Disclaimer: Great liberties have been taken with the Harry Potter timeline. So before you start complaining, yes, I know that most of these characters did not go to school together.
Dear Professor McGonagall,
I would like to request a change in my seat. Ever since you announced the new seating plan for your class, I have been sitting with Tom Marvalo Riddle. Despite the fact that he's an awfully smart bloke, I feel rather uncomfortable sitting with him. Perhaps it's just me, and my adjustment problem, but I do feel a tad bit uncomfortable sitting next to a boy who is rumoured to have shot a killing curse at a girl just because she got a higher grade than him on our potions essay. The official reason is a little different, but I'm not implying anything.
And it's not just his strange obsession with the Unforgivables that gets me worried. I find it rather hard to look up at the board to copy down notes due to the Basilisk which slithers around me in class, with its eyes wide open. I have been given a few detentions because I keep my eyes shut and end up blowing up my potions, or setting fire to transfigured penguins.
Moreover, Bellatrix Black's strange fixation with sniffing the bottom of 'her master's' robes creeps me out, as does Lucius Malfoy, who is, to sum it up in as few words as possible, a slimy little ferret. The way he longingly reaches for his wand whenever I see him leaves me in no doubt as to what he would like to do to me. He refrains from carrying out his heart's (if he has one) desire only because Riddle menacingly whispers 'pure- blood army' whenever Malfoy glares at me. Needless to say, this army they keep talking about scares the living daylights out of me.
So, I think you now know why I want to sit as far away from Riddle as I possibly can. Perhaps with Molly Prewett? She's a sweet girl, and a redhead. Like me. Plus, she sits all alone in Transfiguration.
Thanking you
Arthur S. Weasley