An – I'm sorry I haven't updated but I've had really bad writers block and my exams are still going on. I'm not pleased with this chapter really. Also I was contemplating changing the prologue of the story but I'm not sure yet, what do you think? Anyway, on with this very late chapter.

Brother?

No one spoke, no one did anything except stare for a minute. Tom looked as if he she had just told him he had two heads. Zarian was the only one who looked untroubled at the information but regarded Anya's expression carefully.

"Riddle?" Tom asked as though seeking some sort of conformation.

"Yes, name from my father." Anya replied regarding him and his reactions. He did look like her father or what she imagined her father to have looked like at his age, but how could he be here?

Tom didn't reply. This was impossible how could this girl have the same name as him, he was an orphan, no father and no mother just the name Tom Marvolo Riddle.

"Anya? Did your father ever mention…" Naria began with a puzzled look on her face, looking back and forth between the two Riddles.

"No." Anya said shortly. "What's your father's name?"

"Well they told me that it was Tom but I never met him." Tom replied.

"Oh" Anya said nothing else; this was too weird to her. Surely her mother wouldn't have left if she knew she was pregnant, no she wouldn't have. Yet how come she never came back?

"That's the name of my father too. Weird isn't it?" Anya said offhandedly. Everyone looked at her as if she had lost her mind. What did they expect her to do? Get all emotional at this boy? No, that was not going to happen.

"Yes…weird" Tom agreed sitting down opposite her again and looking out the window. Naria was looking at him and Anya with an expression of shock but also of amusement. Well he wasn't going to get all emotional, he never did.

Zarian smirked at the two of them. How alike they were, neither was very sentimental, well this ought to be interesting…

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Anya regarded her knew found brother he was as arrogant as her father she noticed; no doubt he'll be Slytherin she thought. Oh Merlin how many people are going to work it out, did she want them to? Did it matter?

They were nearing the station now and the boys left the compartment so the girls could get changed. Once Tom was out of the room Naria pounced.

"Oh Merlin! A brother Anya do you know what this means?"

"No should i?" replied Anya looking a little warily at her friend.

"Well now you might be able to find out more about your mother, and why she left." Naria replied as if it was the most obvious thing ever.

"Oh yeah." Anya stated apparently not that bothered. Whereas inside her mind was screaming, this was her chance she would know what happened to her mother and maybe she could even meet her. Hang-on! A part of her mind screamed back, do you want to? She left after all, what did she owe her mother by finding her? Anything?

""oh yeah" Anya don't you want to find her?" Naria replied shocked at her best friends laid back attitude.

"Well yes…and no" Anya paused trying to find the words. "She left Naria, what do I owe her exactly…what if she doesn't want to see me?"

Naria put an arm around her friend but soon dropped it, Anya didn't like to be cuddled or comforted. "But surely you want to know your brother?

"I don't know…I suppose so…I never really expected to have a sibling and especially not to meet him on a train to Hogwarts…talk about fate." She laughed and so did Naria, glad to have at least some of her old friend back.

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Anya pointed Tom in the direction of the boat house and then made her way up to the school with her friends.

"So a brother Anya, that was unexpected." Zarian said as they rode in the carriage together.

"You're telling me. Not something you discover everyday is it?" she replied laughing slightly. "What do you think of him?"

"No I suppose not. I'll bet he'll be put in Slytherin he seems to have all the characteristics." Zarian replied smirking slightly.

He hadn't answered the question directly but anyone who's worthy enough to be put in Slytherin was alright to Zarian. Anya smiled at him. Zarian smiled back ruffling her hair to annoy her. "Hey!" she mumbled and lightly punched him on the shoulder. They held each others gaze for a second before…

"Hey, were almost there!" Naria's voice called out breaking the moment. Anya blushed slightly and turned away from Zarian.

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As they suspected Tom was put into Slytherin even before the hat touched his head. He seemed to fit in reasonably well though he seemed to keep to himself and only spoke to answer someone. When he caught Anya's gaze she smiled at him slightly which he replied by nodding his head.

Dumbledore regarded Tom Riddle from his seat on the platform. He seemed to be getting on alright with the others in his house but he would keep an eye on him, and especially his sister. He had made the connection almost immediately they were very alike in nature and that gave him a strange feeling, this could prove to be a positive but also a negative effect on the boy.

"Do you think they know?" Professor Dippet asked his friend beside him.

"It's hard to say professor. I'm sure it will not be long though, we may have a problem when they do."

"Hmmm, they seem good students, I'm sure there will not be a problem."

Dumbledore merely nodded his head and returned his gaze on the siblings just wishing he could believe that.