The sun rose slowly over the hills and the soft light seeped into the windows of the homes found in Little Hangleton. The east wing of Riddle Manor was lit up first, it was clearly decorated with the two youngest members of the family in mind. Two massive bedrooms were joined by a larger than average bathroom, previously one bedroom had been blue and other pink but now both were the colors of the inhabitants school sorted house. Silver walls with green carpet and black furniture. Both rooms held large beds with green curtains surrounding them and a single desk and bookshelves, but both rooms were strangely empty and quiet as they were flooded with light. Two doors down was a spare guest room, the walls a baby blue with yellow vertical lines, an extremely large bed lay in the middle. It was easily twice the size of the other beds in the house, currently sleeping undisturbed under the thick grey blanket was eight children. After the party the night before the eight children had played a late night game of quidditch and upon returning into the home they prompting fell asleep in the huge bed together.
Harry slowly returned to awareness as the light passed over his eyes, he squinted as he felt the two warm bodies laying on him, his cousin Draco lay with his head and shocking white hair lay on Harry's arm, Blaise lay on his legs, something that didn't even make him blink at after all the years of sleepovers. He sat up quietly and softly as to not wake his sleeping friends yet, ignoring the need to go toilet in favor for waking up slowly, looking up he noticed the rest of the group sleeping soundly. Opposite him was Theo and Hermione, his sister was curled up as tight as possible into Theo's chest. Harry snickered as he took in the sight they made, over by the edge of the bed was Luna, Pansy and Daphne who had managed to create a weird little bubble like shape out of their bodies. He shook his head in amusement. He stretched before smirking, remembering the night before, tormenting the Potter heir, no-one besides their parents suspected Harry, Hermione and their friends were behind the bordering on cruel prank. Although from what he had heard from his Uncle Severus it was nothing compared to what Potter Snr had put him through.
He snickered to himself as he remembered his Mother looking at him and Hermione reproachfully after it had happened, whereas his Father had laughed along with Rodolphus, Severus and Lucius. He shrugged, besides he always had the defence that his Father had been worse than them at their age, Tom Riddle had already thought through his plans and started his study into the Dark Arts at 12. Although he didn't think his Mother would accept that defence easily. Sighing he shook his body to wake himself up, the need to get to the bathroom was getting stronger, he tried to stand up on the bed to climb over the bodies unfortunately it didn't work out as planned. His arms flapped wildly in the air as he stepped on Blaise's leg and tumbled down landing on Draco right where it hurts the most, he then clamored over the girls and hit the floor hard before making a dash to the small adjourning bathroom.
"Harry!" Blaise cried out angrily as he rubbed his leg while Draco's scream had tapered off into soft whimpered as he clutched himself.
"Sorry!" Harry yelled as he unzip his pants hurriedly as apparently he had forgotten to change before sleeping the night before.
"What's going on?" Daphne's sleep deprived voice asked as she poked her head up from the bundle she was wrapped in, her baby blue eyes blinking blearily, her blonde hair in a disarray.
"Harry's an idiot" Hermione mumbled fondly as she snuggled deeper into Theo's body.
"Dude! Shut the door!" Theo cried as the sound of Harry releasing himself with a satisfied sigh reached their ears.
"Make me!" Harry cried back.
"Merlin, what time is it?" Pansy asked her short black hair sticking up much like Harry's natural look.
"Like six or seven" Luna yawned without even opening her eyes.
"What?! Why? Why are we awake?" Blaise cried mournfully burrowing his head back into a pillow.
"Because, Harry can't get up without squashing us, and our jewels" Draco deadpanned with a wince.
"It was an accident!" Harry defended hotly as he returned to the bedroom looking happier.
"Nothing with you is an accident" Theo snorted.
"That is true" Harry nodded easily with a grin.
"Well, we are awake now, what should we do today?" Harry questioned as he plonked himself on the edge of the bed next to Luna.
"Why do you look like you're plotting something?" Daphne asked wearily.
"We haven't caused havoc in awhile, maybe we should today" Harry smirked.
"I like Hermione's idea" Luna giggled as Harry ran his fingers through her hair, everyone turned to see Hermione smirking.
"We could visit the little lonely Muggles in the town below" she grinned, Harry whooped loudly as their friends groaned.
"You made boy wonder shit himself last night, wasn't that enough to curb your evil desires?" Pansy asked incredulously.
"You've known them for how long, and you still ask that question?" Draco sniggered.
"I don't know why I bother really" she sighed causing the twins to laugh loudly together and share a cheeky look.
"Oh no" Daphne whispered.
"They are in agreement" Blaise nodded.
"We are so screwed" Theo and Draco whimpered.
