Chapter Three: Early Childhood

November 3rd, 1933: The Orphanage

"Sarah, come and look what I can do!" The young boy screamed in joy. Sarah heard this from where she sat at her dirt covered bed and set down her newspaper to go and inspect. When she got into the other room, she saw that her good friend, Tommy, had lifted himself somehow off the ground and was floating in the air.

"Cool!" She said in joy. "I bet I can do that too!" She instantly felt herself getting really light and in no time, she was doing the exact same thing. They begin to roll around in the air, laughing and playing with each other. The other children in the orphanage heard their laughter and followed it to the room, wondering what was going on. They looked on at Sarah and Tommy, two six year olds who were floating a good three feet off the ground, and their jaws dropped.

"Mrs. Cole!" A young girl named Amy Benson screamed from where she stood next to her friend Dennis Bishop. Instantly, Tommy and Sarah dropped from the air and landed on their butts.

"Oof." Sarah said and began to giggle. "That was fun!" Tommy laughed with her. The other kids looked utterly shocked and were scowling. Mrs. Cole came running into the room to see what the matter was.

"Sarah and Tommy were floating!" Dennis pointed his finger at them. Amy huffed in annoyance and crossed her arms across her chest. Tommy looked on at Mrs. Cole, trying to see if they were going to get yelled at again. Somehow he and Sarah always found a way to get yelled at all the time.

"Dennis, it is impossible to float!" She said as she stormed out of the room, angry that she had been disrupted.

"But, Mrs. Cole, we saw them!" Amy said as she and Dennis began to follow her down the hallway explaining what had happened. She stopped in her tracks and turned around to the two children. One had straight red hair down to the middle of her back and the other had short mousy brown hair.

"You two need to stop lying. The next time you lie to me, you will be punished. Do you hear?" She crossed her arms in front of her chest. Amy and Dennis looked confused as they hadn't lied, but nodded their heads anyway and walked away towards Tommy and Sarah.

Sarah was busy playing patty-cake with Tommy when they walked back into the room.

"You guys are freaks!" Amy said as she stormed back out of the room. Sarah looked at Tommy sadly and they both stood from where they were sitting on the floor.

"Its okay, Sarah. I don't think we are freaks." He grasped her hand and led her back into the bedroom they shared.

"I don't either, Tommy." They sat down together and took turns reading the newspaper together, as it was the only thing available for them to read and they both loved it.

September 19th, 1936: Averly School

Sarah sat at her desk, next to her closest friend, Tommy with her hand raised. She had long bushy brown hair that curled in all direction and shook madly when she raised her hand. Tommy called it her lion's mane. She used to get upset, but now, it was her nickname.

"Does anyone know the answer to my question?" The tall thin man with the pig nose and thick rimmed glasses asked. Sarah's hand continued to wave not even three feet from his face.

"Oh well, then. All of you will stay after school to learn your multiplication tables." He grabbed the pointing stick from the chalkboard and went over to the map. Sarah sat at her desk with her head in her arms, crying. Tommy saw this and got very angry. He stood out of his seat and yelled.

"Mr. Johnson, Sarah had her hand raised and you ignored her!" Tommy's face was immediately red. Mr. Johnson looked at him and immediately walked over to him. He took Tommy by the ear.

"Mr. Riddle, you know the consequences for disrupting class!" Sarah sat at her desk, tears staining her cheeks, horrified that Tommy was being dragged away to the principal's office. She knew that naughty boys always got ten lashes. She didn't want Tommy to get hurt.

"Let him go!" She wailed to Mr. Johnson and he stopped in his tracks. The rest of the class was watching on in amusement as the two rejects in the school got into more and more trouble.

"And what will you do if I don't, Miss Martin. I warn you as to what you say, you already have found yourself in trouble." He still was holding Tommy's ear in between his fingers. Sarah placed her arms across her chest and glared at him.

Tommy looked on in awe as Mr. Johnson's hugely rimmed glasses sprouted wings and began to flap. Mr. Johnson was floating above the floor, repeatedly hitting his head against the ceiling of the classroom. Tommy began to laugh, along with Sarah, as the rest of the class sat with their mouths wide open. Nobody knew how it was happening.

Mr. Johnson had a look of utmost fear on his face. Teachers down the hallway heard the racket and came in to inspect the happenings of room number twelve. When they looked through the glass of the door to see the teacher floating and two students laughing, while the rest were too stunned to do anything, they barged into the room.

Mr. Johnson immediately stopped moving and fell to the ground. Sarah and Tommy went over to each other and stifled their laughter as the teachers began to approach them. They were lead out of the classroom to the principal's office together, where they awaited Mrs. Cole to arrive.

"Tom Riddle, Sarah Martin, what is the meaning of this!" She screamed as she entered the room. Tommy and Sarah both bowed their head ashamedly. Mrs. Cole took a seat and listened as the school's principal had no choice but to expel them both. She took each of their hands and led them out of the room. She brought them silently out to the car where she drove them back to the orphanage.

"We're sorry, Mrs. Cole." Tommy said, still holding onto Sarah's hand.

"You do realize that you won't be able to go to school anymore. That is the second school you have been kicked out. Why can't you just behave yourselves?" She sighed in defeat. Somehow, those two always found a way to wreak havoc no matter where they were, and it wasn't normal children havoc; it was the sort that caused people to fly, hair to change colors, and animals to shrink.

Tommy and Sarah's favorite thing in the entire world was learning so when they heard this, they began to cry loudly. Mrs. Cole left them to their room, knowing that she could punish them no more than they were punishing themselves at the moment.

"It's okay Lioness, we can teach ourselves how to be smart." Tommy offered as he hugged his best friend. She smiled sadly at him. They spent the rest of the day, reading the newspaper, as they had always done since they were very young.

AN: It is indeed a strange idea, but you will soon find that Voldemort and "Hermione" develop a relationship.