Tom Riddle X Reader Part 6 Snake in the library

Lessons are over and you want some time alone. You hold onto your potions notebook and head to see professor Slughorn.



You’re the only one walking down this hall. You look through the windows only to have a sign of twilight reflected on your face. It’s peaceful as the birds were humming melodies and the wind was gently blowing.

Suddenly, the sight of twilight turned into one, giant blur and the sound of birds was now completely demolished by a sharp sound of buzzing. The pain was equal to a dagger piercing through your scalp, a hand reaching inside of your head, trying to take away the brain from its roots.

You touch your heavy head and frown in pain, your book slips through your numb fingers. Your consciousness is not aware of your true surroundings and instead, displays a sight of a bright, white light. Shortly, a man comes into your vision, a man you’ve never seen before, standing in the middle of the hall, he was ignoring you when called. Another shadow behind you appears and calls on the mysterious man, he turns around and you could barely see the features of this half-formed ghost. Tall, grey, long beard he had. Surely it must have been your headmaster. But something was odd. He had more grey streaks than usual and his beard was longer. He was older.

Shortly, the pain and buzzing came back and your vision of the man ended. You once again were in the same hallway. Alone.

Unable to find out what it was and needing a few breaths and forgetting your true destination, you head to the library.



It was dark now, but the library was lit up with lanterns. And the slight rain outside filled you with calm thoughts. Only a couple people there. But, of course, there was a familiar slytherin face nearby. You approach him, to see his fingers hold onto a book that had a drawing of a strange, old man on it, one of the sentences you could see had a name in it. ’Salazar Slytherin’ it said.

Tom’s focus on the book had no longer continued as he became aware of your presence.

“May I help you?” – he asked, viciously

“Salazar Slytherin, eh? Another one of your idols?” – you teased

But he just turned back to read his thin book.

“Listen. What you’re reading is a disgrace to this library. I know where you could get a lot better book about Salazar. It’s all about his heritage and family.”

“oh?” – he suddenly turned to you. But it was a look as if he thought you were either lying or trying to show off.

“Yep. Just give me a few days.”

Tom’s head quickly turned to your left, his expression from neutral self, changed into a worry, his eyes were rolling around, inspecting the room as if he was a madman. Then he turned to you and spoke: “Do you hear that?”

“Hear what?” – you ask

“The whispers”

“Okay.” – you laughed. “No need to make fun of me”

“I’m serious.” – he responded. He did look very concerned.

“You’re sort of creeping me out… what are they saying?”

“Murder… and blood.”

Scared, yet astonished, you sit next to Tom: “Fascinating” – you say.

“Fascinating?” – Tom seemed to be more surprised by your choice of words than his own sign of losing sanity

“The ability. You hear something I cannot or you’re going mad.” – you reply. “That’s unique.”

Right after that, a scream was heard in a distant corner of the library: SNAAAKKEE!!! - shriek echoed, it was passed on to other people who were screaming at the sight of the reptile

You and Tom get up, and rush to the corner. The animal had seemed to capture a student right by the corner. She was shaking in fear at the sight of the snake slowly crawling closer to her.

“Oh come on.” – you speak up. “It’s just a snake.” – you approach the reptile and grab it with your hands, it did not seem like it wanted to harm you, it didn’t even try to struggle.

“Are you insane? That’s poisonous!” – the girl yelled at you.

As soon as these words were spoken, the reptile seemed to understand her wish of its death. It wiggled inside of your hands, trying to escape. It slipped out of your palms, and turned to you all of sudden, hissing. You start going backwards and as soon as you bump into a nearby desk, the snake was distracted by a voice of whispering. You looked up from it to see a different language murmuring Tom.