Tom had suspected someone was watching him while he was eating and looked up and saw Albus Potter, the boy on the train. For some strange reason, when Tom thought of any of the Potters or their friends his head had started to hurt as if it had something against them. Tom wanted to know why he was staring at him so much. He tried to quickly avoid Malfoy and followed the prefects to the dungeons. The password was 'introeo' which was Latin for enter.
Tom had hurried into the common room and saw that they were under water. He rushed to find his bed and didn't stop to even sit down on the couches which looked comfy to sit down on and saw that plenty of first years had accommodated themselves to them. Tom found a bed and a set of Slytherin robes neatly folded. He quickly undressed and changed into the Slytherin robes, as he quickly put his tie on he looked in his trunk for anything he was missing and found his wand. Tom didn't know anything about his life. Tom sat on his four poster bed and thought. He never knew his parents, or where all the gold from Gringotts (The Wizarding bank) came from, or where he bought his wand, it was passed down from his family but sadly didn't know any one, he had wondered what the sorting hat had meant. Why did it put me in Slytherin? He thought. As he was silently creeping out of the common room and had made his way out the door and into the hallway. He rushed up the stairs and sprinted to where he saw the Gryffindor prefects leading the first years.
Tom was nearly there when he saw a portrait of an extremely large lady. That's strange. He thought this is where the prefects had lead the Gryffindors up to. After a while Tom realized that this was the Gryffindor common room, this Fat Lady was the entrance to it. He had suddenly been filled with tons of knowledge about Hogwarts and frowned, that never happened before Tom didn't think he could have any knowledge about the passage ways and history of Hogwarts. Tom then saw the portrait open and the Fat Lady had grumbled, waking up. Tom silently crouched at the side of the staircase and hoped that the person who came out was not a prefect. But it wasn't. The person who came out was a boy, in fact the boy was dressed in Gryffindor robes and had his wand out, the boy was Albus Potter. Tom was surprised and nervous, what should I do? He thought.
Just then, Tom must've been the most stupid child ever because he stood up and sidestepped so Albus could see him clearly and see who he was.
"Wha-What are you doing here?!" Stuttered Albus.
"Well I wondered why you were staring at me at dinner, you looked as if you were about to puke when I was sorted. Listen, I never wanted to be in Slytherin, and now everyone knows who I am the Slytherins are all worshipping me as if I'm some type of Wizarding God. Even the older ones!" Tom croaked. Albus seemed taken aback by this.
"You- you, don't know?" Albus replied. Tom wanted to scream at him and say he didn't know anything but he just simply nodded.
"Well, you look just like him," He said. "Tom Marvolo Riddle. Or Lord Voldemort, Salazar Slytherin was one of his ancestors. The founder of Slytherin. He killed millions of people and my dad killed him. In my dad's second year at Hogwarts there was a problem with this place underground called the Chamber of secrets and Tom Riddle was a memory petrifying people with this giant basilisk he had and almost killed my mum. In my dads fourth year he came back in a body form, not just a memory or possessing someone. He then started trying to take over Hogwarts and almost did, but as I said my dad killed him. After he died my dad spread his story and everyone knew what he looked like, his real name, who he really was, basically his whole life since one of the headmasters and my dad looked at Voldemort's life in a Pensieve, this sort of basin you can view peoples memories in. I guess every ones sorta shocked that Dumbledore let you in since you're a perfect look alike to him, especially the teachers, I don't know how their gonna treat you but my guess is the Slytherins are scared that Pensieve back and you might summon him to kill everyone. But I guess tons of their parents are Death Eaters who were the followers of Voldemort. People say that someone else is controlling all them, that's why there are a ton of mysterious deaths. But, yeah, that's all I know." Albus finished and had looked at Tom as if he would lash out at him. Tom gulped and paused before speaking.
"Oh, okay. Well, thanks Albus." Tom said quietly. Tom wanted to know more about this Voldemort.
"Hey, It's fine. You'll still be able to get on with everything." Albus comforted.
"Yeah. Thanks again Albus, I'll see you tomorrow maybe." Tom started to walk away but decided not to. He turned around and saw Albus still staring at him.
"Hey Tom, if your in a class with her, could you take care of Rose please? I'm worried about her." Albus said.
"Yeah sure, by the way you might want to watch out for Scorpius, he told me he was going to try and get you in trouble." Tom smirked at Scorpius's stupidness, why would he tell him that? He wondered.
