Chapter Six
Number One

"Good Morning class. Welcome Gryffindors and Slytherins to your third year of Transfiguration. I am sorry that your teacher, Professor Granger, is not here today. I will be filling in for her.
"As you all should know, my name is Professor Potter or the Headmaster here at Hogwarts. Well, anyway, please take out your wands and your textbooks and we will begin class immediately." Harry said as he began to collect the needed material for the class.
Meanwhile, towards the back of the classroom, Tom, Hermes, and Cassy were sitting together discussing important matters.
"So you say that when you tried to warn him, he was in denial. That's not like Uncle Harry." Cassy said as she looked through her textbook out of boredom.
"Yeah and I am kind of afraid for when Lord Voldemort returns today because somehow he is going to use me." Tom said as he moved his wand through the air like he was conducting a band or orchestra.
"How do think he is going to use you?" Hermes asked as he stared at the table he was sitting at.
"I don't know but I get scared every time I think about it." Tom put some assurance into his voice. And that was probably a bad thing this time around.
"Looks like Tom is actually afraid of something. And the whole entire time we have known each other, I was hoping it to be me." Draco Junior's green eyes were gleaming in malicious play.
"Turn around Draco. Now is not the right time." Tom demanded, but something was happening. Tom didn't feel like himself anymore. It felt like someone was entering his body and trying to take reign over his mind.
"Why should I, Potter?" Draco asked.
"Draco, now is not a good time to bother me. Hermes... Cassy... something is happening." Tom said as he grabbed his head in anguish.
"Tom, what's the matter?" Hermes and Cassy asked at the same time. Tom began to violently shake and ended up falling out of his chair. Though, even while he was on the floor, he continued to shake. Soon he had the entire class standing around him and watching him as his shaking began to become more violent by the moment.
"Class, please sit down." Harry said as he noticed that everyone was standing up.
"Professor Potter, you might want to get help. Tom is having a seizure or something back here," Hermes said, not looking away from Tom.
Harry raced to the crowd and pushed the students out of his way. Instead of him seeing a shaking Tom, he saw a calm looking boy who looked like he was playing a very odd practical joke. "Tom, get up now and ten points from Gryffindor for Tom's thick joke." Harry demanded. Instead of Tom popping up like it had been a joke, he continued to lie there like he was dead. "Tom, did not hear me? Get up!" Tom never moved.
Harry crouched down beside Tom and shook him. "Tom Potter, I am not joking! Get up right now!" Harry continued to shake Tom but Tom never moved to indicate that he was joking.
Tom popped up and, surprisingly, grabbed Harry around his neck. "We meet again, Potter." Said Tom. Though, the words came out of Tom's mouth, it wasn't just Tom who said it.
Harry eyes popped open as he realized what was going on. "No. It can't be. Lord Voldemort, I thought I had killed you."
"That's right my grandson of mine. You thought that you had killed me." The Lord Voldemort-Tom combination said as Tom's grip around Harry's neck was getting stronger by the moment. Soon Harry's breaths became short pants as he tried to breathe in air.
"Let go of him, Lord Voldemort!" Hermes exclaimed, coming to the rescue.
"Accio Wand!" Lord Voldemort-Tom cried out. Instantly Tom's wand was in his hand. "STUPEFY!" Hermes immediately froze and fell backwards with a loud thud.
"Let... me... go... Voldemort!" Harry struggled to say with the lack of air he was getting. At the exact same time, he was also looking for his wand, which was in his robe pocket. "EXPELLIARMUS!" Harry managed to yell in one breath. Tom's wand was shot out of his hand and flew to the other side of the classroom.
Tom had let go of Harry's neck, grabbed his sides, and, with some unknown strength, Tom lifted Harry over his head and threw him. Harry landed on the opposite wall and shook the castle from the impact of the throw. The entire class ran to Harry's side to help him as Lord Voldemort- Tom made his escape.
"Get... Professor Snape and Madame Pomfrey." Harry said right before fainted. Immediately Hermes and Cassy ran out the classroom to get them.
Lord Voldemort-Tom, on the other hand, was out to make the escape. They ran down the stairway to only be stopped by Professor Snape.
"And to where do you think you are going, Potter?" Professor Snape asked as he purposely stopped Lord Voldemort-Tom.
"Get out of my way, Severus!" Lord Voldemort-Tom snapped back.
"A third year dares to call me by my first name?" Snape queried.
"I am not joking, Severus! Get out of my way!" Lord Voldemort-Tom tried to go around Professor Snape, but, instead, he was blocked and knocked down because Professor Snape purposely knocked him down.
"You are so lucky that I don't have a wand on me or I would have killed you by now!" Lord Voldemort-Tom all but shouted.
"You would think that of all people to possess, Voldemort, a Potter would be your last choice." Snape said as he placed his boot on top of Tom's chest to keep his back on the floor. Suddenly, Tom's body went limp.
"Did you get to him in time, Professor Snape? Could you stop Lord Voldemort in time, Professor Snape?" Hermes asked as he and Cassy finally finished the long journey down the flight of stairs.
"Yes. It's a good thing you decided to send me a letter by owl instead of running to get to me. A minute sooner and this Lord Voldemort- Tom Potter combination would have done only God knows what." Professor Snape said as Madame Pomfrey finally showed up.
"Oh no! I thought I was just coming to get Harry. I didn't think I was coming for Tom, too." Madame Pomfrey said as she examined Tom, who, at the moment, looked dead.
"Well, Professor Potter is in the Transfiguration classroom and he is unconcious at the moment. If you felt a shake a while back, then it was Professor Potter being thrown into the wall by the Lord Voldemort possessed Tom." Cassy informed.
"Well, you two, carry Tom to the Hospital Wing, and you, Severus, come with me to get Harry to the Hospital Wing." Madame Pomfrey commanded Hermes, Cassy, and Professor Snape. Madame Pomfrey and Professor Snape began to make their way up the stairs.
"This is only taste number one, Cassy." Hermes said to Cassy as they picked Tom up from the ground.
"Yeah, and I am scared just to think about how taste number two will like." Cassy responded as they began to carry Tom to the Hospital Wing.
"And it also makes me wonder of how it will be when Lord Voldemort comes back for the third and, hopefully, last time." Hermes said, thinking more and more about the future as the time went by.