Chapter 1 - Sneaking around Hogwarts

The night was black and the spine chilling cold fell on the ground. Fog lurked round every corner of the caste as the long empty hallways stood silent as though no students had ever passed through them before. A lonely boy stood in the corridor as though he was frozen by the ice cold air that was dropping down on the beautiful castle. His short black hair blew in the wind as his brown eyes stared at the loneliness of the corridor. Black robes hung by his side waving about as his feet moved across the marble floor. It was Tom's first year at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, and was not used to the long, never ending corridors that waited for him at every turn. The sound of small footsteps echoed in the deserted hallway, waking up every portrait that was stationed neatly on the mahogany brick walls of Hogwarts. His small gentle hands were wrapped neatly around a small brown stick with a small yet powerful light at the end. Ignoring the groaning pictures he took step after step towards the Slytherine common room. A little whisper of a password was heard just loud enough for the portrait to swing open revealing a dimly lighted tunnel. In the room he revealed a small black leather note book that was completely blank. He grabbed his quill and dipped it into a small pot of ink. Before a single drop of black liquid could touch the blank yellow paper, footsteps were getting louder and louder until a small voice could be heard. 'I'm sorry professor i won't do it again' a small voice said as the common room door flew open. Suddenly tom waved his wand and the small light that was once there was gone. The room was pitch black. 'I'd better hope so miss Royle or we wouldn't be friends now would we?' it was the voice of Professor Slughorn (the small, Slytherine head of house) 'Now off to bed I'll forget all about this little incident and I shall see you at the party? Good night miss Royle'. The door slammed shut and more footsteps were heard. 'lumos' tom whispered, then the small light once again appeared at the top of his wand and the room was light again. A small gasp was heard as tom flew round seeing a young thin girl with incredibly long hair past her waist. A white streak was shown on her left side of her hair. Her white pale skin glistened in the light coming from Tom's wand and smiled as she saw the pale skinny boy standing in front of her. 'True! What are you doing out of bed?' asked tom 'I shall ask you the same' smirked true as the climbed the spiral stairs. 'Really True what were you doing?' exclaimed tom as true climbed two more steps. 'tell ya' in the morning tom, I'm tired...NIGHT!' she happily said after her cheeky smile and ran upstairs. Tom looked around the empty common room which was too hard to see what was in the room. With another flick of the wand the room was black once again and loud footsteps were heard as Tom ran upstairs in excitement.