"Well, we need to blend in" Harry shrugged.
"Which means only one thing" Hermione smirked.
"Muggle clothing" they coursed gaining groans of despair.
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"I feel ridiculous" Draco moaned tugging at his shirt as he complained yet again at the clothes his cousins had forced him into.
"You look fine!" Harry cried exasperated.
"I look like a peasant, or worse.. a Mudblood" he whined.
"We need to blend in" Hermione waved off his complaints with a smirk.
"But this is.. I don't even have words for it" he tried again.
"You will live" Harry laughed, as he looked over his friends, he and Hermione had very little variety in Muggle clothes for them to borrow so their outfits were all extremely similar.
Harry wore his favourite outfit; a pair of pale pale blue ripped jeans with a white tank top under a dark blue and green flannel shirt which was left unbuttoned and loose with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, on his feet was his black Doc Martens with white shoelaces. Hermione wore a loose black dress that had almost no shape to it with tank top like shoulders, she had paired it with a tight fitting buttoned up denim vest and dark purple combat boots. Draco, Theo and Blaise all wore the same ripped jeans as Harry in varying shades of blue, Blaise having the darkest almost grey like color, Draco and Theo both in a medium blue. Draco had a light blue and white flannel like Harry but had it buttoned up and as pressed as it could get. Theo and Blaise had both opted for the Grey and Black oversized knitted jumpers, all three in identical Doc Martens to Harry. Daphne, Pansy and Luna were all in the same dress as Hermione just different colours; dark Blue, dark Purple and White. Daphne had paired hers with a long sleeved denim jacket, Pansy with a flannel like the boys but it ended up being wrapped around her waist, and Luna wore a black turtleneck under the dress.
"I like my dress" Luna giggled as she skipped happily around them, her beautiful blonde hair flying around in the soft breeze as they walked towards the small township.
"Of course you do" Blaise grumbled as he stumbled yet again.
"These shoes are impossible to walk in" he groaned, Harry and Hermione just laughed joyfully at their friends misery.
"I feel like you're just messing with us, Muggles don't really wear this daily do they?" Theo questioned as he effortlessly dodged a dancing Luna.
"Yeah, just look" Hermione laughed pointing out the Muggles that were already out and about.
"Why did we agree to this?" Daphne asked with a raised eyebrow even as her hand subconsciously moved to touch the massive butterfly barrette in her hair.
"Because we have the best ideas" Harry declared laughing loudly whilst spinning around with his arms opened wide. Draco rolled his eyes before allowing himself to let go of the pureblood training and he leapt at his cousin making them both fall to the ground.
Muggles watched in silent but obvious judgement as the other two boys shared a look before jumping on Draco and Harry's bodies, giving the innocent mess around the appearance of an all out brawl. Hermione sighed, tapping her foot on the pavement impatiently while Pansy shouted encouragement at the ball of limbs, Daphne rolled her eyes and delicately crossed her arms and Luna laughed happily. Eventually the boys stopped and stood but the laughter while they straightened their clothes out didn't diminish, even after Hermione glared at them.
"You four are ridiculous" she huffed.
"Yes but you would hate it if we weren't around" Harry grinned throwing his arm over her shoulder.
"Your hair looks like the end of an old pre-owned Cleansweep 7" Hermione replied with a smirk, Draco squawked, his hands flying to his hair even though the comment hadn't been directed at him. But the laughter and bantering came to an end when they heard a middle aged Muggle woman hissing in disgust at what must of been her husband.
"Such a disgrace, who let's their children run around wild like this, trouble, the lot of them" Harry and Hermione's eyes grew hard as they took in the middle class Muggles. Little Hangleton had always been a predominantly middle class home with the two exceptions; the Riddle family being quite high class, and the Gaunt family being low class because of Marvolo Gaunt and his Father before him.
"I would be careful Muggle" Harry hissed enjoying the horrified look on the woman's face for being spoken to with such disrespect by a child, and the confused expression on her husband's face at the unusual word which was clearly an insult.
"You don't know who you might make mad" Hermione sneered, her eyes flickered to the side to look at her brother, despite wanting to put the Muggle in her place Hermione knew she couldn't let it go too far without bringing the Aurors and Ministry down on them. Compared to Harry, Hermione was level-headed and a thinker, more like a Ravenclaw, whereas Harry never thought ahead, just enjoyed creating chaos and havoc.
"Well I never!" the woman cried out.
"What? Had an actual thought?" Harry shot back causing Draco, Blaise and Theo to laugh loudly behind them.
"Do you even know who you speak to?" Hermione snarled, despite not being able to use their magical status, she remembered the stories of the Gaunt and Riddle family and knew she could use it to their advantage.
