"Did you guys hear ?" said Hermione Granger, eager to say something that no one knew about.
"Hear about what ?" asked Ron.
"Didn't you guys hear about the new students coming to Hogwarts ?" she said.
Harry had his mind on something else for a moment, but when he heard about what she said, his attention was immediately on her.
"I didn't hear about new students." Said Harry.
"Do you people even know how important this is ?" said Hermione.
Harry and Ron looked at her curiously.
She sighs. "There are two new girls that are transferred to here from Illvermony, and they will be starting in the same year as us." She explains.
"And how is that important? What, do they have the Order of Merlin or something ?" said Ron sarcastically.
Harry saw that Ron was not taking this seriously. Hermione looked at Ron with a serious face, only after Hermione did that, did Ron think about it carefully.
"THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THE ORDER OF MERLIN ?!" he shouted. Hermione shushed him and told him to stop being so loud.
"The new students are…. Riddles." The boys' eyes widened. "As in… as in Tom Riddle ?" asked Harry. "According to my calculations, they were born a few days before he perished." She spoke.
"The death eaters must have influenced on them; they are probably as evil as You-Know-Who." Ron said.
"First 'ears! First 'ears ! o'er 'ear!" shouted Hagrid.
They get on the carriage and ride their way to Hogwarts.
"I heard that the Riddle twins won't be at the feast tonight." Hermione spoke, to break the silence.
"Of course, they won't be at the feast, they are too dangerous to be there with the other students." Ron rolled his eyes as he says that.
They stay quiet for the rest of the ride and sat at the Gryffindor table.
"Potter! Did you faint? Like you fainted?" asked Draco Malfoy.
Harry ignores him.
Draco scoffs and turns back to his friends.
As Harry and his friends were talking, it was time for Dumbledore's speech.
"SILENCE."
The hall went silent.
As the first years go into the Great Hall, some of the students start whispering to each other.
After the Sorting Hat sorted out all the first years, Harry notices the Professor that he met on the Hogwarts Express.
"I have a special announcement to make. We have new students that will be joining us in our third-year group."
Harry looks at Ron, and Ron did the same.
"Hermione was actually right!" Ron whispered.
"Their names are Shadow and Y/n Riddle. They are the daughters of Tom Riddle, who is more commonly known as Voldemort." Said Dumbledore calmly, enjoying the look of terror on the students faces.
"They are identical twins; you can recognize them by their eye colours. Shadow has red, and Y/n has black. They will not be joining this feast for personal reasons. We also have a new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, Remus Lupin! Now, let us enjoy our feast." He says, as a click of his finger, he makes the food magically appear on the tables.
As Ron chows down his food, and Harry eats a delightful portion, he hears the Gryffindors gossip about the new students.
"I heard they were ugly, and they were as crazy as You-Know-Who."
"I don't blame them, being born in that family is seriously unlucky."
"I heard they had big bushy hair, like Hagrid's,' and they are very stupid as well."
"That's just disgusting!"
"But still, we ought to stay away from them. They are dangerous, just like their father."
All of them nod.
After the feast, Dumbledore made a final announcement.
"Thank you for enjoying our feast and enjoy your good night sleep."
As they were preparing to leave the Great Hall with the prefects, the head boys,' and girls' interrupt. They whisper something in the prefects' ears that make Harrys' eyes narrow.
After that, they disappear, leaving the prefects explain to the younger students.
"Sorry for the wait. All students have changed dorms, they will stay with their same gender, with two people in each dorm. Your dorms will not be at your common rooms, and there is a chance you might be a dormmate with another house student. You will see your name on the dorm door. Only you will be able to see your own name. Now follow me, I will show you to your dorms."
-oOOo-
Harry tries to find his dorm, it felt like he was passing an endless corridor. After a while, he found his dorm, and when he went inside, he saw the most unexpected person.
"Malfoy?! You are going to be my dorm mate for the rest of the year?"
When Draco landed his eyes on Harry, he also felt the same thing.
"POTTER?! There is absolutely no way that I am going to stay with you for the rest of the year!"
Draco looks at him angrily.
Harry walks to the bed beside Draco, and notices his things are already on the bed.
