Remus...er Professor Lupin and I did quite a bit of walking. I was happy that he didn't lift his leg to have a pee during our walk. That would have been awkward. I didn't see us slowing down until we reached the school. When we did finally slow down it was in front of a castle. I'm not kidding either. The most lovely castle stood in front of us. Was this the school?

Professor Lupin stepped up to the gate in front of us. He retrieved his wand from his pocket. I reached for mine, but his hand went directly to mine to stop me. He tapped it twice on the gate and it slowly opened. I had such a magical feeling fill me as it opened.

Professor Lupin motioned for me to go through the gate. I sighed and went through. I knew only one thing. My world was about to change a lot more than it already had.

"Professor Lupin!" The head master greeted happily. "I was not expecting to see you back so soon." He said questioningly. "But I'm happy to see you took it into your hands to bring Miss Riddle." He said as he turned to face me.

"Hello Sir," I said politely. "I need to..."

"Be sorted. Of course my dear. That will be an unusal ceremony not quite like everyone elses, but it still has to take place." Professor Dumbledore grinned.

"I'll be in my room." Professor Lupin excused himself quickly.

I was about to stop him. Sirius! We had to talk about him. He had to know that he might not have taking part in any of those crimes! I hated leaving Sirius. I knew deep down that Sirius would never have left me behind, not if he had a choice.

As I followed Professor Dumbledore up staircases I became annoyed. Who would have known how annoying magic could be? The staircase kept moving on us!

"Lemon drops." Professor Dumbledore said when we reached a statue of goblins.

"Lemon drops?" I repeated.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a treat. He held it out for me to taste.

"You're going to eat something Bellatrix gives you? I know you have seen her plenty, but who knows what she's giving you. Honestly, Maybaleen! Don't be so stupid!"

"Ah...No thanks. I don't like lemons." I told him nervously.

He popped the candy into his mouth and headed upstairs. He really seemed to enjoy the candy. I had to stop denying myself treats! I followed him quickly.

We entered a room quickly. "Pheonix..." He said to a bright colored bird.

"Nadeen!" I exclaimed. I hadn't seen her in days. I suddenly became very worried. She was my first pet!

"Mr Potter took care of bringing her here." Professor Dumbledore informed me. "Now the sorting. This is our hat. Typically it would sing a song to all of the first years. Unfortunately you weren't here for the traditional ceremony so your sorting will be quick." He told me before explaining the four houses to me like my father had.

A hat would have sang to me? I didn't get a chance to say anything about that, because the hat was immediately placed on top of my head.

"What if I don't fit into any of the..."

"Interesting one...Maybaleen eh? Hahaha. Riddle? Really? Do you think so? I'm not convinced. How much do you know? I wonder. I wish I could sit on your head and watch what happens throughout your school years. You're shy when you first meet someone I can tell, especially a hat. You definitely have your mother's intelligence. There's your father's bravery though. Hmm...Slytherin definitely wouldn't fit you. Wait maybe it would...

My sorting would be quick would it? I wanted to take the hat off after ten minutes of listening to why I would be good in each house. That was fourty minutes of listening to all the houses! Even Professor Dumbledore was yawning as it continued.

Finally the hat shouted out, "SLYTHERIN!"

I took the hat off and threw it. "Sorry, but I was getting tired of him ranting." I said to the head master.

After picking up the ruffled hat and setting it on his desk, the head master led me to my common room. He explained that there were portraits, which would talk to me, how you weren't allowed out of your common room after curphew, how boys couldn't enter the girl's dormitory, and so on. I tried to listen to everything he said, but I was so tired.

I said the password, snakes, and was immediately allowed into my commonroom.

Draco Malfoy was the first person who noticed me. A grin flashed across his face. He ran up to me, which left a girl huffing behind him in jealousy.

"May...I mean Maybaleen." Draco said my full name apologetically. "You're a Slytherin!" He exclaimed. "Er...what's with that robe?" He asked in disgust as he saw the lion stitched into the chest of my robe.

I looked down at the robe. The lion had been the only thing I liked about this robe. "I like lions. I like animals." I explained as though that was good enough.

"Then get a robe with a snake on it." The girl said with her nose up in the air. "I'm Pansy Parkinson." She mentioned.

"I'm Maybaleen. I don't like snakes. Sorry." I told her before turning to Draco, who was staring at me open mouthed.

"You don't like snakes? You're Voldemort's daughter. You're a Slytherin. You don't like snakes?" Draco repeated his first question.

I shook my head quickly. "I can talk to snakes though." I informed him before I looked at one of the clocks in the common room. "It's a couple hours from curphew. I think I will take a walk around, check this place out." I told them, well more Draco, but Pansy was there listening.

"Would you mind a fellow Slytherin showing you around?" Draco asked hopefully.

I would have rathered Harry show me around. I really wanted to talk to him, but I was seperated into a different house. He had a different common room. Unless I bumped into him in this huge castle then I wouldn't be talking to him.

"Fine," I answered, a bit pesimistically. I wanted nothing to do with this Draco boy. I followed him out though.

The long robe I wore swept behind me as we exited the portrait. I ran right into my half brother or full brother or... I wanted to speak. I tried to speak, but all I could possibly do was stare at him.