"Thanks Tom, anyway we both gotta go, we'll both be in trouble if Filch sees us." Albus replied smiling, Tom knew that Filch would probably make up some story about Albus and him meeting in the middle of the night. Especially since they were in sight. Tom waved at Albus and as he ran down the stairs, careful not to make a sound in his shoes, he had escaped and looked behind him to see that Albus had scanned the area and had given him a thumbs up that Filch was no where to be seen, Tom nodded and sprinted to the common room.
"Voldemorts." He whispered. The door had opened and Tom walked through the common room and strode into the boys dormitory, he saw Scorpius sleeping peacefully and grinning, probably thinking about getting Albus in trouble. There was no point in sleeping now. He thought, Tom took out his notebook and quill then found a table to rest on, he slowly started writing. Tom didn't know why he was writing, it was just like all of Tom's feelings were bottled up, then finally let out. So, he just thought it would be his diary. Tom took his ink, quill and the letter and carefully rested the quill and ink inside a bag to keep safe, he then stuffed the notebook in his trunk and glanced down at his watch, 6:30 it said. Tom walked out of the dormitory and saw that some girls had walked out waving at Tom, he waved back and smiled. Some first years were gazing out side the water tank at the fishes swimming around and Tom shivered, the warm green glow in the bursting into the room. Tom didn't know why but felt danger. He shook it of and exited the common room. Students were walking around on the stairs and hallways, Tom bolted up the stairs and streaked across the hallway he then entered the great hall and ran over to the Gryffindor table. He tapped Albus on the shoulder and he whipped his head around, Lupin and James also looking at him in a disgusted way.
"You haven't told them about yesterday, have you." He whispered. Noticing his brother and Lupin. Albus's eyes widened and he shook his head.
"Could you tell them so they don't look like that at me for the rest of my life?" He asked. Albus nodded and turned around at James and Lupin and started talking to them about the events of yesterday. Meanwhile Tom looked over at the Ravenclaw table and saw The twins, Lucy and Rose talking together, they all looked happy enough. Tom gave a last look at Albus, James and Lupin and headed of to the Slytherin table.
"Oi! Tom, how are you!" Scorpius shouted. As Tom sat down he saw Albus glancing at them.
"I'm fine Scorpius, how are you?"
"Great," Malfoy's voice dropping to a whisper. "Can't wait to get Potter in detention." As he smirked, he took a parchment and it had squiggly writing jotted down. Tom craned his neck to see what it was.
"It's my plan," Malfoy said deviously. "I'm going to make Peeves, the ghost, set up a trap for little Potter. Basically, Peeves is going to set up a Dungbomb and he's going to lure Potter in, then he's going to get in trouble because Filch is also going to come and Potter might even lose some points from Gryffindor. So then they'll get negative points!" Malfoy was chuckling now and his goons, Davos Golgomath and Bane Gudgeon and thought it was the most funniest thing ever. Tom tried to laugh as well but was chocking on his bread that he had just stuffed in his mouth.
"Yeah, great." Tom said.
"Anyway, you guys excited for classes to start so we can use our wands?" Tom said quickly changing the subject.
"Yes! I bet you I'll be able to duel Potter anytime soon! Plus, Quidditch try outs are starting and they finally let first years try it out, I want to get on the team so bad. My dad was Slytherins seeker when he came to Hogwarts, and Potters father was the Gryffindor one, the filthy Lucy Chang's mother was the Ravenclaw one. Then the Hufflepuff one was Cedric Diggory, the boy who died in the Triwizard Tournament." Tom shivered and felt guilty of the boy Cedric as if he knew who he was.
"Excuse me. May I have your attention! Anyone trying out for the Quidditch team please report to the Quidditch pitch! Gryffindors are in the morning, Slytherins next, then Hufflepuffs and finally Ravenclaws." Boomed the voice of Professor McGonagall. Scorpius's face then changed into a smile, Tom quickly looked down at his platter and took his bags to leave, after McGonagall handed out the timetable. They had Care of Magical Creatures first with the Ravenclaws. Phew, Tom thought I can see if Rose is okay. He thought. Rose and him were okay friends because they met on the train before he went in the compartment. As Tom left he thought if Albus would listen to his words and stay clear of Scorpius and Tom headed to his first lesson.