The next ten years were full of crying, whining, and children for Tom. Plus his 'Hogwarts friends' bothering him every week. Tom regretted taking Harry Potter as his own son, but it was too late to back out now. The boy already learned so much, from learning the unforgivables to knowing how to apparate all before the age of eleven. It was impressive but Tom expected nothing less from his heir. He expected for Harrison to be Dark Lord ready before his last year at Hogwarts. But as of now he was nowhere near ready. Harrison was as skilled as a low ranked Death Eater which was not very powerful.

"Here." Tom handed the piece of paper over to Harrison after he finished reading over it. Harrison looked down at the paper and it was a letter for Hogwarts. More specifically his acceptance letter from Hogwarts. Harrison couldn't care less about the letter and wondered why his father even bothered to give it to him. However, he knew from past experiences that questioning his father's decisions wouldn't ever turn out well.

"I can tell by your face you aren't interested." Tom commented.

"I wanted to show you the letter so we can talk about it." Harrison nodded and placed the letter on Tom's desk. Harrison looked up at Tom waiting for him to continue.

"I know that we have talked about you going to Hogwarts before but since it's a month away it's a great time to discuss it again. As you know Dumbledore knows of your existence already and will most likely be keeping a close eye on you as you attend Hogwarts. He'll definitely be finding ways to get information out of you or even expell you. Those are the two things that we can't have." Tom intensified his look on Harrison to make sure he had his attention.

"The man is no fool Harrison so lying or getting away with stuff won't be that easy when it comes to him. Always and I mean always make sure that you leave no room for people to guess you did something. When I opened the Chamber in my year I knew no one would expect it to be me. One, because I was prefect. Two, because everyone thought I was a goodie two-shoes. The smartest thing is to pass the blame to someone else, someone who is more believable."

"What if Draco or Delphi is more believable?" Harrison asked.

"You have to make sacrifices of people below you to reach your goal." Tom told him bluntly. Harrison kept a straight face even though what his father had just told him was a bit difficult to process.

"But, if you truly fear having to pass the blame onto your friends, don't do stuff that puts them in the blame." Harrison nodded understandably.

"A couple weeks ago I talked to the parents whose children are going to attend Hogwarts with you. I told them to tell their children that whatever you say goes and there will be no back and forth between you and them." Harrison never liked the idea of bossing his friends around. But it made sense since he was the son of the Dark Lord. "I also told them to inform their children of the task at hand. Get people on my side. That means blood traitors, mudbloods, half bloods."

Harrison opened his mouth to ask a question but Tom had already answered it. "Even the Hufflepuffs." Harrison sighed and nodded sadly.

"This year I got Quirrell to fill in the Dark Arts position. The old hag doesn't suspect a thing which is good. I think it would be better to have more Death Eater protection especially since you'll be attending Hogwarts now."

"I understand. Is that all?"

"A few more things. The Malfoys and Lestranges are going to shop for their supplies tomorrow. Are you going with them?" Harrison thought that was a dumb question. Of course he was going to go with them. If it meant he'll be able to see Draco and Delphi again then no doubt he'll go.

"Of course."

"I'll inform them. But before you are dismissed I have a gift for you." Harrison raised an eyebrow. His father never got him any gifts on his birthdays. He claimed it would make Harrison soft so hearing his father say that he had a gift for him was surprising but exciting nonetheless.

Tom looked below his desk and reached for something. He effortlessly lifted the item up and placed it on the desk in front of Harrison. It was a cage with a snake inside.

The snake had beautiful black scales that looked silver in the light from the candle burning on Tom's desk. It looked about five feet long and stared at Harrison with it's yellow eyes. "This is your snake. Her name is Ollyth."

Harrison had been begging his father for his own snake since he could speak fluently in Parseltongue. He loved Nagini a lot but he always thought the idea of having his own familiar would be better. "Thank you. I appreciate it- a lot." Harrison told him genuinely.

"Mhm. You are dismissed now." Harrison grabbed the cage and apparated upstairs. He didn't want to waste the time or energy walking all the way to the third floor then down the hall to his room.

Once Harrison appeared in his room he placed Ollyth's cage down on his dark wood dresser. He opened the door to the cage and took Ollyth out. "Hello. I'm Harrison Riddle." The snake chuckled.