He unpacks, when he finishes, he notices that Draco is reading a book on his bed.
"What book are you reading, Malfoy?" Harry asked curiously.
Draco notices that he was curious, but as the rich boy he was, he said: "Shut up Potter, mind your own business."
"I'm trying to be nice, Malfoy." said Harry.
"Hmph, I'm going to sleep." He said, as he turns off the lights and puts his book aside, wrapping himself in blankets.
Harry stares at the boy, and he also wraps himself in blankets, trying to sleep.
-oOOo-
The next morning, Harry wakes up to a sleeping Draco next to him. He gets ready, and when he was done, Draco was still not awake.
Harry sighs, as he uses his wand to nudge Draco awake.
"What do you want. Potter..." he said sleepily.
"Wake up, you'll be late."
"Shut up, and let me sleep..."
"I am saying this for your own good, Malfoy. Get up."
"Augh…fine." He says, sitting up straight. His hair was as messy as a bush run over by a train.
Draco gets up and gets ready. When he comes out of the washroom, looking like a completely different person, he notices Harry waiting for him.
"Why aren't you at the Great Hall eating with your friends?"
"I'm waiting for you."
Draco growls but says nothing about it.
As they enter the Great Hall, Draco goes to his friends, and Harry goes to his.
"What are you doing hanging out with Malfoy?" said Ron.
Hermione hits Ron on the head.
"Ouch...what was that for?"
Hermione glares at Ron and turns back to Harry.
"I am proud of you, Harry. Giving him a second chance." Said Hermoine, smiling at him.
"Hm…he doesn't seem to like it though." Says Harry.
"He might not act like it, but he's probably happy that you want to be his friend."
"You actually want him as a friend?" confronted Ron.
Hermione hits him on the head again.
"Everyone deserves a chance, Ronald!"
Ron rolls his eyes.
It was silent for the next few minutes, so to break the tension, Hermione talks about the new students.
"Don't you find it strange that Dumbledore would let the children of You-Know-Who to be in his school?" she asked.
"They probably used the Imperius Curse on him, those evil goblins." whispered Ron rudely.
"RONALD WEASLEY!" shouts Hermione.
"What? I am just saying the truth." He speaks.
"Alright, I think it's time for the both of you to calm down." Said Harry.
They both look at Harry with anger in their eyes.
"N-never mind." He says.
-oOOo-
Their first class was potions, and they had it with Slytherin this year. Harry was curious to see what the Riddle twins were like.
"Are you two excited to see the Riddles?" asked Hermione.
"And why would we be? Didn't you hear the Gryffindors? They are as ugly as Goblins! Why would we want to talk to ugly Goblins like- "Ron did not finish that sentence. As he stares at a table with two girls.
Hermione looked at him with confusion, as she also turns to look at the direction that he was looking, and she did the same as him.
Harry looked at both of them in disarray.
"What's wrong?" he asks.
"H-Harry. Look." she says.
He looks at the direction that both of them were looking at, and he saw two beautiful girls, glimmering in the light shown upon them.
"Who…what…who are they? What are they?" asked Ron.
Hermione smirks at him. "They are the Riddle twins, Ron."
"Bloody hell!" he says.
"Let's sit down, Ron." Harry said.
Hermione and Ron sit down to the table next to them, while Harry on the other hand, saw that Draco was sitting alone, so he sat next to him.
Draco realized this, but he did not stop him. After several moments passed, he finally asks: "What are you doing here, Potter?" he says this in a soft tone, and not how he usually speaks.
"I am just sitting here, Malfoy. If you want to leave, then do it."
Draco scoffs. "What do you mean leave, I'm the one who sat here first." He whispers under is his breath.
Potion class starts.
The class takes notes on the potions, but when Harry turned to glance at the Riddle twins, he saw one of them was not writing with their hand, but their quill was moving on its own.
"Miss Shadow, may I ask you to not use…wandless magic in class." Professor Snape asked.
Everyone in the class turned to Shadow Riddle. She had intimidating red eyes, and silky black hair; she looked at Professor Snape with no expression on her face. Professor Snape was a taken back from this and took a small step back.
"I don't see the reason of why I can't write with wandless magic, it doesn't interrupt my studying, nor does it do anything harmful." She said.
