Later that night, Harry closed the curtains of her four poster bed, then pulled out Tom's diary. For full five minutes she just kept staring at its cover. She remembered how this same diary possessed Ginny when she wrote her innermost thoughts in it.
She slowly opened it and found something written on its pages. It was not English, but when she tried to read it she was able to understand it completely.
She smirked when realised that it was written in parseltongue. That means, he wrote this thinking nobody could read it. Too bad for him she knew his secret language.
She started reading. The first few pages contain his thorough research about Slytherin family, which ended with someone called Marvolo Gaunt.
On next page, he scribbled different alphabets, which she noticed were the alphabets of his name. At the bottom he wrote ' I AM LORD VOLDEMORT '. She realised, that this is how he created this stupid name.
She turned page and found that the rest of the diary was blank with next page having only one word written on it, the topic of his latest reasearch - 'Horcrux'.
"Let me approach him first."
"No Jenny that's unfair. He told that he is confused. That means he'll say yes to the first one. I don't want to lose Tom."
"But Linda, we can't go together."
"Then let me try first."
"No way."
"Why don't you toss a coin?" Harry interjected. She had been listening to the argument of her dorm mates Linda and Jenny since morning. Both had put on extra make up, and were looking foward to corner their 'Shy Tom'. Harry almost laughed out loud when she heard them say 'shy' and 'Tom' together for the first time, as he's the most shameless person she knew.
"I think plain newbie is right. We should toss."
Harry frowned at Linda. They never referred her with her name, and called her 'plain newbie' or 'brunnette'. As per them, she was too ordinary with no makeup or fancy hairstyle, which she didn't mind.
Linda immediately opened her trunk and handed a Galleon to Jenny.
Harry just looked at them while sitting on her bed. She shook her head as they tossed a Galleon. Who tosses heavy coin like Galleon, they should have used a sickle or any muggle coin. As expected the Galleon didn't roll properly and flipped to the other side straight away.
"I won." Jenny started jumping in excitement. She then made a pose and said "Look at me girls. You are looking at the future Mrs Riddle."
Linda scowled at her best friend, but Harry started laughing out loud. Future Mrs Riddle, yeah right, she was sure that this girl must have named their future kids' as well. She would love to see Tom's reaction on this.