"You don't need to speak parseltongue to me. I understand English very well." Harrison nodded and walked over to his queen sized bed. He sat down placing Ollyth next to him. "Who taught you English?" Harrison asked curiously. Harrison had met a few snakes before and none of them knew English like Ollyth did.

"Well being alive for over a thousand years you pick up on many things." Harrison was left shocked by her sentence. She was over a thousand years old but looked like a pre adult snake. "H-how are you still alive? My apologies if you find this offensive."

"No offense taken. I'm sure you've heard of the tale of the Three Snake Sisters." Harrison nodded silently. The tale of the Three Snake Sisters was a popular children's tale. It was about three snake sisters who set out on a journey to save their muggle from dying of old age. They heard of an immortal pond and went on an adventure to find it and return some of the water to their owner. Othello the Wise was the youngest sister. Vasilka was the most venomous and dangerous out of her sisters. And Annoria the oldest and most beautiful sister. They used their strengths to make it to the pond and when they arrived they drank some of the pond water and brought back enough for their owner to drink. However, when they get back they find out their owner had passed away while they were on their journey.

"I'm Othello. The youngest and smartest out of my sisters." Harrison thought this day couldn't get any more surprising. He just found out that a children's tale was real. "Where are your sisters then?"

"We got seperated a long time ago." Harrison nodded, slowly trying to process what new information he had just learned. "Ollyth- Or Othello. Do you mind telling me about some of your adventures?"

Harrison spent the rest of the day getting to know Ollyth and listened to her exciting stories she had to tell. Harrison was amused by the process of coming back to life after Ollyth 'died'. She claimed she doesn't remember anything but waking back up in a younger body.

Around ten o'clock Mimi had brought all the gifts his friends and Death Eaters sent to him for his birthday. Harrison looked for Draco's and Delphi's gifts first. Draco had got him a bag full of sweets and Delphi had gotten him a small live action Hippogriff model that flew around his room and bothered Ollyth. The rest of the gifts were jewelry, clothing, or some miscellaneous object.


When Harrison awoke the next morning he was very excited to get to Diagon Alley. It would be his first time seeing Draco and Delphi in about a month. In less than two hours he was bathed, fully dressed and presentable. He made sure there was not one speck of dust on his robes and not one wrinkle in his trousers. That would be disrespectful to the Riddle name.

"Ollyth, do you want to go to Diagon Alley with me?" Harrison asked as he put on his right shoe. "No thank you. I think I'll just get in your way as you shop. I'll explore the Manor while you're gone."

"Alright. I'll be back by afternoon." Harrison said goodbye to his new snake friend and aparated in Knockturn Alley. He did this so people wouldn't be suspicious of an eleven year apparating all by himself. It didn't take too long to make it to Diagon Alley, what took long was locating the Malfoys and Lestranges. He found them huddled up in a small group next to Gringotts.

Harrison smiled hesitantly since he was so used to getting scolded by his father for showing emotion. He approached the group and Delphi was the first to see him. "Harry!" She squealed, running into his arms. "Harrison!" Draco called out joining the hug. "Delphi, you're choking me." Harrison told her in a strained voice. She let Harrison out of her bear hug but kept her smile on her face.

"We've missed you mate." The group of adults approached the children with little to no expression on their faces. "It's great to finally see you again Harrison." Nacrissa commented, a faint smile tugging her lips. Lucius had a smirk on his lips and Bellatrix didn't even bother looking at the children. She was mumbling something that Harrison couldn't hear.

"Where are we going first?" Harrison asked looking at Lucius. "Well our plan was we were going to get your books and you three would get your robes and cauldron and all that stuff. After you finish that we'll meet right back here to get your wands."

"Sounds great to me." The two groups split and went to their designated stores.

"How come Voldemort kept you 'hostage' for so long?" Draco asked quietly so bystanders didn't hear their conversations. "Well since we are going to Hogwarts in exactly a month he has been forcing new things into my brain to get me prepared. He's scared that the old hag is going to do something to me." Harrison explained to him in a hushed voice too.

Draco didn't respond and just nodded. "I have a feeling he is going to do the same thing for the next month." Delphi sighed. Harrison realized the same thing too. His father would probably force every bit of knowledge about Legilimency into his brain until he boarded the train. "Ugh. Don't remind me." Harrison grumbled.

