Riddles in the Dark
Chapter 1 ~ New Schools are no fun
Elizabeth glanced around the crowed platform, full of friends reuniting, and families saying good-by to loved ones that were heading off to their first year at Hogwarts. I wish I were one of them, instead of some 15 year old transfer student who doesn't belong at this school. She though bitterly to herself.
It seemed as if it had only been a day ago when she had been told by her aunt Victoria that she would not be returning to Drumstrang. In reality it had been about a week ago.
~ Flash Back ~
"Lizzy Darling, I know your mum would have wanted this so I am only doing what she would have wanted." Her aunt begged as Elizabeth sat in her locked room.
"I am sure auntie, she also wanted to die, didn't she?" came Elizabeth's reply through the door.
"ELIZABETH! What on earth are you talking about she didn't want to die!"
"Sarcasm aunt. It was to prove a point, I have no intention of going to Hogwarts."
"Well you had better make it an intention or there will be, well lets just put it this way, you can stay in your room the whole week till its time to leave, I will buy your things. But knowing you are at least a quarter fairy, you won't last long in there."
"I won't will I? Is that a challenge?" asked Elizabeth.
"Yes dear, you stay in your room for the whole week and you won't have to go to Hogwarts. But before you agree listen to my rules. One: no help from Vaishnava in any way, Two: no going out under any circumstances, even for food, and three: you have to do homework while up there for both schools."
"I agree, but can I please use Vaishnava?" Asked Elizabeth, knowing all would go the way she wanted if she could use her pet snakes help. "Can I at least talk to Vaishnava?"
"Not in my hearing! Its not natural you know, I would be concerned if only I didn't already know it ran in the family and that you can talk to any animal. Do we have a deal."
"Yes, but I still think it would be better if Vaishnava could help."
"No, no and NO! See you later on i6n the week. I bet you will want some human company after talking to a snake all week long." ~ End of Flash Back ~
Elizabeth laughed to herself, recalling the way she had reacted when she had finally came out of her room on the sixth day of the bet.just the way any red head would, as her aunt had said. Elizabeth in fact was not a red head, she had curly raven hair. She shook her head to get rid of the thoughts and boarded the train. She looked for an empty compartment and was surprised to find one near the back of the train. In Drumstrang she and her friends would have been the first to get seats in the back to practice spells on each other and whatever else they could find without being caught. Things sure are different now. She thought to herself as she sat down. Before long she had fallen asleep, not hearing the group of three that had entered. Elizabeth awoke to the sound of laughter. "Harry you wouldn't! You open that girl's bag and you will be thoroughly cursed, you never know, she might be our next DA teacher!" wailed Hermione. "Come off it Hermione, its not like she will know. Harry said he heard something hissing in there." Elizabeth sat bolt up right, glaring at them. "What are you talking about?" she asked, her usually blue eyes flashing red. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked up shocked. "We didn't know you were awake." Came Ron's truthful reply. "He's right you know." Said Harry. " Before we continue this debate further, I would like to know her name, I mean your name." Came Hermione's answer. Elizabeth looked them over, noting their red and gold ties and pins. She slowly bent down and took out Vaishnava. "Are you all apart of a gang or something?" Harry and Hermione started laughing. "Are we apart of a gang? Are you mental, these are the house colors." Asked Harry, who then started eyeing the snake. "Harry, what's a gang?" whispered Ron, causing Hermione to laugh harder and Elizabeth just kept sitting, looking lost. " Harry, right? Perhaps I should explain, this is my first year at Hogwarts and I seem to be at loss, house colors?" Elizabeth asked. Ron gaped at her. "You are a first year? What did you do to be held back so long?" "Your name is Ron, right? I wasn't held back, for your information, I was attending Drumstrang. I am a fifth year." "That's nice to know, what's your name? You seem to know ours." Asked Hermione. "I'm Elizabeth. The houses please?" The three some then proceed to explain the house system to Elizabeth. It took her a while to understand what it was all about and why the school was like this, but once Elizabeth got it down she didn't find it odd. "Drumstrang should start doing this! It would make life so much easier to get onto a real team. We have to form our own quidditch teams and let me tell you any one can play, no matter how bad they are."
"Drumstrang does this? I though that all schools were.MALFOY!" yelled Ron in mid-sentence to the boy who had just entered.
"Since when did a Weasley start hanging around models?" sneered Draco looking Elizabeth up and down.
Elizabeth instantly looked at Hermione, "Is he talking about you?" she asked, grinning evilly.
Draco looked Elizabeth up and down again, "No I was not talking about her. Who might you be? I thought I knew all the 5th years, Gryffindors or not."