'Wandless magic? I never heard of that before.' Harry thought.
Professor Snape did not seem like he wanted to continue the conversation anymore, as he was trembling slightly with fear as Shadow continued to look at him with an expressionless face and those alarming red eyes. But no one realized, except Shadow and Y/n.
"I see…now, the Amortentia is a.." he said, ignoring the fact that he might have upset a Riddle.
-oOOo-
After class, Shadow and Y/n walk to the rooftop to eat lunch. Other students wanted to go to the rooftop as well, but when they saw who was eating there, they immediately scrambled.
Shadow did not usually show emotions, while Y/n showed too much. Shadow had a soft spot for Y/n because she is her sister.
"Shadow! Look! I am going to fall!" Y/n said, as she smiles at Shadow.
"You do realize I don't care if you die, don't you?" She said.
"Alright! See you!" Y/n said, as she jumps off the rooftop.
-oOOo-
When the class finished, Harry followed Draco.
"What do you want, Potter?" he said.
"I want to have lunch with you, Malfoy." Harry said, smiling at him.
"Whatever." Draco said, as he rolls his eyes.
They took a little walk, until Draco sees a fifth-year flirting with another.
He sticks out his tongue in disgust. "Ew. That is disgusting." He said.
"Maybe you're just jealous, Malfoy?" Harry said, teasing him.
"Even if I was jealous, I can't get a girl when I am this young."
"Maybe you should just ask them." He says, pointing to the fifth years.
"Oh, what do you expect me to do?" Draco said. Until he gets an idea. He flung his arm up to the sky, and his face was facing upwards as well, he closes his eyes. "Oh, God, please give me a girl for me to spend my life with." He says dramatically. Harry laughs.
After a few seconds, a girl fell into his arms from the sky. This girl was Y/n Riddle.
"Oh. Hello!" she said with a smile on her face, as she looks at Draco.
As Draco stares at her, blushing and in shock, Shadow slowly walks down the stairs and towards them.
"Forgive my sister, she tends to be…playful sometimes." She said.
"Playful? She just fell off the roof!" Harry said.
"On purpose." She continued. She looks at Draco and Y/n, still not moving an inch.
Harry comes closer to Shadow, and whispers in her ear: "Should we leave them?" He asked.
"We probably should." Shadow whispered back. They slowly move out of the scene.
"Um..." she said. Draco noticed what he was doing.
"O-oh! Sorry." He said as he releases his grip and Y/n stands up properly.
"Um…so, I'm Y/n. Y/n Riddle." She said, holding out her hand to shake his.
"Riddle? As in..." he shook her hand.
Y/n chuckles nervously. "Yeah, and you are?"
"Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." He said.
"Nice to meet you, Draco." She said.
-oOOo-
Harry and Shadow walk away from the scene, and they end up underneath the dark bridge. Harry notices that her red eyes glow in the dark.
Shadow looks at Harry.
"Sorry for dragging you under such a dark bridge." She said coldly and expressionless. The only thing that changed in those moments were her mouth opening and closing.
"It's' all right, you are…Shadow, right?"
"And you are Harry James Potter."
"You know my full name?"
"I know everything." She said.
After a few moments of silence, Y/n comes running to Shadow.
"SISTER! HOW DARE YOU LEAVE ME!" she shouted at Shadow playfully.
Shadow rolls her eyes and says: "Your fault for trying to attempt suicide."
"Why did you try to attempt to unalive yourself?" Harry asked.
"Oh, just for fun." Y/n replied.
Then, she said in Parseltongue to Shadow: "I didn't think you would talk to the famous Harry Potter, sister." She said.
Harry stared at her, until Y/n turns to look at him.
"You forgot Y/n, the famous Harry Potter also knows Parseltongue." Shadow said.
Y/n looked at Harry with very wide eyes.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean that in an offensive way, it's just because of our father so- "
"It's alright, I understand."
Y/n looks at him awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck.
The bell rings, which makes Y/n jump.
"Lets' go, Y/n." Shadow said.
Y/n nods.
"Bye, Harry!" she said, while letting Shadow drag her to class.
