CHAPTER 3 Milly's Father.
He was tall, skinny; pale skinned and had long dark hair, with matching eyes. Everyone went deadly quiet. At their first look Tom thought that Milly looked a bit like the proff, but then again a lot of people did. Milly stiffened between Tom and Nick. But the proff. didn't look their way and marched strait up to the front speaking in a cold voice.
"Now...I would like all of you to put your wands away and listen closely to what I have to say...There will be no need for your wands in this class...There will be need, however, of your unfailing obedience to what I have to say...Also I love darkness and quiet so use your brains, how do you think I want to enter a room?" He looked around but no one was going to answer.
"So... no volunteers? Well then Miss. Snape you should know the answer to the question. How do I like to enter a room?"
Milly looked scared but answered quickly "With silence and obedience."
"Very good. Five points from Slytherin house, for not answering a question when you know the answer. From now on if anyone does have an answer they must raise their hands and speak. Believe me when I say I will know if you aren't telling me something." For the rest of the period he took attendance and told them their course aims. And to call him Professor Snape. Many people looked at Milly at this.
"Yea" She whispered to Nick and Tom bitterly, "He's my father, Spike's too of course, and he's head of Slytherin house. Hes where my brother gets his attitude towards other people from."
Tom wondered briefly why Milly's father acted the way he did towards her. His face must have shown his curiosity because Millianon turned to them in her seat and whispered to them.
"He always treats me like this. And he always acts like this. Summer vacations are a nightmare I swear it, that's the only time I see him and my brother. He likes my brother better. I know he does, he even told me so. He hates me, thinks I'm a disappointment, all because I don't believe in all this pureblood hysteria. He forbids me to let my muggle friends come to the house. He even well..." She stopped and trailed off like she'd just changed her mind about saying something.
They left it alone and neither of them said anything, concentrating on listening to Proff. Snape, "Tomorrow we will work on your first potion of the year, be prepared. Class dismissed." They left quickly being the first ones in the hall and eventually to their next class, History of Magic. They left HOM, which had been a bore, and hurried to lunch. Sitting alone at the end of the Slytherin table they ate quickly and without talking. Millianon's brother was at the other end sending them death glares, which they were ignoring. Suddenly Millianon stopped eating and turned around. Tom and Nick did the same.
Two Gryffindors, a young looking boy and girl, were leaned over and about to say something.
"Your Professor Snapes daughter isn't you?" The boy asked.
"Yea" Milly said casually.
"He seems like a real azz, no offence but he was all mean to you and everything." The girl piped in. "So" Milly said icily.
"Well," started the boy again, "He already gave me a failing grade for the day cause I didn't pay attention and it dosent really seem like you guys like him either, so I thought we would get him back with something that'll make him pay a lot more attention to... maybe his horrible looks."
The girl spoke again, "Weve already got the beggings of a plan if yall are in?" She asked carefully. Tom looked around suddenly, the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables were starting to stare.
"Um guys don't look now but people are starting to stare. Lets act like this is nothing and meet later in the library to talk about it." He said.
"K" the pair said together.
"Library after lunch, during break." Milly stated quickly turning around, back to her food. They all followed suit.
When people started to leave the hall the three of them got up as the two Gryffindors did. They walked to the library and found seats in the back, in a secluded area. They sat down on two couches facing each other.
"Whats your names? Im Tom Riddle, this is Millianon Snape and Nick Jenson."
Tom looked them both over. They were both the same height, and medium build but there eyes and hair were different. The boy had wavy, light red hair that hung down to his shoulders with baby blue eyes. The boy spoke, "Call me J.T., for Justin Time, ha ha funny huh? And this is..."
She interjected, "I'm Bernadette Kirkus, this dumbo calls me Berna" She shot playfully at JT, hitting him on the arm and grinning at him. Tom, Milly and Nick looked at each other; they could all tell that these two 'liked' each other.
"Ok" Nick started slowly, for the two had jut been staring at each other, "whats your plans?" They broke eye contact and leaned in to whisper to them. Once there heads were all together the discussion lasted till the end of break. The bell rang for class and they all got up with huge grins on their faces. Happily they realized they all had Herbology (there next class), potions (which they already had), and Defense against the Dark Arts which was the last class today, together. So they walked off towards there next class friends despite their differences in houses.