Elizabeth smiled at him giving him another one of her evil grins, from her experiences at Drumstrang boys usually were attracted to her, but she wasn't really expecting it from anyone at Hogwarts. I guess all boys must be similar when it comes to whom they are attracted to. " I'm not on a house team yet, I am a transfer student from Drumstrang."
This seemed to heighten her in Draco's eyes. "You are from Drumstrang?! I was going to go to that school. They have the best DA system in the country, maybe in Europe. Here we only have mudbloods learning."
"Is that so? As I recalled the Potter line and the Weasley line are both pure bloods, but what would I know?"
" Well, I hope to see you join Slytherin." He said as he swept out of the compartment, ignoring her last comment.
After he left there was complete silence from within. It was like this till the train came to a slow stop. Elizabeth couldn't help but feel excited. It wasn't her first time at Hogwarts, she had come with Drumstrang during the Twizard cup only as a helper but she had still been able to see the school.
She got off the train and instantly felt at loss. Elizabeth had no idea on which group to follow. Harry, Ron and Hermione were less than civil to her after seeing her talking to Draco and they didn't offer any help as to where she could go. "Riddle!" shouted a deep voice from behind her. Elizabeth turned around to see Hagrid.
"Am I to go with you?" she asked.
"Yup. All first years follow me, or in yur case all new students. We has never had them before."
"As I could see." She answered coldly, not liking the way the giant was eyeing her.
"Ye wouldn't happen to be related to Tom Riddle, now would you?" He asked after a moment of silence between the two.
"Who?" she asked, not remembering the name ever being mentioned by her aunt or in any family albums.
"Nothing, I jut thought, oh never mind, lets get ye on a boat."
Before long Elizabeth found herself seated on a boat between to very scared kids. They seemed to jump at every wave and at her every movement. She got quite annoyed with this about half way across the lake. When they did finally reach the entrance they were greeted by an old cat like witch called Professor McGonagall.
"Miss Riddle," she said not looking at the other students, "you will stay and be sorted like all the other students here, but after the feast you are to report to your the head of your house for testing on were you should be. We are prepared to give you mixed classes with multiple years so that you will constantly be challenged," she said. She then turned to the rest of the kids in the hall, "Welcome to Hogwarts, before you take your seats you all shall be sorted into your houses in a sorting ceremony. Please wait here."
Elizabeth watched as she left thinking only about what she could do to calm the rest of the students around her before getting a headache or cursing one of them.
Elizabeth glanced around the crowed platform, full of friends reuniting, and families saying good-by to loved ones that were heading off to their first year at Hogwarts. I wish I were one of them, instead of some 15 year old transfer student who doesn't belong at this school. She though bitterly to herself.
It seemed as if it had only been a day ago when she had been told by her aunt Victoria that she would not be returning to Drumstrang. In reality it had been about a week ago.
~ Flash Back ~
"Lizzy Darling, I know your mum would have wanted this so I am only doing what she would have wanted." Her aunt begged as Elizabeth sat in her locked room.
"I am sure auntie, she also wanted to die, didn't she?" came Elizabeth's reply through the door.
"ELIZABETH! What on earth are you talking about she didn't want to die!"
"Sarcasm aunt. It was to prove a point, I have no intention of going to Hogwarts."
"Well you had better make it an intention or there will be, well lets just put it this way, you can stay in your room the whole week till its time to leave, I will buy your things. But knowing you are at least a quarter fairy, you won't last long in there."
"I won't will I? Is that a challenge?" asked Elizabeth.
"Yes dear, you stay in your room for the whole week and you won't have to go to Hogwarts. But before you agree listen to my rules. One: no help from Vaishnava in any way, Two: no going out under any circumstances, even for food, and three: you have to do homework while up there for both schools."
"I agree, but can I please use Vaishnava?" Asked Elizabeth, knowing all would go the way she wanted if she could use her pet snakes help. "Can I at least talk to Vaishnava?"
"Not in my hearing! Its not natural you know, I would be concerned if only I didn't already know it ran in the family and that you can talk to any animal. Do we have a deal."
"Yes, but I still think it would be better if Vaishnava could help."
