Tom Riddle is Here-Plan in Action

Report and Reports

Tom and Draco carefully picked their way down to the Slytherin Common Room, sitting at their seats under the portrait of the Slytherin house crest, Blaise and Pansy sitting there waiting for them. Good discipline. Tom realized that though Draco may not even notice it, he had captivated everyone within the Slytherin house, and easily swayed them to himself. It was one of the things that, Tom recalled, Malfoy's in general seemed capable of doing. Right now, however, there were things that they must discuss. 

"The teachers had a meeting yesterday," Was the first thing which Pansy said. The woman may not be good for a lot, but when it came to the latest gossip and rumors, she was in the centre. As it turned out, that was something which Draco had admired her for, and used her talents likewise. Tom was infatuated with how Draco realized each of his House member's strengths and managed to effortlessly use them accordingly. He never gave them more than what they could work with. It was something that Tom doubted that he would ever not be in love with when it came down to it. The boy before him was amazing at assessing his allies and his foes. Something that Tom himself was also incredibly good at, which was probably why he felt so...strongly that Draco managed to do so well doing it. 

"We knew that last night." Pansy nodded at Tom's words.

"I figured that you would, but what you may not know is that Dumbledore suspects us." Tom furrowed his eyebrows. Of course the old man would suspect them. Practically the whole school was in the process of turning against Gryffindor, it was something that only a Slytherin would be able to pull off so smoothly. "He called the meeting to discuss trying to find evidence about Slytherin turning the school against Gryffindors." That was new. Dumbledore assuming it was the Slytherins was one thing, but trying to fabricate evidence in order to prove it was different. Perhaps he was not trying to do so now, but trying to launch an investigation solely focused on Slytherin was basically the same thing in both the young Slytherins' minds. 

"There is no evidence." Blaise spoke up softly. "We were incredibly careful about that, and so there is definitely no evidence to show that it was a SLytherin that did anything, but we should be more careful in the future. We are in the middle of this, and it would not do to have to pause in order to complete this without being caught." He advised seriously. Draco nodded, and thanked both Pansy and Blaise for their information.

"We will have to see what Uncle Severus has to say about everything. I am somewhat curious to see what happened from his viewpoint." Draco muttered under his breath to Tom. Tom smiled fleetingly, and nodded. It was something that he was definitely curious about as well. He wanted to know, though he was not entirely certain that it was something that he would be able to know at the moment. They had more pressing issues.

"There is also the information that we need to obtain." Tom said softly. "We need to get it soon. Sooner rather than later would be preferred. We need to information to figure out how we want to distribute it." Blaise had already nodded to what Tom was saying, prepared for that.

"I have various people looking into it and obtaining evidence to stand on. My father was not exactly happy that I did not tell him why I needed the information, but he folded eventually." Draco smiled, Blaise's father was not one you wanted to go up against, but the only person who could really get the elder to do something was his son. Anyone else was really...hopeless at trying to manage it. Blaise was the best when it came to that. Not to mention they needed Blaise to look into it. His father had quite a bit of contacts both in and out of Europe. It was vital that they obtain such information. 

"Pansy?" Draco turned to the girl, waiting for her report. 

"So far it would seem that the Gryffindors are getting restless. As they should, really, considering what has been happening lately. We have isolated the Twins out of the fray, considering what you had told us. Oh, the twins seem to want to talk to you both. They came up to Pucey. Granted this is only third handed information but it is information nonetheless. I do not know because I have not double checked with Pucey. However, if it is true, what do you want to do?" 

That was also new information. The Twins were two gryffindors that Tom and Draco both had to say that they did not absolutely hate. It was a rare thing for them both to find Gryffindors that did not utterly repulse them, but the Twins certainly qualified as two of those Gryffindors which were respectable in both their minds. 

"We will figure out what to do should the information become true. For now, if the rumor is correct tell Pucey to tell the Twins to talk to Crabbe. If they speak to Crabbe, tell Crabbe to talk to Blaise, and from Blaise to us. That is how we will do it." Draco said, swiftly making a judgement. 

Tom was impressed. It was exactly what he would have done in such a situation.

"Do you trust them?" Tom asked.

"No," Draco said simply and without hesitation. "But still, the Twins have done nothing earning of our ire. If they wish to speak we may get some information necessary from them. We just will have to be careful if we do decide to meet with them. At the moment, however, there is no evidence that they do want to speak. We shall hit that road if the evidence proves true." Tom nodded, finding that acceptable. 

"The Three Gryffindors?" Draco asked, turning back to Blaise and Pansy, and swiftly changing the topic to their last order of business. They had to hurry and conclude this meeting. They had a Defense class in a few minutes and they had not even left the common room. Draco was not sure that he wanted to be late to a Defense lesson. Even if this information and conclusions were important. 

"They are getting antsy. As is common with anxious gryffindors they had been rather short tempered as of late. Well, more so than usual. They claim that they have done nothing wrong. Of course, the rest of the school is having trouble believing them, which is exactly what we want. SO far, it would seem that even their own house is beginning to isolate them." Pansy dutifully reported. 

"You two should be careful. They will likely try to corner you soon." Blaise said gently. Draco sighed heavily and leaned into Tom's side. Tom wrapped his arm around the other idly.

"True, we shall have to be careful. Not to worry, we are both more than enough of a match for those Gryffindor pests." Tom hissed, eyes flashing. 

"I was not worried about that, I just do not want anyone getting into any type of trouble. With Dumbledore on the prowl, we have to be careful. Don't trust any teachers either. As far as we know, only Professor Snape is on our side. It means we have to be careful with what we do in front of the other professors, as well with what we do within their line of vision, even if it is not obvious." Blaise reminded. Tom nodded and he and Draco stood.

"That concludes it. Continue isolating the three gryffindors. We need everyone to know that we have an obvious problem with just those three. SO far there is speculation, but we need it to grow, so continue what we have been doing." Tom said simply.

"No, wait." Draco interjected. "Begin to ignore them, only respond if they try to taunt you." Tom glared down at Draco warningly, but Draco did not back down, though he did hide in Tom's side to escape the flashing eyes. "Slytherins are not known for their ignoring a problem, but even more so are we known for sheer dismissal of those we deem not important. Have the Slytherins of our year begin to dismiss them. Keep the older Slytherins and those below us doing the same thing. By having just the Slytherins in our year being dismissive, it will begin to spread that the perpetrators are in our year, which will layer suspicion on the three even more." 

Tom had to admit that Draco was correct in his statements. He sighed heavily, and nodded, agreeing. "From there, tell Pucey and Crabbe what we stated specifically regarding them. Come on, we have to leave before we are late."