Melissa Riddle

~Chapter 3~

After a while me and Severus had finished shopping for my school supplies which included: a wand, an owl, books, robes, quills and ink. And that's off the top of my head! So anyway when we had finished we sat down on a nearby bench and gave our arms a rest because of the heavy supplies.

"Now Melissa you are all set to go to Hogwarts, but there are some things you must know first" I listened up carefully, I was very eager about knowing what was going to happen at this school. "First of all you will be put into a house, they consist of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, and I hope you will be in Slytherin because one your father was in that house and two i'm head of that house."

"Wicked! So is that all you do at the school or do you teach something?" I asked with curiosity

"I teach potions and I am the potions master at the school"

"Awesome! So how we will be getting to school apparation?"

"No, you will board the Hogwarts express, but I will apparate, i'm sorry about that but it's the rules the teachers have to arrive early"

"It's ok, and who was father on about earlier this boy called Draco? Was that his name?"

"Yes, he is in Slytherin as well, I hope you two are friends at the school..."

I pulled a face as if to say 'I am not going out with anyone!' but Severus obviously didn't buy it, besides I was NOT interested in boys, not in the slightest and I doubt if they would go out with me because after all if they dumped me they would be scared that father would crucio them!

So we set of back to the manor with appration (yippee.) When we arrived everything was all the same, people floating around the manor doing odd jobs apart from my father who was in his office or something.

Severus helped me sneak all my belonging's upstairs (with a little help of magic of course) by the time that happened it was nine o'clock in the afternoon. I said goodnight to Severus and went to my room and drifted of to a peaceful sleep...