"No, no and NO! See you later on i6n the week. I bet you will want some human company after talking to a snake all week long." ~ End of Flash Back ~
Elizabeth laughed to herself, recalling the way she had reacted when she had finally came out of her room on the sixth day of the bet.just the way any red head would, as her aunt had said. Elizabeth in fact was not a red head, she had curly raven hair. She shook her head to get rid of the thoughts and boarded the train. She looked for an empty compartment and was surprised to find one near the back of the train. In Drumstrang she and her friends would have been the first to get seats in the back to practice spells on each other and whatever else they could find without being caught. Things sure are different now. She thought to herself as she sat down. Before long she had fallen asleep, not hearing the group of three that had entered. Elizabeth awoke to the sound of laughter. "Harry you wouldn't! You open that girl's bag and you will be thoroughly cursed, you never know, she might be our next DA teacher!" wailed Hermione. "Come off it Hermione, its not like she will know. Harry said he heard something hissing in there." Elizabeth sat bolt up right, glaring at them. "What are you talking about?" she asked, her usually blue eyes flashing red. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked up shocked. "We didn't know you were awake." Came Ron's truthful reply. "He's right you know." Said Harry. " Before we continue this debate further, I would like to know her name, I mean your name." Came Hermione's answer. Elizabeth looked them over, noting their red and gold ties and pins. She slowly bent down and took out Vaishnava. "Are you all apart of a gang or something?" Harry and Hermione started laughing. "Are we apart of a gang? Are you mental, these are the house colors." Asked Harry, who then started eyeing the snake. "Harry, what's a gang?" whispered Ron, causing Hermione to laugh harder and Elizabeth just kept sitting, looking lost. " Harry, right? Perhaps I should explain, this is my first year at Hogwarts and I seem to be at loss, house colors?" Elizabeth asked. Ron gaped at her. "You are a first year? What did you do to be held back so long?" "Your name is Ron, right? I wasn't held back, for your information, I was attending Drumstrang. I am a fifth year." "That's nice to know, what's your name? You seem to know ours." Asked Hermione. "I'm Elizabeth. The houses please?" The three some then proceed to explain the house system to Elizabeth. It took her a while to understand what it was all about and why the school was like this, but once Elizabeth got it down she didn't find it odd. "Drumstrang should start doing this! It would make life so much easier to get onto a real team. We have to form our own quidditch teams and let me tell you any one can play, no matter how bad they are."
"Drumstrang does this? I though that all schools were.MALFOY!" yelled Ron in mid-sentence to the boy who had just entered.
"Since when did a Weasley start hanging around models?" sneered Draco looking Elizabeth up and down.
Elizabeth instantly looked at Hermione, "Is he talking about you?" she asked, grinning evilly.
Draco looked Elizabeth up and down again, "No I was not talking about her. Who might you be? I thought I knew all the 5th years, Gryffindors or not."
Elizabeth smiled at him giving him another one of her evil grins, from her experiences at Drumstrang boys usually were attracted to her, but she wasn't really expecting it from anyone at Hogwarts. I guess all boys must be similar when it comes to whom they are attracted to. " I'm not on a house team yet, I am a transfer student from Drumstrang."
This seemed to heighten her in Draco's eyes. "You are from Drumstrang?! I was going to go to that school. They have the best DA system in the country, maybe in Europe. Here we only have mudbloods learning."
"Is that so? As I recalled the Potter line and the Weasley line are both pure bloods, but what would I know?"
" Well, I hope to see you join Slytherin." He said as he swept out of the compartment, ignoring her last comment.
After he left there was complete silence from within. It was like this till the train came to a slow stop. Elizabeth couldn't help but feel excited. It wasn't her first time at Hogwarts, she had come with Drumstrang during the Twizard cup only as a helper but she had still been able to see the school.
She got off the train and instantly felt at loss. Elizabeth had no idea on which group to follow. Harry, Ron and Hermione were less than civil to her after seeing her talking to Draco and they didn't offer any help as to where she could go. "Riddle!" shouted a deep voice from behind her. Elizabeth turned around to see Hagrid.
"Am I to go with you?" she asked.
"Yup. All first years follow me, or in yur case all new students. We has never had them before."
"As I could see." She answered coldly, not liking the way the giant was eyeing her.
"Ye wouldn't happen to be related to Tom Riddle, now would you?" He asked after a moment of silence between the two.
"Who?" she asked, not remembering the name ever being mentioned by her aunt or in any family albums.
"Nothing, I jut thought, oh never mind, lets get ye on a boat."
Before long Elizabeth found herself seated on a boat between to very scared kids. They seemed to jump at every wave and at her every movement. She got quite annoyed with this about half way across the lake. When they did finally reach the entrance they were greeted by an old cat like witch called Professor McGonagall.
"Miss Riddle," she said not looking at the other students, "you will stay and be sorted like all the other students here, but after the feast you are to report to your the head of your house for testing on were you should be. We are prepared to give you mixed classes with multiple years so that you will constantly be challenged," she said. She then turned to the rest of the kids in the hall, "Welcome to Hogwarts, before you take your seats you all shall be sorted into your houses in a sorting ceremony. Please wait here."
Elizabeth watched as she left thinking only about what she could do to calm the rest of the students around her before getting a headache or cursing one of them.