Ch. 13 I Ain't Planin' on Teachin' Lesson You Shut Up!

It was a miserable English morning the next day cloudy, rainy, and all around gloomy. The marauders walked in to the DADA class room wondering what kind of antics their teacher would pull today. They noticed that he was already seated at his desk in the front of the classroom looking over and righting notes on what appeared to be a lesson plan or something related. He seemed much more subdued than usual. They were going to ask if something was wrong but the rest of the class had piled in behind them so the just went to their seats instead. They all waited a few minutes in silence for class to begin…Harry kept at whatever he was doing…And they waited a few more minutes, until finally…

"…Um…Pro…Harry?" James said quietly, Harry didn't look up. "Harry" he said louder.

"Gnah!" Harry yelped and look up startled. Then he looked at his watch "Wait, what time is it?"

"Class should have started five minutes ago"

Harry shook himself out of it "Yes, yes, Class…right, Ok…well today we will be going over a very important lesson so pay attention because it absolutely will be on the midterm." He then went to the board and wrote the name Tom Marvolo Riddle on the board. "Now can anyone tell me anything about Mr. Riddle here?"

Sirius slowly raised his hand

"Yes Mr. Black?"

"Wasn't he the head boy here in the forties? I think there's an award with his name on it in the trophy room, special service to the school I think. Flitch made me spend detention in there more than a few times shining the trophies" he explained

"Not quite the answer I was looking for but correct none the less…five points to Gryffindor for the effort Mr. Black. Anyone else have any interesting tid-bits on ol' Tommy boy here?"

No one else raised their hand.

"That's alright that you don't know, class, I didn't expect you to. The truth is Mr. Riddle is a very mysterious character. Let me go over some facts on the board…I expect you all to tack notes on this, which means parchment and quills out and wands away…for the time being that is." He said dredging the fact that he had sounded like Delores Umbridge for a seconded there. He repeated the note out loud as he wrote them on the board.

Tom Marvolo Riddle

Born: December 31, 1928

Mother: Merope Gaunt

Witch, descendent of Salazar Slytherin, Died in child birth

Father: Tom Riddle Sr.

Muggle, left his pregnant wife after she came clean and told him she was a witch and had been controlling him with love positions never knew is son.

Wand: yew wood, 13 ½" long, phoenix feather

Special powers: Parseltongue, Legilimency, Occlumency

Early years: Raised in a muggle orphanage in London, The matron of the facility noticed early on that "Nasty things would often happen around him"

Hogwarts: (1938) Started first year in under Head Master Dippet sorted in to Slytherin, became obsessed with his heritage after finding out who is mother was.

Awards: Prefect (1942); Medal for Magical Merit; gold shield award for "Special Services to Hogwarts" kept in the trophy room; Head Boy (1944).

Important events while at Hogwarts: (1943) Rumors that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened start circulating due to several students being injured and one (Moaning Myrtle) is killed by a mysterious creature. Later that year Tom stages the capture of another student who had a liking for dangerous magical creatures, making it seem they were responsible for the attacks. The other students wand is snapped and he is expelled. Tom receives a trophy for Special Services to the school. (no one suspects it's a farce)

(1944) Riddle family (baring Tom of course) are found murdered in their home in the town of littleHangleton. Tom's Uncle Morin Gaunt (whom Tom had met and spoken with but had not reviled himself to be his nephew while visiting the town just a day before.) confesses to the murders. Morfin is sentenced to life in Azkaban. Tom advertently takes over as head of the family.

After Hogwarts : After graduating in 1945, he spends some time in Albania for reasons unknown. Upon his return he applied for DADA teaching post but was turned down by head master Dippet because he was too young.

Got a job at Borgin and Brukes on Knockturn Alley. His job was to ferret out items of value and obtain them at the lowest price possible.

After working at the shop for a couple years he suddenly leaves after a well known client is found dead in her home (official story: her senile house elf got confused and accidentally poised her tea) Tom meanwhile disappears for ten years

When he reemerges he once again applies for the DADA teaching post and is turned down the current head master, Dumbledore who was suspicious of Tom's intentions. (from then on the position was considered cursed)

"Sir? Why exactly do we need to know this? He seems like a nasty bloke and all but he's not in the book" A Slytherin girl asked.

