I'm back! It's Christmas break so I should be able to write more! I hope you all like this chapter, I have a ton outlined, like up to fifty. Please leave a review, I live off of them, and you wouldn't want me to starve would you! Anyways, on to the good stuff.
I was feeling more confident and starting to get comfortable at the school. Classes continued and I continued to excel, for the first time in Hogwarts history Gryffindor and Slytherin were having hardly any issues. Most of Slytherin at least respected me, even if they didn't follow me, so they listened when I made it clear we weren't to fight with the opposing house. We were above all of these ridiculous school politics and rivalries.
It was a Thursday morning, and I was sitting next to Draco, eating toast and reading the paper from that day. Harry and his two little followers walked past our bench, up towards where the instructors were sitting. Just as he walked by I felt the dark mark on my arm flare up in pain, and a pounding headache hammering against my skull. At the same time Potter let out a little groan and clutched his scar on his forehead. He turned and looked at me immediately, our eyes met, and his flashed something like realization.
"Shit." I mumbled under my breath. With coaxing from Hermoine and an unintelligent comment from Ron. "I'm pretty sure Harry finally figured out that I do have relation to Voldemort." I mumbled to my friend. Draco's eyebrows rose, he wasn't near as concerned as I was. "You do realize that this means Dumbledore is going to find out. Once that happens I'll be sent to Azkaban, or at the very least expelled!"
"Calm down, did you and your dad not have a contingency plan?" He asked. "You all should have known you would get found out." I took a deep breath. I'm sure that my dad did know that, however he didn't give me any advice as to how to handle it. "Rylah, you got an invitation to attend, they know that you exist, what they don't know is that you have any contact with the Dark Lord."
Oh, oh, he was right. It would be easy for me to just use plausible deniability. The letter didn't have an address on it like most, they didn't know where I was at, just that I was alive. I very well could've been staying with some wealthy pure blood family. "This is why you're my favorite!" I whisper shouted at my friend. I looked back up to where Harry was talking to Dumbledore frantically. The Headmaster and I made eye contact and I smiled at him, feigning innocence. I knew it wouldn't be long before I got a letter in the mail asking for me to go to his office.
Sure enough I was just walking into my first class whenever Professor Flitwick caught me. "Miss Riddle, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you in his office." He squeaked from his perch on the desk. "Immediately, you will be excused from class." There was something off about his voice, and all the other students that were filing in stopped and mumbled. I sighed, arranging my books in my arms and turned around. The statue that turned into the stairs leading to his office was halfway across the castle.
As I was walking Snape joined me by my side, and I stood up straight. "We have a plan for if something goes wrong." He whispered in my ear. "If things start to go south, kill Dumbledore and jump off of the first window you can find. From there me and Draco will make sure you get out, Potter's father and friends used these secret passages, one of them leads off campus." I held up my hand, silencing him.
"Severus, thank you, but I will be fine." He didn't look convinced, he may answer to me, but he was still like a second father. "I can handle this, this is what you and Father and Bella have been preparing me for my whole life." I said confidently. Severus sighed and clutched the bridge of his nose. He tapped his wand against the statue and it began to rise revealing stairs. I hopped on, before it got too far up so I didn't have to climb. Shaking I took a deep breath, I could do this, I was Tom Riddle's daughter, I could outsmart anyone.
"Welcome, Rylah, please sit." The Headmaster said, and gestured towards the chair in front of his desk. "Don't worry, I'm not accusing you of anything, I just want to figure out what exactly is going on here." Hesitantly, I sat down in front of him. Trying not to look too worried, but not overly confident either. "When I first saw your last name I wondered, and well after talking to Mr. Potter, I thought it was time we talk."
"Of course Professor." I said respectfully.
"I'm sure your aware of Lord Voldemort, and the cold war we are currently locked in with his followers." He said, it wasn't really a question. "What you may not know is that Voldemort's real name is Tom Riddle. I find it no accident that you share the same last name, I believe you are of relation to him." He stopped, looking at me pointedly.
"I-I suppose I am, but I've never met him once." I said as convincingly as I could muster. "I bounced from pure blood family to pure blood family." I explained. "I was told when my mother took me to my father that she was killed immediately and that V- He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named wanted me put to death too." Mustering fake tears, I began to tell partial truth after partial truth. "It was Snape who took pity on me as an infant, and sent me to the Goyle's at first."
Dumbledore looked at me suspiciously. "Harry had a unique scar that he received from your father, it acts up whenever he is around one of his followers, and gets even more painful when around Riddle." Shit, he didn't believe me. "I hope you take no offense to this, but I must make sure that my students are safe first and foremost. So I hope that you will get to know Harry, I think you two would do good to get along. He will also be a better judge of your intentions than I."
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at him. Harry and his stupid little friends were already getting on my nerves, now I was expected to spend even more time with him. "Of course, I'd love to get to know the famous Harry Potter, the boy who lived!" I said with a smile. "I promise you that you won't find anything against me, I simply want to learn magic, and make friends."
Fire flowed through my veins as I left the Headmaster's office. The slimy little Gryffindors were going to burn, and I couldn't wait to watch. "How did the meeting go?" Draco asked me, when we met up in the halls. There was a small break between morning classes. "Clearly you aren't in Azkaban, but what about getting expelled?"
"Not yet." I sighed. "However, I do have to make friends with Potter." I spat out. "Apparently he's going to decide what my true intentions are." Draco chuckled at me. "It's not funny, Malfoy!" I snapped. "This isn't going to end well for me." I grumbled. Just as I said that I saw the devil himself walking up. He seemed just as happy as I was.
It was during the afternoon break when things really began to fall apart. "You Slytherin's really think that you are stronger than us?" It was Ron. Me, Draco, Ron, Hermoine, and Harry had all been studying together.
"Not stronger smarter." Snarled Malfoy. "Bloody hell Weasley you're just proving our point!" He snapped.
"You all are acting like children." Hermoine said and rolled her eyes.
I glared at her. "There's certainly a way that we can prove this." I said calmly. Harry gave me a dark look. "It's not exactly allowed, but it's more structured than getting in a fight here in the courtyard. What about a duel, tonight, right after dinner, in the room of requirement?" I offered.
"You all are going to regret this!" Ron said. Hermoine looked absolutely appalled.
"No, no way." I was surprised to hear that from Potter. From what I heard he was usually up to these things.
"Fine, we'll do it out here then." Draco said. Before I could stop anyone, my friend cast a curse that Potter blocked and hit Ron with. Before Harry could retaliate I cast a curse the boy who lived.
"Expelliarmus!" I shouted. It was a strong spell that not only disarmed Potter, but also knocked him off of his feet. "Everyone enough!" I shouted and pointed my wand at Hermoine who was getting ready to cast at me. "Sit back down mudblood." I snarled out. "You all are acting ridiculous!"
Snape and Mrs. McGonagall were swiftly making their way to our little group. We had gained the attention of everyone in the area. "What do you think you are doing?" Snape snapped at us. "Ten points from Gryffindor and Slytherin!" Snape announced, me and Draco rolled our eyes. However, Harry and his friends looked terrified.
"Detention for all of you!" Severus's fellow professor said. I tensed up at that, Father was not going to be happy about that at all.