-oOOo-
After Harry finished all his classes, he goes back to his dorm. He sees Draco reading a book on his bed again, not even looking at him when Harry walks into the room.
Harry stares at Draco, smirking. Draco notices this and lifts his head from the book.
"What are you smirking at Potter?" Draco said in his normal mean tone of voice.
"I think you know the answer, Malfoy." He said.
Draco raises an eyebrow. "Enlighten me."
Harry's smirk grows bigger.
"How was your time with the Riddle? Looks like God really favours you, huh?" Harry teased.
Draco's face becomes red. "SHUT UP POTTER!" He shouted as he covered his face with the book.
Harry walked closer to him. "Draco and Y/n sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G- "Harry teased again.
"SHUT UP POTTER! SHUT UP!" Draco threw the book at Harry, he dodged it.
"What's wrong, Malfoy? Did you find your damsel in distress?"
"AUGH!" Draco hid his face under the pillows.
Harry laughed at him, while sitting on his own bed.
"I'm going to shower, Malfoy. If I don't see you calming down when I come out, I'll go fetch Y/n for you."
"I SWEAR IF YOU DO POTTER, YOU WILL TAKE YOUR LAST BREATH TONIGHT." Draco shouted below the pillow.
Harry went to take a shower, when he opened the door to come out, Draco was nowhere to be seen. Harry was a bit suspicious, but didn't seem to care that much, he walked out of the bathroom and BOOM!
Draco scared the living heck out of him by just jumping out of the corner, Harry lost balance, and was about to fall down, but the wall behind him saved him.
"WHAT THE HELL- "
Draco bursts out laughing. "Can't believe you were that easy to scare, Potter!"
"Shut up Malfoy." Harry said, gaining his balance again and standing properly.
"Whatever." Draco exclaimed, walking back to his bed. He seemed amused.
Harry walked back to his bed as well.
"Can I switch off the lights?" Harry asked.
"Why do you always ask for everything, Potter? Just do whatever you want."
"But what if you don't like what I'm doing? If you wanted to read a book, you can't in the dark, can you?"
Draco stared at him for a few moments, with a soft expression on his face. Until finally he spoke up:
"Okay. I don't mind you switching off the lights." He said in a soft tone of voice.
Harry switches of the lights and wrapped himself in blankets. Draco did the same.
Harry couldn't sleep, so did Draco. So, Draco turned to face his bed to talk to him.
"Potter." He whispered.
"Yes, Malfoy?" Harry replied, facing his bed as well.
"I was wondering…why are you being so kind to me? I've been such a jerk to you ever since we met, and you still want to give me a second chance?"
"Everyone deserves a second chance, Malfoy."
Draco nods.
"Do you want to be…friends?" Draco asked.
"Do you?"
"I…do. You've been trying to be my friend since yesterday, and I feel appreciated around you."
"I feel the same way. Let's start over." Harry replied.
"I'm Draco Malfoy."
"And I'm Harry Potter."
Draco and Harry smile at each other, before falling asleep.
(IM SO SORRY THAT WAS SO CRINGE OMG)
-oOOo-
When Harry woke up, Draco was sleeping again. He gets ready, but Draco was still wrapped with blankets.
Harry walks over to him and bends down so they were on the same level. He poked him on the cheek with his finger.
"Wake up, Draco." He said.
"Noooo…" he whined.
"Come on, Draco. I can't wait for you forever."
"Go without me today."
"If you get ready right now, I'll let you hang out with me today."
Draco sits up slowly.
"Fine."
He got ready, and he looked like his regular snotty self.
"Wow, Draco Malfoy, where did you come from?" Harry teased.
"Shut up, Potter."
They both walk to the Great Hall; some people were surprised they were walking together.
"Do you want to sit with your friends, Draco?"
"Yeah, probably to avoid suspicion."
As they almost reach the Great Hall, they say goodbye to each other and go their separate ways.
Harry sits with the Golden Trio.
"Good morning, Harry. Do you have any luck on being friends with Draco?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, please. Do you actually think they will be friends?" Ron exclaimed.
"Actually, I'm already friends with Draco. We started over last night."
Hermione squealed in excitement, and Ron's jaw dropped.
"Anyways, it's time for class." Harry said.