Harry turned around and looked at the class "because something very interesting happens when you rearrange the letters in Mr. Riddles name" he turned back to the broad and flicked his wand to get the letters in the name to rearrange. Then there was a gasp from the class, the board read

I am Lord Voldemort

"There is a war going on out there class, and it is important to know your enemy in order to protect yourself."

Sirius looked ill "I can't believe I shined a trophy belonging to that dark tosser, I feel so…so…dirty."

"I'd like to take this opportunity to say that should any of you feel the need to vomit to please go to the closest lavatory now to do so." Only a couple students left the room.

Harry let the rest of the class digest the information they had just received. Harry noticed that the students in the class he knew to be Jr. death eaters wore a mask of neutrality not being able to decide whether they should just be shocked like the rest of the class or be outraged that their teacher was saying such things about their master. The students who had left to vomit sluggishly returned to their sets only to find that cups of mint tea had appeared once they sat down.

"I thought you two would like something to settle your stomachs. Now back to the leason…"

LATER

"I can't believe Voldemort is a half blood, what a hypocrite!" Lily almost shouted while on their way back to the common room.

"I still can't believe we shined that snake breath's trophy…I'm so unclean…so unclean…" Sirius still had yet to snap out of it.

James always said that Sirius' parents had screwed him up more than anything else ever could. And this was proof of it. He'd only seen his friend like this a few times and he was the only one who knew how to snap him out of it. "Hey Padfoot look at it this way, your parents worship a complete lie!"

"Your right. They do don't they?.. You think Harry is going to give the same lesson to the sixth years? I want Reggie to hear it"

"I don't know mate. I think it maybe to important for him not to teach the rest of the year's"

"true…hey how else is hungry? I could really go for a sandwich."

"There's the Padfoot we know and love!"

AFTER SCHOOL BACK AT HARRYS HOUSE

"So we've got meddling point no.1 down we can cross that off the list" Harry announced when he flopped down on the his couch.

Sirius, who was dosing on in the arm chair perked up "Really? Great! How did my counterpart take that kind of news any way?"

"You muttered something about feeling dirty when you figured out who's trophy you had been shining during all those detentions and then you kind of went catatonic for a little while"

"I thought as much"

"Your parents really messed you up didn't they?"

"O…that is an understatement. Anyway you taught that same lesson to the sixth years to right? I want my brother Regulus to hear…" He stopped midsentence.

"What? What wrong?"

"Nothing…I just got the overwhelming feeling of Déjà vu. That's all"

"Yeah well anyway don't worry about that he seemed just as overwhelmed by the new information as you were"

Ginny grabbed the pad of note parchment out of her husband's hand "Meddling point No.1 reveal to student body some of which are positional death eaters Voldemort's true Identity and blood status, Check" she read out loud as she crossed it out. "And you told them everything about Tom Riddle?"

"Everything but the Horcruxes, if word got back to him that some two bit school teacher knew about that things would not only get very nasty very quickly but it would raise to many questions about me and the rest of us"

"You added some more points to this didn't you?"

"I had some time before my first class…and during it"

"So…what's next? Keeping Snivilus from going over to the dark side?"

"Be nice…and that's exactly right. Which also means that I'm going to have to somehow get the marauders to leave him alone for the rest of the year, it was mostly is thirst for knowledge and his interest in the dark arts but a good one third of it was you guys making him feel weak. It was also the power He was attracted to."

"Guilt trip much?" Sirius asked his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Anyway Ithink it would be a good way for him and my mum on good terms again and then maybe the rest of you lot can begin to tolerate him, though I won't hold my breath on that last one. But I just need some dirt on them so I can black mail them into it."

"Harry, come on. We have tons of black mail material on them"

"I'm not just talking about stuff like pranks and the marauders map, and there is no way in hell I'm black mailing them on being animalgi or about Moony's fury little problem it just feels like sacrilege you know?"

"I wasn't thinking about those things. I was thinking about something we used to do every month or so. Something so bad that we never even told your mum about it. Something that would have gotten us expelled for sure. But it's a good thing that the professor who caught us was cool about it…hint…hint" Sirius Waggled his dark eyebrows a bit.

"Harry leaned in "okay I'm listening"