Loving Lily: A Snily Story

Chapter 69 - The Angry Professor

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Tom Riddle was a murderer, liar, and thief.

The night of the Yule Ball though, Tom Riddle became Harriet's rescuer.

She knew nothing about his misdeeds.

She remained ignorant that he and Voldemort were the same person.

After she and young Tom Riddle spent the rest of the night talking and snogging, by the time he returned her to the second floor lavatory, Harriet was in a state of dreamy bliss.

Her disastrous evening had been salvaged.

That was enough to send her to her dormitory with ginger steps and a happy smile.

Exhausted from hours of fruitless wandering, while the adults continued their search for Harriet, Hermione slept with a worried frown on her face.

Harriet crept past her in the dark while she headed to her own bed, careful not to disturb any of her roommates who snored softly through their slumber.

As Harriet closed her eyes and drifted off, a smile formed on her lips while peasant dreams drifted through her mind.

Beside her bed, the amazing dress Tom had given her slowly vanished.

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Hermione alerted Severus, Lily, and the rest of Hogwarts' staff as soon as she woke the next morning and found Harriet peacefully asleep in her bed.

"Harriet!"

"Harriet!"

Harriet groaned as a sudden, unwelcome jolt forced her to open her eyes prematurely.

She frowned as she blinked at the blurry faces hovering around her bed.

Her arm shot out to reach for her glasses on the nightstand, which she pulled onto her face only to find her mother, father, and best friend staring down at her, along with Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

"Oh, my darling!" Lily cried as she swept Harriet into a tight hug of relief.

Severus frowned at his daughter before he exchanged suspicious glances with Dumbledore.

"Mum.....Dad....." Harriet stammered as she glanced around, "........Hermione?"

"Where....have.....you been?"  Severus asked in a cutting tone.

Harriet glanced at her father wide-eyed for a single second.

Instantly, Severus used nonverbal Legilimency to reach into her mind and discover exactly what had happened to his daughter the night before.

Usually a master of maintaining his calm exterior and burying his true emotions from any sort of outward detection, he couldn't stop his mouth from falling open as he observed Harriet's recollection of the evening.

He nearly fainted when a much younger, but nonetheless evil Tom Riddle appeared in her memories.

And held her hands........

And kissed her lips......

Severus staggered backwards before Lily caught him and asked, "Sev?........Are you alright?"

Harriet's eyes remained wide as her father shot her an accusatory glare before he loudly announced, "Headmaster, my wife and I should like to speak to you in your office, immediately."