"Slytherin?" He asked. I almost said that I was sorry, but he shrugged his shoulders. "We should talk later." He told me when Draco came out behind me. "Later." Harry said before walking off at a speedy pace.

I turned to Draco. He smiled at me. It was the first true smile I saw on his face. "My dad works with yours. We could make great friends." Draco informed me. "I know I'm three years older than you, but that only means I have so much to teach you." He smiled at me again.

I leaned in close to him. I knew the rumours going around about Father, even if I didn't know if they were true. "I have eleven years experience with a murderer. I don't need you." I whispered to him in hopes of scaring him off.

Draco didn't scatter though. He stayed by my side. "Are you hungry?" He asked.

I was hungry. I hadn't ate anything since the two bites of granolla bar Sirius gave me. I pretty much threatened this boy seconds before. There was no way I was eating anything from him.

"No thanks." I answered him simply.

"Maybaleen!" Ginny's cheerful voice suddenly exclaimed. "I was wondering if you'd be coming to Hogwarts. No one would tell us anything! Hey, why are you hanging with Malfoy?" She asked in confusion when she noticed him.

"He can't take a hint." I answered, not worried about upsetting Malfoy. "Honestly, Draco, go back to snogging your girlfriend." I laughed at him.

"Girlfriend?" He asked appauled.

"Patty...or wait, Paula was it? I don't know. Something like that." I told him before Ginny grabbed my arm and walked off with me in giggles.

I soon learned that Ginny had a big mouth. She was showing me every which way and explained everything in Hogwarts from top to bottom.

"These are fountains obviously. I wouldn't drink out of them. I mean, Malfoy has likely drank out of them. I don't want my mouth anywhere near something his mouth has been close to." We both laughed at that comment. "This is the entrance to the Gryffindor common room. I'm sure you'll be sorted here so the password is..."

"Ten points from Gryffindor for considering giving someone this password who might not have been sorted." Came Professor Snape's cold voice. He then turned to me and said, "welcome to Slytherin, Miss Riddle."

Ginny's mouth shook. It almost fell open, but she held herself together. She couldn't let Professor Snape see the shocked expression that nearly covered her face.

"I'm your head of house. I want no foolishness. You're in my house and I will expect the best from you, Miss Riddle. If there's something you need to know I expect you to come to me."

I didn't like how Severus was speaking to me. He worked for my father. If I went to the head master I could ruin his whole career here and if I went to my father I could apparently have him killed. I was half tempted to do just that.

"Understood?" He asked.

"Understood." I smiled in away that would tell any intelligent person that I really didn't give a damn.

I watched him look down at me. His breathing slowed down. Maybe he did have some intelligence. He didn't mess with me anymore that minute. He simply said very well to each of us and walked away.

"You scare everyone!" Ginny clapped her hands together in excitement. "You're in Slytherin. Does that mean we can't talk?"

"You'll have to tell me that." I said as I looked around the hallway. "I don't know anything about this house or school thing." I told her.

"Typically Slytherins and Gryffindors don't get along." Ginny said and shrugged her shoulders. "We can change that though." She offered hopefully.

"Your mother won't like that." I reminded her.

Ginny shook her head. "No...probably not. She'll get over it though. I mean it would be pretty unfair if we didn't give you a chance. You might be You-know-who's daughter, but you're Maybaleen too."

And Lily Potter's daughter. I thought to myself, but didn't let her know this information. It was too much on me right now. How would she possibly react to it? I couldn't lose her. She was my first real friend. Sirius was apparently my God father. I loved my owl, but she was a pet not a human. Ginny was a fellow witch. Someone who cared to talk to me and hopefully get to know me when we actually managed to sit down and talk.

"So you're really his daughter?" She asked. Apparently we didn't have to sit down. She got straight to the point as soon as she thought the idle small talk had been enough.

I shrugged my shoulders unsurely.

"I'm sorry. I don't mean to intrude. It just amazes me. He has a daughter nobody knew about! Will you tell me what it was like being raised by him?" Ginny asked curiously.

"He was a father figure." I answered, unsure how else to answer her question.

"Was he nice to you? Do you love him? Did he do special things with you like a Dad does?" She wasn't snoopy. She was only curious and I guess I couldn't blame her.

"He calls me precious. He bought me a swing set. We always spent time together. He seemed to care about me until..." I trailed off when I became nervous.

"Until what?" She asked practically jumping out of her shoes.

"Until I was accepted at Hogwarts. Everything changed then. He never told me I was a witch. He never said anything about this world. I guess I wasn't raised exactly normally, but yes, I love my father." I answered her question from earlier.

"Wow..." Was all Ginny managed to say.

I couldn't think of anything to say to that. I looked at my feet. She was obviously amazed by me. Did she still want to be friends? Maybe Draco would be the one to hang out with, even though I wasn't interested in getting to know him at all.

"I'm tired." I told her after a minute of silence.

"Oh," She said nervously. "Umm...Okay. If you need someone I'll be up for awhile. Good night." She said before I walked back to the Slytherin common room. On my way there I heard Ron and Harry talking. I hid behind a wall and listened.

"Why are you so interested in her?" I recognized Ron's voice. "Are you going to date your enemies daughter?" He laughed.

I gasped. Date me? Date me? I was his sister or half sister! We couldn't date. Was Harry interested in me? Oh Merlin. What could possibly happen next?