CHAPTER ONE: "Weird Name"
"...Today, we welcome two new—well one of them is an old face—to HSG. They are Mrs Lily Potter, the Head Girl of 1996 and our new 5th-7th Year Physics Professor along with his son, Mr Harry Potter!"Headmaster Dippet informed the school.
The whole school started to create a flurry of whispers. Thee Potter Family? The one who owns the best law firm in all of the United Kingdom, Potter Black Attorneys?
That had begun to pique one Tomlin Riddle's interest. Mainly because Hogwarts had never had a new student who wasn't in First Year in over 500 years of Hogwarts' rich history.
When the mother and son duo stood up from their seating area on the stage, Tomlin almost melted when the raven haired boy's electric green eyes made contact with his own lapis lazuli ones.
"And we should give a warm welcome!"Dippet ordered, prompting everyone to give a round of thunderous applause.
He whispered something into Lily Potter's ear before pointing her to the teacher's area and Harry into the Prefect and Head Boy/Girl Area where Tomlin was...
The brunet had a strange feeling bloom in his chest when Harry Potter had sat next to him.
He tried to make zero eye contact with the other boy.
But sometimes, life just had to not listen to him.
"Hello,"Harry greeted him with a grin. Tomlin immediately loved the sound of his baritone voice. He blushed a faint pink, something that horrified him to no end.
"Um, hello..."Tomlin replied shyly.
"So...What's you're name?"Harry asked the boy.
"Tomlin. Tomlin Riddle."
"That's such a weird name, but I like it..."
Tomlin felt his face heat up slightly. "Uh—Um, thanks...I guess..."
Before Harry could open his mouth, Professor Merrythought shushed them.
"Potter, Riddle! Behave! Assembly is still in progress! Keep talking and you'll get a red slip!"she hissed.
"Sorry, Professor,"came the simultaneous apology.
*
After the assembly, everyone had gone to their registration classroom. Everyone knew that Tomlin always managed to stay in Set One. So that meant this year, his class teacher would be Professor Dumbledore.
Tomlin hated Dumbledore. The man would always be so suspicious of him when he didn't even do anything! In his Third Year, the old coot had managed to convince his parents to let him get seen by Dr Trelawney for some weird 'treatment' after he had had just a small nervous breakdown after studying for his exams and he was to compete in a Maths Olympiad.
That was the only time he slipped up! That doesn't mean that he should be shipped off to a bloody shrink every week on a Saturday...right?
But no matter, what happened happened.
"...So, I saw you chatting with Potter..."Tomlin's friend Bellatrix Black chirped as she sat on one side of him on the four seater desk in the classroom.
"Yes, so...how is he?"his other friend, Minerva McGonagall asked as she organised her file dividers.
"I think he has a thing for you..."Barty Crouch Jr drawled out with a smirk as he sat next to Bellatrix.
"Don't say that!"Tomlin growled. "He's most likely trying to be nice!"
"Well, the stars say that your love life is about to get really spicy from now on, trust me!"Bellatrix sang.
"You and your voodoo business of yours is a waste of time!"Minerva told the curly haired girl.
"For the last fucking time, McGonagall—Get the fuck out of my business and read those dumb books of yours!"Bellatrix hissed.
"I always wondered how you managed to stay in the A class when I've never even seen you touch a book that isn't manga or dirty Jakeward fanfiction, Black."
"Both of you stop fighting for one moment before Dumbles comes here to yell at us!"Tomlin chided.
"Let him come,"Bellatrix said, not taking her grey eyes off of Minerva.
"Don't be an idiot, do you want retention on the first day?!"Minerva asked incredulously.
"Let me tell you this again. Fuck off,"Bellatrix growled.
Both Tomlin and Barty rolled up their notepads and whacked it over the girls' heads.
"Honestly. Don't you two ever get tired? Bellatrix dipped your hair in purple paint eight years ago, Minerva!"Tomlin said.
"She is the reason behind this nonsense and no, you two will suffer from our 'idiocy',"the auburn haired girl replied childishly.