McGonagall's Secret

Disclaimer: I do not own J.K. Rowling's characters! Hope you like the story though, it's just a random thought in the dark.

Everything was going the same as usual in the great hall. Students eating and doing homework while teachers chatting idly and keeping an eye on the students. The fifth year students are preparing for their O. W. L.'s (ordinary wizarding levels). Minerva McGonagall looks the same as ever, black hair tied up in a tight bun as usual and her tartan print emerald green robes; she doesn't know though that things are about to change for her dramatically.

"Hey Hermione," Ron asks "How's the transfiguration studying going? I was wondering if you could help me with potions." He glances over her shoulder at her paper, but she covers it with her hand and pushes his face away. "Bug off Ron, and stop trying to copy me!" Harry Potter laughs and Ron's face goes maraschino cherry pink. Ron sits back down in his seat dejectedly, "fine, be that way." He mutters, everyone around him laughs now. Ginny throws an apple at Fred, or George; nobody could ever really tell and he catches it and takes a bite out of it, juice dribbling down his chin.

Professor Minerva McGonagall stands up and walks to the front of the professors platform, she surveys the crowed of students not really thinking anything in particular. She sighs contentedly and goes to turn back to her seat when a noise stops her. The noise is a POPPING noise that you hear when someone apparates. Hannah Abbot screams from the Hufflepuff table and points to right behind McGonagall. Everyone follows her finger to the man in the dark cloak. McGonagall doesn't look back because she knows who it is and has been dreading this moment for fifteen years. The man chuckles and the whole room get silent. Professor Dumbledore just sits there calmly. The man in the dark cloak reaches up with his bone white fingers and pushes back the edge of his hood revealing the dark lords pale white face and red snake like eyes. Several wands have been taken out and are now pointing at the man behind the professor, a couple first years scream, and the other professors try to stifle gasps of shock seeing their number one enemy APPARATE inside their boundaries. Lord Voldemort chuckles and leans towards McGonagall, whispering in her ear loud enough for everyone to hear. "Not the most private place to discuss private matters, but everyone needs to know any way." He chuckles again and she flinches away from him. He stands up straight and waves is arms in a grand gesture and you can see the whole hall flinch, his voice echo's on the walls as he paces back and forth behind McGonagall. McGonagall who hasn't moved since he showed up has a quick flash of panic and pure hatred on her face before she masks it with her stern expression she is fond of. Voldemort continues, "Besides you Albus, who knows that Minerva here has a secret? I'm guessing she never told anyone, she was to embarrassed, confused, in-grief. While she may have thought that as I was part of and I think it high time everyone should know. I'm certainly not embarrassed about it, though honestly who would be." He walks back over to McGonagall and places his arm around her and grins, she cringes away, "Me, and Mina here, are married." Everybody in the room gasps in horror and Minerva clenches her fists, and her shoulders tense up. The dark lord laughs at everyone's reactions and moves behind the professor and says, "I'll show you as well as tell you why." He pulls out his wand and everybody tenses, but all he does is whisper a few words and McGonagall's tight bun comes un-done and her hair rolls down her back in a long black wave. Everybody gasps because they had never seen their professor like that, and because she was actually very pretty and her blue-green eyes appeared very intense compared with her black hair. "She boys, girls and professor's that is the visual and this is the story in my point of view." He put his wand to his head and pulled out memories, he made it so that they could be seen by all.

'A black haired witch was on her broom with the Gryffindor colours chasing after the quaffle pushing players left and right to reach it. Next… the same black-haired girl is now walking down the hall with one of her friends talking about transfiguration. When she looks back and sees the boy 'Tom Riddle' following her she gives him a pitying look and turns back to her friend. Next they must be in their seventh year because they each have the head boy and girl symbol on their clothes and they are talking to each other, "Mina, Mina please." He gives her his best pleading look, "I-I think I love you." She looks at him angrily, "how can you just think that?" she asks in a cold voice and storms out of the room. The boy stands there crestfallen and the image changes. Both the young Tom Riddle and the young Minerva McGonagall sat at a table signing a marriage contract, the they are both standing at the alter with only a few people there including a younger Albus Dumbledore. Tom was in a green and black tuxedo while McGonagall was in a beautiful red dress with gold embroidery. After that it shows lord Voldemort in a St. Mungo's hospital waiting area and you can hear grunting and screaming coming from the room next door. Finally you can see a younger and exhausted Minerva holding a little pink blanket scowling at lord Voldemort, "what are you doing here Tom?" she hissed at him. "Mina do not be like that, I just came to see our daughter. She is going to be beautiful just like her mother." Professor McGonagall looks down sadly at the bundle in her arms, "yes, well I will never know, I'm going to change her appearance then give her to a muggle agency so someone can adopt her. No way is she growing up knowing that her father is lord Voldemort, do you know how much the kids would tease her." He looks at Minerva with love in his eyes, "Can I least know her name?" Minerva sighs then replies "her name is Scarlett Merope Isobel Riddle." Voldemort kisses her cheek, then his eyes grow colder, "Do what you want Mina but I will find her. You can do nothing to stop it, it is inevitable." With that he disapparates which causes the baby Scarlett to start crying, leaving the young McGonagall to rock her back to sleep.'

The memory ends and everyone is silent. Professor McGonagall has silent tears streaming down her face. Voldemort lifts McGonagall's chin so everyone can see her face, "now my darling, it is time for me to find my lost child and claim her as mine." McGonagall gets that old McGonagall determined look on her face and says for everyone can hear "No Tom, you have to guess before I will give any information to you about her." He chuckles with a smirk on his face, "that's my girl." He says, and then he rubs his chin thinking.

"Let me guess, she came to Hogwarts so she is here, right now." McGonagall nods her head.

"She could either be in Slytherin or Gryffindor, but I'm guessing Gryffindor like her mother; and she would be in her fifth year." The professor nods her head again.

McGonagall asks the next question while watching Voldemort's expression "you know who it is, don't you?" Voldemort smirks wickedly as he nods his head. "This little brat has caused me trouble, and is the friend of my worst enemy, she'll do nicely; and obviously is the smartest witch in her year, just like her mother. Now where is my little gemstone?" Everyone at the Gryffindor table looks at each other and then at Harry Potter. He just shrugs. Lord Voldemort snaps his fingers and says, "The bindings on my daughter shall be released." And a glowing green light shines from his fingertips wrapping around several girls at the Gryffindor table before shining the brightest around none other than…

This seemed like a good Idea; tell me if I'm wrong. R&R please it would be much appreciated. And no I don't know how I came up with this. =D, XD. Should I post the next chapter or not?!