She stared at the floor lost in her thoughts and memories of the past when a voice broke through to her and she looked up as she was announced to the room at large.
"Now before we eat we have a transfer student entering her 6th year here! Melinda Warren!" Headmaster Dippet said smiling towards her were she stood in a shadowed corner beside the teachers table. Everyone turned and looked only noticing her as she stepped forward. As she made her way to the stool whispers broke out through out the hall from those recognizing her last name. She stepped up to the stool and sat as the sorting hat was place on her head. As a voice started talking in her head her face showed no emotion. Since she was first noticed by everyone her emerald green eyes had stayed cold like ice and her expression blank.
'A Warren huh? Well your ancestors are interesting, your mother a Charmed One and your father an angel? Interesting…. You are from the future.'
"HE IS NOT MY FATHER!" she snarled at the hat, the first emotions shown at all from her.
'Nevertheless you have good in you but you also have darkness, so much dark, well you can't go to Hufflepuff you would tear then to shreds, Ravenclaws out too. That leaves Gryffindor or Slytherin? Hmm I think you would commit murder being with the lions so it better be "SLYTHERIN!" was shouted to the hall. There was a small controlled clapping from the snakes table. She stood and pulled the hat and set it down and was walking away when the hat called out "My lady!" Melinda stopped and turned back to the hat as everyone sat and watched some not even breathing to wait to see what happened next.
"Hogwarts would like me to tell you that should you ever need anything in the future, you need only ask. This will be an interesting year, as it's been centuries since a witch of your skill and line has graced these halls! What with your line going to that other school of yours! Very interesting indeed, oh and my dear try not to kill anyone, they are children after all." At that Melinda sneered and turned around and sat at the end of the snake table ignoring everyone else as the food appeared and people started to talk about what had happened and eat.
Melinda grabbed some chicken and mashed potatoes and started eating. Not saying a word to the first years around her, not even giving them a glance while everyone kept glancing over at her. Finally when the meal ended the Headmaster dismissed them and Melinda got up and followed after the other Slytherins. Once they reached the common room and was told were there dorms were they broke off and Melinda wandered over to a window and hopped up into the sill and looked out at the moon shining on her once again lost in her thoughts and memories, not even noticing as she was being watched.
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Tom Riddle sat at the Slytherin table with his 'classmates' around him. They followed his orders and that was why he was called the 'Prince of Slytherin' also known to others as Lord Voldemort. Even though he was only a sixth year everyone looked to him for orders. When the Headmaster announced a transfer he was surprised as was everyone else because there were hardly any transfer students, in the whole history of Hogwarts!
When he saw her step out of the shadows he had to stop his mask from slipping by having his mouth drop open. She was beautiful! She had dark black hair reaching the small of her back and cold but bright emerald eyes. She had a small frame like she could break in a second but you could tell she was strong. She was about 5'4" and she had the perfect body. Tom watched her through out the sorting and the feast, but he was pulled back to his surroundings by what was being said around him.
"I can't believe it! A true Warren witch!" Malfoy breathed looking at the Warren girl.
Walburga Black sneered and said "So what if she's a Warren! What does it matter?"
Orion Black sneered at his cousin and replied "You stupid idiot! The Warren line is the purest line in the entire wizarding world!! It's purer than Merlin's, the Founders, the Blacks Malfoy's and every other pureblood family out there! Plus there family has power, and lots of it! One witch from there line could level Hogwarts with a flick of there wrists!" As he said this the other purebloods nodded in agreement at what Orion had said.
"Is that true?' Tom asked breaking into the conversation.
"Yes, but the reason it's a big deal now is that the Warren family was thought to have died out but now I guess they just left the wizarding world." Malfoy replied while everyone thought about what he said and then turned and watched the girl at the end of the table.