"Such insolence!" the man shouted.
"I will not take such disrespect from children" the woman sniffed.
"Where you never taught to respect your elders?" the man asked disdainfully.
"You may be our elders, but we are your betters" Harry laughed.
"We are the children from the Riddle family" Hermione said with a soft laugh, enjoying the pure shock that crossed the Muggles faces, everyone in Little Hangleton knew the story of the Riddle family.
"Our Father himself is the only child of Tom Riddle and Merope Gaunt" Hermione continued smugly.
"The Riddles were killed by their Grounds Caretaker Frank Bryce!" the Muggle male exclaimed.
"Yes, our Grandfather Tom and Great Grandparents Thomas and Mary Riddle" Harry nodded as he smirked inwardly, the old innocent caretaker still lived on the grounds, despite being a Muggle, Tom and Cassi had taken a liking to the man who had cared for the old family's home for so many years. He was completely oblivious to the magic, but helped Cassi, Cissa and Bella when they tended to the gardens.
"I am so grateful that Father decided against naming me Thomas, I would've been the fourth one, it just gets confusing" Harry sighed to Hermione who laughed.
"Harry you would not suit Thomas or even Tom as our Father prefers" they watched out of the corner of their eyes as the Muggles shared a look before walking away talking in hushed tones.
"You know the whole town will know by morning right?" Draco said raising a pale eyebrow.
"Exactly, everyone will know the Riddles are home, and we'll run this dump" Harry chuckled.
"It's the perfect stepping stone" Hermione shrugged.
"What do we do now?" Theo asked her.
"I say we go shopping for a bit and then go to lunch" Hermione responded happily before leading the way to one of the small stores in the district with Luna, Pansy and Daphne beside her. Shrugging Harry, Draco, Blaise and Theo ran after them laughing and joking the whole time.
"Can you believe it's only like 12 days until we go back to school?" Blaise questioned as they entered the small antique store behind the girls, who had somehow already separated and started browsing.
"I know, the holidays went by fast" Harry nodded.
"I wonder who we will get as our new DADA professor?" Draco smirked.
"I have no idea, but I can guarantee they will be as bad if not worse as Quirrell." Harry scoffed.
"Dumbledore is hiring them, of course they will be" Blaise snorted.
"I swear the only Professors that should actually be there is the four heads of houses" Theo shook his head, despite McGonagall clearly favoring Gryffindor they still learnt in her class, Sprout was too bubbly to dislike and she was fantastic to learn Herbology from, Flitwick was clever and easy to listen to in class as well.
"Well, we don't know any of the Elective Professors yet, so their might be more, but I highly doubt it" Harry muttered as he looked up to see Hermione laughed loudly with the girls on the other side of the store.
"That's what we should do!" Harry cried as inspiration hit him suddenly.
"Oh no" Theo whispered.
"He has an idea" Blaise said horrified.
"Oh shut up" Harry snapped but his sparkling eyes gave away the laughter he wanted to hide.
"We can get our people inside!" Harry whispered loudly.
"What?" Blaise asked, turning to Draco wanting a translate but unfortunately the blonde was just as lost.
"What do you mean Harry?" Theo asked curiously.
"We get rid of Professors, get them to quit or get fired and have people we trust apply for the vacant jobs!" Harry explained excitedly.
"How?" Draco asked dubiously.
"I haven't figured that part out yet" Harry admitted.
"Of course you haven't" Draco laughed with Theo and Blaise.
"I'm game" Hermione's voice spoke up from behind them.
"It could be fun regardless"
"Who else?" Harry asked.
"Ooh, this will be chaos" Luna smiled as she stuck her hand out, her eyes glassed over, Harry and Hermione grinned as they placed their own hands over her delicate and pale one.
"Alright, I'm in" Blaise grinned adding his hand over Harry's.
"I'm going to regret this" Pansy sighed gaining a nod from Daphne as both girls added their hands.
"Bring it!" Draco exclaimed laughing and he and Theo added their hands. Laughing the eight preteens threw their hands to the air with Harry crying out.
"Go Team Cambions"
"Hogwarts and Dumbledore won't know what has hit them" a quiet voice sighed from a disillusioned body, Tom smiled as he and Lucius watched his children plot.
"That's my kids" he said chuckling softly.
"They will rule the world"
I am sorry for how long this took, I just couldn't get this chapter to where I was happy with it and then I got sick. Hope you enjoy, apologies for any mistakes. Hope you like how I've done Harry and Hermione, I wanted to show a little more that yes they are still Voldemort's kids, they will get slowly darker as they age but no Voldemort won't be like cannon as he is technically 'the good guy' sort of…..