she had survived by virtue of closing her eyes and eventually fainting. Only her family, Hermione, and other close friends new about Tom Riddle and how had had taken control of her.
Having successfully gotten a few steps away from the black haired wizard, his next words had Ginny spinning around. "NO, you haven't. I don't know who you are, and I suggest you bloody well walk the other direction before I hex you into next year."