Disclaimer- pervious chapter, song lyrics by Christina Aguilera, I'm Ok
A/n this is my second chapter in a day, half the ideas pop into my head as I write my chapters… so I hope this chapters good!
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I often wonder why I carry all this guilt
When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
The echoes of a broken child screaming please no more
Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done
For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so, so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake I look back on yesterday
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Melody woke the next morning to the morning sunshine gleaming on her face. She looked at the clock on the wall, Six o' clock! She was tempted to turn her back to the interrupting light but thought otherwise.
It looked like most girls where still asleep. One bathroom was occupied where as the other was vacant she grabbed her uniform off her trunk and entered it. She showered and dressed and, even though half the school knew, covered her scar. She pulled her long black locks in to a French braid; its how her father preferred a 'young lady's' hair to look.
She exited the washroom make-up less (unless you counted the cover up hiding her scar, That you wouldn't know was there unless you knew what she was hiding.) Which was odd on an average teenage girl.
Ginny was just walking through the door, but when she saw Melody exit the washroom she stopped and waited.
"Erm…." Her eyes flickered up to her forehead, "Good Morning,"
Melody was happy that she did not mention her, scar and answered rather joyfully, "Good morning Ginny!"
They walked down the stairs in silence. When they reached the common room Hermione was just leaving through the portrait hole, alone.
Ginny and Melody fallowed her out and started for the Great hall, with little conversation. When they entered there where few people there. They took a seat at the Gryffindor table.
As soon as Melody set her eyes on all the delicious looking food in front of her, she felt her stomach growl. She started to pile, tree different types of eggs, tree pieces of bacon, and two sausages and an oatmeal muffin. She started to gobble some scrambled eggs when she looked at Ginny, She had her eyebrows raised and seemed to be trying to stifle a laugh.
Melody swallowed what was in her mouth, "Well I didn't eat much last night I'm hungry!" She told her in a winery voice then she would of liked. She looked at what Ginny had; a look of disgust took over her face as she looked at her plain corn flaks. "How can you eat those?" I said to her, I just made her laugh, "I like them, they aren't that bad you know."
"Right." I said and went back to my food.
The Great hall started to fill up, a little after seven Harry came in obviously cured, He sat by her Hermione, he asked her something Melody couldn't here and Hermione started to explain something, when she finished Melody saw Harry turn and look at her, a look of shock on his face.
Her attention was taken as a whole bunch of owls entered the great hall; a pitch-black owl swooped down and dropped a red letter in front of her.
A Howler.
She felt herself pale; she had forgotten about her how mad her father would be. Why did he send her an howler? Did she want everyone to know he was her father?
It was starting to burn at the edges; She had no choice but to open it;
"HOW DARE YOU LET THE RAGGED OLD HAT SORT YOU INTO GRFFINDOR? HAVE I TAUGHT YOU NOTHING? HOW MANY TIMES DID I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I WANTED YOU IN SLYTHERIN? YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO MY BLOOD! GO AND HANG OUT WITH YOUR MUDBLOOD FRIENDS AND FORGET ABOUT EVER COMING BACK!" Melody's fathers voice echoed through the hall.
Tears escaped from her eyes, almost every person was looking at her. She just looked at her half eaten breakfast, trying not to think about it. Silent tears slid down her face and dripped off her chin. She new he didn't mean half of what he said but she couldn't help but get worried.
She looked up at Ginny; she just looked like she was lost in thought.
Suddenly, Melody tears stopped and anger coursed through her veins, "How dare he talk about Muggle bourns that way! He's a damn half- blood himself! I'm a disgrace to his blood? It's a disgrace that I have a mad man like him as a father! I've meet saner people at St. Mongo's! Melody muttered, but not quiet enough for Ginny not to hear.
No. She was not going to let him treat her like this, she had always hated him, now she loathed him.
Professor McGonagall had started to pass out timetables to all the student's. Melody had just noticed because she had stopped behind her.
"Miss Riddle, have you taken your OWL's?" She asked
"No." Melody replied
"Please come to my office when you finish so you may be tested."
"OK."
"Are you alright?" Ginny asked when their Professor had left
"I'm OK."
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When she finished her breakfast (she didn't really, blamed on loss of appetite.) She proceeded towards her professor's office. (Ginny gave her directions.)
"Please take a seat." Her Professor told her as she entered, indicating a desk to her left.
Melody went and sat.
"Here it says you have worked on: Transfiguration, Potions, Arthmancy, Ancient Runes, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Mediwitchery, Divination, Astronomy, Muggle studies, Occlumency, Legilimency, Charms. Is that all of them?" said Professor McGonagall.
"Yes." Melody said thinking over all the subjects just listed
"OK, we'll start with Transfiguration, you'll start with a written test, and then show me a few examples.You then get a period of time to study as I tend to my classes."
And so it went, test, example, study, test, examples, study. Until she had covered all she could with on teacher. In other words, four subjects.
"Tomorrow, Go to Professor Trelawany, and have your Divination test, she will tell you where to go from there. Ask a student for directions to her class room."
"Thank you Professor." Melody said with a small smile.
She proceeded back to Gryffindor tower, when she entered most of the students where done classes for the day, there was a deathly silence, unusual for the amount of people in the room, she was positive they where just talking about her.
She looked around and stomped up the spiral staircase and entered her dorm. She looked at the girl there. Ginny looked up as soon as she entered.
"Oh Melody, I tried to stop the roomers but no one will listen-" She started to say.
"Its all right I understand." Melody told her.
She then crossed to her trunk and fond her journal, it was black and said 'M.K. Riddle" in silver letters across the top. The stood for 'Melody Katlereen (ka- ler – een, silent 'T') Riddle' and stated to write her every emotion under 'September 2nd, 1996'.
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A/n erm that turned out a little different then I intended, but I did not mind it too much, PLEASE R&R