They all walk to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, Harry sits in an empty spot at the second row. Everyone else was sitting with their friends, then Draco sat with him.
"Glad to see you join me, Draco."
"Shut up, Potter. There weren't any seats left."
Harry looks around the classroom, there were multiple places for him to sit.
"Yeah, right. You just wanted to sit with me." Harry said as he nudged Draco's shoulder.
Draco rolled his eyes as the class starts.
The professor had a bit worn out clothes, and his face was covered in scars. Some dirty looks were shot across the classroom to him, but he didn't seem to mind.
"If everyone is ready, follow me." The professor said.
Everyone follows him across the corridor, Peeves was being disrespectful to the professor, so he used a spell on him to cast him away.
They arrived at the staffroom. They all go inside and see a wardrobe. It was shaking vigorously.
"Come in."
"What's this, Professor?" Dean asked.
"There's a Boggart in there. Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces. This one arrived yesterday afternoon, and the headmaster agreed to let the third years have practice. Now the question is, what is a Boggart?"
Hermione shot up her hand. "It's a shapeshifter, it can take shape of whatever it thinks we fear the most."
"I couldn't have said it better myself." Said the professor, and Hermione glowed.
"To defeat a Boggart, we need laughter, we will practice the charm without wands first. Now repeat after me…riddikulus."
"Riddikulus" said the class altogether.
After they used it on the Boggart, almost everyone had a turn.
"Next."
This time, it was Y/n Riddle.
'This will be interesting.' Harry thought.
The boggart turns into two shadows, symbolizing two persons. Y/n's eyes widen. Before anyone could react to what the Boggart turned into, Shadow said:
"Riddikulus."
The Boggart turned into a mouse trapped under a fork.
Shadow pulled Y/n away and went instead of her.
The Boggart escapes the fork, then looks at her. It had a scared face, and it immediately ran back into the wardrobe. The Professor was suspicious, but he said:
"Everyone, class is finished. You may leave now. Shadow and Y/n, stay here."
Harry raised one of his eyebrows but left the classroom rather voluntarily.
-oOOo-
Shadow and Y/n stayed in his classroom, and he started to ask them questions.
"What was that in class today?" he asked.
"What was what?" Y/n asked.
"The Boggart..."
"I don't think anyone would like to explain their fear, Professor." Shadow said, moving a bit closer to Y/n.
Professor Lupin realizes he is making Y/n uncomfortable, and Shadow is being protective of her.
"If I catch you two doing any funny stuff in my classes, you will get in trouble."
"Are you threatening us?" Shadow asked, with an expressionless face.
"No, I am simply warning you because you are Riddle's."
"And because we are Riddle's, your little threat won't work." Shadow said, before pulling Y/n out of the classroom. They left before Professor Lupin could say anything.
-oOOo-
It was time to go to Hogsmeade, Harry couldn't go because he didn't have a permission slip. Fred and George grab him and gives him the Mauderers Map. Lupin confiscates it.
One night, in Lupins private quarters, a white cat with blue eyes sneak into his room and steals the Mauderers Map. He wakes up to see just in time who or what they stole from him, he tried to stop the cat, but he couldn't. He vowed to find the cat sooner or later. The next day, he saw one of the Riddle twins holding the cat that he saw the night before…
-oOOo-
Y/n was holding her pet cat, Matilda, while walking down the hallway with Shadow. She saw that a professor was standing in front of them, and they called their names.
"Professor?" Y/n asked.
"This is not a good place to talk, follow me." He said.
They both followed him to his DADA office.
He closed the door behind them.
"Your cat, I saw it last night." Remus said.
"Oh! Matilda likes to take midnight strolls, so she goes out every night." Y/n replied.
"And you let her? That is not allowed, which means you'll have detention with me today, Miss Riddle." Remus said firmly. He wanted to wait until the correct opportunity to expose her, but not when Shadow is around.
"There is no indication in the school rules that your pet cannot go out for strolls. I should know since I memorized all the rules, and one that I remember, is that teachers are not allowed to accuse students if they don't have evidence." Shadow said, taking a step-in front of Y/n.
Remus didn't know what to say.
Shadow walks away with Y/n, and the cat jumped into Shadow's arms.