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Chapter-7- Following The Riddle

Chapter-7- Following The Riddle

Sophia's Point Of View:

It was almost night time and I was shifting in my bed so much that my mates in my dorm were also getting disturbed. But I can't help this. I am insomniac. The demons in my head won't let me sleep. The demons which have resided in my head because Voldemort ordered them to be there.

You won't get what I am saying! Like it comes down to him in the end, doesn't it? He disturbed all our peace in Hogwarts and I have stayed awake most of the nights since 4th year when I heard that Voldemort has returned.

Now, I can't even believe that I just talked to him in class and even invaded his mind.

I first thought not to do it, not to invade his mind and make him angry but I felt like I should try as I am obsessed with getting in trouble all the time. I thought it would be hard to read his thoughts but it was so easy to enter his mind. He was relaxed at that time thinking I am not a threat, but see what happened.

I think I should go outside and roam around the castle, that's the best thing to distract me right now. But how? Before, Fred and George used to take me on rounds with them in the castle and it was so much fun because they knew all the tricks not to get caught, and all the passageways but now I can't do all of that.

I don't care anymore now, I will go!

I slowly got up from my bed and changed into a white crop top and blue denim full-length jeans 👖.  I stepped outside of my dorm and started walking towards the portrait hole when something made me stop in my tracks.

Someone is watching me. I am feeling  like someone is gazing at me. I turned around and my eyes swept throughout the common room which was fully empty. There was no sign of a student as it was midnight, 2 am or something.

"Is someone there?", I asked in a stern voice and Harry appeared in front of me and pushed his invisibility cloak off of himself.

"Harry, you literally gave me a heart attack! Man!", I said and relief spread over me.

Harry was laughing because I got scared and I also started laughing with him afterwards. I don't know why after so many days, after so many days of crying, despair, and rage. After so many days which were filled with devoid of happiness, laughing now with Harry felt so good and refreshing.

It is like I am alive again!

"By the way, where are you going in this dead of night?", he asked me as our laughter died, curtailed to giggles.

"Hmm... I can't sleep, my thoughts, mainly the negative ones are not letting me sleep. So I decided to just walk around the castle.", I said.

"You are saying it like you won't get caught roaming around the castle, especially now when Tom Riddle is in the castle, teachers are more serious about rules.", He said in a tone of seriousness.

"Harry, but I can't sleep!", I argued.

"Ok ok calm down. Take this invisibility cloak and go because then at least you won't get caught and you won't get detentions and all. I would have accompanied you but now I am very sleepy because I was also having the same problem as you. I wasn't able to sleep and I just decided to roam around.", Harry said but his last words sounded a little uncertain to me.

"You can say to me where did you exactly go, Harry, I won't say anyone. You know you can trust me.", I said and relief spread across his face.

"I went to see Riddle in the Slytherin common room, I thought he would be in the common room or something but he was in his room. Draco told me that he hadn't come out of his room since afternoon. I thought I would catch him doing something wrong and hand him to the ministry saying 'Yeah you see, it's Voldemort and he can never change. I told you so' ", Harry said.

At first, I was really serious when he started talking about Riddle but afterwards, I chuckled at his reason.

"Harry, c'mon, he won't be doing anything wrong now in this castle when he knows that he can literally go to Azkaban for it!", I said in a matter-of-fact and joking tone.

"I know, Sofia, but my desperation to just send him out of this school is more than anything.", He said and I patted his shoulder.

"Harry, I think you should enjoy your last year because you have gotten another chance, and stop worrying about Riddle because that's all you have ever done since you entered Hogwarts. Enjoy a year without adventures and getting trouble, man!", I told him in a reassuring tone.

I took the cloak, bid Harry goodnight, pulled the cloak on me, and went outside the common room into the chilly corridors of Hogwarts.

I started walking slowly and headed towards the astronomy tower. I took a turn and just when I was about to walk freely and fastly, I saw a boy who was walking upstairs and undoubtedly I just knew that he was Riddle. Because he is the only one who can look so good from the back too-

Stop, I shouldn't think like this! He killed my mother, he killed my bloody mother and I am thinking about him like he is a Greek god or something. I am mad!

I started following him slowly without letting him know because I knew he must be plotting something. After all, he isn't the one who will just sit back and accept his powerless state. He will try something, and him trying anything will eventually ruin the peace of many.

After walking and trailing behind him for some time, I realize he is heading towards Room Of Requirement. It's the only thing on the 7th floor that can interest Tom Riddle. Or who knows what had all he found in Hogwarts, he could be doing anything to ruin the peace of wizarding world.