"Well let's make the best of the little time we have to spend together. Let's go get ice cream!" Draco suggested, smiling, showing his perfect white teeth. Harrisom rolled his eyes and chuckled. "You guys are so mature."

"I know right. Let's go!" Draco snickered, grabbing Harrison's wrist and pulling him towards Florean's Ice Cream Parlor. Delphi had ended up getting Strawberry ice cream, Harrison got cookie dough, and Draco got Bertie Botts every flavored ice cream. He claimed it was green apple.

They took a while to get to Madam Malkin's since they got distracted by other things along the way. Harrison had wanted to see the cart full of ancient books while Delphi forced the two of them to watch owls in Eeylops Owl Emporium. By the time they got to Madam Malkins it was already one o'clock and they had left around a quarter after twelve.

Harrison walked into the shop first to see it was relatively empty. The only people in here were identical red heads. Harrison knew he had seen them before but he couldn't figure out where.

A short, fat woman approached them with a warm smile on her face. "Robes for Hogwarts I assume?" The three of them nodded simultaneously. Harrison had been brought to a stool next to one of the redhead twins. He looked a bit older than Harrison, like he should be in his third year of Hogwarts.

"Hello. I'm Harrison." The redhead turned his head, finally acknowledging him. "I know who you are. You and your dad are model citizens. All over the Prophet every week." The redhead's remarks was not an insult but it was a generalization of Harrison. "I'm George Weasley. I assume you don't like my family since your friends with those two." George nodded over to Delphi and Draco who were getting measured too.

Harrison gasped quietly when he realized where he saw the twins before. They were a part of the Weasley family. Harrison knew very well that George was very close to Dumbledore and their family was known as blood traitors. He wasn't at Hogwarts yet but it would be a good start to persuade the Weasley twin into becoming his friend.

"Oh, my friends don't really like your type, but I don't really care." George chuckled but then winced as he looked down at the lady sewing his robes. She must've poked him. "Don't worry my family doesn't like your lot either. But I don't really care and I'm sure my brother Fred doesn't either." Harrison glanced at the other brother who had already got his robes. He must've been Fred.

"I've finished." The lady sewing George's robe told him. George smiled and stepped down from the stool. Even now he was still taller than Harrison. "I have to get going now Harrison but let's definitely hang out when we get to Hogwarts." Harrison agreed and watched as George and his twin, Fred, left Madam Malkins.

Harrison sighed in relief once Fred was gone. It made him cringe every second he talked to that blood traitor. Once the group of friends left Madam Malkins, Harrison told them about his encounter with Fred and they weren't too happy about it.

"The Weasels? I would rather talk to a mudblood." Delphi paused with a disgusted look. "Nevermind. They're equally bad." Harrison couldn't help but chuckle but returned to his straight face. "If I hit off with the twins do you know how much information I can get from them?" Delphi and Draco exchange looks and nodded. "It's a good thing George even bothered talking to me."

They got everything else they were tasked to get themselves. Carrying their cauldrons all the way back to Gringotts was a pain and the three were relieved when they made it back.

"There you three are. We were wondering what was taking you so long." Nacrissa scolded them as they caught their breath from carrying their cauldrons full of their school supplies. "Well now that you three are here let's make our way to Olivanders." Lucius said, after shrinking all of their cauldron's to pocket size.

They walked to Olivanders getting some stares and whispers as they walked. Being known for being related to Voldemort in some way was enough to be gossiped about. They reached the ancient looking shop and walked inside to only be greeted with an old man and lots of dust.

"Welcome! I believe you're here for wands." Draco rolled his eyes before leaning closer to Harrison. "No, we're here for toads." Draco said sarcastically, indirectly answering Olivander's question. However, Olivandr seemed to have heard and fixed his glare on Draco. "Of course you're here for wands. Why do I even ask?" Draco's cheeks flushed as Olivander looked away from him.

Olivander signaled for Delphi to try out first. It took her a couple of tries before finding her wand. It was a Black walnut wood wand with a Dragon Heartstring core, ten inches and hard flexibility, according to Olivander. Next up was Draco. It seemed Olivander had known which wand would choose Draco cause he got it first try. Draco's wand was ten inches long, made of hawthorn wood, and had a unicorn hair core.

Lastly was Harrison. "Wand hand?" Harrison held out his right hand and Olivander examined it closely while his tape measured the distance between Harrison's eyes. Olivander took a previous wand Delphi had tested also and gave it to Harrison. "Give it a wave." Harrison followed his order and waved the wand. Nothing happened.

Olivander snatched it back and pondered which wand Harrison should try out next. He gave Harrison the next wand but still nothing happened. This process went on for a half of an hour and Harrison hadn't even made a spark come out.

"Okay… I'm very confident this is the one. Eleven inches, aspen wood with a Phoenix core." Harrison lazily took the white wand out of his hand and felt a bit of warmth spread throughout his hand. He gave it a wave and it sent out dark green sparks and Olivander frowned.

Harrison noticed and raised an eyebrow. "What's the matter?" Harrison asked. The wand had sent out the sparks like it was supposed to. Harrison couldn't guess what Olivander was worried about. "Nothing actually, it just scares me I that I sold a very similar wand to someone years ago." Olivander mumbled, loud enough for Harrison to hear.

"But thats besides the point. 7 galleons for each wand." Harrison raised an eyebrow and shrugged at the man's weirdness. He paid for his wand and the Malfoys and Lestranges did too and left the shop. Harrison liked the feeling of his own wand. It felt different and better compared to the wands he would practice with.

"Harrison, we'll be taking our leave now and I suggest you get back home to your father. I beleive he would want to go over somethings." Lucius suggested, taking Harrison out of his train of thoughts. He frowned and glanced at his cousins who had the same expressions as he did. Harrison had to admit he was upset that he already had to go back home but there was nothing he could do about it.

"I guess I'll see you guys at Hogwarts." Harison joked, trying to get his cousins to smile which barely worked. "See you Aunt Cissy, Lucius and Bella." Bellatrix gave a fake smile and Nacrissa gave a real one. For sisters they were total opposites. Harrison looked around to see if anyone was watching before apparating to Riddle Manor.

Harrison landed a little down the hill from the manor. Tom got a lot of questions on why his apparition wards were so big or why they were even there. He made countless excuses that were along the lines of, "Death Eater protection.'' But to save himself from the pain of listening to complaints of visitors who don't like walking all the way from the garden to the Manor that's up the hill, Tom made the barrier smaller and closer to the Manor.

When Harrison got inside he apparated upstairs into his room. Ollyth was taking a nap on his bed and he decided to change his clothes while she was asleep. By the time he was done setting up his Hogwarts items and getting undress Ollyth had awoken from the noise he was making.

"Welcome back young lord." Harrison rolled his eyes and chuckled. "You don't have to call me that." He informed her, sitting on the bed next to her. "I know, I'm just messing with you. How was Diagon Alley?"

"It was fine I guess. I wished I could've spent more time with Draco and Delphi though." Ollyth slithered onto his arm and rested on his shoulders. Harrison had to admit the two foot long snake was heavy.

"Draco and Delphi? Who are they?" Ollyth asked curiously.

"They're my cousins. Well were not actually related in anyway but we just say we're cousins." Harrison explained to her. "Will I able to meet them ssoon?" Harrison nodded. "If you come to Hogwarts with me then I'll make sure to introduce them to you."

"Speaking about Hogwarts, have you ever been there before?" Harrison asked curiously. If she was alive for almost eight thousands years she had to been inside Hogwarts at least once. "I've been to Hogwarts many times. Back in 1245 I remember this boy who found me in the forest. He took me in and took care of me. He snuck me into Hogwarts, hiding me from his closest friends. He died though, I don't remember how."

"As far as I am concerned me and my father will be immortal just like you." Harrison half joked. His father was obsessed with the idea of becoming immortal and has been trying for years to find how to become immortal. "I've noticed. When I told your father I'm immortal he interogratted me and asked me how I did it. He was disappointed when I told him I got immortal from a pond that probably dried out thousands of years ago."

"Knowing my father he'll still try and see if there is anymore water left."

Harrison took Ollyth off his shoulders and placed her on the bed. He laid down and looked outside, the sun was going down. "Tell me more of your stories Ollyth."